Last update: Mar. 08, 2009

 

Liu Wenyin

Curriculum Vitae

 

E-mail: csliuwy◎cityu.edu.hk , liuwenyin◎gmail.com

Homepage: http://www.cs.cityu.edu.hk/~liuwy/;

Male, Healthy.

Citizen of P.R. of China

Family status: Married with one child.

Mail address:

Department of Computer Science

City University of Hong Kong

83 Tat Chee Avenue

Kowloon, Hong Kong

Tel:  (852) 2784 4730

Fax: (852) 2788 8614

LANGUAGES

Chinese (native); English (fluent both in translation and interpretation)

Academic Degrees

D. Sc.               Information Management Engineering

                        Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management,

                        Technion--Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel,

                        Advisor: Dr. Dov Dori, 1995-1998

                        Graduated with honors.

M. Eng.           Computer Applications

                        Dept. of Computer Science and Technology,

                        Tsinghua University, Beijing, PR. China,

                        Advisor: Prof. Jia Peifa, 1990-1992

B. Eng.            Computer Science and Technology

                        Dept. of Computer Science and Technology

                        Tsinghua University, Beijing, PR. China, 1983-1988

                        Graduated with honors.

RESEARCH AREAS

  • Graphics recognition
    • Image understanding and pattern recognition,
    • Benchmarking computer vision and pattern recognition algorithms/systems,
    • Sketch understanding,
    • Automated engineering drawing interpretation,
    • Document analysis and recognition
  • Web-based information management and personalization,
    • Web document analysis,
    • Anti-Phishing,
    • User Interactive Question Answering

ACADEMIC HONORS

Membership in international professional organizations

IEEE (Senior Member), IAPR-TC10

Professional experience

2005.12-present: Guest Professor, Dept. of Computer Science and Technology, School of Information Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China

2005.9-present:  Joint PhD Supervisor, Joint Research Center of University of Science and Technology of China and City University of Hong Kong, Suzhou, China

2002.1-present:  Assistant Professor, Dept of Computer Science, City Univ. of Hong Kong.

1999.1-2002.1:   Researcher, Microsoft Research China/Asia.

Research areas: Personalized Web-based information management, User modeling and personalization, Multimedia information retrieval, Content based image retrieval, Multimedia database, Image understanding and pattern recognition, Graphics recognition,

Developed systems or research projects:

MiAlbum (for personal photo image management: organization, search, semi-automatic annotation); iFind (for web-based image search); Clip-art image retrieval; Smart Sketchpad (an on-line graphics recognition system); Media Agents (a personalized media management system) and MiXP, PhotoServer (an image related research supporting platform); MediaLand (a multimedia database based on SQL Server 2000), VideoObjSeg (a semi-automatic video object segmentation system), Image Synthesis, etc.

1998.6-1998.12:Lecturer, Tsinghua University, Beijing, P.R. of China.

CAD Center, Dept. of Computer Science & Technology.

research area: automated engineering drawing interpretation, computer graphics.

1997.11-1998.5:Senior Software Design Engineer, SlangSoft, Ramat Gan, Israel.

Systems developed: EMULE SDK, a Java development environment supporting  internationalization for more than 41 languages.

1995.3-1997.11:Ph.D. student, Technion--Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.

Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management.

Research area: vectorization and machine drawing understanding.

Systems developed: MDUS system for vectorization and engineering drawings understanding; (for X-Windows in SGI Indy workstation). Part of MDUS won the first place in the Dashed line detection contest held during the International Workshop of Graphics Recognition, Penn. State Univ., USA, Aug. 9-11, 1995. OPCAT (part) system as a graphic tool for system development using the object-process methodology proposed by Dr. Dov Dori. JAVAMDUS, an Java applet for web interface to MDUS running on the server, which won a third prize in the ACM International Java Programming Contest (ACM Quest for Java’97, http://www.acm.org/jquest/webquest1.html) sponsored by ACM and IBM, 1997.

1992.8-1995.3:   Lecturer, Tsinghua University, Beijing, P.R. of China.

CAD Center, Dept. of Computer Science & Technology.

research area :  automated engineering drawing interpretation.

developed systems: THRV system for engineering drawings vectorization (for MS Windows on PC); HoliBase&HoliDraw system for architectural drawing editing (for MS Windows on PC).

1990.9-1992.7:   Graduate student, Tsinghua University, Beijing, P.R. of China.

AI Lab, Dept. of Computer Science & Technology.

research area :  real-time computation of robot inverse dynamics.

1991.9-1992.6:   Software Design Engineer, Dais Electronic Technology Co., Ltd.

Beijing, P.R. of China.

developed system: MSKM (Monitoring System for Knitting Machines).

1988.7-1990.8:   Assist. Engineer, Geophysics Research Institute, ZhuoZhou, P.R. China.

research area : automatic interpretation of seismic sections.

project: SSIESS (Seismic Section Interpretation Expert Support System)

1986.9-1988.6:   Undergraduate student, Tsinghua University, Beijing, P.R. of China.

AI Lab, Dept. of Computer Science & Technology.

research area :  Expert systems; Chinese Character Processing Techniques.

developed system: ESDFW (Expert System for Dispatch of Freight Wagons) system for a transporting company,(1988); CCMS (Chinese Characters Management System) system for the Chinese character database(1986-1987).

