Xinmei Tian（田新梅)

associate profressor, Ph.D. advisor

Dept. of Electronic Engineering and Information Science
University of Science and Technology of China
phone:0551-63600281-8023
email: xinmei_AT_ustc.edu.cn
office location: Room 1203

Research Interests

  • Multimedia Information Retrieval
  • Computer Vision
  • Machine Learning

Education

  • 2010: Ph.D. in Signal and Information Processing, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) Dissertation: Research on Content-based Image Search Reranking. Advisor: Prof. Xiuqing Wu
  • 2005: B.E. in Communication Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)

Research Experience

  • Associate Professor, Sep. 2011 ~ Present: Department of Electronic Engineering and Information Science University of Science and Technology of China
  • Postdoctoral Researcher, Sep. 2010 ~ Aug. 2011: Department of Computer Science, Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas, USA.
  • Research Assistant Jul. 2009 ~ Feb. 2010: School of Computing Engineering, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore.
  • Research Assistant Aug. 2008 ~ Dec. 2008 School of Computing, Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU), Hong Kong, P.R. China.
  • Research Internship Dec. 2007 ~ Jul. 2010: Multimedia Computing Group, Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA), Beijing, P.R. China.

Honor/Awards

  • National Award to Excellent Scientific Output (Natural Science) of Universities and Colleges, 2014
  • Nomination of National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation, 2013
  • The First Prize of Anhui Province Scientific and Technological Award, 2012.
  • Excellent Doctoral Dissertation of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2012.
  • Presidential Award of Chinese Academy of Science, 2010.

Professional Activities

  • Technical Program Committee Member of ACM Multimedia 2012, ICMLA 2012, ICME 2013.
  • Reviewer for ACM MM, ICMRTMM, TSMC, TCSVT, Information Science etc.
  • Neurocomputing editorial board member

Selected Publications

  1. X. Tian, et al. Joints kinetic and relational features for action recognition. Signal Processing 142: 412-422 (2018)
  2. C. Guo, X. Tian, et al. Multigranular Event Recognition of Personal Photo Albums. IEEE Trans. Multimedia 20(7)
  3. Y. Li, X. Tian, et al. On Better Exploring and Exploiting Task Relationships in Multitask Learning: Joint Model and Feature Learning. IEEE Trans. Neural Netw. Learning Syst. 29(5): 1975-1985 (2018)
  4. X. Shen, X. Tian, et al. Sequence-to-Sequence Learning via Shared Latent Representation. AAAI 2018
  5. X. Shen, X. Tian, et al. Patch Reordering: A NovelWay to Achieve Rotation and Translation Invariance in Convolutional Neural Networks. AAAI 2017: 2534-2540
  6. C. Chen, X. Tian et al. UDNet: Up-Down Network for Compact and Efficient Feature Representation in Image Super-Resolution. ICCV Workshops 2017: 1069-1076
  7. Y. Li, X. Tian et al. Classification and Representation Joint Learning via Deep Networks. IJCAI 2017: 2215-2221
  8. Y. Li, X. Tian, et al. Regularized Large Margin Distance Metric Learning. ICDM 2016: 1015-1022
  9. X. Shen, X. Tian, et al. Transform-Invariant Convolutional Neural Networks for Image Classification and Search. ACM Multimedia 2016: 1345-1354
  10. X. Tian, et al. Exploration of Image Search Results Quality Assessment. IEEE Trans. Big Data 1(3): 95-108 (2015)
  11. X. Tian, et al. Image search reranking with hierarchical topic awareness. IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 2015.
  12. X. Tian, et al. Query difficulty estimation for image search with query reconstruction error. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 17(1), pp. 79-91, 2015.
  13. X. Tian, et al. Query-Dependent Aesthetic Model With Deep Learning for Photo Quality Assessment. IEEE Trans. Multimedia 17(11): 2035-2048 (2015)
  14. Y. Li, X. Tian, et al. Multi-task proximal support vector machine. Pattern Recognition,2015.
  15. Y. Li, X. Tian, et al. Multi-task model and feature joint learning. IJCAI, 2015.
  16. Q. Jia and X. Tian. Query difficulty estimation via relevance prediction for image retrieval. Signal Processing, 2014.
  17. X. Tian, et al. Discriminative codebook learning for Web image search. Signal Processing, 93(8), pp. 2284-2292, 2013.
  18. X. Tian, et al. Query difficulty prediction for web image search. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 14(4), pp. 951-962, 2012.
  19. X. Tian, et al. Sparse transfer learning for interactive video search reranking. ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications, 8(3), Artical No. 26, 2012.
  20. X. Tian, et al. Learning to judge image search results. ACM International Conference on Multimedia, pp. 363–372, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA, 2011.
  21. X. Tian, et al. Bayesian visual reranking. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 13(4), pp. 639-652, 2011.
  22. X. Tian, et al. Active reranking for web image search. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 19(3), pp. 805-820, 2010.
  23. X. Tian, et al. Visual reranking: from objectives to strategies. IEEE Multimedia Magazine, 18(3), pp. 12-21, 2011.
  24. X. Tian, et al. Bayesian video search reranking. ACM International Conference on Multimedia, pp. 131-140, Vancouver, Canada, 2008.

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