Homepage of Yi Ma

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering [text only]

Ma, Yi

Associate Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Research Associate Professor
Decision & Control Group of Coordinated Science Laboratory
Image Formation & Processing Group of Beckman Institute

Mail: 145 Coordinated Science Laboratory
1308 W. Main St., Urbana, Illinois 61801
Email: yima@uiuc.edu; Tel: (217) 244-0871; Fax: (217) 244-2352
Assistant: Jana Lenz; 153 CSL
Email: janalenz@uiuc.edu; Tel: (217) 244-1654

Biography

Honors

Publications

Research

Services

Students

Talks

Teaching

Links:

Special issue of Proceedings of the IEEE: Sparse Representationa and Compressive Sensing.
Fall'08 new course: Sparse Representation and High-Dimensional Geometry.
Seminar website: Pattern Analysis and Machine Learning.
A recent essay by me: Warning Signs of Bogus Progress in Research.
Group website: Perception and Decision Laboratory.
Project website: Generalized Principal Component Analysis.
Project website: Clustering and Classification via Lossy Compression.
Project website: Face Recognition via Sparse Representation.

News & Events:

ABC News: Research Improves Recognition Software.
Wired.com: Engineeers Test Highly Accurate Face Recognition.
John Wright won $30K Lemelson Student Prize for Face Recognition.
John Wright is the winner of College of Engineering Outstanding Graduate Research Award 2009.
May 6-8, 2009, Plenary talk at Picture Coding Symposium, Chicago, USA.
May 18-22, 2009, Invited talk at Intl. Conf. Sampling Theory and Applications, Marseillle, France.
June 20, 2009, CVPR tutorial on Sparse Representation, Miami, USA.
August 20, 2009, Keynote speech at LNLA 2009, Helsinki, Finland.
August 24, 2009, Keynote speech at CVGIP 2009, Nantou, Taiwan.
September 28, 2009, ICCV workshop on Dynamical Vision, Kyoto, Japan.
October 5-7, 2009, ONR PI meetings at IMA, Minneapolis, USA.