I received my BS degree from the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering at National Taiwan University, Taiwan, in 1996. I joined MS/PhD program in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1998, and worked as a research assistant with Prof. Narendra Ahuja in the Computer Vision & Robotics Lab at the Beckman Institute from 1999 to 2005. I worked at Epson Research and Development from 2005 to 2007 and developed image processing applications for scanners, copiers and mobile phones. I am currently a senior scientist at Asterpix and have been developing computer vision algorithms for its interactive web video service. I developed Hypervideo application at Facebook.

My PhD thesis committee members were Prof. Narendra Ahuja, David Forsyth, John Hart, and Yoshihisa Shinagawa. My PhD qualifying exam committee members were Prof. Gerald DeJong, Jean Ponce, and David Kriegman.

My main research interests include

• Computer Vision
  • Dynamic textures, visual tracking, motion recognition and gesture recognition
• Computer Graphics
  • Human motion synthesis
• Machine Learning
  • Nonlinear manifold learning and dynamical models
• Image Processing
  • Image segmentation and compression

My resume up to May 2005: [html] [pdf]

• PhD thesis: Globally-Coordinated Locally-Linear Modeling of Multi-Dimensional Data. [details]

• Che-Bin Liu, Ruei-Sung Lin, Narendra Ahuja, and Ming-Hsuan Yang. Dynamic Textures Synthesis as Nonlinear Manifold Learning and Traversing. The 17th British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC 2006), pp 859-868, 2006. [abstract][pdf][details]
• Che-Bin Liu, Ruei-Sung Lin, Ming-Hsuan Yang, Narendra Ahuja, and Steven Levinson. Object Tracking Using Globally Coordinated Nonlinear Manifolds. The 18th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2006), vol. 1, pp 844-847, 2006. [abstract][pdf][details]
• Ruei-Sung Lin, Che-Bin Liu, Ming-Hsuan Yang, Narendra Ahuja, and Steven Levinson. Learning Nonlinear Manifolds from Time Series. The Ninth European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2006), vol. 2, pp 245-256, 2006. [abstract][pdf]
• Che-Bin Liu, Ruei-Sung Lin, and Narendra Ahuja. Modeling Dynamic Textures Using Subspace Mixtures. International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME 2005), 2005. [abstract][pdf]
• Che-Bin Liu and Narendra Ahuja. Motion Based Retrieval of Dynamic Objects in Videos. ACM Multimedia (MM 2004), pp 288-291, 2004. [abstract][pdf]
• Che-Bin Liu and Narendra Ahuja. Vision Based Fire Detection. The 17th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2004), vol. 4, pp 134-137, 2004. [abstract][pdf]
• Che-Bin Liu and Narendra Ahuja. A Model for Dynamic Shape and Its Applications. International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2004), vol. 2, pp 129-134, 2004. [abstract][pdf]

• College Basketball / Football ... Go Illini!
  • Basketball Rankings: [AP Poll] [ESPN Coaches Poll] [RPI]
  • Illini Sports News
• Major League Baseball [Chien-Ming Wang]
• Bowling
• Traveling
• Broadway Musicals (my complete have-seen list, ranks, and links)
  1. Les Misérables (New York City 2)
  2. Rent (New York City, Chicago, St. Louis, Springfield (IL), Champaign)
  3. The Phantom of the Opera (New York City 2)
  4. ...

• Wedding (6/9/2000)
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