Human Body Tracking and Gesture Recognition

Fall 2011 ~ Fall 2012, NSF Triple Helix Graduate Fellowship, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY

Developed a human gesture recognition system with Microsoft Kinect camera, using dynamic graphical models.

Developed a human pose estimation framework from depth image sequences to recognize upper body parts.

Designed and co-developed two education software with the Microsoft Kinect camera with computer vision and machine learning algorithms, providing middle school students with additional STEM learning tools.

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Publications

Journals: - Tian Gao, and Qiang Ji. "Efficient Markov Blanket Discovery and Its Applications", IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics. To Appear. 2016; - Tian Gao, and Qiang Ji. "Efficient Score-Based Markov Blanket Discovery" Int. J. Approx. Reason., 2016. Submitted.
Conferences: - Tian Gao, and Qiang Ji. "Constrained Local Latent Variable Discovery", International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2016. Accepted.; - Tian Gao, and Qiang Ji. "Local Causal Discovery for Direct Causes and Effects", Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), 2015.; - Tian Gao, Ziheng Wang, and Qiang Ji. "Structured Feature Selection", International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2015.; - Ziheng Wang, Tian Gao, and Qiang Ji. "Learning with Hidden Information Using a Max-Margin Latent Variable Model". 22nd International Conference on Patter Recognition (ICPR), 1389-1394. IEEE, 2014.

Useful Resources

Probabilistic Graphical Models

Software by Kevin Murphy and students

Causal Discovery

Judea Pearl: Causal Analysis in Theory and Practice

The TETRAD Project

Other Machine Learning Tools

the UC Irvine Machine Learning Datasets Repository

Contact Email: gaot [at] rpi [dot] edu

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