Jianying Hu

Research Staff Member

Research lab: Watson Research Center (Yorktown)

Research Interests

My main research interests involve statistical pattern recognition and signal processing, with a wide range of applications:

Business Analytics
Portfolio analysis, services engagement modeling, demand forecasting and workforce management.
Publications

Web Document Analysis and Mining
Web content and structure mining, content extraction, page re-targeting, mobile access.
Publications

Image/Video Analysis and Retrieval
Design of distance metrics that match human perceptions for color and texture based image matching. Video scene classification, topic tracking and summarization.
Publications

Online Handwriting Recognition, Signature Verification, Pen Computing
Various aspects of the handwriting recognition problem, including model and system design using the HMM framework, decoding algorithms, feature extraction, preprocessing, and language modeling using probabilistic automata. Character recognition for handheld devices. Dynamic signature verification.
Publications

Document Understanding
Document structure analysis, particularly using layout information and linguistic knowledge, for applications such as multimedia messaging, information retrieval, web document analysis, and mobile Internet access.
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Professional Activities

Associate Editor

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence (2006 --)
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (2001 -- 2005)

Technical Committee Chair

International Association for Pattern Recognition TC11 (Reading Systems) (2004 -- 2008)

Technical Committee Member

IEEE Signical Processing Society Image and MultiDimensional Signal Processing Technical Committee (2004 --)

Committee Member

International Association for Pattern Recognition Conferences and Meetings Committee (2006 --)
International Association for Pattern Recognition Industrial Liaison Committee (2002 --)

Book Co-Editor

Web Document Analysis: Challenges and Opportunities, World Scientific, October 2003.

Guest Editor,

Pattern Recognition Special Issue on Frontiers of Handwriting Recognition, 2008.
International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition Special Issue on Document Analysis Systems, 2004.

Co-Chair

ICDAR 2011, SPIE DR&R XI (2004) , WDA 2003, SPIE DR&R X (2003) , DAS 2002, WDA 2001

Program Chair

ICFHR 2008

Program Committee

SPIE DR&R XVII (2010) , SPIE DR&R XVI (2009) , ICPR 2008 , SPIE DR&R XV (2008) , ICDAR2007 , ICIP 2007 , SPIE DR&R XIV (2007) , ICPR2006, ICASSP2006 , ICIP2006 , ICDAR2005, SPIE DR&R XII, DocEng2004, DAS2004, ICIP2004, GREC2003, DocEng2003, ICDAR2003, DLIA2001, GREC2001, DLIA1999

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Short Bio

Jianying Hu is a research staff member at IBM Thomas. J. Watson Research Center. She studied Electrical Engineering at Tsinghua University in China, and received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from SUNY Stony Brook in the US in 1993. Prior to joining IBM she was with Bell Labs (1993 to 2000) and Avaya Labs (2000 to 2002). Her main research interests include statistical pattern recognition and signal processing, with applications to business analytics, document image analysis, and multimedia content analysis and retrieval. A senior member of IEEE, Dr. Hu has served as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, and guest editors for the journals Pattern Recognition and International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition. She is currently serving as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence.

Last updated 22 Apr 2009