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Prof. Dr.-Ing. Michael Yang
University of Twente
SUG - Scene Understanding Group
Assistant Professor
Hengelosestraat 99
Enschede
phone: +31 53 489 2916
fax: +31 53 487 4335
Michael Yang left the Institut für Informationsverabeitung.
Publications and research activities from the time after the departure are not listed here.

Email: yang(at)tnt.uni-hannover.de


Michael Ying Yang studied Communication Engineering at Sichuan University, China. From 2005 to 2008, he studied Communication and Information System at Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, where he received Ms.Eng. in 07/2008.

From 2008 to 2012, he was a Research Assistant at Department of Photogrammetry, Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformation, Universität Bonn. He was involved in the DFG project 'Semi-automatic generation of highly detailed textured building models', which is part of the Sino-German bundle project 'Interoperation of 3D Urban Geoinformation'. He received the Dr.-Ing. (summa cum laude) in 12/2011 with PhD thesis 'Hierarchical and Spatial Structures for Interpreting Images of Man-made Scenes Using Graphical Models'.

Since 05/2012, he works as PostDoc at the Institute for Information processing (TNT), Leibniz Universität Hanover. His research interests include multiple object tracking and cosegmentation, graphical models, and classification.



Research Interests

  • Probabilistic Graphical Models
  • Scene Understanding
  • Object Segmentation and Tracking
  • Digital Photogrammetry

