人物經歷
早年經歷
1987年,田英利畢業於
天津大學精密儀器與光電子工程專業,獲得學士學位。
1990年,獲得天津大學工程熱物理碩士學位。
職業經歷
田英利的職業生涯始於
卡內基梅隆大學的博士後研究,隨後在IBM T.J. Watson研究中心工作七年,領導視頻分析團隊並獲得多項獎勵。
現任紐約市立學院電氣工程系CUNY傑出教授、紐約城市大學研究生中心計算機科學系傑出教授。
主要成就
田英利的研究領域包括計算機視覺、機器學習、人工智慧、輔助技術、醫學影像分析和
遙感。
她在卡內基梅隆大學機器人研究所工作期間,對自動面部表情分析和資料庫開發的研究對研究界產生了重大影響,並獲得“FG2019時間考驗獎”。
自2008年加入紐約市立大學後,田英利專注於輔助技術,通過
計算機視覺和
機器學習技術幫助視障人士、聽障人士和老年人等特殊需求群體。她是自動面部表情分析、人類活動理解和輔助技術領域的先驅。
主要作品
據2025年5月紐約市立學院官網,田英利已發表200多篇同行評審論文,並擁有29項已授權專利。
代表性論文:
C. Yi, Y. Tian, and A. Arditi, "Portable Camera-based Assistive Text and Product Label Reading from Hand-held Objects for Blind Persons," IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, accepted, 2013. 10.1109/TMECH.2013.2261083
X. Yang and Y. Tian. Texture Representations Using Subspace Embeddings. Pattern Recognition Letters (PRL), 34(10):1130-1137, 2013.
X. Yang and Y. Tian, Effective 3D Action Recognition Using Eigenjoints, Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation (JVCIR), Special Issue on Visual Understanding and Applications with RGBD Cameras, Accepted, 2013.
F. Hasanuzzaman, X. Yang, and Y. Tian, Monitoring Activity of Taking Medicine by Incorporating RFID and Video Analysis, Network Modeling Analysis in Health Informatics and Bioinformatics, July 2013, Volume 2, Issue 2, pp 61-70. DOI: 10.1007/s13721-013-0025-y.
S. Wang, X. Yang, and Y. Tian, Detecting Signage and Doors for Blind Navigation and Wayfinding, Network Modeling Analysis in Health Informatics and Bioinformatics, July 2013, Volume 2, Issue 2, pp 81-93.
C. Yi, R. Flores, R. Chincha, and Y. Tian, Finding Objects for Assisting Blind People, Network Modeling Analysis in Health Informatics and Bioinformatics, July 2013, Volume 2, Issue 2, pp 71-79. DOI: 10.1007/s13721-013-0026-x
A. Arditi and Y. Tian, "User Interface Preferences in the Design of a Camera-Based Navigation and Wayfinding Aid," Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, Vol. 107, Number 2, pp118-129, March-April, 2013.
S. Chen, Y. Tian, Q. Liu, and D. Metaxas, Recognizing Expressions from Face and Body Gesture by Temporal Normalized Motion and Appearance Features, Image and Vision Computing, Volume 31 Issue 2, February, Pages 175-185, 2013, DOI: 10.1016/j.imavis.2012.06.014
Y. Tian, L. Cao, Z. Liu, and Z. Zhang, Action Detection by Fusing Hierarchically Filtered Motion With Spatiotemporal Interest Point Features, In book Human Behavior Recognition Technologies: Intelligent Applications for Monitoring and Security, by IGI Global, Hans Guesgen and Stephen Marsland (Eds.), ISBN 978-1-4666-3682-8 (hardcover) -- ISBN 978-1-4666-3683-5 (ebook), 2013.
Y. Tian, X. Yang, C. Yi, and A. Arditi, "Toward a Computer Vision-based Wayfinding Aid for Blind Persons to Access Unfamiliar Indoor Environments," Machine Vision and Applications, Issue 24, No. 3, April 2013, pp. 521-535. DOI: 10.1007/s00138-012-0431-7. NIHMSID # 371367
C. Yi and Y. Tian, Text Extraction from Scene Images by Character Appearance and Structure Modeling, Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Vol. 117, No. 2, pp. 182-194, 2013. DOI: 10.1016/j.cviu.2012.11.002, NIHMS #424449
C. Zhang and Y. Tian, "RGB-D Camera-based Daily Living Activity Recognition," Journal of Computer Vision and Image Processing, Vol. 2, No. 4, December 2012.
C. Yi and Y. Tian, "Localizing Text in Scene Images by Boundary Clustering, Stroke Segmentation, and String Fragment Classification,"IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Vol. 21, No. 9,pp4256-4268, 2012. PMID:22614647
S. Wang, C. Yi, and Y. Tian, "Signage Detection and Recognition for Blind Persons to Access Unfamiliar Environments," Journal of Computer Vision and Image Processing, Vol. 2, No. 2, 2012.
Y. Tian and S. Chen, Understanding Effects of Image Resolution for Facial Expression Analysis, Journal of Computer Vision and Image Processing, Vol. 2, No. 1, 2012.
S. Chen and Y. Tian, Describing Visual Scene through EigenMaps, Journal of Computer Vision and Image Processing, Vol. 2, No. 1, 2012.
C. Yi and Y. Tian, Assistive Text Reading from Complex Background for Blind Persons, In book Camera-Based Document Analysis and Recognition, the 4th International Workshop on (CBDAR'11), Revised Selected Papers, Masakazu Iwamura and Faisal Shafait (Eds), Lecture Notes in Computer Science series, Vol. 7139, pp15-28, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, ISSN 0302-9743, 2012.
