Gang Wei

Multiple-Sensor Indoor Surveillance System (2009)

Valery A. Petrushin, Omer Shakil, Damian Roqueiro, Gang Wei, Anatole V. Gershman

This paper describes a surveillance system that uses a network of sensors of different kind for localizing and tracking people in an office environment. The sensor network consists of video cameras,...

Detection of single nucleotide variations in expressed exons of the human genome using RNA-Seq (2009)

Chepelev, Iouri, Wei, Gang, Tang, Qingsong, Zhao, Keji

Whole-genome resequencing is still a costly method to detect genetic mutations that lead to altered forms of proteins and may be associated with disease development. Since the majority of...

Semantic Web Techniques for Searching and Navigating Video Shots in BBC Rushes (2008)

Bradley P. Allen, Valery A. Petrushin, Damian Roqueiro, Gang Wei

In this paper we describe our approaches to creating content-based search and navigation systems that help a TV program or movie maker reuse rushes. We developed two prototypes: the first one uses...

Scheduling Algorithm for Real-Time VBR Video Streams Using Weighted Switch Deficit Round Robin (2008)

Round Robin, Min Chen, Gang Wei

The paper presents a modified version of the deficit round-robin (DRR) scheduling algorithm due to [1]. The proposed scheduling scheme called Weighted Switch Deficit Round Robin (WSDRR) categorises...

A Learning Environment For Creating Media Processing Systems (2008)

Gang Wei, Valery A. Petrushin, Anatole V. Gershman

The Community of Multimedia Agents project (COMMA) is devoted to creating an open Web-based environment for developing, testing, learning and prototyping multimedia content analysis and annotation...

Role of Domain Knowledge and Sensor Quality in Robust Localization of Moving Objects (2008)

Anatole V. Gershman, Damian Roqueiro, Valery A. Petrushin, Gang Wei, Rayid Ghani

Abstract. Robust identification and localization of moving objects depends on the quality of sensors, sensor coverage and the fusion of the information obtained from the sensors. Sensor fusion...

Using Bayesian Reasoning from Sensor Network for Indoor Surveillance (2008)

Valery A. Petrushin, Gang Wei, Rayid Ghani, Anatole V. Gershman

Abstract. In this paper we define a Bayesian framework that uses noisy, but redundant data from a network of sensors that include multiple sensor streams of different types. It merges the data with...

A Learning Environment For Creating Media Processing Systems (2008)

Gang Wei, Valery A. Petrushin, Anatole V. Gershman

The Community of Multimedia Agents project (COMMA) is devoted to creating an open Web-based environment for developing, testing, learning and prototyping multimedia content analysis and annotation...

Type I collagen-templated assembly of silver nanoparticles and their application in surface-enhanced Raman scattering (2008)

Wei, Gang, Wang, L, Sun, Lanlan, Guo, Cunlan, ...

Silver nanoparticles (Ag NPs) are one of the active substrates that are employed extensively in surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS), and aggregations of Ag NPs play an important role in...

Efficiency of Feasible Weighted Least Squares Estimators of the Center and Radius of A Spherical Surface (2007)

Song-Gui Wang, Gang Wei

: A linear model based on the spherical coordinate system is employed for fitting a spherical surface to a data set obtained by a coordinate measuring machine (CMM). In practice, measurement data may...

Storage Capacity of Letter Recognition in Hopfield Networks (2007)

Gang Wei, Zheyuan Yu

Abstract: In this paper, the Hopfield neural networks model is discussed and implemented for letter recognition. Hebbian and pseudo-inverse learning rules are applied. Comparisons are made between...

Large-scale, uniform DNA network on 11-mercaptoundecanoic acid modified gold (111) surface: Atomic force microscopy study (2007)

Wang, Li, Sun, Lanlan, Wei, Gang, Liu, Zhiguo, Wang, Li, ...

Large-scale, uniform plasmid deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) network has been successfully constructed on 11-mercaptoundecanoic acid modified gold (111) surface using a self-assembly technique. The...

Self-assembled gold nanoparticle chains in presence of silver ions (2007)

Wei, Gang, Wang, Li, Guo, Cunlan, Sun, Yujing, ...

A simple method has been developed to assemble gold nanoparticles to generate 1D assemblies by the assistance of silver ions. The lengths of nanoparticle chains can be controlled by adjusting the...

