Probabilistic Elastic Part Model for Face Recognition:

• Haoxiang Li^, Gang Hua, Zhe Lin, Jonathan Brandt, and Jianchao Yang, "Probabilistic Elastic Matching for Pose Variant Face Verification", in Proc. IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'2013), Portland, OR, June 2013.
• Haoxiang Li^, Gang Hua, Zhe Lin, Jonathan Brandt, and Jianchao Yang, "Probabilistic Elastic Part Model for Unsupervised Face Detector Adaptation", in Proc. IEEE International Conf. on Computer Vision (ICCV'2013), Sydney, Australia, December, 2013.

Elastic Matching for Face Recognition:

• Gang Hua and Amir Akbarzadeh, "A Robust Elastic and Partial Matching Metric for Face Recognition", in Proc. IEEE 12th International Conf. on Computer Vision (ICCV'2009), Kyoto, Japan, October, 2009.
• John Wright* and Gang Hua, "Implicit Elastic Matching with Random Projections for Pose-variant Face Recognition", in Proc. IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'2009), Miami Beach, FL, June, 2009. (Oral presentation)

Visual Human Motion Analysis:

• Xiaohui Shen*, Gang Hua, Lance Williams, and Ying Wu, "Dynamic Hand Gesture Recognition: An Exemplar based Approach from Motion Divergence Fields", Image and Vision Computing, Special issue on Best of FG'2011, Volume 30, Issue 3, pp.227-235, March 2012.
• Xiaohui Shen*, Gang Hua, Lance Williams, and Ying Wu, "Motion Divergence Fields for Dynamic Hand Gesture Recognition", in Proc. The 9th IEEE Conf. on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG'2011), Santa Barbara, CA, March, 2011.
• Gang Hua and Ying Wu, "Variational Maximum a Posteriori by Annealed Mean Field Analysis", IEEE Trans. on Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), Vol.27, No.11, pp.1747-1781, November, 2005.
• Gang Hua and Ying Wu, "A Decentralized Probabilistic Approach to Articulated Body Tracking", Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU), Special issue on spatial coherence for visual motion analysis, Vol. 108, Issue 3, pp.272-283, December, 2007.
• Gang Hua, Ming-Hsuan Yang and Ying Wu, "Learning to Estimate Human Pose with Data Driven Belief Propagation", in Proc. IEEE conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'2005), Vol.2, pp. 747-754, San Diego, CA, June, 2005.
• Ying Wu, Gang Hua and Ting Yu, "Tracking Articulated Body by Dynamic Markov Network", in Proc. IEEE International conf. on Computer Vision (ICCV'2003), pp.1094-1101, Nice, France, Oct., 2003.

Human Detection:

• Haoxiang Li^, Gang Hua, Zhe Lin, Jonathan Brandt, and Jianchao Yang, "Probabilistic Elastic Part Model for Unsupervised Face Detector Adaptation", in Proc. IEEE International Conf. on Computer Vision (ICCV'2013), Sydney, Australia, December, 2013.
• Xiaoyu Wang*, Gang Hua, and Tony X. Han, "Detection by Detections: Non-parametric Detector Adaptation for a Video", in Proc. IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'2012), Providence, Rhode Island, June, 2012.
• Zhe Lin*, Gang Hua, and Larry S. Davis, "Multiple Instance Feature for Robust Part-based Object Detection", in Proc. IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'2009), Miami Beach, FL, June, 2009.
• Ying Wu, Ting Yu and Gang Hua,"A Statistical Field Model for Pedestrian Detection", in Proc. of IEEE conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'2005) , Vol.1, pp.1023-1030, San Diego, CA, June, 2005.

Vision based Interaction

• Matthew Turk and Gang Hua, "Vision based Interaction," Sythesis Lectures on Computer Vision, Morgan and Claypool, 2013. (To appear)
• Xiaohui Shen*, Gang Hua, Lance Williams, and Ying Wu, "Dynamic Hand Gesture Recognition: An Exemplar based Approach from Motion Divergence Fields", Image and Vision Computing, Special issue on Best of FG'2011, Volume 30, Issue 3, pp.227-235, March 2012.
• Xiaohui Shen*, Gang Hua, Lance Williams, and Ying Wu, "Motion Divergence Fields for Dynamic Hand Gesture Recognition", in Proc. The 9th IEEE Conf. on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG'2011), Santa Barbara, CA, March, 2011.
• Gang Hua, Ting-Yi Yang, and Srinath Vasireddy, "PEYE: Toward a Visual Motion Based Perceptual Interface for Mobile Devices", in Proc. IEEE International Workshop on Human Computer Interaction, in Conjunction with IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, (ICCV-HCI'2007), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4796, pp.39-48, Springer 2007, ISBN 978-3-540-75772-6

Learning Compact Local Image Descriptors:

• Matthew Brown, Gang Hua, and Simon Winder, "Discriminative Learning of Local Image Descriptors", IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol.33, No.1, pp.43-57, January, 2011
• Simon Winder, Gang Hua, and Matthew Brown, "Picking the Best DAISY", in Proc. IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'2009), Miami Beach, FL, June 2009.
• Gang Hua, Matthew Brown, and Simon Winder, "Discriminant Embedding for Local Image Descriptors", in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, (ICCV'2007), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2007.

