General
Dr. Tang Sheng (唐胜), Associate Professor 

Multimedia Computing Group,
Institute of Computing Technology,
Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China 

Address:Rm. 617, No.6 Kexueyuan South Road, Zhongguancun,Haidian District, Beijing, China. 
Postcode:100190 

Email: ts@ict.ac.cn, TangShengICT@gmail.com
Homepage: http://mcg.ict.ac.cn/people/shengtang.htm

Research Areas

Pattern recognition and Machine learning, Multimedia information processing

Education

•Ph.D (2001.09-2006.03), Computer Application Technology, Institute of Computing Technology, CAS, China
•Master of Engineering(1998.09-2001.07), Computer Application Technology, Xiangtan University, China
•Bachelor of Engineering(1989.10-1993.06), Chemical Engineering & Machinery, Xiangtan University, China

Experience

   
Work Experience
•Associate Professor (Since 2008.03), Institute of Computing Technology, CAS, China
 •Visiting Research Fellow (2009.02-2010.02), School of Computing, National University of Singapore
•TRECVID 2006-2008 leader of MCG-ICT-CAS team at the Multimedia Computing Group, Institute of Computing Technology, CAS.
•Visiting Scholar (2006.07-2006.08), School of Computing, National University of Singapore
•Assistant Professor (2006.03-2008.03), Institute of Computing Technology, CAS, China
•Engineer (1998.07–1998.09), Xiangtan University, China
•Assistant Engineer (1993.06-1998.07), Xiangtan University, China

Honors & Distinctions

•He was awarded “Pacemaker to Outstanding Students” of the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and “Dean's Award for Studying Excellence” of the Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences and “SONY Research Award” etc., during his Ph.d study.
•He was awarded first prize of Beijing Science and Technology in 2006 for his outstanding work in the project “3D Human Motion Simulation and Video Analysis System for Sports Training”.
•He visited National University of Singapore for participating in TREC Video Retrieval Evaluation (TRECVID) tasks in 2006. He was TRECVID team (MCG-ICT-CAS) leader of the Multimedia Computing Group at the Institute of Computing Technology, CAS. MCG-ICT-CAS participates regularly in TRECVID, and achieves good positions in the evaluation from 2007 to 2008. He was invited to give presentations in TRECVID 2008 workshop: http://www-nlpir.nist.gov/projects/tvpubs/tv.pubs.org.html
•The interactive video retrieval system “VisionGo” co-developed by NUS and ICT was awarded the “Best Performance System” in CIVR 2007 VideOlympics (Interactive Video Retrieval Competition): http://www.videolympics.org/.
•He was selected as one of the “Academic Stars” of the Institute of Computing Technology in July 2007, and a visiting scholar by the China Scholarship Council (CSC) in 2008.

Publications

   
Papers
Selected Journal Papers
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[1] Sheng Tang, Yan-Tao Zheng, Yu Wang, Tat-Seng Chua, “Sparse Ensemble Learning for Concept Detection”, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, Volume: 14 Issue: 1, pages: 43-54, February 2012.
[2] Lei Huang, Sheng Tang, Yongdong Zhang, Shiguo Lian, Shouxun Lin, “Robust Human Body Segmentation based on Part Appearance and Spatial Constraint”, Neurocomputing, 2013. (Accepted)
[3] Shaoxi Xu, Sheng Tang, Yongdong Zhang, Jintao Li, Yan-Tao Zheng, “Exploring Multi-Modality Structure for Cross Domain Adaptation in Video Concept Annotation”, Neurocomputing, Volume 95, Number 15, Pages 11-21, October 2012
[4] Yan Song, Sheng Tang, Yan-Tao Zheng, Tat-Seng Chua, Yongdong Zhang, Shouxun Lin, “Exploring Probabilistic Localized Video Representation for Human Action Recognition”, Multimedia Tools and Applications, Volume 58, Number 3, Pages 663-685, June, 2012.
[5] Hongtao Xie, Ke Gao, Yongdong Zhang, Sheng Tang, Jintao Li, Yizhi Liu, “Efficient Feature Detection and Effective Post-Verification for Large Scale Near-Duplicate Image Search”, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, Volume: 13 Issue: 6, pages: 1319-1332, Dec. 2011.
[6] Yan Song, Yan-Tao Zheng, Sheng Tang, Xiangdong Zhou, Yongdong Zhang, Shouxun Lin, Tat-Seng Chua, “Localized Multiple Kernel Learning for Realistic Human Action Recognition in Videos”, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Volume: 21, Issue: 9, pages: 1193-1202, September 2011. 

