Qi Tian

Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
University of Texas at San Antonio

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Qi Tian received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), Illinois in 2002. He received his M.S. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1996, and B.E. degree in Electronic Engineering from Tsinghua University, China, in 1992, respectively.

He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) and an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UTHSCSA) since 2003. Before he joined UTSA, he was a research assistant of Professor Thomas S. Huang at the Image Formation and Processing (IFP) group of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology and a teaching assistant in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UIUC from 1997 to 2002. During 2000 and 2001, he was a summer Intern Researcher (2000, 2001) and visiting researcher with the Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL), Cambridge, MA. In summer 2007, he was a Visiting Researcher at Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA), and a Visiting Scholar at MIAS Center, UIUC. In summer 2003, he was a Visiting Professor of NEC Laboratories America, Inc., Cupertino, CA, in the Video Media Understanding group

Dr. Tian's current research interests include Multimedia Information Retrieval, Computational Systems Biology, Biometrics, and Computer Vision. He has published over 70 refereed book chapters, journal and conference papers in these fields. He received a Best Student Paper Award (with Jie Yu) in IEEE ICASSP 2006, a Best Paper Candidate in Retrieval (with Yijuan Lu and Jingsheng Ma) in PCM 2007. He has served as International Steering Commitee Member for ACM MIR (2006-2010), ICME 2006 Best Paper Committee Member, Program Coordinator of ACM Multimedia 2009, Program Co-chairs of Fifth International Conference on Intelligent Multimedia and Ambient Intelligence (IMAI 2007), Asia-Pacific Workshops on Visual Information Processing (VIP 2007), the 7th ACM SIGMM International Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval (MIR 2005), Multimedia Systems and Applications VIII, SPIE's International Symposium on Optics East (2006), Internet Multimedia Management Systems, SPIE's International Symposium on Optics East (2005); Special Session Chair of Pacific-rim Conference on Multimedia (PCM 2007), ACM CIVR 2008; Publicity Co-Chairs of ACM Multimedia 2006, ACM International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR 2007); Track Chair of Multimedia Content Analysis in IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (2006, 2008), Session and Special Session Chairs and TPC members of over 80 IEEE and ACM international conferences in multimedia and computer vision such as ACM Multimedia, ICME, PCM, ICPR, CIVR, MIR, ICASSP, HCI, and VCIP. He received several grants from Army Research Office (ARO), San Antonio Life Science Institute (SALSI), the Center of Infrastructure Assurance and Security (CIAS), HP Laboratories, and UTSA Faculty Research Award (2004), all as Principal Investigator. He is a co-PI, and leading investigator at UTSA for a 2.4 million project with MIAS Center, UIUC. He is currently in the Editorial Board of Journal of Multimedia, and the Guest Editor of Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU) for the Special Issue of Similarity Matching in Computer Vision and Multimedia, the Guest Editor of IEEE Transactions on Multimedia for the Special Issue of Integration of Context and Content for Multimedia Management, and the Guest Editor of EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, Special Issue for Applications in Healthcare Systems.

He is a Senior Member (2003) of IEEE , and a Member (2004) of ACM.

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University of Texas at San Antonio
San Antonio, TX 78249-1644
Office: SB 4.01.15
Phone: (210)-458-5165
Fax: (210)-458-4437
Email: qitian AT cs DOT utsa DOT edu

Areas of Interest:

Multimedia Informational Retrieval
Bioinformatics, Computational Systems Biology
Data Mining and Machine Learning
Biometrics
Computer Vision
Statistical Learning and Pattern Recognition

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Recent Publications

    Year 2009

      Journal

    1. Y. Lu and Q. Tian, "Discriminant Subspace Analysis: an Adaptive Approach for Image Classification," accepted , IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, April 2009.

      Conferences

    2. G. Hua and Q. Tian, "What Visual Content Analysis Do for Text Based Image Search?" Oral, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), Canjun, Mexico, June 29-July3, 2009.

