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[郑 玉 锋 ]

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TRS Page:       http://www.r2image.com/TRS_Demo/ (Teaching, Research, Service Demostration)
Homepage2:    http://adtech.alcorn.edu/faculty/yzheng/index.html (Work Website)
SPIE Link:       http://spie.org/x47500.xml (SPIE Visiting Lecturer)

Introduction

 

Dr. Yufeng Zheng is an Assistant Professor with Dept. of Advanced Technologies at Alcorn State University (Lorman , MS). He is a Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP), and teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in Computer Networking and in Computer Science. His recent research activities focus on multisensory image fusion and night-vision colorization (funded by DOD ARO), and thermal face recognition (funded by DHS). He has done significant contribution to research work in Breast cancer detection, Landmine detection, Glaucoma detection, and CT imaging. Before this appointment he was a Postdoc/Sr. Research Associate with Computer Engineering and Computer Science Dept. at University of Louisville (Louisville , KY). Research collaboration is welcome.


(a) Visible image (SC620) (b) NIR Image (SC6000) (c) LWIR image (SC620)

Research Interests

  • Pattern recognition
  • Bioinspired image analysis
  • Biometrics
  • Computer-aided diagnosis
  • Information fusion
  • Computer vision

 

Teaching Experience

  • Computer Graphics
  • Digital Image Processing
  • Physics for Medical Imaging
  • Networking Fundamentals & Telecommunication
  • Switching and Routing Basics
  • WAN Technologies & Advanced Routing
  • Biomedical Computing
  • Data Structures and Algorithms
  • C# Network Programming
  • Web design & internet programming using C#

Education & Training

Positions & Employment

  • 1989-1991     Research Engineer, Changzhi Bearing Manufacturing Co., Shanxi, China
  • 1997-1999     Software Engineer, Huawei Tech. Co., Beijing, China
  • 1999-2001     CT Imaging Algorithm Senior Engineer, GE Hangwei Medical Systems Co. Ltd., Beijing, China
  • 2001-2005     Post-doctoral/Sr. Research Associate, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA
  • 2006-Present  Assistant Professor, Alcorn State University, Alcorn State, MS, USA

Honors

  • 1996    Outstanding Student Award for Excellence in Research and Publication (at Tianjin University)
  • 1999    Certificated Senior Engineer in Computer Software Development by Beijing Government, China
  • 2003    Patent (Docket No.: 1160.032PRV, Principle Inventor) in Glaucoma Classification (at University of Louisville)
  • 2006-   (1) Senior Member of SPIE; (2) Member of IEEE; (3) Member of IEEE Computer Society
  • 2010    Provisional/Utility patent in thermal face recognition (Principle Inventor; Alcorn State University)

Experience & Service

  • 2000    Six-Sigma Green Belt certified by GE Medical Systems at Beijing, China
  • 2002-  A peer-reviewer of prestigious journals of SPIE, IEEE & Elsevier.
  • 2007-  Program Director of Computer Networking & Information Technology, Alcorn State University, MS, USA
  • 2008   Invited Speaker of 7th Annual Image Fusion Conference (Alexandria, VA) by IDGA.
  • 2010   Book Editor of “Image Fusion”, ISBN: 978-953-307-173-2.
  • 2011   Invited Speaker of 6th Annual Night Vision Systems Conference (Washington, DC) by IDGA.
  • 2011   Invited Speaker of 10th Annual Image Fusion Conference (Washington, DC) by IDGA.
  • 2011   Technical Program Committee of SPIE Defense, Security and Sensing Conference 2012
  • 2011-  SPIE Visiting Lecturer (http://spie.org/x47500.xml)
  • 2011   Sponsor of the “Image Analysis Workshop” held at Alcorn State University 

Research Grants

  • USING ADVANCED IMAGE FUSION AND ADAPTIVE IMAGE COLORIZATION TO ENHANCE MULTISENSORY INPUT
    • DOD ARO ($671,548)                     Yufeng Zheng (PI)              9/15/2008-9/14/2012
    • To enhance computer vision and human vision by multispectral image fusion and night vision colorization.
  •  A THERMAL FACE RECOGNITION SYSTEM FOR SECURITY APPLICATIONS - A NOVEL APPROACH BY FACE PATTERN WORDS
    • DHS (DHS ($338,027)                     Yufeng Zheng (PI)             3/1/2010-8/31/2012
    • To develop a reliable thermal face recognition system for national security applications such as prevention against terrorism, especially at nighttime.
  •  A Dual Face Recognition System for Human Identification Applications
    • DOD ONR ($418,123)                     Yufeng Zheng (PI)             1/1/2012-12/31/2014
    • To develop a dual face recognition system to enhance human identification applications such as role authentification, right authorization, activity accounting, law enforcement, environment surveillance, suspect monitoring and tracking.

