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SongChun
 

Research Interest:

  • Computer Vision, Statistical Modeling and Computing, Vision and Visual Arts, Machine Learning
  

Degrees:

  • 1996 Ph.D. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
  • 1994 M.S. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
  • 1991 B.S. University of Science and Technology of China, at Hefei, China.

Appointments:

  • July 2002, Associate Professor University of California at Los Angeles,Depts of Statistics and Computer Science
  • Sept.1998, Assistant Professor Ohio State University, Dept. of Computer Science
  • Sept 1997, Lecturer    Stanford University, Dept. of Computer Science
  • Sept 1996, Post-doc    Brown University, Division of Applied Math

    Visiting appointments:

  • Microsoft Research Asia, at Beijing, Visiting Researcher, (Summer of 2000, 2001, 2004).
  • Mathematical Science Research Institute, Research Professor, Berkeley,CA (Spring 2005).

Honors：

  • 2008 j. k. Aggarwal Prize in IAPR .
  • 2007 Honorary Mention of Marr Prize in 11th ICCV.
  • 2007 "Cheung Kong Scholars Programme" special appointment professor of Ministry of Education of China.
  • 2003 David Marr Prize, 9th ICCV at Nice, France, for MCMC Inference for image parsing.
  • 2001 Young Investigator Award , Office of Navy Research (1 of 4 in Math and CS at US).
  • 2001 Sloan Fellow, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (1 of 10 in CS at US and Canada).
  • 2001 Career Award, the National Science Foundation.
  • 2000 College Research Achievement Award, OSU.
  • 1999 David Marr Prize, honorary nomination, 7th ICCV at Corfu, Greece, for texture modeling
  • 1999 Invited lecture at the Institute of Henri Poincare, Paris, France.
  • 1995 Ali Jury Prize, Harvard University.
  • 1992 Harvard Fellowship, Harvard Graduate School of Art and Sciences.
  • 1986-1991 Numerous undergraduate student awards in China (e.g. Elite Research Prize and Zhang Zhongzhi Prize).

Editorial Service:

  • Editing Board, International Journal of Computer Vision 2004 --
  • Editing Board, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 2005 --
  • Editing Board, Foundations and Trends in Computer Graphics and Vision 2004 --

Selected Publications:

  1. Y.Z. Wang and S.C. Zhu,"Perceptual Scale Space and Its Applications", Int'l Journal of Computer Vision, vol. 80, no.1, pp143-165, Oct, 2008.
  2. Z.J. Xu, H. Chen, S.C. Zhu, and J. Luo, " A Composite Template for Human Face Modeling and Sketch" ,IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol.30, no.6, 955-969, 2008.
  3. F. Han and S.C. Zhu ,"A Two-Level Generative Model for Cloth Representation and Shape-From-Shading ",IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol.29, no.7, pp 1230-1243, July 2007
  4. A. Barbu and S.C. Zhu," Generalizing Swendsen-Wang for Image Analysis ",Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, vol. 16, no. 4, 877-900, 2007
  5. Y.N. Wu, C.E. Guo, and S.C. Zhu,"From Information Scaling of Natural Images to Regimes of Statistical Models ", Quarterly of Applied Mathematics, 2007.
  6. C.E. Guo, S.C. Zhu and Y.N. Wu, "Primal Sketch: Integrating Texture and Structure",Computer Vision and Image Understanding,vol.106, issue 1, 5-19, April, 2007.
  7. S.C. Zhu and D. Mumford, "A Stochastic Grammar of Images" Foundations and Trends in Computer Graphics and Vision, vol. 2, No.4, pp 259-362, 2006.
  8. S.C. Zhu, C.E. Guo, Y. Z. Wang, and Z.J. Xu "What are Textons?"  Int'l J. of Computer Vision, vol.62(1/2), 121-143, 2005.
  9. Z.W. Tu, X.R. Chen, A.L. Yuille, and S.C. Zhu, "Image parsing: unifying segmentation, detection and recognition" Int'l J. of Computer Vision, 2005.
  10. A. Barbu and S.C. Zhu, "Generalizing Swendsen-Wang to Sampling Arbitrary Posterior Probabilities" IEEE Trans.on PAMI, 2005.

  11. Y.N. Wu, S.C. Zhu, and C.E. Guo, "From Information Scaling Laws of Natural Images to Regimes of Statistical Models"preprint 408,UCLA Statistics, 2004.

  12. Y.Z. Wang and S.C. Zhu, "Analysis and Synthesis of textured motion: Particles and Waves",  IEEE Trans. on PAMI , vol. 26, no. 10, pp 1348-1363, 2004.

  13. S.C. Zhu, "Statistical modeling and conceptualization of visual Patterns",IEEE Trans. on PAMI, vol.25, no.6, pp. 691-712, 2003.

  14. Z.W. Tu and S.C. Zhu,  "Image Segmentation by data-driven Markov chain Monte Carlo", IEEE Trans on PAMI , vol.24, no.5, pp. 657-673, May, 2002.

  15. Y.N.Wu, S. C. Zhu and X. W. Liu, "Equivalence of Julesz Ensemble and FRAME models" Int'l J. of Computer Vision, 38(3), 247-265, 2000.

  16. S. C.Zhu, Y.N. Wu and D.B.Mumford, "Minimax entropy principle and its applications to texture modeling" Neural Computation Vol. 9, no8, 1627-60, 1997.

  17. S. C. Zhu and D. B Mumford, "Prior Learning and Gibbs Reaction-Diffusion", IEEE Trans. on PAMI, vol. 19, no. 11, pp1236-1250, Nov. 1997.

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