    3. J. Liu, Q. Tian, Y. Lu, C. Wang, L. Zhang, X. Yang, and S. Li, "A Lexica Family with Small Semantic Gap," Oral, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), Canjun, Mexico, June 29-July3, 2009.

    4. J. Xiao, Y. Fu, Y. Lu, and Q. Tian, "Refining Image Retrieval Using One-Class Classification," Oral, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), Canjun, Mexico, June 29-July3, 2009.

    Year 2008

      Journal

    1. J. Yu and Q. Tian, "Semantic Subspace Projection and Its Application in Image Retrieval," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (CSVT), Vol. 18, No. 4, pp. 544-548, April 2008.

    2. Y. Lu, Q. Tian, J. Neary, F. Liu, and Y. Wang, "Adaptive Discriminant Analysis for Microarray-based Classification," ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD), Special Issue on Bioinformatics, Vol.2, No. 1, Article 5, pp:5:1-5:20, March, 2008.

    3. J. Yu, J. Amores, N. Sebe, P. Radeva, and Q. Tian, "Distance Learning for Similarity Estimation," IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 30, No. 3, pp. 451-462, March 2008.

      Conferences

    4. S. L. Zhang, Q. Huang, Q. Tian, S. Jiang, and W. Gao, "Personalized MTV Affective Analysis Using User Profile," Pacific Conference on Multimedia (PCM), December 9-13, 2008, Tainan, Taiwan, China.

    5. S. L. Zhang, Q. Huang, Q. Tian, S. Jiang, and W. Gao, "i.MTV - An Integrated System for MTV Affective Analysis," accepted to ACM Multimedia 2008 Technical Demonstrations, Pan Pacific Hotel, Vancouver, BC, Canada, October 27-November 1, 2008.

    6. Y. Lu, L. Zhang, Q. Tian, and W. Y. Ma, "What Are the High-Level Concepts with Small Semantic Gaps?" IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2008), Anchorage, Alaska, June 24-26, 2008.

    7. S. L. Zhang, Q. Tian, S. Q. Jiang, Q. Huang, and W. Gao, "Affective MTV Analysis based on Arousal and Valence Features," IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), June 23-26, 2008, Hannover, Germany.

    8. L. Zhuang, W. Zhou, Q. Tian, and N. Yu, "Learning Object from Small and Imbalanced Dataset with Boost-BFKO," IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), June 23-26, 2008, Hannover, Germany.

    Year 2007

      Journal

    1. Y. Lu, Q. Tian, M. Sanchez, J. Neary, F. Liu, and Y. Wang,"Learning Microarray Gene Expression Data by Hybrid Discriminant Analysis," IEEE Multimedia Magazine, pp. 22-31, October-December 2007.

    2. Y. Lu, Q. Tian, F. Liu, M. Sanchez, and Y. Wang, "Interactive Semi-Supervised Learning for Microarray Analysis," IEEE Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Special Issue on Computational Intelligence Approaches in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Vo. 4, No. 2, pp: 190-203, April-June 2007.

    3. J. Yu, Q. Tian, T. Rui, and T.S. Huang, "Integrating Discriminant and Descriptive Information for Dimension Reduction and Classification," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Special Issue on the Convergence of Knowledge Engineering, Semantics, and Signal Processing in Audiovisual Information Retrieval, Vol. 17, No.3, pp: 372-377, March 2007.

      Conferences

    4. Y. Lu, I. Cohen, X. Zhou, and Q. Tian, "Feature Selection Using Principal Feature Analysis," acceptance rate: 27%, 70 papers out of 255 submissions, ACM Multimedia 2007, Short Paper Track, September 24-29, 2007, Augsburg, Germany.

    5. N. Sebe and Q. Tian, "Personalized Multimedia Retrieval: The New Trend," invited paper, 9th ACM SIGMM International Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval, Special Session on Personalized Multimedia Information Retrieval, September 28-29, 2007, University of Augsburg, Germany.

