Yun Raymond Fu
COE Distinguished Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Jointly Appointed,
Khoury College of Computer Sciences
Office
- 403 Dana Research Center
- 617.373.7328
Research Focus
Artificial Intelligence: Machine Learning and Computational Intelligence, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Big Data Mining and Social Media Analytics
About
Y. Raymond Fu received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is an interdisciplinary faculty member affiliated with College of Engineering and the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University since 2012. His research interests are Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Data Mining, Pattern Recognition, and Cyber-Physical Systems. He has extensive publications in leading journals, books/book chapters and international conferences/workshops. He serves as associate editor, chairs, PC member and reviewer of many top journals and international conferences/workshops. He received 7 Prestigious Young Investigator Awards from NAE, ONR, ARO, IEEE, INNS, UIUC, Grainger Foundation; 12 Best Paper Awards from IEEE, ACM, IAPR, SPIE, SIAM; many major Industrial Research Awards from Google, Amazon, Samsung, JPMorgan Chase, Cisco, NEC, Konica Minolta, Snap, Zebra, Adobe, MERL and Mathworks, etc. He is currently an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP). He is fellow of IEEE, IAPR, OSA and SPIE, a Lifetime Distinguished Member of ACM, Lifetime Senior Member of AAAI and Institute of Mathematical Statistics, member of ACM Future of Computing Academy, Global Young Academy, AAAS, INNS and Beckman Graduate Fellow during 2007-2008. He is also a serial entrepreneur for technology commercialization. He was the Founder and CEO of AI startup Giaran which was acquired by Shiseido in 2017, the largest multinational cosmetic firm in Japan.
Education
- PhD, University of Illinois, 2008. Joined Northeastern in 2012.
Honors & Awards
- 2024 Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineers
- 2024 Edward J. McCluskey Technical Achievement Award
- 2023 Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
- 2023 Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI)
- 2022 Member of Academia Europaea
- 2018 ACM Distinguished Member
- 2017 Faculty Fellow
- Fellow of AAAS, IEEE, IAPR, OSA and SPIE
- ACM Future of Computing Academy Member
- Army Research Office Young Investigator Award
- Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award
- IEEE CIS Outstanding Early Career Award
- International Neural Network Society’s Young Investigator Award
- Søren Buus Outstanding Research Award
- Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering Award
Research Overview
Artificial Intelligence: Machine Learning and Computational Intelligence, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Big Data Mining and Social Media Analytics
SMILE Lab
SMILE lab focuses on the frontier research of Artificial Intelligence, especially Machine Learning, Computer Vision and Data Mining. Our research is driven by the explosion of real-world diverse and massive data from the Internet, social media, sensor, personal or publicly available texts, photos, audios and videos.
Selected Research Projects
- Video anomaly detection through deep learning and perturbation techniques
- – Principal Investigator, AFOSR
- EAGER: Vision-Based Activity Forecasting by Mining Temporal Causalities
- – Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation
- Deeply Learned Visual Commonsense and Its Applications
- – Principal Investigator, Samsung Global Research Outreach
- Deep Structures Boosted Self-Organized Behavior Pattern Learning for Anomaly Detection
- – Principal Investigator, Office of Naval Research
Department Research Areas
Selected Publications
- Jiang, Songyao, Tao, Zhiqiang, Fu, Yun (2021). Geometrically Editable Face Image Translation With Adversarial Networks. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 30,2771-2783. 10.1109/TIP.2021.3052084
- Li, Jun, Liu, Hongfu, Tao, Zhiqiang, Zhao, Handong, Fu, Yun (2021). Learnable Subspace Clustering. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, ,1-15. 10.1109/TNNLS.2020.3040379