Professional Activities

  1. Chair of Technical Committee 10 (on Graphics Recognition) of the International Association of Pattern Recognition (IAPR). 2006.10-2010.8
  2. Member of the ICDAR Advisory Board, 2009-2010
  3. Member of the ICDAR Awards Committee, 2009
  4. Chair for Local Arrangement, IUI 2010: ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, Hong Kong, Feb. 7-10, 2010.
  5. Program Co-Chair, the 8th IAPR Workshop on Graphics Recognition (GREC2009), City University of La Rochelle, France, July 22-23, 2009.
  6. Co-Chair, First WWW Workshop on Question Answering on the Web (QAWeb2008), April 22, 2008, Beijing, China
  7. Competition Chair, the 10th International Conference on Documents Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2009), July 26-29, 2009
  8. Chair, First International Workshop on Question Answering (QA2007), Oct. 28, 2007, Xi’An, China
  9. Member of Program Committee, 3rd International Conference on Semantics, Knowledge and Grid, Oct. 29-31, 2007, Xi’An, China
  10. Member of the ICDAR Advisory Board, 2007-2008
  11. Member of the ICDAR Awards Committee, 2007
  12. Program Co-Chair, the 7th IAPR Workshop on Graphics Recognition (GREC2007), Brazil, September, 2007.
  13. Member of Program Committee, IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM2006), December 11-13, 2006, San Diego, California, USA
  14. Member of Program Committee, 2nd International Conference on Semantics, Knowledge and Grid, November 1-3, 2006, Guilin, China
  15. Member of Program Committee, The Third Eurographics Workshop on Sketch-Based Interfaces and Modeling (SBIM '06), Sept 3-4, 2006, Vienna, Austria.
  16. Chair of Program Committee, The Fifth International Conference on Web-based Learning, 19-21 July, 2006, Penang, Malaysia
  17. Co-Chair of the Hong Kong Region Program Committee, The Forth International Human.Society@Internet Conference, July 5-6, 2005, Seoul, Korea (cancelled)
  18. Member of Program Committee, IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM2005), December 12-14, 2005, Irvine, California, USA
  19. Member of Program Committee, 1st International Conference on Semantics, Knowledge and Grid, November 28-29, 2005, Beijing, China
  20. General Chair and Contest Chair, The Sixth IAPR Workshop on Graphics Recognition (GREC2005), August 25-26, 2005, Hong Kong SAR, China.
  21. Publication Chair, Member of Program Committee, The Fourth International Conference on Web-based Learning, 31st July - 3rd August, 2005, Hong Kong SAR, China.
  22. Co-Chair of the Hong Kong Region Program Committee, The Third International Human.Society@Internet Conference (http://hsi.itrc.net/), July 27-19, 2005, Asakusa, Tokyo, Japan
  23. Member of Program Committee, the International Workshop on Challenges in Web Information Retrieval and Integration, April 8-9, 2005, Tokyo, Japan.
  24. Member of Program Committee, The Seventh Asia Pacific Web Conference (APWeb2005), March 29 - April 1, 2005, Shanghai, China.
  25. Publication Chair and Tutorial Chair, Member of Program Committee, Third International Conference on Web-based Learning, Beijing, August 9-11, 2004
  26. Member of Program Committee, The Fifth International Conference on Web-Age Information Management (WAIM2004), Dalian, China, July 15-17, 2004.
  27. Member of Program Committee, The third International Conference on Intelligent Multimedia Computing and Networking (IMMCN'2003), Embassy Suites Hotel, Cary, North Carolina, USA, from September 26-30, 2003.
  28. Contest Chair and Member of Program Committee, The Fifth IAPR Workshop on Graphics Recognition, Barcelona, Spain, July 30-31, 2003
  29. Member of Program Committee, the First International Workshop on Mining for Enhanced Web Search (MEWS 2002, http://pipe.cais.ntu.edu.sg:8000/wise2002/mews/default.htm)
  30. Contest Chair and Member of Program Committee, Fourth IAPR Workshop on Graphics Recognition, Kingston, Ontario, Canada September 7-8, 2001
  31. Member of Program Committee, International Workshop on Multimedia Database Systems, Tamkang University,Taipei, September 26-28, 2001.
  32. Treasurer, the Second IEEE Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia, October 24-26, 2001, Beijing, China (http://research.microsoft.com/~PCM2001)

Member of Editorial BOARD OF Journals

1.       International Journal of Document Analysis and Recognition (IJDAR, http://www.springer.com/west/home/computer/imaging?SGWID=4-149-70-1122349-detailsPage=journal|editorialBoard ) ISSN: 1433-2833 (print version); ISSN: 1433-2825 (electronic version); Journal no. 10032; Springer Berlin Heidelberg

PUBLICATIONS

Books/Editorship

1.       Liu Wenyin, Josep Lladós, and Jean-Marc Ogier (Eds.), Graphics Recognition: Recent Advances and New Opportunities (Selected and revised papers from Proc. 7th International Workshop, GREC 2007, Curitiba, Brazil, September 2007), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol.  5046, 2008, 336p, ISSN: 0302-9743 (Print) 1611-3349 (Online), ISBN: 978-3-540-88184-1, DOI:10.1007/978-3-540-88188-9, Sept 22, 2008

2.       Frederick Li, Rynson Lau, Wenyin Liu, guest editor(s), special issue of International Journal of Distance Education Technologies, on Emerging E-Learning Technologies, vol. 5, no. 2, i-ii, 2007.

3.       Liu Wenyin, Qing Li, and Rynson Lau (Eds.), Advances in Web-Based Learning (Post-conference Proceedings of ICWL 2006 -- Fifth International Conference on Web-Based Learning,  Penang, Malaysia, July 19-21, 2006, selected papers), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol.  4181, DOI, 10.1007/11925293, ISBN, 978-3-540-49027-2, Online Date, Wednesday, October 25, 2006

4.       Liu Wenyin and Josep Lladós (Eds.), Graphics Recognition: Ten Year Review and Perspectives (Selected and revised papers from Proc. 6th International Workshop, GREC 2005, Hong Kong, August 2005), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol.  3926, 2006, 437p, ISBN: , July 26, 2006

5.       Rynson Lau, Qing Li, Ronnie Cheung, Liu Wenyin (Eds.), Advances in Web-Based Learning (Proceedings of ICWL 2005 – Fourth International Conference on Web-Based Learning, Hong Kong SAR, China, July 31 – August 3, 2005), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol.  3583, 2005, 420p, ISBN: 3-540-27895-5

6.       Liu Wenyin, Shi Yuanchun, and Hai Zhuge, guest editor(s), special section of World Wide Web: Internet and Web Information Systems, on Web-based Learning, vol. 8, 1-2, 2005.

7.       Liu Wenyin, Shi Yuanchun; Qing Li (Eds.), Advances in Web-Based Learning (Proceedings of ICWL 2004 -- Third International Conference on Web-Based Learning,  Beijing, China, August 8-11, 2004), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol.  3143, 2004, 459p, ISBN: 3-540-22542-0

Journal Papers

  1. Liu Wenyin, Tianyong Hao, Wei Chen, Min Feng, “A Web-based Platform for User-Interactive Question-Answering”, World Wide Web: Internet and Web Information Systems, accepted, 2008, DOI: 10.1007/s11280-008-0051-3. (not published yet)
  2. Huan Li, Xin Li, Dawei Hu, Tianyong Hao, Liu Wenyin (corresponding author), Xiaoping Chen, “Adaptation Rule Learning for Case-Based Reasoning”, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, accepted, 2008, 2007. (not published yet)
  3. Yin Liu, Liu Wenyin, Changjun Jiang, “Vision-based Webpage Analysis for User Interest Detection”, accepted to appear in Journal of Web Engineering, Rinton Press. (descending order, not published yet)
  4. Dawei Hu, Wei Chen, Qingtian Zeng, Tianyong Hao, Feng Min, Liu Wenyin (corresponding author), “Using a User-interactive QA System for Personalized e-Learning”, International Journal of Distance Education Technologies, 6(3):1-22, July-September, 2008.
  5. Jun Yang, Qing Li, Liu Wenyin, Yueting Zhuang, “Content-based Retrieval of Flash Movies: Research Issues, Generic Framework, and Future Directions”, Multimedia Tools and Applications, 34:1-23.
  6. Tianyong Hao, Dawei Hu, Liu Wenyin (corresponding author), Qingtian Zeng, “Semantic Patterns for User-Interactive Question Answering”, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, vol. 20(7): 783-799, May, 2008, 2007.

7.       E. Valveny, P. Dosch, Adam Winstanley, Yu Zhou, Su Yang, Luo Yan, Liu Wenyin, Dave Elliman, Mathieu Delalandre, Sébastien Adam, Jean-marc Ogier ,”A General Framework for the Evaluation of Symbol Recognition Methods”, International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition (IJDAR), vol. 9, 59-74, 2007.