Effecient Feature Detection:

• Zhimin Fan, Ming Yang, Ying Wu, Gang Hua and Ting Yu, "Efficient Optimal Kernel Placement for Reliable Visual Tracking", in Proc. IEEE conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'2006), Vol.1, pp.658-665, New York City, NY, June 2006.

Weakly Supervised Object Discovery and Recognition:

• Gangqiang Zhao*, Junsong Yuan, and Gang Hua, "Topical Video Object Discovery from Key Frames by Modeling Word Co-occurrence Prior", in Proc. IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'2013), Portland, OR, June 2013.
• Tongtao Zhang^, Rongrong Ji, Wei Liu, Dacheng Tao, and Gang Hua, "Semi-Supervised Learning with Manifold Fitted Graphs", in Proc. the 23rd International Joint Conf. on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'2013), Beijing, China, August 2013.
• David Liu*, Gang Hua, and Tsuhan Chen, "A Hierarchical Visual Model for Video Object Summarization", IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol.32, No.12, pp.2178-2190, December, 2010.
• David Liu*, Gang Hua, and Tsuhan Chen, "VideoCut: Removing Irrelevant Frames by Discovering the Object of Interest", in Proc. the 10th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV'2008),  Marseille, France, 2008.

Webscale Unconstrained Video Event Recognition

Semantic Attribute based Representation:

• Michele Merler*, Bert Huang, Lexing Xie, Gang Hua, and Apostol Natsev, "Semantic Model Vectors for Complex Video Event Recognition", IEEE Trans. on Multimedia, Vol. 14, Issue 1, pp.88-101, February, 2012 .
• Noel C. F. Codella, Gang Hua, Liangliang Cao, Michele Merler, Leiguang Gong, Matthew Hill, and John R. Smith, "Large-Scale Video Event Classification using Dynamic Pyramid Matching of Visual Semantics,'' in Proc. IEEE International Conf. on Image Processing (ICIP'2013) , Melbourne, Australia, September, 2013.
• Liangliang Cao, Yadong Mu, Apostol Natsev, Shih-Fu Chang, Gang Hua, and John R. Smith, "Scene Aligned Pooling for Complex Video Recognition", in Proc. European Conf. on Computer Vision (ECCV'2012), Firenze, Italy, October, 2012.
• Noel C. F. Codella, Apostol Natsev, Gang Hua, Matthew Hill, Liangliang Cao, Leiguang Gong, and John R. Smith, "Video Event Detection using Temporal Pyramids of Visual Semantics with Kernel Optimization and Model Subspace Boosting", in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME'2012) , Melbourne, Australia, July, 2012. (Oral Presentation)
• Liangliang Cao, Shih-Fu Chang, Noel Codella, Courtenay Cotton, Dan Ellis, Leiguang Gong, Matthew Hill, Gang Hua, John Kender, Michele Merler, Yadong Mu, Apostol Natseve, John R. Smith, "IBM Research and Columbia University TRECVID-2011 Multimedia Event Detection (MED) System," NIST TRECVID Workshop, 2011.

Webscale Image Search

Contextual and Semantic Representation:

• Shiliang Zhang*, Qi Tian, Gang Hua, Qingming Huang, and Wen Gao, "ObjectPatchNet: Towards Scalable and Semantic Image Annotation and Retrieval,'' Computer Vision and Image Understanding, special issue on Learning from Multiple Evidences for Large Scale Multimedia Analysis, 2013.(Accepted)
• Michele Merler*, Bert Huang, Lexing Xie, Gang Hua, and Apostol Natsev, "Semantic Model Vectors for Complex Video Event Recognition", IEEE Trans. on Multimedia, Vol. 14, Issue 1, pp.88-101, February, 2012 .
• Shiliang Zhang*, Qi Tian, Gang Hua, Qingming Huang, and Wen Gao, "Generating Descriptive Visual Words and Visual Phrases for Large-Scale Image Applications", IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, Vol. 20, No.9, pp.2664-2677, September, 2011.
• Shiliang Zhang*, Qi Tian, Gang Hua, Wengang Zhou, Qingming Huang, Houqiang Li, and Wen Gao, "Modeling Spatial and Semantic Cues for Large-Scale Near-Duplicated Image Retrieval", Computer Vision and Image Understanding special issue on Featureoriented Image and Video Computing for Extracting Contexts and Semantics, Vol. 115, Issue 3, pp.403-414, March, 2011.
• Shiliang Zhang*, Qingming Huang, Gang Hua, Shuqiang Zhang, Wen Gao, and Qi Tian, "Building Contextual Visual Vocabulary for Large-scaleImage Applications", in Proc. ACM International Conf. on Multimedia, Firenze, Italy, October, 2010.
• Shiliang Zhang*, Qi Tian, Gang Hua, Qingming Huang, and Shipeng Li, "Descriptive VisualWords: the Visual Correspondences of Text Words", in Proc. ACM International Conference on Multimedia, , Beijing, China, October, 2009.
• David Liu*, Gang Hua, Paul Viola, and Tsuhan Chen, "Integrated Feature Selection and Higher-order Spatial Feature Extraction for Object Categorization", in Proc. IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'2008), Anchorage, AK, 2008.

