Starting from Nov. 21, 2009, I'm no longer with NEC Laboratories America. I will join a start-up company in Silicon Valley. There's a great team there that will convert my research experience into some exciting world-class applications. I'd prefer to keep the name of the company a secret for a while. When we success, you will see it.

I will still take care of all the on-going academic activities. To catch me, send emails to

Thank you!

I'm serving as editor of special issue "Semi-Supervised Learning for Visual Content Analysis and Understanding" of Pattern Recognition journal. Other editors include Dr. Jian Cheng and Dr. Shuqiang Jiang from CAS, China, Dr. Zhihua Zhou from Nanjing University, China, CAS, and Dr. Edwin Hancock from University of York, UK. Please find below the General Information for prospective authors.

1. Official Call for Chapters.

I'm co-editing a book titled "Computer Vision for Multimedia Applications: Methods and Solutions" with Dr. Jian Cheng and Dr. Shuqiang Jiang from CAS, China. Please find below the General Information for prospective authors

1. Official Call for Chapters.
2. Submission Guideline.
3. Submission Template.
4. More information about the the book can be found at (http://www.igi-global.com/requests/details.asp?ID=651)

Postdoctoral Research Scientist, NEC Laboratories America, Inc. Nov. 2006-present.

1. Image/Video Super-resolution based on pattern-recognition, machine learning and signal processing techniques.
2. Image/video understanding and object detection.
3. Time-series analysis based on sequential pattern regression and classification, with application in automatic driving risk prediction and drivers' emotional state recognition. In collaboration with Toyota ITC California, USA.
4. Video Object Segmentation based on computer vision techniques.

Research Scholar, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Jul. 2003 - Nov. 2006.

1. Content based video analysis with application in automatic sports event detection, sports video re-trieval. Robust visual/auditory/textural feature design, pattern recognition algorithm implementation and modification and subjective/objective evaluation. In collaboration with Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), A-Star, Singapore.
2. Semantic video composition and re-editing. Proposing interactive music-video editing model and efficient optimization algorithm. Subjective/objective evaluation design. In collaboration with I2R, A-Star, Singapore.
3. Automatic broadcast sports video synthesis. Robust visual feature extraction. Computer vision based object tracking and semantic video composition rule implementation. In collaboration with I2R, A-Star, Singapore.
4. Speaker tracking in a smart-room environment using audio Direction of Arrival technique.

Research assistant, M.E. of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China. Jul. 2000 - Jun. 2003.

1. DSP implementation and optimization of speech/voice processing module in VoIP system. Sponsored by National High-tech. Research and Development Project (863) funding, China
2. Local-Area-Network multimedia education software.
3. Net-Adapter testing software.
   

1. Editor of Pattern Recognition, special issue on "Semi-Supervised Learning for Visual Content Analysis and Understanding".
2. Session chair of IEEE International Conference on Pattern Recognition 2008 (ICPR'08), IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Expo 2009 (ICPR'09).
3. Organizer of special issue "Semi-supervised learning for multimedia analysis" in Pattern Recognition journal.
4. Organizer of special session "Semi-supervised learning for multimedia analysis" in IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Expo 2009 (ICME'09).
5. Technical Program Committee member of ACM Multimedia 2008 (ACM MM'08 Short paper), IEEE Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia 2009 (PCM'09), IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Modeling 2009 (MMM'09), IEEE 3DTV 2009, International Conference on Internet Multimedia Computing and Service (ICIMCS'09).
6. Peer reviewer of IEEE Trans. on Multimedia (TMM), IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (CSVT), Pattern Recognition Letter, ACM Multimedia System Journal, Image and Vision Computing Journal, Journal of Multimedia Tools and Application, ACM Multimedia 2007 (ACM MM'07) , ACM International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval 2008 (CIVR'08), IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Expo 2008, 2009 (ICME'08, ICME'09), IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Modeling 2007, 2008 (MMM'07, MMM'08), IEEE Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia 2008 (PCM'08).

