Hao Su

Assistant Professor at UC San Diego

Bldg EBU3B #4114
Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering
UC San Diego, La Jolla, USA

haosu AT eng.ucsd.edu / bio / google scholar / publication

Affiliations:
Artificial Intelligence Group, Center for Visual Computing,
Halicioğlu Data Science Institute, Contextual Robotics Institute

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Research Statement

My lab (SU Lab) works on Structure Understanding, Shape Understanding, and Scene Understanding problems that are relevant to artificial intelligence. I am interested in both theories and algorithms to address the problems. My publications are distributed in machine learning, computer vision, computer graphics, and robotics journals/conferences.

I am leading the construction of ShapeNet, a large-scale 3D-centric knowledge base of objects (SGP Dataset Award), and used to work on ImageNet, a large-scale 2D image database (PAMI Mark Everingham Prize).

Applications of my research include robotics, autonomous driving, virtual/augmented reality, smart manufacturing, etc.

Research Overview

Computer Vision and Computer Graphics
  • Joint Analysis of 2D Images and 3D Shapes
  • Crowd-sourcing for Large-scale Dataset Construction
  • Scene Understanding
  • Deep Understanding
Statistics and Optimization
  • Large-scale Optimization
  • Large-scale Graph Analysis
  • Multivariate Density Estimation

Courses/Tutorials/Workshops
Winter 2019: CSE291-C: Machine Learning on Geometric Data
revamped version of the previous 3D ML course with more references to classical materials of geometry.
Fall 2018: CSE152: Introduction to Computer Vision
Introductory course of computer vision for junior undergraduate students.
Winter 2018: CSE291-I: Machine Learning on 3D Data
Broad topics in deep learning, shape analysis, and 3D machine learning are covered.
CVPR2017 Tutorial: An Introduction to 3D Deep Learning
A co-organized tutorial to 3D deep learning techniques, given at CVPR2017 held in Hawaii. Some representive work of CV/CG community in the recent years on this topic are selected and discussed. This is extended from a graduate course I taught in the spring quarter of 2017 at Stanford. Many thanks to my colleagues.

Talk slides

Deep Part Induction from 3D Shapes
Invited talk for the Paopao Robotics Special Interest Group (updated on Aug 21, 2018)
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Part level understanding of 3D shapes is critical for extracting interpretable structures of objects. Rather than asking how to leverage object part structures, in the past year, I am more interested in how to discover parts of 3D shapes by machine learning approaches. This talk summarizes the recent explorations of my collaborators and myself along this vein.
Introduction to 3D Deep Learning
Invited talk at the GRASP lab of UPenn (updated on March 1, 2018)
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A very quick introduction to 3D deep learning, primarily based upon my own work (pardon me if I skipped some imporant historial work (e.g., Shape from Shading), or missed your important and interesting recent papers). A much more comprehensive version can be found in the course section.
3D Deep Learning on Geometric Forms
Invited talk at NIPS workshop on 3D Deep Learning (updated in Dec, 2016)
PPTX
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How to consume or generate irregular representations for networks, such as sets of points and geometric primitives. Based upon 3 latest papers of mine.
Synthesize for Learning
Invited talk at 3DV workshop on Understanding 3D and Visuo-Motor Learning (updated in Sep, 2016)
PPTX
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Use synthetic data to train learning algorithms for applications such as viewpoint estimation, human pose estimation, and robot perception. Based upon 5 recent papers of mine.

