Ming-Ming Cheng is a research fellow at Brookes Vision Group (transfering to University of Oxford), working withProf. Philip Torr. Earlier, he received his PhD degree fromTsinghua University in 2012 under guidance ofProf. Shi-Min Hu, and working closely withNiloy Mitra. During his PhD study, Dr. Cheng was funded byGoogle PhD fellowship,IBM PhD fellowship, and Scholarship Award for Excellent Doctoral Student funded by Chinese Ministry of Education. Dr. Cheng’s research primarily centers on algorithmic issues in image understanding and processing, including image segmentation, editing, retrieval, etc. [CV]
Research
I’m currently working on image scene analysis, editing, and retrieval. These works are mainly in following aspects: (I) biological motivated salient region detection and segmentation; (II) sketch based image retrieval and composition; (III) interactive image analysis and manipulation; (IV) similar scene elements analysis for smart image manipulation. These works tried to recover parts of scene object level information from images according to biological inspiration, or with the help of simple user assist in sketch form. Such scene object level information includes one or more parts of the following aspects: object of interest regions, object correspondence, region layering, symmetry, repetition, and 3D relations. Ideally, we expect automatic extraction of full 3D information, categories names, attributes, and object relations about the underlying image scene for intelligent image understanding, manipulation, organization, and retrieval. [Research galleries]
Professional Activities
Journal Review: IEEE TIP, TMM,TVCG,TCSVT, CYB,SPL; ElsevierPRL,IMAVIS, CAG, Image Communication,JVCI,NEUCOM; Wiley CGF, Springer TVC, NEPL, SCIS,ZUSC,JCST; IETCVI, etc,
Conference Review: SIGGRAPH 2013, SIGGRAPH Asia 2012 2011, Eurographics2012, Pacific Graphics2011, ICIP2013, ACCV 2010, Chinagraph2010, etc.
Program committee: ACCV 2012, Chinagraph 2010
Invited talks:
- Seminar report inOxford VGG: “Smart Images: Understanding image scene for rendering, editing, and retrieval“
Major Honors & Awards
- Aug. 2013: Outstanding Doctoral Dissertations Award from Beijing Municipal Government.
- Oct. 2012: Been shortlisted as 2012 Newton International Fellowship (Give up due to conflict of employment).
- Jun. 2012: Beijing Municipal Government Award for “Outstanding PhD Graduates”
- Aug. 2011: IBM Ph.D. Fellowship ($6,000).
- 2011: Tsinghua Academic Star honorary nomination (top 0.1%)
- 2010: Scholarship Award for Excellent Doctoral Student funded by Chinese Ministry of Education (RMB 50,000).
- Dec. 2010: Google PhD Fellowship ($10,000).
- Dec. 2008: Outstanding student cadre in Dept. of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University.
- Nov. 2008: First class outstanding instructional software prize in Tsinghua University.
- Nov. 2006: Computer Society Scholarship (RMB 2,000).
- Nov. 2006: “Tianjin Guangdian” Scholarship (RMB 2,000).
- Jun. 2006: Windows Embedded Student ChallengE, the third place in the world final competition ($4,000).
- 2005-2007: Three times Special class scholarship in Xidian University. (Top 1% student, RMB 2,000 each time)
- 2004-2005: Two times “Zhentai” scholarship. (RMB 2,000 each time)
Links
My Friends: Tiancheng Lou (楼天城), Kun Xu (徐昆), Tao Chen (陈韬), Yong Li (李勇),Yong-Liang Yang (杨永亮),Yue Gao (高岳),Qian-Yi Zhou (周谦益),Yu-Kun Lai (来煜坤),Jin Li (靳力),Xian-Ying Li (李先颖),Yue Gao (高跃),Junfeng He (何峻峰),Lei Zhang (张磊),
Co-partners: Shi-Min Hu, Philip Torr, Niloy J. Mitra,Ping Tan,Ariel Shamir,Xiaolei Huang
Useful Resources: Computer Graphics,Computer Vision,Computer Vision Resource, Computer Vision Datasets, DataTang, Most Cited Papers
Active Graphics Guys: Hugues Hoppe,Hans-Peter Seidel,Daniel Cohen-Or, Ariel Shamir, Baining Guo, Fabio Pellacini, Jan Kautz, Long Quan,Markus Gross,Greg Turk,Kun Zhou
Researchers doing most related work with me: James Hays,Mathias Eitz,