Selected Publications

Books

Face Processing:  Advanced Modeling and Methods, Eds. W. Zhao and R. Chellappa, Academic Press, 2006        

Unconstrained Face Recognition, S. Zhou, R. Chellappa, and W. Zhao, Springer, 2005        

Book Chapters

W. Zhao and R. Chellappa, A Guided Tour of Face Processing,  Face Processing: Advanced Modeling and Methods, Eds. W. Zhao and R. Chellappa,  Academic Press, pp. 3-53, 2006.

W. Zhao and R. Chellappa, Image Based Face Recognition, Issues and Methods,  Image Recognition and Classification , Ed. B. Javidi,  Mercel Dekker, pp. 375-402, 2002.

  W. Zhao, R. Chellappa, D. Swets, and J. Weng, “Discriminant Analysis of Principal Components for Face Recognition  Face Recognition: From Theory to Applications,  Eds.  H. Wechsler, P.J. Phillips, V. Bruce, F.F. Soulie and T.S. Huang, Springer-Verlag, pp. 73-85, 1998.

Journal Papers

W. Zhao and C. Zhang, "Efficient Scene-Based Nonuniformity Correction and Enhancement," Submitted to IEEE Transaction on Image Processing,

W. Zhao and A. Pope, "Image Restoration under Significant Additive Noise," IEEE Signal Processing Letters (to appear),

W. Zhao, "Flexible Image Blending for Image Mosaicing with Reduced Artifacts," International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, June 2006

J. Matey, K. Hanna, R. Kolczynski, D. Loclacono, S. Mangru, O. Naroditsky, M. Tinker, T. Zappia, and W. Zhao,"Iris on the Move: Acquisition of Images for Iris Recognition in Less Constrained Environments," Proceedings of the IEEE, (Invited Paper)

W. Zhao, D. Nister, and S. Hsu, "Alignment of Continuous Video onto 3D Point Clouds," IEEE Transaction on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence,Vol. 27, No. 8, pp. 1305-1318, 2005.

W. Zhao, R. Chellappa, J. Phillips, and A. Rosenfeld, “Face Recognition: A Literature Survey,” ACM Computing Surveys, pp. 399-458, 2003. (Also appeared as UMD Technical Report, CS-TR4167, 2000.  Revised 2002, CS-TR4167R: Title page; Paper)

 W. Zhao and R. Chellappa, “Symmetric Shape-from-Shading Using Self-ratio Image  Int. Journal Computer Vision., Vol, 45, pp. 55-75, 2001.

 W. Zhao, D. Bhat, J. Wang, N. Nandhakumar, and R. Chellappa,  “A Reliable Descriptor for Face Objects in Visual Content”,  Journal on Signal Processing: Image Communication.

W. Zhao, N. Nandhakumar and P.W. Smith, "Model-based Interpretation of Imagery of Textured Surfaces,"; Journal of Machine Vision and Applications, 10:201-213, 1997.

W. Zhao and N. Nandhakumar, " Effects of Camera Alignment Errors on Stereoscopic Depth Estimates," Journal of Pattern Recognition,  12:2115-2126, 1996.

Invited Talks/Lectures

W. Zhao, Alignment of Continuous Video onto 3D Point Coulds, Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ, Janurary 2006.

W. Zhao, Face Recognition: Pose and Illumination Problems, NSF-organized Advanced Study Workshop, Morgantown, WV, November 2005.

W. Zhao, Super-Resolution from Motion Video, Google, Mountain View, July 2005.

W. Zhao, Automatic Alignment for Enhanced Visualization, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Janurary 2005.

W. Zhao, Machine Recognition of Human Faces, 3rd Annual Emerging Information Technology Conference, Princeton, NJ, October 2003.

W. Zhao, Face Recognition: Promise and Challenge, 12th Annual Wireless & Optical Communication Conference, Newark, NJ, 2003.

