Professional Bio

Lijun Yin joined the Department of Computer Science at Binghamton University in September 2001. He received PhD from the University of Alberta, Canada in Computing Science. Before he joined Binghamton, he did his post-doc fellowship at the University of Alberta, and worked at Chyron Corp. in Long Island, N.Y. and InfiMed Inc. in Syracuse, N.Y. as a computer graphics and image scientist. His research interests include computer vision, graphics and image processing. Yin served as a program committee member for a number of IEEE international conferences and a panelist for NSF. He is a now an associate professor and the director of the Graphics and Image Computing (GAIC) Laboratory. His research is supported by the National Science Foundation; the New York State Office of Science, Technology and Academic Research (NYSTAR); the Air Force Research Lab; and SUNY Upstate Medical Center. He has over 50 publications in refereed journals and conferences.

Research Interests

Image analysis and synthesis, 3D modeling and 3D object analysis; motion tracking; face and face expression recognition and generation; medical imaging; and graphical scene generation, animation and visualization.

• CS555: Visual Information Processing
• CS333: Algorithm
• CS460: Introduction to Computer Graphics
• CS560: Computer Graphics
• CS660: Advanced Computer Graphics
• CS580M/380M: Computer Vision and Image Processing

Selected Publications

• L. Yin and A. Basu, "Generating realistic facial expressions with wrinkles for model-based coding", Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Vol. 84, No.2, pp. 201-240 Academic Press. Nov. 2001.
• J. Wang and L. Yin, "Static Topographic Modeling for Facial Expression Recognition and Analysis", Computer Vision and Image Understanding (Special Issue on HCI), Elsevier Science, Oct. 2007.
• J. Wang, L. Yin, X. Wei, and Y. Sun, "3D Facial Expression Recognition Based on Primitive Surface Feature Distribution", IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2006), New York, NY, pp. 1399-1406, June 2006.
• L. Yin, X. Wei, P. Longo, and A. Bhuvanesh, "Analyzing Facial Expressions Using Intensity-Variant 3D Data for Human Computer Interaction," 18th IEEE/IAPR International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2006), Hong Kong, pp. 1248 - 1251, August 2006. (Best Paper Award)
• L. Yin, X. Wei, Y. Sun, J. Wang, and M. Rosato, "A 3D Facial Expression Database For Facial Behavior Research", 7th International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG2006), Southampton, UK, pp. 211-216, April 2006.
• L. Seversky and L. Yin, "Real-time Automatic 3D Scene Generation from Natural Language Voice and Text Descriptions," Proceedings of ACM Multimedia, pp. 61-64, Santa Barbra, CA., October 2006.
• J. Wang, L. Yin, and J. Moore, "Using Geometric Property of Topographic Manifold to Detect and Track Eyes for Human Computer Interaction", ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communication, and Applications, November 2007.
• L. Yin and J. Chang, "Scalable Edge Enhancement With Automatic Optimization for Digital Radiographic Images," Pattern Recognition, Vol. 37, No. 7, pp. 1407-1422, Elsevier Science. 2004.
• L. Yin and M. Yourst, "Hyper-Resolution: Image Detail Reconstruction Through Parametric Edges," Computers and Graphics, Vol. 29, No. 6, Elsevier Science, December 2005. pp. 946-960 (Second Best Paper Award of the Year 2005, Journal of C&G).
• L. Yin, A. Basu, S. Bernogger and A. Pinz, "Synthesizing a Realistic Facial Animation Using Energy Minimization for Model Based Coding", Pattern Recognition, Vol. 34, No. 11, pp. 2201-13, Elsevier Science, November 2001.