Using Regional Dialects through Computer-Mediated Communication in China (2009)
This thesis explores how people in China write regional dialects for Computer-Mediated Communication. Two prestige dialects in China, Shanghainese and Cantonese, are the focus of the study. 30...
Wang, Hongyan, Chai, Yang, Chu, Xiucheng, Zhao, Yunyang, Wu, Ying, Zhao, Jihong, ...
Abstract Background Inter-specific hybridization occurs frequently in plants, which may induce genetic and epigenetic instabilities in the resultant hybrids, allopolyploids and introgressants. It...
In the framework of multiple-scattering theory, we show that the dispersion relations of certain electromagnetic (EM) and elastic metamaterials can be obtained analytically in the long-wavelength...
Hongli Li, Xiaozhi Zheng, Huiping Wang, Fan Li, Ying Wu, Lianfang Du
The present study was performed to investigate the efficacy and safety of Ultrasound-targeted microbubble destruction (UTMD) mediated rAAV2-EGFP to cultured human retinal pigment epithelium (RPE)...
Using Regional Dialects through Computer-Mediated Communication in China (2009)
This thesis explores how people in China write regional dialects for Computer-Mediated Communication. Two prestige dialects in China, Shanghainese and Cantonese, are the focus of the study. 30...
Qi, Qibin, Li, Huaixing, Loos, Ruth J.F., Liu, Chen, Wu, Ying, Hu, Frank B., ...
Common variants in KCNQ1 have recently been reported to be associated with type 2 diabetes in East Asians. We aimed to examine whether these common variants (rs2074196, rs2237892, rs2237895 and...
Zhu, Tian Gang, Patel, Chinmay, Martin, Seth, Quan, Xin, Wu, Ying, Burke, James F., ...
Aims We investigated the role of ventricular repolarization sequence in ventricular diastolic function. Methods and results Arterially perfused canine left ventricular wedge preparation with...
Chen, Jian-Qun, Wu, Ying, Yang, Haiwang, Bergelson, Joy, Kreitman, Martin, Tian, Dacheng
Rates of nucleotide substitution and insertion/deletion (indel) are known to vary across the functional components of a genome. Little attention has been paid, however, to the quantitative...
Identification of a novel negative regulatory element on the hepatitis B virus S-(+)-strand (2009)
Wu, Ying, Zhang, Wenlu, Yang, Yang, Yu, Bo, Huang, Ailong
In this study, we scanned the whole hepatitis B virus (HBV) genome for the identification of potential regulatory elements located on the S-(+)-strand. With pCDNA3.1-HBV1.3 as template which contains...
1,3,5-Tris(N-phenylbenzimidazol-2-yl)benzene methanol solvate (2009)
Wei-Feng Song, Ying Wu, Yan Fan, Yue Wang, Yu Liu
The main molecule of the title compound, C45H30N6·CH3OH, has a non-planar core: the dihedral angles between the benzimidazole rings and the central benzene ring are 20.19 (10),...
Ying Wu, Guan Cao, Beth Pavlicek, Xuan Luo, Michael N. Nitabach
Drosophila clock neurons are self-sustaining cellular oscillators that rely on negative transcriptional feedback to keep circadian time. Proper regulation of organismal rhythms of physiology and...
Microsecond acquisition of heterogeneous structure in the folding of a TIM barrel protein (2008)
Wu, Ying, Kondrashkina, Elena, Kayatekin, Can, Matthews, C. Robert, Bilsel, Osman
The earliest kinetic folding events for (betaalpha)(8) barrels reflect the appearance of off-pathway intermediates. Continuous-flow microchannel mixing methods interfaced to small-angle x-ray...
Design Strategies to Improve Performance of GIS Web Services," itcc, p (2008)
Shengru Tu, Maik Flanagin, Ying Wu, Mahdi Abdelguerfi, Eric Norm, Venkata Mahadevan, ...
GIS systems are ubiquitous distributed systems, since geo-spatial information adheres to almost everything. Considering the characteristics of GIS, the following four design-decision issues are...
Abstract VISUAL PANEL: Toward A Vision-Based Mobile Input Interface For Anywhere (2008)
Ying Wu, Ying Shan, Zhengyou Zhang, Steven Shafer
In many intelligent environments, people are looking for an intuitive, immersive and cost-efficient interaction device, instead of using conventional mice and keyboards. This paper presents a...
Book Of Abstracts, Vladimir Litvinenko, Ying Wu, Michelle Shinn
On behalf of everyone involved in the organization of this conference, we would like to welcome you to Durham, North Carolina and Duke University for the 22 nd International Free Electron Laser...
ABNORMAL EVENT DETECTION FROM SURVEILLANCE VIDEO BY DYNAMIC HIERARCHICAL CLUSTERING (2008)
Fan Jiang, Ying Wu, Aggelos K. Katsaggelos
The clustering-based approach for detecting abnormalities in surveillance video requires the appropriate definition of similarity between events. The HMM-based similarity defined previously falls...
Variational Maximum A Posteriori by Annealed Mean Field Analysis (2008)
Gang Hua, Student Member, Ying Wu
Abstract—This paper proposes a novel probabilistic variational method with deterministic annealing for the maximum a posteriori (MAP) estimation of complex stochastic systems. Since the MAP...
Shengyang Dai, Ming Yang, Ying Wu, Aggelos Katsaggelos
Component-based detection methods have demonstrated their promise by integrating a set of part-detectors to deal with large appearance variations of the target. However, an essential and critical...
Mining Repetitive Clips through Finding Continuous Paths ABSTRACT (2008)
Junsong Yuan, Wei Wang, Jingjing Meng, Ying Wu, Eecs Dept
Automatically discovering repetitive clips from large video database is a challenging problem due to the enormous computational cost involved in exploring the huge solution space. Without any a...
