Yue Lu

• Editorial Board Member, Pattern Recognition

• Associate Editor, International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence

• Associate Editor, ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing

Pattern Recognition, Image Processing, Biometrics, Information Retrieval
Data Mining, Natural Language Processing, Machine Vision Systems

Papers in Refereed International Journals

1. Xiaohua Wei, Shujing Lu, Ying Wen, Yue Lu. Recognition of Handwritten Chinese Address with Writing Variations, 2016, Pattern Recognition Letters, 73(2016):68-75.

2. Shangxuan Tian, Ujjwal Bhattacharya, Shijian Lu, Bolan Su, Qingqing Wang, Xiaohua Wei, Yue Lu, Chew Lim Tan. Multilingual Scene Character Recognition with Co-occurrence of Histogram of Oriented Gradients. Pattern Recognition, 2016, 51(3):125-134.

3. Li Liu, Yue Lu, Ching Y Suen. Variable-length Signature for Near-duplicate Image Matching. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 2015, 24(4):1282-1296

4. Li Liu, Yue Lu, Ching Y Suen. Near-duplicate Document Image Matching: A Graphical Perspective. Pattern Recognition, 2014, 47(4):1653-1663.

5. Yue Lu, Xiaofu He, Ying Wen, Patrick S P Wang. A New Cow Identification System Based on Iris Analysis and Recognition. International Journal of Biometrics, 2014, 6(1):18-32.

6. Ying Wen, Lianghua He, Karen M von Deneen, Yue Lu. Brain Tissue Classification Based on DTI Using an Improved Fuzzy C-means Algorithm with Spatial Constraints. Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 2013, 31(9):1623-1630.

7. Shujing Lu, Li Liu, Yue Lu, Patrick S P Wang. Cost-Sensitive Neural Network Classifiers for Postcode Recognition. International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, 2012, 26(5):1-14.

8. Qiaoyu Sun, Yue Lu. Text Location in Scene Images Using Visual Attention Model. International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, 2012, 26(4):1-22.

9. Ying Wen, Yue Lu, Jingqi Yan, Zhenyu Zhou, Karen M von Deneen, Pengfei Shi. An Algorithm for License Plate Recognition Applied to Intelligent Transportation System. IEEE Trans. Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2011, 12(3):830-845.

10. Shujing Lu, Xiao Tu, Yue Lu. A Handwritten Bangla Numeral Recognition Scheme Based on Expanded Two-layer SOM, International Journal of Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications, 2011, 10(2):203-213.

11. Shiliang Sun, Yue Lu, Youguang Chen. The stochastic approximation method for adaptive Bayesian classifiers: towards online brain–computer interfaces. Neural Computing & Applications, 2011, 20(1):31-40.

12. Man Lan, Chew Lim Tan, Jian Su, Yue Lu. Supervised and Traditional Term Weighting Methods for Automatic Text Categorization, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2009, 31(4):721-735.

13. Shiliang Sun, Changshui Zhang, Yue Lu. The random electrode selection ensemble for EEG signal classification. Pattern Recognition, 2008, 41(5):1663-1675.

14. Yue Lu, Chunyu Xiao, Chew Lim Tan. Constructing area Voronoi diagram based on direct calculation of the Freeman code of expanded contours. International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, 2007, 21(5):947-960.

15. Ying Wen, Yue Lu, Pengfei Shi. Handwritten Bangla numeral recognition system and its application to postal automation, Pattern Recognition, 2007, 40(1): 99-107.

16. Yue Lu, Chew Lim Tan. Information retrieval in document image databases. IEEE Trans. Knowledge and Data Engineering, 2004, 16(11): 1398-1410.

17. Yue Lu, Chew Lim Tan. Chinese word searching in imaged documents. International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, 2004, 18(2): 229-246.

18. Yue Lu, Chew Lim Tan. A nearest-neighbor-chain based approach to skew estimation in document images. Pattern Recognition Letters, 2003, 24(14): 2315-2323.

19. Yue Lu, Chew Lim Tan. Document Retrieval from Compressed Images. Pattern Recognition, 2003, 36(4): 987-996.

20. Yue Lu, Chew Lim Tan. Combination of Multiple Classifiers Using Probabilistic Dictionary and Its Application to Postcode Recognition. Pattern Recognition, 2002, 35(12):2823-2832.

21. Yue Lu, Chew Lim Tan, Pengfei Shi, Kehua Zhang. Segmentation of handwritten Chinese characters from destination addresses of mail pieces. International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, 2002, 16(1):85-96.

Papers in Refereed Conference Proceedings

1. Qingqing Wang, Yue Lu, Ying Wen. Scene Text Detection Using Sequential Nontext Filtering. The 22nd International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP2015), Quebec City, Canada, September 27-30,2015.pp.1742-1746.

2. Shujing Lu, Xiaohua Wei and Yue Lu. Cost-sensitive MQDF Classifier for Handwritten Chinese Address Recognition. The 13th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2015), Nancy, France, August 23-26,2015. pp.76-80.

