Lei Zhang (张磊)
 　

Lead Researcher

Web Search & Mining Group

Microsoft Research Asia

　

4F, Beijing Sigma Center

No. 49, Zhichun Road, Haidian District

Beijing 100080, P.R.China

Email: leizhang AT microsoft.com

Tel:  (86-10) 58963197

Fax: (86-10) 88097306

Lei Zhang is a lead researcher in the Web Search & Mining Group at Microsoft Research Asia in Beijing.

He currently directs a team pursuing new research directions on social media search. Team projects include user-created content analysis, query understanding, web-scale image annotation, large-scale music recommendation, and travel search. Results are targeted toward new advanced services in the delivery of intelligence and insight to Web users.

Lei joined Microsoft Research Asia in 2001 and worked with the Media Computing Group on key projects such as image classification, red-eye detection, face detection and annotation. He developed a highly efficient and robust face-detection algorithm that uses a large-scale distributed system for machine learning. The face-detection technology was successfully transferred to many Microsoft products, including Vista, Media Center, and Digital Image Suite. Three years ago, he moved to his current post in the Web Search & Mining Group, and has worked on large-scale systems related to search and multimedia. Projects include building the RankBase system for training a new dynamic ranker and conducting experiments, and developing a scalable search-based image-annotation system.

Lei is an IEEE and ACM member, and has served on international conference program committees, including WWW, SIGIR, ICME, IJCAI-MIR, ACM Multimedia-CARPE, PCM, MMM, and AIRS. He is the author or co-author of more than 50 published papers in fields such as content-based image retrieval, computer vision, Web search and information retrieval. He also holds two U.S. patents for his innovation in face-detection and red-eye reduction technologies.

The researcher earned a B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science from Tsinghua University, in 1993 and 1995. After graduate school, he joined the China Post Academy and helped develop automatic guided vehicles for use in postal sorting centers and a GPS-based tracking system employed in postal vehicles. He later returned to Tsinghua University, and was awarded a doctorate in Computer Science in 2001.

His other interests include photography and outdoor activities with his family.

Selected Publications (Publication List)

  1. Rui Cai, Chao Zhang, Lei Zhang, Wei-Ying Ma, Scalable Music Recommendation by Search, to appear in Proc. ACM Multimedia, Augsburg, Germany, September, 2007

  2. Xirong Li, Xin-Jing Wang, Changhu Wang, Lei Zhang, SBIA: Search-based Image Annotation by Leveraging Web-Scale Images (Demo), to appear in Proc. ACM Multimedia, Augsburg, Germany, September, 2007

  3. Zhiwei Li, Xing Xie, Lei Zhang, and Wei-Ying Ma, Searching One Billion Web Images by Content: Challenges and Opportunities, In Proc. International Workshop on Multimedia Content Analysis and Mining (MCAM), Weihai, China, July, 2007

  4. Changhu Wang, Feng Jing, Lei Zhang, and Hong-Jiang Zhang, Content-Based Image Annotation Refinement, in Proc. International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Minneapolis, USA, June, 2007

  5. Le Chen, Lei Zhang, Feng Jing, Kefeng Deng, Wei-Ying Ma, Ranking Web Objects from Multiple Communities, in Proc. ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), Arlington, USA, November, 2006

  6. Lei Zhang, Le Chen, Feng Jing, Defeng Deng, Wei-Ying Ma, EnjoyPhoto: A Vertical Image Search Engine for Enjoying High-Quality Photos, in Proc. ACM Multimedia, Santa Barbara, USA, October, 2006

  7. Feng Jing, Changhu Wang, Yuhuan Yao, Kefeng Deng, Lei Zhang, Wei-Ying Ma, IGroup: Web Image Search Results Clustering, in Proc. ACM Multimedia, Santa Barbara, USA, October, 2006

  8. Feng Jing, Lei Zhang, Wei-Ying Ma, VirtualTour: An Online Travel Assistant Based on High Quality Images, in Proc. ACM Multimedia, Santa Barbara, USA, October, 2006

  9. Xirong Li, Le Chen, Lei Zhang, Fuzong Lin, Wei-Ying Ma, Image Annotation by Large-Scale Content-based Image Retrieval, in Proc. ACM Multimedia, Santa Barbara, USA, October, 2006

  10. Xinjing Wang, Lei Zhang, Feng Jing, Wei-Ying Ma, AnnoSearch: Image Auto-Annotation by Search, in Proc. International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), New York, USA, June, 2006

  11. Xinjing Wang, Lei Zhang, Feng Jing, Wei-Ying Ma, Image Annotation Using Search and Mining Technologies, in Proc. The 15th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), Edinburgh, Scotland, May, 2006 (Best Poster Award)