Face detection for automatic exposure control in handheld camera (2008)
Ming Yang, James Crenshaw, Bruce Augustine, Russell Mareachen, Ying Wu
Face detection is a widely studied topic in computer vision, and advances in algorithms, low cost processing, and CMOS imagers make it practical for embedded consumer applications. As with graphics,...
BILATERAL BACK-PROJECTION FOR SINGLE IMAGE SUPER RESOLUTION (2008)
Shengyang Dai, Mei Han, Ying Wu, Yihong Gong
In this paper, a novel algorithm for single image super resolution is proposed. Back-projection [1] can minimize the reconstruction error with an efficient iterative procedure. Although it can...
Shengyang Dai, Ming Yang, Ying Wu, Aggelos Katsaggelos
Component-based detection methods have demonstrated their promise by integrating a set of part-detectors to deal with large appearance variations of the target. However, an essential and critical...
For Vision-Based Human Computer Interaction (2008)
In the evolution of user interfaces, keyboards were the primary devices in text-based user interfaces, and then the invention of the mouse brought us the graphical user interface. What is the...
TRACKING MOTION-BLURRED TARGETS IN VIDEO (2008)
Shengyang Dai, Ming Yang, Ying Wu, Aggelos K. Katsaggelos
Many emerging applications require tracking targets in video. Most existing visual tracking methods do not work well when the target is motion-blurred (especially due to fast motion), because the...
ABNORMAL EVENT DETECTION FROM SURVEILLANCE VIDEO BY DYNAMIC HIERARCHICAL CLUSTERING (2008)
Fan Jiang, Ying Wu, Aggelos K. Katsaggelos
The clustering-based approach for detecting abnormalities in surveillance video requires the appropriate definition of similarity between events. The HMM-based similarity defined previously falls...
QUERY DRIVEN LOCALIZED LINEAR DISCRIMINANT MODELS FOR HEAD POSE ESTIMATION (2008)
Zhu Li, Yun Fu, Junsong Yuan, Thomas S. Huang, Ying Wu
Head pose appearances under the pan and tilt variations span a high dimensional manifold that has complex structures and local variations. For pose estimation purpose, we need to discover the...
MINING AUXILIARY OBJECTS FOR TRACKING BY MULTIBODY GROUPING (2008)
On-line discovery of some auxiliary objects to verify the tracking results is a novel approach to achieving robust tracking by balancing the need for strong verification and computational efficiency....
MOTION SEGMENTATION BASED ON INDEPENDENT SUBSPACE ANALYSIS (2008)
In this paper, we propose a novel method to address the segmentation problem of multiple independently moving objects. Based on the fact that multiple objects ’ trajectories correspond to multiple...
Abstract Towards Self-Exploring Discriminating Features for Visual Learning (2008)
Many visual learning tasks are usually confronted by some common difficulties. One of them is the lack of supervised information, due to the fact that labeling could be tedious, expensive or even...
A field model for human detection and tracking (2008)
Ying Wu, Ting Yu, Student Member
Abstract—The large shape variability and partial occlusions challenge most object detection and tracking methods for nonrigid targets such as pedestrians. This paper presents a new approach based...
COMMON SPATIAL PATTERN DISCOVERY BY EFFICIENT CANDIDATE PRUNING (2008)
Junsong Yuan, Zhu Li, Yun Fu, Ying Wu, Thomas S. Huang
Automatically discovering common visual patterns in images is very challenging due to the uncertainties in the visual appearances of such spatial patterns and the enormous computational cost involved...
{ganghua, yingwu} @ ece.northwestern.edu In this paper, we propose a novel sequential variational maximum a posteriori (MAP) algorithm to recover the articulated human body motion from video for...
Variational Maximum A Posteriori by Annealed Mean Field Analysis (2008)
Gang Hua, Student Member, Ying Wu
Abstract—This paper proposes a novel probabilistic variational method with deterministic annealing for the maximum a posteriori (MAP) estimation of complex stochastic systems. Since the MAP...
LEARNING BASED ON KERNEL DISCRIMINANT-EM ALGORITHM FOR IMAGE CLASSIFICATION (2008)
Qi Tian, Jie Yu, Ying Wu, Thomas S. Huang
In image classification and other learning-based object recognition tasks, it is often tedious and expensive to label large training data sets. Discriminant-EM (DEM) proposed a semi-supervised...
† Siemens Medical Solution (2008)
Ming Yang, Senthil Periaswamy, Ying Wu
Lung nodule detection, especially ground glass opacity (GGO) detection, in helical computed tomography (CT) images is a challenging Computer-Aided Detection (CAD) task due to the enormous variances...
Zhimin Fan, Student Member, Ieee Computer Society, Jie Zhou, Senior Member, Ying Wu
Abstract—Recently, subspace constraints have been widely exploited in many computer vision problems such as multibody grouping. Under linear projection models, feature points associated with...
AUTOMATIC BUSINESS CARD SCANNING WITH A CAMERA (2008)
Gang Hua, Zicheng Liu, Zhengyou Zhang, Ying Wu
In this paper, we present a system to automatically extract, rectify and enhance business card images. First the business card image patch is automatically segmented by minimizing a novel...
Ting Yu, Cha Zhang, Michael Cohen, Yong Rui, Ying Wu
This paper presents a new approach to segmenting monocular videos captured by static or hand-held cameras filming large moving non-rigid foreground objects. The foreground and background objects are...
Vadrevu, Ramakrishna, Wu, Ying, Matthews, C. Robert
Structural insights into the equilibrium folding mechanism of the alpha subunit of tryptophan synthase (alpha TS) from Escherichia coli, a (beta alpha)(8) TIM barrel protein, were obtained with a...
