Dacheng Tao

Dacheng Tao received the B.Eng. degree from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), the MPhil degree from the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), and the PhD degree from the University of London (Lon). Currently, he is an assistant professor with the Department of Computing in the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, is a visiting professor in the Xi'Dian University, and holds a visiting position at Birkbeck in Lon. His research interests include artificial intelligence, computer vision, data mining, geoinformatics, machine learning, multimedia, remote sensing, statistics, and visual surveillance. He has published more than 80 scientific articles extensively at IEEE TPAMI, TIP, TKDE, TMM, TCSVT, TSMC, CVPR, ICDM; ACM TKDD, Multimedia, KDD etc. with best paper award and nominations. Previously he gained several Meritorious Awards from the International Interdisciplinary Contest in Modeling, which is the highest level mathematical modeling contest in the world, organized by COMAP. He is an associate editor of Neurocomputing (Elsevier) and the Official Journal of the International Association for Statistical Computing -- Computational Statistics & Data Analysis (Elsevier). He authored/edited five books and seven special issues, including CVIU, PR, PRL, SP, and Neurocomputing. He (co-)chaired special sessions, invited sessions, workshops and conferences. He served for around 60 major international conferences including CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ICDM, KDD, and Multimedia, and around 20 top international journals including TPAMI, TOIS, TIP, TCSVT, TMM, TIFS, TSMC-B, Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU), and Information Science.

Publications

Semantic Mining Technologies for Multimedia Databases
Dacheng Tao, Dong Xu, Xuelong Li. © 2009. 550 pages.
Multimedia searching and management have become popular due to demanding applications and competition among companies. Despite the increase in interest, there is no existing book...