W. Zhao, Robust Image Based 3D Face Recognition,AT&T Labs-Research, Feburary 2000.

W. Zhao, Subspace LDA Face Recognition System, Multimedia Seminar, EE Department, Princeton University, March 1999.

Tutorials

W. Zhao and Ming-Hsuan Yang, Advances in Face Processing: Detection and Recognition, International Conference on Pattern Recognition, 2004.

W. Zhao, Thomas Vetter, Sami Romdhani, Face Recognition and Modeling, European Conference on Computer Vision, 2004.

Double-Blind Reviewed Conference Papers

Z. Yue, W. Zhao, and R. Chellappa, "Pose-Encoded Spherical Harmonics for Robust Face Recognition Using a Single Image," In Proc. IEEE Int. Workshop on Analysis and Modeing of Faces and Gestures, Beijing, China, 2005.

W. Zhao, "Super-Resolving Compressed Video with Large Artifacts," Presentation Slides, (Best Industry Related Paper Award) In Proc. International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Cambridge, UK, 2004.

W. Zhao and H. Sawhney, "Is Super-Resolution with Optical Flow Feasible?” In Proc. European Conference on Computer Vision, Vol. I, 2002.

W. Zhao, H. Sawhney, M. Hansen, and S. Samarasekera, “Super-Fusion: A Super-Resolution Method Based on Fusion,” In Proc. International Conference on Pattern Recognition., 2002.

R. Wildes, D. Hirvonen, S. Hsu, R. Kumar, W. Lehman, B. Matei and W. Zhao, "Video georegistration: Algorithm and quantitative evaluation," In Proc. International Conference on Computer Vision, 343-350, 2001.

W. Zhao and R. Chellappa, "Illumination-insensitive Face Recognition using Symmetric Shape-from-Shading,'' In Proc. IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern. Recognition, 2000.

W. Zhao and R. Chellappa, "SFS Based View Synthesis for Robust Face Recognition," In Proc. International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition., 2000

W. Zhao, “Discriminant Component Analysis for Face Recognition,” In Proc. International Conference on Pattern Recognition, 2000.

W. Zhao, "Performance Perturbation Analysis of Eigen-Systems," In Proc. International Conference on Pattern Recognition,  2000.

W. Zhao, J. Wang, D. Bhat, K. Sakiewicz,  N. Nandhakumar, and W. Chang,  "Improving Color Based Video Shot Detection,” In Proc.  IEEE International Conference on  Multimedia Computing & Systems, 1999.

W. Zhao, R. Chellappa and N. Nandhakumar, "Empirical Performance Analysis of Linear Discriminant Classifiers,"  In Proc. IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition., pp. 164-169, 1998.

W. Zhao and N. Nandhakumar, "Linear Discriminant Analysis of MPF for Face Recognition," In Proc. International Conference on Pattern Recognition, pp. 185-188, 1998.

Other Major Conference Papers

W. Zhao, "Super-Resolution with Significant Illumination Change," International Conference on Image Processing, 2004.

W. Zhao, "Motion-based Spatial-Temporal Image Repairing," In Proc. International Conference on Image Processing, 2004. 

A. Gelbert, S. Bybee-Driscoll, J. Freeman, D. Watson, G. Fetzer, K. Hanna, and W. Zhao, “Signal Processing, image registration and visualization of FLASH LIDAR data,”  In Proc. Laser Radar Technology and Applications VIII conference at SPIE's 17th Annual AeroSense Symposium, 2003.

W. Zhao and M. Hansen, “Video Enhancement via Scintillation Removal  In Proc. International Conference on Multimedia & Expo, 2001.

W. Zhao and R. Chellappa, “3D Model Enhanced Face Recognition,” In Proc. International Conference on Image Processing, 2000.

W. Zhao and R. Chellappa, “Robust Image Based Face Recognition,” In Proc. International Conference on Image Processing, 2000.

P. Kalocsai, W. Zhao and  E. Elagin, "Face similarity space as perceived by Humans and Artificial Systems," In Proc.  International Conference on  Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, pp. 177-180, 1998.

Patents