About Me

Felix X. Yu (Xinnan Yu, officially) received his Bachelor's degree from Dept. of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, China, in 2010. He is now a third-year PhD student of Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University. His advisor is Prof. Shih-Fu Chang. Yu has a broad research interest in computer vision, machine learning, and multimedia. His work has been recognized by the ACM Multimedia 2011 Best Paper Award.

Research Interests

COMPUTER VISION:
    Attribute Based Image/Video Retrieval and Classification
    Dictionary and Feature Learning for Visual Recognition

MACHINE LEARNING:
    Learning with Weak Supervision
    Optimization for Kernel Methods
    Learning with Human Interactions

MULTIMEDIA:
    Computer Vision on Mobile Devices
    Location Based Vision Applications