Book

Wen Gao and Xilin Chen, Computer Vision--Algorithm and System Principle (in Chinese), Tsinghua University Press, 1999.

Journal Papers

Year 2008

Wen Gao, Bo Cao, Shiguang Shan, Xilin Chen, Delong Zhou, Xiaohua Zhang, Debin Zhao. The CAS-PEAL Large-Scale Chinese Face Database and Baseline Evaluations. IEEE Transactions on System, Man, and Cybernetics, Part A, 38(1): 149-161, 2008.1. (PDF 909KB)

Year 2007

Wenchao Zhang, Shiguang Shan, Xilin Chen, Wen Gao. Local Gabor Binary Patterns Based on Kullback-Leibler Divergence for Partially Occluded Face Recognition. IEEE Signal Processing Letter, 14(11): 875-878, 2007. (PDF 548KB)

Jie Chen, Ruiping Wang, Shengye Yan, Shiguang Shan, Xilin Chen, Wen Gao. Face Detection Based on Examples Resampling by Manifolds. IEEE Transactions on System, Man, and Cybernetics, Part A, 37(6): 1017-1028, 2007.11. (PDF 593KB)

Qi Wang, Xilin Chen, Liangguo Zhang, Chunli Wang, and Wen Gao. Viewpoint Invariant Sign Language Recognition. Computer Vision and Image Understanding. 108(1-2): 87-97, 2007.10. (PDF 429KB)

Wenchao Zhang, Shiguang Shan, Xilin Chen, and Wen Gao. Local Gabor Binary Patterns Based on Mutual Information for Face Recognition. International Journal of Image and Graphics, 7(4): 777-793, 2007. (PDF 1,484KB)

Xiujuan Chai, Shiguang Shan, Xilin Chen, and Wen Gao. Locally Linear Regression for Pose-Invariant Face Recognition. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 16(7): 1716-1725, 2007.7. (PDF 1,761KB)

Yazhou Liu, Hongxun Yao, Wen Gao, Xilin Chen, and Debin Zhao，Nonparametric Background Generation. Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, 18(3): 253-263, June 2007. (PDF 7,102KB)

Baochang Zhang, Shiguang Shang, Xilin Chen, and Wen Gao. Histogram of Gabor Phase Pattern (HGPP): A Novel Object Representation Approach for Face Recognition. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 16(1): 57-68, 2007.1.(PDF 3,506KB)

Year 2006

Hongming Zhang, Wen Gao, Xilin Chen, and Debin Zhao. Object Detection Using Spatial Histogram Features. Image and Vision Computing, 24(4): 327-341, 2006. (PDF 1,027KB)

Year 2005

Wen Wu, Xilin Chen, and Jie Yang. Detection of Text on Road Signs from Video. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 6(4): 378-390, 2005. (PDF 755KB)

Rainer Stiefelhagen, Xilin Chen, and Jie Yang. Capturing Interactions in Meetings with Omnidirectional Cameras. International Journal of Distance Education Technologies, 3(3), 32-45. 2005. (PDF 845KB)

Year 2004

Xilin Chen, Jie Yang, Jing Zhang, and Alex Waibel. Automatic Detection and Recognition of Signs from Natural Scenes, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 13(1),87-99, 2004. (PDF 1249KB)

Year 2003

Jun Miao, Hong Liu, Wen Gao, Hongming Zhang, Gang Deng, and Xilin Chen. A System for Human Face and Facial Feature Location, International Journal of Image and Graphics, 3(3), 461-479, July 2003. (PDF 577KB)

Jie Yang, Xilin Chen, William Kunz, and Harsh Kundra. Face as an Index: Knowing Who Is Who Using a PDA, International Journal of Imaging Systems and Technology, 13(1),33-41, 2003. (PDF 582KB)

Referred Conference Papers

CVPR 2008

Ruiping Wang, Shiguang Shan, Xilin Chen, and Wen Gao. Manifold-Manifold Distance with Application to Face Recognition based on Image Set. CVPR2008 (Accepted)
Yu Su, Shiguang Shan, Xilin Chen, and Wen Gao. Classifiability-Based Optimal Discriminatory Projection Pursuit. CVPR2008 (Accepted)
Shengye Yan, Shiguang Shan, Xilin Chen, and Wen Gao. Locally Assembled Binary (LAB) Feature for Fast and Accurate Face Detection. CVPR2008 (Accepted)
Jie Chen, Shiguang Shan, Guoying Zhao, Xilin Chen, and Wen Gao. A Robust Descriptor based on Weber’s Law. CVPR2008 (Accepted)
Shiguang Shan, Bo Cao, Yu Su, Laiyun Qing, Xilin Chen, and Wen Gao. Unified Principal Component Analysis with Generalized Covariance Matrix for Face Recognition. CVPR2008 (Accepted)