    6. Y. Lu, J. Ma, and Q. Tian, "FADA: An Efficient Dimension Reduction Scheme for Image Classification," Best Paper Candidate in Retrieval Track, acceptance rate: 29%, 73 out of 247 submissions, Pacific-rim Conference on Multimedia (PCM 2007), December 11-14, 2007, LNCS 4810, pp. 1-9, Hong Kong.

    7. Y. Lu, Q. Tian, and T. S. Huang, "Interactive Boosting for Image Classification," acceptance rate: 46 out of 139 submissions, 33%, International Workshop on Multimedia Content Analysis and Mining (MCAM 2007), June 30 - July 1, 2007, Weihai, Shandong, China.

    8. C. Xu and Q. Tian, "Semantic Analysis and Personalization for Mobile Media Applications," Invited Paper, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2007), Special Session on Mobile Media, July 2-5, 2007, Beijing, China.

    9. Y. Lu, T. Zhang, and Q. Tian, "i.Boosting for Image Classification," IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2007), July 2-5, 2007, Beijing, China.

    10. J. Yu, Y. Lu, Y. Xu, N. Sebe, and Q. Tian, "Integrating Relevance Feedback in Boosting for Content-Based Image Retrieval," (acceptance rate: 1344 out of 2912 submissions) IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2007), April 15-20, 2007, Honolulu, Hawaii.

    11. Y. Lu, J. Yu, N. Sebe, and Q. Tian, "Two Dimensional Adaptive Discriminant Analysis," (acceptance rate: 1344 out of 2912 submissions) IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2007), April 15-20, 2007, Honolulu, Hawaii.

    Year 2006

      Journal

    1. Z. Xiong, X. Zhou, Q. Tian, Y. Rui, and T.S. Huang, "Semantic Retrieval of Video," invited paper, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Special Issue on Semantic Retrieval of Multimedia, 23(2):18-27, March 2006.

    2. Q. Tian, "A Foundational Pespective for Visual Information Retrieval," invited book review for Exploration of Visual Data, IEEE MultiMedia Magazine, April 2006.

      Book Chapter

    3. J. Yu, J. Amores, N. Sebe and Q. Tian, "Ranking Metrics and Evaluation Measures," invited book chapter, Advances in Imaging and Electron Physics, Elsevier, Vol. 144, pp. 291-316, 2006.

      Conference

    4. J. Yu and Q. Tian, "Learning Image Manifolds by Semantic Subspace Projection," accepted as Full paper (21 out of 128 submissions), ACM Multimedia (2006), October 23-27, 2006, Santa Barbara, CA.

    5. J. Yu and Q. Tian, " Adaptive Discriminant Projection for Content-based Image Retrieval," accepted as Oral Paper (15% acceptance rate for oral paper over 2000 submissions), IEEE International Conference on Pattern Recognition, August 20-24, 2006, Hong Kong.

    6. J. Yu, J. Amores, N. Sebe, and Q. Tian, "Toward Robust Distance Metric Analysis for Similarity Estimation," accepted (318 papers out of about 1400 submissions) in IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2006), New York, NY, June 17-22, 2006.

    7. J. Yu and Q. Tian,"Constructing Descriptive and Discriminant Features for Face Classification," to appear in IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2006), Best Student Paper, May 14-19, 2006, Toulouse, France.

    8. J. Yu, J. Amores, N. Sebe, and Q. Tian, "A New Study on Distance Metrics as Similarity Measurement,"(Lecture paper: 20% acceptance rate out of 1028 submissions) IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2006), July 9-12, 2006, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

    9. J. Yu and Q. Tian, "Toward Intelligent Use of Semantic Information on Subspace Discovery for Image Retrieval," (Lecture paper: 20% acceptance rate out of 1028 submissions) IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2006), July 9-12, 2006, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

    10. Y. Lu, Q. Tian, Feng Liu, Maribel Sanchez, and Yufeng Wang, "A Self-Supervised Learning Framework for Classifying Microarray Gene Expression Data," 2nd International Workshop on Bioinformatics Research and Applications, acceptance rate 37.6%, 35 out of 93 submissions, May 28-31, 2006, University of Reading, UK.