Effects of bridge ions, DNA species, and developing temperature on flat-lying DNA monolayers (2007)

Guo, Cunlan, Sun, Lanlan, Wei, Gang, Peng, Chongyang, Wang, Li, ...

Recently, we have successfully constructed flat-lying DNA monolayers on a mica surface (J. Phys. Chem. B 2006, 110, 10792-10798). In this work, the effects of various factors including bridge ions,...

Interaction between tetramethylcucurbit[6]uril and some pyridine derivates (2007)

Cong, Hang, Tao, Long-Ling, Yu, Yi-Hua, Tao, Zhu, Yang, Fan, Zhao, Yun-Jie, ...

Interaction between tetramethylcucurbit[6]uril (TMeQ[6], host) with hydrochloride salts of 2-phenylpridine (G1), 2-benzylpyridine (G2), and 4-benzylpyridine (G3) (guests) have been investigated by...

Model Compensation Approach Based on Nonuniform Spectral Compression Features for Noisy Speech Recognition (2007)

Geng-Xin Ning, Gang Wei, Kam-Keung Chu

This paper presents a novel model compensation (MC) method for the features of mel-frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCCs) with signal-to-noise-ratio- (SNR-) dependent nonuniform spectral compression...

Interaction between tetramethylcucurbit[6]uril and some pyridine derivates (2007)

Cong, Hang, Tao, Long-Ling, Yu, Yi-Hua, Tao, Zhu, Yang, Fan, Zhao, Yun-Jie, ...

Interaction between tetramethylcucurbit[6]uril (TMeQ[6], host) with hydrochloride salts of 2-phenylpridine (G1), 2-benzylpyridine (G2), and 4-benzylpyridine (G3) (guests) have been investigated by...

Model Compensation Approach Based on Nonuniform Spectral Compression Features for Noisy Speech Recognition (2007)

Geng-Xin Ning, Gang Wei, Kam-Keung Chu

This paper presents a novel model compensation (MC) method for the features of mel-frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCCs) with signal-to-noise-ratio- (SNR-) dependent nonuniform spectral compression...

Genome-wide prediction of conserved and nonconserved enhancers by histone acetylation patterns (2007)

Roh, Tae-young, Wei, Gang, Farrell, Catherine M., Zhao, Keji

Comparative genomic studies have been useful in identifying transcriptional regulatory elements in higher eukaryotic genomes, but many important regulatory elements cannot be detected by such...

Macrocyclic ligand design: The interaction of selected transition and post-transition metal ions with a 14-membered N2S2-donor macrocycle (2006)

Chartres, Jy D., Davies, Murray S., Lindoy, Leonard F., Meehan, George V., Wei, Gang

Interaction of 1,7-dithia-4,11-diazacyclotetradecane (1) with nickel(II), copper(II) and silver(I) yields the complexes [NiL(H2O)(CH3CN)](ClO4)2, [CuL](ClO4)2 and [AgL]n(ClO4)n (L = 1). The log K...

Genome-wide prediction of conserved and nonconserved enhancers by histone acetylation patterns (2006)

Roh, Tae-young, Wei, Gang, Farrell, Catherine M., Zhao, Keji

Comparative genomic studies have been useful in identifying transcriptional regulatory elements in higher eukaryotic genomes, but many important regulatory elements cannot be detected by such...

Rational ligand design for metal ion recognition. Synthesis of a N-benzylated N2S3-donor macrocycle for enhanced silver(I) discrimination (2006)

Vasilescu, Ioana M., Bray, David J., Clegg, Jack K., Lindoy, Leonard F., Meehan, George V., Wei, Gang

Four previously documented ligand design strategies for achieving Ag(I) discrimination have been applied to the design of a new N-benzylated N2S3-donor macrocycle; the latter shows high selectivity...

Metal-ion recognition. Modeling the stability constants of some mixed-donor macrocyclic metal ion complexes—a simple model (2003)

Adam, Kenneth R., Baldwin, Darren S., Lindoy, Leonard F., Meehan, George V., Vasilescu, Ioana M., Wei, Gang

A procedure for modeling the stability constants of the Zn(II), Cd(II), Ag(I) and Pb(II) complexes of an extended series of 17-membered, mixed-donor macrocycles incorporating nitrogen, oxygen and/or...

