Wang, Lei Associate Professor

Selected Publications

• Journal Article

  Year	Title
  2019	3D auto-context-based locality adaptive multi-modality GANs for PET synthesis Published In IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging Volume 38 Pages 1328 - 1339 ISSN 0278-0062 Altmetric
  2019	A Joint Local and Global Deep Metric Learning Method for Caricature Recognition Published In Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 11364 Pages 240 - 256 Altmetric
  2019	A Probabilistic Approach to Cross-region Matching based Image Retrieval Published In IEEE Transactions on Image Processing Volume 28 Pages 1191 - 1204 ISSN 1057-7149 Altmetric
  2019	Silica-Mediated Formation of Nickel Sulfide Nanosheets on CNT Films for Versatile Energy Storage Published In Small Volume 15 Pages 1805064 -1 - 1805064 -9 ISSN 1613-6829 Altmetric
  2018	3D conditional generative adversarial networks for high-quality PET image estimation at low dose Published In NeuroImage Volume 174 Pages 550 - 562 ISSN 1053-8119 Altmetric
  2018	Calibrated Multi-label Classification with Label Correlations Published In Neural Processing Letters Volume Online First Pages 1 - 20 ISSN 1370-4621 Altmetric
  2018	DeepKSPD: Learning Kernel-Matrix-Based SPD Representation For Fine-Grained Image Recognition Published In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) Volume 11206 Pages 629 - 645 Altmetric
  2018	Graph-Based Place Recognition in Image Sequences with CNN Features Published In Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems: theory and applications Volume Online first Pages 1 - 15 ISSN 0921-0296 Altmetric
  2018	Incomplete-Data Oriented Multiview Dimension Reduction via Sparse Low-Rank Representation Published In IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems Volume Online first Pages 1 - 16 ISSN 2162-237X Altmetric
  2018	Late Fusion Incomplete Multi-view Clustering Published In IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence Volume Online First Pages 1 - 14 ISSN 0162-8828 Altmetric
  2018	Locality adaptive multi-modality GANs for high-quality PET image synthesis Published In Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 11070 Pages 329 - 337 Altmetric
  2018	Structural Principles Analysis of Host-Pathogen Protein-Protein Interactions: A Structural Bioinformatics Survey Published In IEEE Access Volume 6 Pages 11760 - 11771 Altmetric
  2017	A Graph-Embedding Approach to Hierarchical Visual Word Mergence Published In IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems Volume 28 Pages 308 - 320 ISSN 2162-237X Altmetric
  2017	Compositional Model Based Fisher Vector Coding for Image Classification Published In IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence Volume 39 Pages 2335 - 2348 ISSN 0162-8828 Altmetric
  2017	Detection and Separation of Smoke from Single Image Frames Published In IEEE Transactions on Image Processing Volume 27 Pages 1164 - 1177 ISSN 1057-7149 Altmetric
  2017	HEp-2 Cell Image Classification with Deep Convolutional Neural Networks Published In IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics Volume 21 Pages 416 - 428 Altmetric
  2017	LiFePO4quantum-dots composite synthesized by a general microreactor strategy for ultra-high-rate lithium ion batteries Published In Nano Energy Volume 42 Pages 363 - 372 ISSN 2211-3282 Altmetric
  2017	OPML: A one-pass closed-form solution for online metric learning Published In Pattern Recognition Volume 75 Pages 302 - 314 ISSN 1873-5142 Altmetric
  2017	Subject-adaptive Integration of Multiple SICE Brain Networks with Different Sparsity Published In Pattern Recognition Volume 63 Pages 642 - 652 ISSN 1873-5142 Altmetric
  2017	Two-Stage Friend Recommendation Based on Network Alignment and Series Expansion of Probabilistic Topic Model Published In IEEE Transactions on Multimedia Volume 19 Pages 1314 - 1326 ISSN 1520-9210 Altmetric
  2016	A generalized probabilistic framework for compact codebook creation Published In IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence Volume 38 Pages 224 - 237 ISSN 0162-8828 Altmetric
  2016	Exploring multifractal-based features for mild Alzheimer's disease classification Published In Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Volume 76 Pages 259 - 269 ISSN 0740-3194 Altmetric
  2016	Learning Discriminative Stein Kernel for SPD Matrices and Its Applications Published In IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems Volume 27 Pages 1020 - 1033 ISSN 2162-237X Altmetric
  2016	Learning discriminative Bayesian networks from high-dimensional continuous neuroimaging data Published In IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence Volume 38 Pages 2269 - 2283 ISSN 0162-8828 Altmetric
  2016	Social friend recommendation based on multiple network correlation Published In IEEE Transactions on Multimedia Volume 18 Pages 287 - 299 ISSN 1520-9210 Altmetric
  2015	An efficient radius-incorporated MKL algorithm for Alzheimer's disease prediction Published In Pattern Recognition Volume 48 Pages 2141 - 2150 ISSN 1873-5142 Altmetric
  2015	Density maximization for improving graph matching with its applications Published In IEEE Transactions on Image Processing Volume 24 Pages 2110 - 2123 ISSN 1057-7149 Altmetric
  2015	Functional brain network classification with compact representation of SICE matrices Published In IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering Volume 62 Pages 1623 - 163411 ISSN 0018-9294 Altmetric
  2015	Multiple kernel extreme learning machine Published In Neurocomputing Volume 149 Pages 253 - 264 ISSN 0925-2312 Altmetric
  2015	Sensors for robotics 2015 Published In Journal of Sensors Volume 2015 Pages 412626-1 - 412626-2 ISSN 1687-7268 Altmetric
  2014	A hierarchical word-merging algorithm with class separability measure Published In IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence Volume 36 Pages 417 - 435 ISSN 0162-8828 Altmetric
  2014	Efficient dual approach to distance metric learning Published In IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems Volume 25 Pages 394 - 406 ISSN 2162-237X Altmetric
  2014	Global and local structure preservation for feature selection Published In IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems Volume 25 Pages 1083 - 1095 ISSN 2162-237X Altmetric
  2014	HEp-2 cell image classification with convolutional neural networks Published In Proceedings - 2014 1st Workshop on Pattern Recognition Techniques for Indirect Immunofluorescence Images, I3A Workshop 2014 Pages 24 - 28 Altmetric
  2014	HEp-2 cell image classification with multiple linear descriptors Published In Pattern Recognition Volume 47 Pages 2400 - 2408 ISSN 1873-5142 Altmetric
  2014	Max-margin based learning for discriminative Bayesian network from neuroimaging data Published In Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 8675 Pages 321 - 328 Altmetric
  2014	Progressive mode-seeking on graphs for sparse feature matching Published In Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 8690 Pages 788 - 802 Altmetric
  2014	Smoke detection in video: an image separation approach Published In International Journal of Computer Vision Volume 106 Pages 192 - 209 ISSN 0920-5691 Altmetric
  2013	An adaptive approach to learning optimal neighborhood kernels Published In IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics Volume 43 Pages 371 - 384 ISSN 2168-2267 Altmetric
  2013	An efficient approach to integrating radius information into multiple kernel learning Published In IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics Volume 43 Pages 557 - 569 ISSN 2168-2267 Altmetric
  2013	Learning with multi-resolution overlapping communities Published In Knowledge and Information Systems Volume 36 Pages 517 - 535 ISSN 0219-1377 Altmetric
  2013	On similarity preserving feature selection Published In IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering Volume 25 Pages 619 - 632 ISSN 1041-4347 Altmetric
  2013	Sensors for robotics Published In Journal of Sensors Volume 2013 Pages 293656-01 - 293656-02 ISSN 1687-7268 Altmetric
  2012	Incorporation of radius-info can be simple with SimpleMKL Published In Neurocomputing Volume 89 Pages 30 - 38 ISSN 0925-2312 Altmetric
  2012	Positive semidefinite metric learning using boosting-like algorithms Published In Journal of Machine Learning Research Volume 13 Pages 1007 - 1036 ISSN 1533-7928
  2010	Feature selection with redundancy-constrained class separability Published In IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems Volume 21 Pages 853 - 858 ISSN 2162-237X Altmetric
  2010	Hippocampal shape classification using redundancy constrained feature selection Published In Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 6362 Pages 266 - 273 Altmetric
  2010	Scalable large-margin mahalanobis distance metric learning Published In IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems Volume 21 Pages 1524 - 1530 ISSN 2162-237X Altmetric
  2009	Identifying anatomical shape difference by regularized discriminative direction Published In IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging Volume 28 Pages 937 - 950 ISSN 0278-0062 Altmetric
  2008	Feature selection with kernel class separability Published In IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence Volume 30 Pages 1534 - 1546 ISSN 0162-8828 Altmetric
  2008	A kernel-induced space selection approach to model selection of KLDA Published In IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems Volume 19 Pages 2116 - 2131 ISSN 2162-237X
  2008	AdaBoost with SVM-based component classifiers Published In Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence Volume 21 Pages 785 - 795 ISSN 0952-1976 Altmetric
  2008	Two criteria for model selection of multiclass support vector machines Published In IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics Volume 38 Pages 1432 - 1448 ISSN 2168-2267 Altmetric
  2007	Discovering prediction model for environmental distribution maps Published In Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 4819 Pages 99 - 109
  2007	Feature subset selection for multi-class SVM based image classification Published In Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 4844 Pages 145 - 154
  2007	Where’s the weetbix? Published In Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 4843 Pages 800 - 810