ICCV 2007

Yu Su, Shiguang Shan, Xilin Chen, and Wen Gao. Hierarchical Ensemble of Global and Local Classifiers for Face Recognition. International Conference on Computer Vision, ICCV978-1-4244-1631-8, October 14-20, 2007, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (PDF 814KB)

CVPR 2007

Shengye Yan, Shiguang Shan, Xilin Chen, and Wen Gao. Matrix-Structural Learning (MSL) of Cascaded Classifier from Enormous Training Set. IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR2007.383156, Minneapolis, MI, June 18-23, 2007. (PDF 266KB)
Jinli Suo, Feng Min, SongChun Zhu, Shiguang Shan, and Xilin Chen. A Multi-Resolution Dynamic Model for Face Aging Simulation. IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR2007.383055, Minneapolis, MI, June 18-23, 2007. (PDF 1,960KB)

ICPR 2006

Qi Wang, Xilin Chen, Chunli Wang, and Wen Gao. A Verification Method for Viewpoint Invariant Sign Language Recognition. Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Vol. 1, pp. 456-459, Aug. 20-24, 2006, Hong Kong.(PDF 1,960KB)
Bingpeng Ma, Wenchao Zhang, Shiguang Shan, Xilin Chen, Wen Gao. Robust Head Pose Estimation Using LGBP. Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Vol. 2, pp. 512-515, Aug. 20-24, 2006, Hong Kong.(PDF 138KB)
Jie Chen, Shiguang Shan, Shengye Yang, Xilin Chen, and Wen Gao. Modification of the AdaBoost-based Detector for Partially Occluded Faces. Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Vol. 2, pp. 516-519, Aug. 20-24, 2006, Hong Kong. (PDF 657KB)
Yu Su, Shiguang Shan, Xilin Chen, and Wen Gao. Patch-Based Gabor Fisher Classifier for Face Recognition. Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Vol. 2, pp. 528-531, Aug. 20-24, 2006, Hong Kong. (PDF 557KB)
Xin Meng, Shiguang Shan, Xilin Chen, and Wen Gao. Local Visual Primitives (LVP) for Face Modelling and Recognition. Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Vol. 2, pp. 536-539, Aug. 20-24, 2006, Hong Kong. (PDF 213KB)
Jie Chen, Ruiping Wang, Shiguang Shan, Xilin Chen, and Wen Gao. Isomap Based on the Image Euclidean Distance. Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Vol. 2, pp. 1110-1113, Aug. 20-24, 2006, Hong Kong. (PDF 216KB)
Zhiheng Niu, Shiguang Shan, Shengye Yan, Xilin Chen, and Wen Gao. 2D Cascaded AdaBoost for Eye Localization. Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Vol. 2, pp. 1216-1219, Aug. 20-24, 2006, Hong Kong. (PDF 141KB)
Ruiping Wang, Jie Chen, Shiguang Shan, Xilin Chen, and Wen Gao. Enhancing Training Set for Face Detection. Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Vol. 3, pp. 477-480, Aug. 20-24, 2006, Hong Kong. (PDF 282KB)
Yi Li, Baochang Zhang, Shiguang Shan, Xilin Chen, Wen Gao. Bagging Based Efficient Kernel Fisher Discriminant Analysis for Face Recognitio. Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Vol. 3, pp. 523-526, Aug. 20-24, 2006, Hong Kong. (PDF 125KB)
Laiyun Qing, Shiguang Shan, Xilin Chen, and Wen Gao. Face Recognition under Varying Lighting Based on the Probabilistic Model of Gabor Phase. Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Vol. 3, pp. 1139-1142, Aug. 20-24, 2006, Hong Kong. (PDF 339KB)
Shiguang Shan, Wenchao Zhang, Yu Su, Xilin Chen, and Wen Gao. Ensemble of Piecewise FDA Based on Spatial Histograms of Local (Gabor) Binary Patterns for Face Recognition. Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Vol. 4, pp. 606-609, Aug. 20-24, 2006, Hong Kong. (PDF 142KB)
Yazhou Liu, Hongxun Yao, Wen Gao, Xilin Chen, Debin Zhao. Nonparametric Background Generation. Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Vol. 4, pp. 916-919, Aug. 20-24, 2006, Hong Kong. (PDF 274KB)
Wenchao Zhang, Shiguang Shan, Xilin Chen, and Wen Gao. Are Gabor Phases Really Useless for Face Recognition? . Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Aug. 20-24, 2006, Hong Kong. (PDF 238KB)