8.       W. Chen, Q. Zeng, Liu Wenyin (corresponding author), T. Hao, “A User Reputation Model for a User-Interactive Question Answering System”, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, vol. 19(15), pp. 2091 - 2103, October 2007.

  1. Liu Wenyin, Xiaotie Deng, Guanglin Huang, Yingjie Fu, “An AntiPhishing Strategy based on Visual Similarity Assessment”, IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 10,  no. 2,  pp. 58-65, March/April, 2006. (also in IEEE Distributed Systems Online, Volume 7 (4),  April 2006, (link)).
  2. Wan Zhang, Liu Wenyin, and Kun Zhang, “Symbol Recognition with Kernel Density Matching”, IEEE Trans. on PAMI, Vol. 28, No. 12, pp. 2020-2024, Dec. 2006
  3. Anthony Y. Fu, Xiaotie Deng, Liu Wenyin, “REGAP: A Tool for Unicode-based Web Identity Fraud Detection”, Journal of Digital Forensic Practice (JDFP), Vol. 1, No. 2, (Special Edition on Anti-phishing and Online Fraud), Published By: Taylor & Francis, 2006. (new journal).
  4. Anthony Y. Fu, Liu Wenyin, Xiaotie Deng, “Detecting Phishing Webpages with Visual Similarity Assessment based on Earth Mover’s Distance (EMD)”, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, Vol. 3, No. 4, pp. 301-311, 2006.
  5. Liu Wenyin, Wan Zhang, and Luo Yan, “An Interactive Example-Driven Approach to Graphics Recognition in Engineering Drawings”, International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition (IJDAR), vol. 9, 13-29, 2007.
  6. Jun Yang, Qing Li, Liu Wenyin, Yueting Zhuang, “Searching for Flash Movies on the Web: A Content and Context Based Framework”, World Wide Web: Internet and Web Information Systems, Vol. 8(4), pp. 495-517, 2005.
  7. Liu Yin, Liu Wenyin, Jiang Changjun, “Object-Process Diagrams as Explicit Graphic Tool for Web Service Composition”, Journal of Integrated Design & Process Science: Transactions of the SDPS, Vol. 8, No. 1, pp.113-127, 2004.
  8. Peng Binbin, Liu Wenyin, Yin Liu, Guanglin Huang, Zhengxing SUN, Xiangyu Jin, “An SVM-based Incremental Learning Algorithm for Automatic User Adaptation of Sketching Recognition”, Int. J. of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence (IJPRAI), vol. 18, No. 8, pp. 1529-1550, 2004.       
  9. Xu Xiaogang, Sun Zhengxing, Peng Binbin, Jin Xiangyu, Liu Wenyin, “An Online Composite Graphics Recognition Approach Based on Matching of Spatial Relation Graphs”, International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition (IJDAR), Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 44-55, 2004.
  10. Xian-Sheng Hua, Liu Wenyin, Hong-Jiang Zhang, “An Automatic Performance Evaluation Protocol for Video Text Detection Algorithms”, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (CSVT), Vol. 14, No. 4, pp. 498-507, 2004.
  11. Lie Lu, Liu Wenyin, Hong-Jiang Zhang, “Audio Textures: Theory and Applications”, IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 156-167, 2004.
  12. Liu Wenyin, Zheng Chen, Fan Lin, Hongjiang Zhang, and Wei-Ying Ma, “Ubiquitous Media Agents: A Framework for Managing Personally Accumulated Multimedia Files”, Multimedia Systems, Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 144-156, 2003.
  13. Ye Lu, Hongjiang Zhang, Liu Wenyin, and Chunhui Hu, “Joint Semantics and Feature Based Image Retrieval Using Relevance Feedback”, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 339- 347, 2003.
  14. Zheng Chen, Fan Lin, Huan Liu, Yin Liu, Wei-Ying Ma, Liu Wenyin (correspondence author), “Intention Modeling in Web Applications Using Data Mining”, World Wide Web: Internet and Web Information Systems, Special issue on Web Mining, Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 181-191, 2002.

(Before Attending CityU)

  1. Liu Wenyin, Zhong Hua, Xin Tong, Xu Yingqing, and Heung-Yeung Shum, “Artistic Image Generation By Deviation Mapping”, International Journal of Image and Graphics, Vol. 1, No. 4, 565-574, 2001.
  2. Xingquan Zhu, Hongjiang Zhang, Liu Wenyin, Chunhui Hu, Lide Wu, “New Query Refinement and Semantics Integrated Image Retrieval System with Semi-automatic Annotation Scheme”, Journal of Electronic Imaging, Special Issue on Storage, Processing and Retrieval of Digital Media, Vol. 10, No. 4, pp.850-860, 2001.
  3. Liu Wenyin, Zheng Chen, Minjing Li, Hongjiang Zhang, “A Media Agent for Automatically Building a Personalized Semantic Index of Web Media Objects”, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Vol. 52, No. 10, pp. 853-855, August, 2001.
  4. Zheng Chen, Liu Wenyin, Feng Zhang, Minjing Li, Hongjiang Zhang, “Web Mining for Web Image Retrieval”, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Vol. 52, No. 10, pp. 831-839, August, 2001.
  5. Liu Wenyin and D. Dori, “Object-Process Based Graphics Recognition Class Library: Principles and Applications”, Software: Practice and Experience. Vol. 29, No. 15, pp. 1355-1378, 1999.
  6. Liu Wenyin and D. Dori, “From Raster to Vectors: Extracting Visual Information from Line Drawings”, Pattern Analysis and Applications, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 10-21, 1999.
  7. Liu Wenyin and D. Dori, “Object-Process Diagrams as an Explicit Algorithm Specification Tool”, Journal of Object-Oriented Programming (JOOP), Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 52-59, 1999.
  8. D. Dori and Liu Wenyin, “Automated CAD Conversion with the Machine Drawing Understanding System”, IEEE Trans. on Systems Man and Cybernetics - Part A - Systems and Humans, Vol. 29, No. 4, pp. 411-416, 1999.
  9. D. Dori and Wenyin Liu, “Sparse Pixel Vectorization: An Algorithm and Its Performance Evaluation”. IEEE Trans. on PAMI, Vol. 21, No. 3, pp. 202-215, 1999.
  10. Liu Wenyin and D. Dori, “A Generic Integrated Line Detection Algorithm and Its Object-Process Specification”. Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU), Special Issue on Document Image Understanding and Retrieval, Vol. 70, No. 3, pp. 420-437, 1998
  11. Liu Wenyin and D. Dori, “Incremental Arc Segmentation Algorithm and Its Evaluation”. IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), Vol. 20, No. 4, pp. 424-431, 1998.
  12. D. Dori and Liu Wenyin, “Stepwise Recovery of Arc Segmentation in Complex Line Environments”. International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition (IJDAR) Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 62-71, 1998.
  13. Liu Wenyin and Dov Dori, “A Protocol for Performance Evaluation of Line Detection Algorithms”, Machine Vision and Applications, Special Issue on Performance Characteristics of Vision Algorithms, Vol. 9, No. 5/6, pp. 240-250, 1997.

