Sheng He (贺胜)

      Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Engineering (ALICE)
      University of Groningen
      9747 AG Groningen, The Netherlands
      E-mail: s.he(at)rug.nl

      Supervisor: prof Lambert Shomaker

      Curriculum vitae: [PDF]

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    I am working on Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, as a Research Fellow for medical image analysis.

    I received PhD cum laude at Department of Artificial Intelligence, University of Groningen, on March 17, 2017. During my PhD study, I worked at the project of MPS-the Medieval Paleographic Scale. After that, I worked on a two-year Postdoc project "Mantis", in the Unviersity of Groningen. My research focuses on Machine Learning, Handwritten Recognition, Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition and Image Processing.

    I obtained my B. Eng. Degree and finished my master program in 2009 and 2012, respectively, both from school of automation, Northwestern Polytechnical University (NWPU), shaanxi, China, under the supervision of Professor Lei Guo and Professor Junwei Han. From July to December of 2012, I worked at IBM in Xi'an.

Publications:

    Pre-print

  1. Sheng He, Lambert Schomaker.
    Open set Chinese character recognition using multi-typed attributes. arXiv, 2018 [PDF]

    Journals:

  2. Sheng He, Lambert Schomaker.
    FragNet: Writer Identification using Deep Fragment Networks
    IEEE Trans. on Information Forensics and Security. (T-IFS), to appear. dataset [arXiv]

  3. Sheng He, Lambert Schomaker.
    DeepOtsu: Document Enhancement and Binarization using Iterative Deep Learning
    Pattern Recognition.(PR),vol.91, pp. 379-390, 2019. arXiv Monk Cuper Set (MCS) Dataset[tar.gz][zip][Tensorflow Code]

  4. Sheng He, Lambert Schomaker.
    Deep Adaptive Learning for Writer Identification based on Single Handwritten Word Images.
    Pattern Recognition.(PR),vol.88,pp.64-74, 2018 arXiv [PDF]

  5. Sheng He, Lambert Schomaker.
    Writer identification using curvature-free features.
    Pattern Recognition. (PR), vol. 63, pp. 451-464, 2017. [PDF][C++ of COLD]

  6. Sheng He, Lambert Schomaker.
    Beyond OCR: Multi-faceted understanding of handwritten document characteristics.
    Pattern Recognition. (PR), vol. 63, pp. 321-333, 2017 [PDF]

  7. Sheng He, Petros Samara, Jan Burgers, Lambert Schomaker.
    A multiple-label guided clustering algorithm for historical document dating and localization.
    IEEE Trans. on Image Processing. (TIP), vol. 25, pp. 5252-5265, 2016 [PDF]

  8. Sheng He, Petros Samara, Jan Burgers, Lambert Schomaker.
    Historical manuscript dating based on temporal pattern codebook.
    Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU), vol. 152, pp.167-175,2016. [PDF]

  9. Sheng He, Petros Samara, Jan Burgers, Lambert Schomaker.
    Image-based historical manuscript dating using contour and stroke fragments.
    Pattern Recognition(PR), Vol. 59, pp. 159-171, 2016 [PDF]

  10. Sheng He,Marco Wiering, Lambert Schomaker.
    Junction detection in handwritten documents and its application to writer identification.
    Pattern Recognition(PR), 2015 [PDF][dataset & code]

  11. Junwei Han, Sheng He, Xiaoliang Qian, Dongyang Wang, Lei Guo, Tianming Liu.
    An Object-oriented Visual Saliency Detection Framework Based on Sparse Coding Representations.
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology.2013 [PDF][bibtex]

Conferences:

  1. Sheng He, Petros Samara, Jan Burgers, Lambert Schomaker.
    Discovering visual element evolutions for historical document dating
    International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition(ICFHR), shenzhen, 2016. Oral presentation.
    [PDF][bibtex][Slides]

  2. Sheng He, Lambert Schomaker.
    Co-occurrence features for writer identification
    International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition(ICFHR), shenzhen, China 2016. Poster presentation.
    [PDF][bibtex]

  3. Sheng He, Petros Samara, Jan Burgers, Lambert Schomaker.
    Historical Document Dating using Unsupervised Attribute Learning.
    International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems(DAS), Santorini, Greece, 2016 . Oral presentation.
    [PDF][bibtex]

  4. Sheng He, Lambert Schomaker.
    General Pattern Run-length Transform for Writer Identification.
    International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems(DAS), Santorini, Greece, 2016 . Oral presentation.
    [PDF][bibtex][dataset & code]

  5. Sheng He, Lambert Schomaker.
    A Polar Stroke Descriptor for Classification of Historical Documents.
    International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition(ICDAR), Gammarth, Tunisia, 2015. Oral presentation.
    [PDF][bibtex]

  6. Sheng He, Petros Samara, Jan Burgers, Lambert Schomaker.
    Towards style-based dating of historical documents.
    International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition(ICFHR), Crete, Greece, 2014. Oral presentation.
    [PDF][bibtex]

  7. Sheng He, Lambert Schomaker.
    Delta-n Hinge: rotation-invariant features for writer identification.
    International Conference on Pattern Recognition(ICPR), Stockholm, Sweden, 2014. Oral presentation.
    [PDF][bibtex]

  8. Sheng He, Junwei Han, Xintao Hu, Ming Xu, Lei Guo, Tianming Liu.
    Biologically Inspired Computational Model for Image Saliency Detection.
    ACM International Conference on Multimedia(ACM MM); Scottsdale, Arizona, USA. 2011.
    [PDF][bibtex]

Research Topic:

  1. Interested Papers.
  2. Image Processing on line.

Research Activites:

  1. 23-26, Oct., 2016: ICFHR2016, Shenzhen, China.
  2. 8-16, Oct., 2016: ECCV, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
  3. 4-5, Oct., 2016: Mantis project meeting, Eindhoven, Netherlands.
  4. 11-14, Apr., 2016: DAS, Santorini, Greece.
  5. 22-23,Mar., 2016: ICTOPEN, Amersfoot, the Netherlands.
  6. 27-28,Jan., 2016: Digging into data. Glasgow, UK.
  7. 28,Sep.-23,Nov.,2015: English conversation for Academics. Level 1
  8. 22-26, August, 2015: ICDAR2015, Nancy, France
  9. 12-18, July, 2015: International Computer Vision Summer School,ICVSS2015, Sicily, Italy
  10. April-June,2015: Publish in English.
  11. 03-05, November, 2014: Target Conference: Big Data Across Disciplines: In Search of Symbiosis . Groningen, Netherlands.
  12. 01-04, September, 2014: ICFHR2014, Crete, Greece.
  13. 24-28, August, 2014: ICPR2014, Stockholm, Sweden.
  14. March-May, 2014: Academic Writing Course (Language Center).
  15. 25-31, March, 2014: Computer Vision by Learning, UvA,Amsterdam
  16. 26, Augest, 2013: PhD day, Groningen, organizer
  17. 01-03, July, 2013: International Medieval Congress, Leeds, UK
  18. 02-07, June, 2013: IDIPS2013:International Document Image Processing Summer School2013, Fourni, Greece.
  19. 03-05, April, 2013: Target Conference: Probing Big Data for Answers. Groningen, Netherlands
  20. 17-18, March, 2013: Workshop for starting PhD. Groningen, Netherlands

Reviewers

IEEE TNNLS, Machine Vision and Applications,Neurocomputing, Journal of ComputingScience and Engineering IJDAR,EAAI.

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Awards

  • 2016 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad

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