  12. Feng Xu, Lei Zhang, Yujin Zhang, Wei-Ying Ma, Salient Feature Selection for Visual Concept Learning, in Proc. The 6th IEEE Pacific-Rim Conference On Multimedia (PCM), Jeju, Korea, 2005

  13. Xinjing Wang, Wei-Ying Ma, Lei Zhang, Xing Li, Iteratively Clustering Web Images Based on Link and Attribute Reinforcement, in Proc. ACM Multimedia, Singapore, November, 2005

  14. Mingju Zhang, Lei Zhang, Yanfeng Sun, Lin Feng, Wei-Ying Ma, Auto Cropping for Digital Photographs, in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME), Amsterdam, The Netherland, July, 2005

  15. Dong Xu, Shuicheng Yan, Lei Zhang, Xiaoou Tang, Hongjiang Zhang, and Zhenkai Liu, Concurrent Subspaces Analysis, in Proc. International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), San Diego, USA, June, 2005

  16. Dong Xu, Shuicheng Yan, Lei Zhang, Mingjing Li, Weiying Ma, Zhengkai Liu and Hongjiang Zhang, Parallel Image Matrix Compression for Face Recognition, in Proc. The 7th International Multimedia Modelling Conference, Melbourne, Australia, 2005

  17. Lei Zhang, Yuxiao Hu, Mingjing Li, Weiying Ma, Hongjiang Zhang, Efficient Propagation for Face Annotation in Family Albums, in Proc. ACM Multimedia, New York, US, 2004

  18. Xuezheng Liu, Lei Zhang, Mingjing Li, Hongjiang Zhang, Dingxing Wang, Boosting Image Classification with LDA-based Feature Combination for Digital Photograph Management, Pattern Recognition, Special Issue on Image Understanding for Digital Photos, 2004

  19. Dalong Jiang, Yuxiao Hu, Shuicheng Yan, Lei Zhang, Hongjiang Zhang, Wen Gao, Efficient 3D Reconstruction for Face Recognition, Pattern Recognition, Special Issue on Image Understanding for Digital Photos, 2004

  20. Lei Zhang, Yanfeng Sun, Mingjing Li, Hongjiang Zhang, Automated red-eye detection and correction in digital photographs, in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2004). Singapore, October 24-27, 2004

  21. Longbin Chen, Lei Zhang, Hongjiang Zhang, and Mohamed Abdel-Mottaleb, 3D Shape Constraint Facial Feature Localization Using Probabilistic-like Output, in Proc. 6th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG), Seoul, Korea, 2004

  22. Yuxiao Hu, Dalong Jiang, Shuicheng Yan, Lei Zhang, Hongjiang Zhang, Automatic 3D Reconstruction for Face Recognition, in Proc. 6th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG), Seoul, Korea, 2004

  23. Longbin Chen, Lei Zhang, Long Zhu, Mingjing Li and Hongjiang Zhang, A Novel Facial Feature Point Localization algorithm using Probabilistic-like output, in Proc. Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV), Jeju Island, Korea, 2004

  24. Lei Zhang, Longbin Chen, Mingjing Li, Hongjiang Zhang, Bayesian face annotation in family albums (demo), in Proc. International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Nice, France, 2003.

  25. Lei Zhang, Longbin Chen, Mingjing Li, Hongjiang Zhang, Automated annotation of human faces in family albums, in Proc. ACM Multimedia, Berkeley, CA USA, 2003.

  26. Feng Jing, Mingjing Li, Lei Zhang, Hongjiang Zhang, Bo Zhang, Learning in Region-Based Image Retrieval, Proc. International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR), 2003

  27. Lei Zhang, Fang Qian, Mingjing Li, Hongjiang Zhang, An efficient memorization scheme for relevance feedback in image retrieval. IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME) 2003.

  28. Longbin Chen, Baogang Hu, Lei Zhang, Mingjing Li, Hongjiang Zhang, Face annotation for family photo album management, International Journal of Image and Graphics (IJIG), Special Issue on Multimedia Data Storage and Management, Vol.3(1),2003

  29. Yanfeng Sun, Hongjiang Zhang, Lei Zhang, Mingjing Li, MyPhotos – A System for Home Photo Management and Processing, in Proc. ACM multimedia, demo, 2002

  30. Lei Zhang, Mingjing Li, Hongjiang Zhang, Boosting image orientation detection with indoor vs. outdoor classification, Proc. IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2002

  31. Lei Zhang, Fuzong Lin, Bo Zhang. Support Vector Machine Learning for Image Retrieval. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2001). Thessaloniki, Greece. October, 2001:721-724

  32.  Zhang Lei, Lin Fuzong, Zhang Bo. A CBIR method based on color-spatial feature. Proc. IEEE Region 10 Annual International Conference 1999 (TENCON'99), Cheju, Korea. 1999:166-169

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