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Rongrong Ji      纪荣嵘

Multimedia Retrieval (MR) Group, VILAB (Visual Intelligence Laboratory), Department of Computer Science (CS)

IEEE Student Member, PH.D. Candidate, Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT)

No.92, West Dazhi Street, Harbin, P. R. China
86-451-86416485, P.O.BOX 321, Harbin Institute of Technology, 150001

Curriculum Vitae in Chinese (PDF) Curriculum Vitae in English (PDF)

Email: jirongrong@gmail.com or rrji@vilab.hit.edu.cn

MR Group Google Page         My Live Space           My DBLP

 

 

Research

  • Large Scale Image Search with BOW Models
  • Patch-based Visual Representation and Indexing
  • Multi-Modal Video Search
  • Data Mining in Multimedia Social Community
  • Visual Semantic Understanding and Machine Learning

Education & Research Experiences

  • Research Intern: Web Search and Mining Group, Microsoft Research Asia, under Supervisor Xing Xie (Lead Researcher, IEEE Senior Member), August, 2007 - August, 2008.
  • Research Assistant: Visual Intelligence Laboratory, under Supervisor Hongxun Yao (Professor), September, 2005 – now.
  • PHD Candidate: Department of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Sep 2005 – now.
  • Bachelor: Department of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Engineering University, Sep 2001 - July 2005.

Publications     (My DBLP)

 

 

2010

  1. Rongrong Ji, Hongxun Yao, Xing Xie, Wei-Ying Ma, "Vocabulary Hierarchy Optimization for Effective and Transferable Retrieval," IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM), 2nd Review.
  2. Rongrong Ji, Hongxun Yao, Xiaoshuai Sun, Shaohui Liu, “Actor-Independent Action Retrieval Using Spatiotemporal Vocabulary with DTW Matching,” Pattern Recognition, Accept with Minor Revision.
  3. Rongrong Ji, Hongxun Yao, Xiaoshuai Sun, Bineng Zhong, Pengfei Xu, Wen Gao, “Towards Semantic Embedding In Visual Vocabulary,” CVPR 2010, Accept (Oral, Accept Rate ~ 5%). (Paper Project)
  4. Bineng Zhong, Hongxun Yao, Sheng Chen, Rongrong Ji, Xiaotong Yuan, Shaohui Liu, Wen Gao, “Visual Tracking via Weakly Supervised Learning from Multiple Imperfect Oracles”, CVPR, 2010, Accept.
  5. Dawei Liang, Qingming Huang, Hongxun Yao, Shuqiang Jiang, Rongrong Ji, and Wen Gao, “Novel Observation Model for Probabilistic Object Tracking,” CVPR, 2010, Accept.
  6. Xiaoshuai Sun, Hongxun Yao, Rongrong Ji, Pengfei Xu, Xianming Liu, Shaohui Liu, Visual Saliency as Sequential Eye Fixation Probability, ICIP 2010, Accept
  7. Xiaoshuai Sun, Hongxun Yao, Rongrong Ji, Pengfei Xu, Xianming Liu, Shaohui Liu, Saliency Detection based on Short-Term Sparse Representation, ICIP 2010, Accept.
  8. Wenkai Li, Hongxun Yao, Rongrong Ji, Tianqiang Liu, "3D Silhouette Tracking with Occlusion Inference," VCIP 2010, Accept.
  9. Pengfei Xu, Hongxun Yao, Rongrong Ji, Xiaoshuai Sun, and Xianming Liu, "A Rotation & Scale Invariant Texture Description Approach," VCIP 2010, Accept.