Isolation and analyses of genes preferentially expressed during early cotton fiber development by subtractive PCR and cDNA array (2003)

Ji, Sheng-Jian, Lu, Ying-Chun, Feng, Jian-Xun, Wei, Gang, Li, Jun, Shi, Yong-Hui, ...

Cotton fibers are differentiated epidermal cells originating from the outer integuments of the ovule. To identify genes involved in cotton fiber elongation, we performed subtractive PCR using cDNA...

Synthesis and complexation of a chiral sexidentate pendant-arm macropolycyclic polyamino acid (2002)

Wei, Gang, Hambley, Trevor W., Lawrance, Geoffrey A., Maeder, Marcel

The reaction of the acyclic complex ion (methyl (SS,SS)-3-[(2´-aminocyclohexyl)amino]-2-[(2´-aminocyclohexyl)-aminomethyl]propionate)copper(II) with formaldehyde and nitroethane in basic solution...

The Community of Multimedia Agents Project (2002)

Gang Wei, Valery A. Petrushin, Anatole V. Gershman

Challenges in multimedia analysis are calling for the sharing of research efforts, while in practice collaboration is hindered by technical and proprietary issues. The Community of Multimedia Agents...

Metal ion recognition. The interaction of cobalt(II), nickel(II), copper(II), zinc(II), cadmium(II), silver(I) and lead(II) with N-benzylated macrocycles incorporating O2N2-, O3N2- and O2N3-donor sets (2002)

Kim, Jeong, Ahn, Tae-Ho, Lee, Myungro, Leong, Anthony J., Lindoy, Leonard F., Rumbel, Brendan R., ...

The interaction of cobalt(II), nickel(II), copper(II), zinc(II), cadmium(II), silver(I) and lead(II) with a series of mixed-donor, N-benzylated macrocyclic ligands incorporating O2N2-, O3N2- and...

Self-assembly directed by NH⋅⋅⋅O hydrogen bonding: New layered molecular arrays derived from 4-tert- butylbenzoic acid and aliphatic diamines (2002)

Armstrong, Robert S., Atkinson, Ian M., Carter, Elizabeth, Mahinay, Myrna S., Skelton, Brian W., Turner, Peter, ...

1H and 13C NMR titrations in both CDCl3 and CD3OD demonstrate that 4-tert-butylbenzoic acid interacts with both propane-1,2-diamine and propane-1,3-diamine to yield 1:2 host–guest complexes in...

Synthesis and complexation of a chiral sexidentate pendant-arm macropolycyclic polyamino acid (2002)

Wei, Gang, Hambley, Trevor W., Lawrance, Geoffrey A., Maeder, Marcel

The reaction of the acyclic complex ion (methyl (SS,SS)-3-[(2´-aminocyclohexyl)amino]-2-[(2´-aminocyclohexyl)-aminomethyl]propionate)copper(II) with formaldehyde and nitroethane in basic solution...

Omni-face tracking for video annotation/classification (2001)

Wei, Gang

This dissertation presents our research related to video annotation based on omni-face detection and tracking. The purpose is to solve the problem of efficient indexing and retrieval of video and...

Increasing inhibitory input increases neuronal firing rate: why and when (2001)

Jianfeng Feng, Gang Wei

Increasing inhibitory input to single neuronal models, such as the FitzHughNagumo model and the Hodgkin-Huxley model, can sometimes increase their firing rates, a phenomenon which we termed as...

Video classification based on HMM using text and faces (2000)

Nevenka Dimitrova, Lalitha Agnihotri, Gang Wei

Video content classification and retrieval is a necessary tool in the current merging of entertainment and information media. With the advent of broadband networking, every consumer will have video...

Omni-face detection for video/image content description (2000)

Gang Wei

An omni-face detection scheme for image/video content description is proposed in this paper. It provides the ability to extract high-level features in terms of human activities rather than low-level...

Electronic Structure of Dinuclear Gold(I) Complexes (1999)

Janet B. Foley, Stanley E. Gay, Christopher Turmel, Gang Wei, Tong Jiang, Ratnavathany Narayanaswamy, ...

Cyclic voltammetry (CV) experiments on LL(AuSR∗)2 complexes [LL = diphenylphosphinomethane (dppm), diphenylphosphinopentane (dpppn); R* = p-SC6H4CH3] show anodic sweeps that broaden by about 25 mV...

