Kin-Man Lam
Orcid: 0000-0002-0422-8454Affiliations:
- Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Department of Electronic and Information Engineering
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Kin-Man Lam
authored at least 299 papers
between 1993 and 2024.
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Bibliography
2024
Holistic-Guided Disentangled Learning With Cross-Video Semantics Mining for Concurrent First-Person and Third-Person Activity Recognition.
IEEE Trans. Neural Networks Learn. Syst., April, 2024
Estimating High-Resolution Surface Normals via Low-Resolution Photometric Stereo Images.
IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. Video Technol., April, 2024
Flow-Edge-Net: Video Saliency Detection Based on Optical Flow and Edge-Weighted Balance Loss.
IEEE Trans. Comput. Soc. Syst., April, 2024
Predictive exposure control for vision-based robotic disassembly using deep learning and predictive learning.
Robotics Comput. Integr. Manuf., February, 2024
IACC: Cross-Illumination Awareness and Color Correction for Underwater Images Under Mixed Natural and Artificial Lighting.
IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote. Sens., 2024
Structured Adversarial Self-Supervised Learning for Robust Object Detection in Remote Sensing Images.
IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote. Sens., 2024
IEEE Signal Process. Lett., 2024
AMSP-UOD: When Vortex Convolution and Stochastic Perturbation Meet Underwater Object Detection.
Proceedings of the Thirty-Eighth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2024
2023
Signal Process. Image Commun., November, 2023
IEEE Trans. Artif. Intell., October, 2023
Causal diffused graph-transformer network with stacked early classification loss for efficient stream classification of rumours.
Knowl. Based Syst., October, 2023
TRCT-GAN: CT reconstruction from biplane X-rays using transformer and generative adversarial networks.
Digit. Signal Process., August, 2023
Spectrum-irrelevant fine-grained representation for visible-infrared person re-identification.
Comput. Vis. Image Underst., July, 2023
Pattern Anal. Appl., May, 2023
IEEE Trans. Multim., 2023
Boosting Object Detectors via Strong-Classification Weak-Localization Pretraining in Remote Sensing Imagery.
IEEE Trans. Instrum. Meas., 2023
IEEE Trans. Instrum. Meas., 2023
Decouple and Resolve: Transformer-Based Models for Online Anomaly Detection From Weakly Labeled Videos.
IEEE Trans. Inf. Forensics Secur., 2023
Efficient Inductive Vision Transformer for Oriented Object Detection in Remote Sensing Imagery.
IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote. Sens., 2023
CoF-Net: A Progressive Coarse-to-Fine Framework for Object Detection in Remote-Sensing Imagery.
IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote. Sens., 2023
Spatial-Temporal Graphs Plus Transformers for Geometry-Guided Facial Expression Recognition.
IEEE Trans. Affect. Comput., 2023
Geometry-Aware Facial Expression Recognition via Attentive Graph Convolutional Networks.
IEEE Trans. Affect. Comput., 2023
Robust seed selection of foreground and background priors based on directional blocks for saliency-detection system.
Multim. Tools Appl., 2023
IEEE Intell. Syst., 2023
DGNet: Dynamic Gradient-guided Network with Noise Suppression for Underwater Image Enhancement.
CoRR, 2023
Point Clouds Are Specialized Images: A Knowledge Transfer Approach for 3D Understanding.
CoRR, 2023
IEEE Access, 2023
STFE-Net: A Spatial-Temporal Feature Extraction Network for Continuous Sign Language Translation.
IEEE Access, 2023
Proceedings of the 31st ACM International Conference on Multimedia, 2023
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, 2023
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, 2023
Improving Robustness of Single Image Super-Resolution Models with Monte Carlo Method.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, 2023
Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Digital Signal Processing, 2023
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2023
FactLLaMA: Optimizing Instruction-Following Language Models with External Knowledge for Automated Fact-Checking.
Proceedings of the Asia Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference, 2023
2022
Joint Spine Segmentation and Noise Removal From Ultrasound Volume Projection Images With Selective Feature Sharing.