-Selected Conference Papers
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[7] Sheng Tang, Jin-Tao Li, Ming Li, Cheng Xie, Yi-Zhi Liu, Kun Tao, Shao-Xi Xu; “TRECVID 2008 High-Level Feature Extraction By MCG-ICT-CAS”; Proc. TRECVID 2008 Workshop, Gaithesburg, USA , Nov 2008(36 citations as shown by Google Scholar) 
[8] Sheng Tang, Jin-Tao Li, Yong-Dong Zhang,etal; “PornProbe: an LDA-SVM based Pornography Detection System”; ACM Multimedia 2009, Beijing, China, Oct.19-24, 2009.
[9] Tat-Seng Chua, Sheng Tang, Remi Trichet, Hung Khoon Tan, Yan Song; “MovieBase: A Movie Database for Event Detection and Behavioral Analysis”, ACM Multimedia 2009 Workshop on Web-Scale Multimedia Corpus, Beijing, China, Oct.23, 2009
[10] Yan Song, Sheng Tang, Yan-Tao Zheng, Tat-Seng Chua, Yongdong Zhang, Shouxun Lin, “A Distribution Based Video Representation For Human Action Recognition”, Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo 2010, pp: 772-777, Singapore, 2010.
[11] Shaoxi Xu, Sheng Tang, Jintao Li, Yongdong Zhang, “Multi-Modality Transfer based on Multi-Graph Optimization for Domain Adaptive Video Concept Annotation” , Proc. Fourth Pacific-Rim Symposium on Image and Video Technology, Nov., 2010
[12] Ji Wan, Sheng Tang, Yongdong Zhang, Lei Huang, Jintao Li, “Data Driven Multi-Index Hashing”, International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2013 (Accepted) 

-Book Chapers
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[13] Sheng Tang, Yan-Tao Zheng, Gang Cao, Yong-Dong Zhang and Jin-Tao Li; "Ensemble Learning with LDA Topic Models for Visual Concept Detection", in book: Multimedia - A Multidisciplinary Approach to Complex Issues , Ioannis Karydis (Ed.), ISBN: 978-953-51-0216-8, InTech - Open Access Publisher, chapter 9, pages: 175-200, March, 2012.

Patents
1.Sheng Tang, Jin-Tao Li, Yong-Dong Zhang, Cheng Xie; An efficient training and testing method for image classification, 200910092710.0, Applied on Sep. 16th, 2009
2.Sheng Tang, Jin-Tao Li, Yong-Dong Zhang; Robust Image Hashing, ZL200510077454.X, Authorized on Jan. 9th, 2008.
3.Sheng Tang, Yue-Liang Qian, etal; A Database based on Disturbing Stroke Order an Evaluation System for On-line Handwritten Chinese Character Recognition, ZL200410000823.0, Authorized on May 23th, 2007.
4.Yue-Liang Qian, Sheng Tang, Jin-Tao Li, etal; Remote Serial Communication System for PDA and its Flux Control Method, 01119940.7, Authorized on Aug. 11th, 2004.

Research Interests

Pattern recognition and Machine learning, Multimedia information processing, in particular, on indexing, retrieval and extraction of information in image and video. The main focus is on the semantic analysis and retrieval of video.

Collaboration

1. Prof. Chua Tat-Seng: School of Computing, National University of Singapore, http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~chuats/

2. Dr Yan-Tao ZHENG: Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), Singapore, http://www1.i2r.a-star.edu.sg/~yzheng/

Students

已指导学生

韩淇  硕士研究生  081203-计算机应用技术  

徐作新  硕士研究生  081203-计算机应用技术  

张雅琳  硕士研究生  081203-计算机应用技术  

曹智  硕士研究生  081203-计算机应用技术  

陈慧  硕士研究生  081203-计算机应用技术  

曹阳  硕士研究生  081203-计算机应用技术  

肖俊斌  硕士研究生  081203-计算机应用技术  

秦欢  硕士研究生  081203-计算机应用技术  

伍天意  硕士研究生  081201-计算机系统结构  

张亭亭  硕士研究生  081203-计算机应用技术  

张睿  硕士研究生  081203-计算机应用技术  

张葭琦  硕士研究生  081203-计算机应用技术  

现指导学生

巩力铜  硕士研究生  081203-计算机应用技术  

柯芷莹  硕士研究生  081203-计算机应用技术  

王志浩  硕士研究生  081203-计算机应用技术  

周晨鸣  博士研究生  081203-计算机应用技术  

房海鹏  硕士研究生  081203-计算机应用技术  

张瑞泽  博士研究生  081203-计算机应用技术  

陈凌子  硕士研究生  085400-电子信息