Faculty Profile

Biography

Currently, I am the Assistant Dean of School of Information Science and Technology, and Head of Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China. I am an Associate Professor from 2009. Now, I am a Visiting Associate Professor at School of Information and Computer Science atUniversity of California, Irvine (UCI) under the supervision of Prof. Ramesh Jain.

I received my Ph.D at the Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, supervised by Prof. Chong-Wah Ngo and Prof. Qing Li. I was a Senior Research Associate in the Video Retrieval Group (VIREO), City University of Hong Kong. I was a visiting scholar at School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA, under advisor Alexander G. Hauptmann between April 2006 and April 2007. I received my B.E. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from Yunnan University, China. I was with Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, between January 2001 and July 2002. From 2003 to 2004, I was with the Department of Computer Science of the City University of Hong Kong, as a Research Assistant, under the supervision of Dr. Victor C. S. Lee.

Research Interests

• Multimedia Information Retrieval, Video/Image Processing, Near-Duplicate Web Video/image Detection

• Topic Detection and Tracking, Data Mining, Multimedia Big Data

Work/Visiting Experience

• 2009/10 --     Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China. Assistant Dean, Department Head.

• 2015/09 -- 2016/09 University of California, Irvine (UCI), USA, Visiting Associate Professor.

• 2007/09 -- 2009/10 City University of Hong Kong, Senior Research Associate

• 2006/04 -- 2007/04 School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA, Visiting Scholar

• 2003/08 -- 2004/08 City University of Hong Kong, Research Assistant

• 2001/02 -- 2002/07 Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing

We are pleased to release the near-duplicate web video dataset (CC_WEB_VIDEO), which was appeared in our ACM MM'07 paper. Over 170+ universities/institutes worldwide from 16 countries/regions are using this dataset.

Selected Publication

 Book Chapter

• Xiao Wu, Wan-Lei Zhao, Chong-Wah Ngo, and Alexander G. Hauptmann. Near-Duplicate Web Video Detection. Internet Multimedia Search and Mining, Bentham Science Publishers, 2010.

• Qing Li, Xiao Wu, and Chong-Wah Ngo. Video Database. Encyclopedia of Computer Science & Engineering, Wiley publisher, 2008.

 Journal Papers

• Xiao Wu, Honghan Chen, Junzhou Chen, Tao Gan, Chong-Wah Ngo and Qiang Peng. Automatic Hookworm Detection in Wireless Capsule Endoscopy Images. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (IF: 3.756), vol. 35, no. 7, pp. 1741-1752, 2016.

• Bo Zhao, Xiao Wu*, Qiang Peng and Shuicheng Yan. Clothing Cosegmentation for Shopping Images with Cluttered Background. Accepted IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (IF: 2.536), vol. 18, no. 6, pp. 1111-1123, 2016.

• Chengde Zhang, Xiao Wu*, Mei-Ling Shyu and Qiang Peng. "Integration of Visual Temporal Information and Textual Distribution Information for News Web Video Event Mining". IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems (IF: 1.8), vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 124-135, 2016.

• Xiao Wu, Ping Yuan, Qiang Peng, Chong-Wah Ngo and Jun-Yan He. Detection of Bird Nests in Overhead Catenary System Images for High-Speed Rail. Pattern Recognition (IF: 3.399), vol. 51, pp. 242-254, 2016.

• Xiao Wu, Chong-Wah Ngo, and Qing Li, "Threading and Autodocumenting News Videos". IEEE Signal Processing Magazine (IF: 6.671), volume 23, issue 2, pp. 59-68, March 2006. (Citation: 135+)

• Xiao Wu, Chong-Wah Ngo, Alexander G. Hauptmann and Hung-Khoon Tan, "Real-Time Near-Duplicate Elimination for Web Video Search with Content and Context". IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (IF: 2.536), volume 11, issue 2, pp. 196-207, February 2009. (Citation: 130+)

• Xiao Wu, Chong-Wah Ngo and Alexander G. Hauptmann, "Multimodal News Story Clustering with Pairwise Visual Near-Duplicate Constraint". IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (IF: 2.536), volume 10, issue 2, pp. 188-199, February 2008.

• Wan-Lei Zhao, Xiao Wu, and Chong-Wah Ngo, "On the Annotation of Web Videos by Efficient Near-duplicate Search". IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (IF: 2.536), vol. 12, no. 5, pp. 448-461, August 2010. (Citation: 110+)

• Wan-Lei Zhao, Chong-Wah Ngo, Hung-Khoon Tan and Xiao Wu, "Near-Duplicate Keyframe Identification With Interest Point Matching and Pattern Learning". IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (IF: 2.536), volume 9, issue 5, pp. 1037-1048, August 2007. (Citation: 160+)

• Lei Zhang, Qiang Peng, Qionghua Wang, and Xiao Wu. "Stereoscopic Perceptual Video Coding Based on Just-Noticeable-Distortion Profile". IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting (IF: 2.381), vol. 57, no. 2, pp. 572-581, June 2011.