3. Yu-Jie Xiong, Ying Wen, Patrick S.P. Wang and Yue Lu. Text-independent Writer Identification Using SIFT Descriptor and Contour-directional Feature. The 13th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2015), Nancy, France, August 23-26,2015. pp.91-95.

4. Qingqing Wang, Yue Lu and Shiliang Sun. Text Detection in Nature Scene Images Using Two-stage Nontext Filtering. The 13th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2015), Nancy, France, August 23-26,2015. pp.106-110.

5. Shengchang Chen, Shujing Lu, Ying Wen and Yue Lu. Using Multiple Sequence Alignment and Statistical Language Model to Integrate Multiple Chinese Address Recognition Outputs. The 13th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2015), Nancy, France, August 23-26,2015. pp.151-155.

6. Shunyi Yao, Ying Wen and Yue Lu. HoG based Two-Directional Dynamic Time Wraping for Handwritten Word Spotting. The 13th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2015), Nancy, France, August 23-26,2015. pp.161-165.

7. Jiang Zhao, Man Lan, Zheng-Yu Niu, Yue Lu. Integrating word embeddings and traditional NLP features to measure textual entailment and semantic relatedness of sentence pairs. The 2015 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), Killarney, Ireland, July 12-17, 2015. pp.1-7

8. Li Liu, Yue Lu, Ching Y. Suen. Novel Global and Local Features for Near-duplicate Document Image Matching. The 22nd International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR2014), Stockholm, Sweden, August 24-28, 2014. pp.4624-4629

9. Shujing Lu, Xiaohua Wei, Yue Lu. Cost-sensitive Transformation for Chinese Address Recognition. The 22nd International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR2014), Stockholm, Sweden, August 24-28, 2014. pp.2897-2902

10. Li Liu, Yue Lu, Ching Y. Suen, Jinhua Xu. Modeling Local Word Spatial Configurations for Near Duplicate Document Image Retrieval. The 12th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR2013), Washington DC, USA, August 25-28,2013. pp.235-239.

11. Li Liu, Yue Lu, Ching Y. Suen. Document Image Matching Using Probabilistic Graphical Models. The Twenty-first International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR2012), Tsukuba, Japan, November 11-15, 2012. pp. 637–640.

12. You Ji, Shiliang Sun, Yue Lu. Multitask multiclass privileged information support vector machines. The 21st International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR2012), Tsukuba, Japan, November 11-15, 2012. pp.2323-2326.

13. Yu Xu, Man Lan, Yue Lu, Zheng Yu Niu, Chew Lim Tan. Connective prediction using machine learning for implicit discourse relation classification. The 2012 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN2012), Brisbane, Australia, June 10-15, 2012. pp.1-8.

14. Ying Wen, Lianghua He, Yue Lu. Discriminative common vectors based on the Gram-Schmidt reorthogonalization for the small sample size problem. The 37th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP2012), Kyoto, Japan, March 25-30, 2012. pp.1325-1328.

15. Li Liu, Yue Lu, Ching Y Suen. Retrieval of Envelope Images Using Graph Matching, The 11th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR2011), Beijing, China, September 18-21,2011. pp.99-103.

16. Yuan Chen, Yue Lu, Man Lan, Jian Su, Zhengyu Niu. A Semi-supervised Method for Classification of Semantic Relation between Nominals, International Conference on Asian Language Processing (IALP2010), Harbin, China, December 28-30, 2010. pp.146-149.

17. Qiaoyu Sun, Yue Lu, Shiliang Sun. A Visual Attention Based Approach to Text Extraction. The Twentieth International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR2010), Istanbul, Turkey, August 23-26, 2010. pp.3391-3394.

18. Xiao Tu, Yue Lu. Automatic English-to-Chinese Postal Mail Address Translation System. The 23rd International Conference on the Computer Processing of Oriental Languages (ICCPOL2010), Hotel Sofitel, Redwood City, San Francisco Bay, USA, July 1-3, 2010.

19. Xiaofu He, Yue Lu, Pengfei Shi. A New Fake Iris Detection Method. Third International Conference on Biometrics (ICB2009), Alghero, Italy, June 2-5, 2009. Advances in Biometrics, Massimo Tistarelli, Mark S. Nixon(Eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol.5558, pp.1132-1139.

20. Lihui Guo, Xin He, Yaxin Zhang, Yue Lu. Content-based retrieval of polyphonic music objects using pith contour. The 33rd IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP2008), Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Neveda, USA, March 30 - April 4, 2008. pp.2205-2208.

21. Shiliang Sun, Man Lan, Yue Lu. Adaptive eeg signal classification using stochastic approximation methods. The 33rd IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP2008), Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Neveda, USA, March 30 - April 4, 2008. pp.413-416.

22. Lihui Guo, Xin He, Yaxin Zhang, Yue Lu, Ke Peng. A Noise Robust Content-based Music Retrieval System for Mobile Devices, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME2007), Beijing, China, July 2-5, 2007. pp:2222-2225.