• Chapter

  Year	Title
  2017	Big data in genomics Published In Big Data Management and Processing Publisher Taylor & Francis Group: CRC Press Pages 363 - 384 ISBN 9781498768078
  2015	Advanced image retrieval technology in future mobile teaching and learning Published In Handbook of Mobile Teaching and Learning Publisher Heidelberg, Germany: Springer Pages 835 - 846 ISBN 9783642541452 Altmetric
  2014	Application of SVMs to the bag-of-features model – A kernel perspective Published In Support Vector Machines Applications Publisher Germany: Springer Pages 155 - 189 ISBN 9783319022994
  2014	Exploring compact representation of SICE matrices for functional brain network classification Published In Machine Learning in Medical Imaging 5th International Workshop, MLMI 2014, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2014, Boston, MA, USA, September 14, 2014. Proceedings Publisher Switzerland: Springer International Publishing Pages 59 - 67 ISBN 9783319105802 Altmetric
  2014	Support Vector Machines for neuroimage analysis: Interpretation from discrimination Published In Support Vector Machines Applications Publisher Germany: Springer Pages 191 - 220 ISBN 9783319022994 Altmetric

• Conference Paper

  Year	Title
  2018	3D cGAN based cross-modality MR image synthesis for brain tumor segmentation Published In IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI 2018) Pages 626 - 630 Altmetric
  2018	Instance image retrieval by aggregating sample-based discriminative characteristics Published In ICMR 2018 - Proceedings of the 2018 ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval Pages 91 - 99 Altmetric
  2018	Multi-modality feature selection with adaptive similarity learning for classification of Alzheimer's disease Published In IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging Pages 1542 - 1545 Altmetric
  2018	Towards Biological Sequence Data Service with Insights Published In IEEE Conference on Big Data Pages 2846 - 2853
  2018	Tumor segmentation via multi-modality joint dictionary learning Published In 2018 IEEE 15th International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI 2018) Pages 1336 - 1339 Altmetric
  2017	A Comparison Study for Supervised Machine Learning Models in Cancer Classification Published In 16th International Conference on Bioinformatics (InCoB 2017) Pages 1 - 2
  2017	Collaborative Data Analytics towards Prediction on Pathogen-Host Protein-Protein Interactions Published In International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design Pages 269 - 274
  2017	Infomax principle based pooling of deep convolutional activations for image retrieval Published In IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) Pages 457 - 462 Altmetric
  2017	Leveraging Stacked Denoising Autoencoder in Prediction of Pathogen-Host Protein-Protein Interactions Published In IEEE 6th International Congress on Big Data Pages 368 - 375 Altmetric
  2017	Multiple kernel k-means with incomplete kermels Published In 31st AAAI Conference (AAAI 2017) Pages 1 - 7
  2017	Revisiting metric learning for SPD matrix based visual representation Published In 30th IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2017 Pages 7111 - 7119 Altmetric
  2017	Towards Elucidating the Structural Principles of Host-Pathogen Protein-Protein Interaction Networks: A bioinformatics survey Published In IEEE 6th International Congress on Big Data Pages 177 - 184 Altmetric
  2016	Image Descriptors from ConvNets: Comparing Global Pooling Methods for Image Retrieval Published In 2016 International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications, DICTA 2016 Pages 1 - 8 Altmetric
  2016	Multiple kernel clustering with local kernel alignment maximization Published In 2016 Twenty-Fifth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-16) Pages 1704 - 1710
  2016	Multiple kernel k-means clustering with matrix-induced regularization Published In 30th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2016 Pages 1888 - 1894
  2016	Semi-Supervised Weight Learning for the Spatial Search Method in ConvNet-Based Image Retrieval Published In 2016 International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications, DICTA 2016 Pages 1 - 8 Altmetric
  2016	Towards data analytics of pathogen-host protein-protein interaction: a survey Published In 2016 IEEE International Congress on Big Data (BigData Congress) Pages 377 - 388 Altmetric
  2015	Absent multiple kernel learning Published In Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence Pages 2807 - 2813
  2015	Beyond covariance: feature representation with nonlinear kernel matrices Published In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision Pages 4570 - 4578 Altmetric
  2015	Single image smoke detection Published In Lecture Notes in Computer Science: Computer Vision - ACCV 2014: 12th Asian Conference on Computer Vision Singapore Pages 87 - 101 Altmetric
  2014	A method of discriminative information preservation and in-dimension distance minimization method for feature selection Published In 22nd International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2014) Pages 1615 - 1620 Altmetric
  2014	Discriminative sparse inverse covariance matrix: Application in brain functional network classification Published In 2014 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Pages 3097 - 3104 Altmetric
  2014	Encoding high dimensional local features by sparse coding based fisher vectors Published In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems Pages 1143 - 1151
  2014	Experimental study of unsupervised feature learning for HEp-2 cell images clustering Published In Digital lmage Computing: Techniques and Applications (DlCTA), 2014 International Conference on Pages 1 - 8 Altmetric
  2014	Max-margin based learning for discriminative Bayesian network from neuroimaging data Published In The 17th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and ComputerAssisted Intervention (MICCAI 2014) Pages 321 - 328
  2014	Sample-adaptive multiple kernel learning Published In Twenty-Eighth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-14) Pages 1975 - 1981
  2013	A fast approximate AIB algorithm for distributional word clustering Published In IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Pages 556 - 563 Altmetric
  2013	A scalable unsupervised feature merging approach to efficient dimensionality reduction of high-dimensional visual data Published In IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision Pages 3008 - 3015 Altmetric
  2013	Accelerating the divisive information-theoretic clustering of visual words Published In 2013 International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications Pages 1 - 8 Altmetric
  2013	Discriminative brain effective connectivity analysis for Alzheimer's disease: A kernel learning approach upon sparse gaussian bayesian network Published In IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Pages 2243 - 2250 Altmetric
