Zhirong Yang
Researcher, D.Sc (Tech.).

Aalto University School of Science and Technology
Department of Information and Computer Science
P.O. Box 15400
FI-00076 Aalto
FINLAND

work:+358-9-470-25281
mobile:+358-41-486-9473
fax:+358-9-470-23277

Research Interests

Software

Journal Articles

  • Zhirong Yang and Erkki Oja, Linear and Nonlinear Projective Nonnegative Matrix Factorization, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, accepted, to appear. [preprint]
  • Zhirong Yang and Jorma Laaksonen. Principal Whitened Gradients for Information Geometry. Neural Networks, 2008. 21(2-3):232-240. [pdf]
  • Zhirong Yang, Zhijian Yuan, and Jorma Laaksonen. Projective non-negative matrix factorization with applications to facial image processing. International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, 2007. 21(8):1353-1362. [pdf]
  • Zhirong Yang and Jorma Laaksonen. Multiplicative updates for non-negative projections. Neurocomputing, 2007. 71(1-3):363-373. [pdf]
  • Zhirong Yang and Lei Li. Hierarchical index of high-dimensional point data based on self-organizing map. Computer Research and Development, 40(1):100-106, 2003. In Chinese.

Conference Papers

  • Zhirong Yang, Irwin King, Zenglin Xu, and Erkki Oja. Heavy-Tailed Symmetric Stochastic Neighbor Embedding. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 22 (NIPS2009), pages 2169-2177, Vancouver, Canada, 2009. [pdf]
  • Zenglin Xu, Rong Jin, Jianke Zhu, Irwin King, Michael R. Lyu, and Zhirong Yang. Adaptive Regularization for Transductive Support Vector Machine. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 22 (NIPS2009), pages 2125-2133, Vancouver, Canada, 2009. [pdf]
  • Zhirong Yang and Erkki Oja. Projective Nonnegative Matrix Factorization with α-Divergence. In Proceedings of 19th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN 2009), pages 20-29, volume 5768 of LNCS, Springer, Limassol, Cyprus, 2009. [pdf]
  • Zhirong Yang and Jorma Laaksonen. Informative Laplacian Projection. In Proceedings of 16th Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis (SCIA 2009), pages 359-368, volume 5575 of LNCS, Springer, Oslo, Norway, 2009. [pdf]
  • Zhirong Yang and Jorma Laaksonen. Face Recognition Using Parzenfaces. In Proceedings of International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN 2007), volume 4669 of LNCS, Springer, pages 200-209, Porto, Portugal, September 2007. [pdf]
  • Zhirong Yang and Jorma Laaksonen. Approximated Geodesic Updates with Principal Natural Gradients. In Proceedings of The 2007 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2007), pages 1320-1325, Orlando, USA, August 2007. [pdf]
  • Zhirong Yang and Jorma Laaksonen. Regularized Neighborhood Component Analysis. In Proceedings of 15th Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis (SCIA 2007), volume 4522 of LNCS, Springer, pages 253-262, Aalborg, Denmark, June 2007. [pdf]
  • Zhirong Yang and Jorma Laaksonen. A fast fixed-point algorithm for two-class discriminative feature extraction. In Proceedings of 16th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN 2006), Part II, volume 4132 of LNCS, Springer, pages 330-339, Athens, Greece, September 2006. [pdf]
  • Zhirong Yang and Jorma Laaksonen. Partial relevance in interactive facial image retrieval. In Proceedings of 3rd International Conference on Advances in Pattern Recognition (ICAPR 2005), volume 3687 of LNCS, Springer, pages 216-225, Bath, UK, August 2005. [pdf]
  • Zhirong Yang and Jorma Laaksonen. Approximated classification in interactive facial image retrieval. In Proceedings of 14th Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis (SCIA 2005), volume 3540 of LNCS, Springer, pages 770-779, Joensuu, Finland, June 2005. [pdf]
  • Zhirong Yang and Jorma Laaksonen. Interactive retrieval in facial image database using Self-Organizing Maps. In Proceedings of IAPR Conference on Machine Vision Applications (MVA 2005), pages 112-115, Tsukuba Science City, Japan, May 2005. [pdf]
  • Zhirong Yang and Lei Li. k-NN search in non-clustered case using K-P-Tree. In Proceedings of 14th International Information Resource Management Association (IRMA), pages 694-697, Philadelphia, USA, 2003.
  • Zhirong Yang and Lei Li. Implementation of non-regular operators in multimedia database management system-eBase. In Proceedings of the 11th National Conference on Multimedia Technology, pages 157-162, China, 2002.
  • Zhirong Yang and Lei Li. Vector join processing in relational databases based on high-dimensional index. In Proceedings of the 19th National Conference on Data Bases, pages 275-277, China, 2002.

Other Publications

  • Zhirong Yang. Discriminative Learning with Application to Interactive Facial Image Retrieval. PhD thesis, Helsinki University of Technology, 2008. TKK-ICS-D9, [pdf]
  • Zhirong Yang. Interactive content-based image retrieval in the peer-to-peer network using Self-Organizing Maps. In Proceedings of Seminar on Internetworking (Peer-to-peer technologies, networks and systems), 2005. [pdf]

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