1. "Monitoring driving safety using semi-supervised sequential learning", United States Patent Application Serial No. 12/184,21, filed on July 31, 2008, pending
   
2. "Real-time driving danger level prediction", United States Patent Application Serial No. 60/911,092, filed on Nov. 4, 2007, pending

Book chapter

   [1] Jinjun Wang, Yihong Gong, "Image and Video Super Resolution Techniques", Encyclopedia of Multimedia, 2nd Edition (Book chapter), ISBN: 978-0-387-78415-1, pp309-317, Springer Verlag.

Journal

   [7] Jinjun Wang, Shenghuo Zhu, Yihong Gong, "Resolution Enhancement based on Learning the Sparse Association of Image Patches". Submitted to Pattern Recognition Letter under first review.
   [6] Jinjun Wang, Shenghuo Zhu, Yihong Gong, "Driving Safety Monitoring using Semi-Supervised Learning on Time Series Data". Submitted to IEEE Trans. on Intelligent Transportation under second review.
   [5] Feng Liu, Jinjun Wang, Shenghuo Zhu, Michael Gleicher, Yihong Gong, "Visual-Quality Opti-mizing Super Resolution", Computer Graphics Forum, to appear. [pdf]
   [4] Changsheng Xu, Jinjun Wang, Hanqing Lu, Yifan Zhang, "A Novel Framework for Semantic An-notation and Personalized Retrieval of Sports Video", IEEE Trans. on Multimedia, pp 421-436, Sept. 2008. [pdf]
   [3] Jinjun Wang, Changsheng Xu, Engsiong Chng, Qi Tian and Hanqing Lu, "Automatic Composition of Broadcast Soccer Video", ACM MultiMedia System Journal, 2008. [pdf]
   [2] Jinjun Wang, Engsiong Chng, Changsheng Xu, Hanqing Lu and Qi Tian, "Generation of Persona-lized Music Sports Video using Multimodal Cues", IEEE Trans. on Multimedia, April 2007. [pdf]
   [1] Benxiong Huang and Jinjun Wang, "Echo canceller based on improved PNLMS and quick correlation DTD algorithms", Journal of Huazhong University of Science and Technology (Nature Science Edition), vol.32, no.6, pp.4-6, 2004. [pdf]

Conference

2009

   [19] Jinjun Wang, Shenghuo Zhu, Yihong Gong, "Resolution-Invariant Image Representation and Its Applications" to appear in IEEE International conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2009 (CVPR' 09), Florida, USA, 2009. [pdf][demo]
   [18] Jinjun Wang, Shenghuo Zhu, Yihong Gong, "Resolution-Invariant Image Representation For Content-Based Zooming", to appear in IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Expo 2009 (ICME' 09), Cancun, Mexico, 2009. [pdf]
   [17] Jinjun Wang, Yihong Gong, "Normalizing Multi-Subject Variation For Drivers' Emotion Recognition", to appear in IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Expo 2009 (ICME' 09), Cancun, Mexico, 2009. [pdf]

2008

   [16] Jinjun Wang, Yihong Gong, "Recognition of multiple drivers' emotional state", in Proc. of International Conference on Pattern Recognition 2008 (ICPR' 08), Florida, USA, 2008. [pdf]
   [15] Jinjun Wang, Yihong Gong, "Fast Image Super-Resolution Using Connected Component En-hancement", in Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Expo 2008 (ICME' 08), Hannover, Germany, 2008. [pdf]
   [14] Feng Liu, Jinjun Wang, Shenghuo Zhu, Michael Gleicher, Yihong Gong, "Noisy video super-resolution" , in Proc. of ACM Multimedia 2008 (ACM MM'08), Vancouver, Canada, 2008. [pdf]

2007

   [13] Jinjun Wang, Wei Xu, Shenghuo Zhu, Yihong Gong, "Efficient Video Object Segmentation by Graph-Cut", in Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Expo 2007 (ICME' 07), Beijing, China, July 2007. [pdf]

2006

1. Seed project award. NEC Laboratories America, Inc., Feb. 2009
2. Seed project award. NEC Laboratories America, Inc., Apr. 2007
3. Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) Fellowship. Dec. 2005