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Email to: tongy2@rpi.edu

Department of Electrical Engineering and System Engineering

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Troy, NY 12180

 

Bio

I am a Ph.D student in the ECSE Department of RPI. Now I’m working in the Intelligent System Lab. My advisor is Dr. Qiang Ji.

 

I got the BS degree in Zhejiang University in China.

I received my MS degree in Computer Engineering from University of Nevada, Reno in 2004. 

 

Research:

Human Facial Feature Extraction and Tracking.

Automatic facial action units recognition.

Spontaneous Facial Activity Recognition

 

Book Chapters:

1. Yan Tong and Qiang Ji, “Automatic Eye Position Detection and Tracking under Natural Facial Movement”, Passive Eye Monitoring, Editor: Riad I. Hammoud, pp. 67-84, Springer 2007.

 

Journal Publications:

1.     Yan Tong, Wenhui Liao , and Qiang Ji, “Facial Action Unit Recognition by Exploiting Their Dynamic and Semantic Relationships”, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), Vol. 29, No. 10, pp. 1683-1699, October 2007.

2.     Yan Tong, Yang Wang, Zhiwei Zhu, and Qiang Ji, “Robust Facial Feature Tracking under Varying Face Pose and Facial Expression”, Pattern Recognition, Vol. 40, No. 11, pp. 3195-3208, November 2007.

 

Conference Publications:

1. Yan Tong, Wenhui Liao, Zheng Xue, and Qiang Ji, "A Unified Probabilistic Framework for Facial Activity Modeling and Understanding", the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR07), Minneapolis, June, 2007.

2. Yan Tong, Wenhui Liao, and Qiang Ji, "Inferring Facial Action Unit with Causal Relations", the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR06), New York city, June, 2006.

3. Yan Tong, Yang Wang, Zhiwei Zhu, and Qiang Ji, “Facial Feature Tracking using a Multi-State Hierarchical Shape Model under Varying Face Pose and Facial Expression”, the 18th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), Hongkong, August, 2006.

4. Yan Tong, and Qiang Ji, “Multiview Facial Feature Tracking with a Multi-modal Probabilistic Model”, the 18th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), Hongkong, August, 2006.

5. Wenhui Liao, Yan Tong, Zhiwei Zhu and and Qiang Ji, “Robust Object Tracking with a Case-base Updating Strategy”, the Twentieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), Hyderabad, India, January, 2007.