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Email: haiyingguan@gmail.com

Location: Bethesda MD 21814 USA

Homepage: http://haiyingguan.org

Visa Status: Permanent Resident of USA

 

 

 

 

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in Computer Science

CS Department, University of California, Santa Barbara

Advisor: Prof. Matthew Turk, GPA: 3.98/4.0

 

Jan. 2002 – Jul. 2007

Santa Barbara, CA, USA

M.S. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering

EEE School, Nanyang Technological University

 

Jul. 1998 – Jul. 2000

Singapore

B.E. in Telecommunication and Control Engineering

School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Beijing Jiaotong University

Sep. 1990 – Apr. 1997

Beijing, China

 

 

 

PROFESSIONAL

EXPERIENCE

Postdoctoral Fellow

U.S. National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health

 

Apr. 2008 – present

Bethesda, MD, USA

Senior Research Engineer

Digital Media Solutions Lab, Samsung Information System America

 

Aug. 2007 – Mar. 2008

Irvine, CA, USA

Summer Intern

Computer Aided Diagnosis Group, Siemens Medical Solutions

 

Jun. 2005 - Sep. 2005

Malvern, PA, USA

Research Assistant

CS Department, University of California, Santa Barbara

 

Jan. 2005 – Jul. 2007

Santa Barbara, USA

Teaching Assistant

CS Department, University of California, Santa Barbara

 

Jan. 2002 – Dec. 2004

Santa Barbara, USA

Research Engineer

Centre for Signal Processing, Nanyang Technological University

 

Aug. 2000 - Sep. 2001

Singapore

Research Assistant

Nanyang Technological University

 

Jul. 1998 – Jul. 2000

Singapore

Software Engineer

CASCO Signal Ltd., ALSTOM

 

Apr. 1997 – Jun. 1998

Beijing, China

Research Assistant

Beijing Jiaotong University

Sep. 1994 – Apr. 1997

Beijing, China

 

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

International Journal and Conference Publications

 

Haiying Guan, Sameer Antani, L. Rodney Long, and George R. Thoma, “Minimizing the semantic gap in biomedical content-based image retrieval”, accepted by Proc. Of SPIE, Medical Imaging: Advanced PACS-based Imaging Informatics, and Therapeutic Applications, 2010.

 

Haiying Guan, Sameer Antani, L. Rodney Long, and George R. Thoma, “Bridging the Semantic Gap using Ranking SVM for Image Retrieval”, In Proc. of the IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro (ISBI'09), pp. 354-357, 2009.

 

Haiying Guan, Sameer Antani, L. Rodney Long, and George R. Thoma, “Comparative Study of Spine Vertebra Shape Retrieval using Learning-based Feature Selection”, In Proc. of the Special Track on Biomedical Image Applications in Research and Clinical Medicine, the 22nd IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS'09), 2009.

 

Haiying Guan and Matthew Turk, “The Hierarchical Isometric Self-Organizing Map for Manifold Representation”, In IEEE Workshop on Component Analysis Methods for Classification, Clustering, Modeling, and Estimation Problems in Computer Vision, Proc. of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'07), pp. 1-8, 2007.

 

Haiying Guan, Toshiro Kubota, Xiaolei Huang, Xiang Sean Zhou, and Matthew Turk, “Automatic Hot Spot Detection and Segmentation in Whole Body FDG-PET Images”, In Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP'06), pp. 85-88, 2006.

 

Haiying Guan, Jae Sik Chang, Longbin Chen, Rogerio S. Feris, and Matthew Turk, “Multi-view appearance-based 3D hand pose estimation”, In IEEE Workshop on Vision for Human Computer Interaction, Proc. of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'06), pp. 154-159, 2006. 

 

Haiying Guan, Rogerio S. Feris, and Matthew Turk, “The Isometric Self-Organizing Map for 3D Hand Pose Estimation”, In Proc. of the 7th International Conference Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG'06), pp. 263-268, 2006.

 

Haiying Guan and Matthew Turk, “3D Hand Pose Reconstruction with ISOSOM”, In Proc. of the First International Symposium on Advances in Visual Computing (ISVC'05), pp. 630-635, 2005.

 

Chin-Seng Chua, Haiying Guan, and Yeong-Khing Ho, “Model-based 3D Hand Posture Estimation From A Single 2D Image”, In Image Vision and Computing, vol. 20, pp. 191-202, 2002.

