Yuanzhen's CV

Yuanzhen Li
yzli@mit.edu
43 Vassar Street, #46-4115, Cambridge 02139, MA

EDUCATION
2003.9 - present, PhD student in Computational Neuroscience, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT Presidential Fellow. Advisor: Prof. Edward Adelson.
2000.9 - 2003.7, MS in Pattern Recognition and Intelligent Systems, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences
1996.9 - 2000.7, BE in Control, Dept. of Automatic Engineering, Shandong University of Technology. GPA 92/100

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
2003.9 - present. Graduate student researcher, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab, and Perceptual Science Group, MIT, advised by Prof. Edward H. Adelson
2007.6 - 2007.9. Research intern, Adobe Systems, advised by Dr. Aseem Agarwala
2004.7 - 2004.8. Research intern, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, advised by Dr. Ramesh Raskar
2001.9 - 2003.7. Visiting student, Visual Computing Group, Microsoft Research Asia, advised by Dr. Stephen Lin, Dr. Heung-Yeung Shum, and Dr. Sing Bing Kang
2001.7 - 2003.7. Graduate student researcher, 2000.3-2000.7. Undergraduate research assisitant, National Lab of Pattern Recognition, Chinese Academy of Sciences, advised by Prof. Hanqing Lu

PUBLICATIONS
1. Yuanzhen Li, Edward H. Adelson, Aseem Agarwala. ScribbleBoost: Adding Classification to Edge-Aware Interpolation of Local Image and Video Adjustments. to Appear in Graphics Forum, 27(4), Proceedings of Eurographics Symposium on Rendering 2008.
2. Yuanzhen Li, Edward H. Adelson. Image Mapping Using Local and Global Statistics. Human Vision and Electronic Imaging XIII, Proc. of SPIE-IS&T Electronic Imaging, SPIE Vol. 6806, 2008.
3. Lavanya Sharan, Yuanzhen Li, Isamu Motoyoshi, Shin'ya Nishida, Edward H. Adelson, Image Statistics for Surface Reflectance Perception, Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 25(4): 846-865, 2008
4. Ruth Rosenholtz, Yuanzhen Li, Lisa Nakano. Measuring Visual Clutter. Journal of Vision, 7(2):17, 1-22, 2007
5. Yuanzhen Li, Lavanya Sharan, Edward H. Adelson. Compressing and Companding High Dynamic Range Images with Subband Architectures. ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), 24(3), Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2005. pdf
6. Amit Agrawal, Ramesh Raskar, Shree Nayar, Yuanzhen Li. Removing Photography Artifacts using Gradient Projection and Flash-Exposure Sampling. ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), 24(3), Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2005. pdf
7. Ruth Rosenholtz, Yuanzhen Li, Jonathan Mansfield, Zhenlan Jin. Feature Congestion: A Measure of Display Clutter. SIGCHI 2005. Portland, Oregon. pdf
8. Yuanzhen Li, Stephen Lin, Hanqing Lu and Heung-Yeung Shum. Multiple-cue Illumination Estimation in Textured Scenes. In Proc. of Int'l Conf. on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2003. pdf
9. Stephen Lin, Yuanzhen Li, Sing Bing Kang, Xin Tong and Heung-Yeung Shum. Diffuse-Specular Separation and Depth Recovery from Image Sequences. In Proc. of European Conf. on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2002. pdf
10. Yuanzhen Li, Stephen Lin, Hanqing Lu, Sing Bing Kang and Heung-Yeung Shum. Multibaseline Stereo in the Presence of Specular Reflections. In Proc. of Int’l Conf. on Pattern Recognition (ICPR) 2002. pdf
11. Yuanzhen Li, Stephen Lin, Sing Bing Kang, Hanqing Lu and Heung-Yeung Shum. Single-Image Reflectance Estimation for Relighting by Iterative Soft Grouping. In Proc. of Pacific Graphics 2002. pdf

ABSTRACTS
1. Roland Fleming, Yuanzhen Li, & Edward H. Adelson (2008). Image statistics for 3D shape estimation [Abstract]. Journal of Vision, 8(6):76, 76a, http://journalofvision.org/8/6/76/, doi:10.1167/8.6.76.
2. Edward H. Adelson, Marshall F. Tappen, William T. Freeman, & Yuanzhen Li (2006). Learning the statistics of illumination and reflectance [Abstract]. Journal of Vision, 6(6), 102a, http://journalofvision.org/6/6/102/, doi:10.1167/6.6.102.
3. Lavanya Sharan, Yuanzhen Li, & Edward H. Adelson. (2006). Image statistics for surface reflectance estimation [Abstract]. Journal of Vision, 6(6), 101a, http://journalofvision.org/6/6/101/, doi:10.1167/6.6.101.
4. Ruth Rosenholtz, Yuanzhen Li, Zhenlan Jin, & Jonathan Mansfield. (2006). Feature congestion: A measure of visual clutter [Abstract]. Journal of Vision, 6(6), 827a, http://journalofvision.org/6/6/827/, doi:10.1167/6.6.827.
5. Yuanzhen Li, Lavanya Sharan, & Edward H. Adelson. (2005). Perceptually based range compression for high dynamic range images [Abstract]. Journal of Vision, 5(8), 598a, http://journalofvision.org/5/8/598/, doi:10.1167/5.8.598.
6. Lavanya Sharan, Yuanzhen Li, & Edward H. Adelson. (2005). Image statistics and reflectance estimation [Abstract]. Journal of Vision, 5(8), 375a, http://journalofvision.org/5/8/375/, doi:10.1167/5.8.375.
7. Edward H. Adelson, Yuanzhen Li, and Lavanya Sharan. Image statistics for material perception [Abstract]. Journal of Vision, 4(8), 123a, http://journalofvision.org/4/8/123/, doi:10.1167/4.8.123.

TEACHING
Spring 2006, Perception and Sensation, TA.
Spring 2005, Perception and Sensation, TA.

AWARDS
2003, Presidential Fellowship, MIT
2003, Liu-YongLing Fellowship, Chinese Academy of Sciences
2002, First-Prize Scholarship, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences
2001, Outstanding Graduate Award and Scholarship, Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences
2000, Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis Award, Shandong University of Technology
1999, 1998, Outstanding Student Award of Shandong Province
1998, 1999, Outstanding Student Leadership, Shandong University of Technology
97, 98, 99, 00, First-Prize University Scholarship