Dr. Xianghua Xie
Please call me Jason, if you struggle to pronounce a name beginning with X (I have two!). My surname is pronounced probably similar to Shay.
I am an RCUK Academic Fellow (tenure-track research focused lecturer) in the Visual and Interactive Computing Group at the Department of Computer Science, University of Swansea. Previously, I was a Research Associate in the Computer Vision Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Bristol, working on a European Commission project, CASBliP.
I received the M.Sc. degree (with commendation) in Advanced Computing in 2002 from the University of Bristol, UK. Then, I continued to pursue a Ph.D. degree in the same department from the end of 2002, under the supervision of Prof. Majid Mirmehdi. Prof. Barry Thomas was also involved in cosupervision at the earlier stage. I finished my Ph.D. study in March 2006.
News:
- 16th Conference on Medical Image Understanding and Analysis (MIUA 2012) to be held in Swansea. (Click here to access the MIUA 2012 website)
I have strong research interests in video analysis, stereo systems, active contour models, level set methods, texture analysis, and medical image understanding.
- 3D Pose Estimation and Tracking
- Video Segmentation
- Depth Estimation from Stereo Camera
- Contour Based Object Tracking
- Active Contour Models
- Texture Analysis
- Surface Inspection
- Medical Image Analysis
- Document Analysis
Current highlight:
- 3D Pose Estimation (CVPR 2011, link to be added soon)
- MAC model (download paper, download software)
Team:
Currently my team consists of
- 4 research staff (RAs & ROs),
- 4 PhD students,
- 2 MSc by Research students.
A list of team members can be found here.
Research Opportunities:
- PhD in Computer Vision and Medical Image Analysis;
- MSc by Research in Visual Computing - one year research only master programme.
- MRes in Visual Computing - one year research focused master programme (1/3 taught modules and 2/3 research project).
Selected journal publications:
A complete list of publications can be found here.
- J. Chiverton, X. Xie, and M. Mirmehdi, Automatic Bootstrapping and Tracking of Object Contours, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (T-IP), in press, 2012.
- S. Yeo, X. Xie, I. Sazonov and P. Nithiarasu, Geometrically Induced Force Interaction for Three-Dimensional Deformable Models, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (T-IP), volume 20, number 5, pages 1373 - 1387, IEEE CS Press, May 2011.
- Xianghua Xie, Active Contouring Based on Gradient Vector Interaction and Constrained Level Set Diffusion, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (T-IP), volume 19, number 1, pages 154 - 164, IEEE CS Press, January 2010. Impact factor: 2.606.
- Xianghua Xie and Majid Mirmehdi, MAC: Magnetostatic Active Contour Model, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (T-PAMI), volume 30, number 4, pages 632 - 646, IEEE CS Press, April 2008. Download paper. Impact factor: 5.960.
- Xianghua Xie and Majid Mirmehdi, TEXEMS: Texture Exemplars for Defect Detection on Random Textured Surfaces, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (T-PAMI), volume 29, number 8, pages 1454 - 1464, IEEE CS Press, August 2007. Impact factor: 3.579.
- Xianghua Xie and Majid Mirmehdi, RAGS: Region-Aided Geometric Snake, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (T-IP), volume 13, issue 5, pages 640 - 652, IEEE CS Press, May 2004. Impact factor: 2.642.
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