Bio

Dr. Zheng-Jun Zha is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in School of Computing, National University of Singapore. He received the B.E. degree in automation and Ph.D. degree in pattern recognition and intelligent system from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Hefei, China, in 2004 and 2009 respectively. From January 2007 to November 2008, he worked as a research intern in Internet Media Group at Microsoft Research Asia. From November 2008 to January 2009, he worked as a research intern in School of Computing at National University of Singapore. His current research interests include large-scale media search, social media sharing and management, computer vision and machine learning. He received Microsoft Fellowship in 2007 and President Scholarship of Chinese Academy of Science in 2009.

Selected Publications

Year 2010

[14] Yinghai Zhao, Zheng-Jun Zha, Shanshan Li, Xiuqing Wu. "Which Tags are Related to Visual Content," International Conference on Multimedia Modeling (MMM), Chongqing, China, 2010.
[13] Richang Hong, Jinhui Tang, Zheng-Jun Zha, Zhiping Luo, Tat-Seng Chua. "Mediapedia: Mining Web Knowledge to Construct Multimedia Encyclopedia," International Conference on Multimedia Modeling (MMM), Chongqing, China, 2010.

Year 2009

[12] Zheng-Jun Zha, Linjun Yang, Tao Mei, Meng Wang, Zengfu Wang. "Visual Query Suggestion," ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), Beijing, China, 2009. (full paper, oral presentation)

[11] Zheng-Jun Zha, Tao Mei, Meng Wang, Zengfu Wang, Xian-Sheng Hua. "Robust Distance Metric Learning with Auxiliary Knowledge," International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), Pasadena, CA, USA, 2009. (regular paper, oral presentation)

[10] Zheng-Jun Zha, Tao Mei, Jingdong Wang, Zengfu Wang, Xian-Sheng Hua. "Graph-based Semi-Supervised Learning with Multiple Labels," Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation (JVCI), Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 97-103, 2009.

[9] Guo-Jun Qi, Jinhui Tang, Zheng-Jun Zha, Chua Tat-Seng, and Hong-Jiang Zhang, "An Efficient Sparse Metric Learning in High-Dimensional Space via $\ell_1$-Penalized Log-Determinant Regularization," International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), Quebec, Canada, 2009.

Year 2008

[8] Zheng-Jun Zha, Xian-Sheng Hua, Tao Mei, et al. "Joint Multi-Label Multi-Instance Learning for Image Classification," IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), PP. 1-8, Anchorage, Alaska, 2008.

[7] Zheng-Jun Zha, Tao Mei, Jingdong Wang, Zengfu Wang, Xian-Sheng Hua. "Graph-Based Semi-Supervised Learning with Multi-Label," IEEE Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME), pp. 1321-1324, Hannover, Germany, 2008.

[6] Tao Mei, Zheng-Jun Zha, Yuan Liu, et al. "MSRA at TRECVID 2008: High-Level Feature Extraction and Automatic Search," NIST TRECVID Workshop (TRECVID), 2008.

[5] Guo-Jun Qi, Xian-Sheng Hua, Yong Rui, Jinhui Tang, Zheng-Jun Zha, Hong-Jiang Zhang.  "A Joint Appearance-Spatial Distance for Kernel-Based Image Categorization," IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), PP. 1-8, Anchorage, Alaska, 2008.

[4] Bo Geng, Linjun Yang, Zheng-Jun Zha, Chao Xu, Xian-Sheng Hua. "Unbiased Active Learning for Image Retrieval," IEEE Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME), pp. 1325-1328, Hannover, Germany, 2008.

Year 2007

[3] Zheng-Jun Zha, Tao Mei, Zengfu Wang, Xian-Sheng Hua. "Building a Comprehensive Ontology to Refine Video Concept Detection," ACM SIGMM International Conference Worshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval (ACM MIR), pp. 227-236, Augsburg, Germany, 2007.

