Publication List

2012
	Multiple Kernel Learning for Vehicle Detection in Wide Area Motion Imagery P. Liang, G. Teodoro, H. Ling, E. Blasch, G. Chen, and L. Bai International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION), 2012 PDF
	Classifying Covert Photographs H. Lang and H. Ling IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Rhode Island, 2012 PDF
	Online Robust Image Alignment via Iterative Convex Optimization Y. Wu, B. Shen, and H. Ling IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Rhode Island, 2012. PDF
	Real Time Robust L1 Tracker Using Accelerated Proximal Gradient Approach C. Bao, Y. Wu, H. Ling, and H. Ji IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Rhode Island, 2012. PDF
	Learning-based Automatic Breast Tumor Detection and Segmentation in Ultrasound Images P. Jiang, J. Peng, G. Zhang, E. Cheng, V. Megalooikonomou, and H. Ling Proc. of IEEE Int'l Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), 2012 PDF
	Real-time Probabilistic Covariance Tracking with Efficient Model Update Y. Wu, J. Cheng, J. Wang, H. Lu, J. Wang, H. Ling, E. Blasch, and L. Bai IEEE Trans. on Image Processing (T-IP), 2012, in press PDF
	Learning pair-wise gene functional similarity by multiplex gene expression maps L. An, H. Ling, Z. Obradovic, D.J. Smith, and V. Megalooikonomou BMC Bioinformatics, 2012, in press.
	Analysis of Facial Images Across Age Progression by Humans J. Zeng, H. Ling, L.J. Latecki, S. Fitzhugh, and G. Guo ISRN Machine Vision, 2012
	Computer aided periapical lesion diagnosis using quantized texture analysis Y. Wu, F. Xie, J. Yang, E. Cheng, V. Megalooikonomou, and H. Ling Proc. SPIE Medical Imaging, 2012
	Automatic detection of apical roots in oral radiographs Y. Wu, F. Xie, J. Yang, E. Cheng, V. Megalooikonomou, H. Ling Proc. SPIE Medical Imaging, 2012
	Segmentation of anatomical branching structures based on texture features and conditional random field T. Nuzhnaya, P.R. Bakic, D. Kontos, V. Megalooikonomou, H. Ling Proc. SPIE Medical Imaging, 2012
	Medical image retrieval based on texture and shape feature co-occurrence Y. Zhou, Y. Huang, H. Ling, J. Peng Proc. SPIE Medical Imaging, 2012
2011
	Key Elements to Support Layered Sensing Dismount Tracking E. Blasch, G. Seetharaman, M. Talbert, K. Palaniappan, and H. Ling. Proc. NATO SET 178-RWS 017 Workshop on Detection of Dismounted Combatants, Ottawa, ON, Sept. 2011. PDF
	Visual Tracking based on Log-Euclidean Riemannian Sparse Representation Y. Wu, H. Ling, E. Blasch, L. Bai, and G. Chen. Int. Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC), 2011.
	Kernel-based Motion-blurred Target Tracking Y. Wu, J. Hu, F. Li, E. Cheng, J. Yu, and H. Ling. Int. Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC), 2011.
	Shape based Conditional Random Fields for Segmenting Intracranial Aneurysms S. Baloch, E. Cheng, Y. Zhu, A. Mohamed, H. Ling, and T. Fang Workshop on Mesh Processing in Medical Image Analysis in conjunction with MICCAI, 2011.
