About me

I am a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Maryland, College Park starting from 2011. I work on computer vision and pattern recognition problems and I have done some research on visual tracking and object detection before joining Maryland.

Fan Yang, Huchuan Lu, Wenling Zhang, Yen-Wei Chen, "Visual Tracking via Bag of Features", IET Image Processing, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 115-128, 2012.

Shu Wang, Huchuan Lu, Fan Yang, Ming-Hsuan Yang, "Superpixel Tracking", 13th International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV2011), pp. 1323-1330, 2011. [PDF][Code]

Fan Yang, Huchuan Lu, Yen-Wei Chen, "Human Tracking by Multiple Kernel Boosting with Locality Affinity Constraints", 10th Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV2010), vol. 4, pp. 39-50, 2010. [PDF]

Fan Yang, Huchuan Lu, Yen-Wei Chen, "Robust Tracking Based on Boosted Color Soft Segmentation and ICA-R", 2010 International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP2010), pp. 3917-3920, 2010. [PDF][Code]

Fan Yang, Huchuan Lu, Yen-Wei Chen, "Bag of Features Tracking", 20th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR2010), pp. 153-156, 2010. (Oral) [PDF][Code]

Huchuan Lu, Wenling Zhang, Fan Yang, Xiaojing Wang, "Robust Tracking Based on PSO and On-line AdaBoost", 5th International Conference on Intelligent Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing (IIHMSP2009), pp. 690-693, 2009. [PDF]

Dean's Fellowship, 2011
Huawei Scholarship, 2010
2nd Prize of Excellent Graduates Scholarship, 2008–2011
National Scholarship, 2007

CMSC 724 Database Management Systems (Spring 2012)
CMSC 828B Image Segmentation (Spring 2012)
CMSC 723 Computational Linguistics I (Fall 2011)
CMSC 666 Numerical Analysis I (Fall 2011)

Proficient in Java and Matlab and familiar with C++ and OpenCV.
I am a big fan of swimming and the CSI TV series.

Address: 3340 A.V. Williams Building, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 20740
Email: fyang <at> cs.umd.edu or fyang.dut <at> gmail.com