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Senior Lecturer
Vision Group
School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science
Queen Mary, University of London
Mile End Road, London E1 4NS
Tel: (+44)-(0)20-7882-8020
Fax: (+44)-(0)20-8980-7997
Email: txiang at eecs dot qmul dot ac dot uk

One Postdoc position and one PhD position are available.

I am the PhD admission coordinator for the Vision Group. If you are interested in pursuing a PhD degree in computer vision, please feel free to contact me.

Recent Publications (the full list is here )

P. Siva, C. Russell, T. Xiang and L. Agapito, "Looking Beyond the Image: Unsupervised Learning for Object Saliency and Detection", in Proc. IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Portland, Oregon, USA, June 2013.

K. Chen, S. Gong, T. Xiang and C.C. Loy, "Cumulative Attribute Space for Age and Crowd Density Estimation", in Proc. IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Portland, Oregon, USA, June 2013.

T. Haines and T. Xiang, "Active Rare Class Discovery and Classification using Dirichlet Processes", International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), to appear, 2013.

P. Siva, C. Russell and T. Xiang, "In Defence of Negative Mining for Annotating Weakly Labeled Data", in European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Firenze, Italy, October 2012.

Y. Fu, T. Hospedales, T. Xiang and S. Gong, "Attribute Learning for Understanding Unstructured Social Activity", in European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Firenze, Italy, October 2012.

T. Hospedales, S. Gong and T. Xiang, "A Unifying Theory of Active Discovery and Learning", in European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Firenze, Italy, October 2012.

R. Félez and T. Xiang, "Gait Recognition by Ranking", in European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Firenze, Italy, October 2012.

T. Haines and T. Xiang, "Background Subtraction with Dirichlet Processes", in European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Firenze, Italy, October 2012.

W. Zheng, S. Gong and T. Xiang, "Re-identification by Relative Distance Comparison", IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), Vol. 35, No. 3, pp. 653-668, March 2013.

W. Zheng, S. Gong and T. Xiang, "Transfer Re-identification: From Person to Set-based Verification", in Proc. IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Providence, Rhode Island, USA, June 2012.

C.C. Loy, T. Hospedales, T. Xiang and S. Gong, "Stream-based Joint Exploration-Exploitation Active Learning", in Proc. IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Providence, Rhode Island, USA, June 2012.

T. Hospedales, S. Gong and T. Xiang, "Video Behaviour Mining Using a Dynamic Topic Model", International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), Vol. 98, Issue 3, pp. 303-323, July 2012.

C.C. Loy, T. Xiang and S. Gong, "Incremental Activity Modelling in Multiple Disjoint Cameras", IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), Vol. 34, No. 9, pp. 1799-1813, September 2012.

W. Zheng, S. Gong and T. Xiang, "Quantifying and Transferring Contextual Information in Object Detection", IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), Vol. 34, No. 4, pp. 762-777, April 2012.

J. Li, S. Gong and T. Xiang, "Learning Behavioural Context", International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), vol. 97, no. 3, 2012.

T. Hospedales, S. Gong and T. Xiang, "Finding Rare Classes: Active Learning with Generative and Discriminative Models", IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE) , Vol. 25, No. 2, pp. 374-386, February 2013.

M. Bregonzio, T. Xiang and S. Gong, "Fusing Appearance and Distribution Information of Interest Points for Action Recognition", Pattern Recognition, Vol. 45, No. 3, pp. 1220-1234, March 2012.