Ce Liu

PhD student

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)  617-947-6317 (C)

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 (Mentor 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

Publications

[1]

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.

[2]

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

[3]

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]

[4]

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]

[5]

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]

[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. Tech Report, MSR-TR-2006-180. [pdf] [MSR TR link]

[7]

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]

[8]

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]

[9]

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]

[10]

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]

[11]

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

[12]

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]

[13]

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]

[14]

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]

[15]

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]

[16]

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]

[17]

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]

[18]

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

[19]

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]

[20]

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]

Last update: Dec 3, 2007