Referred Conference Papers (selective list):

  1. Liu Wenyin, Yingjie Fu, Xiaotie Deng, “Expose Homograph Obfuscation Intentions by Coloring Unicode Strings”, Proc. 10th Asia-Pacific Web Conference, (APWeb 2008), Shenyang, China, April 26-28, 2008. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol. 4976, Springer 2008, ISBN 978-3-540-78848-5), pp. 275-286.
  2. Tianyong Hao, Wanpeng Song, Dawei Hu, Liu Wenyin, “Automatic Generation of Semantic Patterns for User-Interactive Question Answering”, Proc. Asia Information Retrieval Symposium (AIRS) 2008, Jan. 16-18, 2008, Harbin, China. (LNCS Vol. 4993, pp. 632–637).
  3. Y. Yu, Wang Zhang, Liu Wenyin, “A New Syntactic Approach to Graphic Symbol Recognition”, ICDAR2007, pp. 516-520.
  4. Wan Zhang, Liu Wenyin, “A New Vectorial Signature for Quick Symbol Indexing, Filtering and Recognition”, ICDAR 2007, pp.516-520.
  5. Anthony Y. Fu, Xiaotie Deng, Liu Wenyin, Greg Little, “The Methodology and an Application to Fight against Unicode Attacks”, Proc. Symposium On Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS), July 12-14, 2006, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
  6. Anthony Y. Fu, Wan Zhang, Xiaotie Deng, Liu Wenyin, “Safeguard Against Unicode Phishing Attacks”, poster, the 15th International World Wide Web Conference, 2006.
  7. Ning Liu, Benyu Zhang, Jun Yan, Zheng Chen, Wenyin Liu, Fengshan Bai, Leefeng Chien, “Text Representation: from Vector to Tensor”, Proc. The 5th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM’05), Houston, Texas, USA, 27-30 November 2005, pp. 725-728.

43.   Anthony Y. Fu, Xiaotie Deng, Liu Wenyin, "A Potential IRI based Phishing Strategy", Proc. the 6th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering, WISE 2005, New York, USA, Nov. 20-22, 2005. pp. 618-619, Nov. 20-22, 2005.

  1. Liu Yin, Yu Yajie, Liu Wenyin, “Online Segmentation of Freehand Stroke by Dynamic Programming”, Proc. 8th International Conference on Documents Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2005), pp.197-201.
  2. Liu Wenyin, Guanglin Huang, Liu Xiaoyue, Zhang Min, Xiaotie Deng, “Phishing Webpage Detection”, Proc. 8th International Conference on Documents Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2005), pp.560-564.
  3. Liu Wenyin, Guanglin Huang, Liu Xiaoyue, Zhang Min, Xiaotie Deng, “Detection of Phishing Webpages based on Visual Similarity”, Poster (recommended from full paper track) in WWW2005, May 10-14, 2005, Tokyo, Japan, pp.1060-1061.
  4. Liu Shixia, Pan Yue, Yang Liping, and Liu Wenyin, “An LOD model for graph visualization and its application in Web navigation”, Proc. The Seventh Asia Pacific Web Conference (APWeb2005), Shanghai, March 29-31, 2005, (LNCS Volume 3399, eds. Y. Zhang et al.) pp. 441-452.
  5. Guanglin Huang and Liu Wenyin, “An Online Adaptive Method for Personalization of Search Engines”, Proc. the 5th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE2004) (LNCS 3306), Nov. 22-24, 2004, Brisbane, Australia, pp. 419-424.
  6. Binbin Peng, Liu Yin, Liu Wenyin, Guanglin Huang, “Sketch Recognition Based on Topological Spatial Relationship”, Proc. SSPR 2004 (LNCS 3138), pp.434-443, Lisbon, Portugal, August 18-20, 2004.
  7. Luo Yan, Guanglin Huang, Liu Yin, and Liu Wenyin, “A Novel Constraint-Based Approach to Online Graphics Recognition”, Proc. SSPR 2004 (LNCS 3138), pp. 104-113, Lisbon, Portugal, August 18-20, 2004.
  8. Liu Yin, Liu Wenyin, Jiang Changjun, “A Structural Approach to Recognizing Incomplete Graphic Objects”, Proc. ICPR(1) 2004 (oral presentation, Session 2aO.Mo-ii), pp. 371-375, Cambridge, UK, August 23-26, 2004.
  9. Dawei Ding, Jun Yang, Qing Li, Liping Wang, Liu Wenyin, “Towards a Flash Search Engine based on Expressive Semantics”, poster, WWW04, NY.
  10. Dawei Ding, Bo Feng, Qing Li, Liu Wenyin, “A Semantic Model for Flash Retrieval Using Co-occurrence Analysis”, Proc. ACM MM03 (ACM Multimedia Conference 2003), pp.239-242.
  11. Zheng Chen, Shengping Liu, Liu Wenyin, Geguang Pu, Wei-Ying Ma, “Building a Web Thesaurus from Web Link Structure”, ACM SIGIR2003, pp. 48 – 55.
  12. Jian Zhai, Liu Wenyin, Dov Dori, Qing Li, “A Line Drawings Degradation Model for Performance Characterization”, ICDAR 03, pp. 1020-1024.
  13. Yan Luo, Liu Wenyin, “Engineering Drawings Recognition Using a Case-based Approach”, ICDAR 03, pp. 190-194.
  14. Jian Zhai, Jun Yang, Qing Li, Liu Wenyin, Bo Feng, “Rich Media Retrieval on the Web – a Multi-level Indexing Approach”, WWW2003 as poster.
  15. Lie Lu, Yi Mao, Liu Wenyin, Hong-Jiang Zhang, “AUDIO RESTORATION BY CONSTRAINED AUDIO TEXTURE SYNTHESIS”, Proc. ICASSP03, Hong Kong.