Zhou, Qun, Zhao, Jinjin, Xu, Weiwei, Zhao, Hong, Wu, Ying, Zheng, Junwei
Micrometer polystyrene particles were uniformly assembled into a two-dimensional structure on an indium-doped tin oxide (ITO) electrode. An array of zinc oxide (ZnO) microcavities was fabricated with...
Ying WU, Yong SONG, Hongbing LIU
Background and objective HMGA2 is a small non-histone chromosomal protein. Recently, HMGA2 expression has been found in various malignant tumors and often correlates with the aggressiveness of the...
Hydroxonium 1-ammonioethylidene-1,1-bisphosphonate (2008)
The title compound, H3O+·C2H8NO6P2−, contains a disordered H3O+ cation and an NH3C(CH3)(PO3H)2 anion. The three H atoms of the H3O+ cation are statistically distributed over four positions...
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2008
RF System for the Duke 1 GeV Storage Ring* (2007)
Ping Wang Peter, Peter Morcombe, Ying Wu, Grigori Kurkin, Rf Frequency Mhz
The RF frequency is 178.5 MHz. An amplifier built by the QEI corporation provides 50 KW power. All the power feeds to a single-cell RF cavity, built by BINP at Novosibirsk, Russia, giving a gap...
The Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System (EPICS) requires expensive hardware and software to provide the high performance and high reliability required for accelerator control. No more...
VISUAL PANEL: From an ordinary paper to a wireless and mobile input device (2007)
Ying Wu, Ying Shan, Zhengyou Zhang Ý, Steven Shafer
In many intelligent environments, instead of using conventional mice and keyboards, people are looking for an intuitive, immersive and cost-efficient interaction device. This paper presents a...
A Dynamical Effective Medium Theory for Elastic Metamaterials (2007)
Wu, Ying, Lai, Yun, Zhang, Zhao-Qing
We develop a dynamical effective medium theory to accurately predict the unusual properties of elastic metamaterials in two dimensions near the resonant frequencies. The theory shows that the...
Yang, Xiaoyan, Vadrevu, Ramakrishna, Wu, Ying, Matthews, C. Robert
The role of hither-to-fore unrecognized long-range hydrogen bonds between main-chain amide hydrogens and polar side chains on the stability of a well-studied (betaalpha)8, TIM barrel protein, the...
Yang, Xiaoyan, Vadrevu, Ramakrishna, Wu, Ying, Matthews, C. Robert
The role of hither-to-fore unrecognized long-range hydrogen bonds between main-chain amide hydrogens and polar side chains on the stability of a well-studied (betaalpha)8, TIM barrel protein, the...
Yang, Xiaoyan, Vadrevu, Ramakrishna, Wu, Ying, Matthews, C. Robert
The role of hither-to-fore unrecognized long-range hydrogen bonds between main-chain amide hydrogens and polar side chains on the stability of a well-studied (betaalpha)8, TIM barrel protein, the...
Yang, Xiaoyan, Vadrevu, Ramakrishna, Wu, Ying, Matthews, C. Robert
The role of hither-to-fore unrecognized long-range hydrogen bonds between main-chain amide hydrogens and polar side chains on the stability of a well-studied (βα)8, TIM barrel protein, the alpha...
Charge-transfer induced surface-enhanced Raman scattering in silver nanoparticle assemblies (2007)
Zhou, Qun, Zhao, Gui, Chao, Yanwen, Li, Yan, Wu, Ying, Zheng, Junwei
Molecular junctions of metal/molecule/metal were fabricated with silver nanoparticles and functional molecules through layer-by-layer self-assembly techniques. The Raman scattering of the...
Wu, Ying, Vadrevu, Ramakrishna, Kathuria, Sagar, Yang, Xiaoyan, Matthews, C. Robert
Protein misfolding is now recognized as playing a crucial role in both normal and pathogenic folding reactions. An interesting example of misfolding at the earliest state of a natural folding...
This paper analyzes the reference tracking behavior of Buck converters using several control schemes including voltage-mode, current-mode and V2-control from both large-signal and small-signal...
Soft edge smoothness prior for alpha channel super resolution (2007)
Shengyang Dai, Mei Han, Wei Xu, Ying Wu, Yihong Gong
Effective image prior is necessary for image super resolution, due to its severely under-determined nature. Although the edge smoothness prior can be effective, it is generally difficult to have...
Soft edge smoothness prior for alpha channel super resolution (2007)
Shengyang Dai, Mei Han, Wei Xu, Ying Wu, Yihong Gong
Effective image prior is necessary for image super resolution, due to its severely under-determined nature. Although the edge smoothness prior can be effective, it is generally difficult to have...
Soft edge smoothness prior for alpha channel super resolution (2007)
Shengyang Dai, Mei Han, Wei Xu, Ying Wu, Yihong Gong
Effective image prior is necessary for image super resolution, due to its severely under-determined nature. Although the edge smoothness prior can be effective, it is generally difficult to have...
Microarray MAPH: accurate array-based detection of relative copy number in genomic DNA (2006)
Gibbons, Brian, Datta, Parikkhit, Wu, Ying, Chan, Alan, AL Armour, John
Abstract Background Current methods for measurement of copy number do not combine all the desirable qualities of convenience, throughput, economy, accuracy and resolution. In this study, to improve...
SUMBMISSION TO TPAMI: OOI EXTRACTION BY LOCAL-GLOBAL ENERGY MINIMIZATION 1 Iterative (2006)
local-global energy minimization for automatic extraction of objects of interest
Measurement integration under inconsistency for robust tracking (2006)
The solutions to many vision problems involve integrating measurements from multiple sources. Most existing methods rely on a hidden assumption, i.e., these measurements are consistent. In reality,...