  2013	Improving graph matching via density maximization Published In IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision Pages 3424 - 3431 Altmetric
  2012	A novel video-based smoke detection method using image separation Published In ICME 2012: IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo Pages 532 - 537 Altmetric
  2012	What has my classifier learned? Visualizing the classification rules of bag-of-feature model by support region detection Published In CVPR 2012: IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Pages 3586 - 3593 Altmetric
  2011	A generalized probabilistic framework for compact codebook creation Published In IEEE CVPR 2011: IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Pages 1537 - 1544 Altmetric
  2011	A scalable dual approach to semidefinite metric learning Published In IEEE CVPR 2011: IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Pages 2601 - 2608 Altmetric
  2011	Exploring latent class information for image retrieval using the bag-of-feature model Published In MM '11 Proceedings of the 19th ACM international conference on Multimedia Pages 1405 - 1408 Altmetric
  2011	In defense of soft-assignment coding Published In 2011 IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision Pages 2486 - 2493 Altmetric
  2011	On the optimality of sequential forward feature selection using class separability measure Published In Proceedings of 2011 International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (DICTA) Pages 203 - 208 Altmetric
  2011	The effect of the characteristics of the dataset on the selection stability Published In Proceedings of 2011 23rd IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI) Pages 970 - 977 Altmetric
  2010	Efficient structured support vector regression Published In 10th Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV) Pages 1 - 13 Altmetric
  2010	A multi-resolution approach to learning with overlapping communities Published In International Workshop on Social Media Analytics, in conjunction with the 16th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Pages 1 - 9 Altmetric
  2010	A scalable algorithm for learning a Mahalanobis distance metric Published In Computer Science, Springer, the 9th Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV) Pages 1 - 12 Altmetric
  2010	Compressive evaluation in human motion tracking Published In 10th Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV) Pages 1 - 12 Altmetric
  2010	Efficient learning to label images Published In Proceedings of Twentieth International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICIP) Pages 942 - 945 Altmetric
  2010	Efficient spectral feature selection with minimum redundancy Published In Proceedings of Twenty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Pages 1 - 6
  2010	Fast multi-labelling for stereo matching Published In 11th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) Pages 524 - 537 Altmetric
  2010	Gradual sampling and mutual information maximisation for markerless motion capture Published In 10th Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV) Pages 554 - 565 Altmetric
  2010	Guided informative image partitioning Published In Proceedings of Thirteenth International Workshop on Structural and Syntactic Pattern Recognition (S+SSPR) Pages 202 - 212 Altmetric
  2010	Inter-domain routing validator based spoofing defence system Published In IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics Pages 153 - 155 Altmetric
  2010	Stereo disparity calculation in real-world scenes with informative image partitioning Published In Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Image and Vision Computing New Zealand (IVCNZ) Pages 1 - 8 Altmetric
  2009	Handling significant scale difference for object retrieval in a supermarket Published In Proceedings of International Conference on Digital Image Computing - Techniques and Applications (DICTA) Pages 468 - 475 Altmetric
  2009	Pavement scene interpretation and obstacle detection by large margin image labeling Published In International Workshop on Vision and Control for Access Space (VCAS), in conjunction with the 9th Asian Conference on Computer Vision Pages 1 - 10
  2009	Positive semidefinite metric learning with Boosting Published In Proceedings of Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) Pages 1 - 9
  2009	User-driven lossy compression for images and video Published In Proceedings of International Conference on Image and Vision Computing New Zealand (IVCNZ) Pages 346 - 351 Altmetric
  2008	A fast algorithm for creating a compact and discriminative visual codebook Published In 10th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)
  2008	Learning cascaded reduced-set SVMs using linear programming Published In Proceedings of International Conference on Digital Image Computing - Techniques and Applications (DICTA) Pages 619 - 626 Altmetric
  2008	Multi-view human motion capture with an improved deformation skin model Published In Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (DICTA), 2008 Pages 420 - 427 Altmetric
  2008	PSDBoost: Matrix-generation linear programming for positive semidefinite matrices learning Published In Proceedings of Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) Pages 1 - 8
  2008	Regularized discriminative direction for shape difference analysis Published In 11th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) Pages 628 - 635 Altmetric
  2007	Toward a discriminative codebook: codeword selection across multiresolution Published In 2nd Beyond Patches Workshop, in conjunction with International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Pages 1 - 8 Altmetric

Presentations

• Invited Talk

  • Learning and Designing SPD-matrix-based Representation for Visual Recognition, Speaker, Multimedia Signal Processing Workshop in University of Technology Sydney 2017
  • CBIR in the Era of Deep Learning — A Perspective from Feature Representation, Speaker, China Nanjing Deep Learning Meet-up 2016
  • Exploring Novel SPD-based Feature Representation for Visual Recognition, Speaker, AustralianWorkshop on Video/Image Coding, Processing and Understanding 2016
  • On Learning Covariance based Feature Representation for Visual Recognition, Speaker, China Jiangsu Artificial Intelligence Conference 2016
  • Supervised and Unsupervised Feature Merging for High-dimensional Visual Data, Speaker, Canon Information Systems Research Australia 2014
  • Unsupervised Feature Merging for Dimension Reduction of High-dimensional Visual Data, Speaker, Charles Sturt University, Bathurst 2014
  • Recent Development of the Bag-of-Words Model in Visual Recognition, Speaker, IEEE SPS Season School on Social Media Processing 2012
  • Recent Development of the Bag-of-Words Model in Visual Recognition, Speaker, The 12th Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia 2011