Publications

Computer Vision and Computer Graphics

New Deep View Synthesis from Sparse Photometric Images
Zexiang Xu, Sai Bi, Kalyan Sunkavalli, Sunil Hadap, Hao Su, Ravi Ramamoorthi
SIGGRAPH 2019
In this paper, we synthesize novel viewpoints across a wide range of viewing directions (covering a 60 deg cone) from a sparse set of just six viewing directions.
New Transfer value or policy? A Value-Centric Framework Towards Transferrable Continuous Reinforcement Learning
Xingchao Liu*, Tongzhou Mu*, Hao Su
arxiv
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How to build sample-efficient transfer learning algorithms in the continuous control setting? This paper shows that the commonly used policy-based methods are prone to getting stuck in local minimums, while value-based methods can converge much faster when transferred to a new environment.
New A Main/Subsidiary Network Framework for Simplifying Binary Neural Networks
Yinghao Xu, Xin Dong, Yudian Li, Hao Su
CVPR 2019
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A simple learning-based binary neural network pruning scheme.
New PartNet: A Large-scale Benchmark for Fine-grained and Hierarchical Part-level 3D Object Understanding
Kaichun Mo, Shilin Zhu, Angel X. Chang, Li Yi, Subarna Tripathi, Leonidas J. Guibas, Hao Su
CVPR 2019
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Project
A 3D object database with fine-grained and hierarchical part annotation. To assist segmentation and affordance research.
New ApolloCar3D: A Large 3D Car Instance Understanding Benchmark for Autonomous Driving
Xibin Song, Peng Wang, Dingfu Zhou, Rui Zhu, Chenye Guan, Yuchao Dai, Hao Su, Hongdong Li, Ruigang Yang
CVPR 2019
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The first large-scale database suitable for 3D car instance understanding, ApolloCar3D, collected by Baidu. The dataset contains 5,277 driving images and over 60K car instances, where each car is fitted with an industry-grade 3D CAD model with absolute model size and semantically labelled keypoints.
New Binary Ensemble Neural Network: More Bits per Network or More Networks per Bit?
Shilin Zhu, Xin Dong, Hao Su
CVPR 2019
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Ensemble of binary neural networks has better stability and robustness, and may perform as well as floating-point networks.
New Adversarial Defense by Stratified Convolutional Sparse Coding
Bo Sun, Nian-hsuan Tsai, Fangchen Liu, Ronald Yu, Hao Su
CVPR 2019
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An attack-agnostic defense mechanism for neural networks.
New Deep 3D Representation Learning
Hao Su
Ph.D. thesis at Stanford University
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A summary of my work on 3D deep learning between 2014 and 2018. I also include a projection of the future directions in this field and some open problems in my mind.
New DeepSpline: Data-Driven Reconstruction of Parametric Curves and Surfaces
Jun Gao, Chengcheng Tang, Vignesh Ganapathi-Subramanian, Jiahui Huang, Hao Su, Leonidas Guibas
arXiv
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Traditional approach for spline fitting requires a strong intialization. In this work, we explore a deep learning based approach to address the challenge. This work and the DeepPrimitive work (below) are internship projects of Jiahui Huang (currently Ph.D. at Tsinghua) and Jun Gao (currently at UToronto) to explore how we convert an image to a vector graph. However, the two papers have not fully addressed the challenges yet.
New DeepPrimitive: Image decomposition by layered primitive detection
Jiahui Huang, Jun Gao, Vignesh Ganapathi-Subramanian, Hao Su, Yin Liu, Chengcheng Tang, Leonidas Guibas
Computational Visual Media 2018, Vol 4
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Build a geometric interpretation of an image by discovering simple primitives and generating a layer-wise representation.
New Deep Part Induction from Articulated Object Pairs
Li Yi, Haibin Huang, Difan Liu, Evangelos Dalogerakis, Hao Su, Leonidas Guibas
SIGGRAPH Asia 2018
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Project (Code)
A weakly-supervised method to discover 3D object parts driven by functionality. Understand the structures of objects from a pair of similar instances under different object articulation states. An ICP-like deep learning based framework.
New Deep Functional Dictionaries: Learning Consistent Semantic Structures on 3D Models from Functions
Minhyuk Sung, Hao Su, Ronald Yu, Leonidas Guibas
NIPS 2018
arxiv
Project (Code)
A weakly-supervised method to discover 3D object parts by neural networks, leveraging the implicit consistency induced by deep neural networks.
New Geometry-Guided CNN for Self-supervised Video Representation Learning
Chuang Gan, Boqing Gong, Kun Liu, Hao Su, Leonidas Guibas
CVPR 2018
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To address the training data scarcity problem in video representation learning, we explore geometry cues, which can be acquired without cost, as an auxiliary signals for semantic understanding.
New View Extrapolation of Human Body from a Single Image
Hao Zhu, Hao Su, Peng Wang, Xun Cao, Ruigang Yang
CVPR 2018
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Human bodies are deformable shapes and applying existing approaches to synthesize novel views of human bodies from a single view is difficult. This paper disentangles novel-view synthesis as a depth estimation problem and a geometry-based flow prediction problem.
New Beyond Holistic Object Recognition: Enriching Image Understanding with Part States
Cewu Lu, Hao Su, Yongyi Lu, Li Yi, Chikeung Tang, Leonidas Guibas
CVPR 2018
