Education background
Bachelor of Computer Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 1985;
Master of Computer Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 1988;
Ph.D. in Computer Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 1991.
Areas of Research Interests/ Research Projects
Research Areas
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Courses
Digital Image Processing (40240062，Undergraduate);
Computer Vision (70240083，Graduate).
Teaching Profile
I have taught various courses in computer science including Mathematic Logic and Set Theory, Expert System, Digital Image Processing, Selected Subjects in Computer Vision, Computer Vision over the last two decades. These courses cover from the undergraduate foundation courses, specialized courses and postgraduate degree courses. I have written a courseware for Digital Image Processing that won the second class prize of Tsinghua Excellent Teaching Software. I have been responsible for the translation of two renowned textbooks into Chinese: M. Sonka, V. Hlavac, and R. Boyle著, (艾海舟、苏延超 等译), 图像处理、分析与机器视觉，Tsinghua University Press. 2011.1；and Richard Szeliski著, (艾海舟、兴军亮 等译), 计算机视觉：算法与应用，Tsinghua University Press. 2012.1
Research Projects
International cooperation projects: Vision Computing Technologies for Face and Human Body Image and Video Processing (2002-2014);
The National Natural Science Foundation of China：Face-Based Content Indexing and Retrieval in Image and Video (2007-2009).
The National Natural Science Foundation of China：Visual Content Extraction and Analysis in Pedestrian Video (2011-2013).
Research Status
My research group is working on visual computing subjects in the area of computer vision and pattern recognition. For the past decades, we have been doing researches on object detection, tracking, alignment, pose estimation, recognition and so on, particularly on face and human as two specific visual objects. We have developed high performance rotation invariant face detection algorithm, real-time face and head tracking algorithm, fast and robust face alignment algorithm, fast and accurate human detection and tracking algorithm, fast human pose estimation algorithm, feasible human re-identification approaches, etc. One thing deserves to mention that our face detection algorithm is one of the world best that has been used in many products. Our research works may have potential applications in human-computer interaction, visual surveillance, video analysis and content extraction etc.
We have published more than 100 papers in peer-reviewed journals and international conferences including 2 TPAMI regular papers, 8 conference papers in ICCV, CVPR, ECCV (3 oral papers). Particularly one paper received the Best Student Paper Prize in CVPR 2007. One PhD thesis received the Beijing Capital City Excellent PhD Thesis Award in 2008. We have 4 granted international patents.
I am a senior member of the IEEE and a member of the IEEE Computer Society.
Honors And Awards
Tsinghua University Excellent PhD Thesis Award (1992);
Tsinghua University Second Class Prize of Excellent Teaching Software (Digital Image Processing) (2002);
The Best Student Paper Prize in CVPR 2007, coauthor of the paper (2007);
The Beijing Capital City Excellent PhD Thesis Award 2008, as a supervisor (2008);
Beijing Capital City Education Committee Award for Distinguished Achievement in Teaching (2008).
Academic Achievement
[1] Yuan LI, Haizhou AI, et.al, Tracking in Low Frame Rate Video: A Cascade Particle Filter with Discriminative Observers of Different Lifespans, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol.30, No.10, pp. 1728-1740, 2008. (Extended version of CVPR2007 best student paper prize)
[2] Chang HUANG, Haizhou AI, et.al, High Performance Rotation Invariant Multiview Face Detection, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol.29, No.4, pp. 671-686, 2007.
[3] Junliang Xing, Haizhou Ai, Liwei Liu, Shihong Lao, Multiple Players Tracking in Sports Video: a Dual-Mode Two-Way Bayesian Inference Approach with Progressive Observation Modeling, IEEE Transaction on Image Processing, Vol. 20, No. 6, pp.1652-1667, JUNE 2011.
[4] Genquan Duan, Haizhou Ai, Junliang Xing, Song Cao, Shihong Lao, Scene Aware Detection and Block Assignment Tracking in Crowded Scenes, Image and Vision Computing ,Volume 30, Issues 4-5, May 2012, pp.292-305.
[5] Bo WU, Haizhou AI, Chang HUANG, Shihong LAO, Fast Rotation Invariant Multi-View Face Detection Based on Real Adaboost, In Proc. the 6th IEEE Conf. on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (AFG2004), Seoul, Korea, May 17-19, 2004.
[6] Nan Wang, Haizhou Ai and Feng Tang, What Are Good Parts for Hair Shape Modeling? IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR2012), Providence, Rhode Island, USA. June 18-20, 2012.
[7] Wei GAO, Haizhou AI and Shihong LAO, Adaptive Contour Features in Oriented Granular Space for Human Detection and Segmentation, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR2009), Miami Beach, Florida, USA, June 20-25, 2009.
[8] Junliang XING, Haizhou AI and Shihong LAO, Multi-Object Tracking through Occlusions by Local Tracklets Filtering and Global Tracklets Association with Detection Responses, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR2009), Miami Beach, Florida, USA, June 20-25, 2009.
[9] Li ZHANG, Haizhou AI, Shengjun XIN, et.al, Robust Face Alignment Based on Local Texture Classifiers, The IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP2005), Genoa, Italy, September 11-14, 2005.
[10] Nan Wang and Haizhou Ai, Who Blocks Who: Simultaneous Clothing Segmentation for Grouping Images, 13th International Conference on Computer Vision, November 6-13, 2011 (ICCV 2011), Barcelona, Spain.
