Haoran Yi's Homepage

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?" -Albert Einstein

Contact Information:

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
224 Coordinated Science Laboratory,
1308 West Main Urbana, IL 61801
Phone: 217-721-0172
Email: yi4@cs.uiuc.edu

OBJECTIVE

A Ph.D. in EE/CS.

RESEARCH

Currently, I am a graduate student in the IMPACT research group at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Now, I am working on automatic parallel compiler.

My previous research in Singapore focuses on Multimedia Information System, Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, Image Understanding and Other Issues on Image/Video Technology.

EDUCATION

• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  Graduate student, Aug, 2005 to now.
  

• Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
  Graduate student, CeMNet, July, 2002 to July, 2005
  Research Topic: "Content-based Digital Video Indexing and Retrieval"
  Supervisor: Dr. Deepu Rajan and Dr. Liang-Tien Chia
  

• Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei P. R. China
  Bachelor of Engineering, majoring in Communication Engineering, Electrical and Information Engineering(Advanced Class for Gifted Students), September, 1998 to June, 2002
  GPA: 3.8(4.0 scales)

PUBLICATIONS

Journals:

1. H. Yi, D. Rajan and L.-T. Chia, "A Motion based Scene Tree for Compressed Video Content Management", Image and Vision Computing Journal (Accepted).

2. H. Yi, D. Rajan and L.-T. Chia, "A Motion based Scene Tree for Browsing and Retrieval of Compressed Videos", Information Systems (Accepted).

3. S. Liu, M. Xu, H. Yi, L.-T. Chia and D. Rajan, "Multi-modal Semantic Analysis and Annotation for Basketball Video", EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing (Accepted).

4. H. Yi, D. Rajan and L.-T. Chia, "A New Motion Histogram to Index Motion Content in Video Segments", Pattern Recognition Letters, Vol. 26, No. 9, pp. 1221-1231, July, 2005.

5. H. Yi, D. Rajan and L.-T. Chia, "Automatic Generation of MPEG-7 Compliant XML Document for Motion Trajectory Descriptor In Sports Video", Multimedia Tools and Application Journal(MTAP, Kluwer), Vol. 26, No. 5,pp. 189-204, Apr, 2005.

Conferences:

1. S. Liu, H. Yi, L.-T. Chia and D. Rajan, "Adaptive Hierarchical Multi-class SVM Classifier for Texture-based Image Classification", In Proc. of IEEE ICME, Jul, 2005.

2. H. Yi, D. Rajan and L.-T. Chia, "Global Motion Compensated Key Frame Extraction from Compressed Videos", In Proc. of IEEE ICASSP, Mar, 2005.

3. H. Yi, D. Rajan and L.-T. Chia, "ARIRS: Association Rule Based Image Retrieval System", In Proc. of International Workshop on Advanced Image Technology(IWAIT'05), Jan, 2005.

4. H. Yi, D. Rajan and L.-T. Chia, "A Motion based Scene Tree for Browsing and Retrieval of Compressed Videos", In Proc. of ACM Multimedia Database04, Nov, 2004, Arlington, VA, USA.

5. H. Yi, D. Rajan and L.-T. Chia, "Automatic Extraction of Motion Trajectories in Compressed Sports Videos", In Proc. of ACM Multimedia 2004, Oct, 2004, New York, NY, USA.

6. H. Yi, D. Rajan and L.-T. Chia, "Semantic Video Indexing and Summarization using Subtitles", In Proc. of IEEE Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia, Nov 30-Dec 3, 2004, Tokyo, Japan.

7. S. Liu, H. Yi, L.-T. Chia and D. Rajan, "Semantic Analysis of Basketball Video Using Motion Information", In Proc. of IEEE Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia, Nov 30-Dec 3, 2004, Tokyo, Japan.

8. H. Yi, D. Rajan and L.-T. Chia, "Motion Histogram: A New Motion Feature to Index Motion Content in Video Segment", In Proc. of International Conference on Knowledge and Information Engineering, Jun, 2004. Las Vegas, U.S.A.

9. H. Yi, D. Rajan and L.-T. Chia, "An Efficient Video Classification System Based On HMM In Compressed Domain", In Proc. of IEEE Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia, Dec, 2003. Singapore.

10. H. Yi, D. Rajan and L.-T. Chia, "Automatic Generation of MPEG-7 Compliant XML Document for Motion Trajectory Descriptor In Sports Video", In Proc. of ACM Multimedia Database'03, Nov, 2003. New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.

11. H. Yi, D. Rajan and L.-T. Chia, "A Unified Approach to Detection of Shot Boundaries and Subshots In Compressed Video", In Proc. of IEEE ICIP, Sep, 2003. Barcelona, Spain.

STANDARD TEST SCORES

• TOEFL 280(computer based test) TWE (5.5) 8/18/2004
• GRE General V: 720 (98%) Q: 800 (98%) A: 770 (97%)2/8/2001

HONORS AND AWARDS

• Research Scholarship, Nanyang Technological University, 2002, 2003, 2004.
• Best Bachelor Thesis Award, Huazhong Univ. of Sci&Tech 2002.
• Outstanding student fellowship, Huazhong Univ. of Sci&Tech, 2000,2001.
• Second Prize in the National College English Contest for Year 2000.
• Freshman admission scholarship, Huazhong Univ. of Sci&Tech, 1998
• Second Price in the National high school Mathematics Olympic Contest for year 1997.

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

Membership April 2003 - present
Singapore Computer Society(SCS)

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Graduate Student in Center for Multimedia and Network Technology July, 2002 - present
Includes current Graduate research, Graduate level coursework, research/consulting projects and research assistant in lab.
Course Projects
A fuzzy signature recognition system June, 2003 - October, 2003
A soccer player tracking system with snakeFebruary, 2003 - March, 2003

Huazhong University of Science and Technology,Wuhan, Hubei P. R. China
Undergraduate Student in Electronic and Information DepartmentSep, 1998 - July, 2002.
Final Year Project October, 2001 - May, 2002
Embedded System Design For the set-top box of DVB

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Teaching Assistant
Duties at various times have included giving tutorials, leading weekly computer lab exercises and responding student inquiries. Helped my supervisor for the Final Year Projects of senior undergraduate students.

• Data Structure(SC108, SC105), 2004-2005, Nanyang Technological Univ.
• Final Year Project(Video Annotation Tool), Spring 2003, Nanyang Technological Univ.
• Digital Signal Processing, Spring 2003, Huazhong Univ. of Sci&Tech.
• Operation System, Fall 2002, Huazhong Univ. of Sci&Tech.

English tutor July, 2000 - February, 2001
Duties have included teaching writing and pronunciation of English to senior high school students

COMPUTER SKILLS

Operating System:Linux/Unix/FreeBSD family, Windows95/98/2000/XP/Dos family.
Programming Language: ASM/C/C++/C#/Matlab/Java/JSP, TCL, Perl.

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