Jianping Fan, Associate Professor

Jianping Fan

Current Research Projects:

  • Tag Cleansing for Exploring Large-Scale Weakly-Tagged Image Collections
  • Scalable Data Transformation to Enable Interactive Hypothesis Visualization and Assessment for Visual Analytics Applications
  • Leveraging Large-Scale Weakly-Tagged Image/Video Collections for Classifier Training and Concept Detection

    • Courses for Spring 2010:

  • ITCS 3160: Database Management Systems
  • ITCS 6160/ITCS8160: Database Management Systems

    • Recent Publications:

  • W. Gong, H. Luo, J. Fan, ``Extracting Informative Images from Web News Pages via Imbalanced Classification", ACM Multimedia (MM'09) Grand Challenge Competition, Beijing, 2009.
  • Z. Li, H. Luo, J. Fan, ``Incorporating Camera Metadata for Attended Region Detection and Consumer Photo Classification", ACM Multimedia (MM'09), Beijing, 2009.
  • J. Fan, H. Luo, Y. Shen, C. Yang, ``Integrating Visual and Semantic Contexts for Topic Network Generation and Word Sense Disambiguation", ACM Conf. on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR'09), 2009.
  • Y. Gao, J. Peng, H. Luo, D. Keim, J. Fan, ``An Interactive Approach for Filtering out Junk Images from Keyword-Based Google Search Results", IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 19, no.10, 2009. Some preliminary results are also presented at MMM'08. Online demo is available at Junk Images filtering demo 
  • H. Luo, J. Fan, D.A. Keim, S. Satoh, ``Personalized News Recommmendation", Intl. Conf. on Multimedia Modeling, 2009.
  • J. Fan, D.A. Keim, Y. Gao, H. Luo, Z. Li, ``JustClick: Personalized Image Recommendation via Exploratory Search from Large-Scale Flickr Images", IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 19, no.2, pp.273-288, 2009. Video
  • J. Fan, D.A. Keim, Y. Gao, H. Luo, Z. Li, ``A Novel Approach to Enable Semantic and Visual Summarization for Exploratory Image Search", ACM Conf. on Multimedia Information Retrieval (MIR'08), 2008.
  • J. Fan, Y. Gao, H. Luo, ``Integrating Concept Ontology and Multi-Task Learning to Achieve More Effective Classifier Training for Multi-Level Image Annotation", IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, vol. 17, no.3, pp.407-426, 2008.
  • J. Fan, Y. Gao, H. Luo, R. Jain, ``Mining Multi-Level Image Semantics via Hierarchical Classification", IEEE Trans. on Multimedia, special issue on Multimedia Data Mining, vol. 10, no.1, pp.167-187, 2008. Some preliminary results are also presented at MIR'06, Video
  • H. Luo, Y. Gao, X. Xue, J. Peng, J. Fan, ``Incorporating Feature Hierarchy and Boosting for Concept-Oriented Video Summarization and Skimming", ACM Trans. on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications, vol. 4, no.1, pp.1-25, 2008. Some preliminary results are also presented at MIR'04, JCDL'04, Video
  • H. Luo, J. Fan, S. Satoh, J. Yang, W. Ribarsky, ``Integrating Multi-Modal Content Analysis and Hyperbolic Visualization for Large-Scale News Videos Retrieval and Exploration", Signal Processing: Image Communication, special issue on Semantic Analysis for Interactive Multimedia Services, vol.23, no.8, pp.538-553, 2008. Some preliminary results are also presented at IEEE VAST'07 and IEEE VAST'06. Video .
  • J. Fan, Y. Gao, H. Luo, ``Hierarchical classification for automatic image annotation", ACM SIGIR, Amsterdam, pp.111-118, 2007. Presentation Slides
  • B. Li, M. Chi, J. Fan, X. Xue, ``Support Cluster Machine", International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML'07), June 20-24, 2007, Oregon, USA.
  • J. Fan, H. Luo, Y. Gao, R. Jain, ``Incorporating Concept Ontology for Hierarchical Video Classification, Annotation and Visualization", IEEE Trans. on Multimedia, special issue on Semantic Image and Video Indexing in Broad Domains, vol. 9, no.5, pp. 939-957, 2007. Some preliminary results are also presented at ACM Multimedia'06.
  • B.Li, X. Xue, J. Fan, ``A Robust Incremental Learning Framework for Accurate Skin Region Segmentation in Color Images", Pattern Recognition, vol.40, no.12, pp.3621-3632, 2007.
  • Y. Gao, J. Fan, H. Luo, X. Xue, R. Jain, ``Automatic Image Annotation by Incorporating Feature Hierarchy and Boosting to Scale up SVM Classifiers", ACM Multimedia, Santa Barbara, CA, 2006. Presentation Slides , Video
  • J. Fan, H. Luo, M.-S. Hacid, Elisa Bertino, ``A Novel Approach For Privacy-Preserving Video Sharing'', ACM CIKM Conference, Bremen, Germany, Oct. 31 - Nov. 5, 2005. Presentation Slides
  • J. Fan, H. Luo, Y. Gao, M.-S. Hacid, ``Mining Image Databases on Semantics via Statistical Learning'', ACM SIGKDD Conference, Chicago, IL, August 20-25, 2005. Presentation Slides, Video
  • J. Fan , Y. Gao, H. Luo, G. Xu, ``Statistical modeling and conceptualization of natural images", Pattern Recognition, special issue on automatic understanding of photography, vol.38, no.6, pp.865-885, 2005.
  • J. Fan , G. Zeng, M. Body, M.-S. Hacid, ``Seeded Region Growing: An Extensive and Comparative Study", Pattern Recognition Letters, vol.26, no.5, pp.1139-1156, 2005. Source Code
  • J. Fan, Y. Gao, H. Luo, ``Multi-level annotation of natural scenes using dominant image components and semantic image concepts", ACM Multimedia, New York, Oct.10-15, 2004 ( Best Paper Runner-ups), Presentation Slides, Video.
  • J. Fan , H. Luo, A.K. Elmagarmid, ``Concept-Oriented Indexing of Video Database towards More Effective Retrieval and Browsing", IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, vol.13, no.7, pp.974-992, 2004. Video
  • J. Fan , X. Zhu, A.K. Elmagarmid, W.G. Aref, L. Wu, ``ClassView: Hierarchical Video Shot Classification, Indexing, and Accessing", IEEE Trans. on Multimedia, vol.6, no.1, pp.70-86, 2004.
  • E. Bertino, J. Fan, E. Ferrari, M.-S. Hacid, A.K. Elmagarmid, Xingquan Zhu, ``A Hierarchical Access Control Model for Video Database Systems", ACM Trans. on Information Systems, vol.21, no.2, pp.155-191, 2003.
  • J. Fan, David K.Y. Yau, Ahmed K. Elmagarmid, Walid G. Aref, ``Automatic image segmentation by integrating color edge detection and seeded region growing", IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, vol.10, no.10, Oct., pp.1454-1466, 2001. Source Code

    • PhD Students:

  • Chunlei Yang
  • Zhong Li
  • Yi Shen

    • Alumnis:

  • Hangzai Luo
  • Yuli Gao

    • Connection Information:

  • Department of Computer Science
  • UNC-Charlotte
  • Charlotte, NC 28223, USA
  • Email: jfan AT uncc DOT edu
  • Phone: 704-687-8556
  • Fax: 704-687-3516