Assistant Computer

YU-WEI CHAO

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AREA OF INTERESTS

Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Signal Processing

EDUCATION

September 2011 - Present

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

GPA: 7.59/9.00

M.S. in Electrical Engineering: Systems

National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan September 2005 - June 2009

GPA: 3.85/4.00

B.S. in Electronics Engineering, Minor in Applied Mathematics

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA Fall 2008

GPA: 3.80/4.00

International Exchange Program

WORK EXPERIENCE

Research Assistant, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan August 2010 - July 2011

Assist academic research in computer vision, pattern recognition and machine learning

Instruct undergraduate RAs in machine learning/pattern recognition topics

Served as reviewer of ACCV 2010 and ICME 2011

Mentor: Dr. Yu-Chiang Frank Wang

RESEARCH PROJECTS

September 2011 - November 2011

Semantic Structure from Motion with Points, Regions, and Objects

Applied and analyzed different region classifiers for Semantic Structure from Motion

Advisor: Prof. Silvio Savarese

Supervised Dictionary Learning for Sparse Representation Classification February 2011 - July 2011

Proposed a supervised dictionary learning algorithm for face recognition and handwritten digit recognition

Advisor: Dr. Yu-Chiang Frank Wang

August 2010 - January 2011

Locality and Group-Sensitive Sparse Representation for Visual Classification

Proposed a novel sparse representation algorithm for supervised image classification

Advisor: Dr. Yu-Chiang Frank Wang

Interactive Cosegmentation on Groups of Related Images Fall 2008

Created a dataset and ground truth labels for image segmentation (38 groups with 643 images)

http://chenlab.ece.cornell.edu/projects/touch-coseg/

Advisor: Prof. Tsuhan Chen

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Teaching Assistant of online courses at Coursera

Computer Vision: From 3D Reconstruction to Visual Recognition, January 2013

https://www.coursera.org/#course/computervision

Graduate Student Instructor (GSI) at University of Michigan

Computer Vision (EECS 442), Fall 2012

http://www.eecs.umich.edu/vision/teaching/EECS442_2012/eecs442.html

PUBLICATIONS

C.-P. Wei, Y.-W. Chao, Y.-R. Yeh, and Y.-C. F. Wang, Locality-Sensitive Dictionary Learning for Sparse

Representation Based Classification, To appear in Pattern Recognition.

S. Y. Bao, M. Bagra, Y.-W. Chao, S. Savarese, Semantic Structure From Motion with Points, Regions, and

Objects, Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2012.

Y.-W. Chao, Y.-R. Yeh, Y.-W. Chen, Y.-J. Lee, and Y.-C. F. Wang, Locality-constrained Group Sparse

Representation for Robust Face Recognition, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Image

Processing (ICIP), 2011.

YU-WEI CHAO

HONORS & AWARDS

Government Scholarships for Study Abroad (GSSA), Ministry of Education, Taiwan May 2011

Achievement Award for Mandatory Service Officers, Ministry of National Defense, Taiwan June 2010

Study Abroad Scholarship for Outstanding College Students, Ministry of Education, Taiwan Fall 2008

Academic Achievement Award (Class Rank: 2/51), National Chiao Tung University Spring 2008

OTHER ACHIEVEMENTS

Technology Transfer - Industrial Technology Research Institutes, Hsinchu, Taiwan December 2011

Sparse Representation Based Face Recognition Technology

SKILLS & LANGUAGES

Programming Languages: C/C++, MATLAB, Java, Python

Operating Systems: Windows, Linux

Languages: English, Chinese (Mandarin), Taiwanese

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