NEWS AND UPDATES
I have been granted with "The Dean's Graduate Research Excellence Award" by School of Computing, NUS. The award is to be given to senior PhD students who have made sustained research achievement during their PhD study. View press release
Our team won the "Most Welcome System" award in the VideOlympic at CIVR'09, Santorini, Greece.
Our work of landmark recognition engine has brought great impact and been reported by various media, like PCWorld, 腾讯
Finally, I got myself a completely new looking website.
A Real-World Web Image Database from our team is officially released. Click here to try it out!
I was awarded with Microsoft Research Fellowship by MSRA. 
Our team won the championship of Star Challenge, over 56 participating teams.
I finished my summer internship in Google, Maintain View, U.S. It was fantastic!
I was awarded with "IBM Waston Emerging Multimedia Leaders" by IBM Waston Research Center, U.S. I have met and made friends of many outstanding students there!
I was honored with Tan Kah Kee Young Inventors’ Award
LINKS
Guangda Li (NUS)
Hungkhoon Tan (CityUHK)
Jinjun Wang (NEC)
Jinqiao Wang (CAS)
Jinhui Tang (NUS)
Ming Zhao (Google)
Richang Hong (NUS)
Shuicheng Yan (NUS)
Zhaoyan Ming (NUS)
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My name is Yan-Tao (Leon) Zheng 郑彦涛. I am now working at Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R) as a research engineer. I have submitted my Ph.D thesis to NUS Graduate School, National University of Singapore. My thesis advisors are Prof. Chua Tat-Seng from School of Computing, NUS and Dr. Tian Qi from Institute for Infocomm Research. I graduated from Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), School of Computer Eng. with B.Eng in 2004.
Email: yantaozheng -AT- gmail DOT com
Research
My research interests include GPS-tagged multimedia mining and image semantic understanding, which connect to the fields of multimedia computing, computer vision and pattern recognition.
During my Ph.D study, I have focused on constructing a novel visual feature, visual synset, to partially bridge the visual appearance differences of images of same semantic class. Please view the project page.
During my internship with Google, I have worked on building an earth-scale tourist landmark recognition engine. Please view the demo page. It has been reported by various media, like PCWorld, 腾讯.
During my research attachment in I2R, I focused on TV commercial semantic analysis, i.e. TV commercial classifications based on categories of advertised products.
Academic Services
Program committee member: ACM Multimedia 2008 SP Content Track, ACM CIVR 2008 Special session, PCM 2008, ACM MMM 2009
Reviewer: Multimedia Systems Journal, Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation (JVCI), ICME 07, 08, 09 ;
Recent Publication
Yan-Tao Zheng, Ming Zhao, Yang Song, Hartwig Adam, Ulrich Buddemeier, Alessandro Bissacco, Fernando Brucher, Tat-Seng Chua, Hartmut Neven, etc, "Tour the World: building a web-scale landmark recogntion engine", in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Miami, Florida, U.S., June 20-25, 2009 < see demo> (BibTex) (pdf) , <press release: PCWorld, 腾讯>
Yan-Tao Zheng, Shi-Yong Neo, Tat-Seng Chua, Qi Tian, "Visual Synset: a Higher-level Visual Representation for Object-based Image Retrieval", The Visual Computer, Volume 25, Issue 1 (2009), page 13 (BibTex) (pdf)
Yan-Tao Zheng, Ming Zhao, Shi-Yong Neo, Tat-Seng Chua, Qi Tian, "Visual Synset: towards a Higher-level Visual Representation", in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2008, Achorage, Alaska, U.S., June 24-26,2008 (BibTex) (pdf)
Yan-Tao Zheng, Shi-Yong Neo, Tat-Seng Chua, Qi Tian, "Object-based Image Retrieval Beyond Visual Appearances", Proceedings of ACM Conference on Multimeida Modeling (MMM) 2008, Kyoto, Japan, Jan 9-11, 2008, best student paper award (pdf)
Ling-Yu Duan , Jinqiao Wang , Yan-Tao Zheng , Hanqing Lu , Jesse S. Jin, “Digesting Commercial Clips from TV Streams”, IEEE MultiMedia, Volume 15, Issue 1, Date: Jan 2008, pp. 28-41