Ying Yin

MIT CSAIL
32 Vassar St.
Cambridge, MA 02139email

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I obtained my PhD in Computer Science from MIT in 2014. I did my research in the Multimodal Understanding Group at Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) under the guidance of Professor Randall Davis. My research focused on making the next generation intelligent multimodal user interfaces using advanced techniques in Machine Learning, and Machine Vision.

I obtained my Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering (Software Engineering Option) from University of British Columbia in Canada with a minor in Commerce. I attended high school at Raffles Junior College in Singapore.

Research interests

  • Machine Learning, Computer Vision
  • Multimodal Interaction / Large Display Interaction / Human Computer Interaction
  • Parallel and Distributed Computer Systems

Curriculum Vitae

Publications

  • Yin, Y.. Real-Time Continuous Gesture Recognition for Natural Multimodal Interaction. PhD thesis for Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Cambridge, MA. May, 2014. [BibTex] [PDF]
  • Yin, Y., and Davis, R.. Real-Time Continuous Gesture Recognition for Natural Human-Computer Interaction. 2014 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC) (to appear). Melbourne, Australia. Jul, 2014. [BibTex] [PDF]
  • Yin, Y., and Davis, R.. Gesture Spotting and Recognition Using Salience Detection and Concatenated Hidden Markov Models. Proceedings of the 15th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI). ChaLearn Workshop on Multimodal Gesture Recognition. Sydney, Australia. Dec, 2013. [BibTex] [PDF] [Scoreboard]
  • Yin, Y., Ouyang, T., Partridge, K., and Zhai, S.. Making Touchscreen Keyboards Adaptive to Keys, Hand Postures, and Individuals – A Hierarchical Spatial Backoff Model Approach. Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Paris, France. Apr, 2013. [BibTex] [PDF] [Video]
  • Yin, Y.. A Hierarchical Approach to Continuous Gesture Analysis for Natural Multi-modal Interaction. Proceedings of the 14th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction. pp 357--360. Santa Monica, CA. Oct, 2012. [BibTex] [PDF] [Poster]
  • Yin, Y. and Davis, R.. Toward Natural Interaction in the Real World: Real-time Gesture Recognition. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces. Beijing, China, November 2010. [BibTeX] [PDF]
  • Yin, Y.. Toward an Intelligent Multimodal Interface for Natural Interaction. Master's Thesis for Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Cambridge, MA. May, 2010. [BibTeX] [PDF]
  • Yin, Y. and Davis, R.. Toward an Intelligent Multimodal Interface for Natural Interaction. ACM Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces (ITS 2009). Banff, Canada. Nov, 2009. [BibTex] [PDF] [Poster]

Patent

  • Yin, Y., Ouyang, T., Patridge, K., and Zhai, S.. Posture-Adaptive Selection. Google, submitted. Applicaiton No. 61/702,678.

Talk

Services

  • Reviewer for 2012 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI).
  • Reviewer for 2013 ChaLearn Workshop on Multimodal Gesture Recognition, ICMI 2013.

Courses Taken

@ MIT

@ UBC