F. Hasanuzzaman, X. Yang, and Y. Tian, Robust and Effective Component-based Banknote Recognition for the Blind, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics--Part C: Applications and Reviews, Jan. 2012. PMCID: PMC3363999
Y. Tian, A. Senior, and M. Lu, Robust and Efficient Foreground Analysis in Complex Surveillance Videos, Machine Vision and Applications, Volume 23, Issue 5, Page 967-983, 2012.
H. Gunes, C. Shan, S. Chen, and Y. Tian, Bodily Expression for Automatic Affect Recognition, In Advances in Emotion Recognition, A. Konar, A. Chakraborty (Eds.), Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.
Y. Tian, L. Cao, Z. Liu, and Z. Zhang, Hierarchical Filtered Motion for Action Recognition in Crowded Videos, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics--Part C: Applications and Reviews, Vol. 42, No. 3, pp313-323, 2012.
S. Yuan, Y. Tian, and A. Arditi, Clothing Matching for Visually Impaired Persons, Technology and Disability, Vol. 23, 2011. PMCID: PMC3328861
C. Yi and Y. Tian, Text String Detection from Natural Scenes by Structure-based Partition and Grouping, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Vol. 20, Issue 9, 2011, PMID: 21411405, PMCID: PMC3337634.
Y. Tian, R. Feris, H. Liu, A. Hampapur, and M. Sun, Robust Detection of Abandoned and Removed Objects in Complex Surveillance Videos, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics--Part C: Applications and Reviews, Vol. 41, Issue 5, 2011.
R. Feris, A. Hampapur, Y. Zhai, R. Bobbitt, L. Brown, D. Vaquero, Y-L. Tian. H. Liu and M-T. Sun, Case Study: IBM Smart Surveillance System, in book of Intelligent Video Surveillance: Systems and Technology, by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. 2009.
Y. Tian, R. Feris, L. Brown, D. Vaquero, Y. Zhai and A. Hampapur, Multi-Scale Person Detection and Motion Analysis for Video Surveillance, in book of Machine Learning for Human Motion Analysis: Theory and Practice, by Idea Group Inc. 2009.
Y. Zhai, Y-L. Tian, R. Feris, L. Brown, R. Bobbitt, A. Hampapur, and S. Velipasalar, Composite Event Detection in Multi-Camera and Multi-Sensor Surveillance Networks, in book of Multi-Camera Networks: Concepts and Applications, by Elsevier. 2009.
Systems (FACS), Second Edition, Edited by Paul Ekman and Erika L. Rosenberg, Elsevier Science Publishers, Oxford University Press,2005.
A. Senior, A. Hampapur, L. Brown, Y. Tian, C. Shu and S. Pankanti, Distributed Active Multi-camera Networks,Ambient Intelligence ed. P.Remagnino. G.L. Foresti and T.Ellis. Kluwer Publishing 2004.
Y. Tian, T. Kanade and J. F. Cohn, Facial Expression Analysis, In book Handbook of Face Recognition, Edited by Stan Li and A.K. Jain, Springer-Verlag January, 2004.
Y. Tian, Automatic Facial Expression Analysis, Robotics and Machine Perception, SPIE International Technical Group Newsletter, 2004.
K. Schmidt, J. F. Cohn and Y. Tian, Signal characteristics of spontaneous facial expressions: Automatic movement in solitary and social smiles, Biological Psychology, 65, 49-66, 2003.
S. Pankanti, A. Senior, L. Brown, A. Hampapur, Y. Tian, and R. Bolle, Security, Privacy, and Health,IEEE Pervasive Computing Work in Progress, Volume 2 No. 1, January-March 2003. p. 96
Y. Tian, T. Kanade and J. F. Cohn, Recognizing Action Units for Facial Expression Analysis, In book Multi-modal interface for human machine communication, Machine perception and artificial intelligence series. 2002
Y. Tian, T. Kanade and J. F. Cohn, Recognizing Action Units for Facial Expression Analysis, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 23, No. 2, February, 2001
K. Schmidt, V. Monaco, B. Peters, J. VanSwearingen, Y. Tian, and J. F. Cohn, Relation between automatic tracking of lip-corner motion and facial surface EMG of the zygomaticus major muscle during spontaneous smiles, Society for Psychophysiological Research, San Diego, October, 2000.
Y. Tian, H. Tsui, S. Yeung and S. Ma, Shape from Shading for Multiple Light Sources, Journal of Optical Society of America A, pp36-52, Vol. 16, No. 1, Jan. 1999.
Y. Tian and S. Ma, Shape Recovery by Neural Network in Unknown Light Environment, ACTA Optical Sinica, Vol. 25, No. 2, March, 1999.
Y. Tian and S. Ma, 3D Shape Recovery by Genetic Algorithm, Journal of Image and Graphics (in Chinese), Vol. 4(A), 1999.
Y. Tian and S. Ma, Extended Spherical light based Shape from Shading, ACTA Optical Sinica, Vol. 18, No. 10, Oct., 1998.
Y. Xu, C. Xu, Y. Tian and S. Ma, 3D Face Image Acquisition and Reconstruction System, Journal of Image and Graphics (in Chinese), Vol.3, No.2, 1998.
Y. Tian and H. Tsui, Shape Recovery from a Color Image for Non-Lambertian Surface, Journal of Optical Society of America A, Vol. 14, No. 2, pp397--404, Feb. 1997.
榮譽獎項
社會任職
田英利擔任
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia(TMM)、Computer Vision and Image Understanding(CVIU)和Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation(JVCI)的副主編。
人物評價
田英利在自動面部表情分析、人類活動理解和輔助技術領域作出了開創性貢獻,是圖像理解領域的頂尖學者。(香港中文大學電子工程學系評)