Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Laboratory

Wei-Bang Chen, Chengcui Zhang, and Hua Zhong, “An Unsupervised Protein Sequences Clustering Algorithm Using Functional Domain Information,” accepted for publication, Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration, July 13-15, 2008, Las Vegas, NV, USA.

Chengcui Zhang, Wei-Bang Chen, Wen-Lin Liu, and Chi-Bang Chen, “An Automated Bacterial Colony Counting System,” accepted for publication, Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Sensor Networks, Ubiquitous, and Trustworthy Computing, June 11-13, 2008, Taichung, Taiwan.

Liping Zhou, Dezheng Zhang, Xin Chen, and Chengcui Zhang, “A Method for Semantics-based Conceptual Expansion of Ontology,” Proceedings of the 2008 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, pp. 1583-1587, March 16-24, 2008, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil (Acceptance Rate: 28%).

Chun Wei, A.P. Sprague, G. Warner, “Detection of network blocks used by the Stormworm botnet,” In proceedings of ACM Southeast Conference, 2008.

Chun Wei, A.P. Sprague, Gary Warner and A. Skjellum, “Mining Spam email to identify common origins for forensic applications,” in proceedings of ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC), pg. 1432-1436, 2008.

Chengcui Zhang, Xin Chen, and Wei-Bang Chen, “An Online Multiple Instance Learning System for Semantic Image Retrieval,” Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia, pp. 83-84, December 10-12, Taichung, Taiwan.

Ying Liu, Xin Chen, Chengcui Zhang, and Alan Sprague, “Semantic Clustering for Region-based Image Retrieval,” Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE International Workshop on Advances in Multimedia, in conjunction with 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia, pp. 167-162, December 10-12, Taichung, Taiwan.

Min Chen, Chengcui Zhang, and Shu-Ching Chen, “Semantic Event Extraction Using Neural Network Ensembles,” Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE International Workshop on Semantic Computing and Multimedia Systems, in conjunction with the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing, pp. 575-580, September 17-19, Irvine, CA, USA.

Chengcui Zhang and Wei-Bang Chen, “An Effective and Robust Method for Automatic Bacterial Colony Enumeration,” Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE International Workshop on Semantic Computing and Multimedia Systems, in conjunction with the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing, pp. 581-588, September 17-19, Irvine, CA, USA.

Xin Chen and Chengcui Zhang, “Interactive Mining and Semantic Retrieval of Videos,” Proceedings of the 2007 International Workshop on Multimedia Data Mining (MDM/KDD2007), in conjunction with the ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining, August 12, 2007, San Jose, CA, USA.

Xin Chen, Chengcui Zhang, and Wei-Bang Chen, “A Multiple Instance Learning Framework for Incident Retrieval in Transportation Surveillance Video Databases,” IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Databases and Data Management (MDDM), in conjunction with IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2007), pp. 75-84, April 15-20, 2007, Istanbul, Turkey.

Wei-Bang Chen, Chengcui Zhang, and Wei-Lin Liu, “An Automatic and Robust Method for Microarray Image Analysis and the Related Information Retrieval for Microarray Databases,” IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Databases and Data Management (MDDM), in conjunction with IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2007), pp. 85-94, April 15-20, 2007, Istanbul, Turkey.

Lin Yang, John Johnstone, and Chengcui Zhang, “A Multi-camera Approach to Vehicle Tracking based on Feature,” Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia, pp. 79-80, December 10-12, 2007, Taichung, Taiwan.

Wei-Bang Chen, Chengcui Zhang, Wen-Lin Liu, and Richa Tiwari, “MIA: A UIMA-Based Microarray Image Analysis System,” Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia, pp. 85-86, December 10-12, Taichung, Taiwan.

Wei-Bang Chen and Chengcui Zhang, “MIA: An Effective and Robust Microarray Image Analysis System with Unstructured Information Management Architecture,” Proceedings of 2007 IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration, pp. 423-428, August 13-15, 2007, Las Vegas, NV, USA.