Investigator On

Year	Title
2010	Generic content-based news picture retrieval with local invariant features Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects

Other Research Activities

• Advantage SME Collaboration Voucher funded by NSW Department of Industry, Smarter building sensor, control and data analysis systems, AUD59,880 Chief Investigator 2018 - 2019
• Community Engagement Grant, University of Wollongong (AUD8,000) Retrieving lost community stories: linking regional archival photo collections using advanced visual technologies Lead Chief Investigator 2017 - 2018
• National Computational Merit Allocation Scheme, Exploring National Treasure: Retrieval of Large Collection of Archival Photos Lead Chief Investigator 2016 - 2018
• Commercial Research Grant with Olapic (an IT Company in New York), Clothing Image Retrieval Research, AUD182,000 Sole Chief Investigator 2014 - 2015
• UOW University Research Committee Near Miss (ARC Discovery Project) Grant, AUD10,000 Lead Chief Investigator 2013 - 2014
• UOW University Research Committee Near Miss (ARC Discovery Project) Grant, AUD12,000 Lead Chief Investigator 2012 - 2013
• UOWUniversity Research Committee Small Grant When Vision Meets Fashion: Addressing The Problem of Fine-grained Image Retrieval, AUD13,000 Lead Chief Investigator 2012 - 2013
• University of Wollongong (UOW) Research Infrastructure Block Grant 3D Multimedia Research Infrastructure, AUD70,000 Coordinator and primary user 2011 - 2012
• UOW Faculty of Informatics Research Develop Scheme Grant, AUD3,500 Sole Chief Investigator 2011
• ARC Discovery Project (DP0773761), Computer Vision Optimization Problem Using Machine Learning, AUD255,000, APD fellowship 2007 - 2009

Impact Story

Potential Supervision Topics

• Content-based Image Retrieval
  Deep Learning for Visual Recognition
  Unsupervised Feature Learning
  
  

Teaching Activities

• CSCI446 Big Data Analytics Instructor 2018
• CSCI464 Computational Intelligence Instructor 2018

Advisees

• Graduate Advising Relationship

  Degree	Research Title	Advisee
  Doctor of Philosophy	A Computational Framework for Pathogen-Host Protein-Protein Interactions	Chen, Huaming
  Doctor of Philosophy	Sample Adaptive based Instance Reteivad with Transfer Learning	Zhang, Zhongyan
  Doctor of Philosophy	Deep Learning based medical image segmentation and synthesis	Yu, Biting
  Master of Philosophy	Text-based Guidance for Improved Image Retrieval	Comor, Ian
  Doctor of Philosophy	Transfer Deep Learning with Applications to Smart Infrastructure and Visual Data Analysis	Ding, Yu
  Doctor of Philosophy	A Machine Learning Based Approach for SoftwareTesting.	Wu, Sarah
  Doctor of Philosophy	Fine-grained Image Recognition using Deep Learning	Rahman, Saimunur
  Master of Research - EIS	The Application of Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning in Aged Care to Predict Falls and Pressure Injuries	Yin, Cedar
  Master of Philosophy - EIS	Content-Based Image Retrieval with Symbolic Data Analysis and Explainable Artificial Intelligence	Chakraborty, Bela
  Doctor of Philosophy	Analyzing And Recognition of Video Information Through Machine Learning	Sangrasi, Din
  Doctor of Philosophy	Intelligent programming strategies for metal additive manufacturing	Yuxing, Li
  Master of Philosophy - EIS	Research in Object Detection with Deep Network	Zhou, Zhexuan
  Doctor of Philosophy (Integrated)	Integration Text-based Image Retrieval & Content-Based Image Retrieval to An Advanced Image Retrieval System.	Zhao, Yan

Outreach Overview

• I have been actively engaged with communities and industries. My research work is about image search, which has a wide range of practical applications. I have met with university library, Kiama council, state & national archives, Carsales, and real estate agencies to introduce my work. In particular, to contribute to the development of local business, I joined UOW Entrepreneur Club (eClub) and regularly attended networking events, workshops and presentations. Through these activities, I established connections with local entrepreneurs and industry specialists. In July 2013, I participated in UOW Pitch Competition to present my idea on online shopping and obtained the finalist certificate. In addition to maintaining regular contact with local business, I developed collaborations with IT companies in China and US to commercialize my research work. Through these activities, I have been deeply impressed by the enthusiasm of industries on innovations and novel techniques. Also, I concretely realize the vital role of academic research in this regard. 
  
  

  In particular, I extended my research work to discover, protect and disseminate the culture of local community. Supported by a 2016 UOW community engagement grant titled “Retrieving Lost Community Stories: Linking Regional Archival Photo Collections using Advanced Visual Technologies,” I worked with UOW library, Illawarra Museum and Wollongong City Libraries to link their archival photo collections to share information. Also, my work enables community members to unprecedentedly query these collections with photos from their old family albums to discover lost stories. In doing so, my research work well supports the way that community connects with local history, by innovating community’s access to digital archival photo material. A demonstration website is being built to show the local community all the functions.

Organizer Of Event

• Lead General Co-Chair of the 2014 International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (DICTA) 2014
• Area Chair of the Pacific-Rim Symposium on Image and Video Technology (PSIVT) 2010 - 2013

Professional Service Activities

• The 27th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) and the 23rd European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Sweden 2018 Senior Program Committee member 2018

Full Name

• Lei Wang

Mailing Address

• Building 3 Room 219

  School of SCIT, University of Wollongong

  Wollongong

  NSW

  2522

  Australia

Geographic Location

• University of Wollongong 

Located In Facility

• Building 3 Room 219 

Orcid Id

• http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0961-0441 (confirmed)

Web Of Science Researcher Id

• D-9079-2013

Top Publications

Year	Title
2018	3D conditional generative adversarial networks for high-quality PET image estimation at low dose Published in   NeuroImage
2017	HEp-2 Cell Image Classification with Deep Convolutional Neural Networks Published in   IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics
2016	A generalized probabilistic framework for compact codebook creation Published in   IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
2016	Learning discriminative Bayesian networks from high-dimensional continuous neuroimaging data Published in   IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
2014	A hierarchical word-merging algorithm with class separability measure Published in   IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
2013	On similarity preserving feature selection Published in   IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
2011	In defense of soft-assignment coding
2008	Feature selection with kernel class separability Published in   IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
2008	AdaBoost with SVM-based component classifiers Published in   Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
2015	Beyond covariance: feature representation with nonlinear kernel matrices

Research Areas

• 0801 - ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND IMAGE PROCESSING
• 080104 - COMPUTER VISION
• 080109 - PATTERN RECOGNITION AND DATA MINING
• 170203 - KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION AND MACHINE LEARNING

Research Overview

• Lei Wang's research expertise is in the fields of pattern recognition and machine learning, with the application to computer vision, biomedical imaging, and bioinformatics. He has published extensively in these fields, with more than 130 peer-reviewed research articles to date. Among the journals and conferences that he regularly publishes his research in, many of them are ERA A*/A (or tier Q1 or ranked top 10-20% in its disciplines) outlets, including the top-ranked conferences such as CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NIPS, AAAI and MICCAI, and the prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (ranked among top 2 of the 121 journals in the categories of computer science and artificial intelligence according to Journal Citation Report), IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, Journal of Machine Learning Research, Pattern Recognition, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, and IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, to name a few.
  