IJCNN 2006

Jun Miao, Xilin Chen, Wen Gao, and Yiqiang Chen. A Visual Perceiving and Eyeball-Motion Controlling Neural Network for Object Searching and Locating. Proceedings of 2006 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, pp. 4395-4400, Vancouver, BC, Canada, July 16-21, 2006. (PDF 463KB)

ECCV 2006

Hongming Zhang, Wen Gao, Xilin Chen, Shiguang Shan, and Debin Zhao. Robust Multi-view Face Detection Using Error Correcting Output Codes. Proceeding of European Conference on Computer Vision, Part IV, pp. 1-12, May7-13, 2006, Graz, Austria. (PDF 1,437KB)

FG 2006

Yu Su, Shiguang Shan, Xilin Chen, and Wen Gao. Hierarchical Ensemble of Gabor Fisher Classifier for Face Recognition, Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, pp. 91-96, April 10-12, 2006, Southampton, UK. (PDF 4,507KB)
Chunli Wang, Xilin Chen, and Wen Gao. Expanding Training Set for Chinese Sign Language Recognition. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, pp. 323-328, April 10-12, 2006, Southampton, UK. (PDF 338KB)
Xiujuan Chai, Shiguang Shan, and Xilin Chen, Wen Gao. Local Linear Regression (LLR) for Pose Invariant Face Recognition, Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, pp. 631-636, April 10-12, 2006, Southampton, UK. (PDF 456KB)

ICCV 2005

Wenchao Zhang, Shiguang Shan, Wen Gao, Xilin Chen, Hongming Zhang, Jianyu Wang. Local Gabor Binary Pattern Histogram Sequence (LGBPHS): a Novel Non-Statistical Model for Face Representation and Recognition. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computer Vision, pp. 150-155, October 15-21, 2005 , Beijing , China. (PDF 246KB)

ICMI 2005

Liang-Guo Zhang, Xilin Chen, Chunli Wang, Yiqiang Chen, Wen Gao. Recognition of Sign Language Subwords Based on Boosted Hidden Markov Models. Proceedings of the International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI 2005), pp. 282-287, Oct.04-06,2005, Trento , Italy. (PDF 404KB)

ICIP 2005

Qi Wang, Xilin Chen, Liangguo Zhang, Chunli Wang, and Wen Gao. Viewpoint Invariant Sign Language Recognition. Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Vol 3, pp. 281-284, Genova, September 11-14, 2005.(PDF )
Xin Liu, Hongxun Yao, Xilin Chen, Wen Gao. An active volumetric model for 3d reconstruction. Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Vol. 2, pp. 101-104, September 11-14, 2005, Genova, Italy. (PDF 254KB)

BMVC 2005

Yu Su, Shiguang Shan, Bo Cao, Xilin Chen, and Wen Gao, Multiple Fisher Classifiers Combination for Face Recognition based on Grouping AdaBoosted Gabor Feature, Proceedings of the 16th British Machine Vision Conference, pp. 569-578, September 5-8, 2005, Oxford, UK. (PDF 1,594KB)

AVBPA 2005

Wenchao Zhang, Shiguang Shan, Hongming Zhang, Wen Gao, Xilin Chen. Multi-resolution Histograms of Local Variation Patterns (MHLVP) for Robust Face Recognition. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Audio- and Video-Based Biometric Person Authentication, pp937-944, July 20-22, 2005, Hilton Rye Town, NY, USA. (PDF 566KB)
Xiujuan Chai, Laiyun Qing, Shiguang Shan, Xilin Chen, Wen Gao. Pose Invariant Face Recognition under Arbitrary Illumination based on 3D Face Reconstruction. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Audio- and Video-Based Biometric Person Authentication, pp956-965, July 20-22, 2005, Hilton Rye Town, NY, USA. (PDF 489KB)
Baochang Zhang, Xilin Chen, Wen Gao. Discriminant Analysis based on Kernelized Decision Boundary for Face Recognition. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Audio- and Video-Based Biometric Person Authentication, pp. 966-976, July 20-22, 2005, Hilton Rye Town, NY, USA. (PDF 322KB)