 

Haiying Guan, Chin-Seng Chua and Yeong-Khing Ho, “3D Hand Pose Retrieval From A Single 2D Image”, In Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP'01), vol. 1, pp. 157-160, 2001.

 

Haiying Guan, Chin-Seng Chua and Yeong-Khing Ho, “Model-based Finger Posture Estimation”, In Prof. of the IEEE Fourth Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV'00), pp. 43-48, 2000.

 

Haiying Guan, Chin-Seng Chua and Yeong-Khing Ho, “Hand Posture Estimation from 2D Monocular Image”, In Proc. of the IEEE Second International Conference on 3-D Digital Imaging and Modeling (3DIM'99), pp. 424-429, 1999.

 

Haiying Guan, Chin-Seng Chua, Yeong-Khing Ho, Yang Yang, “Model-based Finger Posture Estimation from 2D Monocular Image”, In Proc. of Image and Vision Computing Conference, pp. 133-138, 1999.

 

Yang Yang, Chin-Seng Chua and Yeong-Khing Ho, Haiying Guan, “Detection and Labeling of Human Body”, In Proc. of Image and Vision Computing Conference, pp. 205-210, 1999.

 

Journals in China

 

Haiying Guan and Qiuqi Ruan, “Adaptive Tracking of Non-Rigid Objects Contour based on Hausdorff Distance”, In Journal of China Institute of Communications, vol. 19, no. 11, pp. 38-43, 1998.

 

Haiying Guan and Qiuqi Ruan, “Moving Targets Detection in An Image Sequence”, In Journal of the China Railway Society, vol. 18, no. 6, pp. 33-38. 1996.

 

Posters

 

Haiying Guan, Sameer Antani, L. Rodney Long, and George R. Thoma, “Learning-based Feature Selection and Fusion for Content-based Medical Image Retrieval”, In NIH Research Festival, Poster Session III, IMAG-22, Natcher Conference Center, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Oct 6-9, 2009.

 

Haiying Guan, Sameer Antani, and L. Rodney Long, “Bridging the Semantic Gap with Ranking SVM in Content-Based Medical Image Retrieval”, In NLM Informatics Training Conference, Oregon Health & Science University, June 23-24, 2009.

 

Theses and Reports

 

Haiying Guan, “Vision-based 3D Hand Posture Estimation Using Hierarchical-ISOSOM”, Ph.D. thesis, Advisor, Prof. Matthew Turk, Computer Science Department, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2007.

 

Haiying Guan and Matthew Turk, “3D Hand Pose Reconstruction with ISOSOM”, Technical Report 2005-15, Computer Science Department, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2005.

 

Haiying Guan, “Model-based 3D Hand Posture Estimation from a 2D Image”, Master thesis, Advisor, Prof. Chin Seng Chua, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 2000.

 

Haiying Guan, “Detection and Tracking 2D Targets in Image Sequences”, Master thesis, Advisor, Prof. Qiuqi Ruan. Center of Signal and Information Processing, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China, 1997.

 

PATENTS

 

Haiying Guan and Ning Xu, “System and Method for Human Hand Motion Detection By Skin Color Prediction”, filed on May 23, 2008 U.S. Application No. 12/126,688.

 

Haiying Guan and Ning Xu, “System and Method for Circling Detection Based on Object Trajectory”, filed on July 31, 2008, U.S. Application No. 12/184,008.

 

Ning Xu and Haiying Guan, “System and Method for Waving Detection Based on Object Trajectory”, filed on July 31, 2008, U.S. Application No. 12/183,994.

 

Yeong-Taeg Kim, Ning Xu, and Haiying Guan, “System and Method for Motion Detection Based on Object Trajectory”, filed on July 31, 2008, U.S. Application No. 12/183,973.

 

Xiaolei Huang, Xiang Zhou, Anna Jerebko, Arun Krishnan, Haiying Guan, Toshiro Kubota, Vaclav Potesil, “System and Method for Whole Body Landmark Detection, Segmentation and Change Quantification in Digital Images”, Patent pending, filed in Oct. 2006, U.S. Serial No. 11/542,477.

 

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

 

Editorial Review Board Membership for Scholarly Publications

 

Reviewer for Journals

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI)

Computer Vision and Image Understanding (Elsevier) (CVIU)

Image and Vision Computing (Elsevier) (IVC)

Pattern Recognition (Elsevier) (PR)

 

Reviewer for International Conferences

International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)

International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)

International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG)

International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI)

International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC)

IEEE International Workshop on Analysis and Modeling of Faces and Gestures (in conjunction with ICCV) (AMFG)