  According to Google Scholar, the total number of citations of his publications is 3500+, the i-10 index is 57, and the h-index is 29 (checked on 19/May/2018). The most cited publications in his track record are on pattern recognition and machine learning. 

Geographic Focus

• University of Wollongong  State or Province

Selected Publications

• Journal Article

  Year	Title
  2019	3D auto-context-based locality adaptive multi-modality GANs for PET synthesis Published In IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging Volume 38 Pages 1328 - 1339 ISSN 0278-0062 Altmetric
  2019	A Joint Local and Global Deep Metric Learning Method for Caricature Recognition Published In Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 11364 Pages 240 - 256 Altmetric
  2019	A Probabilistic Approach to Cross-region Matching based Image Retrieval Published In IEEE Transactions on Image Processing Volume 28 Pages 1191 - 1204 ISSN 1057-7149 Altmetric
  2019	Silica-Mediated Formation of Nickel Sulfide Nanosheets on CNT Films for Versatile Energy Storage Published In Small Volume 15 Pages 1805064 -1 - 1805064 -9 ISSN 1613-6829 Altmetric
  2018	3D conditional generative adversarial networks for high-quality PET image estimation at low dose Published In NeuroImage Volume 174 Pages 550 - 562 ISSN 1053-8119 Altmetric
  2018	Calibrated Multi-label Classification with Label Correlations Published In Neural Processing Letters Volume Online First Pages 1 - 20 ISSN 1370-4621 Altmetric
  2018	DeepKSPD: Learning Kernel-Matrix-Based SPD Representation For Fine-Grained Image Recognition Published In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) Volume 11206 Pages 629 - 645 Altmetric
  2018	Graph-Based Place Recognition in Image Sequences with CNN Features Published In Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems: theory and applications Volume Online first Pages 1 - 15 ISSN 0921-0296 Altmetric
  2018	Incomplete-Data Oriented Multiview Dimension Reduction via Sparse Low-Rank Representation Published In IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems Volume Online first Pages 1 - 16 ISSN 2162-237X Altmetric
  2018	Late Fusion Incomplete Multi-view Clustering Published In IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence Volume Online First Pages 1 - 14 ISSN 0162-8828 Altmetric
  2018	Locality adaptive multi-modality GANs for high-quality PET image synthesis Published In Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 11070 Pages 329 - 337 Altmetric
  2018	Structural Principles Analysis of Host-Pathogen Protein-Protein Interactions: A Structural Bioinformatics Survey Published In IEEE Access Volume 6 Pages 11760 - 11771 Altmetric
  2017	A Graph-Embedding Approach to Hierarchical Visual Word Mergence Published In IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems Volume 28 Pages 308 - 320 ISSN 2162-237X Altmetric
  2017	Compositional Model Based Fisher Vector Coding for Image Classification Published In IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence Volume 39 Pages 2335 - 2348 ISSN 0162-8828 Altmetric
  2017	Detection and Separation of Smoke from Single Image Frames Published In IEEE Transactions on Image Processing Volume 27 Pages 1164 - 1177 ISSN 1057-7149 Altmetric
  2017	HEp-2 Cell Image Classification with Deep Convolutional Neural Networks Published In IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics Volume 21 Pages 416 - 428 Altmetric
  2017	LiFePO4quantum-dots composite synthesized by a general microreactor strategy for ultra-high-rate lithium ion batteries Published In Nano Energy Volume 42 Pages 363 - 372 ISSN 2211-3282 Altmetric
  2017	OPML: A one-pass closed-form solution for online metric learning Published In Pattern Recognition Volume 75 Pages 302 - 314 ISSN 1873-5142 Altmetric
  2017	Subject-adaptive Integration of Multiple SICE Brain Networks with Different Sparsity Published In Pattern Recognition Volume 63 Pages 642 - 652 ISSN 1873-5142 Altmetric
  2017	Two-Stage Friend Recommendation Based on Network Alignment and Series Expansion of Probabilistic Topic Model Published In IEEE Transactions on Multimedia Volume 19 Pages 1314 - 1326 ISSN 1520-9210 Altmetric
  2016	A generalized probabilistic framework for compact codebook creation Published In IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence Volume 38 Pages 224 - 237 ISSN 0162-8828 Altmetric
  2016	Exploring multifractal-based features for mild Alzheimer's disease classification Published In Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Volume 76 Pages 259 - 269 ISSN 0740-3194 Altmetric
  2016	Learning Discriminative Stein Kernel for SPD Matrices and Its Applications Published In IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems Volume 27 Pages 1020 - 1033 ISSN 2162-237X Altmetric
  2016	Learning discriminative Bayesian networks from high-dimensional continuous neuroimaging data Published In IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence Volume 38 Pages 2269 - 2283 ISSN 0162-8828 Altmetric
  2016	Social friend recommendation based on multiple network correlation Published In IEEE Transactions on Multimedia Volume 18 Pages 287 - 299 ISSN 1520-9210 Altmetric
  2015	An efficient radius-incorporated MKL algorithm for Alzheimer's disease prediction Published In Pattern Recognition Volume 48 Pages 2141 - 2150 ISSN 1873-5142 Altmetric
  2015	Density maximization for improving graph matching with its applications Published In IEEE Transactions on Image Processing Volume 24 Pages 2110 - 2123 ISSN 1057-7149 Altmetric
  2015	Functional brain network classification with compact representation of SICE matrices Published In IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering Volume 62 Pages 1623 - 163411 ISSN 0018-9294 Altmetric
  2015	Multiple kernel extreme learning machine Published In Neurocomputing Volume 149 Pages 253 - 264 ISSN 0925-2312 Altmetric
  2015	Sensors for robotics 2015 Published In Journal of Sensors Volume 2015 Pages 412626-1 - 412626-2 ISSN 1687-7268 Altmetric
  2014	A hierarchical word-merging algorithm with class separability measure Published In IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence Volume 36 Pages 417 - 435 ISSN 0162-8828 Altmetric
  2014	Efficient dual approach to distance metric learning Published In IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems Volume 25 Pages 394 - 406 ISSN 2162-237X Altmetric
  2014	Global and local structure preservation for feature selection Published In IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems Volume 25 Pages 1083 - 1095 ISSN 2162-237X Altmetric
  2014	HEp-2 cell image classification with convolutional neural networks Published In Proceedings - 2014 1st Workshop on Pattern Recognition Techniques for Indirect Immunofluorescence Images, I3A Workshop 2014 Pages 24 - 28 Altmetric
  2014	HEp-2 cell image classification with multiple linear descriptors Published In Pattern Recognition Volume 47 Pages 2400 - 2408 ISSN 1873-5142 Altmetric
  2014	Max-margin based learning for discriminative Bayesian network from neuroimaging data Published In Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 8675 Pages 321 - 328 Altmetric
  2014	Progressive mode-seeking on graphs for sparse feature matching Published In Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 8690 Pages 788 - 802 Altmetric
  2014	Smoke detection in video: an image separation approach Published In International Journal of Computer Vision Volume 106 Pages 192 - 209 ISSN 0920-5691 Altmetric
  2013	An adaptive approach to learning optimal neighborhood kernels Published In IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics Volume 43 Pages 371 - 384 ISSN 2168-2267 Altmetric
  2013	An efficient approach to integrating radius information into multiple kernel learning Published In IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics Volume 43 Pages 557 - 569 ISSN 2168-2267 Altmetric
  2013	Learning with multi-resolution overlapping communities Published In Knowledge and Information Systems Volume 36 Pages 517 - 535 ISSN 0219-1377 Altmetric
  2013	On similarity preserving feature selection Published In IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering Volume 25 Pages 619 - 632 ISSN 1041-4347 Altmetric
  2013	Sensors for robotics Published In Journal of Sensors Volume 2013 Pages 293656-01 - 293656-02 ISSN 1687-7268 Altmetric
  2012	Incorporation of radius-info can be simple with SimpleMKL Published In Neurocomputing Volume 89 Pages 30 - 38 ISSN 0925-2312 Altmetric
  2012	Positive semidefinite metric learning using boosting-like algorithms Published In Journal of Machine Learning Research Volume 13 Pages 1007 - 1036 ISSN 1533-7928
  2010	Feature selection with redundancy-constrained class separability Published In IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems Volume 21 Pages 853 - 858 ISSN 2162-237X Altmetric
  2010	Hippocampal shape classification using redundancy constrained feature selection Published In Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 6362 Pages 266 - 273 Altmetric
  2010	Scalable large-margin mahalanobis distance metric learning Published In IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems Volume 21 Pages 1524 - 1530 ISSN 2162-237X Altmetric
  2009	Identifying anatomical shape difference by regularized discriminative direction Published In IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging Volume 28 Pages 937 - 950 ISSN 0278-0062 Altmetric
  2008	Feature selection with kernel class separability Published In IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence Volume 30 Pages 1534 - 1546 ISSN 0162-8828 Altmetric
  2008	A kernel-induced space selection approach to model selection of KLDA Published In IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems Volume 19 Pages 2116 - 2131 ISSN 2162-237X
  2008	AdaBoost with SVM-based component classifiers Published In Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence Volume 21 Pages 785 - 795 ISSN 0952-1976 Altmetric
  2008	Two criteria for model selection of multiclass support vector machines Published In IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics Volume 38 Pages 1432 - 1448 ISSN 2168-2267 Altmetric
  2007	Discovering prediction model for environmental distribution maps Published In Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 4819 Pages 99 - 109
  2007	Feature subset selection for multi-class SVM based image classification Published In Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 4844 Pages 145 - 154
  2007	Where’s the weetbix? Published In Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 4843 Pages 800 - 810

