• PhD, CS, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, 1990

Journal Articles

Jesse Scott, John Challis, Robert T. Collins and Yanxi Liu, 2023, "Image-based Stability Quantification", IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, 31, pp. 564-573

Jesse Scott, Christopher Funk, Bharadwaj Ravichandran, John H Challis, Robert Collins and Yanxi Liu, 2020, "From Kinematics To Dynamics: Estimating Center of Pressure and Base of Support from Video Frames of Human Motion", arXiv preprint arXiv:2001.00657

Peter J. Kohler, Alasdair Clarke, Alexandra Yakovleva, Yanxi Liu and Anthony M. Norcia, 2016, "Representation of Maximally Regular Textures in Human Visual Cortex", The Journal of Neuroscience

Minwoo Park, Jiebo Luo, Robert Collins and Yanxi Liu, 2014, "Estimating the camera direction of a geotagged image using referenceimages", Pattern Recognition, 47, (9), pp. 2880–2893

S. Lee* and Yanxi Liu, 2012, "Curved Glide-Reflection Symmetry Detection", IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), 34, (2), pp. 266-278

I. Rauschert, K. Brocklehurst, S. Kashyap, J. Liu and Yanxi Liu, 2011, "First Symmetry Detection Competition: Summary and Results"

S. Lee and Yanxi Liu, 2011, "Curved Glide-Reflection Symmetry Detection", IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI)

S. Lee and Yanxi Liu, 2010, "Skewed Rotation Symmetry Group Detection", 32, (9), pp. 1659-1672

M. Park, K. Brocklehurst, R. Collins and Yanxi Liu, 2010, "Translation Symmetry-based Perceptual Grouping for Urban Scene Understanding"

Yanxi Liu, H. Hel-Or, C. S. Kaplan and L. Van Gool, 2010, "Computational Symmetry in Computer Vision and Computer Graphics: A Survey", Foundations and Trends in Computer Graphics and Vision, 5, (1-2), pp. 1-195

G. C. S. Ruppert, L. Teverovskiy, C. Yu, A. X. Falcao and Yanxi Liu, 2009, "A Quantitative Comparison Study of Neuroimage Midsagittal Plans Extraction Algorithms"

C. Yu, G. Ruppert, A. X. Falcao and Yanxi Liu, 2009, "Statistical Asymmetry-based Fully Automatic Brain Tumor Segmentation from 3D MR Images"

M. Park, K. Brocklehurst, R. Collins and Yanxi Liu, 2009, "Deformed Lattice Detection in Real-World Images using Mean-Shift Belief Propagation", IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), Special Issue on Probilistic Graphical Models, 31, (10), pp. 1804-1816

S. Lee and Yanxi Liu, 2009, "Symmetry-Driven Shape Matching"

A. Butt and Yanxi Liu, 2008, "Symmetry Group-based Categorization, Indexing, and Retrieval of Paper-cut Patterns"

B. Canada and Yanxi Liu, 2008, "Application of Computational Symmetry to Histology Images"

B. Canada and Yanxi Liu, 2008, "Application of Computational Symmetry to histology Images"

P.-C. Chen, J. Hays, S. Lee, M. Park and Yanxi Liu, 2007, "A Quantitative Evaluation of Symmetry Detection Algorithms"

O. Carmichael, L. H. Kuller, O. L. Lopez, P. M. Thompson, R. A. Dutton, A. Lu, S. E. Lee, J. Y. Lee, H. J. Aizenstein, C. C. Meltzer, Yanxi Liu, A. W. Toga and J. T. Becker, 2007, "Acceleration of Cerebral Ventricular Expansion in the Cardiovascular Health Study", Neurobiology of Aging, 28, (9), pp. 1316-1321

E. Chastain and Yanxi Liu, 2007, "Quantified Symmetry for Entorhinal Spatial Maps", Neurocomputing Journal, Special Issue, 70, (10-12), pp. 1723-1727

W.-C. Lin and Yanxi Liu, 2007, "A Lattice-based MRF Model for Dynamic Near-regular Texture Tracking", IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 29, (5), pp. 777-792

Yanxi Liu, X. Yang, M. Spivak and C. Bregler, 2007, "Symmetries of Dance"