	Scale and Object Aware Image Retargeting for Thumbnail Browsing J. Sun and H. Ling IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Barcelona, Spain, 2011. PDF (~5M)
	Blurred Target Tracking by Blur-driven Tracker Y. Wu, H. Ling, J. Yu, F. Li, X. Mei, and E. Cheng IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Barcelona, Spain, 2011. PDF (~11M) | TUblur sequences and annotation (~430M) |
	Dynamic Texture Classification Using Dynamic Fractal Analysis Y. Xu, Y. Quan, H. Ling, and H. Ji IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Barcelona, Spain, 2011. PDF
	Preservative License Plate De-identification for Privacy Protection L. Du and H. Ling Int'l Conf. on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), Beijing, China, 2011. PDF
	Learning-based vessel segmentation in mammographic images E. Cheng, Shawn McLaughlin, V. Megalooikonomou, P. R. Bakic, A. Maidment, and H. Ling IEEE Int'l Conf. on Healthcare Informatics, Imaging and Systems Biology (HISB), 2011. PDF
	Automatic Dent-landmark Detection in 3-D CBCT Dental Volumes E. Cheng, J. Chen, J. Yang, H. Deng, Y. Wu, V. Megalooikonomou, B. Gable, and H. Ling Int'l Conf. of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS), Boston, 2011. PDF
	Multiple Source Data Fusion via Sparse Representation for Robust Visual Tracking Y. Wu, E. Blasch, G. Chen, L. Bai, and H. Ling International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION), 2011. PDF
	Evaluation of Visual Tracking in Extremely Low Frame Rate Wide Area Motion Imagery H. Ling, Y. Wu, E. Blasch, G. Chen, H. Lang, and L. Bai International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION), 2011. PDF
	Identifying pair-wise gene functional similarity by multiplex gene expression maps and supervised learning L. An, H. Ling, Z. Obradovic, D. J. Smith, and V. Megalooikonomou ACM Conf. on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Biomedicine (BCB), Chicago, 2011. PDF
	Robust Visual Tracking and Vehicle Classification via Sparse Representation X. Mei and H. Ling IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), 33(11):2259--2272, 2011. A preliminary version appeared in ICCV 2009 PDF | Code |
	Minimum Error Bounded Efficient L1 Tracker with Occlusion Detection X. Mei, H. Ling, Y. Wu, E. Blasch, and L. Bai IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Colorado Springs, 2011. PDF | Data (sequences and annotation, ~190M) |
	Illumination Recovery from Image with Cast Shadows via Sparse Representation X. Mei, H. Ling, and D. W. Jacobs IEEE Trans. on Image Processing (T-IP), 20(8):2366--2377, 2011. A preliminary version appeared in ICCV 2009 PDF
	Segmentation of Anatomical Branching Structures based on Texture Features and Graph Cut T. Nuzhnaya, E. Cheng, H. Ling, D. Kontos, P. R. Bakic, and V. Megalooikonomou Proc. of IEEE Int'l Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), 2011 PDF
	Multi-cue Based Multi-target Tracking Using Online Random Forests X. Shi, X. Zhang, Y. Liu, W. Hu, and H. Ling Proc. Int'l Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2011 PDF
	Classification of texture patterns in CT lung imaging T. Nuzhnaya, V. Megalooikonomou, H. Ling, M. Kohn, and R. Steiner Proc. SPIE Medical Imaging, 2011
	Automatic Detection of Regions of Interests in Mammographic Images E. Cheng, H. Ling, P. R. Bakic, A. D.A. Maidment, and V. Megalooikonomou Proc. SPIE Medical Imaging, 2011 PDF
2010
	Probabilistic Index Histogram for Robust Object Tracking W. Li, X. Zhang, N. Xie, W. Hu, W. Luo, and H. Ling Int'l Workshop on Visual Surveillance, Queenstown, New Zealand, 2010 PDF
	Efficient Marker Matching Using Pair-wise Constraints in Physical Therapy G. Johnson, N. Xie, J. Slaboda, J.Y. Shi, E.Keshner, and H. Ling. 5th Int. Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC), 2010. PDF
	Category Classification Using Occluding Contours J. Sun, C. Thorpe, N. Xie, J. Yu, and H. Ling 5th Int. Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC), 2010. PDF | DT-OC5 dataset
	Balancing Deformability and Discriminability for Shape Matching H. Ling, X. Yang, and L.J. Latecki In Proc. of European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Crete Greece, 2010. PDF | BibTex
	Image Set Classification using Multi-Layer Multiple Instance Learning with Application to Cannabis Website Classification N. Xie, H. Ling, and W. Hu In Proc. of IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI), regular paper, Toronto, 2010. PDF
	Contour Based Object Detection Using Part-Bundles C. Lu, N. Adluru, H. Ling, G. Zhu, and L.J. Latecki Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU), 114(7):827-834, 2010. PDF
