I am currently a Research Associate in the Information Retrieval Group at the University of Sheffield and mainly working on an EU FP6 project - TRIPOD. My research interests include multimedia information retrieval, human computer interaction, natural language processing and machine learning.
I graduated with a PhD degree from University of Science and Technology of China. During the period of study for PhD, I worked as a research intern in Web Search and Mining Group of Microsoft Research Asia from 2002 to 2005 and visited the Interactive Communication Media and Contents Group of NICT, Japan as an embedded researcher from 2005 to 2006.
Education
- September 2004 - June 2007 PhD
Major: Signal and Information Processing
MOE-Microsoft Key Laboratory of Multimedia Computing and Communication
Advisor: Dr. Ming-Jing Li
Dissertation: Cross-Media Web Information Retrieval and Adaptive Display for Mobile Devices
- September 2001 - July 2004 ME
Major: Pattern Recognition and Intelligent System
Information Engineering Lab
Department of Automation, University of Science and Technology of China
Advisor : Prof. He-Qin ZHOU
Dissertation: Research of Vision Based Multimedia Content Analysis and Adaptation
- September 1996 - July 2001 BE
Major: Automation
Information Engineering Lab
Department of Automation, University of Science and Technology of China
Advisor : Prof. He-Qin ZHOU
Publications
Book chapters:- Xin Fan, Mark Sanderson, Xing Xie, Multimodal Search on Mobile Devices - Exploring Innovative Query Modalities for Mobile Search, chapter in S. Kurkovsky eds. Multimodality in Mobile Computing and Mobile Devices: Methods for Adaptable Usability, IGI Global, to be published in 2009.
- Xin Fan, Hisashi Miyamori, Katsumi Tanaka, Mingjing Li, Mining Text and Visual Links to Browse TV Programs in a Web-like Way, IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, Vol. E90-D, No. 8, 2007.
- Yi Wang, Houqiang Li, Xin Fan, Chang Wen Chen, An Attention Based Spatial Adaptation Scheme for H.264 Videos on Mobiles, International Journal on Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence (IJPRAI), Vol. 20, No .4, pp. 565-584, 2006.
- Li-Qun Chen, Xing Xie, Xin Fan, Wei-Ying Ma, Hong-Jiang
Zhang, He-Qin Zhou, A
Visual Attention Model for Adapting Images on Small Displays, ACM Multimedia
Systems Journal (MMSJ), Vol. 9, No. 4, pp. 353-364, 2003.
- Xin Fan, Hisashi Miyamori, Katsumi Tanaka, Mingjing
Li, Mining Text and Visual Links to Browse TV Programs in a Web-Like Way,
IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo 2006 (ICME
2006), Toronto, Canada, Jul. 2006.
- Yinghua Zhou, Xin Fan, Xing Xie, Yuchang Gong, Wei-Ying
Ma, Inquiring of the Sights from the Web via Camera Mobiles, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo 2006 (ICME 2006), Toronto, Canada, Jul. 2006.
- Menglei Jia, Xin Fan, Xing Xie, Mingjing Li, Wei-Ying Ma, Photo-to-Search: Using Camera Phones to Inquire of the Surrounding World, the 7th International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM 2006), demo, Nara, Japan, May 2006.
- Xin Fan, Xing Xie, Wei-Ying Ma, Detecting the Sufficient
Display Resolution for Image Browsing on Limited Screens, the
7th International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM 2006), Nara,
Japan, May 2006.
- Xin Fan, Xing Xie, Zhiwei Li, Mingjing Li, and Wei-Ying
Ma, Photo-to-Search:
Using Multimodal Queries to Search the Web from Mobile Devices, the 7th ACM SIGMM International Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval
(MIR 2005) in conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2005, pp. 143-150, Singapore.
Nov. 2005.
- Yi Wang, Xin Fan, Houqiang Li, Zhengkai Liu, Mingjing
Li, An
Attention Based Spatial Adaptation Scheme for H.264 Videos on Mobiles,
Proceedings of the 12th International Multimedia Modeling Conference (MMM
2006), Beijing, China, Jan. 2006.
- Xing Xie, Xin Fan, Wei-Ying Ma, He-Qin Zhou, Adapting
Images on Proxies for Small Form Factor Devices, 4th
IEEE Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia (PCM 2003), Vol. 1, pp. 428-432,
Singapore, Dec. 2003.
