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Beautiful is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.

– G.H. Hardy

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　I am always looking for PhD students and research assistants motivated for doing research in computer vision, machine learning, multimedia, and video surveillance. Students with strong mathematical background and good programming experiences in MatLab are always welcome.

CFP: Signal Processing (Elsevier) Special Issue on Visual Information Analysis for Security.

Best theory/algorithms paper runner up award: D. Tao, X. Li, X. Wu, and S. J. Maybank, “General Averaged Divergences Analysis,” IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), 2007.

Dr. Dacheng Tao

Department of Computing

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Dacheng Tao received the B.Eng. degree from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), the MPhil degree from the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), and the PhD degree from the University of London (Lon). Currently, he is an assistant professor with the Department of Computing in the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, is a visiting professor in the Xi’Dian University, and holds a visiting position at Birkbeck in Lon. His research interests include artificial intelligence, computer vision, data mining, geoinformatics, machine learning, multimedia, remote sensing, statistics, and visual surveillance. He has published more than 80 scientific articles extensively at IEEE TPAMI, TIP, TKDE, TMM, TCSVT, TSMC, CVPR, ICDM; ACM TKDD, Multimedia, KDD etc. with best paper award and nominations. Previously he gained several Meritorious Awards from the International Interdisciplinary Contest in Modeling, which is the highest level mathematical modeling contest in the world, organized by COMAP. He is an associate editor of Neurocomputing (Elsevier) and the Official Journal of the International Association for Statistical Computing -- Computational Statistics & Data Analysis (Elsevier). He authored/edited five books and seven special issues, including CVIU, PR, PRL, SP, and Neurocomputing. He (co-)chaired special sessions, invited sessions, workshops and conferences. He served for around 60 major international conferences including CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ICDM, KDD, and Multimedia, and around 20 top international journals including TPAMI, TOIS, TIP, TCSVT, TMM, TIFS, TSMC-B, Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU), and Information Science.

Contact Information

Office:	PQ704, 7/F, Building P, Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
Phone:	+852-2766 7266
Fax:	+852-2764 2528
Email:	csdct at comp.polyu.edu.hk, dacheng.tao at gmail.com

Postal Address

PQ704, 7/F, Building P, Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong.

Research Interests

Computer Vision	Biometric, Video Surveillance, 3D Object Retargeting and Deformation, Multimedia Information Retrieval, Image Segmentation, Structure Detection, Texture Synthesis, Object Categorization, High Dynamic Range Imaging, Colours
Data Mining	Streaming Data Analysis
Image Processing and Signal Processing	Geoinformatics, Remote Sensing Image Processing, Image Quality Assessment, Watermarking and Image Coding
Information Theory and Statisticss	Kullback-Leibler Divergence, Bregman Divergence, Discriminant Analysis, Mixture Model, Feature Selection, Random Sampling and Random Projection
Machine Learning	Linear and Multilinear Subspace Selection, Dimensionality Reduction, Support Vector Machine, Tensor Machines, Kernel Machines, AdaBoost and Boosting, Ensemble, Semi-Supervised Learning, Manifold Learning, Optimization over Grassmann Manifold