Yezhou Yang （杨 叶舟）
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Department of Computer Science
University of Maryland, College Park
email:yzyang at cs.umd.edu blog
Room 4470, A.V. Williams Building
I am a Ph.D. student at Department of Computer Science at University of Maryland, College Park . I am also affliated to the Computer Vision Lab at UMIACS. My advisors are Prof. Yiannis Aloimonos and Dr. Cornelia Fermuller
I am interested in Computer Vision, Robot Vision, especially exploring visual primitives in human action understanding from visual input, grounding them by natural language as well as high-level reasoning over the primitives for intelligent agents, aka. Robots.
"Detection of Manipulation Action Consequences (MAC)" was accepted in International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2013, Final version of the paper and the MAC1.0 dataset can be downloaded HERE
"Robots with Language: Multi-Label Visual Recognition Using NLP" was accepted as oral presentation in International Conference on Robotics and Automation ICRA 2013, Final version of the paper
"Using a Minimal Action Grammar for Activity Understanding in the Real World" was accepted in International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2012. Final version of the paperDataset and Videos
Invited talk and demo at Qualcomm Research New Jersey: Robots With Language: A Framework for Developing Cognitive Robots, July 30th, 2012; Presentation
"Towards a Watson That Sees: Language-Guided Action Recognition for Robots" was accepted as Interactive Presentation in International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2012. Final version of the paper
"Corpus-Guided Sentence Generation of Natural Images" was accepted as Oral in Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP. 2011, Final version of the paperTalk
Yezhou Yang, Ching L. Teo, Cornelia Fermüller, Yiannis Aloimonos. Robots with Language: Multi-Label Visual Recognition Using NLP.IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA. 2013.
Douglas Summers-stay, Ching L. Teo, Yezhou Yang, Cornelia Fermüller, Yiannis Aloimonos. Using a Minimal Action Grammar for Activity Understanding in the Real World. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS. 2012.
Ching L. Teo, Yezhou Yang, Hal Daumé III, Cornelia Fermüller, Yiannis Aloimonos. Towards a Watson That Sees: Language-Guided Action Recognition for Robots. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA. 2012.
Ching L. Teo, Yezhou Yang, Cornelia Fermüller, Yiannis Aloimonos. Synergistic Methods for using Language in Robotics. Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems Workshop, PerMIS. 2012.
Xiaodong Yu, Cornelia Fermüller, Ching L. Teo, Yezhou Yang, Yiannis Aloimonos. Active Scene Recognition with Vision and Language. International Conference on Computer Vision, ICCV. 2011.
Yezhou Yang, Ching L. Teo, Hal Daumé III and Yiannis Aloimonos. Corpus-Guided Sentence Generation of Natural Images. Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP. 2011.
Ching L. Teo, Yezhou Yang, Hal Daumé III, Cornelia Fermüller and Yiannis Aloimonos. A Corpus-Guided Framework for Robotic Visual Perception. AAAI Workshop on Language-Action Tools for Cognitive Artificial Agents. 2011.
Yezhou Yang, Mingli Song, J. Bu, C. Chen, C. Jin. Color to Gray: Attention Preservation. The 4th Pacific-Rim Symposium on Image and Video Technology, PSIVT. 2010.
Yezhou Yang, Mingli Song, N. Li, J. Bu, C. Chen; What is the Chance of Happening: a New Way to Predict Where People Look. The 11th European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV. 2010.
Yezhou Yang, Mingli Song, N. Li, J. Bu, C. Chen; Visual attention analysis by pseudo gravitational field. ACM International Conference on Multimedia, ACMMM. 2009.
Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship 2011 , The winning research was "Robots Need Language: A computational model for the integration of vision, language and action."
Dean's Fellowship, Computer Science Department, University of Maryland College Park, 2010 and 2011.
Excellent Bachelor Degree Thesis , Zhejiang University, China. Thesis: Natural Image Statistics and Low Level Feature based Visual Attention Analysis, September 2010.
Journal reviewer:
Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU),
The Visual Computer,
Information Sciences,
Neurocomputing,
Image and Vision Computing,
Yezhou Yang, Cornelia Fermüller, Yiannis Aloimonos. Detection of Manipulation Action Consequences (MAC). IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR . 2013.
Yezhou Yang, Ching L. Teo, Cornelia Fermüller, Yiannis Aloimonos. Robots with Language: Multi-Label Visual Recognition Using NLP.IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA. 2013.
Douglas Summers-stay, Ching L. Teo, Yezhou Yang, Cornelia Fermüller, Yiannis Aloimonos. Using a Minimal Action Grammar for Activity Understanding in the Real World. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS. 2012.
Ching L. Teo, Yezhou Yang, Hal Daumé III, Cornelia Fermüller, Yiannis Aloimonos. Towards a Watson That Sees: Language-Guided Action Recognition for Robots. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA. 2012.
Ching L. Teo, Yezhou Yang, Cornelia Fermüller, Yiannis Aloimonos. Synergistic Methods for using Language in Robotics. Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems Workshop, PerMIS. 2012.
Xiaodong Yu, Cornelia Fermüller, Ching L. Teo, Yezhou Yang, Yiannis Aloimonos. Active Scene Recognition with Vision and Language. International Conference on Computer Vision, ICCV. 2011.
Yezhou Yang, Ching L. Teo, Hal Daumé III and Yiannis Aloimonos. Corpus-Guided Sentence Generation of Natural Images. Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP. 2011.
Ching L. Teo, Yezhou Yang, Hal Daumé III, Cornelia Fermüller and Yiannis Aloimonos. A Corpus-Guided Framework for Robotic Visual Perception. AAAI Workshop on Language-Action Tools for Cognitive Artificial Agents. 2011.
Yezhou Yang, Mingli Song, J. Bu, C. Chen, C. Jin. Color to Gray: Attention Preservation. The 4th Pacific-Rim Symposium on Image and Video Technology, PSIVT. 2010.
Yezhou Yang, Mingli Song, N. Li, J. Bu, C. Chen; What is the Chance of Happening: a New Way to Predict Where People Look. The 11th European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV. 2010.
Yezhou Yang, Mingli Song, N. Li, J. Bu, C. Chen; Visual attention analysis by pseudo gravitational field. ACM International Conference on Multimedia, ACMMM. 2009.