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Projects
Helpful Use of Surveillance Cameras
Helpful Use of Surveillance Cameras
Object Segmentation
Object Segmentation
Relational Object Tracking
Relational Object Tracking
Video Segmentation
Video Segmentation
Object Segmentation
Publications
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  • Conference Contributions
    • Yuren Cong, Jinhui Yi, Bodo Rosenhahn, Michael Yang
      SSGVS: Semantic Scene Graph-to-Video Synthesis
      Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, 2023
      (Arxiv.org) BibTeX
    • Florian Kluger, Hanno Ackermann, Eric Brachmann, Michael Ying Yang, Bodo Rosenhahn
      Cuboids Revisited: Learning Robust 3D Shape Fitting to Single RGB Images
      CVPR, June 2021
      (Arxiv.org) BibTeX
    • Sen He, Wentong Liao, Michael Ying Yang, Yongxin Yang, Yi-Zhe Song, Bodo Rosenhahn, Tao Xiang
      Context-Aware Layout to Image Generation with Enhanced Object Appearance
      IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, June 2021
      (pdf) BibTeX
    • Wentong Liao, Cuiling Lan, Michael Ying Yang, Wenjung Zeng, Bodo Rosenhahn
      Target-Tailored Source-Transformation for Scene Graph Generation
      In CVPR Workshop on Multi-Sensor Fusion for Dynamic Scene Understanding, June 2021
      BibTeX
    • Cheng Hao, Wentong Liao, Xuejiao Tang, Michael Ying Yang, Monika Sester, Bodo Rosenhahn
      Exploring Dynamic Context for Multi-path Trajectory Prediction
      International Conference on Robotics and Automation , May 2021
      (pdf) BibTeX
    • He Sen, Liao Wentong, Hamed Rezazadegan Tavakoli, Michael Ying Yang, Bodo Rosenhahn, Nicolas Pugeault
      Image Captioning through Image Transformer
      Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV), IEEE, Kyoto, November 2020
      (pdf) BibTeX
    • Tongxin Hu, Vasileios Iosifidis, Liao Wentong, Zhang Hang, Michael Ying Yang, Eirini Ntoutsi, Bodo Rosenhahn
      FairNN - Conjoint Learning of Fair Representations for Fair Decisions
      23rd International Conference on Discovery Science, October 2020
      (pdf) BibTeX
    • Wentong Liao, Xiang Cheng, Jingfeng Yang, Stefan Roth, Michael Goesele, Michael Ying Yang, Bodo Rosenhahn
      LR-CNN: Local-aware Region CNN for Vehicle Detection in Aerial Imagery
      XXIV ISPRS Congress, International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS), No. 381, p. 8, Nice, September 2020, edited by N. Paparoditis, C. Mallet, F. Lafarge, F. Remondino, I. Toschi, T. Fuse
      (pdf) BibTeX
    • Hao Cheng, Wentong Liao, Yang Michael Ying, Monica Sester, Bodo Rosenhahn
      MCENET: Multi-Context Encoder Network for Homogeneous Agent Trajectory Prediction in Mixed Traffic
      23rd International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), IEEE, September 2020
      (pdf) BibTeX
    • Yuren Cong, Hanno Ackermann, Wentong Liao, Michael Ying Yang, Bodo Rosenhahn
      NODIS: Neural Ordinary Differential Scene Understanding
      European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), August 2020
      (Arxiv.org) BibTeX
    • Florian Kluger, Hanno Ackermann, Michael Ying Yang, Bodo Rosenhahn
      Temporally Consistent Horizon Lines
      International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Paris, France, June 2020
      (Arxiv.org) BibTeX
    • Florian Kluger, Eric Brachmann, Hanno Ackermann, Carsten Rother, Michael Ying Yang, Bodo Rosenhahn
      CONSAC: Robust Multi-Model Fitting by Conditional Sample Consensus
      Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Seattle, WA, USA, June 2020
      (Arxiv.org) BibTeX
    • Michael Ying Yang, Wentong Liao, Xinbo Li, Yanpeng Cao, Bodo Rosenhahn
      Vehicle Detection in Aerial Images
      Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing, 2019
      (pdf) BibTeX
    • Christoph Reinders, Hanno Ackermann, Michael Ying Yang, Bodo Rosenhahn
      Object Recognition from very few Training Examples for Enhancing Bicycle Maps
      2018 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV), June 2018
      (pdfArxiv.org) BibTeX
    • Michael Ying Yang, Wentong Liao, Yanpeng Cao, Bodo Rosenhahn
      Video event recognition and anomaly detection by combining gaussian process and hierarchical dirichlet process models
      Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing, 2018
      (pdf) BibTeX
    • Michael Ying Yang, Wentong Liao, Xinbo Li, Bodo Rosenhahn
      Deep Learning for Vehicle Detection in Aerial Images
      IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2018
      (pdf) BibTeX
    • Wentong Liao, Chun Yang, Michael Ying Yang, Bodo Rosenhahn
      Security Event Recognition for Visual Surveillance