- Liu, Hongfu, Li, Jun, Wu, Yue, Fu, Yun (2021). Clustering with Outlier Removal. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 33(6),2369-2379. 10.1109/TKDE.2019.2954317
- Wang, Qianqian, Ding, Zhengming, Tao, Zhiqiang, Gao, Quanxue, Fu, Yun (2021). Generative Partial Multi-View Clustering With Adaptive Fusion and Cycle Consistency. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 30,1771-1783. 10.1109/TIP.2020.3048626
- Xu, Yihao, Zhang, Xianzhe, Fu, Yun, Liu, Yongmin (2021). Interfacing photonics with artificial intelligence: an innovative design strategy for photonic structures and devices based on artificial neural networks. Photonics Research, 9(4),B135. 10.1364/PRJ.417693
- Zhang, Yulun, Tian, Yapeng, Kong, Yu, Zhong, Bineng, Fu, Yun (2021). Residual Dense Network for Image Restoration. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 43(7),2480-2495. 10.1109/TPAMI.2020.2968521
- Chen, Shuhan, Tan, Xiuli, Wang, Ben, Lu, Huchuan, Hu, Xuelong, Fu, Yun (2020). Reverse Attention-Based Residual Network for Salient Object Detection. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 29,3763-3776. 10.1109/TIP.2020.2965989
- Jiang, Shuhui, Wang, Zhaowen, Hertzmann, Aaron, Jin, Hailin, Fu, Yun (2020). Visual Font Pairing. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 22(8),2086-2097. 10.1109/TMM.2019.2952266
- Kong, Yu, Tao, Zhiqiang, Fu, Yun (2020). Adversarial Action Prediction Networks. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 42(3),539-553. 10.1109/TPAMI.2018.2882805
- Li, Kunpeng, Kong, Yu, Fu, Yun (2020). Visual Object Tracking via Multi-Stream Deep Similarity Learning Networks. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 29,3311-3320. 10.1109/TIP.2019.2959249
- Li, Kunpeng, Wu, Ziyan, Peng, Kuan-Chuan, Ernst, Jan, Fu, Yun (2020). Guided Attention Inference Network. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 42(12),2996-3010. 10.1109/TPAMI.2019.2921543
- Lu, Changsheng, Xia, Siyu, Shao, Ming, Fu, Yun (2020). Arc-support Line Segments Revisited: An Efficient High-quality Ellipse Detection. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 29,768-781. 10.1109/TIP.2019.2934352
- Sun, Gan, Cong, Yang, Wang, Qianqian, Zhong, Bineng, Fu, Yun (2020). Representative Task Self-Selection for Flexible Clustered Lifelong Learning. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, ,1-15. 10.1109/TNNLS.2020.3042500
- Sun, Gan, Cong, Yang, Wang, Qianqian, Li, Jun, Fu, Yun (2020). Lifelong Spectral Clustering. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 34(04),5867-5874. 10.1609/AAAI.V34I04.6045
- Tao, Zhiqiang, Liu, Hongfu, Li, Sheng, Ding, Zhengming, Fu, Yun (2020). Marginalized Multiview Ensemble Clustering. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, 31(2),600-611. 10.1109/TNNLS.2019.2906867
- Tian, Yi, Kong, Yu, Ruan, Qiuqi, An, Gaoyun, Fu, Yun (2020). Aligned Dynamic-Preserving Embedding for Zero-Shot Action Recognition. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 30(6),1597-1612. 10.1109/TCSVT.2019.2908487
- Wang, Lichen, Liu, Yunyu, Qin, Can, Sun, Gan, Fu, Yun (2020). Dual Relation Semi-Supervised Multi-Label Learning. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 34(04),6227-6234. 10.1609/AAAI.V34I04.6089
- Yin, Yu, Robinson, Joseph, Zhang, Yulun, Fu, Yun (2020). Joint Super-Resolution and Alignment of Tiny Faces. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 34(07),12693-12700. 10.1609/AAAI.V34I07.6962
- H. Liu, Z.G. Tao, Y. Fu, Partition Level Constrained Clustering, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2018
- S. Li, M. Shao, Y. Fu, Person Re-Identication by Cross-View Multi-Level Dictionary Learning, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (T-PAMI), 2018
- K. Li, Z. Wu, K.C. Peng, J. Ernst, Y. Fu, Tell Me Where To Look: Guided Attention Inference Network, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2018
- J.P. Robinson, M. Shao, Y. Wu, H. Liu, T. Gillis, Y. Fu Visual Kinship Recognition of Families In the Wild (FIW), IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (T-PAMI), 2018
Jan 24, 2023
Faculty and Staff Awards 2023
Faculty and staff in the College of Engineering were recognized at the annual awards event in a variety of categories for their contributions during the 2022-2023 academic year.