Signal Processing Electrical
Resume:
Xiangqiong (Carol) Shi
C ONTACT Cell: +1-408-***-**** E-mail: *************@*****.***
I NFORMATION Web: http://sites.google.com/site/xiangqiongshi
T ECHNICAL Image and video processing, computer vision and machine learning, stereo video enhancement.
S PECIALTIES
University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
E DUCATION
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Ph.D, Electrical Engineering, 08/2006- 08/2011
Doctoral Thesis Title: ”Bayesian Networks: Performance Analysis of Loopy Belief Propagation”
Co-Advisors: Prof. Dan Schonfeld, Prof. Daniela Tuninetti
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
Department of Automation
M.S., Electrical Engineering, 09/2003-02/2006
B.S., Electrical Engineering, Graduated ranked top 3%, 09/1999-06/2003
• Nokia, Visual Computing and Ubiquitous Imaging Team, Research Intern
W ORKING 10/2010 -05/2011
E XPERIENCE - Improved performance of mobile image stitching for Panorama application and Robust Instant Cloning
application on Nokia smartphone.
- Did code review, unit test, code refactoring and optimization.
• Technicolor, 3D Video Compression Group, Summer Intern 05/2010 - 08/2010
- Improved the subjective quality of 3D videos with high motion and blur by adding comfort noise to
decoder.
• Motorola Inc., Image and Video Communication Group, Summer Intern 05/2008 - 08/2008
- Implemented real-time view synthesis using stereo images captured by a Bumble Bee camera.
• Gelber Group, LLC, Research Assistant 09/2006-08/2007
- Realized real-time financial forecasting based on statistical signal processing.
Stanford Summer Session 2012
ACADEMIC
E XPERIENCE Course CS148: Introduction to Computer Graphics and Imaging
University of Illinois at Chicago
Multimedia Communications Laboratory, Dept. of ECE
• Markov Random Fields Model (MRF) and Belief Propagation for Image Segmentation 08/2010 -
08/2011
- Analyzed the performance of belief propagation algorithm for image segmentation based on MRF.
• Performance Analysis of Loopy Belief Propagation Algorithm (LBP) 08/2008 - 05/2010
- Presented novel distance bounds between multiple fixed-point solutions of pseudo-marginal probability.
- Proposed uniform and non-uniform sufficient convergence conditions of LBP.
- Improved existing distance bounds between pseudo-marginal probability and true marginal probability.
• Motion Trajectory Indexing and Retrieval Based on Multi-linear Analysis 08/2009 - 12/2009
- Provided flexibility of query dimension to efficiently index and retrieve multi-camera based trajectories.
• Discrete Wavelet Transform Approach for Blind Adaptive Filtering (DWT-BAF) of Image from
Unknown Noise Spring 2007
- Enhanced non-stationarity and SNR of images with unknown noises by utilizing DWT-BAF.
• Video Genre Classification Based on Cross-Correlation Analysis 08/2006 - 12/2007
- Presented a novel statistical cross-correlation analysis for video classification by modeling time-variant
cross correlation as random process.
- Reduced dramatically the search time for the maximum cross correlation by randomly sampling the
correlation function and monitoring the likelihood of a higher value using sequential hypothesis testing.
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
• Deadlock Free Scheduling for Flexible Manufacturing Systems (FMSs) 09/2003 - 02/2006
- Solved the NP-hard deadlock-free scheduling problems by a filtered beam search method and used
siphon technology to prevent deadlock.
• Improvements on Simulation Software for FMSs 09/2002 - 06/2003
- Improved the graphical user interface (GUI) and database design of FMSs simulation software.
Journal Papers
P UBLICATIONS
- Xiangqiong Shi, Dan Schonfeld and Daniela Tuninetti, ”Performance Analysis of Loopy Belief Propaga-
tion”, submitted to Journal of Machine Learning Research, http://arxiv.org/abs/1009.2305.
- Xiangqiong Shi and Dan Schonfeld, ”Cross-Correlation Analysis for Video Classification and Mining
Based on Statistical Methods”, submitted to IEEE Transactions on Image Processing.
Conference Papers
- Qun Li, Xiangqiong Shi and Dan Schonfeld, ”Robust HOSVD-Based Higher-Order Data Indexing and
Retrieval,” Signal Processing Letters, IEEE, vol.20, no.10, pp.984,987, Oct. 2013
- Qun Li, Xiangqiong Shi and Dan Schonfeld, ”A General Framework for Robust HOSVD-based Indexing
and Retrieval With High-Order Tensor Data”, 2011 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and
Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2011, page(s): 873 - 876 .
- Qun Li, Xiangqiong Shi and Dan Schonfeld, ”Robust HOSVD-based multi-camera motion trajectory index-
ing and retrieval”, Visual Information Processing and Communication II, Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume
7882, pp. 78820E-78820E-6 (2011).
- Xiangqiong Shi, Dan Schonfeld and Daniela Tuninetti, ”Message Error Analysis of Loopy Belief Propa-
gation”, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing, 2010, Page(s): 2078 -
2081.
- Xiangqiong Shi and Dan Schonfeld, ”Video Classification and Mining Based on Statistical Methods for
Cross-Correlation Analysis”, IEEE/SP Workshop on Statistical Signal Processing, 2007, Page(s):586 - 590.
- Xiangqiong Shi and Zhiming Wu, ”Deadlock-Free Scheduling Method for FMSs Using Beam Search”,
2005 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics,Volume: 2, Page(s): 1188- 1193.
• Programming Languages: Matlab, C/C++, OpenCV, OpenGL, Qt, MASM, SQL.
C OMPUTER
• Operating System: Windows, Mac OS.
S KILLS
AWARDS AND Student Travel Award, UIC, 2010
H ONORS University Fellowship, (offered up to 15% of total fall enrollment), University of Illinois at Chicago, 2006-
2007, 2009-2010 Academic Years
National Excellence Scholarship, Shanghai Committee of Education, 2004-2005 Academic Year
Shanghai Excellent Graduate, Shanghai Committee of Education, June 2003
M AJOR G RADUATE Statistical Digital Signal Processing; Digital Image Processing; Advanced Digital Communications; Adaptive
C OURSEWORK Digital Filters; Random Signal Analysis; Detection and Estimation Theory; Computer Algorithms; Real
analysis; Probability theory; Applied Statistical Methods.
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