Ce Liu

PhD student Graduated & married!

I just started postdoc with Microsoft Research New England (MSRNE)

Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)

Perceptual Science Group (PERSCI)

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Address:

32-D460, Stata Center, CSAIL MIT

32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA 02139

Phone: 617-253-3497 (O) 

Email:

Homepage: http://people.csail.mit.edu/~celiu

Curriculum vitae [pdf]

 

Advisors

William T. Freeman. Associate Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT.

Edward H. Adelson. Professor of Vision Science, Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Science, MIT.

 

Former Advisors

Rick Szeliski (entor when I interned at Microsoft Research, summer 2005). Research Manager, Interactive Visual Media Group, Microsoft Research.

Harry Shum (Former advisor at Microsoft Research Asia). Director of Microsoft Research Asia.

Changshui Zhang (Advisor at Tsinghua Unv.). Professor, Dept. of Automation, Tsinghua University

 

Collaborators

Frédo Durand, Antonio Torralba, Sing Bing Kang, Larry Zitnick, Bryan Russell, Song Chun Zhu

 

Research Interests

I am interested in a variety of research topics in computer vision, computer graphics and machine learning. In particular, I am interested at discovering the right representations

for visual objects and events so that visual objects can be recognized and synthesized in a way that matches human perception. Supervised by Bill and Ted, I am conducting research

in middle-level motion analysis, image/video synthesis and motion-based object recognition.

 

Teaching Experience

I was a teaching assistant of 6.098/6.882 Computational Photography

 

Education and Working Experience

Awards

1. One of 1000 Young Artists of China, 1987.

2. Diamond Prize of National Painting Contest, 1990.

3. 1st Prize of National Physics Competition (high school), China, 1994.

4. Outstanding student of Tsinghua University, 1996.

5. 1st Prize of Mathematical Contest on Modeling (undergraduate), China, 1997.

6. 1st Prize of Mathematical Contest on Modeling (undergraduate), USA, 1998.

7. Webster Fellowship, MIT, 2003.

8. Microsoft Fellowship, 2005-2006

9. Outstanding Student Paper Award, NIPS, 2006

10. Xerox Foundation Fellowship, 2007

11. Best Student Paper Award, CVPR, 2009

12. Outstanding Reviewer Award, CVPR, 2009

Publications

[1]

C. Liu. Beyond pixels: exploring new representations and applications for motion analysis. Doctoral Thesis. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 2009. [pdf]

[2]

J. Yuen, B. Russell, C. Liu, and A. Torralba. LabelMe video: Building a Video Database with Human Annotations. To appear at IEEE Intertional Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Oct 2009. [pdf]

[3]

C. Liu, J. Yuen, and A. Torralba.Nonparametric scene parsing: label transfer via dense scene alignment. To appear in IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2009. Oral presentation. Best Student Paper Award. [pdf]

[4]

C. Liu, J. Yuen, A. Torralba, J. Sivic, and W. T. Freeman. SIFT flow: dense correspondence across different scenes. European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2008. Oral presentation. [pdf]

[5]

C. Liu, W. T. Freeman, E. H. Adelson and Y. Weiss. Human-assisted motion annotation.  IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2008. [pdf] [webpage].

[6]

C. Liu, R. Szeliski, S. B. Kang, C. L. Zitnick and W. T. Freeman. Automatic estimation and removal of noise from a single image. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), Vol. 30, No. 2, Feb. 2008. [pdf] [MSR TR link]

[7]

B. Russell, A. Torralba, C. Liu, R. Fergus and W. T. Freeman. Object recognition by scene alignment. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), 2007. [pdf] [webpage]

[8]

C. Liu, H. Y. Shum and W. T. Freeman. Face hallucination: theory and practice. International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), Vol. 75, No. 1, pp. 115-134, October, 2007. [pdf] [webpage] [SpringerLink]

[9]

M. F. Tappen, C. Liu, E. H. Adelson and W. T. Freeman. Learning Gaussian conditional random fields for low-level vision. IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), pp. 1-8, 2007. [pdf]

[10]

C. Liu, W. T. Freeman and E. H. Adelson. Analysis of contour motions. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) 2006, oral presentation. Outstanding Student Paper Award. [pdf] [ppt] [webpage]

[11]

C. Liu, W. T. Freeman, R. Szeliski and S. B. Kang. Noise estimation from a single image. IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), pp. 901-908, 2006. [pdf] [ppt] [webpage]

[12]