Publications

Journal Papers

  1. Yufeng Zheng, "The Key Factor in Multimodal Biometric Score Fusion: Modality, Recognition or Fusion?" (submitted to) Information Fusion, October 2011.

  2. Yufeng Zheng, “Orientation-based face recognition using multispectral imagery and score fusion”, Optical Engineering, November 2011.

  3. Yufeng Zheng, “Breast Cancer Detection with Gabor Features from Digital Mammograms”, Algorithms 2010, Vol. 3, pp.44-62, 2010.

  4. Fengmei Zou, Yufeng Zheng, Zhengdong Zhou, and Kwabena Agyepong, “Gradient Vector Flow Fields and Spiculated Mass Detection in Digital Mammography Images”, Digital Mammography, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp.299-306, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, Volume 5116 (2008).

  5. Yufeng Zheng and Edward A. Essock, “A local-coloring method for night-vision colorization utilizing image segmentation, segment recognition, histogram matching and image fusion”, Information Fusion, Vol. 9, No. 2, pp.186-199 (2008).

  6. Gunvant, Pinakin; Zheng, Yufeng; Toth, MArta; Hollo, GAbor, Atypical Retardation Pattern: Can Performance of Classification be Improved?, Optometry & Vision Science. 85(6):E482-E488, June 2008.

  7. Pinakin Gunvant, Yufeng Zheng, Edward A. Essock, et. al., “Application of Shape-based Analysis Methods to OCT Retinal Nerve Fiber Layer Data in Glaucoma”, Journal of Glaucoma, 16(6):543-548 (2007).

  8. Edward A. Essock, Pinakin Gunvant, Yufeng Zheng , “Predicting Visual Field Loss In Ocular Hypertensive Patients Using Wavelet-Fourier Analysis Of GDx Scanning Laser Polarimetry”, Optometry and Vision Science, VOL. 84, NO. 5, PP. E380–E386 (2007).

  9. Yufeng Zheng , Edward A. Essock, Bruce C. Hansen and Andrew M. Haun, “A new metric based on extended spatial frequency and its application to DWT based fusion algorithms”, Information Fusion, Vol. 8, No. 2, April 2007.

  10. Edward A. Essock, Yufeng Zheng , Pinakin Gunvant, “Analysis of GDx-VCC Polarimetry Data by Wavelet-Fourier Analysis (WFA) Across Glaucoma Stage”, IOVS, Vol. 46, No. 8, pp.2838-2847, August 2005.

  11. Yufeng Zheng , Edward A. Essock and Bruce C. Hansen, “An advanced DWT fusion algorithm and its optimization by using the metric of image quality index”, Optical Engineering, Vol.44, No.3, Mar 2005.

  12. Pinakin Gunvant, Yufeng Zheng , Edward A. Essock, et. al., “Predicting Subsequent Visual Field Loss in Subjects with Disc Hemorrhage using RNFL Polarimetry”, Journal of Glaucoma, Vol.14, No.1, Jan 2005.

  13. Yufeng Zheng , Mark P. Wachowiak, and Adel S. Elmaghraby, “Resolution improvement and detail enhancement for CT scout images”, Journal of Electronic Imaging, Vol.14, No.1, Jan 2005.

  14. Mark P. Wachowiak, Renata Smolíková, Yufeng Zheng, Jacek M. Zurada, and Adel S. Elmaghraby, “An Approach to Multimodal Biomedical Image Registration Utilizing Particle Swarm Optimization”, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, Vol. 8, No. 3, pp.289-301, June 2004.

  15. Bruce C. Hansen, Edward A. Essock, Yufeng Zheng and J. Kevin DeFord, “Perceptual Anisotropies in Visual Processing and Their Relation to Natural Image Statistics”, Network: Computation in Neural Systems, 14 (2003) 501-526, June 2003.

  16. Daoyin Yu, Yufeng Zheng , Wei Yu, and Qingguo Geng, “Study on Echocardiographic Quantitative Analysis”, Chinese Journal of Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 18 No. 3, September 1999.

  17. Daoyin Yu, Qunfeng Zou, Wei Yu and Yufeng Zheng , “Image Connection and Its Application to Medical Ultrasonic Image”, Chinese Journal of Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 17 No. 3, September 1998.