O. Carmichael, L. H. Kuller, O. Lopez, P. M. Thompson, R. A. Dutton, A. Lu, S. E. Lee, J. Y. Lee, H. Aizenstein, C. Meltzer, Yanxi Liu, A. W. Toga and J. Becker, 2007, "Cerebral Ventricular Changes Associated with Transitions Between Normal Cognitive Function, Mild Cognitive Impairment, and Dementia", Alzheimer's Disease and Associated Disorders, 21, (1), pp. 14-24

S. Mittra, N. Lazar and Yanxi Liu, 2007, "Understanding the Role of Facial Asymmetry in Human Face Identification", Statistics and Computing, 17, pp. 57-70

O. Carmichael, L. H. Kuller, O. Lopez, P. M. Thompson, R. A. Dutton, A. Lu, S. E. Lee, J. Y. Lee, H. Aizenstein, C. Meltzer, Yanxi Liu, A. W. Toga and J. Becker, 2007, "Longitudinal Changes in Cerebral Ventricles in the Cardiovascular Health Study", Alzheimer's Disease and Associated Disorders

O. Carmichael, L. H. Kuller, O. L. Lopez, P. M. Thompson, A. Lu, S. E. Lee, J. Y. Lee, H. J. Aizenstein, C. C. Meltzer, Yanxi Liu, A. W. Toga and J. T. Becker, 2007, "Ventricular Volume and Dementia Progression in the Cardiovascular Health Study", Neurobiology of Aging, 28, (3), pp. 389-397

Conference Proceedings

Jesse Scott, Bharadwaj Ravichandran, Robert T Collins, Christopher Funk and Yanxi Liu, 2020, "From Image to Stability: Learning Dynamics from Human Pose (acceptance rate:26%)", 16th European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2020, Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, pp. 536-554

Jesse Scott, Robert Collins, Christopher Funk and Yanxi Liu, 2017, "4D Model-based Spatiotemporal Alignment of Scripted Taiji Quan Sequences", pp. 795-804

Christopher Funk and Yanxi Liu, 2017, "Beyond Planar Symmetry: Modeling human perception of reflection and rotation symmetries in the wild (acceptance rate: 2.6%)", pp. 793-803

Andrea Cohen, Martin R. Oswald, Yanxi Liu and Marc Pollefeys, 2017, "Symmetry-aware Facade Parsing with Occlusions", pp. 393-401

Mark Wolff, Robert Collins and Yanxi Liu, 2016, "Regularity Driven Facade Matching Between Aerial and Street Views (acceptance rate: 9.7%)", IEEE Computer Society, 2016 January, pp. 9

C. Funk and Yanxi Liu, 2016, "Symmetry reCAPTCHA", IEEE Computer Society

I.-Kao Chiang, Ian Spiro, Seungkyu Lee, Alyssa Lees, Jingchen Liu, Chris Bregler and Yanxi Liu, 2015, "Dancing with Turks (acceptance rate: 7%)", pp. 241–250

Jingchen Liu, Thommen Korah, Varsha Hedau, Vasu Parameswaran, Radek Grzeszczuk and Yanxi Liu, 2014, "Entrance Detection from Street-View Images", pp. 1

Jingchen Liu and Yanxi Liu, 2014, "Local Regularity-Driven City-Scale Facade Detection from Aerial Images", IEEE, pp. 3778–3785

Chen-Ping Yu, Guilherme C. S. Ruppert, Robert Collins, Dan T. D. Nguyen, Alexandre X. Falcao and Yanxi Liu, 2014, "3D blob-based brain tumor detection and segmentation in MR images", IEEE, pp. 1192–1197

J. Liu, P. Carr, R. Collins and Yanxi Liu, 2013, "Tracking Sports Players with Context-Conditioned Motion Models", Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2013), pp. 1830-1837

J. Liu, G. Slota, G. Zheng, Z. Wu, M. Park, S. Lee, I. Rauschert and Yanxi Liu, 2013, "Symmetry Detection from Real World Images Competition 2013: Summary and Results", Proceedings of the CVPR Workshop on Symmetry Detection Algorithm Competition, in conjunction with CVPR 2013, pp. 6