Differential Tracking based on Spatial-Appearance Model(SAM (2006)
A fundamental issue in differential motion analysis is the compromise between the flexibility of the matching criterion for image regions and the ability of recovering the motion. Localized matching...
InGaAs/InP DHBTs with 120-nm Collector Having Simultaneously High ft,fmax > 450 GHz (2005)
Griffith, Zach, Rodwell, Mark, Fang, Xiao-Ming, Loubychev, Dmitri, Wu, Ying, Fastenau, Joel M., ...
InP/InGaAs/InP double heterojunction bipolar transistors (DHBT) have been designed for increased bandwidth digital and analog circuits, and fabricated using a conventional mesa structure. These...
Wu, Ying, Vadrevu, Ramakrishna, Yang, Xiaoyan, Matthews, C. Robert
Competing views of the products of sub-millisecond folding reactions observed in many globular proteins have been ascribed either to the formation of discrete, partially folded states or to the...
On frontal EEG Dynamics During Working Memory (2005)
Katherine Delong, Jeffrey Gold, Micah Richert, Ying Wu, Jennifer Feeney, ...
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Learning to estimate human pose with data driven belief propagation (2005)
Gang Hua, Ming-hsuan Yang, Ying Wu
We propose a statistical formulation for 2-D human pose estimation from single images. The human body configuration is modeled by a Markov network and the estimation problem is to infer pose...
Multiple collaborative kernel tracking (2005)
Zhimin Fan, Ying Wu, Ming Yang
This paper presents a novel multiple collaborative kernel approach to visual tracking. This approach treats kernelbased tracking in a more general setting, i.e., a relaxation and constraints...
Tracking non-stationary appearances and dynamic feature selection (2005)
Since the appearance changes of the target jeopardize visual measurements and often lead to tracking failure in practice, trackers need to be adaptive to non-stationary appearances or to dynamically...
Efficient optimal kernel placement for reliable visual tracking (2005)
Zhimin Fan, Ming Yang, Ying Wu, Gang Hua, Ting Yu
This paper describes a novel approach to optimal kernel placement in kernel-based tracking. If kernels are placed at arbitrary places, kernel-based methods are likely to be trapped in ill-conditioned...
Learning to estimate human pose with data driven belief propagation (2005)
Gang Hua, Ming-hsuan Yang, Ying Wu
We propose a statistical formulation for 2-D human pose estimation from single images. The human body configuration is modeled by a Markov network and the estimation problem is to infer pose...
Analyzing and capturing articulated hand motion in image sequences (2005)
Ying Wu, John Lin, Thomas S. Huang
Abstract—Capturing the human hand motion from video involves the estimation of the rigid global hand pose as well as the nonrigid finger articulation. The complexity induced by the high degrees of...
p63 deficiency activates a program of cellular senescence and leads to accelerated aging (2005)
Keyes, William M., Wu, Ying, Vogel, Hannes, Guo, Xuecui, Lowe, Scott W., Mills, Alea A.
The p53 tumor suppressor plays a key role in organismal aging. A cellular mechanism postulated to drive the aging process is cellular senescence, mediated in part by p53. Although senescent cells...
p63 deficiency activates a program of cellular senescence and leads to accelerated aging (2005)
Keyes, William M., Wu, Ying, Vogel, Hannes, Guo, Xuecui, Lowe, Scott W., Mills, Alea A.
The p53 tumor suppressor plays a key role in organismal aging. A cellular mechanism postulated to drive the aging process is cellular senescence, mediated in part by p53. Although senescent cells...
Correction and alignment strategies for the beam separator of the PEEM3 microscope (2004)
Schmid, Peter, Feng, Jun, Padmore, Howard, Robin, David, Rose, Harald, Schlueter, Ross, ...
No association between two MLH3 variants (S845G and P844L) and colorectal cancer risk (2004)
Jong, Mirjam M. De, Hofstra, Robert M.W., Kooi, Krista A., Westra, Jantine L., Berends, Maran J.W., Wu, Ying, ...
Recently we identified a new variant, S845G, in the MLH3 gene in 7 out of 327 patients suspected of hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer but not fulfilling the Amsterdam criteria and in 1 out of...
Multibody motion segmentation based on simulated annealing (2004)
The problem of multibody motion segmentation is an important and challenging issue in computer vision. In this paper, a novel segmentation technique based on simulated annealing (SA) is proposed....
Multibody grouping is a representative of applying subspace constraints in computer vision tasks. Under linear projection models, feature points of multibody reside in multiple subspaces. We...
Robust visual tracking by integrating multiple cues based on co-inference learning (2004)
Abstract. Visual tracking can be treated as a parameter estimation problem that infers target states based on image observations from video sequences. A richer target representation would incur...
Hippocampal evoked potentials in novel environments : a behavior clamping method / (2004)
"December, 2004."
Li, Xiaoming, Lin, Chongde, Gao, Zuxin, Stanton, Bonita, Fang, Xiaoyi, Yin, Qin, ...
Data were collected in 2000 from 1081 students from eight colleges in China to assess the overall level of AIDS knowledge, and to explore regional, gender and grade differences in AIDS knowledge. The...
Wu, Ying, De Kievit, Peggy, Vahlkamp, Lars, Pijnenburg, Dirk, Smit, Maarten, Dankers, Martijn, ...
A novel microarray system that utilizes a porous aluminum-oxide substrate and flow-through incubation has been developed for rapid molecular biological testing. To assess its utility in gene...
Wu, Ying, Goh, Kuang Hui, Lee, Boon Keng
This article analyzes an optimization model of the policy game between Singapore's National Wage Council and the Monetary Authority of Singapore and further simulates the model over policy rules...
