Dr. Xiangyun Ye
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Working Experience
Education
Research Experiences and Interests
Publications
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Working Experience:

1997.10- Post-doctoral Fellow
- Center for Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence (CENPARMI), Concordia University.
- Laboratorie d'imagerie, de vision et d' intelligence artificielle (LIVIA), Ecole de Technologie Superieure, de l' Universite du Quebec.
- Bloomfield Centre for Research in Aging, Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Sir Mortimer B. Davis-Jewish General Hospital.
Key responsibilities:
- Research in image preprocessing techniques for Bank Check Processing System.
- Research/Development of Genetic Image Processing and Analysis System.
1994.9-1997.7 Research Assistant & Teaching Assistant
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Key responsibilities:
- Research/Development of Vehicles Shape & License Recognition and Toll Charging System.
- Research/Development of Freight Train ID Recognition System.
- Research/Development of Real-time Image Processing System.
- Teaching assistant of courses Digital Image Processing and Artificial Neural Network.
- Co-supervisor of five Master degree students on their thesis in developing OCR systems.
1991.9-1994.6 Research Assistant & Teaching Assistant
Southeast University
Key responsibilities:
- Research/Development of Bundle Ticket Form Recognition System.
- Research/Development of Identification Card Management Information System.
- Research/Development of Neural Networks Simulation System.
- Teaching assistant of course Digital Signal Processing.
- Co-supervisor of one undergraduate student on her thesis in developing OCR systems.
Projects Completed and Developing:
- 1998.7 - Genetic image processing and analysis.(Jewish General Hospital, Montreal)
- 1997.10 - 1998.6 Baseline removal and character extraction from bank cheques with complex backgrounds, a part of Bank Check Processing System. (CENPARMI)
- 1996.9 - 1997.6 Freight Train ID Recognizing System, developed for Liuzhou Research Institute of Railway Techniques.
- 1996.9 - 1997.6 Vehicles Shape & License Recognizing and Toll Charging System, developed for Shanghai Administration Bureau of Highway.
- 1995.3 - 1996.6 Virtual Neural Computer System -- NeuralSoft, supported by Committee of Science & Technology in National Defense.
- 1993.4 - 1994.4 Identification Card Management Information System, developed for the Headerquarter of Public Security of Jiangsu Province (related to OCR).
- 1992.4 - 1993.6 Bundle Ticket Form Reading System, developed for HongKong Productivity Council (related to machine printed OCR).
- 1991.2 - 1992.5 Neural Network Modeling System -- NMS 1.0, (Bureau of Science & Technology of Jiangsu Province).
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Education:
1994.9-1997.7 Shanghai Jiao Tong University Ph.D.
Dept.: Computer Science & Engineering
Major: Image Processing & Pattern Recognition by Neural Networks
1991.9-1994.6 Southeast University M.S.
Dept.: Biomedical Engineering
Major: Bioelectronics
1989.9-1991.7 Southeast University B.S.
Dept.: Biomedical Engineering
Major: Biomedical Engineering & Instruments
1987.9-1989.7 Southeast University
Dept.: Talented Juveniles (for students who are four years younger than average)
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Research Experience and Interests:
- Biomedical image analysis.
- Document image analysis.
- Character extraction from complex scene image.
- Segmentation of noisy and unequally illuminated images.
- Image region splitting and merging techniques.
- Image segmentation by Kohonen Self-Organizing Feature Mapping(SOFM).
- Mathematical Morphology by Cellular Neural Network (CNN).
- Classifying ability of Radial Basis Function (RBF) Neural Network.
- Position, Rotation, Scale Invariant (PRSI) representation and recognition of 2D objects.
- PRSI recognition by Higher Order Neural Network (HONN).
- Improvement of Back Propagation (BP) Neural Network.
- Image compression by Vector Quantitization (VQ).
- Optical Character Recognition (OCR).