• Chapter

  Year	Title
  2017	Big data in genomics Published In Big Data Management and Processing Publisher Taylor & Francis Group: CRC Press Pages 363 - 384 ISBN 9781498768078
  2015	Advanced image retrieval technology in future mobile teaching and learning Published In Handbook of Mobile Teaching and Learning Publisher Heidelberg, Germany: Springer Pages 835 - 846 ISBN 9783642541452 Altmetric
  2014	Application of SVMs to the bag-of-features model – A kernel perspective Published In Support Vector Machines Applications Publisher Germany: Springer Pages 155 - 189 ISBN 9783319022994
  2014	Exploring compact representation of SICE matrices for functional brain network classification Published In Machine Learning in Medical Imaging 5th International Workshop, MLMI 2014, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2014, Boston, MA, USA, September 14, 2014. Proceedings Publisher Switzerland: Springer International Publishing Pages 59 - 67 ISBN 9783319105802 Altmetric
  2014	Support Vector Machines for neuroimage analysis: Interpretation from discrimination Published In Support Vector Machines Applications Publisher Germany: Springer Pages 191 - 220 ISBN 9783319022994 Altmetric

• Conference Paper

  Year	Title
  2018	3D cGAN based cross-modality MR image synthesis for brain tumor segmentation Published In IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI 2018) Pages 626 - 630 Altmetric
  2018	Instance image retrieval by aggregating sample-based discriminative characteristics Published In ICMR 2018 - Proceedings of the 2018 ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval Pages 91 - 99 Altmetric
  2018	Multi-modality feature selection with adaptive similarity learning for classification of Alzheimer's disease Published In IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging Pages 1542 - 1545 Altmetric
  2018	Towards Biological Sequence Data Service with Insights Published In IEEE Conference on Big Data Pages 2846 - 2853
  2018	Tumor segmentation via multi-modality joint dictionary learning Published In 2018 IEEE 15th International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI 2018) Pages 1336 - 1339 Altmetric
  2017	A Comparison Study for Supervised Machine Learning Models in Cancer Classification Published In 16th International Conference on Bioinformatics (InCoB 2017) Pages 1 - 2
  2017	Collaborative Data Analytics towards Prediction on Pathogen-Host Protein-Protein Interactions Published In International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design Pages 269 - 274
  2017	Infomax principle based pooling of deep convolutional activations for image retrieval Published In IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) Pages 457 - 462 Altmetric
  2017	Leveraging Stacked Denoising Autoencoder in Prediction of Pathogen-Host Protein-Protein Interactions Published In IEEE 6th International Congress on Big Data Pages 368 - 375 Altmetric
  2017	Multiple kernel k-means with incomplete kermels Published In 31st AAAI Conference (AAAI 2017) Pages 1 - 7
  2017	Revisiting metric learning for SPD matrix based visual representation Published In 30th IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2017 Pages 7111 - 7119 Altmetric
  2017	Towards Elucidating the Structural Principles of Host-Pathogen Protein-Protein Interaction Networks: A bioinformatics survey Published In IEEE 6th International Congress on Big Data Pages 177 - 184 Altmetric
  2016	Image Descriptors from ConvNets: Comparing Global Pooling Methods for Image Retrieval Published In 2016 International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications, DICTA 2016 Pages 1 - 8 Altmetric
  2016	Multiple kernel clustering with local kernel alignment maximization Published In 2016 Twenty-Fifth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-16) Pages 1704 - 1710
  2016	Multiple kernel k-means clustering with matrix-induced regularization Published In 30th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2016 Pages 1888 - 1894
  2016	Semi-Supervised Weight Learning for the Spatial Search Method in ConvNet-Based Image Retrieval Published In 2016 International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications, DICTA 2016 Pages 1 - 8 Altmetric
  2016	Towards data analytics of pathogen-host protein-protein interaction: a survey Published In 2016 IEEE International Congress on Big Data (BigData Congress) Pages 377 - 388 Altmetric
  2015	Absent multiple kernel learning Published In Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence Pages 2807 - 2813
  2015	Beyond covariance: feature representation with nonlinear kernel matrices Published In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision Pages 4570 - 4578 Altmetric
  2015	Single image smoke detection Published In Lecture Notes in Computer Science: Computer Vision - ACCV 2014: 12th Asian Conference on Computer Vision Singapore Pages 87 - 101 Altmetric
  2014	A method of discriminative information preservation and in-dimension distance minimization method for feature selection Published In 22nd International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2014) Pages 1615 - 1620 Altmetric
  2014	Discriminative sparse inverse covariance matrix: Application in brain functional network classification Published In 2014 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Pages 3097 - 3104 Altmetric
  2014	Encoding high dimensional local features by sparse coding based fisher vectors Published In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems Pages 1143 - 1151
  2014	Experimental study of unsupervised feature learning for HEp-2 cell images clustering Published In Digital lmage Computing: Techniques and Applications (DlCTA), 2014 International Conference on Pages 1 - 8 Altmetric
  2014	Max-margin based learning for discriminative Bayesian network from neuroimaging data Published In The 17th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and ComputerAssisted Intervention (MICCAI 2014) Pages 321 - 328
  2014	Sample-adaptive multiple kernel learning Published In Twenty-Eighth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-14) Pages 1975 - 1981
  2013	A fast approximate AIB algorithm for distributional word clustering Published In IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Pages 556 - 563 Altmetric