    11. Y. Lu, Q. Tian, Maribel Sanchez, and Yufeng Wang, "Interactive Learning for Classifying Microarray Gene Expression Data," IEEE International Workshop on Genomic Signal Processing and Statistics, May 28-30, 2006, College Station, Texas.

    12. Y. Lu, Q. Tian, Maribel Sanchez, and Yufeng Wang, "Self-Supervised Learning for Gene Classification on Microarray Data," IEEE International Workshop on Genomic Signal Processing and Statistics, May 28-30, 2006, College Station, Texas.

    Year 2005

      Journal papers

    1. Q. Tian, Y. Wu, J. Yu, and T.S. Huang, "Self-Supervised Learning Based on Discriminative Nonlinear Features for Image Classification," Pattern Recognition, Special Issue on Image Understanding for Digital Photographs, Vol. 38, No. 6, pp. 903-917, 2005.

    2. T. Rui, C.L Shen, Q. Tian, and J. Ding, "Invariance-Based Target Recognition Using Independent Component Analysis (ICA)", Journal of Mini-Micro Systems, Vol. 26, No.3, March, 2005.

    3. T. Rui, C. Shen, Q. Tian, and J. Zhang, "Identity Verification Based on Keystrokes Using HMM", Journal of the Chinese Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)- Computer Engineering, Vol. 31, No.1, January, 2005.

    4. T. Rui, C.L Shen, Q. Tian, and J. Ding, "Comparison and Analysis on ICA & PCA's Ability in Feature Extraction," Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 124-128, 2005.

      Book chapter

    5. Q. Tian, Y. Wu, J. Yu and T.S. Huang, "Self-Supervised Learning Based on Discriminative Nonlinear Features and Its applications for Pattern Classification," Chapter 3, pp.52-75, Book Chapter of Managing Multimedia Semantics, edited by Dr. U. Srinivasan and Dr. S. Nepal, ICT Centre CSIRO, Australia, July, 2005, ISBN 1-59140-569-6.

    6. Q. Tian, B. Moghaddam, N. Lesh, C. Shen, and T.S. Huang, "Visualization, Estimation and User-Modeling for Interactive Browsing of Personal Photo Libraries," Chapter 9, pp. 193-222, Book Chapter of Managing Multimedia Semantics, edited by Dr. U. Srinivasan and Dr. S. Nepal, ICT Centre CSIRO, Australia, July 2005, ISBN 1-59140-569-6.

      Conference paper

    7. Y. Lu, Q. Tian, M. Sanchez, and Y. Wang, "Hybrid PCA and LDA Analysis of Microarray Gene Expression Data," 2005 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, San Diego, CA, Nov. 14-15, 2005.

    8. J. Yu and Q. Tian, "Boosting Multiple Classifiers by Hybrid Discriminant Analysis for Face Identification," Optics East, Multimedia Systems and Applications VIII, October 23-26, 2005, Boston, MA.

    9. Q. Tian, J. Yu, and T. S. Huang, "Boosting Multiple Classifiers Constructed by Hybrid Discriminant Analysis", Sixth International Workshop on Multiple Classifier Systems, Seaside, California, June 13-15, 2005. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science, editors N. C. Oza, R. Polikar, J. Kittler, et al, Springer-Verlag, Vol. 3541, 2005.

    10. Q. Tian, Y. Lu, M. Sanche, and Y. Wang, "Interactive Learning for Microarray Analysis," (Poster), Ninth Annual International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB 2005), Cambridge, MA, May 14-18, 2005.

    11. X. Su, Q. Tian, Q. Xue, N. Sebe, and J. Ma, "Neighborhood Issue in Single-Frame Image Superresolution", International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2005), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 6-8, 2005.

    12. L. Zhang, Q. Tian, N. Sebe, and J. Ma, "Video Object Boundary Reconstruction by 2-Pass Voting", International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2005), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 6-8, 2005.

