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James Z Wang
Visiting Professor

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James Z. Wang received a summa cum laude Bachelor's degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from University of Minnesota, an M.S. in Mathematics and an M.S. in Computer Science, both from Stanford University, and a Ph.D. degree in Medical Information Sciences from Stanford University's Biomedical Informatics and Database groups. He has been a recipient of an NSF Career award and the endowed PNC Technologies Career Development Professorship. He is currently a Visiting Professor at the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University and works closely with T. Kanade.

Research interests of this group include automatic image tagging / learning-based linguistic indexing of images / image annotation, semantics-sensitive image retrieval, image security, biomedical informatics, computational aesthetics, story picturing, art image retrieval, and computer vision. The group has published two monographs and about 20 journal articles. The group has been invited as referee for about 60 scientific journals. The SIMPLIcity system Wang co-developed with Jia Li in 1999 has been sought after and obtained by researchers from close to 100 institutions. Their recent work on real-time Automatic Linguistic Indexing of Pictures can be tested at alipr.com. Their publications have been widely cited.

• A Computational Model for Repeated Pattern Perception using Crystallographic Groups - We are developing a computational model for repeated pattern perception that is able to automatically classify a given pattern into one of the 7 frieze groups, one of the 17 wallpaper groups, or one of the 230 space groups.

Note: This list may not be comprehensive. It contains only those publications in the RI publications database. Entries are listed in reverse chronological order.

• Algorithmic Inferencing of Aesthetics and Emotion in Natural Images: An Exposition
  R. Datta, J. Li, and J.Z. Wang
  Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, IEEE, October, 2008. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [3191 KB] copyrighted

• Automatic Lattice Detection in Near-Regular Histology Array Images
  B.A. Canada, G.K. Thomas, K.C. Cheng, J.Z. Wang, and Y. Liu
  Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, October, 2008.

• Image Processing for Artist Identification - Computerized Analysis of Vincent van Gogh's Painting Brushstrokes
  C.R. Johnson, E. Hendriks, I. Berezhnoy, E. Brevdo, S. Hughes, I. Daubechies, J. Li, E. Postma, and J.Z. Wang
  IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, July, 2008. [Abstract]
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• Towards Efficient Automated Characterization of Irregular Histology Images via Transformation to Frieze-Like Patterns
  B.A. Canada, G.K. Thomas, K.C. Cheng, J.Z. Wang, and Y. Liu
  Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval, July, 2008.

• Real-time Computerized Annotation of Pictures
  J. Li and J.Z. Wang
  IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 30, No. 6, June, 2008. [Abstract]
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• Image Retrieval: Ideas, Influences, and Trends of the New Age
  R. Datta, D. Joshi, J. Li, and J.Z. Wang
  ACM Computing Surveys, Vol. 40, No. 2, April, 2008. [Abstract]
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