  16. Liu Wenyin, “Example-Driven Graphics Recognition”, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 2396 (Caelli, T.; Amin, A.; Duin, R.P.W.; Kamel, M.; Ridder, D.de, (eds.) Structural, Syntactic, and Statistical Pattern Recognition, SSPR2002), 2002, pp. 168-176.
  17. Jidong Wang, Zheng Chen, Li Tao, Wei-Ying Ma, Liu Wenyin, “Ranking user's relevance to a topic through link analysis on web logs”, Proc. the Fourth International Workshop on Web Information and Data Management (WIDM'02), McLean, Virginia, USA, (regular paper), pp. 49-54. (associated to the 2002 ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), Nov. 2002.).
  18. Zheng Chen, Li Tao, Jidong Wang, Liu Wenyin, Weiying Ma, “A Unified Framework for Web Link Analysis”, Proc. 3rd International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE2002), December, 2002, Singapore (regular paper), pp. 63-72.
  19. Xiaogang Xu, Liu Wenyin, Xiangyu Jin and Zhengxing Sun, “Sketch-based User Interface for Creative Tasks”, Proc. APCHI2002 (5th Asia Pacific Conference on Computer Human Interaction), Nov., 2002, Beijing, pp. 560-570.
  20. Xia Fangfang, Liu Wenyin, “An Agent for Semi-automatic Management of Emails”, Proc. APCHI2002 (5th Asia Pacific Conference on Computer Human Interaction), Nov., 2002, Beijing, pp. 709-719.
  21. Xiangyu Jin, Liu Wenyin, Sun Jianyong, Zhengxing Sun, “On-line Graphics Recognition”, Proc. of 10th Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications (PG'02--Pacific Graphics 2002), Beijing, pp. 256-264. (regular paper).
  22. Zheng Chen, Liu Wenyin, and Feng Zhang, “A New Statistical Approach to Personal Name Extraction”, Proc. International Conference on Machine Learning, Sydney, July, 2002, pp. 67-74.
  23. Na Li, Shipeng Li, Wen-Yin Liu Chun Chen, “A Novel Framework for Semi-automatic Video Object Segmentation”, ORAL paper in ISCAS2002 (IEEE Int. Symposium on Circuits and Systems, May, 2002, Arizona), pp. III-811-814.
  24. Lie Lu, Stan Li, Liu Wenyin, Hongjiang Zhang, and Yi Mao, “Audio Textures”, ORAL paper, 27th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP2002), pp. II-1761-1764.
  25. Zheng Chen, Liu Wenyin, Fan Lin, Peng Xiao, Liu Yin, Bin Lin, Wei-Ying Ma, “Personally Inherited Features of Web Pages”, Poster paper presented in the WWW11 conference, Hawaii, May 2002.
  26. Liu Wenyin, Zheng Chen, Fan Lin, Rui Yang, Mingjing Li, and Hongjiang Zhang, “Ubiquitous Media Agents for Managing Personal Multimedia Files”, Proc. ACM MM01, pp. 519-521.
  27. Liu Wenyin, Wenjie Qian, Rong Xiao, “Smart Sketchpad—An On-line Graphics Recognition System”, Proc.  ICDAR2001, pp.1050-1054, Seattle, September, 2001.
  28. Xian-Sheng Hua, Liu Wenyin, Hong-Jiang Zhang, “Automatic performance evaluation for video text detection”, Proc.  ICDAR2001, pp.545-550, Seattle, September, 2001.
  29. Liu Wenyin, Susan Dumais, Yanfeng Sun, HongJiang Zhang, Mary Czerwinski and Brent Field, “Semi-Automatic Image Annotation”, Proc. of INTERACT2001—8th IFIP TC.13 Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Hirose, M. (Ed.), IOS Press, pp.326-333.  Copyright IFIP, Tokyo, Japan July 9-13, 2001.
  30. Zheng Chen, Liu Wenyin, Rui Yang, Mingjing Li, Hongjiang Zhang, “A Web Media Agent”, Poster Proc. WWW10, pp 178-180, May, 2001, Hong Kong.
  31. Liu W. and D. Dori, “Performance Evaluation of Graphics Recognition Algorithms: Principles and Applications”, Proc. of 14th ICPR, Sydney, pp.1180-1182, August, 1998.
  32. D. Dori and Liu W., “Arc Segmentation from Complex Line Environments—A Vector-Based Stepwise Recovery Algorithm”. Proceedings of the fourth International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR97), Ulm, Germany, pp. 76-80, August, 1997.
  33. Liu W. and D. Dori, “Sparse Pixel Tracking: A Fast Vectorization Algorithm Applied to Engineering Drawings”, Proc. of the 13th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Vienna, Austria, Vol. III (Robotics and Applications), pp. 808-811, 1996.
  34. D. Dori and Liu W., “Vector-Based Segmentation of Text Connected to Graphics in Engineering Drawings”, Advances in Structural and Syntactical Pattern Recognition, eds. P. Perner, P. Wang, and A. Rosenfeld, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 1121, pp. 322-331, Springer, 1996. (Proc. of 6th International Workshop on Structural and Syntactical Pattern Recognition, Leipzig, Germany, August, 1996.
  35. Gao J., Tang L., Liu W. and Tang Z., “Segmentation and Recognition of Texts in Engineering Drawings”, Proc. of 3rd International Conference on Document Analysis & Recognition, Montreal, Canada, pp. 528-531, Aug. 13-15, 1995.
  36. Liu W., D. Dori, Tang L. and Tang Z. “Object Recognition in Engineering Drawings Using Planar Indexing”, Proc. of 1st International Workshop on Graphics Recognition, Penn. State Univ., PA, USA, pp. 53-61, August 9-11, 1995.

