Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Stata Center, 32-239
32 Vassar Street
Cambridge, MA 02319
Tom Yu Ouyang
ouyang [at] csail.mit.edu
About Me
I am a graduate student in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT. My research interests lie at the intersection of artificial intelligence and human computer interaction. I collaborate with my advisor Randall Davis in the Design Rationale Group, working on applications in sketch recognition and pen based interfaces. Previously I worked with Ken Forbus in the Qualitative Reasoning Group at Northwestern University on analogical reasoning and problem solving.
Education
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Candidate for PhD in Computer Science, (expect Jan 2012)
Master of Science in Computer Science, June 2007
Northwestern University
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science with Honors, June 2005
Summa Cum Laude
Current Research
Chemical Diagram Recognition
Electrical Circuit Diagram Recognition
Electrical Circuit Diagram Recognition
In the news: Our work on sketch recognition was recently featured on the main MIT website...
...and this MIT News article, also reported in Popular Science and Gizmondo.
Conference Publications
ChemInk: A Natural Real-Time Recognition System for Chemical Drawings
**Best Paper Award Nomination**
Tom Y. Ouyang and Randall Davis
International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, IUI 2011.
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**Best Paper Award Nomination**
Tom Y. Ouyang and Randall Davis
International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, IUI 2011.
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Learning from Neighboring Strokes: Combining Appearance and Context for Multi-Domain Sketch Recognition
Tom Y. Ouyang and Randall Davis
Neural Information Processing Systems, NIPS 2009.
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A Visual Approach to Sketched Symbol Recognition
Tom Y. Ouyang and Randall Davis
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2009.
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Visual Recognition of Sketched Symbols
**Best Paper Award**
Tom Y. Ouyang and Randall Davis
Intelligent User Interfaces, IUI 2009, Workshop on Sketch Recognition
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Recognition of Hand Drawn Chemical Diagrams
Tom Y. Ouyang and Randall Davis
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2007.
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Strategy Variations in Analogical Problem Solving
Tom Y. Ouyang and Kenneth D. Forbus
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2006.
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Other Publications
Recognition of Hand Drawn Chemical Diagrams
Tom Y. Ouyang
S.M. Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007.
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Tom Y. Ouyang
S.M. Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007.
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Removing Quantization Artifacts in Color Images Using Bounded Interval Regularization
Tom Y. Ouyang and Jack Tumblin
Northwestern University Undergraduate Research Journal, NURJ 2005.
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