- Xin Fan, Xing Xie, He-Qin Zhou, Wei-Ying Ma, Looking
into Video Frames on Small Displays, Proceedings of the 11th ACM international
conference on Multimedia (ACM MM 2003), pp. 247-250, Berkeley, CA, USA,
Nov. 2003.
- Xin Fan, Xing Xie, Wei-Ying Ma, Hong-Jiang Zhang, Heqin Zhou, Visual Attention Based Image Browsing on Mobile Devices, Proceedings of 2003 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo. (ICME 2003), Vol. 1, pp. 53-56, Baltimore, MD, USA, Jul. 2003.
- Xin Fan, Philip Smart, Mark Sanderson, Tripod Deliverable 3.2: Georeferenced Image Collection, EU FP6 Project TRIPOD (TRI-Partite multimedia Object Description), March 2008.
- Ross Purves, Martin Tomko, Alistair Edwardes, Xin Fan, Mark Hall, Mark Hughes, Andrew Salway, Inguna Skadiņa, Philip Smart, Tripod Deliverable 3.5: Work package 3 Final Report, EU FP6 Project no. 045335 TRIPOD (TRI-Partite multimedia Object Description), December 2008.
- Xin Fan, Eamonn Newman, Jiayu Tang, Ahmet Aker, Tripod Deliverable 5.3: Interim report on retrieval effectiveness, EU FP6 Project no. 045335 TRIPOD (TRI-Partite multimedia Object Description), June 2009.
- Xin Fan, Ahmet Aker, Mark Sanderson, Tripod Deliverable 6.3: Report and prototype on web querying for caption enhancement, EU FP6 Project no. 045335 TRIPOD (TRI-Partite multimedia Object Description), July 2009.
Patents
Three US patents (pending and issued) when I worked at Microsoft Research Asia:
- No. 20070237426, Title:
Generating Search Results Based on Duplicate Image Detection
Abstract A method and system for searching for content relating to a target or query image by identifying duplicate images with associated content is provided. An image search system identifies visual parts of objects within the target image based on analysis of two or more versions of the target image. The image search system identifies visual parts based on analysis of the versions. The image search system then identifies images of an image database that have visual parts that are similar to the visual parts of the target image. The image search system may rank the identified images based on their likelihood of being duplicates of the target image and provide their associated content as the search result ordered according to the ranking of the images.
Inventors: Xie; Xing; (Beijing, CN) ; Ma; Wei-Ying; (Beijing, CN) ; Fan; Xin; (Hefei, CN) ; Zhou; Yinghua; (Beijing, CN)
- No. 20070067345, Title: Generating Search Requests from Multimodal Queries
Abstract A method and system for generating a search request from a multimodal query that includes a query image and query text is provided. The multimodal query system identifies images of a collection that are textually related to the query image based on similarity between words associated with each image and the query text. The multimodal query system then selects those images of the identified images that are visually related to the query image. The multimodal query system may formulate a search request based on keywords of web pages that contain the selected images and submit that search request to a search engine service.
Inventors: Li; Ming Jing; (Beijing, CN) ; Ma; Wei-Ying; (Beijing, CN) ; Xie; Xing; (Beijing, CN) ; Fan; Xin; (Hefei, CN) ; Li; Zhiwei; (Beijing, CN) - No. 7260261, Title: Systems and Methods for Enhanced Image Adaptation
Abstract Systems and methods for adapting images for substantially optimal presentation by heterogeneous client display sizes are described. In one aspect, an image is modeled with respect to multiple visual attentions to generate respective attention objects for each of the visual attentions. For each of one or more image adaptation schemes, an objective measure of information fidelity (IF) is determined for a region R of the image. The objective measures are determined as a function of a resource constraint of the display device and as a function of a weighted sum of IF of each attention object in the region R. A substantially optimal adaptation scheme is then selected as a function of the calculated objective measures. The image is then adapted via the selected substantially optimal adaptation scheme to generate an adapted image as a function of at least the target area of the client display.
Inventors: Xie, Xing; (Beijing, CN) ; Ma, Wei-Ying; (Beijing, CN) ; Zhang, Hong-Jiang; (Beijing, CN) ; Chen, Liqun; (Jiangxi, CN) ; Fan, Xin; (Hefei, CN)