 

Papers in Referred Book Series

  1. Guanglin Huang, Wan Zhang, and Liu Wenyin, “A Discriminative Representation for Symbolic Image Similarity Evaluation”, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 5046 (Graphics Recognition: Recent Advances and New Opportunities, Selected and revised papers from Proc. 7th International Workshop, GREC 2007, Curitiba, Brazil, September 2007), W. Liu, J. Lladós, and J.-M. Ogier (Eds.), pp. 71–79, 2008.
  2. Fu A. Y., Deng X., and Liu Wenyin, “Homograph Attacks Using Unicode”, Book chapter in “Phishing and Counter-measures: Understanding the Increasing Problem of Electronic Identity Theft”, Wiley, pp. 81-89, Sep. 2006
  3. Jing Zhang, Wan Zhang, and Liu Wenyin, “Adaptive Noise Reduction for Engineering Drawings Based on Primitives and Noise Assessment”, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3926 (Graphics Recognition: Ten Year Review and Perspectives and Perspectives, eds., Liu Wenyin and Josep Lladós, selected and revised papers from Proc. The 6th International Workshop on Graphics Recognition, GREC 2005, Hong Kong, August  2005), Springer, 2006, pp. 143-154.
  4. Feng Min, Wan Zhang, and Liu Wenyin, “Symbol Recognition Using Bipartite Transformation Distance and Angular Distribution Alignment”, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3926 (Graphics Recognition: Ten Year Review and Perspectives and Perspectives, eds., Liu Wenyin and Josep Lladós, selected and revised papers from Proc. The 6th International Workshop on Graphics Recognition, GREC 2005, Hong Kong, August 2005), Springer, 2006, pp. 408-417.
  5. Liu Wenyin, “The Third Report of the Arc Segmentation Contest”, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3926 (Graphics Recognition: Ten Year Review and Perspectives and Perspectives, eds., Liu Wenyin and Josep Lladós, selected and revised papers from Proc. The 6th International Workshop on Graphics Recognition, GREC 2005, Hong Kong, August 2005), Springer, 2006, pp. 368-371.
  6. Sun Zhengxing, Liu Wenyin, Peng Binbin, Zhang Bin, Sun Jianyong, “User Adaptation for On-line Sketchy Shape Recognition System”, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3088 (Graphics Recognition: Recent Advances and Perspectives, eds. J. Lladós, Y.B. Kwon, Selected and revised papers from Proc. of GREC2003, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain July 30-31, 2003), Springer, 2004, pp. 303-314 (substantially revised version of the GREC2003 paper).
  7. Yan Luo, Liu Wenyin, “Interactive Recognition of Symbols on Engineering Drawings”, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3088 (Graphics Recognition: Recent Advances and Perspectives, eds. J. Lladós, Y.B. Kwon, Selected and revised papers from Proc. of GREC2003, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain July 30-31, 2003), Springer, 2004, pp. 126-137 (slightly revised version of the GREC2003 paper).
  8. Liu Wenyin, “On-Line Graphics Recognition: State-of-the-Art”, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3088 (Graphics Recognition: Recent Advances and Perspectives, eds. J. Lladós, Y.B. Kwon, Selected and revised papers from Proc. of GREC2003, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain July 30-31, 2003), Springer, 2004, pp. 289-302.
  9. Liu Wenyin, “Report of the Arc Segmentation Contest”, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3088 (Graphics Recognition: Recent Advances and Perspectives, eds. J. Lladós, Y.B. Kwon, Selected and revised papers from Proc. of GREC2003, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain July 30-31, 2003), Springer, 2004, pp. 363-366.
  10. Liu Wenyin, Xiangyu Jin, Zhengxing Sun, “Sketch-Based User Interface for Inputting Graphic Objects on Small Screen Device”, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 2390 (Graphics Recognition: Algorithms and Applications, Selected and revised papers from Proc. of GREC2001, September 7~8, 2001, Kingston, Canada), Springer, 2002, pp. 67-80.
  11. Liu Wenyin, Jian Zhai, and D. Dori, “Extended Summary of the Arc Segmentation Contest”, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 2390 (Graphics Recognition: Algorithms and Applications, Selected and revised papers from Proc. of GREC2001, September 7~8, 2001, Kingston, Canada), Springer, 2002, pp. 343-349.
  12. Liu Wenyin, Zhang Liang, Tang Long, D. Dori, “Cost Evaluation of Interactively Correcting Recognized Engineering Drawings”, Graphics Recognition, Recent Advances, eds., A. Chhabra and D. Dori, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 1941, pp. 329-334, 2000 (Selected papers from the GREC`99 Workshop, Jaipur, India, pp. 335-340, Sep. 1999.)
  13. Liu Wenyin, Wang Xiaoyu, Tang Long, D. Dori, “Impact of Sparse Pixel Vectorization Algorithm Parameters on Line Segmentation Performance”, Graphics Recognition, Recent Advances, eds., A. Chhabra and D. Dori, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 1941, pp. 335-342, 2000 (Selected papers from the GREC`99 Workshop, Jaipur, India, pp. 323-330, Sep. 1999.
  14. Liu Wenyin and D. Dori, “Principles of Constructing a Performance Evaluation Protocol for Graphics Recognition Algorithms", Performance Characterization and Evaluation of Computer Vision Algorithms, R. Klette, S. Stiehl, and M. Viergever (eds.), pp. 97-106, Kluwer, 1999. (or in: Reinhard Klette, H. Siegfried Stiehl, Max A. Viergever, Koen L. Vincken (Eds.): Performance Characterization in Computer Vision [Theoretical Foundations of Computer Vision, TFCV, March 1998, Dagstuhl, Germany]. Kluwer 2000, ISBN 0-7923-6374-4, pp. 81-90).
  15. Liu Wenyin and Dov Dori, "A Framework for Graphics Recognition", Implementing Application Frameworks: Object-Oriented Frameworks at Work, Mohamed Fayad, Douglas Schmidt, and Ralph Johnson (eds.), John Wiley & Sons , pp. 541-553, 1999.
  16. Liu W. and D. Dori, “A Proposed Scheme for Performance Evaluation of  Graphics/Text Separation Algorithms”, Graphics Recognition -- Algorithms and Systems, eds. K. Tombre and A. Chhabra, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 1389, pp. 359-371, Springer, April, 1998.
  17. Liu W. and D. Dori, “Genericity in Graphics Recognition Algorithms”, Graphics Recognition -- Algorithms and Systems, eds. K. Tombre and A. Chhabra, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 1389, pp. 9-21, Springer, April, 1998.
  18. Liu W. and D. Dori, “Automated CAD Conversion with the Machine Drawing Understanding System”. In Document Analysis Systems II, J.J. Hull and S.L. Taylor (Eds.), World Scientific, Singapore, 1997. (Series in Machine Perception and Artificial Intelligence, Volume 29, 1998, ISBN 981-02-3103-2, eds, H. Bunke & P. S. P. Wang).
  19. D. Dori, Y. Velkovitch and Liu W., “Object-Process Based Segmentation and Recognition of ANSI and ISO standard Dimensioning Text”, Graphics Recognition -- Methods and Applications, eds. R. Kasturi and K. Tombre, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 1072, pp. 212-232, Springer, May, 1996.
  20. D. Dori, Liu W. and M. Peleg, “How to Win a Dashed Line Detection Contest”, Graphics Recognition -- Methods and Applications, eds. R. Kasturi and K. Tombre, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 1072, pp. 286-300, Springer-Verlag, May, 1996.

Accepted ones:

100. Xingliang Ni, Zhi Lu, Xiaojun Quan, Liu Wenyin, Bei Hua, “Short Text Clustering for Search Results”, accepted, Proc. 11th Asia-Pacific Web Conference, (APWeb 2009), Suzhou, China, April 1-4, 2009

D.Sc. Dissertation

Algorithms for 2D Engineering Drawings Recognition: Implementation and Evaluation.

Advisor: Dr. Dov Dori, Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management, Technion--Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, 1998.

M. Engg. Thesis

Research on Real-Time Processing Approaches of Control System and the Fast Computation of Robot Inverse Dynamics.

Advisor: Professor Jia Peifa, AI Lab, Dept. of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, July, 1992.

Selected Patents

1.       Semi-Automatic Annotation of Multimedia Objects, #: ms1-605us (Inventors: Liu Wenyin and Zhang Hongjiang), US Patent # 6,970,860, issued date: November 29, 2005

2.       A Statistical Bigram Correlation Model for Image Retrieval, #: ms1-880us (Inventors: Li Mingjing, Chen Zhen, Liu Wenyin, and Zhang Hongjiang). US Patent # 6,901,411, issued date: May 31, 2005

3.       User Intention Modeling for Web Navigation, #: ms1-1058us (Inventors: Chen Zhen, Sun Xiaoming, and Liu Wenyin). US Patent # 6,993,586, issued date: January 31, 2006

 

Research Grants:

1.                   PI: CityU SRG (7002336): Automatic Generation of Semantic Patterns for User-Interactive Question Answering (April 2008~March 2010), HK$180,000

2.                   PI: Hong Kong Innovation and Technology Commission Innovation and Technology Fund (ITF) (9440058, ITS/011/07): SiteWatcher—an Anti-Phishing System (September 2007~August 2008), HK$1,014,400 (ITF) + HK$100,000 (industrial sponsorship) + 20% (CityU Top-up).