Isolation of cDNAs that cover the entire coding region of a novel human protein D40 (1999)

Takimoto, Masato, Wei, Gang, Mao, Pei-zhong, Koya, Richard Chikara, Miura, Tetsuya, Kuzumaki, Noboru

Previously, we have reported a novel protein, D40, that specifically binds to a nuclear factor GCF by two-hybrid system. Northern analysis on tumor cell lines revealed that mRNA of D40 is about 5 kb....

Chromosomal assignment of a novel human gene D40 (1999)

Wei, Gang, Takimoto, Masato, Yoshida, Ikuya, Mao, Pei-zhong, Koya, Richard Chikara, Miura, Tetsuya, ...

We have previously reported an identification of a novel human cellular factor, D40. Here, we report the chromosomal localization of the gene that encodes D40. Fluorescent in situ hybridization...

Web-wise: Compressed image retrieval over the web (1998)

Gang Wei, Dongge Li, I. K. Sethi

Web-WISE is a system designed to address the need for efficient content-based seeking and retrieval of images on the web. It supports searching by multi-features, including color and texture....

Synthesis and complexation of acyclic and macrocyclic chiral polydentate ligands (1996)

Wei, Gang.

"Department of Chemistry." Includes bibliographical references.

Redox Chemistry of Gold(I) Phosphine Thiolates: Sulfur-Based Oxidation (1994)

Tong Jiang, Gang Wei, Cristopher Turmel, Alice E. Bruce

The redox chemistry of mononuclear and dinuclear gold(I) phosphine arylthiolate complexes was recently investigated by using electrochemical, chemical, and photochemical techniques. We now report the...

Self-assembly directed by NH⋅⋅⋅O hydrogen bonding: New layered molecular arrays derived from 4-tert- butylbenzoic acid and aliphatic diamines

Armstrong, Robert S., Atkinson, Ian M., Carter, Elizabeth, Mahinay, Myrna S., Skelton, Brian W., Turner, Peter, ...

1H and 13C NMR titrations in both CDCl3 and CD3OD demonstrate that 4-tert-butylbenzoic acid interacts with both propane-1,2-diamine and propane-1,3-diamine to yield 1:2 host–guest complexes in...

Isolation and analyses of genes preferentially expressed during early cotton fiber development by subtractive PCR and cDNA array

Ji, Sheng-Jian, Lu, Ying-Chun, Feng, Jian-Xun, Wei, Gang, Li, Jun, Shi, Yong-Hui, ...

Cotton fibers are differentiated epidermal cells originating from the outer integuments of the ovule. To identify genes involved in cotton fiber elongation, we performed subtractive PCR using cDNA...

Self-assembly directed by NH⋅⋅⋅O hydrogen bonding: New layered molecular arrays derived from 4-tert- butylbenzoic acid and aliphatic diamines

Armstrong, Robert S., Atkinson, Ian M., Carter, Elizabeth, Mahinay, Myrna S., Skelton, Brian W., Turner, Peter, ...

1H and 13C NMR titrations in both CDCl3 and CD3OD demonstrate that 4-tert-butylbenzoic acid interacts with both propane-1,2-diamine and propane-1,3-diamine to yield 1:2 host–guest complexes in...

Isolation and analyses of genes preferentially expressed during early cotton fiber development by subtractive PCR and cDNA array

Ji, Sheng-Jian, Lu, Ying-Chun, Feng, Jian-Xun, Wei, Gang, Li, Jun, Shi, Yong-Hui, ...

Cotton fibers are differentiated epidermal cells originating from the outer integuments of the ovule. To identify genes involved in cotton fiber elongation, we performed subtractive PCR using cDNA...

Tumour suppressor p53 down-regulates the expression of the human hepatocyte nuclear factor 4α (HNF4α) gene

Maeda, Yutaka, Hwang-Verslues, Wendy W., Wei, Gang, Fukazawa, Takuya, Durbin, Mary L., Owen, Laurie B., ...

The liver is exposed to a wide variety of toxic agents, many of which damage DNA and result in increased levels of the tumour suppressor protein p53. We have previously shown that p53 inhibits the...

Genome-wide prediction of conserved and nonconserved enhancers by histone acetylation patterns

Roh, Tae-young, Wei, Gang, Farrell, Catherine M., Zhao, Keji

Comparative genomic studies have been useful in identifying transcriptional regulatory elements in higher eukaryotic genomes, but many important regulatory elements cannot be detected by such...