 

2009

  1. Rongrong Ji, Hongxun Yao, Pengfei Xu, Xianming Liu, “Exploit Visual and Textual Fusion for Semantic Supervised Region Retrieval” ACM Journal of Multimedia Systems (MSJ). (2008 IF 0.679).
  2. Rongrong Ji, Xing Xie, Hongxun Yao, Wei-Ying Ma, "Hierarchical Optimization of Visual Vocabulary for Effective and Transferable Retrieval," Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2009 (PDF).
  3. Rongrong Ji, Xing Xie, Hongxun Yao, Wei-Ying Ma, "Mining City Landmarks from Blogs by Graph Modeling," ACM Multimedia (MM). 2009 (Oral, Full Paper).
  4. Kun Yuan, Rongrong Ji, Hongxun Yao, Xiaoshuai Sun, Pengfei Xu, Xianming Liu, “VisuaCor System: Search Actor Correlations within TV Serials” ACM Conference on Internet Multimedia Computing and Service (Invited Paper).
  5. Pengfei Xu, Hongxun Yao, Rongrong Ji, Zhen Zhang, Jicheng Wang,”Multi-Scale Particle Filtering for Text Detection,” Journal of Image and Graphics (Chinese) (CJIG), In Press.
  6. Xiaoshuai Sun, Hongxun Yao, Rongrong Ji, Shaohui Liu, "Photo Assessment based on Computational Visual Attention Model," ACM Multimedia (MM). 2009 (Short Paper).
  7. Xianming Liu, Hongxun Yao, Rongrong Ji, Pengfei Xu, Xiaoshuai Sun, "What is a Complete Set of Keywords for Image Description & Annotation on the Web" ACM Multimedia (MM). 2009 (Short Paper).
  8. Dechao Liu, Matt Scott, Rongrong Ji, Hongxun Yao, Xing Xie, “Geolocation Sensitive Image Based Advertisement Platform,” ACM Multimedia (MM). 2009 (Short Paper).
  9. Pengfei Xu, Hongxun Yao, Rongrong Ji, "'SIGMA: Spatial integrated matching association algorithm for logo detection," ICASSP 2010, Accept.
  10. Kun Yuan, Hongxun Yao, Rongrong Ji, "'Mining actor correlations with hierarchical concurrence parsing," ICASSP 2010, Accept.
  11. Xianming Liu, Hongxun Yao, Rongrong Ji, "Exploring Statistical Properties for Semantic Annotation: Sparse Distributed and Convergent Assumptions for Keywords," ICASSP 2010, Accept.

 

2008

  1. Rongrong Ji, Hongxun Yao, and Dawei Liang. Dynamic Region Matching for Image Retrieval Using Probabilistic Fuzzy Matching and Boosting Feature Selection. International Journal of Signal, Image and Video Processing (SIVP), No. 1, Vol.2, Springer, pp. 59-71, January 2008.
  2. Rongrong Ji, Xiaoshuai Sun, Pengfei Xu, Hongxun Yao, Tianqiang Liu, “Attention-Driven Action Retrieval using 3D-SIFT with Dynamitic Time Warping,” ACM Multimedia Conference (MM), 2008.
  3. Rongrong Ji, Pengfei Xu, Hongxun Yao, Jicheng Wang, Zhen Zhang, “Real-Time Annotation by Manifold-based Biased Fisher Discriminant Analysis,” Visual Communication and Image Processing (VCIP) 2008, Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 6822, pp. 682226-682226-8 (2008).
  4. Rongrong Ji, Hongxun Yao, Jicheng Wang, Zhen Zhang, and Pengfei Xu, “Clustering Based Cascade SVM Assemble for Adaptive Relevance Feedback Learning,” IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expro (ICME).
  5. Rongrong Ji, Pengfei Xu, Hongxun Yao, Zhen Zhang, Xiaoshuai Sun and Tianqiang Liu, “Directional Correlation Analysis of Local Haar Binary Patern (LHBP) for Text Detection,” IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expro (ICME).
  6. Rongrong Ji, Xing Xie, Hongxun Yao, Wei-Ying Ma Yongjian Wu, “Vocabulary Tree Incremental Indexing for Scalable Scene Recognition”, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expro (ICME).
  7. Xiaoshuai Sun, Rongrong Ji, Hongxun Yao, Tianqiang Liu, Pengfei Xu, Xianming Liu, “Place Retrieval with Graph-View Model,” ACM Conference on Multimedia Information Retrieval (MIR), 2008.
  8. Xianming Liu, Rongrong Ji, Hongxun Yao, Pengfei Xu, Xiaoshuai Sun, Tianqiang Liu, “Isomorphic Manifold Learning for Image Retrieval and Keyword Annotation”, ACM Conference on Multimedia Information Retrieval (MIR), 2008.
  9. Pengfei Xu, Rongrong Ji, Hongxun Yao, Xiaoshuai Sun, Tianqiang Liu, Xianming Liu, “Text Particles Multi-Band Fusion for Robust Text Detection,” International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition (ICIAR) (LNCS), 2008.
  10. Tianqiang Liu, Hongxun Yao, Rongrong Ji, Xiaoshuai Sun, Xianming Liu, Pengfei Xu, Zhen Zhang, “Vision-based Semi-Supervised Homecare System with Incremental Learning,” Pacific & Rim Conference on Multimedia (PCM), 2008.
  11. Hu Wei, Tao Lin, and Rongrong Ji, “Flexible sub block ordering based intra 4/SPL times/4 prediction,” IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expro (ICME) (EI).