23. Shujing Lu, Chunyun Xiao, Yue Lu. A Hybrid Recognition Scheme Based on Partially Labeled SOM and MLP, The 18th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR2006), Hong Kong, August 20-24, 2006, vol.2, pp:800-803.

24. Lijun Zhou, Yue Lu, Chew Lim Tan. Bangla/English Script Identification Based on Analysis of Connected Component Profiles, IAPR Int. Workshop on Document Analysis Systems, Nelson, New Zealand, February 13-15, 2006, Document Analysis Systems VII, Larry Spitz, Horst Bunke (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3872, pp:243-254.

25. Yue Lu, Chew Lin Tan. Constructing Area Voronoi Diagram in Document Images, The 8th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR2005), Olympic Parktel, Seoul, Korea, August 31- September 1, 2005, pp:342-346.

26. Yue Lu, Zhe Wang, Chew Lim Tan. Word Grouping in Document Images Based on Voronoi Tessellation, IAPR Int. Workshop on Document Analysis Systems, Florence, Italy, September 8-10, 2004, Document Analysis Systems VI, Marinai, Simone; Dengel, Andreas (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3163, pp:147-157.

27. Yue Lu, Li Zhang, Chew Lim Tan. A Search Engine for Imaged Documents in PDF Files, The 27th Annual International ACM SIGIR, The 27th Annual International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Sheffield, UK, July 25-29, 2004. pp:536-537.

28. Li Zhang, Yue Lu, Chew Lim Tan. Italic Font Recognition Using Stroke Pattern Analysis on Wavelet Decomposed Word Images, The 17th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR2004), Cambridge, United Kingdom, August 23-26, 2004, vol.4, pp:835-838.

29. Yue Lu, Li Zhang, Chew Lim Tan. Retrieving Imaged Documents in Digital Libraries Based on Word Image Coding, First International Workshop on Document Image Analysis for Libraries (DIAL2004), Palo Alto, CA, USA, January 23-24, 2004, pp:174-187.

30. Yue Lu, Chew Lim Tan. Word Searching in CCITT Group 4 Compressed Document Images. The 7th International Conference on Docue Lu, Li Zhang, Chew Lim Tan. Retrieving Imaged Documents in Digital Libraries Based on Word Image Coding, First Internument Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR2003), Edinburgh, August 3-6, 2003, pp:467-471.

31. Yue Lu, Chew Lim Tan. Improved Nearest Neighbor Based Approach to Accurate Document Skew Estimation. The 7th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR2003), Edinburgh, August 3-6,2003, pp:503-507.

32. Yue Lu, Chew Lim Tan. Keyword searching in compressed document images. Data Compression Conference, Snowbird, Utah, March 25-27, 2003, pp:437.

33. Yue Lu, Chew Lim Tan, Word searching in document images using word portion matching. Fifth IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems, Princeton, New Jersey, USA, August 19-21, 2002, D. Lopresti, J. Hu, and R. Kashi(Eds.) Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 2423, pp:319-328.

34. Yue Lu, Chew Lim Tan, Word spotting in Chinese document images without layout analysis. International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR2002), Quebec City, Canada, August 11-15 2002, vol.3, pp:57-60.

35. Yue Lu, Chew Lim Tan, Liying Fan, Weihua Huang. Similarity Measure for CCITT Group 4 Compressed Document Images. International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP2001), October 7-10, 2001, Thessaloniki, Greece, pp:1118-1121.

36. Yue Lu, Chew Lim Tan, Weihua Huang, Liying Fan. An Approach to Word Image Matching Based on Weighted Hausdorff Distance. The 6th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR2001), September 10-13, 2001, Seattle, USA, pp:921-925.

37. Yue Lu, Pengfei Shi, Jianzhong Wu, Jianming Rui. An Implementation of postal numerals segmentation and recognition system for Chinese business letters. The 5th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR1999), September 20-22, 1999, Bangalore, India, pp:725-728.

    Honors & Awards

    • 2015“Science and Technology Progress Award” issued by Shanghai Municipal Government (First class)

    • 2014“Science and Technology Award” issued by China Post (First class)

    • 2013Leading Talent, Shanghai Municipal Government

    • 2012Excellent Technical Leader, Shanghai Municipal Government

    • 2011“Science and Technology Award” issued by China Post (First class)

    • 2010Specialist who enjoys the special government allowance granted by the State Council of China

    • 2010Outstanding Scientific and Technological Personnel, Ministry of Transport of China

    • 2010Leader of Outstanding Scientific and Technological Innovation Team for developing automatic letter sorting systems, Ministry of Transport of China

    • 2007“Science and Technology Award” issued by China Post (Second class)

    • 2005Selected for support by Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University, Ministry of Education

    • 2005Shanghai Dawn Scholar

    • 1998“Science and Technology Progress Award” issued by the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications(Third class)

    • 1997“Science and Technology Progress Award” issued by the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications(Third class)

    • 1995“Science and Technology Progress Award” issued by the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications(First class)