Quantified Symmetry for Entorhinal Spatial Maps, E. Chastain and Y. Liu. Special Issue in Neurocomputing Journal, Vol. 70, No. 10 - 12, June, 2007, pp. 1723 - 1727.
A Lattice-based MRF Model for Dynamic Near-regular Texture Tracking, Wen-Chieh Lin and Yanxi Liu. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. Volume 29, No. 5.pp. 777-792. May, 2007.
Shape Variation-Based Frieze Pattern for Robust Gait Recognition S.Lee, Y.Liu and R.Collins, CVPR'07, June 2007.
Discovery of "Biomarkers" for Alzheimer's Disease Prediction from Structural MR Images Y. Liu, L. Teverovskiy, O. Lopez, H. Aizenstein, C. Meltzer, and J. Becker 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, April, 2007.
Feature-based vs. Intensity-based Neuroimage Registration: Comprehensive Comparison Using Mutual Information L. Teverovskiy, O. Carmichael, H. Aizenstein, N. Lazar, and Y. Liu 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, April, 2007.
2006
The CMU Near-Regular Texture Database is formally released! You are invited to visualize, download and submit photos containing regular or near-regular textures!
Edited book (LNCS, Springer) on "Computer Vision for Biomedical Image Applications: Current Techniques and Future Trends" is avialable! If you are interested in obtaining a copy, contact Janice Brochetti, 412-268-7414 [janiceb@cs.cmu.edu]
Quantitative Evaluation on Near Regular Texture Synthesis by W. Lin, J. Hays, C. Wu, V. Kwatra, Y. Liu. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR) 2006. NYC. June. Quantitative Evaluation results page
Body Localization in Still Images Using Hierarchical Models and Hybrid Search by J. Zhang, Luo, Collins, Liu. CVPR 2006. NYC, June.
Tracking Dynamic Near-regular Textures under Occlusions and Rapid Movements. By W. Lin and Y. Liu. 9th European Conference on Computer Vision. Graz, Austria. May, 2006. Demos
Discovering Texture Regularity as a Higher-Order Correspondence Problem By J.H. Hays, M. Leordeanu, A.A. Efros, and Y. Liu. 9th European Conference on Computer Vision. Graz, Austria. May, 2006. Poster Page 1, Poster Page 2. A short "fastforward" video. Source code available upon request (jhhays@cs.cmu.edu).
Guest lecture series on "Group theory and its applications in robotics, computer vision, computer graphics and medical image analysis", CSE/IST/EE of PSU.
2005
Near-Regular Texture Database beta-release , you are invited to submit photos containing regular or near-regular textures!
I am very happy to have two CRA-DMP students this summer! They are Harriet L. Pashley from CMU and Sravana Reddy from Brandeis University.
Chair of the CVBIA workshop with ICCV'05 , October 21, 2005. Beijing, China.
Co-Editor of the book on "Computer Vision for Biomedical Image Applications: Current Techniques and Future Trends" LNCS, Springer
MERITS Newsletter featuring Dr. Yanxi Liu
Associate Research Professor of the Robotics Institute ( My official RI web-page ), School of Computer Science , Carnegie Mellon University.
Affiliated faculty with Machine Learning Department ( My ML faculty blurb )
Adjunct Associate Professor of Radiology Department, University of Pittsburgh.
Computational Symmetry and Group Theory Applications,
including image analysis of brains, faces and gaits (computer vision), mechanical and kinematic assemblies (robotics), periodical
and near-regular patterns (pattern recognition), and texture synthesis (computer graphics).
Discriminative subspace exploration for reduction and selection (machine learning), including
large biomedical image database indexing and retrieval,
classification, target tracking and deformable registration.
Robotics Assembly Planning, Computer Aided Design and Manufacturing
(with potential future direction on retilable, reconfigurable and self-assemblable robots)
ICCV 2005, International Conference on Computer Vision
Oct 15-21, 2005, Beijing, China
SIGGRAPH 2005,
July 31 - August 4, 2005, Los Angeles Convention Center
CVPR 2005, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
June 20-26, 2005. San Diego, CA. USA
MICCCAI 2005,
October 26-29, 2005. Palm Springs, CA USA
IPMI, Information Processing in Medical Imaging 2005.
July 10-15, 2005. Glenwood Springs, Colorado. USA
American Academy of Neurology, 57th Annual Meeting.
April 9-16, 2005. Miami Beach, Florida. USA
One postdoc position is open for a qualified individual
to work on neuroimage registration, statistical learning and MR image
analysis of Alzheimer's disease and mild cognitive impairment patients.
By Alan J. Perlis, Epigrams on Programming, ACM's SIGPLAN journal, 1982.
(April 1, 1922 - February 7, 1990: He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was the first recipient of the Turing Award, in 1966. He was the first head of the Computer Science Department of Carnegie Mellon University. Alan Perlis was a professor of Computer Science at Yale University. )