WANG Yizhou

Name:WANG Yizhou

Title:BoYa Professor

Phone:86-10-6275 3457

Research interests:Computer Vision, Medical Image Analysis, Statistical Learning and Computing, Digital Visual Arts

Homepage:https://cfcs.pku.edu.cn/wangyizhou/

E-mail:Yizhou.Wang at pku dot edu dot cn

Select Publications

2019
1. End-to-end Active Object Tracking and Its Real-world Deployment via Reinforcement Learning
Wenhan Luo, Peng Sun, Fangwei Zhong, Tong Zhang, Yizhou Wang
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (IEEE-TPAMI), in press. [PDF]
2. Max-MIG: an Information Theoretic Approach for Joint Learning from Crowds
Peng Cao, Yilun Xu, Yuqing Kong, Yizhou Wang
Seventh International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), New Orleans, May 6-9, 2019. [PDF]
3. AD-VAT: An Asymmetric Dueling mechanism for learning Visual Active Tracking
Fangwei Zhong, Peng Sun, Wenhan Luo, Tingyun Yan, Yizhou Wang
Seventh International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), New Orleans, May 6-9, 2019. [PDF]
4. Cascaded Generative and Discriminative Learning for Microcalcification Detection in Breast Mammograms
Fandong Zhang, Ling Luo, Xinwei Sun, Zhen Zhou, Xiuli Li, Yizhou Wang, Yizhou Yu
IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Long Beach, June 16-20, 2019. [PDF]
5. Towards Accurate Task Accomplishment with Low-Cost Robotic Arms
Yingming Zuo, Weichao Qiu, Lingxi Xie, Fangwei Zhong, Yizhou Wang, Alan Yuille
IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Long Beach, June 16-20, 2019. [PDF]
6. Multi-Agent Tensor Fusion for Contextual Trajectory Prediction
Tianyang Zhao, Yifei Xu, Mathew Monfort, Wongun Choi, Chris Maker, Yibiao Zhao, Yizhou Wang, Yingnian Wu
IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Long Beach, June 16-20, 2019. [PDF]
7. Completeness Modeling and Context Separation for Weakly Supervised Temporal Action Localization
Daochang Liu, Tingting Jiang, Yizhou Wang
IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Long Beach, June 16-20, 2019. [PDF]
 
2018
1. Robust 3D Human Pose Estimation from Single Images or Video Sequences
Chunyu Wang, Yizhou Wang, Zhouchen Lin, Alan Yuille
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (IEEE-TPAMI), in press. [PDF]
2. Fast, Resilient Single-User Indoor Floor Plan Construction
Ruipeng Gao, Bing Zhou, Fan Ye, Yizhou Wang
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (IEEE-TMC), in press, 2018. [PDF]
3. Building Invariances into Sparse Subspace Clustering
Bo Xin, Yizhou Wang, Wen Gao, David Wipf
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (IEEE-TSP), vol. 66(2), pp 449-462, 2018. [PDF]
4. MSplit LBI: Realizing Feature Selection and Dense Estimation Simultaneously in Few-shot and Zero-shot Learning
Bo Zhao, Xinwei Sun, Yanwei Fu, Yuan Yao, Yizhou Wang
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), Stockholm, July 10-15, 2018. [PDF]
5. End-to-end Active Object Tracking via Reinforcement Learning
Wenhan Luo, Peng Sun, Fangwei Zhong, Wei Liu, Tong Zhang, Yizhou Wang
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), Stockholm, July 10-15, 2018. [PDF]
6. Video Object Segmentation by Learning Location-Sensitive Embeddings
Hai Ci, Chunyu Wang, Yizhou Wang
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Munich, Sept. 8-14, 2018. [PDF]
7. FDR-HS: An Empirical Bayesian Identification of Heterogenous Features in Neuroimage Analysis
Xinwei Sun, Lingjing Hu, Fandong Zhang, Yuan Yao, Yizhou Wang
the 21th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), Granada, Sept. 16-20, 2018. [PDF]
8. RAN4IQA: Restorative Adversarial Nets for No-Reference Image Quality Assessment
Hongyu Ren, Diqi Chen, Yizhou Wang
the Thirty-Second AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), New Orleans, Feb. 2 - 7, 2018. [PDF]
9. Detect-SLAM: Making Object Detection and SLAM Mutually Beneficial
Fangwei Zhong, Sheng Wang, Ziqi Zhang, Chen Zhou, Yizhou Wang
IEEE Winter Conf. on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), Lake Tahoe, Mar 12-14, 2018. [PDF]
 