J. Liu, R. Collins and Yanxi Liu, 2013, "Robust Autocalibration for Surveillance Camera Network", Proceedings of the Workshop on the Applications of Computer Vision (WACV 2013), pp. 433-440

J. Liu*, S. McCloskey and Yanxi Liu, 2012, "Training Data Recycling for Multi-Level Learning", Proceedings of the Twenty-First International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2012), pp. 2314-2318

J. Liu*, S. McCloskey and Yanxi Liu, 2012, "Local Expert Forest of Score Fusion for Video Event Classification", Proceedings of the Twelfth European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2012), pp. 397-410

C. Yu*, G. Ruppert, D. Nguyen, A. X. Falcao and Yanxi Liu, 2012, "Statistical Asymmetry-based Brain Tumor Segmentation from 3D MR Images", Proceedings of the Fifth International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies (BIOSTEC 2012), pp. 527-533

J. Liu, R. Collins and Yanxi Liu, 2011, "Automated Surveillance Calibration Based on Pedestrian Height Distributions", Proceedings of the Twenty-Second British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC 2011), pp. 117.1-117.11.

G. Ruppert, L. Teverovskiy, C.-P. Yu, A. Falcao and Yanxi Liu, 2011, "A New Symmetry-based Method for Mid-sagittal Plane Extraction in Neuroimages", Proceedings of the Eighth International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI 2011), pp. 285-288

M. Park, K. Brocklehurst, R. Collins and Yanxi Liu, 2010, "Translational Symmetry-based Perceptual Grouping with Applications to Urban Scenes", Proceedings of the Tenth Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV 2010), pp. 329-342

M. Park, K. Brocklehurst, R. Collins and Yanxi Liu, 2010, "Image De-fencing Revisited", Proceedings of the Tenth Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV 2010)

J. Liu and Yanxi Liu, 2010, "Curved Reflection Symmetry Detection with Self-Validation. Proceedings of the Tenth Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV 2010)", Proceedings of the Tenth Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV 2010)

M. Park, J. Luo, R. T. Collins and Yanxi Liu, 2010, "Beyond GPS: Determining the Camera Viewing Direction of a Geotagged Image", Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Conference on Multimedia (ACM Multimedia 2010), pp. 631-634

J. Liu and Yanxi Liu, 2010, "Multi-Target Tracking of Time-varying Spatial Patterns", Proceedings of the Twenty-Third IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2010), pp. 1839-1846

M. Park, S. Kashyap, R. Collins and Yanxi Liu, 2010, "Data Driven Mean-Shift Belief Propagation For non-Gaussian MRFs", Proceedings of the Twenty-Third IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2010), pp. 3547-3554

S. Lee and Yanxi Liu, 2009, "Curved Glide Reflection Symmetry Detection", Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2009), pp. 1046-1053

M. Park, R. Collins and Yanxi Liu, 2008, "Deformed Lattice Detection via Mean-Shift Belief Propagation", Proceedings of the Tenth European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2008), pp. 474-485

B. A. Canada, G. K. Thomas, K. C. Cheng, J. Z. Wang and Yanxi Liu, 2008, "Automatic Lattice Detection in Near-Regular Histology Array Images", Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2008), pp. 1452-1455

B. A. Canada, G. K. Thomas, K. C. Cheng, J. Z. Wang and Yanxi Liu, 2008, "Towards Efficient Automated Characterization of irregular Histology Images via Transformation to Frieze-Like Patterns", Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR 2008), pp. 581-590

G. Schindler, K. Panchapagesan, R. Lublinerman, Yanxi Liu and F. Dellaert, 2008, "Detecting and Matching Repeated Patterns for Automatic Geo-tagging in Urban Environments", Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2008), pp. 7

S. Lee, Yanxi Liu and R. Collins, 2008, "Rotation Symmetry Group Detection via Frequency Analysis of Frieze-Expansions", Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2008), pp. 8

M. Park, S. Lee, S. Kashyap, P.-C. Chen, A. Butt and Yanxi Liu, 2008, "Performance Evaluation of State-of-the-Art Discrete Symmetry Detection Algorithms", Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2008), pp. 8

Yanxi Liu, J. Hays, R. Lublinerman and T. Belkina, 2008, "Image De-fencing", Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2008), pp. 8

