Education
Sep. 2003 ~ Jul. 2010
Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Ph.D., Computer Science
Dissertation: Manifold Learning and Its Application to Face Recognition
Advisor: Prof. Wen Gao
Sep. 1999 ~ Jul. 2003
Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China
Bachelor of Science, Mathematics
Research Interests
- Computer Vision: Face Recognition, Face Detection, Object Recognition, 3D Reconstruction, etc.
- Machine Learning: Dimensionality Reduction, Kernel Learning, Subspace Analysis, etc.
Research Experience
Nov. 2010 ~ Present
Research Associate, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA
Research project: face recognition from still images and from video.
Jul. 2010 ~ Present
Postdoctoral Researcher, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Research topics: machine learning and its application in light field for multi-view stereo.
Jul. 2004 ~ Jun. 2010
Research Assistant, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Research topics: face detection, object and face recognition with image set, dimensionality reduction, manifold learning
May. 2006 ~ Jul. 2006
Team Member
Participated in ACM KDD Cup 2006 as the leading team member and achieved the First Runner Up in the second task.
Jul. 2005 ~ Sep. 2005
Team Member
Participated in IAPR FVC 2006 as a major team member and achieved the First Position in all tasks.
Publications
Journal Paper
- Ruiping Wang, Shiguang Shan, Xilin Chen, Jie Chen, Wen Gao, "Maximal Linear Embedding for Dimensionality Reduction," IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 33, no. 9, pp. 1776-1792, Sept. 2011.
- Jie Chen, Xilin Chen, Jie Yang, Shiguang Shan, Ruiping Wang, Wen Gao, "Optimization of a Training Set For More Robust Face Detection," Pattern Recognition, vol. 42, pp. 2828-2840, 2009.
- Ruiping Wang, Jie Chen, Shiguang Shan, Xilin Chen, Wen Gao, "Enhancing Training Set for Face Detection Based on SVM," Journal of Software (In Chinese), vol. 19, no. 11, pp. 2921-2931, 2008.
- Jie Chen, Ruiping Wang, Shengye Yan, Shiguang Shan, Xilin Chen, Wen Gao, "Enhancing Human Face Detection by Resampling Examples Through Manifolds," IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics-Part A, vol. 37, no. 6, pp. 1017-1028, 2007.
Conference Paper
- Ruiping Wang, Xilin Chen, "Manifold Discriminant Analysis," IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2009), Miami, Florida, June 20-25, 2009. [code][Honda dataset]
- Ruiping Wang, Shiguang Shan, Xilin Chen, Wen Gao, "Manifold-Manifold Distance with Application to Face Recognition based on Image Set," IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2008), Anchorage, Alaska, June 24-26, 2008. [webpage] [code](Best Student Poster Award Runner-up)
- Ruiping Wang, Jie Chen, Shiguang Shan, Xilin Chen, Wen Gao, "Enhancing Training Set for Face Detection," Proceeding of International Conference on Pattern Recognition(ICPR 2006). vol. 3, pp. 477-480, Hong Kong, 2006.8.
- Jie Chen, Ruiping Wang, Shiguang Shan, Xilin Chen, Wen Gao, "ISOMAP Based on the Image Euclidean Distance," Proceeding of International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2006). vol. 2, pp. 1110-1113, Hong Kong, 2006.8.
- Jie Chen, Ruiping Wang, Shengye Yan, Shiguang Shan, Xilin Chen, Wen Gao, "How to Train a Classifier Based on the Huge Face Database," IEEE International Workshop on Analysis and Modeling of Faces and Gestures (AMFG 2005), LNCS 3723, pp. 84-95, 2005.
- Ruiping Wang, Jie Chen, Shengye Yan, Wen Gao, "Face Detection based on the Manifold," Audio- and Video-based Biometric Person Authentication (AVBPA 2005), LNCS 3546, pp. 208-218, Springer-Verlag.
Honors and Awards
- Outstanding Graduates, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2010.
- ZhuLiYueHua Outstanding PhD Scholarship, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2010.
- Outstanding Students, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2007-2009.
- Academic Excellence Scholarship, Institute of Computing Technology, 2008.
- Outstanding Students, Digital Media Research Center, 2006, 2008.
- Best Student Poster Award Runner-up, IEEE CVPR 2008.
- First Runner Up, ACM KDD Cup 2006.
- First Position, IAPR FVC 2006.
