Publications

Jiaming Shen, Maryam Karimzadehgan, Michael Bendersky, Zhen Qin, and Donal Metzler. "Multi-task Learning for Email Search Ranking with Auxiliary Query Clustering." 27th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2018)

Christian R. Shelton, Zhen Qin and Chandini Shetty. "Hawkes Process Inference with Missing Data." 32nd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2018) (ORAL)

Zhen Qin and Christian R. Shelton. "Event Detection in Continuous Video: An Inference in Point Process Approach." IEEE Transactions on Image Processing(TIP 2017)

Zhen Qin, Ish Rishabh and John Carnahan. "A Scalable Approach for Periodical Personalized Recommendations." 10th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2016) (ORAL, 20% acceptance rate)

Zhen Qin and Christian R. Shelton. "Social Grouping for Multi-target Tracking and Head Pose Estimation in Video." IEEE Transanctions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI 2016)

Le An, Zhen Qin, Xiaojing Chen and Songfan Yang. "Multi-level Common Space Learning for Person Re-identification." IEEE Transanctions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT 2016)

Xiaojing Chen, Zhen Qin, Le An and Bir Bhanu. "Multi-person Tracking by Online Learned Grouping Model with Non-linear Motion Context." IEEE Transanctions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT 2015)

Zhen Qin and Christian R. Shelton. "Auxiliary Gibbs Sampling for Inference in Piecewise-Constant Conditional Intensity Models." 31st Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI 2015)

Zhen Qin, Peter van Beek and Xu Chen. "Direct Matrix Factorization and Alignment Refinement: Application to Defect Detection." 11th Conference on Computer and Robot Vision (CRV 2014)

Xiaojing Chen, Zhen Qin, Le An and Bir Bhanu. "An Online Learned Elementary Grouping Model for Multi-target Tracking." 27th IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2014)

Zhen Qin, Vaclav Petricek, Nikos Karampatziakis, Lihong Li and John Langford. " Efficient Online Bootstrapping for Large Scale Learning." Workshop on Parallel and Large-scale Machine Learning at Neural Information Processing 2013(BigLearning@NIPS 2013)

Zhen Qin, Christian R. Shelton and Lunshao Chai. "Social Grouping for Target Handover in Multi-view Video." 2013 IEEE Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2013) (ORAL, 12.7% acceptance rate)

Zhen Qin(*), Lunshao Chai(*), Qun Li, Honggang Zhang and Jun Guo. "Ordered Histogram of Shapemes: An Ordered Bag-of-Features Based Shape Descriptor for Efficient Shape Matching." 2013 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2013) (* indicates equal contribution)

Zhen Qin(*), Qun Li(*), Lunshao Chai, Honggang Zhang, Jun Guo and Bir Bhanu. "Representative Reference-set and Betweenness Centrality for Scene Image Categorization." 2013 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2013) (* indicates equal contribution)

Lunshao Chai, Zhen Qin, Honggang Zhang, Jun Guo and Bir Bhanu. "MFSC: A New Shape Descriptor with Robustness to Deformations." 2013 IEEE Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2013) (short paper)

Bo Li, Zhenjiang Miao, Zhen Qin and Wenju Liu. "A UIM/ICM Based Approach to Content-Based Image Retrieval." 2013 IEEE Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2013)

Lunshao Chai, Zhen Qin, Honggang Zhang, Jun Guo and Bir Bhanu. "A New Multi-scale Fuzzy Model for Histogram-based Descriptors." 2013 IEEE Conference on Multimedia and Expo Workshops(ICME Workshop 2013)

Zhen Qin and Christian R. Shelton. "Improving Multi-target Tracking via Social Grouping." 25th IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2012) (24% acceptance rate)

Zhen Qin(*), Lunshao Chai(*), Honggang Zhang, Jun Guo and Christian R. Shelton. "Re-ranking Using Compression-based Distance Measure for Content-based Commercial Product Image Retrieval." 2012 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2012) (* indicates equal contribution)

Lunshao Chai, Honggang Zhang, Zhen Qin, Jie Yu and Yonggang Qi. "Multi-Feature Content-Based Product Image Retrieval Based on Region of Main Object." 8th International Conference on Information, Communications, and Signal Processing (ICICS 2011)