Bo Xu(徐博)
Room 1019, 95 Zhongguancun East Road
Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Beijing 100190, P.R. China
Email: box0513@gmail.com
Biography
Bo Xu received his Master degree in 2006 in Department of Electronic & Information Engineering from Xi'an Jiaotong University. He worked as a Research Assistant in Tsinghua University (THU) from Sep. 2006 to Aug. 2007. Then he joined Institute of Automation, Chinese Academic of Sciences (CASIA) as a Ph.D student in Sep.2007. During Nov. 2010 to Jan. 2011, he joined Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) as a Junior Research Assistant under the supervision of Prof.Irwin King.
Research Interests
- Computer Vision, Image Processing
- Pattern Recognition, Character Recognition, Face Recognition,
- Machine Learning, Data Mining, Feature Selection, Feature Extraction and Feature description
- Social Networks, Recommandation system
Research Projects
- Free-written Chinese Character Recognition (National Natural Science Foundation Project) (2009.09 ~ present)
- Improvement of Handwritten Chinese Character Classifier (Fujitsu cooperation project) (2009.09 ~ 2010. 04)
- Dimensionality Reduction by Minimal Distance Maximization (National Outstanding Young Scientists Project) (2009.09 ~ 2010. 01)
- Maxi-Min Discriminant Analysis via Online Learning (National Outstanding Young Scientists Project) (2010.03 ~ 2010.06)
- Using Feature Selection for Handwritten Chinese Character Recognition (National Natural Science Foundation Project) (2008.09 ~ 2009.07)
Publications
- B. Xu, K. Huang and C. Liu, “Dimensionality Reduction by Minimal Distance Maximization”, ICPR 2010.
- B. Xu, K. Huang and C. Liu, “Similar Chinese Characters Recognition by Critical Region Selection Based on Average Symmetric Uncertainty”, ICFHR 2010.
Awards & Grants
- 2000 - 2003 Second Prize Scholarship (20%)
- 2003 Excellent graduation thesis
- 2004 - 2006 Second Prize Postgraduate Scholarship (20%)