    13. Q. Tian, L. Zhang, and J. Ma, "Voting Based Object Boundary Reconstruction", Visual Communications and Image Processing, Beijing, China, July 12-15, 2005.

    14. N. Sebe, N. Huijsmans, Q. Tian, and T. Gevers, "Towards Complete Performance Characterization in Content-based Retrieval," (oral) in Internet Imaging VI, IS&T/SPIE's 17th Annual Symposium, Eletrocnic Imaging, Science and Technology, January 16-20, 2005, San Jose, CA.

    Year 2004

      Journal paper

    1. B. Moghaddam, Q. Tian, N. Lesh, C. Shen, T. S. Huang, "Visualization and User-Modeling for Browsing Personal Photo Libraries", International Journal of Computer Vision, Special Issue on Content-Based Image Retrieval, January-February, Vol. 56, Issue, 1-2, pp. 109-130, 2004.

    2. T. Rui, C. Shen, J. Ding, and Q. Tian, "Handwritten Character Recognition Using HMM Based on Optimal Discriminant Transformation," Journal of Image and Graphics (JIC), Vol. 19, No. 8, pp. 1008-1013, 2004.

      Conference paper

    3. Q. Tian, Q. Xue, J. Yu, N. Sebe, and T. S. Huang, "Toward An Improved Error Metric," IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2004), October 24-27, 2004, Singapore.

    4. Q. Tian, J. Yu, T. Rui, and T. S. Huang, "A Hybrid Feature Dimension Reduction Approach for Image Classification", (Oral) Information Technology and Communication (IT Com), SPIE International Symposium, Vol. 5601, pp. 13-23, Philadelphia, PA, October 25-28, 2004.

    5. Q. Tian, Q. Xue, N. Sebe, and T. S. Huang, "Error Metric Analysis and Its Applications", (Oral) Information Technology and Communication (IT Com), SPIE International Symposium, Vol. 5601, pp. 46-57, Philadelphia, PA, October 25-28, 2004.

    6. Q. Tian, J. Yu, Q. Xue, N. Sebe, and T. S. Huang, "Robust Error Metric for Noise Estimation in Image Indexing," (Oral) 4th International Workshop on Multimedia Data and Document Engineering (MDDE-04), in conjunction with IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2004), Washington, DC, June 27-July 2, 2004.

    7. Q. Tian, B. Moghaddam, and T. S. Huang, "Towards An Improved Visualization and User-Modeling for Image Libraries," the 4th IASTED International Conference on Visualization, Imaging, and Image Processing (VIIP 2004), September 6-8, 2004, Marbella, Spain.

    8. N. Sebe, D. P. Huijsmans, and Q. Tian, "Complete Performance Graphics in Probabilistic Information Retrieval," will appear in 2004 Pacafic-Rim Conference on Multimedia (PCM 2004), November 30 - December 3, 2004, Tokyo Waterfront City, Japan.

    9. Q. Tian, J. Yu, Y. Wu, and T.S. Huang, "Learning Based on Kernel Discriminant-EM Algorithm for Image Classification," (oral) IEEE International Conferenece On Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP04), V:461-464, May 17-24, 2004, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

    10. Q. Tian, J. Yu, Q. Xue, N. Sebe, "A New Analysis of the Value of Unlabeled Data in Semi-Supervised Learning for Image Retrieval," (oral) International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2004), Taipei, Taiwan, ROC, June 27-30, 2004.

    11. Q. Tian, J. Yu, T. Rui, and T. S. Huang, "Parameterized Discriminant Analysis for Image Classification," (oral) International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2004), Taipei, Taiwan, ROC, June 27-30, 2004.
    Year 2003

      Journal paper

    1. N. Sebe, Q. Tian, E. Loupias, M. Lew, T. S. Huang, "Evaluation of Salient Points Techniques", Image and Vision Computing, Special Issue on Machine Vision, Vol. 21, No. 13-14, pp. 1087-1095, December, 2003.

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