	Compact Visual Codebook for Action Recognition Q. Wei, X. Zhang, Y. Kong, W. Hu, and H. Ling IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Hong Kong, China, 2010. PDF
	Robust Infrared Vehicle Tracking across Target Pose Change using L1 Regularization H. Ling, L. Bai, E. Blasch, and X. Mei International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION), Edinburgh, UK, 2010. PDF
	Discriminative Level Set for Contour Tracking W. Li, X. Zhang, J. Gao, W. Hu, H. Ling, and X. Zhou Int. Conf. on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), Istanbul, Turkey, 2010. PDF
	Use Bin-Ratio Information for Category and Scene Classification N. Xie, H. Ling, W. Hu, and X. Zhang IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), San Francisco, 2010. PDF | BibTex
	A New Texture Descriptor Using Multifractal Analysis in Multi-orientation Wavelet Pyramid Y. Xu, X. Yang, H. Ling, and H. Ji IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), San Francisco, 2010. PDF (~8M)
	A Swarm Intelligence Based Searching Strategy for Articulated 3D Human Body Tracking X. Zhang, W. Hu, X. Wang, Y. Kong, N. Xie, H. Wang, H. Ling, S. Maybank IEEE Workshop on 3D Information Extraction for Video Analysis and Mining in conjunction with CVPR, San Francisco, 2010. PDF
	Mammographic Image Classification Using Histogram Intersection E. Cheng, N. Xie, H. Ling, P. Bakic, A. Maidment, and V. Megalooikonomou Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), 2010 PDF
	Probabilistic Branching Node Detection using Adaboost and Hybrid Local Features T. Nuzhnaya, M. Barnathan, H. Ling, V. Megalooikonomou, P. Bakic, and A. Maidment Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), 2010 PDF
	Face Verification across Age Progression using Discriminative Methods H. Ling, S. Soatto, N. Ramanathan, and D. W. Jacobs IEEE Trans. on Information Forensics & Security (TIFS), Vol. 5, Issue 1, 82-91, 2010. A preliminary version appeared in ICCV 2007 PDF
	Knowing a good feature when you see it: ground truth and methodology to evaluate local features for recognition A. Vedaldi, H. Ling, and S. Soatto Computer Vision: Detection, Recognition and Reconstruction, Recognition in Context, R. Cipolla, S. Battiato, and G. M. Farinella (Eds.), Studies in Computational Intelligence, Vol. 285, pp. 27-49, Springer, 2010. Book chapter link
2009
	Group Action Recognition Using Space-Time Interest Points Q. Wei, X. Zhang, Y. Kong, W. Hu, and H. Ling 5th Int. Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC), 2009. PDF
	Robust Visual Tracking using L1 Minimization X. Mei and H. Ling IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Kyoto, Japan, 2009. PDF | Code |
	Shape Guided Contour Grouping with Particle Filters C. Lu, L.J. Latecki, N. Adluru, X. Yang, and H. Ling IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Kyoto, Japan, 2009. PDF
	Sparse Representation of Cast Shadows via L1-Regularized Least Squares X. Mei, H. Ling, and D. W. Jacobs IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Kyoto, Japan, 2009. PDF
	Age Regression from Faces Using Random Forests A. Montillo and H. Ling IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Cairo, Egypt, 2009. PDF
	Coronary Tree Extraction Using Motion Layer Separation W. Zhang, H. Ling, S. Prummer, S. K. Zhou, M. Ostermeier, and D. Comaniciu The 12th Annual International Conf. on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), London, UK, 2009. PDF
	Constrained Marginal Space Learning for Efficient 3D Anatomical Structure Detection in Medical Images Y. Zheng, B. Georgescu, H. Ling, S. K. Zhou, M. Suehling, and D. Comaniciu, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2009. PDF
	Probabilistic Branching Node Detection using Hybrid Local Features H. Ling, M. Barnathan, V. Megalooikonomou, P. Bakic, and A. Maidment Proceedings of the 6th IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), 233-236, 2009 PDF
	Learning Based Thumbnail Cropping X. Li and H. Ling IEEE Int. Conf. on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), 2009. PDF
	Shape Matching for Foliage Database Retrieval H. Ling and D. W. Jacobs Semantic Mining Technologies for Multimedia Database, D. Tao, D. Xu, and X. Li (Eds.), IGI, 2009. PDF | Book chapter link
2008
	Hierarchical, Learning-based Automatic Liver Segmentation H. Ling, S. K. Zhou, Y. Zheng, B. Georgescu, M. Suehling, and D. Comaniciu, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2008. PDF