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Introduce the concept and computational model of "part state", an intermediate representation for object interaction modeling and image captioning. A dataset is provided, as well.
New Frustum PointNets for 3D Object Detection from RGB-D Data
Charles R. Qi, Wei Liu, Chenxia Wu, Hao Su, Leonidas Guibas
CVPR 2018
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One of PointNet series of work, focusing on amodal 3D object detection and instance segmentation. Leading performance on KITTI 3D object detection benchmark (RGB-D data for autonomous driving) as of Nov 17, 2017.
Cross-modal Attribute Transfer for Rescaling 3D Models
Lin Shao, Angel X. Chang, Hao Su, Manolis Savva, Leonidas Guibas
3DV 2017
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Transfer geometrical and physical attributes from product catelog to 3D models in ShapeNet.
PointNet++: Deep Hierarchical Feature Learning on Point Sets in a Metric Space
Charles R. Qi, Li Yi, Hao Su, Leonidas J. Guibas
NIPS 2017
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Project (Code)
Deep network architecture for processing point cloud of cluttered scenes that often have non-uniform sampling density. Build upon PointNet, our CVPR2017 paper.
ComplementMe: Weakly-Supervised Component Suggestions for 3D Modeling
Minhyuk Sung, Hao Su, Vladimir G. Kim, Siddhartha Chaudhuri, and Leonidas Guibas
SIGGRAPH Asia 2017
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Project
Deep learning based approach for part-based 3D model synthesis. Given a partial construction (e.g., a chair in design), this method proposes a new component (e.g., arm) that is compatible with existing shape in style.
Learning Hierarchical Shape Segmentation and Labeling from Online Repositories
Li Yi, Leonidas J. Guibas, Aaron Hertzmann, Vladimir G. Kim, Hao Su, Ersin Yumer
SIGGRAPH 2017
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Learn a consistent part hierarchy from a large collection of 3D models with scene-graph structure.
A Point Set Generation Network for 3D Object Reconstruction from a Single Image
Hao Su*, Haoqiang Fan*, Leonidas Guibas
CVPR 2017 (oral)
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Project (Code)
Build a generative neural network to directly output a set of unordered points. As applications, it can be used for single-image based 3D reconstruction and shape completion.
PointNet: Deep Learning on Point Sets for 3D Classification and Segmentation
Hao Su*, Charles Qi*, Kaichun Mo, Leonidas Guibas
CVPR 2017 (oral)
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Project (Code)
Build a neural network to directly consume an unordered point cloud as input, without converting to other 3D representations such as voxel grids first. Rich theoretical and empirical analyses are provided.
SyncSpecCNN: Synchronized Spectral CNN for 3D Shape Segmentation
Li Yi, Hao Su, Xingwen Guo, Leonidas Guibas
CVPR 2017 (spotlight)
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Project (Code)
A convolutional neural network on generic graphs of non-isometric structures. Spectral analysis (spectral domain synchronization) is conducted to enable effective kernel weight sharing. Part segmentation as an application.
Learning Shape Abstractions by Assembling Volumetric Primitives
Shubham Tulsiani, Hao Su, Leonidas Guibas, Alexei A. Efros, Jitendra Malik
CVPR 2017
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Project (Code)
Learn to abstract polygonal meshes by a flexible number of simple primitives such as cuboids. The abstraction is category consistent.
Learning Non-Lambertian Object Intrinsics across ShapeNet Categories
Jian Shi, Yue Dong, Hao Su, Stella X. Yu
CVPR 2017
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Project (Code)
Show that the material attributes of ShapeNet models can be useful to train algorithms for understanding the material and optical properties in Internet photos.
Volumetric and Multi-View CNNs for Object Classification on 3D Data
Hao Su*, Charles Qi*, Matthias Niessner, Angela Dai, Mengyuan Yan, Leonidas Guibas
CVPR 2016 (spotlight oral)
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Project (Code+Data)
Slides
Novel architectures for 3DCNNs that take volumetric or multi-view representations as input.
Multilinear Hyperplane Hashing
Xianglong Liu, Xinjie Fan, Cheng Deng, Hao Su, Dacheng Tao
CVPR 2016
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Efficient approximate point-to-plane search.
Synthesizing Training Images for Boosting Human 3D Pose Estimation
Wenzheng Chen, Huan Wang, Yangyan Li, Hao Su, Zhenhua Wang, Chenghe Tu, Dani Lischinski, Daniel Cohen-Or, Baoquan Chen
3DV 2016 (oral)
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Supplementary
Project (Code+Data)
Extend RenderForCNN (my ICCV'15 paper) for 3D human pose estimation focusing on domain adaptation and data augmentation by automatic texture transfer.
ObjectNet3D: A Large Scale Database for 3D Object Recognition
Yu Xiang, Wonhui Kim, Wei Chen, Jingwei Ji, Christopher Choy, Hao Su, Roozbeh Mottaghi, Leonidas Guibas, Silvio Savarese
ECCV 2016 (spotlight oral)
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Tech Report
Project (Code+Data)
A large-scale image-shape database by linking ImageNet and ShapeNet at instance level.
3D Attention-Driven Depth Acquisition for Object Identification
Kai Xu, Yifei Shi, Lintao Zheng, Junyu Zhang, Min Liu, Hui Huang, Hao Su, Daniel Cohen-Or, Baoquan Chen
Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH ASIA 2016)
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Project (Code)
Teach robots to identify objects with fewest movements and scans. We trained a 3D attention model by reinforcement learning.
