Jue Wang

Education

• Ph.D, Electrical Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, October 2007.
      - Thesis: Foreground Segmentation in Images and Video: Methods, Systems and Applications.
• M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. January 2003. (with honor)
• B.E. in Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. July 2000. (with honor)

Research Interests

Image and video processing, advanced computer vision and graphics techniques for better visual experience and user interface.

Graphics on the web. Graphics on the cell phone.

Professional Experience

• Senior Researcher, Creative Technologies Lab, Adobe Systems, Seattle, 2/2010 ~ present
• Researcher, Creative Technologies Lab, Adobe Systems, Seattle, 11/2007 ~ 1/2010
• Research Assistant,  University of Washington, Seattle, 10/2003 ~ 10/2007
  • - Research Assistant for Dr. Michael Cohen (Microsoft Research), Eve Riskin (UW-EE) and Richard Ladner (UW-CSE).
•  Research Intern at Microsoft Research, Redmond, Summer 2004, 2005, 2006
  • - in the Communication, Collaboration, and Signal Processing group and the Interactive Visual Media group.
• Research Intern at Microsoft Research Asia, 07/2002 ~ 09/2003
  • Worked with Dr. Harry Shum and Dr. Yingqing Xu at the Visual Computing group.
• Research Assistant at State Key Laboratory of Intelligent Technique and Systems, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. 09/2000 ~ 12/2002

Honors

• Microsoft Research Fellowship, 2006-2007
• Yang Research Award, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Washington, 2006
• Chair’s Award, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Washington, 2006.
• Nominated for Outstanding Research Assistant, EE department, Univ. Washington, 2003, 2004
• Outstanding Master Thesis Award, Tsinghua University, 2003
• Tsinghua-Rockwell Automation Scholarship, 2002
• Tsinghua University Outstanding Graduate Student Scholarship, 2001
• Tsinghua University Excellent Student Scholarship. 1996-2000
• First-rank prize in China National High School Physics Competition, 1995

Patents

• Yingqing Xu, Heung-Yeung Shum, Jue Wang and Chenyu Wu. Learning-based system and process for synthesizing cursive handwriting. US Patent 7227993.
• Michael F. Cohen, Yingqing Xu, Heung-Yeung Shum and Jue Wang. Stylization of video. US Patent 7450758.
• Michael Cohen, Bo Thiesson, Yingqing Xu and Jue Wang. System and method for image and video segmentation by anisotropic kernel mean shift. US Patent 7397948.
• Michael Cohen and Jue Wang. Automated face enhancement. US Patent 7634108.
• Michael Cohen and Jue Wang. A system and method for very low frame rate video streaming for face-to-face video conferencing. US Patent application 7583287.
• Michael Cohen and Jue Wang. System and method for eye-tracking and blink detection. US Patent application 7676063.
• Michael Cohen and Jue Wang. A system and method for very low frame rate teleconferencing employing image cropping and morphing. US Patent 7659920.

Professional Activities

Associate Editor, The Visual Computer

Associate Editor, International Journal of Computer Games Technology

Program Committee, Mirage 2011

Program Committee, WACV 2011

Reviewer for ACM Trans. Graphics, IEEE Trans. PAMI, IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, IEEE Trans. Image Processing, The Visual Computer, Pattern Recognition Letters, Graphical Models, Signal Processing: Image Communication, Computer Graphics Forum, major graphics and vision conferences such as ACM SIGGRAPH, IEEE ICCV, CVPR, ECCV.

Member of Sigma Xi, IEEE, ACM.