Michael Ying Yang

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Dr. Michael Ying Yang is currently Assistant Professor with University of Twente (the Netherlands), heading a group working on scene understanding. 

He received the PhD degree (summa cum laude) from University of Bonn (Germany) in 2011. From 2008 to 2012, he worked as Researcher with the Department of Photogrammetry, University of Bonn. From 2012 to 2015, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher with the Institute for Information Processing, Leibniz University Hannover. From 2015 to 2016, he was a Senior Researcher at TU Dresden.

His research interests are in the fields of computer vision and photogrammetry with specialization on scene understanding and semantic interpretation from imagery. He published over 100 papers in international journals and conference proceedings and currently co-supervise 4 PhD students. He serves as Associate Editor of ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, co-chair of ISPRS working group II/5 Dynamic Scene Analysis, and recipient of the ISPRS President's Honorary Citation (2016) and Best Science Paper Award at BMVC 2016. Since 2016, he is a Senior Member of IEEE. He is regularly serving as program committee member of conferences and reviewer for international journals.

Teaching

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Main educational responsibilities are teaching topics on deep learning, scene understanding with UAVs, image processing, 3D modeling and photogrammetry.

Research interests

Activities in research

His research is in the fields of Computer Vision and Photogrammetry with specialization on Deep Learning, Graphical Models, Scene Understanding, and Multi-Sensor Fusion.

Current supervision (co-promoter) of PhD students in ITC:

Zhenchao Zhang (funded by CSC)

Yaping Lin (funded by CSC)

Ye Lv (funded by CSC)

Education/Academic qualification

PhD, University of Bonn

1 Aug 200816 Dec 2011

Award Date: 16 Dec 2011

Keywords

  • QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
  • computer vision
  • photogrammetry
  • image processing
  • Artificial intelligence
  • machine learning

Artificial Intelligence Expert

  • Computer Vision
  • Machine Learning: from Traditional Methods to Deep Neural Networks
  • Edge AI and Sensors

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  • Elsevier (Publisher)

    Michael Yang (Editor), Bodo Rosenhahn (Editor) & Vittorio Murino (Editor)

    2 Aug 2019

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workEditorial work