Unsupervised Texture Transfer from Images to Model Collections
Tuanfeng Y. Wang, Hao Su, Qixing Huang, Jingwei Huang, Leonidas J. Guibas, Niloy J. Mitra
Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH ASIA 2016)
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Supplementary
Transfer textures from product images to 3D shapes. The increased texture variation in ShapeNet is validated to be effective for RenderForCNN (my ICCV'15 paper).
A Scalable Active Framework for Region Annotation in 3D Shape Collections
Li Yi, Vladimir G. Kim, Duygu Ceylan, I-Chao Shen, Mengyuan Yan, Hao Su, Cewu Lu, Qixing Huang, Alla Sheffer, Leonidas Guibas
Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH ASIA 2016)
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Supplementary
Project (Video+Code+Data)
Annotate the parts for ShapeNet by crowd-sourcing and label propagation with high efficiency and accuracy.
SHREC'16 Track: Large-Scale 3D Shape Retrieval from ShapeNet Core55
M. Savva, F. Yu, Hao Su, M. Aono, B. Chen, D. Cohen-Or, W. Deng, H. Su, S. Bai, X. Bai, N. Fish, J. Han, E. Kalogerakis, E. G. Learned-Miller, Y. Li, M. Liao, S. Maji, A. Tatsuma, Y. Wang, N. Zhang, Z. Zhou
EuroGraphics SHREC2016 Workshop Report
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Website
Technical report for SHREC'16, the most renowned challenge for 3D shape retrieval.
ShapeNet: An Information-Rich 3D Model Repository
Angel X. Chang, Thomas Funkhouser, Leonidas Guibas, Pat Hanrahan, Qixing Huang, Zimo Li, Silvio Savarese, Manolis Savva*, Shuran Song, Hao Su*, Jianxiong Xiao, Li Yi, Fisher Yu
Corresponding author, student co-lead, arxiv, 2016
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The official report of ShapeNet, an object-centric database of semantics, geometry and physics.
3D-Assisted Image Feature Synthesis for Novel Views of an Object
Hao Su*, Fan Wang*, Li Yi, Leonidas Guibas
ICCV 2015 (oral, acceptance rate: 2%)
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Slides
Synthesize features at novel views of a 3D object from the observed viewpoint, leveraging on the geometric priors from ShapeNet.
Render for CNN: Viewpoint Estimation in Images Using CNNs Trained with Rendered 3D Model Views
Hao Su*, Charles Qi*, Yangyan Li, Leonidas Guibas
ICCV 2015 (oral, acceptance rate: 2%)
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Project
Project (Code+Data)
Slides
Show that large-scale synthetic data rendered from virtual world may greatly benefit deep learning to work in real world. Deliver a state-of-the-art viewpoint estimator.
Joint Embeddings of Shapes and Images via CNN Image Purification
Hao Su*, Yangyan Li*, Charles Qi, Noa Fish, Daniel Cohen-Or, Leonidas Guibas
Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Asia 2015)
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Code and Data
Cross-modality learning of 3D shapes and 2D images by neural networks. A joint embedding space that is sensitive to 3D geometry difference but agnostic to other nuisances is constructed.
ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge
Olga Russakovsky*, Jia Deng*, Hao Su, Jonathan Krause, Sanjeev Satheesh, Sean Ma, Zhiheng Huang, Andrej Karpathy, Aditya Khosla, Michael Bernstein, Alexander C. Berg, Li Fei-Fei
IJCV 2015
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Project
Bibtex
The technical report for ImageNet Challenge.
Estimating Image Depth using Shape Collections
Hao Su, Qixing Huang, Niloy Mitra, Yangyan Li, Leonidas Guibas
Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2014)
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Slides
Project
Learn to estimate the depth from a single input image assisted by geometric priors from a 3D shape collection (later merged to ShapeNet).
Fine-Grained Semi-Supervised Labeling of Large Shape Collections
Qixing Huang, Hao Su, Leonidas Guibas
Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Asia 2013)
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Fine-grained 3D shape classification.
Multi-level structured image coding on high-dimensional image representation
Li-Jia Li*, Jun Zhu*, Hao Su, Eric. P. Xing, Li Fei-Fei
ACCV 2013
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Multi-layer sparse coding for compressing ObjectBank representation.
Crowd-sourcing Annotations for Visual Object Detection
Hao Su, Jia Deng, Li Fei-Fei
AAAI 2012 Human Computation Workshop
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A system to annotate object bounding boxes for ImageNet by crowd-sourcing. This system is used to collect bounding boxes for ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenges.
Object Bank: A High-Level Image Representation for Scene Classification & Semantic Feature Sparsification
Hao Su*, Li-Jia Li*, Eric.P. Xing, Li Fei-Fei
NIPS 2010 (top 10 most cited paper in NIPS since 2010)
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Learn to describe scenes by responses from object detectors. Can be viewed as a layer-wise trained CNN (Gradient-HoG-Part-Object-Scene hierarchy).
Learning a dense multi-view representation for detection, viewpoint classification and synthesis of object categories
Hao Su*, Min Sun*, Li Fei-Fei, Silvio Savarese
ICCV 2009 (oral, acceptance rate: 4%)
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Continuous viewpoint estimation by a graphical model.
A Multi-View Probabilistic Model for 3D Object Classes
Hao Su*, Min Sun*, Li Fei-Fei, Silvio Savarese
CVPR 2009
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Discrete viewpoint estimation by a graphical model.
Construction and Analysis of a Large Scale Image Ontology
Jia Deng, Hao Su, Minh Do, Kai Li, Li Fei-Fei
VSS 2009
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ImageNet analysis paper.

