Xin Lu Second-year Ph.D. candidate (ABD) Room 310, IST Building, Penn State University State College, PA, 16802 My advisor is Prof. James Z. Wang.

Biography

I am a Ph.D. student in IST@PSU since 2010. I work with Prof. James Z. Wang in the broad area of image understanding. My research interests include computer vision, data mining, and user-generated content analysis. Prior to joining IST, I received the M.E. Degree in Signal and Information Processing, B.E. and B.A. degree in Electrical Engineering and English all from Tianjin University, China, in 2010 and 2008, respectively. The PDF version of my curriculum vitae is available here.

Research Experience

• Graduate Student and Research Assistant, The Intelligent Information Systems Research Lab, IST@PSU, May 2011 - present.
  - Concept modeling from large-scale images
  
• Research Assistant, IST@PSU, January 2011 - May 2011.
  - Map-based Web service & Affective interface design.
• Research Intern, Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA), WSM Group, August 2009 - May 2010.
  - Automatic trip planning based on user-generated geo-tagged photos (mentored by Dr. Changhu Wang and Jiang-Ming Yang).
  
• Research Assistant, Visual Pattern Analysis Lab, Tianjin University, September 2007 - August 2009.
  -Travelogue enriching, manifold learning, and face recognition (supervised by Prof. Yanwei Pang).
  

Publications

• Photo2Trip: Generating Travel Routes from Geo-Tagged Photos for Trip Planning.
  X. Lu, C.-H. Wang, J.-M. Yang, Y. Pang, and L. Zhang.
  ACM Multimedia 2010.
• Photo2Trip: An Interactive Trip Planning System Based on Geo-Tagged Photos.
  H.-G., Yin, X. Lu, C.-H. Wang, L. Zhang and N.-H. Yu.
  ACM Multimedia 2010.
• Visualizing Textual Travelogue with Location-Relevant Images.
  X. Lu, Y. Pang, Q. Hao, and L. Zhang.
  ACM LBSN 2009.
• Binary Sparse Nonnegative Matrix Factorization.
  Y. Yuan, X. Li, Y. Pang, X. Lu, and D.C. Tao.
  IEEE CSVT 2009.

Activities

• International Conference of ACM Multimedia, Firenze, Italy, October 25-29, 2010. (Student Travel Grant Award)
• International Workshop in Location-Based Social Network in Conjunction with ACM GIS, Seattle, WA, US, November 3-6, 2009.