  18. Daoyin Yu and Yufeng Zheng , “Precise Boundary Extraction of Echocardiographic Left-Ventricle Images”, Chinese Journal of Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 15 No. 4, December 1996.

  19. Yufeng Zheng , “Displaying a True Color Bitmap Image on a TVGA Card”, Application of the Computer Systems, December 1996.

  20. Yufeng Zheng and Daoyin Yu, “The Visual Design of Image Processing in DOS Environment”, Microcomputer & Its Applications, September 1996.

  21. Wenyao Liu and Yufeng Zheng , “The Light Scattering Analysis System on Line”, Chinese Journal of Scientific Instrument, Vol. 17 No. 1, Jan. 1996.

  22. Yufeng Zheng , “Implementing Full-screen Animation on a TVGA Card”, PC World China, September 1995.

Conference Papers:

  1. Yufeng Zheng, "An wavelet-based method for multispectral face recognition," (submitted to) SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing 2012, Baltimore, United States.

  2. Yufeng Zheng, Nian Zhang, Harold Szu, "Interdisciplinary educational approach to the human sciences," (submitted to) SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing 2012, Baltimore, United States.

  3. Wenjie Dong, Yufeng Zheng, "An objective evaluation metric for color image fusion," (submitted to) SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing 2012, Baltimore, United States.

  4. Yufeng Zheng, Adel Elmaghraby, "A Brief Survey on Multispectral Face Recognition and Multimodal Score Fusion," (accepted as a keynote speaker) IEEE ISSPIT 2011, December 14-17, 2011, Bilbao, Spain.

  5. Yufeng Zheng, "Face detection and eyeglasses detection for thermal face recognition," (accepted by) IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging Conference, 22-26 January 2012 in Burlingame, California, United States.

  6. Erol Sarigul, Yufeng Zheng, "Automatically choosing the source daytime color image for colorization of night-vision images," (accepted by) IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging Conference, 22-26 January 2012 in Burlingame, California, United States.

  7. Dan Shen, Genshe Chen, and Yufeng Zheng, "Game theoretic approach to similarity based image segmentation", “Signal and Data Processing of Small Targets 2011" conference, SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 21-25 August 2011, San Diego, United States.

  8. Yufeng Zheng, "A channel-based color fusion technique using multispectral images for night vision enhancement", “Applications of Digital Image Processing XXXIV" conference, SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 21-25 August 2011, San Diego, United States.

  9.  Yufeng Zheng, “An Orientation-based Face Recognition Algorithm”, The IASTED International Conference on Computer Vision 2011, June 1 - 3, 2011, Vancouver, BC, Canada. . International Conference on Computer Vision 2011, June 1 - 3, 2011, Vancouver, BC, Canada. .

  10.  Yufeng Zheng, “A Hidden Markov Model for Multimodal Biometrics Score Fusion”, “Multisensor, Multisource Information Fusion: Architectures, Algorithms, and Applications 2011” Conference, SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing, 25-29 April 2011, Orlando, United States.

  11.  Yufeng Zheng, “A Novel Orientation Code for Face Recognition”, “Visual Information  Yufeng Zheng, “A Novel Orientation Code for Face Recognition”, “Visual Information Processing XX” Conference, SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing, 25-29 April 2011, Orlando, United States.

  12. Yufeng Zheng, “A Novel Thermal Face Recognition Approach Using Face Pattern Words”, Proc. SPIE, Vol. 7667, “Biometric Technology for Human Identification VII” conference, SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing, 5-9 April 2010, Orlando, United States. United States.

  13. Yufeng Zheng, “An orientation-based fusion algorithm for multisensor image fusion”, Proc. SPIE, Vol. 7710, “Multisensor, Multisource Information Fusion: Architectures, Algorithms, and Applications 2010” conference, SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing, 5-9 April 2010, Orlando, United States.

  14. Yufeng Zheng, “Multi-scale Fusion Algorithm Comparisons: Pyramid, DWT and Iterative DWT”, 12th International Conference on Information Fusion, pp. 1060-1067, Seattle, WA, USA, July 6-9, 2009.

  15. Yufeng Zheng and Kwabena Agyepong, “Component-based target recognition inspired by human vision”, Proc. SPIE, Vol. 7335, 73350V (2009).

  16. Yufeng Zheng, “Bio-inspired color image enhancement model”, Proc. SPIE, Vol. 7341, 73410D (2009).

  17. Fengmei Zou, Yufeng Zheng, Zhengdong Zhou, and Kwabena Agyepong, “Gradient Vector Flow Field and Mass Region Extraction in Digital Mammograms”, 2008 21st IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems, pp. 41-43 (CBMS 2008).

