General
WEI  QU, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
School of Information Science and Engineering
Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
3 South First Zhongguancun Street, Haidian,
Beijing 100080 China
Email:  weiqu AT gucas DOT ac DOT cn 
URL: http://js.caseducation.cn/JS/~weiqu?language=en  OR  www.weiqu.org

Research Areas

Image Processing and Analysis; Video Tracking, Processing and Retrieval; Biomedical Imaging; Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision; Statistical Learning, Machine Learning, and Data Mining; Signal Processing; Sensor Networks; Software Engineering. 

Education

Ph.D.             

Electrical and Computer Engineering                      

University of Illinois at Chicago                       

2006

B.S.

Electrical and Computer Engineering 

Beijing Institute of Technology 

 2000

Experience

   
Work Experience

Siemens Medical Solutions (USA), Chicago, USA

2007-2009

Senior Researcher, Project Lead

 
   

Motorola Labs, Global Headquarters, Schaumburg, IL, USA

2004-2007
Senior Research Scientist

 
   
University of Illinois at Chicago, IL, USA

2003-2004
Teaching Assistant  
      

Honors & Distinctions

Recent Awards & Honors

1. Siemens Patent Application Award, Siemens, USA, 2008.
2. Motorola Patent Application Award, Motorola Labs, USA, 2006.
3. Best Paper Award, IEEE Int’l Conf. on Image Processing, USA, 2006. 
4. University Fellowship, Univ. of Illinois, USA, 2002-2003, 2005-2006.  
5. Award of Sigma Xi Science Research Forum, USA, 2006.
6. GSC Travel Award, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA, 2005, 2006.
7. Travel Award, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA, 2005, 2006.
8. Honor of Phi Kappa Phi Excellent Student, USA, 2004. 

Professional Activities

■ Member of the Editorial Board of the "International Journal On Advances in Internet Technology" ISSN 1942-2652.
■ Industry/Academy Chair of International Conference on Advances in Future Internet, AFIN 2009.
■ Area Chair, IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal based Surveillance (AVSS’2008)
■ Program Committee Member of International Conferences on Advances in Multimedia, (MMEDIA) 2010. 
■ Program Committee Member of the 2nd IEEE Symposium on Web Society 2010. 
■ Program Committee Member of International Conference on Advances in Future Internet, AFIN 2010
■ Program Committee Member of International Conference on Advances in Future Internet, Athens, June 2009.
■ Program Committee Member of International Conference on Advances in Multimedia, Colmar, France, July, 2009
■ Technical Program Committee of the 6th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal-Based Surveillance (AVSS2009), Genoa, Italy. 
■ Technical Program Committee Member of International Symposium on Intelligent Signal Processing and Communication Systems (ISPACS’2007)
■ International Program Committee Member of the Workshop on Activity Monitoring by Multi-Camera Surveillance Systems (AMMCVS 2008)
■ Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing 
■ Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering
■ Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
■ Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology 
■ Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
■ Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics
■ Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Neural Network 
■ Reviewer, EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing
■ Reviewer, International Journal of Image and Graphics
■ Reviewer, Journal of Electric Imaging
■ Reviewer, IEEE International Conference on Imange Processing (ICIP’08, ICIP’07, ICIP’06)
■ Reviewer, IEEE International Connference on Multimedia & Expo. 
■ Reviewer, International Symposium on Intelligent Signal Processing and Communication System. 