Pulmonary function testing in HTLV-I and HTLV-II infected humans: a cohort study (2003)
Murphy, Edward L, Ownby, Helen E, Smith, James W, Garratty, George, Hutching, Sheila T, Wu, Ying, ...
Abstract Background HTLV-I infection has been linked to lung pathology and HTLV-II has been associated with an increased incidence of pneumonia and acute bronchitis. However it is unknown whether...
Purinergic receptors and microglial activation in pain [microform] / (2003)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2003.
N-qubit Entanglement Index and Classification (2002)
We show that all the N-qubit states can be classified as N entanglement classes each of which has an entanglement index $E=N-p=0,1,...,N-1$(E=0 corresponds to a fully separate class) where $p$...
Nonstationary color tracking for vision-based human-computer interaction (2002)
Ying Wu, Thomas S. Huang, Life Fellow
Abstract—Skin color offers a strong cue for efficient localization and tracking of human body parts in video sequences for vision-based human–computer interaction. Color-based target localization...
Capturing human hand motion in image sequences (2002)
John Lin, Ying Wu, Thomas S. Huang
Visually capturing human hand motion requires estimating the 3D hand global pose as well as its local finger articulations. This is a challenging task that requires a search in a high dimensional...
Effects of damping wigglers on beam dynamics in the NLC damping rings (2001)
To achieve the required damping time in the main damping rings for the Next Linear Collider (NLC), a wiggler will be required in each ring with integrated squared field strength up to 110 T^2m. There...
Towards self-exploring discriminating features (2001)
Abstract. Many visual learning tasks are usually confronted by some common difficulties. One of them is the lack of supervised information, due to the fact that labeling could be tedious, expensive...
A co-inference approach to robust visual tracking (2001)
Visual tracking could be treated as a parameter estimation problem of target representation based on observations in image sequences. A richer target representation would incur better chances of...
Capturing natural hand articulation (2001)
Ying Wu, John Y. Lin, Thomas S. Huang
Vision-based motion capturing of hand articulation is a challenging task, since the hand presents a motion of high degrees of freedom. Model-based approaches could be taken to approach this problem...
Self-Supervised Learning for Object Recognition based on Kernel Discriminant-EM Algorithm (2001)
In Proc. of IEEE Int'l Conf. on Computer Vision, Vancouver, Canada, 2001 It is often tedious and expensive to label large training data sets for learning-based object recognition systems. This...
Vision And Learning For Intelligent Human-Computer Interaction (2001)
It was a dream to make computers see. The research in computer vision provides promising technologies to capture, analyze, transmit, retrieve and interpret visual information. However, due to the...
Self-Supervised Learning for Object Recognition based on Kernel Discriminant-EM Algorithm (2001)
Invariant. object, recognit.ion is a fiinrla.mental but, challenging compiit,er vision t,ask, since finding effect,ive object. represent,ations is genera.lly a difficult. problem. 3D object recoiist...
Combine user defined region-of-interest and spatial layout for image retrieval (2000)
Qi Tian, Ying Wu, Thomas S. Huang
Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) is one of the most active research areas in recent years. Many visual feature representations have been explored and many systems built. However, in most of...
Bootstrap initialization of nonparametric texture models for tracking (2000)
######## # In bootstrap initialization for tracking, we exploit a weak prior model used to trackatarget to learn a stronger model, without manual intervention. We dene a general formulation of this...
Qiong Liu, Stephen Levinson, Ying Wu, Thomas Huang
Machine learning paradigms are generally separated into supervised learning and unsupervised learning. Both of these paradigms have their own advantages in practice. But existing algorithms of these...
Ying Wu, Qiong Liu, Thomas S. Huang
This paper describes an adaptive self-organizing color segmentation algorithm and a transductive learning algorithm used to localize human hand in video sequences. The color distribution at each time...
View-independent recognition of hand postures (2000)
Since human hand is highly articulated and deformable, hand posture recognition is a challenging example in the research of view-independent object recognition. Due to the di#culties of the...
Combine user defined region-of-interest and spatial layout for image retrieval (2000)
Qi Tian, Ying Wu, Thomas S. Huang
Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) is one of the most active research areas in recent years. Many visual feature representations have been explored and many systems built. However, in most of...
Discriminant-em algorithm with application to image retrieval (2000)
Ying Wu, Qi Tian, Thomas S. Huang
In many vision applications, the practice of supervised learning faces several di#culties, one of which is that insu#cient labeled training data result in poor generalization. In image retrieval, we...
Incorporate discriminant analysis with EM algorithm in image retrieval (2000)
Qi Tian, Ying Wu, Thomas S. Huang
One of the difficulties of Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) is the gap between high-level concepts and low-level image features, e.g., color and texture. Relevance feedback was proposed [1] to...
Color tracking by transductive learning (2000)
One of the di#culties of color tracking is that color changes in di#erent lighting conditions, and static color models would be inadequate to capture the nonstationary color distribution over time....
Integrating unlabeled images for image retrieval based on relevance feedback (2000)
Ying Wu, Qi Tian, Thomas S. Huang
Retrieval techniques based on pure similarity metrics are often suffered from the scales of image features. An alternative approach is to learn a mapping based on queries and relevance feedback by...
Wide-range, person- and illumination-insensitive head orientation estimation (2000)
We present an algorithm for estimation of head orientation, given cropped images of a subject's head from any viewpoint. Our algorithm handles dramatic changes in illumination, applies to many...
Discriminant-em algorithm with application to image retrieval (2000)
Ying Wu, Qi Tian, Thomas S. Huang
In many vision applications, the practice of supervised learning faces several di#culties, one of which is that insu#cient labeled training data result in poor generalization. In image retrieval, we...
