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Publication List

  1. Searching the World's Herbaria: A System of Visual Identification of Plant Species
    P. Belhumeur, D. Chen, S. Feiner, D. Jacobs, J. W. Kress, H. Ling, I. Lopez, R. Ramamoorthi, S. Shirdhonkar, S. White, and L. Zhang
    European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2008.
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  2. Hierarchical, Learning-based Automatic Liver Segmentation
    H. Ling, S. K. Zhou, Y. Zheng, B. Georgescu, M. Suehling, and D. Comaniciu,
    IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2008.
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  3. Proximity Distribution Kernels for Geometric Context in Category Recognition
    H. Ling and S. Soatto
    IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2007.
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  4. A Study of Face Recognition as People Age
    H. Ling, S. Soatto, N. Ramanathan, and D. W. Jacobs
    IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2007.
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  5. An Efficient Earth Mover's Distance Algorithm for Robust Histogram Comparison
    H. Ling and K. Okada
    IEEE Trans on Pattern Anal. and Mach. Intell. (PAMI), 29(5):840-853, 2007.
    PDF | code |

  6. Shape Classification Using the Inner-Distance
    H. Ling and D.W. Jacobs
    IEEE Trans on Pattern Anal. and Mach. Intell. (PAMI), 29(2):286-299, 2007.
    PDF | Matlab code for matching (~113K), for articulated shapes (~130K) | Smithsonian Leaves (4.5M)

  7. First Steps Toward an Electronic Field Guide for Plants
    G. Agarwal, P. Belhumeur, S. Feiner, D. Jacobs, J. W. Kress, R. Ramamoorthi, N. Bourg, N. Dixit, H. Ling, D. Mahajan, R. Russell, S. Shirdhonkar, K. Sunkavalli, and S. White
    Taxon, 55(3):597-610, 2006.
    PDF (~9M) | web | BibTex

  8. Diffusion Distance for Histogram Comparison
    H. Ling and K. Okada
    IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Vol. I, pp. 246-253, 2006.
    PDF | Dataset 1, 2 | code | BibTex

  9. EMD-L1: An Efficient and Robust Algorithm for Comparing Histogram-Based Descriptors
    H. Ling and K. Okada
    European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), LNCS 3953, III:330-343, 2006.
    PDF | code | BibTex

  10. Deformation Invariant Image Matching
    H. Ling and D.W. Jacobs
    IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) Vol. II, pp. 1466-1473, 2005.
    PDF | ICCV Talk (4.5M) | Dataset 1, 2 | Matlab code (~900K) | BibTex

  11. Using the Inner-Distance for Classification of Articulated Shapes
    H. Ling and D.W. Jacobs
    IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Vol. II, pp. 719-726, 2005.
    PDF | Articulated shape database (~36K) | Matlab code (~113K) | BibTex

  12. Automatic Thumbnail Cropping and Its Effectiveness
    B. Suh, H. Ling, B.B. Bederson, and D.W. Jacobs
    ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST), CHI Letters, 5(2), pp. 95-104, 2003. [Best Student Paper]
    PDF | Matlab code (~58K) | BibTex

Ph.D. Dissertation

    Techniques for Image Retrieval: Deformation Insensitivity and Automatic Thumbnail Cropping
    H. Ling
    Advisor: Prof. David W. Jacobs,
    Committee: Prof. Yiannis Aloimonos, Prof. Ben B. Bederson, Prof. Rama Chellappa, Prof. Larry S. Davis, and Prof. Min Wu
    PDF (~9M)

Patents

  1. H. Ling and K. Okada, Diffusion Distance for Histogram Comparison, Pending.
  2. K. Okada and H. Ling. An Efficient Earth Mover's Distance Algorithm for Robust Histogram Comparison. Pending.
  3. K. Okada, H. Ling, and A. Krishnan. Gradient Ascent Approach for Detecting Anisotropic Gaussian Structure. Pending.
  4. J. Wang, H. Ling, Y. Zou, S. Lu, Method and System for Separating Text and Drawings in Digital Ink, US Patent No. 09/895429.

Old Publications on Geographical Information Systems (all in Chinese)

  1. Weiming Hu, Haibin Ling, Contour Line Elevation Interpretation and 3-D Surface Reconstruction from Very Large Topographic Map, ACTA AUTOMATICA SINICA, Vol. 28, No. 1, pp. 63-73, 2002.
  2. Haibin Ling, Bing Wu, A General Algorithm for Mesh Based Image Processing Based on Scan Line, Journal of Computer-Aided Design & Computer Graphics, 2001.
  3. Weiming Hu, Haibin Ling, Rapid Automated Hill-shading for Very Large Map, Chinese Journal of Computers, Vol. 23, No. 8, pp. 852-856, 2000.
  4. Weiming Hu, Bing Wu, Haibin Ling, An Automatic Method for Contour Interpolation in Map Design, Chinese Journal of Computers, Vol.23, No.8, pp. 847-851, 2000.
  5. Wu Bing, Yin Weiqiang, Ling Haibin, An Algorithm of Clipping the General Polygons with Topological Attributes, Mini-Micro Systems
  6. Wu Bing, Yin Weiqiang, Zhou Daliang, Cao Wufeng, Ling Haibin, Liu Wei, The Design of Digital Map Publishing System, Computer Engineering, June, 2000.
  7. Weiming Hu, Haibin Ling, Neural Network Based Timing Driven Floorplanning, ACTA ELECTRONICA SINICA, Vol. 28, No. 5, pp. 21-24, 2000.
  8. Haibin Ling, Wufeng Cao, Bing Wu, A Triangulation Error Registration Method on Geographical Data Collecting, Symposium of CPGIS 1999.
  9. Wufeng Cao, Bing Wu, Haibin Ling, Map Projection in GIS Mapping, Symposium of CPGIS 1999.
  10. Haibin Ling, Bing Wu, An Improved Algorithm for Auto-connected Delaunay Triangulation, Computer Applications, Dec. 1999.