Publications

   
Papers

Journal Papers

  1. Wei Qu, Dan Schonfeld, “Robust Control-Based Object Tracking”, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), vol 17, no.9: pp 1721-1726, 2008.
  2. Wei Qu, Dan Schonfeld, and Magdi Mohamed, “Real-Time Interactively Distributed Multi-Object Tracking Using a Magnetic-Inertia Potential Model”, IEEE Transactions onMultimedia (TMM), Vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 511-519, April, 2007.
  3. Wei Qu, and Dan Schonfeld, “Real-Time Decentralized Articulated Motion Analysis and Object Tracking”, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), vol. 16, no. 8, pp. 2129-2138, 2007.
  4. Wei Qu, Dan Schonfeld, and Magdi Mohamed, “Distributed Bayesian Multiple Target Tracking in Crowded Environments Using Multiple Collaborative Cameras”, EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, Special Issue on Tracking in Video Sequences of Crowded Scenes (EURASIP JASP), online published, vol. 2007, no. 1, 2007.   
  5. Wei Qu, Yuanyuan Jia, Michael Jiang, “Pattern Mining of Cloned Code in Software Systems”, Elsevier Information Sciences, special issue, accepted, 2009. 
  6. Wei Qu, Qingchang Li, and Baihua Xiao, “A Passport and Certificate Identification System Based on Fingerprint Recognition”, Journal of Police Force Academy (JPFA), Vol. 01, pp.19-22, 2001.

Conference Papers

  1. Wei Qu, and Yuanyuan Jia, "Real-Time Intelligent End-Diastolic and End-Systolic Image Retrieval from Left Ventricular Angiograms Using Probability Density Propagation and Data Fusion", International Conference on Intelligent Computing (ICIC’08), Springer Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Sciences (LNCS), Shanghai, China, 2008. 
  2. Wei Qu, Sukhveer Singh, and Mike Keller, “AutoEDES: A Model-Based Bayesian Framework for Automatic End-Diastolic and End-Systolic Frame Selection in Angiographic Image Sequence”, in Proc. SPIE International Conf. on Medical Imaging (SPIE-MI’08), San Diego, CA, USA, 2008.
  3. Wei Qu, Xiaolei Huang, Yuanyuan Jia, “Segmentation in Noisy Medical Images Using PCA Model. Based Particle Filtering”, in Proc. SPIE International Conf. on Medical Imaging (SPIE-MI’08), San Diego, CA, USA, 2008.
  4. Wei Qu, Michael Jiang, Yuanyuan Jia, “Software Reuse Detection Using an Integrated Space-Logic Domain Model”, IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IRI’07), Las Vegas, NV, USA, 2007.
  5. Wei Qu, Dan Schonfeld, and Magdi A. Mohamed, “A Distributed Architecture for Collaborative Real-Time Video Tracking”, IEEE International Conference on System, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC’07), Montreal, Canada, 2007. 
  6. Wei Qu, Dan Schonfeld, “Bayesian Distributed Articulated Object Tracking Using Multiple Collaborative Trackers”, SPIE Conference on Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP’07), Invited Paper, San Jose, CA, 2007.
  7. Wei Qu, Dan Schonfeld, “Robust Kernel-Based Tracking Using Optimal Control”, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP’06), Atlanta, GA, 2006 (Oral, Best Student Paper Award).
  8. Wei Qu, Dan Schonfeld, and M. Mohamed, “Decentralized Multiple Camera Multiple Object Tracking”, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME’06), Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2006.
  9. Wei Qu and Dan Schonfeld, “Efficient Object Tracking using Control-Based Observer Design”, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME’06), Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2006.
  10.  Wei Qu, Dan Schonfeld, and Magdi Mohamed, “Parallel Multiple Target Tracking Using Multiple Cooperative Trackers”, SPIE Proceedings of Electronic Imaging: Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP’06), San Jose, California, Jan. 2006, (Oral).
  11. Wei Qu, Dan Schonfeld, and Magdi Mohamed, “Real-Time Interactively Distributed Multi-Object Tracking Using a Magnetic-Inertia Potential Model”, IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV’05), Beijing, China, Oct., 2005.
  12. Faisal I. Bashir , Wei Qu, Ashfaq Khokhar, and Dan Schonfeld, “HMM-Based Motion Recognition System Using Segmented PCA”, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP’05), Genova, Italy, Sep., 2005.
  13. Wei Qu, Faisal I. Bashir, Dan Graupe, Ashfaq Khokhar, and Dan Schonfeld, “A Motion Trajectory Based Video Retrieval System Using Parallel Adaptive Self Organizing Maps”, IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN’05), Montreal, Canada, Jul., 2005.
  14. Wei Qu, Nidhal Bouaynaya, and Dan Schonfeld, “Automatic Multi-Head Detection and Tracking System using A Novel Detection-Based Particle Filter and Data Fusion”, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP’05), Philadelphia, Mar., 2005.
  15. Nidhal Bouaynaya, Wei Qu, and Dan Schonfeld, “An Online Motion-Based Particle Filter for Head Tracking Applications”, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP’05), Philadelphia, Mar., 2005.
  16. Wei Qu and Dan Schonfeld, “Detection-based particle filtering for real-time multiple head tracking applications”, SPIE Proceedings of Electronic Imaging: Science and Technology Conference on Image and Video Communications and Processing III (SPIE-EI’05), San Jose, California, Jan., 2005 (Oral).
  17. Wei Qu, “A Novel Passport Identification System Based on Biometrics Technology”, Proceedings of National Conference of Chinese Artificial Intelligence Society, Beijing, China, 2001.
  18. Wei Qu, Qingchang Li, and Baihua Xiao, “A New Kind of Security Technology Based on Biometrics”, Proceedings of Chinese Electronic & Information Academic Conference, Hohhot, China, Aug, 2000, (Oral). 

