Zhengyou Zhang

Microsoft Corp., One Microsoft Way, Redmond WA 98052-6399, USA
zhang@microsoft.com

Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research (MSR), the research center of Microsoft Corp. My research is in computer vision, speech signal processing, multi-sensory fusion, multimedia computing, real-time collaboration and human-machine interaction. I am affiliated with the Communication and Collaboration Systems Group, the Speech Technology Group, and the virtual Vision Technology Group. I manage the Multimodal Collaboration Research Team.

Research interests: Camera calibration, image matching, stereo, 3D reconstruction, motion analysis, uncalibrated images, image-based modeling, visual learning, speech processing, audiovisual fusion, multimedia, face recognition, face verification, speaker verification, autonomous mental development, development and learning.

Please visit my home page at INRIA for information prior to my arrival (March 30, 1998) at Microsoft Research.

Education

Short Bio

Zhengyou Zhang is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). He is the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the newly established IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development (IEEE T-AMD), and is on the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (IEEE T-MM), the International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence (IJPRAI), and the Machine Vision and Applications. He was on the Editorial Board of the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (IEEE T-PAMI) from 1999 to 2004. He is listed in Who's Who in the World,  Who's Who in America and Who's Who in Science and Engineering.

Before joining Microsoft, Zhengyou worked at INRIA (French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control) for 11 years, and was a Senior Research Scientist since 1991, where he worked in the Computer Vision and Robotics group. In 1996-1997, he spent one-year sabbatical as an Invited Researcher at the Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR), Kyoto, Japan.

He holds more than 50 US patents and has about 40 patents pending. He also holds a few Japanese patents for his inventions during his sabbatical at ATR.

He has published over 200 papers in refereed international journals and conferences, and is the author of the following books

He is the Program Co-Chair of the 8th International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL09), June 5-7, 2009, Shanghai, China. He was a Technical Co-Chair of the International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP06), October 3-6, 2006, Victoria, BC, Canada. He was the Program Co-Chair of the Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV2004), Jan. 27-30, 2004, Jeju Island, Korea; a Demo Chair and an Area Chair of the International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV2003), Oct. 14-17, 2003, Nice, France; the Demo Chair of the International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV2005), Oct. 15-21, 2005, Beijing, China. He co-organized the International Workshop on Multimedia Technologies in E-Learning and Collaboration, held in Nice, France, on October 17, 2003. He served on the Program Committees of ICCV, CVPR, ECCV, ACCV and many other international conferences and workshops.

Zhengyou Zhang is a member of the IEEE Computer Society Fellows Committee from 2005 to 2007, a member of IEEE Technical Committee on Multimedia Signal Processing and the Chair of IEEE Technical Committee on Autonomous Mental Development. He is a member of ACM.

Interview by the Computational Intelligence Magazine is available here (or go to IEEE Xplore).

Full version of his résumé is available by clicking here.

Collaborators, Post-Doctoral Researchers and Students

Zicheng Liu (Researcher, MSR)
Mike Sinclair (Principal Researcher, MSR)
Li-wei He (Research Engineer, MSR)
Cha Zhang (Researcher, MSR)
Rajesh Hegde (Research Engineer, MSR)
Chunhui Zhang (Researcher, MSR Asia)
Ying Shan (Post-Doc, now Scientist at Microsoft MSN AdLab)
Gang Hua (Scientist at Microsoft LiveLabs)
John Hershey (Post-Doc, now at IBM Research)
Interns: Sasa Junuzovic (2008), Matt Luciw (2008), Aswin Sankaranarayanan (2008), Xiaogang Wang (2008), Qing Zhang (2008), Raffay Hamid (2007), Sasa Junuzovic (2007), Miao Liao (2007), Mingxuan Sun (2007), Qi Zhao (2007), Amar Subramanya (2006), Sasa Junuzovic (2006), Ming Liu (2005), Gang Hua (2005), Amar Subramanya (2004), Ya Chang (2004), Yanli Zheng (2003), Hanning Zhou (2003), Guodong Guo (2002), Ruigang Yang (2001), Ko Nishino (1999, 2000), Ying Wu (2000), Qifa ke (1998)

Supervision of researchers when I was at INRIA: Nassir Navab (Ph.D., 1993), Michel Buffa (Ph.D., 1993), Gabriella Csurka (Ph.D., 1996), Bernard Hotz (Research Engineer, 1991-1994), Serge Saracco (Master, 1993),  Jean-Francois Ponthieux (Master, 1993), Veit Schenk (Master, 1996), Laurence Lucido (Ph.D., 1997), Sylvain Bougnoux (Ph.D., 1998).

IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development (IEEE TAMD)

Projects

Software Microsoft Easy Camera Calibration Tool

Recent publications: Click here

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Some downloadable publications:

Tutorial

Parameter Estimation Techniques: A Tutorial with Application to Conic Fitting. PDF version, HTML version, and PostScript version
Published in Image and Vision Computing Journal, Vol.15, No.1, pages 59-76, 1997.

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