CVPR 2005

Baochang Zhang, Xilin Chen, Shiguang Shan, Wen Gao. Nonlinear Face Recognition based on Maximum Average Margin Criterion, Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Vol. 1, pp. 554-559, June 20-26, 2005, San Diego, CA, USA. (PDF 308KB)
Jianyu Wang, Xilin Chen, and Wen Gao. Online Selecting Discriminative Tracking Features using Particle Filter. Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Vol. 2, pp. 1036-1041, June 20-26, 2005, San Diego, CA, USA. (PDF 259KB)

ICMI 2004

Liang-Guo Zhang, Yiqiang Chen, Gaolin Fang, Xilin Chen, Wen Gao. A Vision-Based Sign Language Recognition System Using Tied-Mixture Density HMM. Proceedings of the International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces, pp. 198-204, Oct. 13-15, 2004, State College, PA, USA. (PDF 648KB)

ACM MM 2004

Wen Wu, Xilin Chen, Jie Yang. Detection of Text on Road Signs from Video with Application to a Driving Assistant System. Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Multimedia, pp. 852-859, Oct. 10-16, 2004, New York, NY, USA. (PDF 644KB)

ICPR 2004

Jie Chen, Xilin Chen, Wen Gao. Resampling for Face Detection by Self-Adaptive Genetic Algorithm. Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Pattern Recognition. Vol. 3, pp. 822-825, August 23-26, 2004, Cambridge, UK. (PDF 350KB)

ICASSP 2004

Laiyun Qing, Shiguang Shan, Xilin Chen, Face relighting for Face recognition under generic illumination, Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2004), pp. 733-736, May 17-21, 2004,Montreal, Canada. (PDF 272KB)

FG 2004

Jie Chen, Xilin Chen, and Wen Gao, Expand Training Set for Face Detection by GA Re-sampling, Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, pp. 73-79, May 17-19, 2004, Seoul, Korea. (PDF 1439KB)

ICMI 2003

Jiazhi Ou, Susan R. Fussell, Xilin Chen, Jie Yang, Gestural Communication over Video Stream: Supporting Multimodal Interaction for Remote Collaborative Physical Tasks, Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Multimodal Interface, pp. 242-249, November 5-7, 2003, Vancouver, Canada.(PDF 326KB)

ACM MM 2003

Jiazhi Ou, Xilin Chen, Susan R. Fussell, Jie Yang, DOVE: Drawing over Video Environment, Proceedings of the ACM Multimedia Conference, pp. 100-101, November 2-8, 2003, Berkeley, CA, USA. (PDF 341KB)

ICCV 2003

Xilin Chen, Jie Yang, Alex Waibel, Calibration of a Hybrid Camera Network, Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computer Vision, pp. 150-155, October 13-16, 2003, Nice, France. (PDF 661KB)

ICCV 2003 Workshop

Jiazhi Ou, Xilin Chen, Jie Yang, Gesture Recognition for Remote Collaborative Physical Tasks Using Tablet PCs, ICCV Workshop on Multimedia Technologies in E-Learning and Collaboration, October 17, 2003, Nice, France. (PDF 282KB)

WACV 2002

Jie Yang, Xilin Chen, William Kunz, A PDA-based Face Recognition System, Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision, pp. 19-23, December 3-4, 2002, Orlando, FL, USA. (PDF 374KB)
Xilin Chen, Jie Yang, Jing Zhang, and Alex Waibel, Automatic Detection of Signs with Affine Transformation, Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision, pp. 32-36, December 3-4, 2002,Orlando, FL, USA. (PDF 402KB)

ICMI 2002

Jing Zhang, Xilin Chen, Jie Yang, and Alex Waibel, A PDA-based Sign Translator, Proceedings of the IEEE 4th International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces, pp. 217-222, October 14-15, 2002, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. (PDF 429KB)
Xilin Chen, Jie Yang, Toward Monitoring Human Activities Using an Omni-directional Camera, Proceedings of the IEEE 4th International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces, pp. 423-428, October 14-16, 2002, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. (PDF 561KB)

ICPR 2002

Jing Zhang, Xilin Chen, Andreas Hanemann, Jie Yang, and Alex Waibel, A Robust Approach for Recognition of Text Embedded in Natural Scenes, Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Vol. 3, pp. 204-207, August 11-15, 2002.(PDF 340KB)

ICASSP 2002

Jie Yang, Xilin Chen, Jing Zhang, Ying Zhang, Alex Waibel, Automatic Detection and Translation of Text from Natural Scenes, Proceedings of International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Vol. 2, pp. 2101-2104, May 13-17, 2002, Orlando, FL, USA. (PDF 673KB)