Curriculum Vitae
Ziyan Wu
518-961-1754 (cell)
ziyan@alum.rpi.edu
http://www.wuziyan.com
EDUCATION
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA
Computer and Systems Engineering
Ph.D.
May 2014
Beihang University (BUAA), Beijing, China
Mesurement Technologies and Instruments
M.S.
March 2009
Beihang University (BUAA), Beijing, China
Electrical Engineering and Automation
B.S.
July 2006
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Research Associate, Vision Technologies Center, SRI International, Princeton, NJ, August 2013 to December 2013
• Member of the Vision and Robotics Group, Vision Technologies Center.
• Design algorithms for Simultaneously Localization and Mapping (SLAM) and Structure from Motion applications.
System Engineer, Aviation Electronics, Honeywell Technology Solution Labs, Shanghai, China, March 2009 to July 2009
• Member of Flight Management System team, Aviation Electronics Department.
• Firmware development and system verification on FMS of Boeing 787.
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
Research Assistant, ECSE, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, August 2009 to May 2014
• Dissertation Title: Multi-Object Tracking and Association with a Camera Network, May 2014.
• Surveillance system for simulated airport security checkpoint with a camera network.
• Self-calibration and dynamic correction algorithms for Pan-Tilt-Zoom Cameras.
Research Assistant, Machine Vision Lab, State Key Lab of POMET, Beijing, China, September 2006 to March 2009
• Thesis: Calibration of Stereo Vision Sensor in Large FOV, (Best Thesis).
• Camera and Stereo Rig Calibration, 3D Scanning in Large FOV, Feature Extraction and 3D Data Registration.
Research Assistant, Automatic Control Center, Beihang University, Beijing, China, September 2004 to July 2006
• Thesis: High Performance Mobile Simulation Platform of Control Theory, (Best Thesis).
• Systems Simulation, Control Theory, Computer Interface, Embedded Systems and Data Acquisition
SIGNIFICANT PUBLICATIONS
• Z. Wu, Y Li, and R. J. Radke. “Viewpoint Invariant Human Re-identification in Real-World Camera Network Using
Pose Priors and Subject-Discriminative Features”, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
(PAMI), in press, 2014.
• Z. Wu and R.J. Radke. “Keeping a Pan-Tilt-Zoom Camera Calibrated”, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and
Machine Intelligence (PAMI), Vol.35, No.8, pp. 1994-2007, August 2013.
• Z. Wu, Z. Zhu and H. Chiu. “Virtual Insertion: Robust Bundle Adjustment Over Long Video Sequences”, British
Machine Vision Conference (BMVC, oral, acceptance rate 7%), 2014.
• Z. Wu, and R. J. Radke. “Improving Performance of Counter-flow Detection by Scene Feature Classification and Heat
Map Generation”, Pattern Recognition Letters (PRL), vol. 44, pp. 152-160, , 2014.
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• Z. Wu, Y Li, and R.J. Radke. “Automatic Hand-held 3D Scanner based on PTZ camera with Dynamic Correction”,
Poster at IEEE International Conference on Computational Photography 2013 (ICCP), April 2013.
• Z. Wu and R.J. Radke. “Using Scene Features to Improve Wide-Area Video Surveillance (Invited Paper)”, Workshop on
Camera Networks and Wide Area Scene Analysis, in conjunction with CVPR 2012, June 2012.
• Z. Wu and R.J. Radke. “Real-Time Airport Security Checkpoint Surveillance Using a Camera Network”, Workshop on
Camera Networks and Wide Area Scene Analysis, in conjunction with CVPR 2011, March 2011.
• Z. Wu and R.J. Radke. “Full- Scale Airport Security Checkpoint Surveillance using a Camera Network”, 2011 U.S.
Department of Homeland Security Science Conference, June 2011.6.
• Y. Li, Z. Wu, and R. J. Radke. “Multi-shot Re-identification with Random-Projection-based Random Forest ”, IEEE
Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2015.
• Y. Li, Z. Wu, S. Karanam, and R. J. Radke. “Real-World Re-Identification in an Airport Camera Network (Invited
Paper)”, ACM/IEEE International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras 2014 (ICDSC), 2014.
• G. Nagy, D. Lopresti, E. H. Barney and Z. Wu. “Towards Improved Paper-based Election Technology”, IAPR 11th
International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), September 2011.
• G. Nagy, D. Lopresti, E. H. Barney and Z. Wu. “Characterizing Challenged Minnesota Ballots”, SPIE Document
Recognition and Retrieval XVIII (DRR), IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging, March 2011.
• Z. Wu, J. Sun, Q. Liu and G. Zhang. “A Novel Calibration Method for Large-Scale Stereo Vision Sensor based on
One-Dimensional Target”, SPIE Proceedings- ISICT2006, September 2008.
• Z. Wu and F. Zhong. “Distributed Remote Interaction System for Observatory Based on VEGA and dot NET Platform”,
LNCS, Human Computer Interaction International 2007(HCI), August 2007.
• Z. Wu, J. Wu, D. Sun and X. Wu. “ Remote Measurement Platform Based on Measurement Studio and .NET Framework”, SPIE Proceedings-ISICT2008, October 2007.
• Z. Wu and J. Wu. “Distributed Medical Diagnosis System Based On .NET Remoting technology (Merit Paper)”, IET
International Conference on Information and Communications Technologies, August 2006.
• Z. Yang, J. Sun, Z. Wu and G. Zhang. “A New Camera Calibration Method based on Two 1D Targets”, Journal of
Optoelectronic and Laser, 2010(3).
• Z. Wu, X. Wu and Z. Ren. “Theory of distributed measurement system based on DataSocket technology”, Chinese
Journal of Scientific Instrument, Vol. 27, No. S2, pp. 77-81, 2006.
• J. Sun, Z. Wu, Q. Liu and G. Zhang. “Calibration of Stereo Vision Sensor in Large FOV”, Optical Precision Engineering,
Vol. 17,No. 3, pp. 633-640, 2009.
• Z. Wu and X. Wu. “DSTP and .NET Remoting are a powerful combination for remote testing platforms”, SPIE NewsroomCommunications and Networking, Vol. 2007, No. 2, pp. 581-1-581-2.
• Z. Wu. “Digital-Assembly Experiment System of Automatic Control Theorem”, Research and Exploration in Laboratory, Vol. 24, No. S1, pp. 213-215, 2005.
• G. Xie, J. Sun, Z. Wu and G. Zhang. “ Vision Measurement Data Registration based on Single Camera”, Optoelectronic
Engineering, Vol. 35, No. 1,pp. 156-158,2009.
PATENTS
• A Camera Parameters Calibration Method Based on Two 1D Targets (Granted Patent: CN200810102978.3)
• Active Lighting Target for 3D Scan Registration in Large FOV (Granted Patent: CN200802227527)
• A Sub-pixel Light Circle Spot Center Extraction Method and Equipment (Granted Patent: CN200802226666)
HONORS AND AWARDS
• Allen B. DuMont Prize, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2014.
• Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Students Aboard, Minister of Education, China, 2014.
• Honeywell Innovators 2008, Honeywell International, 2008.