3.                   PI: Hong Kong RGC Competitive Earmarked Research Grant (CERG) (CityU 117907, 9041247): Safeguard against Unicode-based Internet Identity Frauds (July 2007~July 2009), HK$669,600 (CERG) + HK$66,960 (CityU Top-up).

4.                   PI: CityU SRG (7002137): Answer Clustering and Fusion in a User-Interactive Question Answering System (April 2007~March 2009), HK$176,800

5.                   PI: CityU SRG (7002021) and fundable CERG: A Statistical Approach to Symbol Recognition based on Kernel Density Matching (Oct 2006~Sept 2008), HK$180,000

6.                   PI: CityU Applied R&D Grant (9610036): Fighting Phishing and Other Internet Crimes (Feb. 2006~Jan. 2008), HK$850,000 (incl. 100K sponsorship from Reasonable Software House Limited).

7.                   PI: PROCORE-FRANCE/HONG KONG JOINT RESEARCH SCHEME (F-HK04/05T, 9050187): Knowledge representation issues for the performance evaluation of graphic symbol recognition methods (Jan. 2006~Dec. 2007), HK$28,000/year for two years (with French PI: Karl Tombre, LORIA)

8.                   PI: CityU SRG (7001842) and fundable CERG: A Generic Approach to Online Freehand Stroke Segmentation and User Adaptation (Sept 2005~August 2007), HK$180,000

9.                   PI: CityU SRG (7001771): Pen Gesture Design and Recognition for Sketching-based Graphics Input and Editing (June 2005~June 2007), HK$175,800

10.               CI: French Ministry of Defense and French Ministry of Research: Performance Evaluation of Symbol Recognition (French acronym: EPEIRES), PI: Dr. Philippe Dosch at LORIA, France.

11.               PI: Hong Kong RGC Competitive Earmarked Research Grant (CERG) (CityU 1147/04E, 9040900): An Efficient Approach to On-line Recognition of Composite Graphic Objects (July 2004~July 2006), HK$339,414 (CERG) + HK$50,000 (CityU Top-up).

12.               Subproject PI: Sub-Project: Intelligent Human-Computer Interaction Models (in the China Semantic Grid Research Plan—A National Grand Fundamental Research 973 Program, Project No. 2003CB317000, May 2004~May 2009), RMB Yuan 300,000+.

13.               PI: CityU FSE Grant (9360089): Research on Information Utilization and Management Models of Personal Users (June 2004~June 2006), HK$200,000

14.               PI: CityU SRG (7001644): User Interest Detection on Web Pages for Building Personalized Information Agent (April 2004~June 2006, completed), HK$176,800

15.               Co-Investigator (CI): CityU SRG (7001564 -- CityU 1107/03E): Modeling Data and User Characteristics by Peer Indexing in Content-based Image Retrieval (September 2003- August 2006), HK$177,000 (with Qing Li as PI)

16.               PI: CityU DAG (7100292): A Graphic Tool and Environment for Web Services Composition (June 2003~February 2005, completed), HK$99,908.

17.               Co-Principle Investigator (Co-PI): CityU Applied R&D Grant (9640009): SMART: A Short Message Animation and Reprocessing Tool (April 2003~April 2005), HK$600,000 (in collaboration with Qing Li).

18.               PI: CityU SRG (7001462): MyEmailMate: A Personalized Agent for Semi-Automatic Management of Emails (March 2003~March 2005, completed), HK$158,000.

19.               PI: CityU DAG (7100247): User-Adaptive Recognition of Sketchy Shapes on SmartSketchpad (July 2002~March 2003, completed), HK$93,990

20.               Principle Investigator (PI): Hong Kong RGC Competitive Earmarked Research Grant (CERG) (CityU 1073/02E, 9040694): A Federated Approach to Technical Drawings Re-Engineering for Web-based Information Systems (July 2002~July 2005, completed), HK$413,404 + 150,000 (CityU Top-up).

Prototype Systems Developed or Research Projects:

·                     BuyAns (http://www.buyans.com), reported at TheStandard (http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?pp_cat=11&art_id=37595&sid=11815310&con_type=1&d_str=20070205,  http://hk.news.yahoo.com/070204/318/216rv.html)

·                     CuteAid (http://www.cs.cityu.edu.hk/QA/)

·                     SiteWatcher—an Anti-Phishing System/Service (http://www.SiteWatcher.cn), reported at CableTV at Hong Kong (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFYe3z9jPSk), SingTao Daily, etc.

·                     QuickDiagram (a diagram input system for quick diagramming);

·                     SmartSketchpad (an on-line graphics recognition system);

·                     Simple Graphic Short Message (a platform for sending/receiving simple graphic illustrations/diagrams over mobile phones as short messages)

·                     Vr.Liu (an engineering drawing vectorization and off-line graphics recognition system);

·                     Media Agents (a personalized media management system);

·                     PEA/EmailOrg (an semi-automatic email management system);

·                     FLAME (a flash movie management and retrieval system, with Qing Li);

·                     SMART (a short message animation and reprocessing tool, with Qing Li)

Students Supervised

PhD:

Graduated:

ZHANG Wan, 2005 ~ 2008, Dissertation title: Approaches to Symbol Recognition and Spotting (won the Outstanding Academic Performance Award, City University of Hong Kong, 2007)

HU Dawei, 2005 ~ 2008 (co-supervised with Prof. Chen Enhong from USTC, Suzhou), graduated from USTC but not yet from CityU

Fu Yingjie, 2003 ~ 2006 (co-supervised with Prof. Deng Xiaotie, 50%), Dissertation title: WEB IDENTITY SECURITY: ADVANCED PHISHING ATTACKS AND COUNTER MEASURES

CHEUNG, Joe SK, 2002 ~2006  (Part Time, co-supervised with Dr. Joseph Fong,          30%)

In Progress:

HAO Tianyong, 2007 ~ (on Semantic Patterns for Interactive QA)

CHEN Wei, 2006 (co-supervised with Prof. Qing Li, 50%)

 

MPhil:

Graduated:

Mr. YU, Yajie, July 2005 ~ July 2007, Thesis: Online Sketched Symbol Recognition.

Mr. FENG, Min, July 2005 ~ July 2007, Thesis: A Short Text Modeling Method and Its Applications in an Interactive Question Answering System.

Mr. HUANG, Guanglin, September 2003 ~ October 2005, Thesis: Web Document Analysis and Its Application to Anti-Phishing.

Mr. LUO, Yan, September 2002 ~ July 2004, Thesis: An Interactive Approach to Graphics Recognition for Engineering Drawings Analysis.

In Progress:

MENG Shengguang, Oct. 2007 ~ (on antiphishing)

LIU Gang, 2007 ~

QIU Bite, Sept. 2008 ~ (on antiphishing)

LU Zhi, Oct. 2008 ~

 

Selected Final Year Projects:

2006/2007:

MAN, Kin Pong (Carlos) 50498961

Project Title: Anti-phishing: Server Side Support for SiteWatcher

 

Awards Received:

1. Certificate from FSE: Dean's List in the Semester B of 2006/2007 academic year for outstanding academic performance.

2. Hong Kong ICT Awards 2007: Best Innovation and Research Award Presented to SiteWatcher - client and server support against phishing attacks.