  2013	A scalable unsupervised feature merging approach to efficient dimensionality reduction of high-dimensional visual data Published In IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision Pages 3008 - 3015 Altmetric
  2013	Accelerating the divisive information-theoretic clustering of visual words Published In 2013 International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications Pages 1 - 8 Altmetric
  2013	Discriminative brain effective connectivity analysis for Alzheimer's disease: A kernel learning approach upon sparse gaussian bayesian network Published In IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Pages 2243 - 2250 Altmetric
  2013	Improving graph matching via density maximization Published In IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision Pages 3424 - 3431 Altmetric
  2012	A novel video-based smoke detection method using image separation Published In ICME 2012: IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo Pages 532 - 537 Altmetric
  2012	What has my classifier learned? Visualizing the classification rules of bag-of-feature model by support region detection Published In CVPR 2012: IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Pages 3586 - 3593 Altmetric
  2011	A generalized probabilistic framework for compact codebook creation Published In IEEE CVPR 2011: IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Pages 1537 - 1544 Altmetric
  2011	A scalable dual approach to semidefinite metric learning Published In IEEE CVPR 2011: IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Pages 2601 - 2608 Altmetric
  2011	Exploring latent class information for image retrieval using the bag-of-feature model Published In MM '11 Proceedings of the 19th ACM international conference on Multimedia Pages 1405 - 1408 Altmetric
  2011	In defense of soft-assignment coding Published In 2011 IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision Pages 2486 - 2493 Altmetric
  2011	On the optimality of sequential forward feature selection using class separability measure Published In Proceedings of 2011 International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (DICTA) Pages 203 - 208 Altmetric
  2011	The effect of the characteristics of the dataset on the selection stability Published In Proceedings of 2011 23rd IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI) Pages 970 - 977 Altmetric
  2010	Efficient structured support vector regression Published In 10th Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV) Pages 1 - 13 Altmetric
  2010	A multi-resolution approach to learning with overlapping communities Published In International Workshop on Social Media Analytics, in conjunction with the 16th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Pages 1 - 9 Altmetric
  2010	A scalable algorithm for learning a Mahalanobis distance metric Published In Computer Science, Springer, the 9th Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV) Pages 1 - 12 Altmetric
  2010	Compressive evaluation in human motion tracking Published In 10th Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV) Pages 1 - 12 Altmetric
  2010	Efficient learning to label images Published In Proceedings of Twentieth International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICIP) Pages 942 - 945 Altmetric
  2010	Efficient spectral feature selection with minimum redundancy Published In Proceedings of Twenty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Pages 1 - 6
  2010	Fast multi-labelling for stereo matching Published In 11th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) Pages 524 - 537 Altmetric
  2010	Gradual sampling and mutual information maximisation for markerless motion capture Published In 10th Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV) Pages 554 - 565 Altmetric
  2010	Guided informative image partitioning Published In Proceedings of Thirteenth International Workshop on Structural and Syntactic Pattern Recognition (S+SSPR) Pages 202 - 212 Altmetric
  2010	Inter-domain routing validator based spoofing defence system Published In IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics Pages 153 - 155 Altmetric
  2010	Stereo disparity calculation in real-world scenes with informative image partitioning Published In Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Image and Vision Computing New Zealand (IVCNZ) Pages 1 - 8 Altmetric
  2009	Handling significant scale difference for object retrieval in a supermarket Published In Proceedings of International Conference on Digital Image Computing - Techniques and Applications (DICTA) Pages 468 - 475 Altmetric
  2009	Pavement scene interpretation and obstacle detection by large margin image labeling Published In International Workshop on Vision and Control for Access Space (VCAS), in conjunction with the 9th Asian Conference on Computer Vision Pages 1 - 10
  2009	Positive semidefinite metric learning with Boosting Published In Proceedings of Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) Pages 1 - 9
  2009	User-driven lossy compression for images and video Published In Proceedings of International Conference on Image and Vision Computing New Zealand (IVCNZ) Pages 346 - 351 Altmetric
  2008	A fast algorithm for creating a compact and discriminative visual codebook Published In 10th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)
  2008	Learning cascaded reduced-set SVMs using linear programming Published In Proceedings of International Conference on Digital Image Computing - Techniques and Applications (DICTA) Pages 619 - 626 Altmetric
  2008	Multi-view human motion capture with an improved deformation skin model Published In Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (DICTA), 2008 Pages 420 - 427 Altmetric
  2008	PSDBoost: Matrix-generation linear programming for positive semidefinite matrices learning Published In Proceedings of Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) Pages 1 - 8
  2008	Regularized discriminative direction for shape difference analysis Published In 11th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) Pages 628 - 635 Altmetric
  2007	Toward a discriminative codebook: codeword selection across multiresolution Published In 2nd Beyond Patches Workshop, in conjunction with International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Pages 1 - 8 Altmetric

