Research
Interests
Machine Learning
Computer Vision
Social Media Analytics
Human-Computer Interaction
Cyber-Physical Systems
Hiring
We are always looking for excellent Ph.D. students to work on machine learning, vision, and social media.
Several PostDoc and RA positions are open for machine learning, computer vision, and social media analytics.
Please send us your CV if interested.
News
02/2012, One paper is accepted by IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME), 2012.
02/2012, Gaurav Srivastava received a NIST-CPS travel scholarship.
11/2011, "Socio-Cultural Media Sharing as Conversations", $483k, AFOSR, 02/12-02/15.
11/2011, Congratulations to my Ph.D. student, Wei Chen, who received the NSF Student Travel Award to attend IEEE ICDM 2011.
10/2011, One paper is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Multimedia.
10/2011, we won the LSVA Best Paper Award for the IEEE ICDM 2011 Workshop on Large Scale Visual Analytics.
10/2011, "Stabilized Manifold Learning", $878k, ONR, 02/12-02/15.
09/2011, Keynote at the 7th Joint Conference on Harmonious Human Machine Environment, http://www.hhme.org/hhmebook_100dpi.pdf
09/2011, one paper is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Image Processing.
09/2011, UB KinFace Database, Version 2, is released.
09/2011, " CPS:Medium:Quantitative Visual Sensing of Dynamic Behaviors for Home-based Progressive Rehabilitation", $1.2million, NSF, 12/11-12/15.
08/2011, Dr. Fu accepted the appointment to serve as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT).
08/2011, "Modeling Spatiotemporal Contextual Dynamics with Sparse-Coded Transfer Learning", $50k, ARMY Research Office, 11/11-10/12.
07/2011, a full paper with oral presentation is accepted in ACM CIKM’11, acceptance rate is 15%.
07/2011, Dr. Fu is honored as IEEE ICME 2011 Quality Reviewer.
06/2011, "Mobile Robots for Swarm Surveillance Research", $290k, DOD DURIP, 06/11-06/12.
05/2011, We received an IC Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Award to support my research on Alternative Open Source Motion Imagery.
01/2011, We received a FutureWei Research Gift to support my research on Visual Classification and Detection.
12/2010, We received the Google Research Award to support my research on Social Media Computing.
11/2010, ITESOFT Best Paper Award, 12th IAPR International Conferences on the Frontiers of Handwriting Recognition (ICFHR), 2010
10/2010, "Ontology, Event Agents and Event Recounting for ALADDIN", $1 million, 5-year grant from IARPA ALADDIN, 2010-2015
08/2010, Ming Shao received the UB Presidential Fellowship. Congratulations to Ming!
06/2010, "ISTARE: Intelligent Spatiotemporal Activity Reasoning Engine", $2.3 million, 3-year grant from DARPA/ARL, 2010-2013
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