Junfa Liu (Áõ¾ü·¢), Ph.D.                  Chinese Version Institute of Computing Technology Chinese Academy of Sciences No.6 Kexueyuan South Road Zhongguancun,Haidian District Beijing, 100080, China Phone: +86 10 62600510 Fax:    +86 10 62600650 E-mail: liujunfa (at) ict.ac.cn http://www.jdl.ac.cn/user/jfliu/index.htm

RESEARCH INTERESTS

My research interests include machine learning and its application in face synthesis, caricature synthesis and face animation.
Recent Projects.

EDUCATION

• 2003.09-present
  Institute of Computing Technology, CAS.
  Ph.D. Candidate
  Major in Computer Application
  Ph.D. Supervisor: Prof. Wen Gao
  Ph.D. Thesis: Data-Driven Cartoon Face Exaggeration
• 1992.09-1999.07
  Yangtze University
  Bachelor and Master of Science
  Major in Mathematic Geology
  Master Supervisor: Prof. Jianhua Li
  Master Thesis: Construction and Application of The Core Image Database.

COMPUTER SKILLS

Microsoft C/C++, Matlab, JAVA, XML

HOBBIES

HONORS AND AWARDS

• The first runner up of 2007 ICDM Data Mining Contest
• Top-Class Director Scholarship 2006, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
• Three-Good Student, 2005-2006 academic year, Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences
• Three-Good Student, 2006-2007 academic year, Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences
• Winner of ACM KDD Cup 2004's Bioinformatics Task

RESEARCH EXPERIENCES

• 2008.03.05 - 2008.05.05, Nanyang Technological University
  Visting Student.
  
• 2006.10.22 - 10.29, Attend the international conference
  Conf. Name: ACM Multimedia 2006.
  Conf. Location: Santa Barbara, USA.
• 2006.07.03 - 07.16, Attend the Dragon-Star Short Course
  Course Name: Computer Vision
  Lecturer: Prof. Song-Chun Zhu
• 2006. 06.26 - 06.29, Attend the international conference
  Conf. Name: Computer Graphics International Conference 2006
  Conf. Location: Hangzhou, China.
• 2005.08.29 - 09.02, Attend the International Workshop
  Workshop Name: Mathematical, Computational, and Applied Aspects of Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  Workshop Location: Wuhan, China.
• 2004.11.04 - 11.06, Attend the national workshop
  Workshop Name: Chinese Workshop on Machine Learning and Applications 2004 (MLA'04)
  Workshop Location: Shanghai, China.

PUBLICATIONS

1. Junfa Liu, Yiqiang Chen, Chunyan Miao, Jinjing Xie, Charles X. Ling, Xingyu Gao, Wen Gao, Semi-Supervised Learning in Reconstructed Manifold Space for 3D Caricature Generation, Computer Graphics Forum, 2009. (Accepted)
2. Junfa Liu, Yiqiang Chen, Jinjing Xie, Xingyu Gao and Wen Gao, Semi-supervised Learning of Caricature Pattern from Manifold Regularization, In proceedings of Multimedia Modeling 2009 , LNCS 5371, pp. 413¨C424, MMM 2009, France, 2009.
3. Junfa Liu, Yiqiang Chen, Chunyan Miao, Xingyu Gao, Jinjing Xie, Wen Gao. Automatic 3D Caricature Generation By Learning in enlarged Manifold Space, In proceedings of The 1st ACM SIGGRAPH Conference and Exhibition in Asia, Siggraph Asia 2008, Singapore, Dec. 2008.
4. Junfa Liu, Yiqiang Chen, Xingyu Gao, Jinjing Xie, Wen Gao, AAML Based Avatar Animation with Personalized Expression For Online Chatting System, In proceedings of Pacific Rim Conference on Multimedia 2008, LNCS 5353, 643-652, PCM08, Taiwan, China.
5. Junfa Liu, Yiqiang Chen, Wen Gao. Mapping Learning in Eigenspace for Harmonious Caricature Generation. 14th ACM International Conference on Multimedia(ACM MM'06), Santa Barbara, USA, pp683-686, Oct.22-27, 2006.
6. LIU Jun-fa, CHEN Yi-qiang, XIE Chen, GAO Wen. SSC:Gesture-based game for initial demential examination. Journal of Zhejiang University SCIENCE A, Vol.7,No.7, pp1253-1258, July 2006.
7. Junfa Liu, Yiqiang Chen, Wen Gao, Rong Fu, Renqin Zhou, Creative Cartoon Face Synthesis System For Mobile Entertainment. 2005 Pacific Rim Conference on Multimedia (PCM2005), Jeju, Korea, Nov.13-16,2005.
8. Xingyu Gao, Yiqiang Chen, Junfa Liu, Jingye Zhou, Personalized 3D Caricature Generation Based on PCA Subspace. In proceedings of Pacific Rim Conference on Multimedia 2008. LNCS 5353, 713-720, PCM2008, Taiwan, China. Dec. 2008.
9. Pengfei Li, Yiqiang Chen, Junfa Liu, Guanhua Fu, 3D Caricature Generation by Nonlinear Manifold Learning, 2008 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME 2008).
10. Guauhua Fu, Yiqiang Chen, Junfa Liu, Jingye Zhou, Pengfei Li, Interactive Expressive 3D Caricatures Design, 2008 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME 2008).
11. Pith Xie, Yiqiang Chen, Junfa Liu, Realistic Facial Animation Synthesis and Transfer Based Flexible Expression Ratio Image. International Conference of Multimedia and Exhibition. 1207-1210 (ICME 2007).
12. Pith Xie, Yiqiang Chen, Junfa Liu, Dongrong Xiao: Fuzzy Velocity-Based Temporal Dependency for SVM-Driven Realistic Facial Animation. PRICAI 2006. LNAI (4099):563-572.
13. Yan Gao, Lizhuang Ma, Junfa Liu, Xiaomao Wu, Zhihua Chen: An Efficient Algorithm for Content-Based Human Motion Retrieval. Edutainment 2006: 970-979.
14. Yan Gao, Lizhuang Ma, Yiqiang Chen, Junfa Liu, Content-based human motion retrieval with automatic transition, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, v4035 LNCS, Advances in Computer Graphics - 24th Computer Graphics International Conference, CGI 2006, 2006, pp360-371.
15. Yan Fu, Ruixiang Sun, Qiang Yang, Simin He, Chunli Wang, Haipeng Wang, Shiguang Shan, Junfa Liu, Wen Gao. A Block-Based Support Vector Machine Approach to the Protein Homology Prediction Task in KDD Cup 2004. SIGKDD Explorations. Vol.6, No.2, pp120-124, Dec.2004.
16. Chen Yiqiang, Gao Wen, Liu Junfa, Yang Changshui. Multi-Model Behavior Synchronizing Prosody Model in Sign Language Synthesis, Journal of Computer, Vol.29, No.5, pp822-827, 2006.05. (In Chinese)

PATENTS (IN CHINA)

1. A Learning Based Method For Cartoon Face Generation.
2. A Joint Driven Model of Speech and Texture For Face Animation.
3. A Method and System of 3D Caricature Generation.

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