Dacheng Tao

Dacheng Tao

Beautiful is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.

– G.H. Hardy

News:

Best student paper award (honorable mention): W. Jia, D. Huang, D. Tao, and D. Zhang, “Palmprint Identification based on Directional Representation,” IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC), 2008.

Dr. Tao has become an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering.

Dr. Dacheng Tao has become as a guest professor in Wuhan University (State key lab of information engineering surveying, mapping and remote sensing).

Dr. Dacheng Tao has become as a visiting professor in Xi’Dian University.

Dr. Dacheng Tao

School of Computer Engineering

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Dacheng Tao received the B.Eng. degree from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), the M.Phil degree from the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), and the Ph.D degree from the University of London (Lon). Currently, he is a Nanyang Assistant Professor with the School of Computer Engineering in the Nanyang Technological University and holds a visiting post in Lon. He is a Visiting Professor in the Xi Dian University and a Guest Professor in the Wu Han University.

His research is mainly on applying statistics and mathematics for data analysis problems in computer vision, multimedia, machine learning, data mining, and video surveillance. He has published more than 100 scientific papers including IEEE TPAMI, TIP, TKDE, CVPR, ECCV, NIPS, ICDM; ACM TKDD, Multimedia, KDD etc., with best paper runner up awards and finalists. One of his TPAMI papers received an interview with ScienceWatch.com (Thomson Scientific). His H-Index in google scholar is 14 and his Erdös number is 3. Previously he gained several Meritorious Awards from the International Interdisciplinary Contest in Modeling, which is the highest level mathematical modeling contest in the world, organized by COMAP. He holds the K. C. WONG Education Foundation Award.

He is an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering and the Computational Statistics & Data Analysis (Elsevier). He has authored/edited six books and eight journal special issues. He has (co-)chaired for special sessions, invited sessions, workshops, panels and conferences. He has served with more than 80 major international conferences and more than 30 prestigious international journals. He is a member of IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, and IEEE Signal Processing Society.

Contact Information

Office:	Blk N4, 02b-67 School of Computer Engineering Nanyang Technological University Singapore 639798.
Phone:	+65 6790 6250
Fax:	+65 6792 6559
Email:	dctao at ntu.edu.sg, dacheng.tao at ieee.org

Postal Address

Blk N4, 02b-67
School of Computer Engineering
Nanyang Technological University
Singapore 639798.

Research Interests

Pattern Recognition and Signal Processing

Selected Recent Publications

1. D. Tao et al., “Asymmetric Bagging and Random Subspace for Support Vector Machines-based Relevance Feedback in Image Retrieval,” IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), vol. 28, no.7, pp. 1088-1099, July 2006.

2. D. Tao et al., “General Tensor Discriminant Analysis and Gabor Features for Gait Recognition,” IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), vol. 29, no. 10, pp. 1700-1715, October 2007.

3. D. Tao et al., “Geometric Mean for Subspace Selection,” IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), vol.31, no.2, pp. 260-274, February 2009. (The conference version has been accepted as a full paper in IEEE ICDM 2007 and won the best theory/algorithms paper runner up award.)

4. M. Song, D. Tao et al., “Colour to Grey: Visual Cue Preservation,” IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), to appear.

5. D. Tao et al., “Negative Samples Analysis in Relevance Feedback,” IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 568-580, April 2007.

6. T. Zhang, D. Tao et al., “Patch Alignment for Dimension Reduction,” IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), vol. 20, no. 2, February 2009.

7. D. Song and D. Tao, “Biologically Inspired Feature Manifold for Scene Classification,” IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), to appear.

8. X. Gao, W. Lu, D. Tao, and X. Li, “Image Quality Assessment Based on Multiscale Geometric Analysis,” IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), vol. 18, no. 7, pp. 1608-1622, July 2009.

9. J. Shen, D. Tao, and X. Li, “Modality Mixture Projections for Semantic Video Event Detection,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT), vol. 18, no. 11, pp. 1587-1596, November 2008.

10. D. Tao et al., “Reduced-Reference IQA in Contourlet Domain,” IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part: B. (TSMC-B), to appear.

11. J. Sun, D. Tao et al., “Incremental Tensor Analysis: theory and applications,” ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery in Data (ACM TKDD), vol. 2, no. 3, October 2008. (The conference version has been accepted as a full paper in ACM SIGKDD 2006.)

12. D. Tao et al., “Supervised Tensor Learning,” Knowledge and Information Systems (Springer: KAIS), vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 1-42, January 2007.

13. J. Li, L. Zhang, D. Tao et al., “A Prior Neurophysiologic Knowledge Free Tensor-based Scheme for Single Trial EEG Classification,” IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering (TNSRE), vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 107-115, April 2009.

14. D. Tao et al., “Kernel Direct Biased Discriminant Analysis: A New Content-based Image Retrieval Relevance Feedback Algorithm,” IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM), vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 716-727, August 2006. (Best Transactions paper award finalist)

15. D. Tao et al., “Which Components Are Important for Interactive Image Searching?,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT), vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 1-11, January 2008.

16. K. Huang, D. Tao et al., “View Independent Behavior Analysis,” IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part: B. (TSMC-B), vol. 39, no. 4, pp. 1028-1035, August 2009.

17. D. Tao et al., “Bayesian Tensor Approach for 3-D Face Modelling,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT), vol. 18, no. 10, pp. 1397-1410, October 2008.

18. J. Shen, D. Tao, and X. Li, “QUC Tree: Integrating Query Context Information for Efficient Music Retrieval,” IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM), vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 313-323, February 2009.

19. T. Zhang, K. Huang, X. Li, J. Yang, and D. Tao, “Discriminative Orthogonal Neighborhood Preserving Projections for Classification,” IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part: B. (TSMC-B), to appear.

20. B. Geng, D. Tao et al. “Ensemble Manifold Regularization,” IEEE CVPR 2009.

Call for Papers/Chapters

Springer: Multimedia Analysis, Processing and Communications

Neurocomputing (Elsevier)

Special Issue: Subspace Learning