• Chengde Zhang, Dianting Liu, Xiao Wu*, Guiru Zhao, Mei-Ling Shyu, Qiang Peng. Near-Duplicate Segments Based Web Video Event Mining. Signal Processing (IF: 2.063), vol. 120, pp. 26-35, 2016.

• Guang-Lu Sun, Xiao Wu*, and Qiang Peng. Part-based clothing image annotation by visual neighbor retrieval. Neurocomputing (IF: 2.392), Accepted.

• Honghan Chen, Xiao Wu*, Gan Tao, Qiang Peng. Automatic content understanding with cascaded spatial-temporal deep framework for capsule endoscopy videos, Neurocomputing (IF: 2.392),Accepted.

• Mehtab Afzal, Xiao Wu*, HonghanChen, Yu-Gang Jiang, Qiang Peng. Web Video Categorization using Category-Predictive Classifiers and Category-Specific Concept Classifiers,  Neurocomputing (IF: 2.392), Accepted.

• Qiang Peng, Lei Zhang, Xiao Wu, Qiong-Hua Wang. "Modeling of SSIM-based end-to-end distortion for error-resilient video coding". EURASIP J. Image and Video Processing, vol. 45, 2014.

• Lei Zhang, Qiang Peng, Xiao Wu, Qiong-Hua Wang. "SSIM-based Error Resilient Video Coding Over Packet-Switched Networks". Signal Processing Systems, vol. 74, no. 1, pp. 103-113, 2014.

• Chong-Wah Ngo, Changsheng Xu, Xiao Wu, Abdulmotaleb El-Saddik. "Guest editorial: selected papers from ICIMCS 2011". Multimedia Syst. 19(1): 1-2 (2013).

• Xiao Wu, Chong-Wah Ngo, Yi-Ming Zhu, and Qiang Peng. "Boosting Web Video Categorization With Contextual Information from Social Web ". World Wide Web Journal, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 197-212, 2012.

• Xiao Wu, Yi-Jie Lu, Chong-Wah Ngo, and Qiang Peng, "Mining Event Structures from Web Videos". IEEE Multimedia, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 38-51, 2011.

• Xiao Wu, Chong-Wah Ngo, and Wan-Lei Zhao, "Data-Driven Approaches Towards Community-Contributed Video Applications". IEEE Multimedia, vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 58-69, Oct.-Dec. 2010.

• Xiao Wu, Alexander G. Hauptmann and Chong-Wah Ngo, "Novelty and Redundancy Detection with Multimodalities in Cross-Lingual Broadcast Domain". Computer Vision and Image Understanding, volume 110, issue 3, pp. 418-431, 2008.

• Xiao Wu and Victor C. S. Lee, "Wireless Real-Time On-Demand Data Broadcast Scheduling with Dual Deadlines". Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, volume 65, issue 6, pp. 714-728, June 2005.

• Chengde Zhang, Xiao Wu, Mei-Ling Shyu, Qiang Peng. "A Novel Web Video Event Mining Framework with the Integration of Correlation and Co-Occurrence Information". J. Comput. Sci. Technol. 28(5): 788-796 (2013)

• Victor C. S. Lee, Xiao Wu and Joseph Kee-Yin Ng, "Scheduling Real-Time Requests in On-Demand Data Broadcast Environments". Real-Time Systems Journal, volume 34, issue 2, pp. 83-99, May 2006.

 Conference Papers

• Zhi-Qi Cheng, Yang Liu, Xiao Wu*, Xian-Sheng Hua, Video eCommerce: Towards Online Video Advertising. ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM'16), Amsterdam, The Netherland, Oct. 2016 (oral). (CCF A类会议)

• Xiao Wu, Alexander G. Hauptmann and Chong-Wah Ngo, Practical Elimination of Near-Duplicates from Web Video Search. ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM'07), Augsburg, Germany, Sep. 2007 (oral). (Citation: 250+) (CCF A类会议)

• Xiao Wu, Alexander G. Hauptmann and Chong-Wah Ngo, Novelty Detection for Cross-Lingual News Stories with Visual Duplicates and Speech Transcripts. ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM'07), Augsburg, Germany, Sep. 2007 (oral). (CCF A类会议)

• Qing Li, Junzhou Chen, Qiang Peng, Xiao Wu. Application of Localized Soft-Assignment Coding and CSIFT in Image Classification. International Conference on Internet Multimedia Computing and Service (ICIMCS 2014), pp. 246-250, 2014.

• Xiaojiang Peng, Xiao Wu, Qiang Peng, Xianbiao Qi, Yu Qiao, Yanhua Liu. Exploring dense trajectory feature and encoding methods for human interaction recognition. International Conference on Internet Multimedia Computing and Service (ICIMCS 2013), pp. 23-27, 2013.

• Xiangkai Liu, Qiang Peng, Xiao Wu, Lei Zhang, Xu Xia, Lingyu Duan. An Error Resilient Depth Map Coding Scheme Using Adaptive Wyner-Ziv Frame. International Conference on MultiMedia Modeling (MMM 2013), pp. 143-153, 2013.

• Lei Zhang, Qiang Peng, Xiao Wu. SSIM-Based End-to-End Distortion Model for Error Resilient Video Coding over Packet-Switched Networks. International Conference on MultiMedia Modeling (MMM 2013), pp. 307-317, 2013.

