Selected Publications

 

 

·         Xiao, Q. and X.D. Yang, “Facial recognition in uncontrolled conditions for information security.” EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing - Special Issue on Advanced Image Processing for Defense and Security Applications, Vol 2010, February 2010.

·         O. Hoeber and X. D. Yang, “Supporting Web Search With Visualization”, In Web-based Support Systems, Springer, pp. 183-214, 2010.

·         Dosselmann, R. and X.D. Yang, “A comprehensive assessment of the structural similarity index.” Journal of Signal, Image and video Processing, Springer, pp.1863-1703, 2009.

·         Hoeber, O. and X. D. Yang, “HotMap: Supporting visual explorations of Web search results,” Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 60(1), pp. 90-110, 2009.

·         Dosselmann, R. and X. D. Yang, “An empirical assessment of the structural similarity index.” Proc. Canadian Conf. on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE '09). May 2009, St. John’s, NF, pp.112 – 116.

·         Xiao, Q.  and X. D. Yang, “A facial presence monitoring system for information security.” Proc. IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence in Biometrics: Theory, Algorithms and Applications (CIB2009), March 2009, Nashville, TN, pp.69-76.

·         Hoeber, O. and X. D. Yang, Evaluating WordBars in exploratory Web search scenarios, Information Processing & Management, 44(2), pp. 485-510, 2008.

·         Dosslemann, R. and X.D. Yang, “Mean Shift Particle-Based texure Granularity,” Proc. Of 2008 IEEE International Instrumentation and measurement technology Conference, pp.101-106, May 2008.

·         Dosselmann, R. and X.D. Yang, “Mean Shift Point-Mass Level-of-Detail,” Proc. of 21st Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, pp.37-42, May 2008.

·         Hoeber, O., M. Brooks, D. Schroeder, and X. D. Yang, “TheHotMap.com: Enabling flexible interaction in next-generation Web search interfaces”, Proc. of the IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, pp.730-734, 2008.

·         Hoeber, O. and X. D. Yang, “Evaluating the effectiveness of term frequency histograms for supporting interactive Web search tasks,” Proc. of the ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, pp. 360-368, 2008.

·         Hoeber, O. and X. D. Yang, and Y. Yao, “VisiQ: supporting visual and interactive query refinement”, Web Intelligence and Agent Systems, an International Journal, 5(3):311-329, 2007.

·         Hoeber and X. D. Yang, “Visual support for exploration within Web search results lists”, IEEE VIS/INFO VIS/VAST Conference Compendium, Oct. 2007, Sacramento, CA, pp.80-81.

·         Hoeber, X. D. Yang, and Y. Yao, “VisiQ: supporting visual and interactive query refinement”, Web Intelligence and Agent Systems, an International Journal, 5(3):311-329, 2007.

·         Dosselmann, R. and X.D. Yang, 2007. "A Prototype No-Reference Video Quality System," Proc. 4th Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision (CRV '07), May Montreal, pp. 411-417.

·         Hoeber, O. and X.D. Yang. 2006. “Interactive Web Information Retrieval Using Wordbars.” Proc. IEEE/WIC/ACM Intl. Conf. on Web Intelligence ‘2006, Dec., Hong Kong, pp.876-882.

·         Hoeber, O. and X.D. Yang, 2006. “The Visual Exploration of Web Searchh Results Using HotMap.” Proc. IV ’06, July, London, UK, pp.157-165.

·         Hoeber, O. and X.D. Yang, 2006. “A Model for Interactive Web Information Retrieval.” Proc. Smart Graphics ’06, July, Vancouver, Canada, pp.242-247.

·         Ward, A.D. and X.D. Yang. 2005. “Attributed Vector Quantization: A New Paradigm for Image Segmentation and Pattern Acquisition.” Proc. IS&T/SPIE 17^th Annual Symposium on Electronic Imaging - Machine Vision Applications in Industrial Inspection XIII, Jan. San Jose, CA, pp.266-275.

·         Dosselmann, R. and X.D. Yang. 2005. “Existing and Emerging Image Quality Metrics.” Proc. Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering 2005 (CCECE05), May, Saskatoon, pp.1892-2899.

·         Yang, X.D., W. Xu and B. Yang. 2005, “3D Characteristic Facial Contours.” Proc. Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering 2005 (CCECE05), May, Saskatoon, pp.923-928.

·         Heather, J. and X.D. Yang, 2005. “Spatial Decomposition of the Hough Transform”, Proceedings of the 2^nd Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision, May, Victoria, BC, pp.476-482.

·         Wang, T. and X.D. Yang. 2003. “A Sweeping Algorithm for Cluster Hair Rendering.” The Visual Computer, May, Vol.19, No.2-3, pp.187-204.

·         Zhan, X. and X.D. Yang. “VHairStudio: An Interactive System for Hair Styling.”  IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, May/June 2001, pp.36-43.

·         Yang, X.D., Z. Xu,  J. Yang and T. Wang. 2000. “The Cluster Hair Model.”  Journal of Graphics Models and Image Processing, Vol. 62, No. 2, pp.85-103, March,  Academic Press.