Biography Details
 

Li CHENG
Principal Investigator, group head
Machine Learning For Bioimage Analysis Group
chengli@bii.a-star.edu.sg

Office: (+65) 64788358;  mobile: 91577574

 
 
What's new
 
[new!] Our group has an opening for a Postdoc researcher in Computer Vision and Machine Learning.
 
 
 
Biography
 
CHENG, Li is a research scientist and group leader at Bioinformatics Institute (BII). Prior to joining BII July of 2010, He worked at Statistical Machine Learning group of NICTA, Australia, TTI-Chicago, USA, and University of Alberta, Canada, where he obtained his Ph.D.in Computer Science. His research expertise is mainly on machine learning and computer vision. He is a senior member of IEEE.
 

 

 
For Potential Graduate Students and Interns
 

I am always looking for self-motivated students with a strong computer science and engineering background who are interested to work with me. Possible research topics include machine learning or computer vision for addressing biological, medical, and public health problems. 

PhD applications should come through the SINGA or the AGS PhD programs from National University of Singapore (or Nanyang Technological University). Students from China may also consider the China Scholarship Council (CSC) award.

Short time (3-6 months) research internship is also possible through various funding sources. Please contact me regarding current opportunities.

 
Projects
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Our Weekly Reading Group
   ( on Machine Learning and Computer Vision)
 
 

Selected Publications (full list)