Presentations

• Invited Talk

  • Learning and Designing SPD-matrix-based Representation for Visual Recognition, Speaker, Multimedia Signal Processing Workshop in University of Technology Sydney 2017
  • CBIR in the Era of Deep Learning — A Perspective from Feature Representation, Speaker, China Nanjing Deep Learning Meet-up 2016
  • Exploring Novel SPD-based Feature Representation for Visual Recognition, Speaker, AustralianWorkshop on Video/Image Coding, Processing and Understanding 2016
  • On Learning Covariance based Feature Representation for Visual Recognition, Speaker, China Jiangsu Artificial Intelligence Conference 2016
  • Supervised and Unsupervised Feature Merging for High-dimensional Visual Data, Speaker, Canon Information Systems Research Australia 2014
  • Unsupervised Feature Merging for Dimension Reduction of High-dimensional Visual Data, Speaker, Charles Sturt University, Bathurst 2014
  • Recent Development of the Bag-of-Words Model in Visual Recognition, Speaker, IEEE SPS Season School on Social Media Processing 2012
  • Recent Development of the Bag-of-Words Model in Visual Recognition, Speaker, The 12th Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia 2011

Investigator On

Year	Title
2010	Generic content-based news picture retrieval with local invariant features Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects

Other Research Activities

• Advantage SME Collaboration Voucher funded by NSW Department of Industry, Smarter building sensor, control and data analysis systems, AUD59,880 Chief Investigator 2018 - 2019
• Community Engagement Grant, University of Wollongong (AUD8,000) Retrieving lost community stories: linking regional archival photo collections using advanced visual technologies Lead Chief Investigator 2017 - 2018
• National Computational Merit Allocation Scheme, Exploring National Treasure: Retrieval of Large Collection of Archival Photos Lead Chief Investigator 2016 - 2018
• Commercial Research Grant with Olapic (an IT Company in New York), Clothing Image Retrieval Research, AUD182,000 Sole Chief Investigator 2014 - 2015
• UOW University Research Committee Near Miss (ARC Discovery Project) Grant, AUD10,000 Lead Chief Investigator 2013 - 2014
• UOW University Research Committee Near Miss (ARC Discovery Project) Grant, AUD12,000 Lead Chief Investigator 2012 - 2013
• UOWUniversity Research Committee Small Grant When Vision Meets Fashion: Addressing The Problem of Fine-grained Image Retrieval, AUD13,000 Lead Chief Investigator 2012 - 2013
• University of Wollongong (UOW) Research Infrastructure Block Grant 3D Multimedia Research Infrastructure, AUD70,000 Coordinator and primary user 2011 - 2012
• UOW Faculty of Informatics Research Develop Scheme Grant, AUD3,500 Sole Chief Investigator 2011
• ARC Discovery Project (DP0773761), Computer Vision Optimization Problem Using Machine Learning, AUD255,000, APD fellowship 2007 - 2009

Impact Story

Potential Supervision Topics

• Content-based Image Retrieval
  Deep Learning for Visual Recognition
  Unsupervised Feature Learning
  
  

Teaching Activities

• CSCI446 Big Data Analytics Instructor 2018
• CSCI464 Computational Intelligence Instructor 2018

Advisees

• Graduate Advising Relationship

  Degree	Research Title	Advisee
  Doctor of Philosophy	A Computational Framework for Pathogen-Host Protein-Protein Interactions	Chen, Huaming
  Doctor of Philosophy	Sample Adaptive based Instance Reteivad with Transfer Learning	Zhang, Zhongyan
  Doctor of Philosophy	Deep Learning based medical image segmentation and synthesis	Yu, Biting
  Master of Philosophy	Text-based Guidance for Improved Image Retrieval	Comor, Ian
  Doctor of Philosophy	Transfer Deep Learning with Applications to Smart Infrastructure and Visual Data Analysis	Ding, Yu
  Doctor of Philosophy	A Machine Learning Based Approach for SoftwareTesting.	Wu, Sarah
  Doctor of Philosophy	Fine-grained Image Recognition using Deep Learning	Rahman, Saimunur
  Master of Research - EIS	The Application of Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning in Aged Care to Predict Falls and Pressure Injuries	Yin, Cedar
  Master of Philosophy - EIS	Content-Based Image Retrieval with Symbolic Data Analysis and Explainable Artificial Intelligence	Chakraborty, Bela
  Doctor of Philosophy	Analyzing And Recognition of Video Information Through Machine Learning	Sangrasi, Din
  Doctor of Philosophy	Intelligent programming strategies for metal additive manufacturing	Yuxing, Li
  Master of Philosophy - EIS	Research in Object Detection with Deep Network	Zhou, Zhexuan
  Doctor of Philosophy (Integrated)	Integration Text-based Image Retrieval & Content-Based Image Retrieval to An Advanced Image Retrieval System.	Zhao, Yan

Outreach Overview

• I have been actively engaged with communities and industries. My research work is about image search, which has a wide range of practical applications. I have met with university library, Kiama council, state & national archives, Carsales, and real estate agencies to introduce my work. In particular, to contribute to the development of local business, I joined UOW Entrepreneur Club (eClub) and regularly attended networking events, workshops and presentations. Through these activities, I established connections with local entrepreneurs and industry specialists. In July 2013, I participated in UOW Pitch Competition to present my idea on online shopping and obtained the finalist certificate. In addition to maintaining regular contact with local business, I developed collaborations with IT companies in China and US to commercialize my research work. Through these activities, I have been deeply impressed by the enthusiasm of industries on innovations and novel techniques. Also, I concretely realize the vital role of academic research in this regard. 
  
  

  In particular, I extended my research work to discover, protect and disseminate the culture of local community. Supported by a 2016 UOW community engagement grant titled “Retrieving Lost Community Stories: Linking Regional Archival Photo Collections using Advanced Visual Technologies,” I worked with UOW library, Illawarra Museum and Wollongong City Libraries to link their archival photo collections to share information. Also, my work enables community members to unprecedentedly query these collections with photos from their old family albums to discover lost stories. In doing so, my research work well supports the way that community connects with local history, by innovating community’s access to digital archival photo material. A demonstration website is being built to show the local community all the functions.

Organizer Of Event

• Lead General Co-Chair of the 2014 International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (DICTA) 2014
• Area Chair of the Pacific-Rim Symposium on Image and Video Technology (PSIVT) 2010 - 2013

Professional Service Activities

• The 27th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) and the 23rd European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Sweden 2018 Senior Program Committee member 2018

Full Name

• Lei Wang

Mailing Address

• Building 3 Room 219

  School of SCIT, University of Wollongong

  Wollongong

  NSW

  2522

  Australia

Geographic Location

• University of Wollongong 

Located In Facility

• Building 3 Room 219 

Orcid Id

• http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0961-0441 (confirmed)

Web Of Science Researcher Id

• D-9079-2013