  18. Yufeng Zheng, “Gaussian model-based statistical matching for image enhancement and segmentation,” Visual Information Processing XVII. Proceedings of the SPIE, Vol. 6978, pp. 697802-1-697802-11 (2008).

  19. Yufeng Zheng, Kwabena Agyepong, and Ognjen Kuljaca, “Multisensory data exploitation using advanced image fusion and adaptive colorization”, Signal Processing, Sensor Fusion, and Target Recognition XVII. Proceedings of the SPIE, Vol. 6968, pp. 69681U-69681U-12 (2008).

  20. Yufeng Zheng and Kwabena Agyepong , “Mass Detection with Digitized Screening Mammograms by Using Gabor Features”, Proceedings of the SPIE, Vol. 6514, pp.651402-1-12 (2007 ).

  21. Yufeng Zheng , Adel Elmaghraby and Hichem Frigui, “Three-band MRI image fusion utilizing the wavelet-based method optimized with two quantitative fusion metrics”, Proceedings of the SPIE, Vol. 6144, pp. 61440R-1-61440R-12 (2006).

  22. Yufeng Zheng , Bruce C. Hansen, Andrew M. Haun and Edward A. Essock, “Coloring Night-vision Imagery with Statistical Properties of Natural Colors by Using Image Segmentation and Histogram Matching”, Proceedings of the SPIE, Vol. 5667, pp. 107-117 (2005).

  23. Yufeng Zheng , Edward A. Essock and Bruce C. Hansen, “An Advanced Image Fusion Algorithm Based on Wavelet Transform – Incorporation with PCA and Morphological Processing”, Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 5298, pp. 177-187 (2004).

  24. Yufeng Zheng and Edward A. Essock, “A Novel Feature Extraction Method – Wavelet-Fourier Analysis and Its Application to Glaucoma Classification”, Proceedings of 7th Joint Conference on Information Sciences, pp. 672-675, Cary, North Carolina, September, 2003.

  25. Yufeng Zheng , Xiaohui Cui, Mark P. Wachowiak, and Adel S. Elmaghraby, “CT Scout Z-resolution Improvement with Image Restoration Methods”, Proc. SPIE Int. Soc. Opt. Eng. 5032, 1851 (2003), (SPIE Medical Imaging Conference,) San Diego, California, February, 2003.

  26. Yufeng Zheng , Ji Du, Long Qi and Daoyin Yu, “Echocardiographic Visual Processing and Quantitative Analysis”, PP.46-49, SPIE Proceedings Vol. 2866, International Conference on Holography and Optical Information, Nanjing , China , August 1996.


Book Chapter:

  1. Yufeng Zheng, “Iterative Multiscale Fusion and Night Vision Colorization of Multispectral Images”, Sensor Fusion and its Applications, ISBN 978-953-7619-X-X, 2010.

  2. EA Essock, P Gunvant and Yufeng Zheng , “Nerve Giber Analyzer GDx Progression”, Optic Nerve Head and Retinal Nerve Fiber Analysis, Edited by Iester M, Garway-Heath D, Lemij H; Savona, Dogma. ISBN 88-87434-30-1, pp.111-113, 2005. 

  3. Yufeng Zheng, “An Exploration of Color Fusion with Multispectral Images for Night Vision Enhancement”, Image Fusion and its Applications, ISBN 978-953-307-173-2, June 2011.

  4. Gang Hu, Yufeng Zheng, Xin-qiang Qin, “Image Fusion based on integer lifting wavelet transform”, Image Fusion and its Applications, ISBN 978-953-307-173-2, June 2011.


 Book:

  1. Yufeng Zheng, “Image Fusion and Its Applications”, ISBN 978-953-307-173-2, June 2011.

Abstracts of Selected Publications

 

Resume of Dr. Yufeng Zheng  (PDF updated on 11/20/2011)

Contact Information and Links:

Email:            
Tel:                 601-877-6490 (Alcorn Office)
Fax:                601-877-3941
Address:         Dept. of Advanced Technology,
                        Alcorn State University,
                        1000 ASU Drive #360,
                        Alcorn State, MS 39096, USA
Homepage2:   http://adtech.alcorn.edu/faculty/yzheng/index.html (Work Website)
SPIE Page:     http://spie.org/x47500.xml (SPIE Visiting Lecturer)
TRS Page:      http://www.r2image.com/TRS_Demo/ (Teaching, Research, Service Demostration)

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