Yang Wang
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
Canada
Biography
I graduated with a Ph.D. from Simon Fraser University, where I was advised by Prof. Greg Mori. I received my M.Sc. from University of Alberta, and my B.Sc. from Harbin Institute of Technology. Before joining CS@UofM in July 2012, I worked as an NSERC postdoc fellow at UIUC with Prof. David Forsyth. My research interests lie in computer vision and machine learning.
Research Interest
Object recognition, human activity recognition Image/video understanding Big visual data analytics Multimodal media (vision, language, etc) analysis Machine learning (e.g. graphical models, deep learning, transfer learning) for vision
Publications
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Md Mohaiminul Islam, Ye Tian, Yan Cheng, Yang Wang and Pingzhao Hu. A deep neural network based regression model for triglyceride concentrations prediction using epigenome-wide DNA methylation profiles. BMC Proceedings, 2017.
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Eu Wern Teh, Zhenyu Guo and Yang Wang. Object Localization in Weakly Labeled Data Using Regularized Attention Networks. IEEE Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP), 2017.
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Kazi Wasif Ahmed, Omit Chanda, Noman Mohammed and Yang Wang. Obfuscated Image Classification for Secure Image-centric Friend Recommendation. Special Issue on Towards Secure, Privacy-Preserving, and Reliable Smart Cities and Society, Elsevier Sustainable Cities and Society, 2017.
