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    Zhong Zhang
    Ph.D. Candidate
    Computer Science and Engineering Department
    University of Texas at Arlington
    Office: 500 UTA Boulevard, Room310, ERB Buildings, Arlington, TX 76019-0015.
    Phone: 817-262-7293
    email: zhong DOT zhang AT mavs DOT uta DOT edu

   


I am a sixth year Ph.D. student at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington and expected to graduate 2013 spring. My advisor is Prof. Vassilis Athitsos who runs the Vision-Learning-Mining (VLM) Research Lab.  I am looking for full time positions in the areas related to computer vision, pattern recognition and machine learning.

Resume [PDF]

Research

My main research interests are Computer Vision, Machine Learning and Human Computer Interaction. Areas of focus are: Hand Detection, Gesture Recognition and Fall Detection. A brief description on the recent/ongoing projects I am working on can be found at the following link:

 

1.      Fall Detection

2.      ASL recognition

3.      Hand Detection

 

Publication

 

Ph.D. Thesis

“Human Motion Analysis for American Sign Language Recognition and Assistive Environments”

Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Texas At Arlington, May 2015

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2015

·         Zhong Zhang, Christopher Conly, and Vassilis Athitsos

A Survey on Vision-based Fall Detection

Conference Pervasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments(PETRA), 2015

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2014

·         Zhong Zhang, Christopher Conly, and Vassilis Athitsos

Evaluating Depth-Based Computer Vision Methods for Fall Detection Under Occlusions (Oral)

International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC), 2014

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·         Christopher Conly, Zhong Zhang, and Vassilis Athitsos

An Evaluation of RGB-D Skeleton Tracking for Use in Large Vocabulary Complex Gesture Recognition

Conference Pervasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments(PETRA), 2014

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·         Zhong Zhang, Christopher Conly, and Vassilis Athitsos

Hand Detection on Sign Language Videos

Conference Pervasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments(PETRA), 2014

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·         Weihua Liu, Yangyu Fan, Tao Lei, and Zhong Zhang

Human Gesture Recognition Using Orientation Segmentation Feature on Random Forest (Oral)

Conference on Signal and Information Processing (ChinaSIP), 2014

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2012

·         Zhong Zhang, Weihua Liu, Vangelis Metsis, and Vassilis Athitsos.

Fall Detection Using a Single Depth Camera and Automatic External Calibration(journal paper, in preparation).

 

·         Zhong Zhang, Weihua Liu, Vangelis Metsis, and Vassilis Athitsos.

A Viewpoint-Independent Statistical Method for Fall Detection

International Conference on Pattern Recognition(ICPR), November 2012.

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2011

·         Zhong Zhang, Rommel Alonzo, Vassilis Athitsos.

Experiments with computer vision methods for hand detection.

Conference Pervasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments(PETRA), May 2011.

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·         Jianhui Zhao, Zhong Zhang, Shizhong Han, Chengzhang Qu, Zhi-Yong Yuan, Dengyi Zhang.

SVM based forest fire detection using static and dynamic features.

Computer Science and Information Systems, Novemember 2011.

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2010

·         Zhong Zhang, Eric Becker, Roman Arora, Vassilis Athitsos.

Experiments with computer vision methods for fall detection.

Conference on pervasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments(PETRA), June 2010.

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2009

·         Dengyi Zhang, Chengzhang Qu, Jianhui Zhao, Zhong Zhang, Youwang ke, Shizhong Han, Mingqi Qiao, Huiyun Zhang.

            Extraction and Parameterization of Eye Contour from Monkey Face in Monocular Image.

            Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, Vol. 56, 2009, Page(s): 182-189

           

·         Dengyi Zhang, Shizhong Han, Jianhui Zhao, Zhong Zhang, Chengzhang Qu, Youwang Ke, Xiang Chen.

            Image Based Forest Fire Detection Using Dynamic Characteristics with Artificial Neural Networks.

            International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence(JCAI), 2009

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2008

·         Zhong Zhang, Jianhui Zhao, Dengyi Zhang, Chengzhang Qu, Youwang Ke, Bo Cai.

            Contour Based Forest Fire Detection Using FFT and Wavelet.

            International Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering(CSSE),2008.

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·         Dengyi Zhang, Jinming Zhao, Jianhui Zhao, Shizhong Han, Zhong Zhang, Chengzhang Qu, Youwang Ke

            A New Color-based Segmentation Method for Forest Fire from Video Image

            International Seminar on Future BioMedical Information Engineering, 2008

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Others

            A Forest Fire Detection System: The Meleager Approach

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            A New Approach for Flame Image Edges Detection

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            Classification of Flame and Fire Images using Feed Forward Neural Network

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            Copyright Protection for Fire Video Images using an Effective Watermarking Method

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            Efficiency of HSV over RGB Gaussian Mixture Model for Fire Detection

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Last modified: August 27, 2012