Jing-yu Cui

Education

2008.9 - Present

• Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
• GPA: 4.20

2005.9 - 2008.7

• Master Candidate, Tsinghua University
• Advised by Professor Changshui Zhang
• Major in Computer Vision, Human Computer Interaction, Machine Learning, Information Retrieval.
• GPA: Overall: 91.6/100, Major: 92.1/100, Rank: 1/125

2001.9 - 2005.7

• B.E., Tsinghua University
• Major in Automatic Control Theory, Image Processing, Computer Vision.
• Admitted by Tsinghua with exemption from the College Entrance Examination for excellence in national Olympiad on mathematics, physics.
• GPA: Overall: 91.1/100, Major: 92.0/100, Rank: 4/225
  

1998.9 - 2001.7

• South Ocean International School, Shan xi, China.
  

Research

Interests

I am interested in exploiting the ability of human beings in traditional computer vision and machine learning algorithms to make them robust and easy-to-use in real life applications. My research targets at novel algorithms following human intuition, proper ways of incorporating human prior knowledge, and easy interactive scenarios of leveraging human cognitive power. I have experience in a broad range of topics in the field of computer vision, human-computer interaction, machine learning, and computer graphics, especially: practical computer vision, interactive image organization, large scale image retrieval, image segmentation, machine learning algorithms in image retrieval, and image/video compression.

Current Work

From Sept. 2008 till now, I've worked on various projects on human computer interaction, computer vision, image compression, image retrieval, and computer graphics, both in Stanford and in Google. Details coming soon.

Past Work

	IntentSearch Microsoft Research Asia, 2007.7-2008.6 The technology has been shipped to Microsoft Bing. (Try it: Search an image by keyword, hover mouse over an image, then click on "show similar images") Designed and prototyped the system as a real-time large-scale automatic system work directly on top of Microsoft Live Image Search and Google Image Search to re-rank the text-based search results according to user interaction. Designed and implemented an interactive image search, re-rank, organize, browsing interface using Silverlight 2.0 inspired by Seadragon and Microsoft Surface. Dr. Harry Shum, Corporate Vice President of Microsoft, showed IntentSearch as a live demo in his keynote speech in the 17th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2008). Published a paper on ACM Multimedia 2008 as the leading author. The live demo show was accepted in the ACM Multimedia 2008 Technical Demonstrations Track.
	Automatic Photo Genre Classification (APGC) Tsinghua University, 2007.5-2008.6 Collaborated with researchers in HP Lab Palo Alto, designed algorithms for automatic image content analysis, scene understanding, keyword annotation, etc.
	EasyAlbum Microsoft Research Asia, 2006.6-2007.6 Designed and prototyped the system as a flexible tool to make use of human perception ability in the process of family album tagging. Integrated features including face detection, face clustering, scene clustering, re-ranking, search, and collage. See project page for details. Collaborated with technical transfer team of Microsoft, released EasyAlbum 1.0. Published a paper on SIGCHI 2007 as the leading author.
	Combining Stroke-based Image Search with Traditional Image Search Tsinghua University, 2007.1-2007.5 Proposed machine learning algorithm to seamlessly combine relevance feedback inside images through drawling strokes with traditional relevance feedback methods. Published a paper on ACM Multimedia 2007 as the leading author.
	Learning Object Cutout from Single Example Microsoft Research Asia, 2006.10-2007.2 Designed algorithms to segment foreground from images with little human interaction. Published a paper on IEEE CVPR 2008 as the leading author.
	Active Learning for Query Design in Image Retrieval Tsinghua University, 2006.9-2006.10 Proposed to query for labels of multiple images in a batch mode in image retrieval. Research results accepted by ICASSP 2008.
	2D Barcode Localization and Recognition Tsinghua University, 2005.11-2006.6 Boosted the speed of anti-screw algorithm by reformulating the algorithm and optimizing the code. Developed and optimized Arbitrary Accuracy Math Component for Symbian, optimized and shipped to mobile phone.
	Traditional Chinese Calligraphic Art Generating System Tsinghua University, 2005.1-2005.6 Implemented traditional Chinese Calligraphic Brush Model which enables composing by touch pad. Took part in designing learning algorithm to automatically generate calligraphic art with personal style.
	Coal Tippler Surveillance and Control System Qinhuangdao Port Group, Co., Ltd., 2004.6-2004.8. Assembled real-time system of Automatic Line of Coal Tipplers, which is still in field use. Enhanced working condition of the port workers greatly by enabling remote surveillance and control.