• Xiao Wu, Bo Zhao, Ling-Ling Liang, Qiang Peng. Clothing Extraction by Coarse Region Localization and Fine Foreground/Background Estimation. International Conference on MultiMedia Modeling (MMM 2013), pp. 316-326, 2013.

• Xiao Wu, Xian-Ping Deng, Ling-Ling Liang, Qiang Peng. Interactive product image search with complex scenes. International Conference on Internet Multimedia Computing and Service (ICIMCS 2012), pp. 136-139, 2012.

• Lei Zhang, Qiang Peng, Xiao Wu. SSIM-Based Error Resilient Video Coding over Packet-Switched Networks. Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia, (PCM 2012) pp. 263-272, 2012.

• Xiao Wu, Wan-Lei Zhao, and Chong-Wah Ngo. Towards Google Challenge: Combining Contextual and Social Information for Web Video Categorization. ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM 09), Multimedia Grand Challenge, Beijing, Oct. 2009.

• Hung-Khoon Tan, Xiao Wu, Chong-Wah Ngo and Wan-Lei Zhao, "Accelerating Near-Duplicate Video matching by Combining the Visual Similarity and Alignment Distortion". ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM'08), Vancouver, Canada, Oct. 2008 (short paper).

• Hung-Khoon Tan, Chong-Wah Ngo and Xiao Wu, "Modeling Video Hyperlinks with Hypergraph for Web Video Reranking". ACM International Conference on Multimedia(ACM MM'08), Vancouver, Canada, Oct. 2008 (short paper).

• Xiao Wu, Wan-Lei Zhao, and Chong-Wah Ngo, "Near-Duplicate Keyframe Retrieval with Visual Keywords and Semantic Context". Proceedings of ACM International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (ACM CIVR'07), Netherlands, Jul. 2007.

• Xiao Wu, Wan-Lei Zhao, and Chong-Wah Ngo, "Efficient Near-Duplicate Keyframe Retrieval with Visual Language Models". Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME'07), Beijing, Jul. 2007.

• Xiao Wu, Chong-Wah Ngo, and Qing Li, "Co-Clustering of Time-Evolving News Story with Transcript and Keyframe". Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME'05), Netherlands, Jul. 2005.

• Xiao Wu, Victor C. S. Lee and Joseph Kee-Yin Ng, "A Preemptive Scheduling Algorithm for Wireless Real-Time On-Demand Data Broadcast". Proceedings of the 11th IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications (RTCSA'05), Hong Kong, Aug. 2005.

Grant and Funds

• 2014-2017     National Natural Science Foundation of China

• 2011-2013     National Natural Science Foundation of China

• 2013-2015     Program for Sichuan Provincial Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars

• 2012-2013     Program for Sichuan Provincial Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars

• 2011-2013     Research Funds for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China

• 2011-2013     Open Project Program of the National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition

• 2013-2014     Funds of Shanxi Provincial Transportation Department

• 2013-2014     Funds of Henan Provincial Transportation Department

Awards

• 2016          Second Prize, Natural Science Award of the Ministry of Education, China

• 2014          Top 10 Teaching Talent, Southwest Jiaotong University

• 2014          Rising Star Award, ACM Chengdu Chapter

• 2013          Sichuan Provincial Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, Sichuan, China

• Sep. 2007     IBM Student Conference Grant

• Oct. 2006     The Outstanding Academic Performance Awards for Research Degree Students

• 2006 -- 2007  Research Tuition Scholarship of City University of Hong Kong

• 2005 -- 2006  Research Tuition Scholarship of City University of Hong Kong

• 2004 -- 2007  Postgraduate Studentship of City University of Hong Kong

Professional Services

• Web Chair: Association for Computing Machinery, ACM Hong Kong Chapter (ACM HK), 2008.

• Faculty board: Faculty of Science & Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, 2005-2006.

• Guest Editor: ACM/Springer Multimedia Systems Journal, special issue of selected papers from ACM ICIMCS 2011.

• General Co-Chair: 8th International Conference on Mobile Multimedia Communications (MobiMedia 2015)

• Program Co-Chair: The Third ACM International Conference on Internet Multimedia Computing and Service (ACM ICIMCS 2011).

• Program Committee Member:  

• ACM Multimedia (ACM MM), 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2016

• ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR), 2012-2016

• IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME), 2008-2016

• International Conference on Multimedia Modeling (MMM), 2010, 2013-2016.

• Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia (PCM), 2007, 2011-2016

• The International Conference on Internet Multimedia Computing and Service (ICIMCS), 2009-2016

• Journal Reviewer:          IEEE Trans. on Multimedia, IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, IEEE Trans. on Knowledge and Data Management, IEEE Trans. on Information Forensics & Security, IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems, Proceedings of IEEE, International Journal of Computer Vision, IEEE Multimedia, VLDB Journal, Information Sciences, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, ACM Trans. on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications, Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Multimedia Systems Journal, Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, Multimedia Tools and Applications, Data and Knowledge Engineering, Neurocomputing, and so on.

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