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Publications:
- Model-based Character Extraction from Complex Backgrounds Using Morphological Detectors, submitted to Int'l Journal of Information Retrieval, special issue on Document Image Retrieval, 1999.
- Extraction of Bank-check Items by Mathematical Morphology, to appear on Int'l J. Document Analysis and Recognition, 1999.
- Model-based Character Extraction from Complex Backgrounds, submitted to Int'l Conf. On Document Analysis and Recognition, 1999.
- A Recent Development in Image Analysis of Electrophoresis Gels, to appear on Proc. of Vision Interface, 1999.
- Cohort Study by Image Analysis of Differential Display Gels, submitting to IEEE Trans. On Bio-medical Engineering, 1999.
- Character Recognition by Multi-level Integration of Classifiers, Academia Electronica, Vol. 26, No. 11, 1998.
- A Selective Attentional Template Matching Neural Network, Academia Electronica, Vol. 26, No. 8, 1998.
- Intelligent Segmentation for Character Recognition, Proc. of China Conf. Neural Science, 1997.
- Extraction of Text Objects from Complex Scene Images, Proc. of China Conf. Neural Science, 1997.
- Integration of Multiple Classifiers for Character Recognition, Proc. of China Conf. Neural Science, 1997.
- A Selective Attentional Template Matching Neural Network, Proc. of IEEE Int'l Conf. Intelligent Processing Systems, 1997.
- Multi-functional Neural Recognition and Virtual Neural Computing Systems, Digest of Chinese Academic Journals, Vol. 3, No. 7, 1997.
- Automatic License Recognition and Toll Charging System, Transportation and Computers, Vol. 15, No. 1, pp38-41, 1997.
- Application of Hopfield Neural Network in Model-Based Character Extraction, Academia Electronica, Vol.6, No. 2, pp76-79, 1997.
- Gray-level Image Segmentation based on Selective Multiresolutional Kohonen Neural Network, Journal of Infrared & Millimeter Waves, Vol.16, No. 5, 1997.
- Fast Binarization Algorithm for Document Images, Journal of Infrared & Millimeter Waves, 1997.
- Model-Based Character Extraction, Journal of Software, No. 6, 1997.
- New Application of CNN to Mathematical Morphology, Journal of SJTU, Vol.31, No.3, pp33-36, 1997.
- Application of BP Neural Network in Predicting Mortal Rate of Cancers, Systems Engineering, Theory and Application, Vol.5, No. 3, pp78-80, 1996.
- Radius Vectors Based Invariant Shape Classification, Journal of Infrared & Millimeter Waves, Vol.15, No.4, pp250-256, 1996.
- Character Segmentation from Scene Image by Hopfield Neural Network, Proc. of 4th LASTED Int’l Conf on Artificial Intelligence, Expert System and Neural Networks, pp518-520, 1996.
- Image Segmentation by Selective Multiresolutional Kohonen Neural Network, Proc. of 4th LASTED Int’l Conf on Artificial Intelligence, Expert System and Neural Networks, pp521-524, 1996.
- Mathematical Morphology by Cellular Neural Network, Proc. of Int'l Conf. Neural Networks & Signal Processing 95', pp405-408, 1995.
- PRSI Shape Classification Using Radius Vectors, Proc. of Europe-China Workshop on Geometrical Modeling & Invariants for Computer Vision, pp 294-300, 1995.
- Development of Table Data Auto-Reading System, Computer Application, 6, pp 35-38, 1993.
- Technique of Table Data Auto-Reading Based on Digital Images, Proc. of the 7th China Conf. on Image Processing and Computer Graphics, pp 419-422, 1994.
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Address
GM-606, Concordia University
1455 de Maisonneuve W.
Montreal, PQ H3G 1M8, Canada
Email: xyye@cenparmi.concordia.ca
Tel: (514) 848-2854 Fax: (514) 848-4522
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Last Revised: Jan. 20th, 1999