Self-Supervised learning for visual tracking and recognition of human hand (2000)
Due to the large variation and richness of visual inputs, statistical learning gets more and more concerned in the practice of visual processing such as visual tracking and recognition. Statistical...
Qiong Liu, Stephen Levinson, Ying Wu, Thomas Huang
Machine learning paradigms are generally separated into supervised learning and unsupervised learning. Both of these paradigms have their own advantages in practice. But existing algorithms of these...
Combine user defined region-of-interest and spatial layout for image retrieval (2000)
Qi Tian, Ying Wu, Thomas S. Huang
Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) is one of the most active research areas in recent years. Many visual feature representations have been explored and many systems built. However, in most of...
Incorporate discriminant analysis with EM algorithm in image retrieval (2000)
Qi Tian, Ying Wu, Thomas S. Huang
One of the difficulties of Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) is the gap between high-level concepts and low-level image features, e.g., color and texture. Relevance feedback was proposed [1] to...
Qiong Liu, Stephen Levinson, Ying Wu, Thomas Huang
Machine learning paradigms are generally separated into supervised learning and unsupervised learning. Both of these paradigms have their own advantages in practice. But existing algorithms of these...
Wide-range, person- and illumination-insensitive head orientation estimation (2000)
We present an algorithm for estimation of head orientation, given cropped images of a subject’s head from any viewpoint. Our algorithm handles dramatic changes in illumination, applies to many...
Wide-range, person- and illumination-insensitive head orientation estimation (2000)
We present an algorithm for estimation of head orientation, given cropped images of a subject’s head from any viewpoint. Our algorithm handles dramatic changes in illumination, applies to many...
Combine user defined region-of-interest and spatial layout for image retrieval (2000)
Qi Tian, Ying Wu, Thomas S. Huang
Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) is one of the most active research areas in recent years. Many visual feature representations have been explored and many systems built. However, in most of...
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Capturing Articulated Human Hand Motion: A Divide-and-Conquer Approach (1999)
The use of human hand as a natural interface device serves as a motivating force for research in the modeling, analyzing and capturing of the motion of articulated hand. Model-based hand motion...
Human Hand Modeling, Analysis and Animation in the Context of HCI (1999)
The use of human hand as a natural interface device serves as a motivating force for research in visual analysis of highly articulated hand movement. Since hand motion covers a huge domain, the scope...
Robust Real-time Human Hand Localization by Self-Organizing Color Segmentation (1999)
Ying Wu, Qiong Liu, Thomas S. Huang
In Proc. of ICCV99 Workshop RATFG-RTS, Greece, 1999 This paper describes a robust tracking algorithm used to localize human hand in video sequences. The localization system relies mainly on an...
Bostick, Roberd M., Kushi, Lawrence H., Wu, Ying, Meyer, Katie A., Sellers, Thomas A., Folsom, Aaron R.
To investigate whether greater intakes of calcium, vitamin D, or milk products may protect against ischemic heart disease mortality, the authors analyzed data from a prospective cohort study of...
Includes abstract.
Graduate School of Public Health.
Long-term average hourly, daily and annual temperature prediction model /--by Ying Wu. (1992)
Thesis (M.S.)--Texas Tech University, 1992.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Southampton, 1991.
Determining a Modified Currency Board's Two-Period Exchange Rate Strategy
Is it preferable for a modified currency board (MCB) to disguise its true characteristics and preferences and renege later? This paper analyzes a model in which a MCB determines its first-period...
Ying Wu, Kuang Hui Goh, Boon Keng Lee
This article analyzes an optimization model of the policy game between Singapore's National Wage Council and the Monetary Authority of Singapore and further simulates the model over policy rules...
Loss of presenilin 1 is associated with enhanced β-catenin signaling and skin tumorigenesis
Xia, Xuefeng, Qian, Su, Soriano, Salvador, Wu, Ying, Fletcher, Anthony M., Wang, Xiao-Jing, ...
Presenilin 1 (PS1) is required for the proteolytic processing of Notch and the β-amyloid precursor protein (APP), molecules that play pivotal roles in cell-fate determination during development and...
Abul-Milh, Maan, Wu, Ying, Lau, Bedy, Lingwood, Clifford A., Foster, Debora Barnett
Infection with enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) is a major cause of severe infantile diarrhea, particularly in parts of the developing world. The bundle-forming pilus (BFP) of EPEC is an...
Wu, Ying, Swulius, Matthew T., Moremen, Kelley W., Sifers, Richard N.
The exocytic pathway provides a physical route through which newly synthesized secretory and membrane proteins are deployed to the eukaryote cell surface. For newly synthesized α1-antitrypsin (AAT),...
Pulmonary function testing in HTLV-I and HTLV-II infected humans: a cohort study
Murphy, Edward L, Ownby, Helen E, Smith, James W, Garratty, George, Hutching, Sheila T, Wu, Ying, ...
Low CD4+ T-Lymphocyte Values in Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Negative Adults in Botswana
Bussmann, Hermann, Wester, C. William, Masupu, Kereng V., Peter, Trevor, Gaolekwe, Sarah M., Kim, Soyeon, ...
CD4+-lymphocyte counts (LCs) play a crucial role in the management and monitoring of HIV infection. Variability in CD4+ LCs has been reported to occur as a result of measurement techniques and/or...
Wu, Ying, De Kievit, Peggy, Vahlkamp, Lars, Pijnenburg, Dirk, Smit, Maarten, Dankers, Martijn, ...
A novel microarray system that utilizes a porous aluminum-oxide substrate and flow-through incubation has been developed for rapid molecular biological testing. To assess its utility in gene...