2017
1. Smartphone-based Real Time Vehicle Tracking in Indoor Parking Structures
Ruipeng Gao, Mingmin Zhao, Tao Ye, Fan Ye, Yizhou Wang, Guojie Luo
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (IEEE-TMC), vol.16(7), pp 2023-2036, 2017. [PDF]
2. Collaborative Deep Reinforcement Learning for Joint Object Search
Xiangyu Kong, Bo Xin, Yizhou Wang, Gang Hua
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Hawaii, USA, 2017. [PDF]
3. Learning Discriminative Activated Simplices for Action Recognition
Chenxu Luo, Chang Ma, Chunyu Wang, Yizhou Wang
AAAI, San Francisco, Feb. 4-9, 2017. [PDF]
4. Data-Dependent Sparsity for Subspace Clustering
Bo Xin, Yizhou Wang, David Wipf
Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI), Sydney, Aug. 11-15, 2017. [PDF]
5. GSplit LBI: Taming the Procedural Bias in Neuroimaging for Disease Prediction
Xinwei Sun, Lingjing Hu, Yuan Yao, Yizhou Wang
The 20th Int'l Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), Quebec City, Sep 10-14, 2017. [PDF]
6. Knitter: Fast, Resilient Single-User Indoor Floor Plan Construction
Ruipeng Gao, Bing Zhou, Fan Ye, Yizhou Wang,
The 36th Annual IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), Atlanta, May. 1-4, 2017. [PDF]
7. UnrealCV: Virtual Worlds for Computer Vision
Weichao Qiu, Fangwei Zhong, Yi Zhang, Siyuan Qiao, Zihao Xiao, Tae Soo Kim, Yizhou Wang and Alan Yuille
ACM Multimedia (ACM-MM) Open Source Software Competition, Mountain View, Oct. 23-27, 2017. [PDF] [Demo] [Website]
8. Effective Master-Slave Communication On A Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning System
Xiangyu Kong, Bo Xin, Fangchen Liu, Yizhou Wang
Neural Information Processing Systems Workshop on Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning (NIPSW), Long Beach, Dec. 4-9, 2017. [PDF][Demo]
9. Zero-Shot Learning posed as a Missing Data Problem
Bo Zhao; Botong Wu; Tianfu Wu; Yizhou Wang
4th International Conference on Computer Vision Workshop on TASK-CV (ICCVW), Venice, Oct 22-29, 2017. [PDF]
 