      ISPRS Annals of Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing \& Spatial Information Sciences, Vol. 4, June 2017
      (pdfDOI) BibTeX
    • Wentong Liao, Michael Ying Yang, Ni Zhan, Bodo Rosenhahn
      Triplet-based Deep Similarity Learning for Person Re-Identification
      In ICCV Workshop on Multi-Sensor Fusion for Dynamic Scene Understanding, 2017
      (pdf) BibTeX
    • Saif Al-shaikhli, Michael Yang, Bodo Rosenhan
      Alzheimer's disease detection via automatic 3d caudate nucleus segmentation using coupled dictionary learning with level set formulation
      Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, 2016
      (DOI) BibTeX
    • Michael Yang, Saif Al-Shaikhli, Tao jiang, Cao Yanpeng, Bodo Rosenhahn
      Bi-layer dictionary learning for remote sensing image classification
      In International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2016
      (DOI) BibTeX
    • Wentong Liao, Yang Michael, Bodo Rosenhahn
      Video Event Recognition by Combining HDP and Gaussian Process
      IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) Workshop, pp. 19-27, Santiago, Chile, December 2015
      (pdf) BibTeX
    • Michael Yang, Matthias Reso, Jun Tang, Wentong Liao, Bodo Rosenhahn
      Temporally Object-based Video Co-Segmentation
      Advances in Visual Computing, The final publication is available at link.springer.com, Springer-Verlag, Las Vegas, NV, USA, December 2015
      (Springer) BibTeX
    • Wentong Liao, Bodo Rosenhahn, Yang Michael
      Gaussian Process for Activity Modeling and Anomaly Detection
      International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing ISA workshop, La Grande Motte, France, September 2015
      (DOI) BibTeX
    • Michael Yang, Tao Jiang, Saif Al-Shaikhli, Bodo Rosenhahn
      A Novel Dictionary Learning Method For Remote Sensing Image Classification
      International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), Milan, Italy, IEEE Xplore Digital Library, July 2015
      (DOI) BibTeX
    • Michael Yang, Wentong Liao, Bodo Rosenhahn, Zheng Zhang
      Hyperspectral Image Classification Using Gaussian Process Models
      International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), Milan, Italy, IEEE Xplore Digital Library, July 2015
      (pdf) BibTeX
    • Michael Ying Yang
      A Generic Probabilistic Graphical Model for Region-based Scene Interpretation
      International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications, accpeted for publication, March 2015
      (DOI) BibTeX
    • Wentong Liao, Jun Tang, Bodo Rosenhahn, Micheal Ying Yang
      Integration of Gaussian Process and MRF for Hyperspectral Image Classification
      Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event, IEEE, March 2015
      (pdf) BibTeX
    • Zheng Zhang, Michael Ying Yang, Mei Zhou
      Multi-source multi-scale hierarchical conditional random field model for remote sensing image classification
      ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences; PIA15+HRIGI15, accpeted for publication, Munich, Germany, March 2015
      (DOI) BibTeX
    • Michael Ying Yang, Yu Qiang, Bodo Rosenhahn
      A global-to-local framework for infrared and visible image sequence registration
      IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision, accpeted for publication, January 2015
      (DOI) BibTeX
    • Xuanyi Yong, Michael Yang, Yanpeng Cao, Bodo Rosenhahn
      Descriptor evaluation and feature regression for multimodal image analysis
      Machine Vision and Applications, 2015
      (DOI) BibTeX
    • Michael Yang, Tao Jiang, Saif Al-Shaikhli, Bodo Rosenhahn
      A novel dictionary learning method for remote sensing image classication
      In International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2015
      BibTeX
    • Saif Al-Shaikhli, Michael Yang, Bodo Rosenhahn
      Coupled Dictionary Learning for Multi-Label Brain Tumor Segmentation in Flair MRI images
      Advances in Visual Computing - 10th International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC), accepted for publication (oral presentation), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS 8887),Springer International Publishing Switzerland, pp. 489-500, USA, December 2014, edited by George Bebis et al
      (Springer) BibTeX
    • Michael Ying Yang, Sitong Feng, Bodo Rosenhahn
      Sparse optimization for motion segmentation
      ACCV Workshop on Video Segmentation in Computer Vision, November 2014
      (DOI) BibTeX
    • Saif Al-Shaikhli, Michael Ying Yang, Bodo Rosenhahn
      Brain Tumor Classification Using Sparse Coding and Dictionary Learning
      IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), accepted for publication (oral presentation)., IEEE Xplore Digital Library, pp. 2752-2756, France (Paris), October 2014
      (IEEEexplore) BibTeX
    • Yongsheng Zhou, Chuanrong Li, Lingling Ma, Michael Ying Yang, Qi Liu
      IMPROVED TRIHEDRAL CORNER REFLECTOR FOR HIGH-PRECISION SAR CALIBRATION AND VALIDATION
      International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IEEE, July 2014
      BibTeX
    • Zheng Zhang, Michael Ying Yang, Mei Zhou, Xiang Zhao Zeng
      SIMULTANEOUS REMOTE SENSING IMAGE CLASSIFICATION AND ANNOTATION BASED ON THE SPATIAL COHERENT TOPIC MODEL
      International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IEEE, July 2014
      (DOI) BibTeX
    • Michael Ying Yang, Xuanzi Yong, Bodo Rosenhahn
      Feature Regression for Multimodal Image Analysis
      CVPR Workshop on Multi-Sensor Fusion for Outdoor Dynamic Scene Understanding, accpeted for publication, June 2014
      (DOI) BibTeX
    • Michael Ying Yang, Bodo Rosenhahn
      Video Segmentation with Joint Object and Trajectory Labeling
      IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision, IEEE, March 2014
      (pdfDOI) BibTeX
    • Oliver Müller, Michael Y. Yang, Bodo Rosenhahn
      Slice Sampling Particle Belief Propagation
      IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), pp. 1129--1136, Sydney, Australia, December 2013
      (pdfDOI) BibTeX (paper page)
    • Yibo Guo, Michael Ying Yang, Bodo Rosenhahn
      INTERACTIVE MULTI-OBJECT TRACKING FOR VIRTUAL OBJECT MANIPULATION
      ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, ISPRS ISA13 - Image Sequence Analysis 2013, Antalya, Turkey, November 2013
      (pdfDOI) BibTeX
    • Michael Ying Yang
      Image Segmentation by Bilayer Superpixel Grouping
      Asian Conference on Pattern Recognition , accpeted for publication, Okinawa, Japan, November 2013
      (pdfDOI) BibTeX
    • Saif Al-Shaikhli, Michael Ying Yang, Bodo Rosenhahn
      Medical Image Segmentation Using Multi-level Set Partitioning with Topological Graph Prior
      PSIVT 2013 Workshops, Springer Lecture Notes on Computer Sciences (LNCS), pp. 157--168,, Springer, October 2013
      (Springer) BibTeX
    • Zheng Zhang, Michael Ying Yang, Mei Zhou
      MULTI-SOURCE HIERARCHICAL CONDITIONAL RANDOM FIELD MODEL FOR FEATURE FUSION OF REMOTE SENSING IMAGES AND LIDAR DATA
      International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, ISPRS Hannover Workshop 2013, pp. 389-392, Hannover, Germany, May 2013
      (pdfDOI) BibTeX
    • Michael Ying Yang, Wolfgang Förstner, Dengfeng Chai
      FEATURE EVALUATION FOR BUILDING FACADE IMAGES — AN EMPIRICAL STUDY
      International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences; Proc. of 22nd Congress of the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS), pp. 513-518, Melbourne, August 2012
      BibTeX
    • Dengfeng Chai, Wolfgang Förstner, Michael Ying Yang
      COMBINE MARKOV RANDOM FIELDS AND MARKED POINT PROCESSES TO EXTRACT BUILDING FROM REMOTELY SENSED IMAGES
      ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences; Proc. of 22nd Congress of the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) , pp. 365-370, Melbourne, August 2012
      (DOI) BibTeX
    • Michael Ying Yang, Wolfgang Förstner
      A Hierarchical Conditional Random Field Model for Labeling and Classifying Images of Man-made Scenes
      ICCV Workshop on Computer Vision for Remote Sensing of the Environment , IEEE, p. 196 – 203, 2011
      (pdf) BibTeX
    • Michael Ying Yang, Wolfgang Förstner
      Regionwise Classification of Building Facade Images
      Photogrammetric Image Analysis (PIA2011), p. 209 – 220, 2011
      (pdf) BibTeX
    • Yanpeng Cao, Michael Ying Yang, John McDonald
      Robust Alignment of Wide Baseline Terrestrial Laser Scans via 3D Viewpoint Normalization
      IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) , IEEE, pp. 455 - 462, 2011
      BibTeX
    • Michael Ying Yang, Yanpeng Cao, Wolfgang Förstner, John McDonald
      Wide Baseline Scene Alignment based on 3D Viewpoint Normalization
      International Conference on Advances in Visual Computing, Springer-Verlag, pp. 654 - 665, 2010
      BibTeX
    • Michael Ying Yang, Wolfgang Förstner, Martin Drauschke
      Hierarchical Conditional Random Field for Multi-class Image Classification
      International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISSAPP), pp. 464-469, 2010
      BibTeX
  • Journals
    • Florian Kluger, Eric Brachmann, Michael Ying Yang, Bodo Rosenhahn
      Robust Shape Fitting for 3D Scene Abstraction
      IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, March 2024
      (Arxiv.org) BibTeX