Hussain, Snawar, Pan, Ji'an, Chen, Yu, Yang, Yalin, Xu, Jing, Peng, Yu, ...
The expression of the genomic information of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS CoV) involves synthesis of a nested set of subgenomic RNAs (sgRNAs) by discontinuous transcription. In...
p63 deficiency activates a program of cellular senescence and leads to accelerated aging
Keyes, William M., Wu, Ying, Vogel, Hannes, Guo, Xuecui, Lowe, Scott W., Mills, Alea A.
The p53 tumor suppressor plays a key role in organismal aging. A cellular mechanism postulated to drive the aging process is cellular senescence, mediated in part by p53. Although senescent cells...
Menin Is a Regulator of the Stress Response in Drosophila melanogaster
Papaconstantinou, Maria, Wu, Ying, Pretorius, Hendrik Nikolaas, Singh, Nishi, Gianfelice, Gabriella, Tanguay, Robert M., ...
Menin, the product of the multiple endocrine neoplasia type I gene, has been implicated in several biological processes, including the control of gene expression and apoptosis, the modulation of...
Wu, Ying, Berends, Maran J. W., Mensink, Rob G. J., Kempinga, Claudia, Sijmons, Rolf H., Van der Zee, Ate G. J., ...
Hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC) (Amsterdam criteria) is often caused by mutations in mismatch repair (MMR) genes, and tumors of patients with HNPCC show microsatellite instability...
Purinergic receptors activating rapid intracellular Ca2+ increases in microglia
Light, Alan R., Wu, Ying, Hughen, Ronald W., Guthrie, Peter B.
We provide both molecular and pharmacological evidence that the metabotropic, purinergic, P2Y6, P2Y12 and P2Y13 receptors and the ionotropic P2X4 receptor contribute strongly to the rapid calcium...
Microarray MAPH: accurate array-based detection of relative copy number in genomic DNA
Gibbons, Brian, Datta, Parikkhit, Wu, Ying, Chan, Alan, AL Armour, John
Loss of presenilin 1 is associated with enhanced β-catenin signaling and skin tumorigenesis
Xia, Xuefeng, Qian, Su, Soriano, Salvador, Wu, Ying, Fletcher, Anthony M., Wang, Xiao-Jing, ...
Presenilin 1 (PS1) is required for the proteolytic processing of Notch and the β-amyloid precursor protein (APP), molecules that play pivotal roles in cell-fate determination during development and...
Abul-Milh, Maan, Wu, Ying, Lau, Bedy, Lingwood, Clifford A., Foster, Debora Barnett
Infection with enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) is a major cause of severe infantile diarrhea, particularly in parts of the developing world. The bundle-forming pilus (BFP) of EPEC is an...
Wu, Ying, Swulius, Matthew T., Moremen, Kelley W., Sifers, Richard N.
The exocytic pathway provides a physical route through which newly synthesized secretory and membrane proteins are deployed to the eukaryote cell surface. For newly synthesized α1-antitrypsin (AAT),...
Pulmonary function testing in HTLV-I and HTLV-II infected humans: a cohort study
Murphy, Edward L, Ownby, Helen E, Smith, James W, Garratty, George, Hutching, Sheila T, Wu, Ying, ...
Berends, Maran J. W., Wu, Ying, Sijmons, Rolf H., Mensink, Rob G. J., Van der Sluis, Tineke, Hordijk-Hos, Jannet M., ...
The MSH6 gene is one of the mismatch-repair genes involved in hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC). Three hundred sixteen individuals who were known or suspected to have HNPCC were...
Low CD4+ T-Lymphocyte Values in Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Negative Adults in Botswana
Bussmann, Hermann, Wester, C. William, Masupu, Kereng V., Peter, Trevor, Gaolekwe, Sarah M., Kim, Soyeon, ...
CD4+-lymphocyte counts (LCs) play a crucial role in the management and monitoring of HIV infection. Variability in CD4+ LCs has been reported to occur as a result of measurement techniques and/or...
Wu, Ying, De Kievit, Peggy, Vahlkamp, Lars, Pijnenburg, Dirk, Smit, Maarten, Dankers, Martijn, ...
A novel microarray system that utilizes a porous aluminum-oxide substrate and flow-through incubation has been developed for rapid molecular biological testing. To assess its utility in gene...
Hussain, Snawar, Pan, Ji'an, Chen, Yu, Yang, Yalin, Xu, Jing, Peng, Yu, ...
The expression of the genomic information of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS CoV) involves synthesis of a nested set of subgenomic RNAs (sgRNAs) by discontinuous transcription. In...
p63 deficiency activates a program of cellular senescence and leads to accelerated aging
Keyes, William M., Wu, Ying, Vogel, Hannes, Guo, Xuecui, Lowe, Scott W., Mills, Alea A.
The p53 tumor suppressor plays a key role in organismal aging. A cellular mechanism postulated to drive the aging process is cellular senescence, mediated in part by p53. Although senescent cells...
Menin Is a Regulator of the Stress Response in Drosophila melanogaster
Papaconstantinou, Maria, Wu, Ying, Pretorius, Hendrik Nikolaas, Singh, Nishi, Gianfelice, Gabriella, Tanguay, Robert M., ...
Menin, the product of the multiple endocrine neoplasia type I gene, has been implicated in several biological processes, including the control of gene expression and apoptosis, the modulation of...
Wu, Ying, Berends, Maran J. W., Mensink, Rob G. J., Kempinga, Claudia, Sijmons, Rolf H., Van der Zee, Ate G. J., ...
Hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC) (Amsterdam criteria) is often caused by mutations in mismatch repair (MMR) genes, and tumors of patients with HNPCC show microsatellite instability...