2016
1. Efficient Generalized Fused Lasso and its Applications
Bo Xin, Yoshinobu Kawahara, Yizhou Wang, Lingjing Hu, Wen Gao
ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (ACM-TIST), Vol.7(4), pp60:1-22, 2016. [PDF]
2. Exploring Algorithmic Limits of Matrix Rank Minimization under Affine Constraints
Bo Xin, Yizhou Wang, Wen Gao and David Wipf
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (IEEE-TSP), vol.64(19), pp 4960-74, 2016. [PDF]
3. Multi-story Indoor Floor Plan Reconstruction via Mobile Crowdsensing
Ruipeng Gao, Mingmin Zhao, Tao Ye, Fan Ye, Guojie Luo, Yizhou Wang, Kaigui Bian, Tao Wang, Xiaoming Li
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (IEEE-TMC), vol.15(6), pp1427-1442, 2016. [PDF]
4. Sextant: Towards Ubiquitous Indoor Localization Service by Photo-taking of the Environment
Ruipeng Gao, Yang Tian, Kaigui Bian, Fan Ye, Tao Wang, Yizhou Wang, Xiaoming Li
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (IEEE-TMC), vol. 15(2), pp460-474, 2016. [PDF]
5. Neural Activities in V1 Create the Bottom-up Saliency Map of Natural Scenes
Cheng Chen, Xilin Zhang, Yizhou Wang, Tiangang Zhou, Fang Fang
Experimental Brain Research (EBR), vol. 234, pp 1769–1780, 2016. [PDF]
6. Misbinding of Color and Motion in Human Early Visual Cortex: Evidence from Event-related Potentials
Yanyu Zhang, Xilin Zhang, Yizhou Wang, Fang Fang
Vision Research (VR), vol 122, pp 51-59, 2016. [PDF]
7. Robust Subjective Visual Property Prediction From Crowdsourced Pairwise Labels
Yanwei Fu, Timothy M. Hospedales, Tao Xiang, Jiechao Xiong, Shaogang Gong, Yizhou Wang, Yuan Yao
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (IEEE-TPAMI), vol. 38(3), pp563-577, 2016.[PDF]
8. A Novel Method to Study Bottom-up Visual Saliency and Its Neural Mechanism
Cheng Chen, Xilin Zhang, Yizhou Wang, Fang Fang
arXiv, 2016. [PDF][Dataset]
* This bottom-up saliency map dataset is acquired NOT using eye-tracking.
9. Mining 3D Key-Pose-Motifs for Action Recognition
Chunyu Wang, Yizhou Wang, Alan Yuille
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Las Vegas, June 26-July 1, 2016. [PDF]
10. Recognizing Actions in 3D using Action-Snippets and Activated Simplices
Chunyu Wang, John Flynn, Yizhou Wang, Alan Yuille
AAAI, Phoenix, Feb. 12-17, 2016. [PDF][Code]
11. Robust Complex Behaviour Modeling at 90Hz
Xiangyu Kong, Yizhou Wang, Tao Xiang
AAAI, Phoenix, Feb. 12-17, 2016. [PDF]
12. Neighborhood-Preserving Hashing for Large-Scale Cross-Modal Search
Botong Wu, Yizhou Wang
ACM Multimedia (ACM MM), Amsterdam, Oct. 15-19, 2016. [PDF]
13. Maximal Sparsity with Deep Networks?
Bo Xin, David Wipf, Yizhou Wang
The Thirtieth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), Barcelona, December 05 – 10, 2016. [PDF]
14. Face Detection with End-to-End Integration of a ConvNet and a 3D Model
Yunzhu Li, Benyuan Sun, Tianfu Wu and Yizhou Wang
the European Conf. on Computer Vision (ECCV), Amsterdam, Oct. 8 – 16, 2016. [PDF]
 
2015
1. Learning Hierarchical Space Tiling for Scene Modeling, Parsing and Attribute Tagging
Shuo Wang, Yizhou Wang, Song-Chun Zhu
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (IEEE-TPAMI), 2015. [PDF]
2. Position Shifts of fMRI-based Population Receptive Fields in Human Visual Cortex Induced by Ponzo Illusion
Dongjun He, Ce Mo, Yizhou Wang, Fang Fang
Experimental Brain Research (EBR), vol 233 (12), pp 3535-3541, 2015. [PDF]
3. Predictive Encoding of Contextual Relationships for Perceptual Inference, Interpolation and Prediction
Mingmin Zhao, Chengxu Zhuang, Yizhou Wang, Tai Sing Lee
Workshop of the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), San Diego, May 7-9, 2015. [PDF]
4. Quantized Correlation Hashing for Fast Cross-modal Search
Botong Wu, Qiang Yang, Weishi Zheng, Yizhou Wang, Jingdong Wang
International Joint Conference on Artifical Intelligence (IJCAI), Buenos Aires, July 25-31, 2015. [PDF]
5. Exploiting Object Similarity in 3D Reconstruction
Chen Zhou, Fatma Guney, Yizhou Wang, Andreas Geiger
International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Santiago, Dec. 13-16, 2015. [PDF][Demo]
6. Background Subtraction via Generalized Fused Lasso Foreground Modeling
Bo Xin, Yuan Tian, Yizhou Wang, Wen Gao
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Boston, June 7-12, 2015. [PDF][Code][Example Data][Demo]
7. Stable Feature Selection from Brain sMRI
Bo Xin, Lingjing Hu, Yizhou Wang, Wen Gao
AAAI, Austin, Jan. 25-30, 2015. [PDF][Code]
8. VeTrack: Real Time Vehicle Tracking in Uninstrumented Indoor Environments
Mingmin Zhao, Tao Ye, Ruipeng Gao, Fan Ye, Yizhou Wang, Guojie Luo
The 13th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), Seoul, Nov. 1-4, 2015. [PDF]
 