 

2007

  1. Rongrong Ji, Xianbo Lang, Hongxun Yao, and Zhen Zhang, “Semantic Supervised Region Retrieval Using Keyword Integrated Bayesian Reasoning,” International Journal on Innovative Computing, Information and Control (IJICIC), Vol.3, No.6, 2007. (2008 IF 2.791).
  2. Rongrong Ji, Hongxun Yao, “Visual & Textual Fusion for Region Retrieval: From Both Fuzzy Matching and Bayesian Reasoning Aspects,” ACM Conference on Multimedia Information Retrieval (MIR), pp.159-168, 2007.
  3. Rongrong Ji, Hongxun Yao, Zhen Zhang, Pengfei Xu, Jichen Wang, “Using Keyword Dictionary to Associate Semantic Objects in Region-based Image Retrieval,” International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition (ICIAR) (LNCS), Volume 4633, pp.1611-3349, 2007.
  4. Rongrong Ji, Hongxun Yao, Jicheng Wang, Pengfei Xu, “Exploiting Image Annotation and Keyword Retrieval Logs for CBIR from keyword categorization,” Joint Conference on Information Science (JCIS), World Scientific Publishing (EI), pp.973-979,2007.
  5. Rongrong Ji, Hongxun Yao, Zhen Zhang, “Sports Image Classification Based on Hierarchical Multi-SVM Bagging Network,” Joint Conference on Information Science (JCIS), World Scientific Publishing (EI), pp.1016-1022, 2007.
  6. Rongrong Ji, Hongxun Yao, Shaohui Liu, “A Novel Retrieval Refinement and Interaction Pattern by Exploring Result Correlations for Image Retrieval,” International Conference on Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval, Paris, France, (LNCS), July, 2007:85-94.
  7. Zhen Zhang, Rongrong Ji, Hongxun Yao etc. “Random Sampling SVM Based Query Expansion for Image Retrieval,” 4th IEEE International Conference on Image and Graphics (ICIG), 2007: 805-809.

 

2006

  1. Rongrong Ji, Hongxun Yao, Shaohui Liu, Liang Wang, “Genetic Algorithm Based Optimal Block Mapping Method for LSB Substitution,” IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing (IIHMSP), Pasadena, USA, 215-218, Dec.2006.
  2. Rongrong Ji, Hongxun Yao, Shaohui Liu, Liang Wang, “A New Steganalysis Method for Adaptive Spread Spectrum Steganography,” IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing, Pasadena (IIHMSP), USA, 365-368, Dec. 2006.

Projects

  • Photo2Search, Search your location based on visual surroundings, MSRA, Web Search and Mining Group.