Microarray MAPH: accurate array-based detection of relative copy number in genomic DNA
Gibbons, Brian, Datta, Parikkhit, Wu, Ying, Chan, Alan, AL Armour, John
Singapore's Collective Bargaining in a Game of Wage and Exchange Rate Policies
In Singapore's system of tripartite collective bargaining, does the wage-policy maker consistently react optimally to the best move made by the exchange rate-policy maker (Nash-rule) or only to the...
Christiansen-Weber, Trudy A., Voland, Joseph R., Wu, Ying, Ngo, Karen, Roland, Barbara L., Nguyen, Steven, ...
Tangier disease (TD) and familial HDL deficiency (FHA) have recently been linked to mutations in the human ATP-binding cassette transporter 1 (hABCA1), a member of the ABC superfamily. Both diseases...
Kanakaraj, Palanisamy, Ngo, Karen, Wu, Ying, Angulo, Ana, Ghazal, Peter, Harris, Crafford A., ...
Interleukin (IL)-18 is functionally similar to IL-12 in mediating T helper cell type 1 (Th1) response and natural killer (NK) cell activity but is related to IL-1 in protein structure and signaling,...
Kanakaraj, Palanisamy, Schafer, Peter H., Cavender, Druie E., Wu, Ying, Ngo, Karen, Grealish, Patrick F., ...
Interleukin (IL)-1 is a proinflammatory cytokine with pleiotropic effects in inflammation. IL-1 binding to its receptor triggers a cascade of signaling events, including activation of the...
Chen, Maorong, Gan, Geliang, Wu, Ying, Wang, Lu, Wu, Yingliang, Ding, Jiuping
The auxiliary β subunits of large-conductance Ca2+-activated K+ (BK) channels greatly contribute to the diversity of BK (mSlo1 α) channels, which is fundamental to the adequate function in many...
A macroeconomic analysis of foreign assets and foreign liabilities
Net foreign assets, Real balances, Steady state, Vector error correction, F41, E31, E50,
Yang, Xiaoyan, Vadrevu, Ramakrishna, Wu, Ying, Matthews, C. Robert
The role of hither-to-fore unrecognized long-range hydrogen bonds between main-chain amide hydrogens and polar side chains on the stability of a well-studied (βα)8, TIM barrel protein, the alpha...
LOW-TEMPERATURE CATALYTIC PERFORMANCE OF NANOSTRUCTURED TiâNiâO PREPARED BY MODIFIED SOL-GEL METHOD
YING WU, TINGHUA WU, YIMING HE, WEIZHENG WENG, HUILIN WAN
Nanosized TiâNiâO catalysts prepared by a modified solâgel method had been investigated in the oxidative dehydrogenation of ethane and propane to the corresponding alkene. The best yield is...
Wu, Ying, Woodworth, Joshua S., Shin, Daniel S., Morris, Sheldon, Behar, Samuel M.
The 10-kDa culture filtrate protein (CFP-10) and 6-kDa early secretory antigen of T cells (ESAT-6) are secreted in abundance by Mycobacterium tuberculosis and are frequently recognized by T cells...
Wu, Ying, Cao, Guan, Pavlicek, Beth, Luo, Xuan, Nitabach, Michael N
Drosophila clock neurons are self-sustaining cellular oscillators that rely on negative transcriptional feedback to keep circadian time. Proper regulation of organismal rhythms of physiology and...
The impact of past growth on poverty in Chinese provinces
Chambers, Dustin, Wu, Ying, Yao, Hong
The impact of prior economic growth on current poverty rates within provincial-level China is examined using panel data and semiparametric techniques. Results reveal that prior short-run growth...
Microsecond acquisition of heterogeneous structure in the folding of a TIM barrel protein
Wu, Ying, Kondrashkina, Elena, Kayatekin, Can, Matthews, C. Robert, Bilsel, Osman
The earliest kinetic folding events for (βα)8 barrels reflect the appearance of off-pathway intermediates. Continuous-flow microchannel mixing methods interfaced to small-angle x-ray scattering...
Vision-Based Gesture Recognition: A Review
Ying Wu, Thomas S. Huang, N. Mathews
The use of gesture as a natural interface serves as a motivating force for research in modeling, analyzing and recognition of gestures. In particular, human computer intelligent interaction needs...
Fan, Yu, Zhang, You-Li, Wu, Ying, Zhang, Wei, Wang, Yin-Huan, Cheng, Zhao-Ming, ...
AIM: To investigate the roles and mechanism of signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 (STAT3) in invasion of human colon cancer cells by RNA interference.
Ying Wu, Kuang Hui Goh, Boon Keng Lee
This article analyzes an optimization model of the policy game between Singapore's National Wage Council and the Monetary Authority of Singapore and further simulates the model over policy rules...
Significance of Bcl-xL in human colon carcinoma
Zhang, You-Li, Pang, Li-Qun, Wu, Ying, Wang, Xiao-Yan, Wang, Chong-Qiang, Fan, Yu
AIM: To investigate the clinical significance of Bcl-xL gene in the pathogenesis of human colon carcinoma.
Measuring China's monetary sterilization and autonomy in the era of globalization: 1995-2005
This paper provides a cointegration analysis of incomplete monetary sterilization and autonomy in China when both financial controls and the exchange rate peg exist. According to an estimated...
Wu, Ying, Li, Huaixing, Loos, Ruth J.F., Yu, Zhijie, Ye, Xingwang, Chen, Lihua, ...
OBJECTIVE— Genome-wide association studies have identified common variants in CDKAL1, CDKN2A/B, IGF2BP2, SLC30A8, HHEX/IDE, EXT2, and LOC387761 loci that significantly increase the risk of type 2...