2014
1. A Shape Reconstructability Measure of Object Part Importance with Applications to Object Detection and Localization
Ge Guo, Yizhou Wang, Tingting Jiang, Alan Yuille, Fang Fang, Wen Gao
Int’l J. on Computer Vision (IJCV), Vol. 108(3), 241-258, 2014. [PDF]
2. A Compact Representation for Compressing Converted Stereo Videos
Zhebin Zhang, Chen Zhou, Ronggang Wang, Yizhou Wang, Wen Gao
IEEE Trans. on Image Processing (IEEE-TIP), Vol. 23(5), 2343-2355, 2014. [PDF]
3. Robust Estimation of 3D Human Poses from Single Images
Chunyu Wang, Yizhou Wang, Zhouchen Lin, Alan Yuille, Wen Gao
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Columbus, June 24-27, 2014. [PDF][Code & Example Data]
4. Efficient Generalized Fused Lasso and its Application to the Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease
Bo Xin, Yoshinubo Kawahara, Yizhou Wang, Wen Gao
AAAI, Quebec, Jul. 27-31, 2014. [PDF][Code]
5. Generalized Autoencoder: A Neural Network Framework for Dimensionality Reduction
Wei Wang, Yan Huang, Yizhou Wang, Liang Wang
CVPR Workshop on DeepVision: Deep learning for computer vision, Columbus, June 28th, 2014.
Best Paper Award [PDF]
6. Jigsaw: Indoor Floor Plan Reconstruction via Mobile Crowdsensing
Ruipeng Gao, Mingmin Zhao, Tao Ye, Fan Ye, Yizhou Wang, Kaigui Bian, Tao Wang, Xiaoming Li
ACM Mobicom, Hawaii, Sept. 7-11, 2014. [PDF]
7. Towards Ubiquitous Indoor Localization Service Leveraging Environmental Physical Features
Yang Tian, Ruipeng Gao, Kaigui Bian, Fan Ye, Tao Wang, Yizhou Wang, Xiaoming Li
The 33rd Annual IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), Toronto, Apr. 27 - May 2, 2014. [PDF]
 
2013
1. Interactive Stereoscopic Video Conversion
Zhebin Zhang, Chen Zhou, Yizhou Wang, Wen Gao
IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (IEEE-TCSVT), Vol 23 (10), 1795 – 1808, 2013. [PDF]
2. Learning Discriminative Features for Fast Frame-based Action Recognition
Liang Wang, Yizhou Wang, Tingting Jiang, Debin Zhao, Wen Gao
Pattern Recognition (PR), 46(7): 1832-1840, 2013. [PDF] [Demo1,Demo2,Demo3]
3. Video Stylization: Painterly Rendering and Optimization with Content Extraction
Liang Lin, Kun Zeng, Yizhou Wang, Ying-Qing Xu, Song-Chun Zhu
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (IEEE-TCSVT), 23(4): 577-590, 2013. [PDF][Demo1,Demo2,Demo3,Demo4,Demo5,Demo6,Demo7]
4. An Approach to Pose-based Action Recognition
Chunyu Wang, Yizhou Wang, Alan Yuille
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Portland, June 25-27, 2013. [PDF]
5. A Method of Perceptual-based Shape Decomposition
Chang Ma, Zhongqian Dong, Tingting Jiang, Yizhou Wang, Wen Gao
Int’l Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Sydney, Dec. 3-6, 2013. [PDF]
6. Weakly Supervised Learning for Attribute Localization in Outdoor Scenes
Shuo Wang, Yizhou Wang, Song-Chun Zhu
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Portland, June 25-27, 2013. [PDF]
 
2012
1. Annotating Traditional Chinese Paintings for Immersive Virtual Exhibition
Wei Ma, Yizhou Wang, Yingqing Xu, Qiong Li, Xin Ma, Wen Gao
ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage (JOCCH), Vol. 5(2), July, 2012.
Included as “Notable Paper in Computing” in 2012 by computing reviews' Best of 2012 list [PDF][Demo1, Demo2]
2. An Interactive System of Stereoscopic Video Conversion
Zhebin Zhang, Chen Zhou, Bo Xin, Yizhou Wang, Wen Gao
ACM Multimedia (ACM MM), Japan, Oct. 29 – Nov. 2, 2012. [PDF]
3. A Compact Stereoscopic Video Representation for 3D Video Generation and Coding
Zhebin Zhang, Ronggang Wang, Chen Zhou, Yizhou Wang, Wen Gao
Data Compression Conference (DCC), Salt Lake City, USA, Apr. 10-12, 2012. [PDF]
 