	Searching the World's Herbaria: A System of Visual Identification of Plant Species P.N. Belhumeur, D. Chen, S. Feiner, D. W. Jacobs, W.J. Kress, H. Ling, I. Lopez, R. Ramamoorthi, S. Sheorey, S. White, and L. Zhang European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2008. PDF Media coverage: CNN 1 | CNN 2 | NYTimes
2007
	Proximity Distribution Kernels for Geometric Context in Category Recognition H. Ling and S. Soatto IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2007. PDF
	A Study of Face Recognition as People Age H. Ling, S. Soatto, N. Ramanathan, and D. W. Jacobs IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2007. PDF
	An Efficient Earth Mover's Distance Algorithm for Robust Histogram Comparison H. Ling and K. Okada IEEE Trans on Pattern Anal. and Mach. Intell. (PAMI), 29(5):840-853, 2007. A preliminary version appeared in ECCV 2006 PDF | code |
	Shape Classification Using the Inner-Distance H. Ling and D. W. Jacobs IEEE Trans on Pattern Anal. and Mach. Intell. (PAMI), 29(2):286-299, 2007. A preliminary version appeared in CVPR 2005 PDF | Matlab codes for matching demo (~113K), for the Articulated Shapes (~130K) | for the Swedish Leaves (~1M) | for the MPEG7 Shapes (~1.9M) | Smithsonian Leaves (4.5M)
2006
	Techniques for Image Retrieval: Deformation Insensitivity and Automatic Thumbnail Cropping H. Ling Advisor: Prof. David W. Jacobs, Committee: Professors Yiannis Aloimonos, Ben B. Bederson, Rama Chellappa, Larry S. Davis, Min Wu PDF (~9M)
	First Steps Toward an Electronic Field Guide for Plants G. Agarwal, P.N. Belhumeur, S. Feiner, D. W. Jacobs, W.J. Kress, R. Ramamoorthi, N.A. Bourg, N. Dixit, H. Ling, D. Mahajan, R. Russell, S. Shirdhonkar, K. Sunkavalli, and S. White Taxon, 55(3):597-610, 2006. PDF (~9M) | web | BibTex
	Diffusion Distance for Histogram Comparison H. Ling and K. Okada IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Vol. I, pp. 246-253, 2006. PDF | Dataset 1, 2 | code | BibTex
	EMD-L1: An Efficient and Robust Algorithm for Comparing Histogram-Based Descriptors H. Ling and K. Okada European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), LNCS 3953, III:330-343, 2006. PDF | code | BibTex
2005
	Deformation Invariant Image Matching H. Ling and D. W. Jacobs IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) Vol. II, pp. 1466-1473, 2005. PDF | ICCV Talk (4.5M) | Dataset 1, 2 | Matlab code (~900K) | BibTex
	Using the Inner-Distance for Classification of Articulated Shapes H. Ling and D. W. Jacobs IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Vol. II, pp. 719-726, 2005. PDF | Articulated shape database (~36K) | Matlab code (~113K) | BibTex
2003
	Automatic Thumbnail Cropping and Its Effectiveness B. Suh, H. Ling, B.B. Bederson, and D. W. Jacobs ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST), CHI Letters, 5(2), pp. 95-104, 2003. [Best Student Paper] PDF | Matlab code (~58K) | BibTex

Patents

1. D. Comaniciu, B. Georgescu, M. Scheuering, Y. Zheng, and H. Ling, "Method and System for Detecting 3D Anatomical Structures Using Constrained Marginal Space Learning," pending, filed by Siemens, US Patent Application# 20090304251.
2. H. Ling and K. Okada, "Diffusion Distance for Histogram Comparison", US Patent No. 7,715,623.
3. J. Wang, H. Ling, S. Lu, and Y. Zou, "Method and System for Separating Text and Drawings in Digital Ink", US Patent No. 7,258,757.

Old Publications on Geographical Information Systems (all in Chinese)

1. W. Hu, H. Ling, Contour Line Elevation Interpretation and 3-D Surface Reconstruction from Very Large Topographic Map, ACTA AUTOMATICA SINICA, Vol. 28, No. 1, pp. 63-73, 2002.
2. H. Ling, B. Wu, A General Algorithm for Mesh Based Image Processing Based on Scan Line, Journal of Computer-Aided Design & Computer Graphics, 2001.
3. W. Hu, H. Ling, Rapid Automated Hill-shading for Very Large Map, Chinese Journal of Computers, Vol. 23, No. 8, pp. 852-856, 2000.
4. W. Hu, B. Wu, H. Ling, An Automatic Method for Contour Interpolation in Map Design, Chinese Journal of Computers, Vol.23, No.8, pp. 847-851, 2000.
5. B. Wu, W. Yin, Ling H., An Algorithm of Clipping the General Polygons with Topological Attributes, Mini-Micro Systems
6. B. Wu, W. Yin, D. Zhou, Cao W., H. Ling, W. Liu, The Design of Digital Map Publishing System, Computer Engineering, June, 2000.
7. W. Hu, H. Ling, Neural Network Based Timing Driven Floorplanning, ACTA ELECTRONICA SINICA, Vol. 28, No. 5, pp. 21-24, 2000.
8. H. Ling, W. Cao, B. Wu, A Triangulation Error Registration Method on Geographical Data Collecting, Symposium of CPGIS 1999.
9. W. Cao, B. Wu, H. Ling, Map Projection in GIS Mapping, Symposium of CPGIS 1999.
10. H. Ling, B. Wu, An Improved Algorithm for Auto-connected Delaunay Triangulation, Computer Applications, Dec. 1999.