C. Liu, A. Torralba, W.T . Freeman, F. Durand and E. H. Adelson. Motion magnification. ACM SIGGRAPH 2005, pp. 519-526, 2005. [pdf] [ppt] [webpage]

[13]

L. Yuan, F. Wen, C. Liu and H. Y. Shum. Synthesizing dynamic texture with closed-loop linear dynamic system. European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2004. [pdf]

[14]

C. Y. Wu, C. Liu, H. Y. Shum, Y. Q. Xu and Z. Y. Zhang. Automatic eyeglasses removal from face images. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), Vol. 26, No. 3, pp. 322-336, March 2004. [pdf]

[15]

C. Liu and H. Y. Shum. Kullback-Leibler boosting. IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), pp. 587-594, 2003. [pdf] [ppt]

[16]

S. C. Yan, C. Liu, S. Z. Li, H.J. Zhang, H. Shum, Q. S. Cheng. Face alignment using texture constrained active shape models. Image and Vision Computing, Vol. 21, Issue 1, Pages 69-75, January, 2003. [pdf]

[17]

Z. Q. Liu, C. Liu, H.Y . Shum and Y. Z. Yu. Pattern-based texture metamorphosis. Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications, pp. 184-193, 2002. [pdf] [ppt] [webpage]

[18]

S.C. Yan, C. Liu, S. Z. Li, L. Zhu, Z, H.J. Zhang, H. Y. Shum and Q. S. Cheng. Texture constrained active shape models. ECCV 2002 Workshop on Generative Model Based Vision. Copenhagen, Denmark . May, 2002. [pdf]

[19]

C. Liu, H. Y. Shum and S.C. Zhang. Hierarchical shape model for automatic face localization. European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), pp. 687-703, 2002. [pdf]

[20]

C. Y. Wu, C. Liu, H. Y. Shum, Y. Q. Xu and Z. Y. Zhang. Automatic eyeglasses removal from face images. Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV), pp. 193-198, 2002. [pdf]

[21]

C. Liu, H. Y. Shum and C. S. Zhang. Two-step approach to hallucinating faces: global parametric model and local nonparametric model. IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). Vol. 1, pp. 192-198, 2001. [pdf] [ppt] [webpage]

[22]

C. Y. Wu, C. Liu and J. Zhou. Eyeglasses verification by support vector machine. IEEE Pacific Ring Conference on Multimedia, pp. 1126-1131, 2001.

[23]

L. Liang, C. Liu, Y. Q. Xu, B. N. Guo and H. Y. Shum. Real-time texture synthesis by patch-based sampling. ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), Vol. 20, No. 3, pp. 127-150, July 2001. [pdf] [webpage]

[24]

C. Liu, S.C. Zhu and H. Y. Shum. Learning inhomogeneous Gibbs model of faces by minimax entropy. IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), pp. 281-287, 2001. [pdf] [webpage]

Referred Abstracts

[25]

C. Liu, E. H. Adelson and W. T. Freeman. Human-assisted motion annotation for real-world videos. Presented at Vision Science Society (VSS), Naples, Florida, May 2008.

Talks

Oct 2001

Microsoft

Face hallucination: global parametric and local nonparametric model

Feb 2002

U.C. Berkley

Face hallucination: global parametric and local nonparametric model

Aug 2005

SIGGRAPH

Motion magnification

Jun 2006

CVPR

Automatic noise estimation from a single image

Oct 2006

CSAIL MIT

Motion analysis: what can computers see and what can humans?

Dec 2006

NIPS

Analysis of contour motions

Mar 2008

CSAIL MIT

Bridging the gap between human and computer analysis on motion

May 2008

VSS

Human-assisted motion annotation for real-world videos

Jun 2008

CVPR

Human-assisted motion annotation
Aug 2008
 Xerox How to make the computer see the moving world
Oct 2008
 University of Cambridge SIFT flow: dense correspondence across scenes
Oct 2008
 ECCV SIFT flow: dense correspondence across scenes
Oct 2008
 CSAIL MIT Go beyond pixels--exploring new representations and applications for motion analysis
Dec 2008
 SEAS Harvard Go beyond pixels--exploring new representations and applications for motion analysis
Jan 2009 SUnS workship Dense scene alignment
Mar 2009
 MSR New England Beyond pixels--exploring new representations and applications for motion analysis
Jun 2009
 CVPR Nonparametric scene parsing: label transfer via dense scene alignment
July 2009 UCSD SIFT flow: dense scene alignment and its applications

 

Last update: July, 2009