Chengcui Zhang, Wei-Bang Chen, Lin Yang, and Xin Chen, “Detection of Leukocytes from In vivo Videos,” Proceedings of 2007 IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Pervasive Computing, pp. 68-71, October 11-13, 2007, Jeju Island, Korea.

Xin Chen and Chengcui Zhang, “Incident Retrieval in Transportation Surveillance Videos - An Interactive Framework,” 2007 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, pp. 2186-2189, July 2-5, 2007, Beijing, China.

Jianhua Yan, Keqi Zhang, Chengcui Zhang, et al. “A Graph Reduction Method for 2D Snake Problems,” Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR07), June 18-23, 2007, Minneapolis, MN, USA. (Poster. Acceptance Rate: 28%)

Wei-Bang Chen and Chengcui Zhang, “Biological Sequence Clustering and Classification with a Hybrid Method and Dynamic Programming,” 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Bioinformatics and Life Science Computing (BLSC-07), pp. 684-689, May 21-23, 2007, Niagara Falls, Canada.

Xin Chen and Chengcui Zhang, “Vehicle Classification from Traffic Surveillance Videos at a Finer Granularity,” the 2007 ACMSIGMM International Multimedia Modeling Conference (MMM07), January 9-12, 2007, pp. 772-781, Singapore.

Shu-Ching Chen, Min Chen, Chengcui Zhang, and Mei-Ling Shyu, “Exciting Event Detection using Multi-level Multimodal Descriptors and Data Classification,” the 2006 IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia, pp. 193-200, December 11-13, 2006, San Diego, California, USA.

Xin Chen and Chengcui Zhang, “An Interactive Semantic Video Mining and Retrieval Platform - Application in Transportation Surveillance Video for Incident Detection,” the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), pp. 129-138, December 18-22, 2006, Hong Kong, China. (Acceptance rate of regular paper < 10%, best paper nomination)

Xin Anders, Chengcui Zhang, and Hong Yuan, “Automatic Intravital Video Mining of Rolling and Adhering Leukocytes,” the 2006 International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA'06), special session on Machine Learning Applications in Medicine and Biology, pp. 174-179, December 14-16, 2006, Orlando, Florida, USA.

Wei-Bang Chen and Chengcui Zhang, “A Robust Method for Biological Sequence Clustering,” IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IEEE IRI-2006), pp. 286-291, September 16-18, 2006, Waikoloa, Hawaii, USA.

Xin Chen and Chengcui Zhang, “A Spatio-Temporal Database Model on Transportation Surveillance Videos,” the 3rd workshop on Spatio-Temporal Database Management, in conjunction with VLDB06, pp. 17-24, September 11, 2006, Seoul, Korea.

Chengcui Zhang, Xin Chen, and Wei-Bang Chen, “A PCA-based Vehicle Classification Framework,” IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Databases and Data Management (MDDM), in conjunction with IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2006), April 8, 2006, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. (Acceptance Rate: 41%)

Wei-Bang Chen, Chengcui Zhang, and Wen-Lin Liu, “An Automated Gridding and Segmentation Method for cDNA Microarray Image Analysis,” the 19th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems, pp. 893- 898, June 22-23, 2006, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.

Ying Liu, Xin Chen, Chengcui Zhang, and Alan Sprague, “An Interactive Region-based Image Clustering and Retrieval Platform,” IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME 2006), pp. 929-932, July 9-12, 2006, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. (Selected for oral presentation: selection rate 20%)

Y. Chen, K.D. Reilly and A.P. Sprague, “SEQOPTICS:a protein sequence clustering method,” in proceedings of International Multi-symposium on Computer Science, vol1, pg. 69-75, 2006

Xin Chen, Chengcui Zhang, Shu-Ching Chen, and Min Chen, “A Latent Semantic Indexing Based Method for Solving Multiple Instance Learning Problem in Region-based Image Retrieval,” IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM 2005), pp. 37-44, December 12-14, 2005, Irvine, California, USA. (Alabama IEEE Best Paper of 2005 and 2006 Award 2^nd place)

