Qiang Ji

Associate Professor
Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
JEC 7004
Troy, NY 12180-3590
Phone: (518) 276-6440
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Secretary: Priscilla Magilligan, JEC 6049, (518) 276-6313

*About Me

Qiang Ji received his Ph.D degree in electrical engineering from the University of Washington under the supervision of Prof. Robert Haralick . He is currently an associate Professor with the Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems engineering at RPI. Prior to joining RPI in 2001, he was an assistant professor with Dept. of Computer Science, University of Nevada at Reno. He also held research and visiting positions with the Beckman Institute at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, and the US Air Force Research Laboratory. Dr. Ji currently serves as the director of the Intelligent Systems Laboratory (ISL). Prof. Ji is a senior member of the IEEE.

Prof. Ji's research interests are in computer vision, probabilistic reasoning with Bayesian Networks for decision making and information fusion under uncertainty, human computer interaction, pattern recognition, and robotics.


*Awards and Honors

  • Research Excellence Award, School of Engineering, RPI, 2006

  • The Best Paper Award, IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshop on Face Recognition Grand Challenge Experiments, 2005

  • The Best Land Transportation Paper Award, IEEE Vehicular Technology Society, 2004

  • Honda Initiation Grant Award, 1998


    *Teaching

  • ECSE 6650 Computer Vision

  • Introduction to Probabilistic Graphical Models

     


    *Research Interests

  • Computer vision, Probabilistic Reasoning with Probabilistic Graphical Models, HCI, medical imaging, and robotics. For details on current research projects, click here

     


    *Current News

  • IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence special issue on probabilistic graphical models in computer vision

  • 3rd International Workshop on Semantic Learning and Applications in Multimedia in association with CVPR , 2008.

  • Our research on driver fatigue monitoring is featured in a recent US DOT report on emerging technologies for driver fatigue monitoring. The report can be downloaded from here


    For the latest ISL news, click here

     


    *Current Services and Activities

  • Associate editor, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Parts A and B

  • Associate editor, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems

  • Associate editor, Pattern Recognition Letters journal

  • Editorial board, Image and Vision Computing journal

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    *Current Research

    Human activity modeling and recognition

    Real-Time non-invasive human state modeling, recognition, and prediction

    Probabilistic Reasoning Using Graphical Models

    Face Related Projects

    Medical Imaging Projects

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    Publications

    Image Databases

     


    * Students and Post-Docs Needed

  • Graduate Students Needed

  • PostDocs Needed

  • Undergraduate Students Needed