IEEE Trans. Medical Imaging, 2022
IEEE Trans. Instrum. Meas., 2022
Implicit and Explicit Feature Purification for Age-Invariant Facial Representation Learning.
IEEE Trans. Inf. Forensics Secur., 2022
Deep Cross-Modal Representation Learning and Distillation for Illumination-Invariant Pedestrian Detection.
IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. Video Technol., 2022
Enhanced Attention Tracking With Multi-Branch Network for Egocentric Activity Recognition.
IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. Video Technol., 2022
Remote. Sens., 2022
IEEE Geosci. Remote. Sens. Lett., 2022
J. Vis. Commun. Image Represent., 2022
Visual-semantic graph neural network with pose-position attentive learning for group activity recognition.
Neurocomputing, 2022
Neurocomputing, 2022
NormAttention-PSN: A High-frequency Region Enhanced Photometric Stereo Network with Normalized Attention.
Int. J. Comput. Vis., 2022
CoRR, 2022
CoRR, 2022
Transformer-Graph Neural Network with Global-Local Attention for Multimodal Rumour Detection with Knowledge Distillation.
CoRR, 2022
CoRR, 2022
MGF6mARice: prediction of DNA N6-methyladenine sites in rice by exploiting molecular graph feature and residual block.
Briefings Bioinform., 2022
Proceedings of the MM '22: The 30th ACM International Conference on Multimedia, Lisboa, Portugal, October 10, 2022
Proceedings of the MM '22: The 30th ACM International Conference on Multimedia, Lisboa, Portugal, October 10, 2022
Proceedings of the Intelligent Information Processing XI, 2022
Angle Tokenization Guided Multi-Scale Vision Transformer for Oriented Object Detection in Remote Sensing Imagery.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2022
Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, 2022
A Hybrid Egocentric Activity Anticipation Framework via Memory-Augmented Recurrent and One-shot Representation Forecasting.
Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2022
2021
IEEE Signal Process. Lett., 2021
Signal Process. Image Commun., 2021
Balanced distortion and perception in single-image super-resolution based on optimal transport in wavelet domain.
Neurocomputing, 2021
IET Image Process., 2021
IET Image Process., 2021
Proceedings of the MM '21: ACM Multimedia Conference, Virtual Event, China, October 20, 2021
Self-feature Learning: An Efficient Deep Lightweight Network for Image Super-resolution.
Proceedings of the MM '21: ACM Multimedia Conference, Virtual Event, China, October 20, 2021
DA-GAN: Learning Structured Noise Removal In Ultrasound Volume Projection Imaging For Enhanced Spine Segmentation.
Proceedings of the 18th IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, 2021
Multimodal-Semantic Context-Aware Graph Neural Network for Group Activity Recognition.
Proceedings of the 2021 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, 2021
A New Semi-automatic Annotation Model via Semantic Boundary Estimation for Scene Text Detection.
Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, 2021
Structure-Enhanced Attentive Learning For Spine Segmentation From Ultrasound Volume Projection Images.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2021
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2021
Proceedings of the Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference, 2021
2020
Learning the Traditional Art of Chinese Calligraphy via Three-Dimensional Reconstruction and Assessment.
IEEE Trans. Multim., 2020
IEEE Trans. Ind. Electron., 2020
IEEE Trans. Ind. Electron., 2020
Progressive Motion Representation Distillation With Two-Branch Networks for Egocentric Activity Recognition.
IEEE Signal Process. Lett., 2020
Deeply learned pore-scale facial features with a large pore-to-pore correspondences dataset.
Pattern Recognit. Lett., 2020
Output based transfer learning with least squares support vector machine and its application in bladder cancer prognosis.
Neurocomputing, 2020
Neurocomputing, 2020
IEEE Multim., 2020
IEEE CAA J. Autom. Sinica, 2020
CoRR, 2020
See Clearly in the Distance: Representation Learning GAN for Low Resolution Object Recognition.
IEEE Access, 2020
Towards Accurate Pulmonary Nodule Detection by Representing Nodules as Points With High-Resolution Network.
