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| Yang Wang School of Computing Science Simon Fraser University Burnaby, BC, V5A 1S6, Canada | ||
| E-mail: | k{id}@gmail.com (permanent) or {id}12@cs.sfu.ca (current) | |
| replace "{id}" with "ywang" | ||
| Phone: | +1-778-782-6735 | |
| Fax: | +1-778-782-3045 | |
I have recently finished my Ph.D. in Computing Science at Simon Fraser University, working with Prof. Greg Mori. I am a member of the Vision and Media Lab (TASC1 8000, click here for the campus map). My research interests lie in computer vision and statistical machine learning.
My work in computer vision mainly focuses on high-level recognition problems. Most of my Ph.D. work is on the development of models, algorithms and tools to automatically interpret visual sensory data (both images and videos) containing people. In particular, I develop probabilistic models and statistical learning methods to recognize human actions and to recover their poses. I am also interested in other recognition problems in vision, especially those that involve multiple sources of richly structured data.
In machine learning, I am mostly interested in working on models/algorithms that exploit different complex structures in the data, including structures on inputs, outputs, and latent spaces. I also work on algorithms that deal with noisy, uncertain, and partially labeled data. Together with several collaborators, I have studied the problems of learning with missing information and information-theoretic semi-supervised learning.
On more practical side, I am currently exploring vision and learning technologies for applications in video surveillance, image/video retrieval and analysis, intelligent monitoring in health care and assistive technology, etc.
To know more about my work, please feel free to have a look at my publications by year or by topic
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