Chengcui Zhang and Xin Chen, “OCRS: An Interactive Object-based Image Clustering and Retrieval System,” Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Multimedia Data Mining (MDM/KDD 2005), in conjunction with the ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining, pp. 71-78, August 21, Chicago, USA. (Acceptance rate of regular paper: 50%)

Chengcui Zhang, Xin Chen, Min Chen, Shu-Ching Chen, and Mei-Ling Shyu, “A Multiple Instance Learning Approach for Content Based Image Retrieval Using One-Class Support Vector Machine,” IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME), July 6-8, 2005, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. (Selected for oral presentation: selection rate 22%)

Chengcui Zhang and Xin Chen, “Region-based Image Clustering and Retrieval Using Multiple Instance Learning,” ACM SIGIR International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval, pp. 194-204, July 20-22, 2005, Singapore. (Selected for oral presentation: selection rate: 15.6%)

Mei-Ling Shyu, Shu-Ching Chen, Min Chen, and Chengcui Zhang, “Affinity Relation Discovery in Image Database Clustering and Content-based Retrieval,” ACM Multimedia 2004 Conference, pp. 372-375, October 10-16, New York, USA.

Mei-Ling Shyu, Shu-Ching Chen, Min Chen, and Chengcui Zhang, “A Unified Framework for Image Database Clustering and Content-based Retrieval,” the Second ACM International Workshop on Multimedia Databases (ACM MMDB 2004), pp. 19-27, November 13, 2004, Arlington, VA, USA.

A.P. Sprague, “On The Computational Complexity of Two Frequent Set Generation Algorithms,” Proceedings of Intl. Conf. Machine Learning & Appl. (ICMLA) , pages 344-350, 2004.

D. Liu, A.P. Sprague, and J. Gray. “PolyCluster: An Interactive Visualization Approach to Construct Classification Rules,” Proceedings of Intl. Conf. Machine Learning & Appl. (ICMLA) , pages 280-287, 2004

Y. Liu and A.P. Sprague, “Outlier Detection and Evaluation by Network Flow,” Proceedings of Intl. Conf. Machine Learning & Appl. (ICMLA) , pages 436-442, 2004.[pdf][poster]

D. Liu and A.P. Sprague, “Mining Multi-dimensional Data with Visualization Techniques,” In Lecture Notes on C.S. (Pacific Rim Intl. Conf. on A.I.: PRICAI), volume 3157 pages 934-935, 2004.

D. Liu, A.P. Sprague, and J. Gray, “Dynamically Constructing Classification Rules with Visualization Techniques,” Proceedings of International Conference on Inf. and Knowledge Engg. (IKE), pages 126-131, 2004.

Y. Chen, A.P.Sprague, and K.D. Reilly, “MABAC - Matrix Based Clustering Algorithm,” Proceedings of International Conference on Algorithmic Math. and C. S. (AMCS), pages 439-443, 2004.

J. Fisher and A.P. Sprague, “Anchors: A Technique of Pre-classification and Its Effects on Hidden Markov Models,” Proceedings of ACM Southeast Conference, pages 234-239, 2004.

Y. Chen and A.P. Sprague, “Exploration on the commonality of hierarchical clustering algorithms,” Proceedings of ACM Southeast Conference, pages 246-247, 2004.

Y. Liu, A.P. Sprague, and E. Lefkowitz, “Network flow for outlier detection,” Proceedings of ACM Southeast Conference, pages 402-403, 2004.

F. Javed, B.R. Bryant, M. Crepinsek, M. Mernik, and A.P. Sprague, “Context-free grammar induction using genetic programming,” Proceedings of ACM Southeast Conference, pages 404-405, 2004.

D. Liu, A.P. Sprague, and U. Manne, “An interactive tool for data mining visualization,” Proceedings of ACM Southeast Conference , pages 442-447, 2004.

Shu-Ching Chen, Shahid Hamid, Sneh Gulati, Na Zhao, Min Chen, Chengcui Zhang, and Paresh Gupta, “A Reliable Web-based System for Hurricane Analysis and Simulation,” IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics 2004, pp. 5215-5220, October 10-13, 2004, Hague, The Netherlands.

