====== Bo Xu（徐博） ====== {{people:xubo.jpg ? 140 |}} \\ Ph.D Student (Sep.2007 ~ )\\ \\ Room 1019, 95 Zhongguancun East Road \\ Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences \\ Beijing 100190, P.R. China \\ Email: ===== Biography ===== Bo Xu received his Master degree in 2006 in Department of Electronic & Information Engineering from [[http://www.xjtu.edu.cn/|Xi'an Jiaotong University]]. He worked as a Research Assistant in [[http://www.tsinghua.edu.cn |Tsinghua University (THU)]] from Sep. 2006 to Aug. 2007. Then he joined [[http://www.ia.cas.cn/| Institute of Automation, Chinese Academic of Sciences (CASIA)]] as a Ph.D student in Sep.2007. During Nov. 2010 to Jan. 2011, he joined [[http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk | Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)]] as a Junior Research Assistant under the supervision of [[http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~king/|Prof.Irwin King]]. ===== Research Interests ===== * Computer Vision, Image Processing * Pattern Recognition, Character Recognition, Face Recognition, * Machine Learning, Data Mining, Feature Selection, Feature Extraction and Feature description * Social Networks, Recommandation system ===== Research Projects ===== * Free-written Chinese Character Recognition (National Natural Science Foundation Project) (2009.09 ~ present) * Improvement of Handwritten Chinese Character Classifier (Fujitsu cooperation project) (2009.09 ~ 2010. 04) * Dimensionality Reduction by Minimal Distance Maximization (National Outstanding Young Scientists Project) (2009.09 ~ 2010. 01) * Maxi-Min Discriminant Analysis via Online Learning (National Outstanding Young Scientists Project) (2010.03 ~ 2010.06) * Using Feature Selection for Handwritten Chinese Character Recognition (National Natural Science Foundation Project) (2008.09 ~ 2009.07) ===== Publications ===== * **B. Xu**, K. Huang and C. Liu, "Dimensionality Reduction by Minimal Distance Maximization", ICPR 2010. * **B. Xu**, K. Huang and C. Liu, "Similar Chinese Characters Recognition by Critical Region Selection Based on Average Symmetric Uncertainty", ICFHR 2010. ===== Awards & Grants ===== * 2000 - 2003 Second Prize Scholarship (20%) * 2003 Excellent graduation thesis * 2004 - 2006 Second Prize Postgraduate Scholarship (20%) ===== Miscellaneous ===== * [[people:bo_xu:sorec | Social Recommandation Research]] * [[people:bo_xu:DLList | Deep Learning Paper List]]