 Robust Tracking

Adaptive Observation Model:

• Xiaoyu Wang*, Gang Hua, and Tony X. Han, "Discriminative Tracking by Metric Learning", in Proc. 11th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV'2010), Hersonissons, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, September, 2010.
• Ying Wu, Gang Hua and Ting Yu, "Switching Observation Models for Contour Tracking in Clutter", in Proc. IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'2003), Vol.1, pp.295-302, Madison, Wisconsin, June, 2003.

Multiple Complex Motion Analysis

Contextual Multiple Motion Analysis:

• Ming Yang, Ying Wu, and Gang Hua, "Context-aware Visual Tracking", IEEE Trans. on Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), Vol.31, No.7, pp.1195-1209, July, 2009.
• Gang Hua and Ying Wu, "Measurement Integration Under Inconsistency for Robust Tracking", in Proc. IEEE conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'2006), Vol.1, pp.650-657, New York City, NY, June 2006.
• Gang Hua and Ying Wu, "Multi-scale Visual Tracking by Sequential Belief Propagation", in Proc. IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'2004), Vol.1, pp. 826-833, Washington, DC, June, 2004.
• Ying Wu, Ting Yu and Gang Hua, "Tracking Appearances with Occlusions", in Proc. IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition(CVPR'2003), Vol.I, pp.789-795, Madison, Wisconsin, June, 2003.

Complex Deformable Motion Analysis:

• Gang Hua and Ying Wu, "Sequential Mean Field Variational Analysis of Structured Deformable Shapes", Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU), Vol.101, Issue 2, pp. 87-99, February, 2006.
• Gang Hua, Ying Wu and Ting Yu, "Analyzing Structured Deformable Shapes Via Mean Field Monte Carlo", in Proc. IEEE Asia conf. on Computer Vision (ACCV'2004), Jeju Island, Korea, Jan., 2004.

Face Relighting from a Single Image:

• Yang Wang, Lei Zhang, Zicheng Liu, Gang Hua, Zhen Wen, Zhengyou Zhang, and Dimitris Samaras, "Face Re-Lighting from a Single Image under Arbitrary Unknown Lighting Conditions", IEEE Trans. on Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), Vol.31, No.11, pp.1968-1984, November, 2009.
• Yang Wang, Zicheng Liu, Gang Hua, Zhen Wen, Zhengyou Zhang, and Dimitris Samaras, "Face Re-Lighting from a Single Image under Harsh Lighting Conditions", in Proc. IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'2007), Minneaplois, MN, 2007.

Detect Outdoor Shadow:

• Xiang Huang*, Gang Hua, Lance Williams, and Jack Tumblin, "What Characterizes a Shadow Boundary under the Sun and Sky?",  in Proc. IEEE International Conf. on Computer Vision (ICCV'2011), Barcelona, Spain, November, 2011.

Mobile Video Retargeting:

• Gang Hua, Cha Zhang, Zicheng Liu, Zhengyou Zhang and Ying Shan, "Efficient Scalespace Spatiotemporal Saliency Tracking for Distortion-Free Video Retargeting", in Proc. The 9th Asian Conf. on Computer Vision(ACCV'2009), Xi'an, China, September, 2009.

Vision based HCI on Mobile Devices:

• Gang Hua, Ting-Yi Yang, and Srinath Vasireddy, "PEYE: Toward a Visual Motion Based Perceptual Interface for Mobile Devices", in Proc. IEEE International Workshop on Human Computer Interaction, in Conjunction with IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, (ICCV-HCI'2007), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4796, pp.39-48, Springer 2007, ISBN 978-3-540-75772-6

Ego-Centric Vision based Co-Robot:

• Jingzhe Zhang^, Lishuo Zhuang^, Yang Wang^, Yameng Zhou^, Yan Meng, and Gang Hua, "An Egocentric Vision based Assistive Co-robot", in Proc. International Conf. on Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR'2013), Seattle, WA, June 2013.
• Jingzhe Zhang^, Lishuo Zhuang^, Yang Wang^, Yameng Zhou^, Yan Meng^, and Gang Hua, ``Video Demo: An Egocentric Vision based Assistive Co-robot,'', in Proc. The 3rd IEEE International Workshop on Mobile Vision in conjunction with CVPR'2013, Portland, OR, June, 2013.