    • Yuren Cong, Michael Yang, Bodo Rosenhahn
      RelTR: Relation Transformer for Scene Graph Generation
      IEEE transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence (TPAMI), 2023
      (Arxiv.org, Github, DOI, IEEEexplore) BibTeX
    • Cheng Hao, Wentong Liao, Xuejiao Tang, Michael Ying Yang, Monika Sester, Bodo Rosenhahn
      AMENet: Attentive Maps Encoder Network for Trajectory Prediction
      ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Elsevier, Vol. 172, pp. 253--266, 2021
      (DOI) BibTeX
    • Michael Yang, Wentong Liao, Hanno Ackermann, Bodo Rosenhahn
      On support relations and semantic scene graphs
      Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensin (ISPRS), Vol. 131, pp. 15 - 25, July 2017
      (DOI) BibTeX
    • Saif Al-shaikhli, Michael Yang, Bodo Rosenhahn
      3D automatic liver segmentation using feature-constrained mahalanobis distance in CT images
      Biomedical Engineering / Biomedizinische Technik (BMT), 2016
      (DOI) BibTeX
    • Saif Al-shaikhli, Michael Yang, Bodo Rosenhan
      Brain tumor classification segmentation using sparse coding and dictionary learning
      Biomedical Engineering / Biomedi-zinische Technik (BMT), 2016
      (DOI) BibTeX
    • Michael Yang, Bodo Rosenhahn
      Superpixel cut for gure-ground image segmentation.
      In ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2016
      BibTeX
    • Saif Al-Shaikhli, Michael Yang, Bodo Rosenhahn
      3D Automatic Liver Segmentation Using Feature-Constrained Mahalanobis Distance in CT Images
      Biomedical Engineering / Biomedizinische Technik (BMT) Journal , De Gruyter, VDE, DGBMT, Karlsruhe, Germany, September 2015, edited by Olaf Dössel. (Impact Factor: 1.458)
      (DOI) BibTeX
    • Saif Al-Shaikhli, Michael Yang, Bodo Rosenhahn
      Brain Tumor Classification and Segmentation Using Sparse Coding and Dictionary Learning
      Biomedical Engineering / Biomedizinische Technik (BMT) Journal , De Gruyter, VDE, DGBMT, Karlsruhe, Germany, July 2015, edited by Olaf Dössel. (Impact Factor: 1.458)
      (DOI) BibTeX
    • W. Huang, X. Gong, Michael Ying Yang
      Joint object segmentation and depth upsampling
      Signal Processing Letters, IEEE, Vol. 22, No. 2, p. 192–196, 2015
      (DOI) BibTeX
    • Saif Al-shaikhli, Michael Yang, Bodo Rosenhahn
      Multi-Region Labeling and Segmentation Using a Graph Topology Prior and Atlas Information in Brain Images
      Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics Journal (CMIG), Elsevier, Vol. 38, No. 8, pp. 725-734, December 2014, edited by Stephen Wong, Ph.D., P.E. (Impact Factor: 1.588)
      (Link) BibTeX
    • Muhammad Shoaib, Michael Ying Yang, Bodo Rosenhahn, Jörn Ostermann
      Estimating layout of cluttered indoor scenes using trajectory based priors
      Image and Vision Computing, December 2014
      (DOI) BibTeX
    • Michael Ying Yang, Yanpeng Cao, John McDonald
      Fusion of camera images and laser scans for wide baseline 3D scene alignment in urban environments
      ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Vol. 66, No. 6, pp. S52-S61, 2011
      (pdf) BibTeX
    • Jörg Schmittwilken, Michael Ying Yang, Wolfgang Förstner, Lutz Plümer
      Integration of Conditional Random Fields and Attribute Grammars for Range Data Interpretation of Man-made Objects
      Annals of GIS, Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 117--126, 2009
      BibTeX
  • Book Chapters
    • Christoph Reinders, Hanno Ackermann, Michael Ying Yang, Bodo Rosenhahn
      Learning Convolutional Neural Networks for Object Detection with very little Training Data
      Multimodal Scene Understanding, Academic Press, 2019, edited by Michael Ying Yang, Bodo Rosenhahn and Vittorio Murino
      BibTeX
  • Technical Report
    • Wentong Liao, Lin Shuai, Bodo Rosenhahn, Michael Ying Yang
      Natural Language Guided Visual Relationship Detection
      Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, IEEE, 2019
      (pdf) BibTeX
    • Saif Al-Shaikhli, Michael Yang, Bodo Rosenhahn
      Automatic 3D Liver Segmentation Using Sparse Representation of Global and Local Image Information via Level Set Formulation
      Technical Report, arXiv, Subjects: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV), August 2015
      (Arxiv.org) BibTeX
    • Michael Ying Yang, Wolfgang Förstner
      Plane Detection in Point Cloud Data
      Department of Photogrammetry, University of Bonn, 2010
      BibTeX
Other activities

Professional Activities

  • Since 2009    Member of German Association for Pattern Recognition (DAGM)
  • 2012-2016    Secretary of ISPRS WG III/3 ‘Image Sequence Analysis’
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