2011
1. Mining Layered Grammar Rules for Action Recognition
Liang Wang, Yizhou Wang, Wen Gao
Int’l J. on Computer Vision (IJCV), Vol. 93, 2, p162-182, 2011. [PDF]
2. Image Understanding, Attention and Human Early Visual Cortex
Fang Fang, Yizhou Wang
Frontiers of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (FEEE), Vol.7(1), 85-93, 2011. [PDF]
3. Simulating Human Saccadic Scanpaths on Natural Images
Wei Wang, Cheng Chen, Yizhou Wang, Tingting Jiang, Fang Fang, Yuan Yao
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), USA, 2011. [PDF]
* This work may be regarded as a reinforcement learning type of computational cognitive model.
4. Instantly Telling What Happens in a Video Sequence Using Simple Features
Liang Wang, Yizhou Wang, Tingting Jiang, Wen Gao
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), USA, 2011. [PDF][Demo1,Demo2,Demo3]
 
Prior to 2010
1. Perceptual Scale-Space and its Applications
Yizhou Wang, Song-Chun Zhu
Int’l J. on Computer Vision (IJCV), Vol. 80, p143-165, 2008. [PDF][Demo1,Demo2,Demo3,Demo4]
2. What are Textons?
Song-Chun Zhu, Cheng-en Guo, Yizhou Wang, Zijiang Xu
Int'l J. of Computer Vision (IJCV), 2005. [PDF]
3. Analysis and Synthesis of Textured Motion: Particle, Wave and Sketch
Yizhou Wang, Song-Chun Zhu
IEEE Trans. on Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence (IEEE-TPAMI), Oct., 2004. [PDF]
4. Measuring Visual Saliency by Site Entropy Rate
Wei Wang, Yizhou Wang, Qingming Huang, Wen Gao
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), San Francisco, USA, 2010. [PDF][Code]
5. Painterly Animation Using Video Semantics and Feature Correspondence
Liang Lin, Kun Zeng, Han Lv, Yizhou Wang, Yingqing Xu, Song-Chun Zhu
Symposium on NonPhotorealistic Animation and Rendering (NPAR), France, 2010
Best Paper Award Runner-Up [PDF][Demo1,Demo2,Demo3,Demo4,Demo5,Demo6,Demo7]
6. Perceptual Scale-Space and its Applications
Yizhou Wang, Siavosh Bahrami, Song-Chun Zhu,
Int’l Conf. on Computer Vision (ICCV), Beijing, Oct., 2005. [PDF][Demo1,Demo2,Demo3,Demo4]
7. Modeling Complex Motion by Tracking and Editing Hidden Markov Graphs
Yizhou Wang, Song-Chun Zhu
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Washington DC, Jun., 2004. [PDF]
8. Modeling Textured Motion: Particle, Wave and Sketch
Yizhou Wang, Song-Chun Zhu
Int’l Conf. on Computer Vision (ICCV), Nice, Oct., 2003. [PDF]
9. A Generative Method for Textured Motion: Analysis and Synthesis
Yizhou Wang, Song-Chun Zhu
European Conf. on Computer Vision (ECCV), Copenhagen, Jun., 2002. [PDF]
10. What are Textons?
Song-Chun Zhu, Cheng-en Guo, Yingnian Wu, Yizhou Wang
European Conf. on Computer Vision (ECCV), Copenhagen, Jun., 2002. [PDF]

Research & Projects

Research interests include:
  • - Computational models for visual attention and autonomous learning

  • - Motion, action behavior modeling and analysis

  • - Scene and object structure analysis

  • - Medical Image Analysis

  • - Multimedia and mobile computing

Bio-sketch

DEGREES
2005 Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), USA
1996 B.Eng. Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
 
WORKING EXPERIENCE
2007.12 - Now,  Professor, Computer Science Dept., Peking University
Vice Director, Center on Frontiers of Computing Studies ( CFCS)
2005.7 – 2007.12,  Research Staff, Palo Alto Research Center (Xerox PARC)
Perceptual Document Analysis Area, Intelligent System Laboratory
1996 – 1998,  Computer System Consultant, Hewlett-Packard (H.P. Singapore)