[2] Zheng-Jun Zha, Tao Mei, Xian-Sheng Hua, Guo-Jun Qi, Zengfu Wang. "Refining Video Annotation by Exploiting Pairwise Concurrent Relation," ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), pp. 345-348, Augsburg, Germany, 2007. (short paper)

[1] Tao Mei, Xian-Sheng Hua, Wei Lai, Linjun Yang, Zheng-Jun Zha, et al. "MSRA-USTC-SJTU at TRECVID　2007: High-Level Feature Extraction and Search," NIST TRECVID Workshop, (TRECVID), 2007.

Professional Services

Program Commitee Member for
ACM International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR), 2010.
International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISSAP), 2010.
The IASED Conference on Computer Graphics and Imaging (CGIM), 2010.
The IADIS Conference on Visual Communication (VC), 2009.

Reviewer for
IEEE Trans. on Multimedia (T-MM), from 2009.
IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (T-CSVT), from 2009.
International Journal of Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (IJDMB), from 2009.
International Journal of Information Sciences (INS), from 2009.
Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation (JVCI), from 2008.

International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), 2010.
ACM Conference on Multimedia (MM), 2009.
International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2009.
Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV), 2009.
International Conference on Internet Multimedia Computing and Service, 2009.
International Workshop on Interactive Multimedia for Consumer Electronics, in conjunction with ACM Conference on Multimedia (MM), 2009.
IEEE Workshop on Emergent Issues in Large Amounts of Visual Data (WS-LAVD), in conjuction with International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2009.
International Multimedia Modeling Conference (MMM), 2008-2010.
International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME), 2008, 2009.

Research Interests

Large-Scale Media Search

Social Media Analysis

Computer Vision

Machine Learning

Education

Ph. D. Sep. 2004 ~ Jul. 2009
Department of Automation, USTC
Supervised by Prof. Zengfu Wang

B.E. Sep. 2000 ~ Jul. 2004
Department of Automation, USTC

Professional Experience

Research Fellow
Jul. 2009 ~ Present
School of Computing, National University of Singapore
Supervised by Prof. Chua Tat-Seng

Research Intern
Nov. 2008 ~ Jan. 2009
School of Computing, National University of Singapore
Supervised by Prof. Chua Tat-Seng

Research Intern
Jan. 2007 ~ Nov. 2008
Internet Media Group, Microsoft Research Asia
Supervised by Dr. Xian-Sheng Hua and Dr. Tao Mei

Research Assistant
Sep. 2004 ~ Jul. 2009
Department of Automation, University of Science and Technology of China, Supervised by Prof. Zengfu Wang

Awards and Honors

President Scholarship of Chinese Academic of  Science, 2009

Excellent Graduate of Anhui Province, 2009

Excellent Graduate of USTC, 2009

Zhu Li Yue Hua Scholarship of Chinese Academic of Science, 2008

HuaWei Scholarship of USTC, 2008

Microsoft Fellowship, 2007

Postgraduate Innovation Foundation of USTC, 2007

GuangHua Scholarship of USTC, 2007

GuangHua Scholarship of USTC, 2005

Links

Prof. Chua Tat-Seng (NUS)
Prof. Chong-Wah Ngo (CityUHK)
Prof. Dacheng Tao (NTU)
Prof. Qi Tian (UTSA)
Prof. Shuicheng Yan (NUS)
Dr. Xian-Sheng Hua (MSRA)
Dr. Jingdong Wang (MSRA)
Dr. Jinhui Tang (NUS)
Dr. Lei Zhang (MSRA)
Dr. Meng Wang (MSRA)
Dr. Richang Hong (NUS)
Dr. Tao Mei (MSRA)
Mr. Guangda Li (NUS)
Mr. Guo-Jun Qi (UIUC)
Mr. Lei Wu (USTC)
Mr. Yantao Zheng (NUS)
Mr. Yue Gao (THU)