3. Certificate friom FSE: The project, Server Side Support for SiteWatcher, an Antiphishing Software, was selected and was showcased during the FSE Student Project Exhibition held on 30th - 31 st May 2007.

 

Qualifying Panel Members for Research Students:

PhD:

Mr. Wu Xiao, September 2004~ September 2007 (Supervisors: Dr. C W Ngo and Dr. Qing Li)

MPhil:

Mr. Zhai Jian, November 2002~ September 2004 (Supervisor: Dr. Qing Li)

Mr. Li Xiang, February 2003~ February 2005 (Supervisor: Dr. Qing Li)

Mr. Pan Zailiang, February 2003~ February 2005 (Supervisor: Dr. C W Ngo)

Mr. Chen Jing, September 2004~July 2006 (Supervisor: Dr. Qing Li)

Mr. Fu Yingjie, September 2003~July 2005 (Supervisor: Prof. Deng Xiaotie)

Mr. Fu Haohuan, September 2003~July 2005 (Supervisor: Dr. Jia Wei Jia)

Mr. Shen Ji, September 2003~July 2005 (Supervisor: Dr. Jia Wei Jia)

Mr. Han Bo, September 2004~July 2006 (Supervisor: Dr. Jia Wei Jia)

Mr. CHOW Kin Wah, September 2004~September 2006 (Supervisor: Dr. Qing Li and Dr. Jia Wei Jia)

Examiner of Research Thesis:

·         Mr. Matthew S. Turner, “REDDL: A Language for Rapid Development of Document Editor Applications”, Doctor of Philosophy (Supervisor: Michael Hobbs), Deakin University, Australia. May, 2007.

·         Mr. MAK Hon Chung Edmund (50002529), “An Object XML Framework for Rich Media Retrieval”, September 24, 2005 (Supervisor: Dr. Qing Li), City University of Hong Kong.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2008:                Operating Systems (CS3101)

                        BSCS, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China.

2008-:               Digital Media and Rights Management (CS4290/5290)

                        BSCS, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China.

2005-2007:        Software Engineering I (CS5351)

                        MSCS, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China.

2003-2006:        Software Design (CS3342)

                        BSCCS, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China.

2002:                Software Engineering (CS6301)

                        MSC, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China.

2002-2006:        Software Engineering Practice (CS3343)

                        BSCCS, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China.

2002:                Computer Programming for Engineers and Scientists (CS2362)

                        BEIE, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China.

2001, Sept. 9:    Engineering Drawings Understanding and CAD Conversion (EDUCAD2001) (ICDAR2001 Tutorial), with Dr. Dov Dori.

                        Seattle, USA.

1998:                Reading and Writing of Computer Science Papers in English

                        Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.

1997, Aug. 17:   Engineering Drawings Recognition (ICDAR97 Tutorial), with Dr. Dov Dori.

                        Ulm, Germany.

1997:                Technical Document Understanding, Teaching Assistant to Dr. Dov Dori.

                        Technion, Israel.

1996:                Computerized Engineering Drawings, Teaching Assistant to Dr. Dov Dori.

                        Technion, Israel.

1992-1994:        Programming in C.

                        Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.

university Administration and Local community services

·      Final Year Project Coordinator, Dept of CS, City University of Hong Kong, 2007-

·      Member of the Departmental Resources Resources Committee, Dept of CS, City University of Hong Kong, 2004-

·      Member of the BSc Programme Committee for Applied Biology, Applied Chemistry, and Environmental Science, City University of Hong Kong, 2003-2007

·      External Examiner

Higher Diploma Courses, Hong Kong Vocational Training Council, Institute of Vocation Education, Tuen Mun Campus, Hong Kong SAR, 2005-2006

·      MeNTOR

Mentoring Scheme (Computer Science Stream), Education and Manpower Bureau, Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR Government (contact: Alex Lee, kflee@emb.gov.hk). 2006-2008

Invited Talks (selective List):

  1. March 21, 2008, “User-Interactive Question Answering System: A Manual Search Engine and A Typical Web 2.0 Application”, Baidu, Beijing (host: Dr. HONG Tao)
  2. Jan. 14, 2008, “Active and Visual Approaches to Anti-Phishing”, Digital PhishNet Conference, Microsoft, Singapore
  3. Dec. 23, 2007, “User-Interactive Question Answering System: A Manual Search Engine and A Typical Web 2.0 Application”, 1st Workshop on Web Sciences, Southeast University, Nanjing (host: Prof. Qu Yuzhong)
  4. Dec. 21, 2007, “User-Interactive Question Answering System: A Manual Search Engine and A Typical Web 2.0 Application”, China Computer Federation (CCF) Young Computer Scientists and Engineers Forum (YOCSEF), Suzhou, (host: Prof. Zhu Qiaoming and Prof. Gong Shengrong)
  5. June 20, 2007, “BuyAns.com—Incentive Models and Technologies for Web 2.0 and 3.0”, Tencent, Beijing, China, (host: Jian Zhai)
  6. May 28, 2007, “Internet Identity Frauds and Counter Measures”, Tencent, Shenzhen, China, (host: Jin Fang)
  7. Nov. 27, 2006, “BuyAns.com—Incentive Models and Technologies for Web 2.0 and Beyond”, Google China, Beijing, (host: Edward Chang)
  8. Nov. 14, 2006, “BuyAns.com—Incentive Models and Technologies for Web 2.0 and Beyond”, Informatics and Control Technologies Section, Institute of Engineering and Technology Hong Kong (IETHK), November 14, 2006, Hong Kong, (host: Indi Wong)
  9. Nov. 8, 2006, “BuyAns.com—Incentive Models and Technologies for Web 2.0 and Beyond”, CityU MBA course on Marketing on the Internet, Hong Kong, (host: Dr. Wenyu Dou)
  10. August 24, 2006, “Visual Approaches to Anti-Phishing”, Mentoring Scheme, Room 306, 3/F, East wing, Education and Manpower Bureau Kowloon Tong Education Services Centre (KTC), 19 Suffolk Road, Kowloon Tong, Education and Manpower Bureau, Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR Government. (contact: Alex Lee, kflee@emb.gov.hk)
  11. Sept. 1, 2005, “Visual Approaches to Anti-Phishing”, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Korea, Host: Young-bin Kwon.
  12. May 28, 2004, “Personalized Information Agents”, NEC Research China, Beijing, Host: Dr. Min-Yu Hsueh
  13. August 1, 2003, “On-Line Graphics Recognition: Problems, Approaches, and Applications”, HP R&D Center (Inkjet Commercial Division), Sant Cugat el Valles, Barcelona, Spain, Host: Andrew Mackenzie (amackenzie@hp.com)
  14. June 27, 2002, “Semi-Automatic Email Management”, Sun China Engineering and Research Institute, Beijing, Host: Dr. Li Gong
  15. March 12, 1999, “Engineering Drawing Recognition and Understanding”, The Boeing Company, Seattle, Host: Larry Baum

references:

Available upon request