Redox Chemistry of Gold(I) Phosphine Thiolates: Sulfur-Based Oxidation

Jiang, Tong, Wei, Gang, Turmel, Cristopher, Bruce, Alice E., Bruce, Mitchell R. M.

The redox chemistry of mononuclear and dinuclear gold(I) phosphine arylthiolate complexes was recently investigated by using electrochemical, chemical, and photochemical techniques. We now report the...

Electronic Structure of Dinuclear Gold(I) Complexes

Foley, Janet B., Gay, Stanley E., Turmel, Christopher, Wei, Gang, Jiang, Tong, Narayanaswamy, Ratnavathany, ...

Cyclic voltammetry (CV) experiments on LL(AuSR∗)2 complexes [LL = diphenylphosphinomethane (dppm), diphenylphosphinopentane (dpppn); R* = p-SC6H4CH3] show anodic sweeps that broaden by about 25 mV...

XPS STUDY OF INTERACTION OF TITANIUM SPECIES WITH DIFFERENT INTERNAL ELECTRON DONORS ON ZâN CATALYSTS

XI ZHAO, YING ZHANG, YANG SONG, GANG WEI

TiCl4/MgCl2, TiCl4/MgCl2/donor catalysts and TiCl4/donor complexes were prepared in this experiment; the donors are EB, DNBP, DBPG, DBW, PPDE, and BMMF respectively. Chemical states of Ti on the...

STUDY OF STRUCTURE OF PHOSPHATE FILM ON CARBON STEEL

XI ZHAO, GANG WEI, XU HUI ZHAO

A phosphate protective film was prepared on carbon steel. The structure of the film was analyzed with X-ray photoelectron spectra (XPS) and atomic is force microscope (AFM). AFM observed the full...

Multiple square tray distributions

Kotz, Samuel, Fang, Hong-Bin, Wei, Gang

Square tray distributions have been studied by Johson and Kotz (Statist. Probab. Lett. 42 (1999) 157). As an extension, multiple square tray distributions are considered in this paper. These...

Supermodular dependence ordering on a class of multivariate copulas

Wei, Gang, Hu, Taizhong

In most situations, the dependence monotonicities of copulas are checked by problem-specific approaches. Sometimes, it is impossible to check the monotonicities from the analytic forms of copulas....

A stratified sampling model in spherical feature inspection using coordinate measuring machines

Fang, Kai-Tai, Wang, Song-Gui, Wei, Gang

A coordinate measuring machine (CMM) is a computer-controlled device that uses a probe to obtain measurements on a manufactured part's surface. In the process of collecting, analyzing and...

Testing multivariate normality in incomplete data of small sample size

Tan, Ming, Fang, Hong-Bin, Tian, Guo-Liang, Wei, Gang

In longitudinal studies with small samples and incomplete data, multivariate normal-based models continue to be a powerful tool for analysis. This has included a broad scope of biomedical studies....

Abnormalities in Osteoclastogenesis and Decreased Tumorigenesis in Mice Deficient for Ovarian Cancer G Protein-Coupled Receptor 1

Li, Hui, Wang, Dongmei, Singh, Lisam Shanjukumar, Berk, Michael, Tan, Haiyan, Zhao, Zhenwen, ...

Ovarian cancer G protein-coupled receptor 1 (OGR1) has been shown to be a proton sensing receptor in vitro. We have shown that OGR1 functions as a tumor metastasis suppressor gene when it is...

Down-regulation of Gfi-1 expression by TGF-β is important for differentiation of Th17 and CD103+ inducible regulatory T cells

Zhu, Jinfang, Davidson, Todd S., Wei, Gang, Jankovic, Dragana, Cui, Kairong, Schones, Dustin E., ...

Growth factor independent 1 (Gfi-1), a transcriptional repressor, is transiently induced during T cell activation. Interleukin (IL) 4 further induces Gfi-1, resulting in optimal Th2 cell expansion....

A transcriptomic analysis of superhybrid rice LYP9 and its parents

Wei, Gang, Tao, Yong, Liu, Guozhen, Chen, Chen, Luo, Renyuan, Xia, Hongai, ...

By using a whole-genome oligonucleotide microarray, designed based on known and predicted indica rice genes, we investigated transcriptome profiles in developing leaves and panicles of superhybrid...