Jing Zhang

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Ph.D. Candidate

Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering

University of South Florida

4202 E Fowler Ave, ENB 118

Tampa, FL 33620

 

 


 

Brief Biography

 

I am currently a Ph.D. candidate with Dr. R. Kasturi at Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition group, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of South Florida. My research interests are Image Processing, Shape Analysis,

 Pattern Recognition, Computer Vision, Machine Learning, and Data Mining. I received my M.S. degree from Xi’an Jiaotong University, China and was a Ph.D. student at the University of Hong Kong.

 

 

 


Current Researches Topics:

 

Text Detection in Image and Video Documents

 

 

 

 

Shape Matching and Recognition

 

 

 

 

Publications:

 

·         Jing Zhang and Rangachar Kasturi,

"Character energy and link energy based text extraction in scene images”,

Proceedings of the Tenth Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV), LNCS Vol. 6493, 308-320, Queenstown, New Zealand, Nov. 2010

 

·         Jing Zhang and Rangachar Kasturi,

"Text detection using edge gradient and graph spectrum” (Oral presentation)

Proceedings of the Twentieth International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), pp. 3979-3982, Istanbul, Turkey, Aug. 2010

 

·         Jing Zhang and Rangachar Kasturi,

"Weighted Boundary Points for Shape Analysis  (Oral presentation) 

Proceedings of the Twentieth International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), pp. 1598-1601, Istanbul, Turkey, Aug. 2010

 

·         Jing Zhang and Wenyin Liu,

“A Pixel-level Statistical Structural Descriptor for Shape Measure and Recognition”,

Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), pp.386~390, Barcelona, Spain, April 2009.

 

·         Rangachar Kasturi, Dmitry Goldgof, Padmanabhan Soundararajan, Vasant Manohar, John Garofolo, Rachel Bowers, Matthew Boonstra, Valentina Korzhova, Jing Zhang,

"Framework for Performance Evaluation of Face, Text, and Vehicle Detection and Tracking in Video: Data, Metrics, and protocol,"

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), vol. 31, no. 2, pp. 319-336, Feb. 2009. (72+ citations)

 

·         Jing Zhang, Dmitry Goldgof, and Rangachar Kasturi,

"A New Edge-based Text Verification Approach for Video” (Oral presentation, 17+ citations)

Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), pp. 1-4, Tampa, U.S.A. Nov. 2008

 

·         Jing Zhang and Rangachar Kasturi,

"Extraction of Text Objects in Video Documents: Recent Progress," (Invited Keynote Talk, 47+ citations)

Proceedings of the eighth IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems (DAS), pp.5-17, Nara, Japan, 2008

 

·         Jing Zhang, Wan Zhang, and Wenyin Liu,

“Adaptive Noise Reduction for Engineering Drawings Based on Primitives and Noise Assessment”, . (Oral presentation)

Proceedings of Sixth IAPR international Workshop on Graphics Recognition (GREC), Springer, pp. 143-154, Hong Kong, P.R. China, 2006

 

·         Chun Qi, Hua Huang, Wenbin Wang, Jing Zhang, and Shuangliang Di,

“A Hybrid Method for Image Interpolation”,

Proceedings of the third International Symposium on Multispectral Image Processing and Pattern Recognition, SPIE, Volume 5286, pp. 348-351, 2003, Beijing, China.

 

·         Jing Zhang and Rangachar Kasturi,

“Character Energy and Link Energy based Text Detection”,

submitted to IEEE journal, 2011 (Under review)

 

·         Jing Zhang and Rangachar Kasturi,

“Weighted Boundary based Shape Analysis”,

submitted to IEEE Journal 2011 (Under review)

 

·         Jing Zhang and Rangachar Kasturi,

“Extraction of Text Objects in Image and Video Documents: Recent Progress”, 

submitted to International Journal of Document Analysis and Recognition (IJDAR), 2011. (Under review)

 

·         Rui Zhang, Xiangfeng Kong, Jing Zhang, Min Xie, and Wenyin Liu,

“A Statistical Descriptor for Symbol Analysis based Pixel-level Structural Features”,

submitted to IET Image Processing, 2011. (Under review)