Book Chapters

  1. Wei Qu, and Shuxian He, VisualAge for Java, China: Beijing Hope Electronic Press, Sep., 2001.
  2. Wei Qu, and Chushen Guo, University Textbook Series on Computer Aided Art Design -- Webpage Making, China: Beijing Hope Electronic Press, Oct., 2001.
  3. Wei Qu, Yuanyuan Jia, and Shuxian He, Self-Study for Java Programming, China: Beijing Hope Electronic Press, Nov., 2001.
  4. Wei.Qu, Shi Chen, and Yu Liang (Translators), Adobe GoLive 5 User’s Guide, China: Beijing Hope Electronic Press, Sep., 1999.

Ph.D. Dissertation

Wei Qu, “Real-Time Distributed Video Tracking of Multiple Objects from Single and Multiple Cameras”, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, May, 2006.

Technical Reports

  1. Wei Qu, “A Survey of Software Plagiarism Detection Technologies”, Motorola Labs, Network Research Center of Excellence, Feb., 2007.
  2. Wei Qu, “Video Tracking Based on Particle Filtering for Wireless Communications”, Preliminary thesis defense report, University of Illinois at Chicago, March, 2005.
  3. Wei Qu, Dan Schonfeld, and Magdi Mohamed, “Real-Time Multi-Object Tracking and 3D Head Pose Estimation”, Motorola Labs, Physical Realization Research Center of Excellence, May, 2005.

 

Patents
  1. Wei Qu, Dan Schonfeld, Magdi, Mohamed, Method and apparatus to disambiguate state information for multiple items tracking.
  2. Wei Qu, Dan Schonfeld, Magdi, Mohamed, Method and Apparatus to Facilitate Use Of Conditional Probabilistic Analysis Of Multi-Point-Of-Reference Samples of an Item To Disambiguate State Information as Pertains to the Item.
  3. Y. Jia, Wei Qu, System for remote control of a medical imaging system.
  4. Wei Qu, System and method for sweat and temperature control in the treatment of positional plagiocephaly.
  5. Wei Qu, Interactive Medical Imaging Processing and User Interface System.
  6. Wei Qu, Sukhveer, Singh, Michael Keller, System and Method for Automatic Detection of End of Diastole and End of Systole Image Frames in X-Ray Ventricular Angiography.
  7. Wei Qu, Y. Jia, Medical Image Data Processing and Feature Identification System.