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3D Indoor Mapping from Videos
Project Team: Xiaohui Yuan (PI)
Sponsor: Home Court Advantage Tech LLC, 2026.6-
Summary: This project develops a movable image acquisition system that captures videos/images and spatial features of an indoor environment and a software module to process the acquired data and generate spatial representations for generating 3D models of visible parts.
 
S-STEM: Attracting and Cultivating AI Scholars through Multi-faceted Mentoring, Research Experiences, and Cohort Building
Project Team: Xiaohui Yuan (PI), Xuan Guo (co-I), David Keathly (co-I), Amar Maharjan (senior personnel), Kirill Mozokov (senior personnel), Gergely Zaruba (senior personnel)
Sponsor: NSF (2424803) 2025.1-2030.12
Project site: AI Scholar
  • Xiaohui Yuan, Xuan Guo, David M. Keathly, Amar Man Maharjan, Kirill Morozov, and Gergely Zaruba, From Awareness to Application: Strengthening Recruitment for NSF S-STEM Scholarships in Computer Science, ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA, June 21-24, 2026

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Completed

Irrigation Status and Type Changes
Investigators: L. Lu and X. Yuan
Sponsor: NASA (G47WN1XZNWX9) and USGS (G21AC10729-02), 2022.8-2026.6
  • Xiaohui Yuan, Aniv Chakravarty, Elinor M. Lichtenberg, Lichuan Gu, Zhenchun Wei, Tian Chen, An Empirical Analysis of Deep Learning Methods for Small Object Detection from Satellite Imagery, Expert Systems With Applications, 307, pp. 131061(1-16), April 2026
  • Abolfazl Meyarian, Xiaohui Yuan, Lu Liang, Wencheng Wang, and Lichuan Gu, Gradient Convolutional Neural Network for Classification of Agricultural Fields with Contour Levee, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 43(1), pp. 75-94, 2022
  • Lu Liang, Abolfazl Meyarian, Xiaohui Yuan, Benjamin R. K. Runkle, George Mihaila, Yuchu Qin, Jacob Daniels, Michele L. Reba, James R, Rigby, The First Fine-Resolution Mapping of Contour Levee Irrigation Using Deep Bi-Stream Convolutional Neural Networks, International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 105, 102631(1-10), December 2021
 
Accurate Human Pose Estimation and Tracking
Investigators: X. Yuan, M. Elhoseny
Sponsor: Physmodo, Inc.

  • Yen Pham, Xiaohui Yuan, Chengyuan Zhuang, Motion-Aware Graph Fusion NetWork for 3D Human Pose Estimation, Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), Tucson, Arizona, USA, Mar 06 2026
  • Xiaohui Yuan and Amar Maharjan, Non-Rigid Point Set Registration: Recent Trends and Challenges, Artificial Intelligence Review, 56, pp. 4859-4891, June 2023 [PDF]
  • Amar Maharjan and Xiaohui Yuan, Registration of Human Point Set using Automatic Key Point Detection and Region-aware Features, IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), Waikoloa, HI, USA, Jan. 4-8, 2022
  • A. Maharjan, X. Yuan, Q. Lu, Y. Fan, T. Chen, Non-Rigid Registration of Point Clouds using Landmarks and Stochastic Neighbor Embedding, Journal of Electronic Imaging, 30(3), pp. 031202(1-15), Jan. 2021
  • A. Maharjan, X. Yuan, Point Set Registration of Large Deformation Using Auxiliary Landmarks, International Conference on Urban Intelligence and Applications, 86-98, Taiyuan, China, Aug. 14-16, 2020
  • L. Kong, X. Yuan, A. M. Maharjan, A Hybrid Framework for Automatic Joint Detection of Human Poses in Depth Frames, Pattern Recognition, 77, 216-225, May 2018
  • X. Yuan, D. Li, D. Mohapatra, M. Elhoseny, Automatic Removal of Complex Shadows from Indoor Videos using Transfer Learning and Dynamic Thresholding, Computers and Electrical Engineering, 70, 813-825, August 2018
  • X. Yuan, L. Kong, D. Feng, Z. Wei, Automatic Feature Point Detection and Tracking of Human Action in Time-of-Flight Videos, IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, 4(4), 677-685, Oct. 2017
  • Y. Zhou, J. Han, X. Yuan, Z. Wei, and R. Hong, Inverse Sparse Group Lasso Model for Robust Object Tracking, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 19(8), 1798-1810, Aug. 2017
  • Y. Liu, Z. Xie, X. Yuan, J. Chen, W. Song, Multi-level Structured Hybrid Forest for Joint Head Detection and Pose Estimation, Neurocomputing, 266, 206-215, Aug. 2017
Human Trusted Decision Fusion using Classifier Ensemble and Subgroup Feature Selection (WP AFB, 2011.5 - 2011.8, 2012.5 - 2012.8, 2013.6-2013.8)
Infusing Advanced Sensor Network Research into Cross-disciplinary Undergraduate Education (NSF, 2009.4 - 2011.12)
Computer-aided Diagnosis for Gastrointestinal Bleeding using Wireless Capsule Endoscopy(Texas ARP, 2008.6 - 2010.6)
A New Tool for Economic and Environmental Planning - Expanding the Boundaries of LiDAR (NSF/SGER #0722106, 2007.7 - 2008.6)
US/China Digital Government Collaboration: A New Tool for Economic and Environmental Planning - Expanding the Boundaries of LiDAR (NSF/SGER #0737861, 2007.9 - 2008.8)
Fusing LiDAR and Infrared to Model and Simulate Hydrological Events (ORAU, 2008.7 - 2009.6)