IEEE Access, 2020
IEEE Access, 2020
Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Visual Communications and Image Processing, 2020
Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2020
Deep Multi-task Learning for Facial Expression Recognition and Synthesis Based on Selective Feature Sharing.
Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, 2020
Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, 2020
Proceedings of the 31st British Machine Vision Conference 2020, 2020
Proceedings of the Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference, 2020
2019
IEEE Trans. Cloud Comput., 2019
IEEE Signal Process. Lett., 2019
Signal Process. Image Commun., 2019
Pattern Recognit., 2019
Cascaded one-vs-rest detection network for fine-grained recognition without part annotations.
Multim. Tools Appl., 2019
J. Vis. Commun. Image Represent., 2019
IET Image Process., 2019
Appl. Soft Comput., 2019
An Accelerated Procrustean Markov Process Model With Coherent Constraint for Non-Rigid Structure From Motion.
IEEE Access, 2019
Multi-scale Capsule Attention-Based Salient Object Detection with Multi-crossed Layer Connections.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, 2019
Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, 2019
Deep Progressive Convolutional Neural Network for Blind Super-Resolution With Multiple Degradations.
Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, 2019
Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, 2019
Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, 2019
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2019
Proceedings of the 2019 Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference, 2019
2018
A Joint Framework for QoS and QoE for Video Transmission over Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks.
IEEE Trans. Mob. Comput., 2018
Pattern Recognit., 2018
Multim. Tools Appl., 2018
Saliency detection using quaternionic distance based weber local descriptor and level priors.
Multim. Tools Appl., 2018
Histogram-based local descriptors for facial expression recognition (FER): A comprehensive study.
J. Vis. Commun. Image Represent., 2018
Saliency detection based on background seeds by object proposals and extended random walk.
J. Vis. Commun. Image Represent., 2018
Integrating QDWD with pattern distinctness and local contrast for underwater saliency detection.
J. Vis. Commun. Image Represent., 2018
J. Vis. Commun. Image Represent., 2018
J. Electronic Imaging, 2018
Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE International Conference on Digital Signal Processing, 2018
Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2018
Proceedings of the Computer Vision - ECCV 2018, 2018
Proceedings of the Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference, 2018
2017
An output-based knowledge transfer approach and its application in bladder cancer prediction.
Proceedings of the 2017 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, 2017
Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, 2017
Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, 2017
Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, 2017
Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, 2017
Proceedings of the Computer Vision - Second CCF Chinese Conference, 2017
2016
IEEE Trans. Multim., 2016
IEEE Trans. Cybern., 2016
J. Electronic Imaging, 2016
Proceedings of the Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference, 2016
Saliency detection using quatemionic distance based weber descriptor and object cues.
Proceedings of the Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference, 2016
2015
Proceedings of the Encyclopedia of Biometrics, Second Edition, 2015
IEEE Trans. Image Process., 2015
Simultaneous Hallucination and Recognition of Low-Resolution Faces Based on Singular Value Decomposition.
IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. Video Technol., 2015
Undergraduate Students Compete in the IEEE Signal Processing Cup: Part 1 [sp Education].
IEEE Signal Process. Mag., 2015
Pattern Recognit., 2015
J. Vis. Commun. Image Represent., 2015
J. Vis. Commun. Image Represent., 2015
IEEE Comput. Intell. Mag., 2015
Prediction of mortality after radical cystectomy for bladder cancer by machine learning techniques.
Comput. Biol. Medicine, 2015
Proceedings of the 2015 Picture Coding Symposium, 2015
Proceedings of the Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference, 2015
Global face reconstruction for face hallucination using orthogonal canonical correlation analysis.
Proceedings of the Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference, 2015
Proceedings of the Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference, 2015
2014
Signal Process., 2014
A biased selection strategy for information recycling in Boosting cascade visual-object detectors.
Pattern Recognit. Lett., 2014
Multim. Tools Appl., 2014
Color correction with blind image restoration based on multiple images using a low-rank model.
J. Electronic Imaging, 2014
Illumination-insensitive texture discrimination based on illumination compensation and enhancement.