M. Park, R. Collins and Yanxi Liu, 2008, "Efficient Mean Shift Belief Propagation for Vision Tracking", Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2008), pp. 8

L. Teverovskiy, J. Becker, O. Lopez and Yanxi Liu, 2008, "Quantified Brain Asymmetry for Age Estimation of Normal and AD/MCI Subjects", Proceedings of the Fifth IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro (ISBI 2008), pp. 1509-1512

S. Lee, Yanxi Liu and R. Collins, 2007, "Shape Variation-based Frieze Pattern for Robust Gait Recognition", Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2007), pp. 8

L. Teverovskiy, O. Carmichael, H. Aizenstein, N. Lazar and Yanxi Liu, 2007, "Feature-based vs. Intensity-based Neuroimage Registration: Comprehensive Comparison Using Mutual Information", Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro (ISBI 2007), pp. 1344-1347

Yanxi Liu, L. Teverovskiy, O. Lopez, H. Aizenstein, C. Meltzer and J. Becker, 2007, "Discovery of Biomarkers for Alzheimer's Disease Prediction from Structural MR Images", Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro (ISBI 2007), pp. 576-579

J. Zhang, J. Lou, R. T. Collins and Yanxi Liu, 2006, "Body Localization in Still Images Using Hierarchical Models and Hybrid Search", Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2006), pp. 1536-1543

W.-C. Lin, J. Hays, C. Wu, Yanxi Liu and V. Kwatra, 2006, "Quantitative Evaluation of Near Regular Texture Synthesis Algorithms", Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2006), pp. 427-434

J. Hays, M. Leordeanu, A. A. Efros and Yanxi Liu, 2006, "Discovering Texture Regularity as a Higher-Order Correspondence Problem", Proceedings of the Ninth European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2007), pp. 522-535

W.-C. Lin and Yanxi Liu, 2006, "Tracking Dynamic Near-regular Textures under Occlusion and Rapid Movements", Proceedings of the Ninth European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2007), pp. 44-55

J. Liu, V. Parameswaran, T. Korah, V. Hedau and Yanxi Liu, , "Building Entrance Detection from Streetside Imagery", Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2014), pp. 8

Manuscripts

Christopher Funk and Yanxi Liu, 2023, "EscherNet 101", pp. 1-16

Shimian Zhang, Skanda Bharadwaj, Keaton Kraiger, Yashasvi Asthana, Hong Zhang, Robert T Collins and Yanxi Liu, 2022, "Novel 3D Scene Understanding Applications from Recurrence in a Single Image", pp. 27

O. Carmichael, L. H. Kuller, O. Lopez, P. M. Thompson, R. A. Dutton, A. Lu, S. E. Lee, J. Y. Lee, H. Aizenstein, C. Meltzer, Yanxi Liu, A. W. Toga and J. Becker, , "Longitudal Changes in Cerebral Ventricles in the Cardiovascular Health Study", International Journal on Alzheimer's Disease and Associated Disorders

Other

B. McPheron, V. Crespi, R. Collins and Yanxi Liu, 2014, "Automatic Detection of Exploding Aggregates in a Colloidal Suspension", pp. 6

D. Koshy, C.-P. Yu, D. Nguyen, S. Kashyap, R. Collins and Yanxi Liu, 2011, "Supervised Machine Learning for Brain Tumor Detection in Structural MRI", pp. 1

E. Chastain and Yanxi Liu, 2006, "Quantified Symmetry for Entorhinal Spatial Maps", pp. 3

L. Teverovskiy and Yanxi Liu, 2006, "Truly 3D Midsagittal Plane Extraction for Robust Neuroimage Registration", pp. 4

O. Carmichael, P. Thompson, R. A. Dutton, A. Lu, S. Lee, J. Lee, L. Kuller, O. Lopez, H. Aizenstein, C. Cidis Meltzer, Yanxi Liu, A. W. Toga and J. Becker, 2006, "Mapping Ventricular Changes Related to Dementia and Mild Cognitive Impairment in a Large Community-based Cohort", pp. 4

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• Other, Mentor, Mentor for Women in Computer Vision Workshop (CVPR 2022), IEEE Computer Society/CVF, May 2022 - June 2022

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