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Associate Director

Prof Yizhou Yu

Associate Director, HKU Musketeers Foundation Institute of Data Science

Chair Professor, HKU School of Computing and Data Science

📧 yzyu@cs.hku.hk.

📞 (852) 2857 8238

🌐 School of Computing and Data Science

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Research Interests

Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Visual Media, VR/AR

Representative Publications

  • C Fang, Z Liao, and Y Yu, Piecewise Flat Embedding for Image Segmentation, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2019
  • G Li and Y Yu, Contrast-Oriented Deep Neural Networks for Salient Object Detection, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS), Vol 29, No 12, 2018.
  • W Ge, B Gong, and Y Yu, Image Super-Resolution via Deterministic-Stochastic Synthesis and Local Statistical Rectification, ACM Transactions on Graphics, Vol 37, No 6, 2018 (special issue for SIGGRAPH Asia 2018).
  • W Ge and Y Yu, Borrowing Treasures from the Wealthy: Deep Transfer Learning through Selective Joint Fine-tuning, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2017.
  • X Han, Z Li, H Huang, E Kalogerakis, and Y Yu, High Resolution Shape Completion Using Deep Neural Networks for Global Structure and Local Geometry Inference, IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2017
  • X Han, C Gao, and Y Yu , DeepSketch2Face: A Deep Learning Based Sketching System for 3D Face and Caricature Modeling, ACM Transactions on Graphics, Vol 36, No 4, 2015 (special issue for SIGGRAPH 2017).
  • G Li and Y Yu, Visual Saliency Detection Based on Multiscale Deep CNN Features, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), Vol 25, No 11, 2016.
  • Z Yan, H Zhang, R Piramuthu, V Jagadeesh, D DeCoste, W Di, and Y Yu, HD-CNN: Hierarchical Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Large Scale Visual Recognition, IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2015.
  • S Bi, X Han, and Y Yu, An L1 Image Transform for Edge-Preserving Smoothing and Scene-Level Intrinsic Decomposition, ACM Transactions on Graphics, Vol 34, No 4, 2015 (special issue for SIGGRAPH 2015).
  • Y Yu and JT Chang, Shadow Graphs and 3D Texture Reconstruction, International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), Vol 62, No 1-2, pp 35-60, 2005.

About Me

Prof Yizhou Yu is an Associate Director of the HKU Musketeers Foundation Institute of Data Science and a Chair Professor at the HKU School of Computing and Data Science. He was also a faculty member at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign for more than ten years. He received his PhD degree in computer science from University of California at Berkeley. He is an ACM fellow and IEEE fellow.