Inf. Sci., 2014
Inf. Sci., 2014
Using artificial neural network to predict mortality of radical cystectomy for bladder cancer.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Smart Computing, 2014
Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systemss, 2014
Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Pattern Recognition, 2014
Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, 2014
Salient-region detection in a multi-level framework of image smoothing with over-segmentation.
Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, 2014
Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, 2014
Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Digital Signal Processing, 2014
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2014
Segmentation-enhanced saliency detection model based on distance transform and center bias.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2014
Proceedings of the 36th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2014
2013
IEEE Trans. Image Process., 2013
Multiple-Kernel, Multiple-Instance Similarity Features for Efficient Visual Object Detection.
IEEE Trans. Image Process., 2013
Pattern Recognit., 2013
CoRR, 2013
FSAM: A fast self-adaptive method for correcting non-uniform illumination for 3D reconstruction.
Comput. Ind., 2013
Proceedings of the 16th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2013
Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Networks - ISNN 2013, 2013
Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Consumer Electronics, 2013
Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Consumer Electronics, 2013
Differentiating pancreatic mucinous cystic neoplasms form serous oligocystic adenomas in spectral CT images using machine learning algorithms: A preliminary study.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics, 2013
A Mass Spectra-Based Compound-Identification Approach with a Reduced Reference Library.
Proceedings of the Intelligent Computing Theories and Technology, 2013
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2013
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2013
Proceedings of the Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference, 2013
2012
Pattern Recognit. Lett., 2012
Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, 2012
Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Signal Processing and Communication Systems, 2012
Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Pattern Recognition, 2012
Combination of global and local baseline-independent features for offline Arabic handwriting recognition.
Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Pattern Recognition, 2012
Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2012
Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2012
Proceedings of the Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference, 2012
2011
From Local Pixel Structure to Global Image Super-Resolution: A New Face Hallucination Framework.
IEEE Trans. Image Process., 2011
IEEE Trans. Inf. Forensics Secur., 2011
Video-object segmentation and 3D-trajectory estimation for monocular video sequences.
Image Vis. Comput., 2011
Image Vis. Comput., 2011
Gabor-Feature Hallucination based on Generalized Canonical Correlation Analysis for face recognition.
Proceedings of the International Symposium on Intelligent Signal Processing and Communications Systems, 2011
Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, 2011
Color correction via robust reference selection and recovery using a low-rank matrix model.
Proceedings of the 18th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, 2011
Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Image and Graphics, 2011
2010
Complexity scalable control for H.264 motion estimation and mode decision under energy constraints.
Signal Process., 2010
J. Electronic Imaging, 2010
Proceedings of the Advances in Multimedia Information Processing - PCM 2010, 2010
Proceedings of the Advances in Multimedia Information Processing - PCM 2010, 2010
Proceedings of the Advances in Multimedia Information Processing - PCM 2010, 2010
Proceedings of the Advances in Multimedia Information Processing - PCM 2010, 2010
Proceedings of the International Conference on Image Processing, 2010
Proceedings of the International Conference on Image Processing, 2010
Proceedings of the International Conference on Image Processing, 2010
Proceedings of the International Conference on Image Processing, 2010
Proceedings of the Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems, 2010
2009
IEEE Trans. Syst. Man Cybern. Part B, 2009
Face detection using simplified Gabor features and hierarchical regions in a cascade of classifiers.
Pattern Recognit. Lett., 2009
J. Vis. Commun. Image Represent., 2009
Proceedings of the International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS 2009), 2009
Proceedings of the International Conference on Image Processing, 2009
Proceedings of the International Conference on Image Processing, 2009
2008
An Efficient Scene-Break Detection Method Based on Linear Prediction With Bayesian Cost Functions.
IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. Video Technol., 2008
Pattern Recognit. Lett., 2008
Pattern Recognit., 2008
Efficient rotation- and scale-invariant texture classification method based on Gabor wavelets.
J. Electronic Imaging, 2008
Image Vis. Comput., 2008
Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Control, 2008
A Novel Example-Based Super-Resolution Approach Based on Patch Classification and the KPCA Prior Model.
Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Security, 2008
2007
J. Vis. Commun. Image Represent., 2007
Proceedings of 5th Asia-Pacific Bioinformatics Conference, 2007
Proceedings of the 6th Annual IEEE/ACIS International Conference on Computer and Information Science (ICIS 2007), 2007
2006
Gabor-based kernel PCA with doubly nonlinear mapping for face recognition with a single face image.
IEEE Trans. Image Process., 2006
IEEE Trans. Image Process., 2006
Channel-adaptive error protection for streaming stored MPEG-4 FGS over error-prone environments.
IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. Video Technol., 2006
Pattern Recognit. Lett., 2006
J. Electronic Imaging, 2006
PromoterExplorer: an effective promoter identification method based on the AdaBoost algorithm.
Bioinform., 2006
Semi-supervised Learning based on Bayesian Networks and Optimization for Interactive Image Retrieval.
Proceedings of the British Machine Vision Conference 2006, 2006
Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Computer Graphics, 2006
2005
IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. Video Technol., 2005
Pattern Recognit. Lett., 2005
Pattern Recognit., 2005
TRECVID2005 Experiments in The Hong Kong Polytechnic University: Shot Boundary Detection Based on a Multi-Step Comparison Scheme.
Proceedings of the 2005 TREC Video Retrieval Evaluation, 2005
Proceedings of the International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS 2005), 2005
Proceedings of the International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS 2005), 2005
Proceedings of the Advances in Natural Computation, First International Conference, 2005
2004
Pattern Recognit. Lett., 2004
Rate control for MPEG-4 FGS coded video using piecewise rate distortion model.
Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, 2004
Proceedings of the 2004 International Conference on Image Processing, 2004
Proceedings of the Image Analysis and Recognition: International Conference, 2004
Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Control, 2004
2003
IEEE Trans. Image Process., 2003
IEEE Trans. Image Process., 2003
Signal Process. Image Commun., 2003
Pattern Recognit. Lett., 2003
Pattern Recognit., 2003
Pattern Recognit., 2003
Proceedings of the 2003 International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, 2003
An effieient algorithm for fractal image coding using kick-out and zero contrast conditions.
Proceedings of the 2003 International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, 2003
Proceedings of the 2003 International Conference on Image Processing, 2003
Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2003
2002
Robust Hausdorff distance for shape matching.
Proceedings of the Visual Communications and Image Processing 2002, 2002
Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, 2002
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2002
A new approach using modified Hausdorff distances with eigenface for human face recognition.
Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Control, 2002
Proceedings of the Image and Video Retrieval, International Conference, 2002
2001
IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. Video Technol., 2001
A novel approach for human face detection from color images under complex background.
Pattern Recognit., 2001
Pattern Recognit., 2001
Automatic Human Face Recognition System Using Fractal Dimension and Modified Hausdorff Distance.
Proceedings of the Advances in Multimedia Information Processing, 2001
Proceedings of the Advances in Multimedia Information Processing, 2001
Proceedings of the 2001 International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, 2001
Proceedings of the 2001 International Conference on Image Processing, 2001
2000
Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, 2000
Proceedings of the 2000 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, 2000
1999
Proceedings of the 1999 International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, ISCAS 1999, Orlando, Florida, USA, May 30, 1999
1998
An Analytic-to-Holistic Approach for Face Recognition Based on a Single Frontal View.
IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell., 1998
Comput. Vis. Image Underst., 1998
Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on Pattern Recognition, 1998
Proceedings of the 1998 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, 1998
1997
Proceedings of the Proceedings 1997 International Conference on Image Processing, 1997
Proceedings of the Image Analysis and Processing, 9th International Conference, 1997
1996
Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, 1996
1995
IEEE Trans. Signal Process., 1995
Pattern Recognit. Lett., 1995
1994
1993
Automatic generation of moment invariants and the use of higher order moments for character recognition.
Proceedings of the 1993 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, 1993
Transform-based fine-corase vector quantization.
Proceedings of the 1993 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, 1993