 
  • Xiaowei Zhang, Xudong Shi, Yu Sun, Li Cheng. Multivariate Regression with Gross Errors on Manifold-valued Data. In IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2017.
    Project Webpage
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  • Jaydeep De, Xiaowei Zhang, Feng Lin, Li Cheng. Transduction on Directed Graphs via Absorbing Random Walks. In IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2017.
    Project Webpage
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  • Chi Xu, Lakshmi Narasimhan Govindarajan, Yu Zhang, Li Cheng. Lie-X: Depth Image Based Articulated Object Pose Estimation, Tracking, and Action Recognition on Lie Groups. In International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), 123(3):454-478, 2017.
    Project Webpage
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  • GU Lin, Xiaowei Zhang, He Zhao, Huiqi Li, and Li Cheng. Segment 2D and 3D Filaments by Learning Structured and Contextual Features. In IEEE Trans. Medical Imaging (TMI),36(2):569-606, 2017.
    Project Webpage
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  • Chi Xu, Lilian Zhang, Li Cheng, Reinhard Koch. Pose Estimation from Line Correspondences: A Complete Analysis and A Series of Solutions. In IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI),39(6):1209-22, 2017.
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  • Adam Cliffe, David P. Doupe, HsinHo Sung, Isaac Lim Kok Hwee, Li Cheng, Kok Haur Ong, and Weimiao Yu. Quantitative 3D analysis of complex single border cell behaviors in coordinated collective cell migration. In Nature Communications, 14905:1-13, 2017.
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  • Xiaowei Zhang, Li Cheng, Delin Chu, Li-Zhi Liao, Michael Ng, Roger C.E. Tan. Incremental Regularized Least Squares for Dimensionality Reduction of Large-Scale Data. In SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, 38(3):414-39, 2016.
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  • Li Liu, Li Cheng, Ye Liu, Yongpo Jia, David Rosenblum. Recognizing Complex Activities by a Probabilistic Interval-Based Model. In National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2016.
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  • Chi Xu, Ashwin Nanjappa, Xiaowei Zhang, Li Cheng. Estimate Hand Poses Efficiently from Single Depth Images. In International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), (116)1:21-45, 2016.
    Project Webpage, dataset and online performance Evaluation
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  • Jaydeep De, Li Cheng, Xiaowei Zhang, Feng Lin, Huiqi Li, Kok Haur Ong, Weimiao Yu, Yuanhong Yu, Sohail Ahmed. A Graph-theoretical Approach for Tracing Filamentary Structures in Neuronal and Retinal Images. In IEEE Trans. Medical Imaging (TMI), (35)1:252-72, 2016.
    Project Webpage
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  • Lin Gu, Li Cheng. Learning to Boost Filamentary Structure Segmentation. In International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2015.
    Project Webpage
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  • Minglun Gong, Yiming Qian, Li Cheng. Integrated Foreground Segmentation and Boundary Matting for Live Videos. In IEEE Trans. Image Processing (TIP), 24(4):1356-70, 2015.
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  • Li Cheng, Sinno Jialin Pan. Semi-supervised Domain Adaptation on Manifolds. In IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS), 25(12):2240-9, 2014.
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  • Li Cheng, Jaydeep De, Xiaowei Zhang, Feng Lin, Huiqi Li. Tracing Retinal Blood Vessels by Matrix-Forest Theorem of Directed Graphs. In MICCAI, 2014.
    Project Webpage
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  • Chi Xu, Li Cheng. Efficient Hand Pose Estimation from a Single Depth Image. In International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2013.
    Project Webpage
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  • Li Cheng. Riemannian Similarity Learning. In International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2013.
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  • Li Cheng, Ning Ye, Weimiao Yu, Andre Cheah. Discriminative Cellular Segmentation for Microscopic Images. In Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention  (MICCAI), 2011.
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  • Qinfeng Shi, Li Wang, Li Cheng, and Alex Smola. Discriminative Human Action Segmentation and Recognition using SMMs. In International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), 93(1):22-32, 2011.
    Code and Syn Data
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  • Minglun Gong, Li Cheng. Foreground Segmentation of Live Videos using Locally Competing 1SVMs. In IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2011.
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  • Li Cheng, M. Gong, D. Schuurmans, and T. Caelli. Real-time Discriminative Background Subtraction. IEEE Trans. Image Processing, 20(5), 1401-1414, 2011.
    Project Webpage
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  • Li Cheng, Minglun Gong. Realtime Background Subtraction from Dynamic Scenes. In IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2009.
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  • Tiberio Caetano, Julian McAuley, Li Cheng, Quoc Le, and Alex Smola. Learning Graph Matching. IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), 31(6):1048-1058, 2009.
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  • Li Cheng, S.V.N. Vishwanathan, and Xinhua Zhang. Consistent image analogies using semi-supervised learning. In IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2008.
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  • Jun Zhou, Li Cheng, and Walter Bischof. Prediction and Change Detection In Sequential Data for Interactive Applications. In National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), pp. 805--810, AAAI, 2008.
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  • Li Cheng and S.V.N. Vishwanathan. Learning to compress images and videos. In Proceedings of the 24th international conference on Machine learning (ICML), pp. 161--168, ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2007.
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  • Li Cheng, S.V.N. Vishwanathan, Dale Schuurmans, Shaojun Wang, and Terry Caelli. implicit Online Learning with Kernels. In B. Scholkopf, J. Platt, and T. Hoffman, editors, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), pp. 249--256, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2007.
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  • Li Cheng and Terry Caelli. Bayesian stereo matching. Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU), 106(1):85--96, 2007.
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  • Jun Zhou, Li Cheng, and Walter Bischof. Online Learning with Novelty Detection in Human-guided Road Tracking. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 45(12):3967--3977, 2007.
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  • Li Cheng and Terry Caelli. Component Optimization for Image Understanding: a Bayesian Approach. IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), 28(5):684--693, 2006.
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  • Li Cheng, Feng Jiao, Dale Schuurmans, and Shaojun Wang. Variational Bayesian image modelling. In Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on Machine learning (ICML), pp. 129--136, ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2005.
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  • Shaojun Wang, Shaomin Wang, Russ Greiner, Dale Schuurmans, and Li Cheng. Exploiting syntactic, semantic and lexical regularities in language modeling via directed Markov random fields. In Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on Machine learning (ICML), pp. 948--955, ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2005.
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