Publication

1. Jingyu Cui, Fang Wen, Xiaoou Tang, Real Time Google and Live Image Search Re-ranking, in Proceedings of ACM Multimedia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, October, 2008. [Bibtex] [pdf 2.2M]
2. Jingyu Cui, Fang Wen, Xiaoou Tang, IntentSearch: Interactive On-line Image Search Re-ranking, in Proceedings of ACM Multimedia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, October, 2008. [Bibtex] [pdf 2.4M]
3. Jingyu Cui, Qiong Yang, Fang Wen, Qiying Wu, Changshui Zhang, Luc Van Cool, Xiaoou Tang, Transductive Object Cutout, in Proceedings of IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Anchorage, Alaska, USA, June, 2008. [Bibtex] [pdf 1.2M] [ps 0.8M]
4. Jingyu Cui, Fang Wen, Rong Xiao, Yuandong Tian, Xiaoou Tang, EasyAlbum: An Interactive Photo Annotation System, in Proceedings of ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, San Jose, California, USA, 2007. [Bibtex] [pdf 4.4M] [ps 6.2M]
5. Jingyu Cui, Changshui Zhang, Combining Stroke-based and Selection-based Relevance Feedback for Content-based Image Retrieval, in Proceedings of ACM Multimedia, Augsburg, Germany, September, 2007. [Bibtex] [pdf 1.3M] [ps 1.5M]
6. Jingyu Cui, Changshui Zhang, Towards Optimal Query Design for Relevance Feedback in Image Retrieval, in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, 2008. (ICASSP 2008). [Bibtex] [pdf 0.3M] [ps 0.2M]
7. Jingyu Cui, Yasmin Aghajan, Joyca Lacroix, Aart van Halteren, Hamid Aghajan, Home Exercise in a Social Context: Real-Time Experience Sharing using Avatars, Journal of Entertainment Computing, in press.[Bibtex] [pdf 1.2M]
8. Yasmin Aghajan, Joyca Lacroix, Jingyu Cui, Aart van Halteren, Hamid Aghajan, Home Exercise in a Social Context: Real-Time Experience Sharing Using Avatars, in Proceedings of The 3rd International Conference on Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment (INTETAIN 2009).[Bibtex] [pdf 0.7M]
9. Wei Liu, Buyue Qian, Jingyu Cui, Jianzhuang Liu, Spectral Kernel Learning for Semi-Supervised Classification, in Proceedings of Twenty-first International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-09).[Bibtex] [pdf 0.4M]
10. S. Napel, C.F. Beaulieu, J. Faruque, C. Rodriguez, D. Korenblum, J. Cui, J. Xu, A. Gupta, H. Greenspan, G. Tye, D.L. Rubin, Content-based Image Retrieval: Portal Venous CT of Liver Lesions, accepted by SIIM 2010.

1. ACM Student Member, since 2007.
2. IEEE Student Member, since 2008.
3. Paper reviewer for 2008 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI '08).

Industry

During Oct. 2006 and March 2007, I co-founded CoolBar, co. ltd. as the CTO. I am responsible for the technology evaluation and justification of the company.

Before that, our team of six was the champion of 2006 Maryland Smith China Business Plan Competition, and got $25,000 award as the seed money for CoolBar. We also won the 1st prize in Microsoft Business Plan Competition, with 25,000rmb award in the same year.

Life

I am a big fan of Photography, Ping pong, Pool, Traveling, and keep a close eye on recent progress in start-ups in IT field. Visit my MSN space to see my photos and thinking. I am also a good runner. I attended half distance (21km) competition of Beijing International Marathon, 2003.

Two places change my life dramatically after high school. One is Tsinghua University, the other is MSRA.

I was lucky to be admitted by Tsinghua after the visit to Hong Kong attending National Mathematical Olympiad 2001. In Tsinghua, I not only received academic training, but also experienced communication with lots of people, and served as tutor of 150 undergraduate students of the '05 grade in department of automation for 2 years (2005.8-2007.8).

Since June 2006, I worked as a visit student In MSRA. I met with lots of senior researchers there, and made many good friends. MSRA not only boosts my research, but also helps me travel more. I went to Palo Alto, San Jose and San Francisco alone to attend CHI 2007 as my first trip to US in May, 2007, and visited Seattle, Redmond, as one of 10 "Best Intern"s selected from Microsoft Research Asia, and invited by Mr. Bill Gates to his house to attend a BBQ in June, 2007.

Awards

• Honor of Outstanding Master Graduate Student, Tsinghua University, 30 over 3000+ Master graduate students, 2008.
• Honor of Outstanding Master Thesis, Tsinghua University, 2008.
• Honored as one of the 10 “Best Interns” in Microsoft Research Asia out of 300 interns, invited by Mr. Bill Gates to visit Microsoft headquarters, have dinner at his house in Seattle, 2007.
• First Prize in Smith China Business Plan Competition, University of Maryland, with $25,000 award, 2006.
• First Prize in Microsoft Business Plan Competition, with rmb25,000 award, 2006.
• University President Scholarship (Highest Honor for students in Tsinghua University), 5 over 10000+ undergraduate students in Tsinghua University, 2005.
• First Class Scholarship in Tsinghua University, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004.
• Title of Excellent Student Cadre of Tsinghua University, 2003.
• Honor of Outstanding Graduates, Tsinghua University, 50 over 3000+ students, 2005.
• Outstanding graduate student in Beijing City, Beijing Education Committee, 2005.
• All-round Excellent Student of Beijing, 2005.

References

Miscellaneous

• Programming: I am fond of implementing ideas to see how things work out in real applications, and also interested in build graphical user interfaces (GUI) to facilitate human computer interaction. C/C++, C# and Java are most used tools. I can also program with Visual Basic, ASP.NET, WPF, and Silverlight. I've experienced several projects related to SQL database programming, and have implemented an application oriented file database myself with high performance (trade off from limited functionality). As for academic programming, I am proficient in scripts such as Matlab, Scilab, which I use in laboratories to try out small algorithms.
• English: Paper-based TOEFL: 660, Internet-base TOEFL: 109, proficient in English reading, writing, listening and speaking.

Links

• Conferences: ICASSP 2010, CVPR 2010, ECCV 2010, ICIP 2010, SIGGRAPH 2009, CVPR '09, ICCV '09, ICML '09, IJCAI '09, CVPR '08, UIST '08, ECCV '08, ACM Multimedia '08.
• Labs: Bigeye, MSRA VC Group, Google Research, HP Lab Palo Alto.

Last updated: June 22nd, 2009.