Yanxi Liu ( zh, 劉燕西) is a Chinese-American computer scientist specializing in

computer vision Computer vision is an interdisciplinary scientific field that deals with how computers can gain high-level understanding from digital images or videos. From the perspective of engineering, it seeks to understand and automate tasks that the hum ...

. She is known for her research on computational symmetry, computational regularity, and the uses of symmetry and regularity in computer vision, as well as on feature selection for motion tracking. She is a professor of computer science at

Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State or PSU) is a Public university, public Commonwealth System of Higher Education, state-related Land-grant university, land-grant research university with campuses and facilities throughout Pennsylvan ...

, where she directs the Motion Capture Lab for Smart Health and co-directs the Lab for Perception, Action and Cognition.

Education and career

Liu has a bachelor's degree from

Beijing Normal University Beijing Normal University (BNU, ), colloquially known as Beishida (), is a public research university located in Beijing, China, with a strong emphasis on humanities and sciences. It is one of the oldest and most prestigious universities in China ...

. She earned a Ph.D. at the

University of Massachusetts Amherst The University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst, UMass) is a public research university in Amherst, Massachusetts and the sole public land-grant university in Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Founded in 1863 as an agricultural college, it ...

, in 1990. Her dissertation, ''Symmetry Groups in Robotic Assembly Planning'', was supervised by

Robin Popplestone Robin John Popplestone (9 December 1938 in Bristol – 14 April 2004 in Glasgow) was a pioneer in the fields of machine intelligence and robotics. He is known for developing the COWSEL and POP-2, POP programming languages, and for his work on Fr ...

. After postdoctoral research at LIFIA/IMAG, part of the Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble in Grenoble, France, and at

DIMACS The Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS) is a collaboration between Rutgers University, Princeton University, and the research firms AT&T, Bell Labs, Applied Communication Sciences, and NEC. It was founded in 1 ...

Rutgers University Rutgers University (; RU), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a Public university, public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's ...

, she became a research assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1993. She moved to the Robotics Institute of

Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. One of its predecessors was established in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie as the Carnegie Technical Schools; it became the Carnegie Institute of Technology ...

in 1996, as a research scientist, and worked there for ten years before moving to Pennsylvania State University.

Book

With

Hagit Hel-Or Hagit Zabrodsky Hel-Or ( he, חגית הל-אור) is an Israeli computer scientist known for her research in image processing, computer vision, and the applications of symmetry to pattern matching and computational chemistry. She is a faculty me ...

, Craig S. Kaplan, and Luc Van Gool, Liu is the coauthor of the book ''Computational Symmetry in Computer Vision and Computer Graphics'' (Now Publishing, 2009).

Recognition

Liu was a keynote speaker at DICTA 2016, and the program chair of the 2017 Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR).

References

External links

Home page
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Liu, Yanxi Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American computer scientists Chinese computer scientists American women computer scientists Computer vision researchers Beijing Normal University alumni University of Massachusetts Amherst alumni Pennsylvania State University faculty Chinese women computer scientists