§  Complete two demo systems (Photo2Search, TreasureMap) for Microsoft Tech Fest 07/08. Photo2Search is the demo that ranked No.1 among all demos in MSRA

  • National Basic Research Program of China (973)   (No.2009CB320905) (On-going)

§  Working on "Surveillance-based Video Coding" (sub-project of “Perception-based Video Coding”)

  • State 863 High Technology R&D Project of China (No. 2006AA01Z197) (On-going)

§  In charge of the application: “Large-Scale Image Search in Web Environment” (sub-project of “Intelligent Search Engine”)

  • National Science Foundation of China (No.60775024) (On-going)

§  In charge of the “Video Based 3D Tracking and Modeling” project

  • Information Project of Ministry of Information Industry of China (Finished)

§  Finish a group of steganography and steganalysis algorithms

  •  Science Funding of Harbin Institute of Technology

§  Image Search Demo Systems, 3rd Co-operator (First two are teachers)

Patents

      Chinese Patents:

  • Hongxun Yao, Rongrong Ji, Xiaoshuai Sun, Pengfei Xu, A method for human action detection from videos, Application Number: 200810137508.0
  • Hongxun Yao, Rongrong Ji, Xiaoshuai Sun, Pengfei Xu, Tianqiang liu, Xianming Liu, Video Scene Correlation Acquisition with Application to Efficient Video Navigation and Retrieval, Application Number: 200810137510.8

·         Hongxun Yao, Tianqiang liu, Rongrong Ji, Xiaoshuai Sun, An action Categorization Method with Spatial Constraint, Application Number: 200810137503.8

  • Hongxun Yao, Xianming Liu, Rongrong Ji, Pengfei Xu, Xioaoshuai Sun, Tianqiang Liu, Visual and Textual Fusion based on Manifold Co-training, Application Number: 200810137509.5
  • Hongxun Yao, Pengfei Xu, Rongrong Ji, Xiaoshuai Sun, Tianqiang Liu, Xianming Liu, A method for Text Detection from Nature Scene Images, Application Number: 200810137571.

MS Patents:

  • Rongrong Ji, Xing Xie, Wei-Ying Ma, “Incremental Feature Indexing for Scalable Location Recognition”, (US Application Serial No. or PCT International Application Number 12/245,710) in application.
  • Rongrong Ji, Xing Xie, Wei-Ying Ma,” Discovering City Landmarks from Online Journals”, (MS1-3857US) in application.

 

Awards

  • 2009 Ongoing Excellent PH.D. Thesis Award of HIT

           http://today.hit.edu.cn/articles/2009/07-08/0718565347.htm

  • 2009, Advanced Individual, Joint Research & Development Laboratory
  • 2008 Tencent Ph.D Fellowship
  • 2007 Microsoft Fellowship.

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/collaboration/global/asia-pacific/talent/fellows.aspx

  • 2006 Heqin Scholarship of HIT, 2005.
  • 10 Best Student Candidate of HIT (The only candidate from CS)
  • Best Graduate of Technology and Industry for National Defense, 2007
  • Best Graduate of Technology and Industry for National Defense, 2005
  • Best Graduate of Harbin Institute of Technology, 2007
  • Best Graduate of Heilongjiang Province, 2005

 

Academic Service

Special Section Chair

·         ACM International Conference on Internet Multimedia Computing and Service, 2010.

Call for Papers (Coming Soon)

Program Committee Member

·         IEEE Conference on Science and Social-science Research, 2010

Journal Reviewer

  • IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (ToM)
  • IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (CSVT)
  • IEEE Transactions on System man and Cybernetics Part B (SMC II)
  • Pattern Recognition (PR)
  • International Journal on Visual Comm. and Image Rep. (VCIR)
  • Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU)
  • ACM Multimedia Systems (MSJ)

Conference Reviewer

  • World Wide Web Conference 2010 (WWW)
  • ACM Multimedia (MM) 2008
  • ACM Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM) 2008
  • IEEE Conference on Human Computer Interaction (HCI) 2008
  • Embedded Computer Vision Workshop (ICCV Workshop) 2009
  • ACM Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM) 2008
  • ACM Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM) 2010
  • ACM Conference on Geographical Information Systems (GIS) 2010

Assist Review Papers for:

  • IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (CSVT)
  • Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU)
  • ACM Multimedia Systems (MSJ)
  • Pattern Recognition (PR)
  • Embedded Computer Vision Workshop (ICCV) 2009
  • The 2nd International Workshop on Ubiquitous Data Management 2010 (UDM)

 

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