Seattle

Jue Wang
Research Scientist

I am a researcher in the Advanced Technology Labs at Adobe. My primary research interests include computational photography and video, image and video processing, advanced computer graphics and vision techniques for better user experiences. Recently I am most interested in online graphics and vision applications.

 I received my Ph.D. from the University of Washington at Seattle in October 2007, where I spent four years and enjoyed both my research and the great northwest very much. While in school I primarily worked with Michael Cohen at Microsoft Research, on a variety of projects related to foreground segmentation, matting , and stylization in images and video. Before joining UW I received both my bachelor and master degrees from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.

Beside Adobe and UW, I spent 2004, 2005 and 2006 summers at Microsoft Research Redmond working as a research intern. I also worked as an intern from 2002 to 2003 at Microsoft Research Asia.

More about me and my work

Recent projects

• Video SnapCut : robust video object cutout using localized classifiers
• Creating map-based storyboards for browsing tour videos

tech transfers

• New color range selection in Photoshop CS4
• Automatic skin tone generation for content-aware resizing in Photoshop CS4

Publications

• Bai X., Wang J., Simons D., Sapiro G. 2009. Video SnapCut: Robust Video Object Cutout Using Localized Classifiers. To appear in ACM SIGGRAPH 2009.
• Rhemann C., Rother C., Wang J., Gelautz M., Kohli P. and Rott P. 2009. A Perceptually Motivated Online Benchmark for Image Matting. IEEE CVPR 2009.
• Pongnumkul S., Wang J. and Cohen M. 2008. Creating Map-based Storyboards for Browsing Tour Videos. ACM UIST 2008.
• Wang, J. and Cohen, M. 2007. Image and Video Matting: A Survey.  Foundations and Trends in Computer Graphics and Vision, Vol. 3, No.2, 2007.
• Wang, Jue 2007. Foreground segmentation in images and video: methods, systems and applications, PhD Thesis, University of Washington.
• Wang, J., Agrawala, M., and Cohen, M. 2007. Soft scissors: an interactive tool for realtime high quality matting. ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH), 25(3), 1–6.
• Wang, J. and Cohen, M. 2007. Optimized color sampling for robust matting. In Proc. IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 1–8.
• Wang, J. and Cohen, M. 2007. Simultaneous matting and compositing. In Proc. IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 1–8.
• Wang, J. and Cohen, M. 2007. Discriminative gaussian mixtures for interactive image segmentation. In Proc. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 601–604.
• Wang, J., Drucker, S., Agrawala, M., and Cohen, M. 2006. The cartoon animation filter. ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH), 25(3), 1169–1173.
• Wang, J., Bhat, P., Colburn, A., Agrawala, M., and Cohen, M. 2005. Interactive video cutout. ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH), 24(3), 585–594.
• Wang, J. and Cohen, M. 2005. An iterative optimization approach for unified image segmentation and matting. In Proc. International Conference on Computer Vision, 936–943.
• Wang, J. and Cohen, M. 2005. Very low frame-rate video streaming for face-to-face teleconference. In Proc. IEEE Data Compression Conference, 309–318.
• Wang, J., Wu, C., Xu, Y., and Shum, H. 2007. Combining shape and physical models for on-line cursive handwriting synthesis. International Journal of Document Analysis and Recognition, 7(4), 219–227.
• Wang, J., Xu, Y., Shum, H., and Cohen, M. F. 2004. Video tooning. ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH), 23(3), 574–583.
• Wang, J. and Cohen, M. 2004. Image and video segmentation by anisotropic kernel mean shift. In Proc. European Conference on Computer Vision, 238–249.
• Wang, J., Ji, L., and Ma, H. 2004. Tracking deforming aortas in two-photon autofluorescence image sequences and its application on quantitative evaluation of aorta-related drugs. Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics, 28(1), 51–59.
• Wang, J., Ji, L., and Ma, H. 2003. Reconstruction of deforming aortas in two-photon autofluorescence image sequences. Applied Optics, 42(5), 834–844.
• Wang, J., Wu, C., Xu, Y., Shum, H., and Ji, L. 2002. Learning based cursive handwriting synthesis. In Proc. Eighth International Workshop on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, 1–6.