Statistics and Optimization

FPNN: Field Probing Neural Networks for 3D Data
Yangyan Li, Soeren Pirk, Hao Su, Charles R. Qi, Leonidas J. Guibas
NIPS 2016
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A very efficient 3D deep learning method for volumetric data processing that takes advantage of data sparsity in 3D fields.
Density Estimation via Discrepancy
Kun Yang, Hao Su, Wing Wong
arXiv:1509.06831, 2015
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Estimating the density of a population by adaptively partitioning the space according to discrepancy criteria.
co-BPM: a Bayesian Model for Estimating Divergence and Distance of Distributions
Kun Yang, Hao Su, Wing Wong
Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics
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Measuring discrepancy of two samples by a Bayesian approach.
Reverse Top-k Search using Random Walk with Restart
Adams Wei Yu, Nikos Mamoulis, Hao Su
VLDB 2014
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Given a node in a large-scale transition graph, how to efficiently find those nodes that have this given node as a top k nearest neighbour (reverse top-k search problem). The inverse of PageRank problem.
Efficient Euclidean Projections onto the Intersection of Norm Balls
Hao Su*, Adams W. Yu*, Li Fei-Fei
ICML 2012
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Sparse-group LASSO model is a linear regression model that encourages simultaneous element-wise sparsity and group-wise sparsity. This work studies the key component in optimizing such a model by projection-based algorithms.

Misc

Pathlet Learning for Compressing and Planning Trajectories
Chen Chen, Hao Su, Qixing Huang, Lin Zhang, Leonidas Guibas
SIGSPATIAL 2013
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Discover common sub-structures from a large set of taxi trajectories. Formulated as a linear programming problem, in a spirit similar to probabilistic topic models (pLSA).

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