Chengcui Zhang, Shu-Ching Chen, and Mei-Ling Shyu, “Multiple Object Retrieval for Image Databases Using Multiple Instance Learning and Relevance Feedback,” IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2004), June 27 - June 30, 2004, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.

Shu-Ching Chen, Mei-Ling Shyu, Min Chen, and Chengcui Zhang, “A Decision Tree-based Multimodal Data Mining Framework for Soccer Goal Detection,” IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2004), June 27 - June 30, 2004, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.

Chengcui Zhang, Shu-Ching Chen, Mei-Ling Shyu, “PixSO: A System for Video Shot Detection,” Proceedings of the Fourth IEEE Pacific-Rim Conference On Multimedia, pp. 1-5, December 15-18, 2003, Singapore.

Chengcui Zhang, Shu-Ching Chen, Mei-Ling Shyu, Srinivas Peeta, “Adaptive Background Learning for Vehicle Detection and Spatio-Temporal Tracking,” Proceedings of the Fourth IEEE Pacific-Rim Conference On Multimedia, pp. 1-5, December 15-18, 2003, Singapore.

Shu-Ching Chen, Mei-Ling Shyu, Chengcui Zhang, Lin Luo, Min Chen, “Detection of Soccer Goal Shots Using Joint Multimedia Features and Classification Rules,” Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Multimedia Data Mining (MDM/KDD 2003), in conjunction with the ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining, pp. 36-44, August 24 - 27, 2003, Washington, DC, USA.

Mei-Ling Shyu, Shu-Ching Chen, Min Chen, Chengcui Zhang, Kanoksri Sarinnapakorn, “Image Database Retrieval Utilizing Affinity Relationships,” Proceedings of the First ACM International Workshop on Multimedia Databases (ACM MMDB 2003), pp. 78-85, November 7, 2003, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.

Shu-Ching Chen, Mei-Ling Shyu, Na Zhao, Chengcui Zhang, “Component-Based Design and Integration of a Distributed Multimedia Management System,” Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IRI 2003), pp. 485-492, October 27-29, 2003, in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.

Shu-Ching Chen, Mei-Ling Shyu, Chengcui Zhang, et al., “Damage Pattern Mining in Hurricane Image Databases,” Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IRI 2003), pp. 227-234, October 27-29, 2003, in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.

Shu-Ching Chen, Shahid Hamid, Sneh Gulati, Guo Chen, Xin Huang, Lin Luo, Chengjun Zhan, Chengcui Zhang (Authors are listed in alphabetical order by their last names), “Information Reuse and System Integration in the Development of a Hurricane Simulation System,” Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IRI'2003), pp. 535-542, October 27-29, 2003, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.

Mei-Ling Shyu, Shu-Ching Chen, Min Chen, Chengcui Zhang, and Chi-Min Shu, “MMM: A Stochastic Mechanism for Image Database Queries,” Proceedings of IEEE Fifth International Symposium on Multimedia Software Engineering (MSE2003), pp. 36-44, December 10-12, 2003, Taichung, Taiwan, ROC.

Shu-Ching Chen, Mei-Ling Shyu, Na Zhao, Chengcui Zhang, “An Affinity-Based Image Retrieval System for Multimedia Authoring and Presentation,” Proceedings of The 11^th Annual ACM International Conference on Multimedia, pp. 446-447, November 2-8, 2003 Berkeley, CA, USA.

Shu-Ching Chen, Chengcui Zhang, et. al., “A Three-Tier System Architecture Design and Development for Hurricane Occurrence Simulation,” Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Information Technology: Research and Education (ITRE 2003), Newark, New Jersey, USA, pp. 113-117, August 10-13, 2003.

J.E. Fisher, F. Hernandez, and A.P. Sprague. “Language patterns: comparison and prediction using hidden Markov models,” Proceedings of ACM Southeast Conference , pages 246-250, 2003.

Shu-Ching Chen, Sheng-Tun Li, Mei-Ling Shyu, Chengjun Zhan, and Chengcui Zhang, “A Multimedia Semantic Model for RTSP-Based Multimedia Presentation Systems,” Proceedings of IEEE Fourth International Symposium on Multimedia Software Engineering (MSE 2002), pp. 124-131, December 11-13, 2002, Newport Beach, California, USA.

