U.S. Patents

35 U.S. Patent Applications Filed and Pending from June 2013 to present in Big Geospatial Data Analysis and Visualization, Machine Learning, and Computer Vision (Details Available Upon Request)

U.S. Patent 8,953,838, Detection Ground Geographic Features in Images Based on Invariant Components, Xin Chen, Xiangheng Yang, 2015

U.S. Patent 8,896,686, Determining A Geometric Parameter from a Single Image, Xin Chen, Xiangheng Yang, Roger Hui, and Narayanan Alwar, 2014

U.S. Patent 8,854,453, Determining geographic position information from a single image, Xin Chen, Xiangheng Yang, Roger Hui, and Narayanan Alwar, 2014

U.S. Patent 8,761,435, Detecting geographic features in images based on invariant components, Xin Chen, 2014

U.S. Patent 8,699,755, Determining travel path features based on retroreflectivity, Matei Stroila, Xin Chen, Masha Kamali, Victor Lu, 2014

U.S. Patent 8,086,071, System and method for revealing occluded objects in an image dataset, Xin Chen and William Gale, 2010

 

Academic Publications

ACM SIG SPATIAL GIS CUP 2014: Constrained Generalization. Siva Ravada, Xin Chen, Zhi Liu, Xi Zhang, ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) 2014

Learning Synthetic Models for Roof Style Classification in Point Clouds. Xi Zhang, Gady Agam and Xin Chen, ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) 2014

Textured Mesh Generation of Extracted Regions from Urban Range-Scanned LIDAR Data. Alexandri Zavodny, Patrick Flynn and Xin Chen, Workshop on Hot Topics in 3D Multimedia in conjunction with IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) 2011

City-Scale Landmark Identification on Mobile Devices. David Chen, Georges Baatz, Kevin Koeser, Sam Tsai, Ramakrishna Vedantham, Timo Pylvanainen,kimmo Roimela, Xin Chen, Jeff Bach, Marc Pollefeys, Bernd Girod, Radek Grzeszczuk, IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2011

A Multimedia Approach to Visualize and Interact with Large Scale Mobile LIDAR Data. James Lynch, Xin Chen and Roger Hui, Technical Demo, ACM Multimedia 2010

Denoising vs. Deblurring: HDR Imaging Techniques Using Moving Cameras. Li Zhang, Alok Deshpande and Xin Chen, IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2010

Tag Dictionaries and Its Applications. Qingxiong Yang, Bing Jian and Xin Chen, Industrial and Technical Demo, ACM SIGMM International Conference on Multimedia Information Retrieval (MIR) 2010

Next Generation Map Making: Geo-referenced Ground-level LIDAR Point Clouds for Automatic Retro-reflective Road Feature Extraction. Xin Chen, Matei Stroila, Ruisheng Wang, Brad Kohlmeyer, Narayanan Alwar and Jeff Bach, ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) 2009

Region Extraction in Large-scale Urban LIDAR Data. Alexandri Zavodny, Patrick Flynn and Xin Chen, International Workshop on 3-D Digital Imaging and Modeling in conjunction with IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2009

Towards Next Generation Map Making. Xin Chen, Matei Stroila, James Lynch, Narayanan Alwar, Brad Kohlmeyer, Jeff Bach and Roger Hui, Media Information Analysis for Personal and Social Applications in conjunction with IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) 2009

Web 2.0 Dictionary. Qingxiong Yang, Gang Wang and Xin Chen (ranked 7th of the top 100 downloaded ACM SIGMM articles from July to October, 2008), ACM International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR) 2008

Face Recognition Using 2D, 3D, and Infra-Red: Is Multi-Modal Better than Multi-Sample? Kyong Chang, Kevin Bowyer, Patrick Flynn and Xin Chen, Proceedings of the IEEE 2006

Modeling the Human Face Through Multiple View Three-Dimensional Stereopsis: A Survey and Comparative Analysis of Facial Recognition Over Multiple Modalities. Xin Chen, PhD Dissertation 2006

Human Face Modeling & Recognition Through Multi-View High Resolution Stereopsis. Xin Chen, Timothy Faltemier, Patrick Flynn and Kevin Bowyer, Workshop on Biometrics in association with IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2006

Fusion of Infrared and Range Data: Multi-modal Face Images. Xin Chen, Patrick Flynn and Kevin Bowyer, International Conference on Biometrics 2006

Fully Automated Facial Symmetry Axis Detection in Frontal Color Images. Xin Chen, Patrick Flynn and Kevin Bowyer, IEEE Workshop on Auto ID Advanced Technologies (AutoID) 2005

IR and Visible Face Recognition. Xin Chen, Patrick Flynn and Kevin Bowyer, Journal of Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU) 2005

Multimodal Biometrics Using Facial Appearance, Shape, and Temperature. Kyong Chang, Kevin Bowyer, Patrick Flynn and Xin Chen, IEEE International Conference on Face and Gesture Recognition 2004

Evaluation of Multimodal Biometrics Using Appearance, Shape, & Temperature. Kyong Chang, Kevin Bowyer, Patrick Flynn and Xin Chen, Conference on Biometric Technology for Human Identification 2004

PCA-Based Face Recognition in Infrared Imagery: Baseline and Comparative Studies. Xin Chen, M.S. Thesis 2003

Visible-light and Infrared Face Recognition. Xin Chen, Patrick Flynn and Kevin Bowyer, Workshop on Multimodal User Authentication 2003

PCA-based Face Recognition in IR Imagery: Baseline and Comparative Studies. Xin Chen, Patrick Flynn and Kevin Bowyer, International Workshop on Analysis & Modeling of Faces and Gestures 2003