Shu-Ching Chen, Mei-Ling Shyu, Wenhui Liao, and Chengcui Zhang, “Scene Change Detection By Audio and Video Clues,” Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME2002), pp. 365-368, August 26-29, 2002, Lausanne, Switzerland.

Xin Huang, Shu-Ching Chen, Mei-Ling Shyu, and Chengcui Zhang, “User Concept Pattern Discovery Using Relevance Feedback and Multiple Instance Learning for Content-Based Image Retrieval,” Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Multimedia Data Mining (MDM/KDD 2002), in conjunction with the 8th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining, pp. 100-108, July 23, 2002, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

Shu-Ching Chen, Sheng-Tun Li, Hung-Chi Chen, Mei-Ling Shyu, Chengcui Zhang, “Streaming SMIL Presentations via a Multimedia Semantic Model,” Proceedings of Second International Workshop on Intelligent Multimedia Computing and Networking (IMMCN 2002), pp. 919-922, March 8-12, 2002, Durham, North Carolina, USA.

Chengcui Zhang, Lin Luo, Shu-Ching Chen, and Mei-Ling Shyu, “Supporting Information Reuse for Video Data Indexing by Using Color Information,” Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IRI 2001), pp. 92-96, November 27-29, 2001, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.

Shu-Ching Chen, Mei-Ling Shyu, Xia Jin, Qiong Chen, Chengcui Zhang, and Jeff Strickrott, “A Flexible Image Retrieval and Multimedia Presentation Management System for Multimedia Databases,” Proceedings of ACM Multimedia 2001 Conference, pp. 601-602, September 30-October 5, 2001, Ottawa, CANADA.

Shu-Ching Chen, Mei-Ling Shyu, and Chengcui Zhang, “An Unsupervised Segmentation Framework for Texture Image Queries,” Proceedings of the 25^th IEEE Computer Society International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC), pp. 569-573, October 8-12, 2001, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

S.E. Brossette, S.A. Moser, A.P. Sprague, J.M. Hardin, and W.T. Jones, “DMSS: A knowledge discovery system for epimemiologic surveillance,” Proceedings of ACM Southeast Conference, pages 39-43, 2001.

Shu-Ching Chen, Mei-Ling Shyu, Chengcui Zhang, and Jeff Strickrott, “Multimedia Data Mining for Traffic Video Sequences,” Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Multimedia Data Mining (MDM/KDD 2001), in conjunction with the Seventh ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining, pp. 78-85, August 26, 2001, San Francisco, CA, USA.

Shu-Ching Chen, Mei-Ling Shyu, Chengcui Zhang, and R.L. Kashyap, “Video Scene Change Detection Method Using Unsupervised Segmentation and Object Tracking,” Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), pp. 57-60, August 22-25, 2001, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan.

Shu-Ching Chen, Mei-Ling Shyu, and Chengcui Zhang, “An Intelligent Framework for Spatio-Temporal Vehicle Tracking,” Proceedings of the 4^th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, pp. 213-218, August 25-29, 2001, Oakland, California, USA.

Shu-Ching Chen, Mei-Ling Shyu, Chengcui Zhang, and R. L. Kashyap, “Object Tracking and Multimedia Augmented Transition Network for Video Indexing and Modeling,” Proceedings of the 12th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI 2000), pp. 428-435, November 13-15, 2000, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

A.P. Sprague, “NP-completeness of the domatic number problem on circular arc graphs,” Proceedings of ACM Southeast Conference, CD-ROM, 1999

A.P. Sprague, “Extracting optimal association rules over numeric attributes,” Proceedings of ACM Southeast Conference, pages 59-63, 1998.

H. Kim and A.P. Sprague, “Disjoint paths algorithms on cographs,” Congressus Numerantium, 122:215-221, 1996.

A.P. Sprague, “Recognition of bipartite permutation graphs,” Congressus Numerantium, 62:151-161, 1995.