Department: Department of Information and Communication Engineering
Name: Jiayi Ma
E-mail address: jyma2010@gmail.com; jiayima@whu.edu.cn
Gender: Male
Title: Professor
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Personal website: https://sites.google.com/site/jiayima2013/home
Education: Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China, 09/2008 - 06/2014
Ph.D. in Control Science and Engineering

University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), USA, 09/2012 - 09/2013
Joint Training Ph.D. in Statistics

Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China, 09/2004 - 06/2008
B.S. in Mathematics
Employment/Teaching Experience: Full Professor, Electronic Information School, Wuhan University, China, 12/2018 - Present

Associate Professor, Electronic Information School, Wuhan University, China, 12/2015 - 11/2018
 
Assistant Professor, Electronic Information School, Wuhan University, China, 08/2014 - 11/2015
Main Courses:  
Research Experience and Fields of Special Interest: My research interests lie in computer vision and machine learning. My current research is mainly focused on point/feature/image matching/registration, and also includes deep learning, information fusion, image super resolution, hyperspectral image analysis, infrared imaging, image denoising, etc.
 
PI, CNY 200, 000, Science Fund of Hubei Provinve for Distinguished Young Scholars, 01/2019 - 12/2021
"High-Precision and Real-Time Image Matching: Theory and Its Applications"

PI, CNY 630, 000, NSFC-61773295, 01/2018 - 12/2021
"Image Feature Matching Based on Probabilistic Inference: A Uniform Theoretical Model and Its Applications"

PI, CNY 150, 000, Science Foundation of WHU-2042018kf0018, 01/2018 - 12/2019
"Study on Image Matching Based on Neighborhood Topology Preserving Constraint"

PI, CNY 150, 000, Open Fund of BIT-2016IRS15, 01/2017 - 12/2018
"Study on Intelligent Robot Perceptual System Using Visible/Infrared Image Fusion"

PI, CNY 150, 000, Program of "Talent Revitalization", EIS, WHU, 07/2016 - 06/2018

PI, CNY 150, 000, China Postdoctoral Science Foundation-2016T90725, 06/2016 - 05/2017
"Adaptive Progressive Feature Matching: Algorithms and Applications"

PI, CNY 1, 000, 000, Advanced Research-6141A02022303, 01/2016 - 12/2017
"An Object Detection and Recognition System Using Visible/Infrared Image Fusion"

PI, CNY 258, 000, NSFC-61503288, 01/2016 - 12/2018
"Image Feature Matching Based on Adaptive Progressive Model with Locally Linear Transforming Constraint"

PI, CNY 80, 000, China Postdoctoral Science Foundation-2015M570665, 06/2015 - 05/2016
"Adaptive Progressive Feature Matching: Algorithms and Applications"

PI, CNY 800, 000, National 863 Program-2015AA7044030, 08/2014 - 07/2015

Major Awards:
Natural Science Award of Hubei Province, fi rst class, the fi rst author, 2018

Excellent B. S. Dissertation Adviser Award, 2018

CAA Natural Science Award, second class, the second author, 2017

"Chutian" Scholar, 2016

CAAI Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award, 2015
(Chinese Association for Arti cial Intelligence, a total of 8 winner in China)

CAA Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award, 2015
(Chinese Association of Automation, a total of 10 winner in China)

Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award of Hubei Province, 2015
Publications: Selected papers:
1. Ji Zhao, Jiayi Ma, Jinwen Tian, Jie Ma, and Dazhi Zhang. "A Robust Method for Vector Field Learning with Application to Mismatch Removing", in Proceedings of IEEE conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), pp. 2977-2984, 2011.
2. Jiayi Ma, Ji Zhao, Jinwen Tian, Zhuowen Tu, and Alan Yuille. "Robust Estimation of Nonrigid Transformation for Point Set Registration", in Proceedings of IEEE conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), pp. 2147-2154, 2013.
3. Jiayi Ma, Ji Zhao, Jinwen Tian, Xiang Bai, and Zhuowen Tu. "Regularized Vector Field Learning with Sparse Approximation for Mismatch Removal", Pattern Recognition, 46(12), pp. 3519-3532, 2013.
4. Jiayi Ma, Ji Zhao, Jinwen Tian, Alan Yuille, and Zhuowen Tu. "Robust Point Matching via Vector Field Consensus", IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 23(4), pp. 1706-1721, 2014.
5. Xiaobai Liu, Qian Xu, Jiayi Ma, Hai Jin, and Yanduo Zhang. "MsLRR: A Unified Multiscale Low-Rank Representation for Image Segmentation", IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 23(5), pp. 2159-2167, 2014.
6. Jiayi Ma, Huabing Zhou, Ji Zhao, Yuan Gao, Junjun Jiang, and Jinwen Tian. "Robust Feature Matching for Remote Sensing Image Registration via Locally Linear Transforming", IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 53(12), pp. 6469-6481, 2015. 
7. Jiayi Ma, Weichao Qiu, Ji Zhao, Yong Ma, Alan L. Yuille, and Zhuowen Tu. "Robust L2E Estimation of Transformation for Non-Rigid Registration", IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 63(5), pp. 1115-1129, 2015.
8. Jiayi Ma, Ji Zhao, Yong Ma, and Jinwen Tian. "Non-rigid visible and infrared face registration via regularized Gaussian fields criterion", Pattern Recognition, 48(3), pp. 772-784, 2015.
9. Jiayi Ma, Ji Zhao, and Alan L. Yuille. "Non-Rigid Point Set Registration by Preserving Global and Local Structures", IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 25(1), pp. 53-64, 2016.
10. Jiayi Ma, Chen Chen, Chang Li, and Jun Huang. "Infrared and visible image fusion via gradient transfer and total variation minimization", Information Fusion, 31, pp. 100-109, 2016.
11. Junjun Jiang, Ruimin Hu, Zhongyuan Wang, Zhen Han, and Jiayi Ma. "Facial Image Hallucination through Coupled-Layer Neighbor Embedding", IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 26(9), pp. 1674-1684, 2016.
12. Yansheng Li, Yongjun Zhang, Jin-Gang Yu, Yihua Tan, Jinwen Tian, and Jiayi Ma. "A novel spatio-temporal saliency approach for robust dim moving target detection from airborne infrared image sequences", Information Sciences, 369, pp. 548-563, 2016.
13. Junjun Jiang, Xiang Ma, Chen Chen, Tao Lu, Zhongyuan Wang, and Jiayi Ma. "Single Image Super-Resolution via Locally Regularized Anchored Neighborhood Regression and Nonlocal Means", IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 19(1), pp. 15-26, 2017.
14. Junjun Jiang, Jiayi Ma*, Chen Chen, Xinwei Jiang, and Zheng Wang. "Noise Robust Face Image Super-resolution through Smooth Sparse Representation", IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 47(11), pp. 3991-4002, 2017.
15. Junjun Jiang, Chen Chen, Jiayi Ma*, Zheng Wang, Zhongyuan Wang, and Ruimin Hu. "SRLSP: A Face Image Super-Resolution Algorithm Using Smooth Regression with Local Structure Prior", IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 19(1), pp. 27-40, 2017.
16. Yong Ma, Chang Li, Xiaoguang Mei, Chengyin Liu, and Jiayi Ma. "Robust Sparse Hyperspectral Unmixing with l2,1 Norm", IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 55(3), pp. 1227-1239, 2017.
17. Jiayi Ma, Ji Zhao, Junjun Jiang, and Huabing Zhou. "Non-Rigid Point Set Registration with Robust Transformation Estimation under Manifold Regularization", in Proceedings of the Thirty-First AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), pp. 4218-4224, 2017.
18. Yuan Gao, Jiayi Ma*, and Alan L. Yuille. "Semi-Supervised Sparse Representation Based Classification for Face Recognition with Insufficient Labeled Samples", IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 26(5), pp. 2545-2560, 2017.
19. Jiayi Ma, Ji Zhao, Hanqi Guo, Junjun Jiang, Huabing Zhou, and Yuan Gao. "Locality Preserving Matching", in Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), pp. 4492-4498, 2017. 
20. Fan Fan, Yong Ma, Chang Li, Xiaoguang Mei, Jun Huang, and Jiayi Ma*. "Hyperspectral Image Denoising with Superpixel Segmentation and Low-Rank Representation", Information Sciences, 397, pp. 48-68, 2017.
21. Xiaojie Guo, Yu Li, and Jiayi Ma. "Mutually Guided Image Filtering", in Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACMMM), pp. 1283-1290, 2017. 
22. Zheng Wang, Ruimin Hu, Yi Yu, Junjun Jiang, Jiayi Ma, and Shin'Ichi Satoh. "Statistical Inference of Gaussian-Laplace Distribution for Person Verification", in Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACMMM), pp. 1609-1617, 2017. 
23. Jiayi Ma, Junjun Jiang, Chengyin Liu, and Yansheng Li. "Feature Guided Gaussian Mixture Model with Semi-Supervised EM and Local Geometric Constraint for Retinal Image Registration", Information Sciences, 417, pp. 128-142, 2017.
24. Ji Zhao and Jiayi Ma*. "Visual Homing by Robust Interpolation for Sparse Motion Flow", in Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp. 1282-1288, 2017.
25. Yansheng Li, Yongjun Zhang, Xin Huang, Hu Zhu, and Jiayi Ma. "Large-Scale Remote Sensing Image Retrieval by Deep Hashing Neural Networks", IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 56(2), pp. 950-965, 2018.
26. Jiayi Ma, Ji Zhao, Junjun Jiang, Huabing Zhou, Yu Zhou, Zheng Wang, and Xiaojie Guo. "Visual Homing via Guided Locality Preserving Matching", in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp. 7254-7261, 2018.
27. Junjun Jiang, Jiayi Ma*, Chen Chen, Zhongyuan Wang, and Lizhe Wang. "SuperPCA: A Superpixelwise Principal Component Analysis Approach for Unsupervised Feature Extraction of Hyperspectral Imagery", IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 56(8), pp. 4581-4593, 2018.
28. Jiayi Ma, Junjun Jiang, Huabing Zhou, Ji Zhao, and Xiaojie Guo. "Guided Locality Preserving Feature Matching for Remote Sensing Image Registration", IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 56(8), pp. 4435-4447, 2018.
29. Haiyan Fan, Chang Li, Yulan Guo, Gangyao Kuang, and Jiayi Ma. "Spatial-Spectral Total Variation Regularized Low-Rank Tensor Decomposition for Hyperspectral Image Denoising", IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 56(10), pp. 6196-6213, 2018.
30. Junjun Jiang, Yi Yu, Jinhui Hu, Suhua Tang, and Jiayi Ma. "Deep CNN Denoiser and Multi-layer Neighbor Component Embedding for Face Hallucination", in Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), pp. 771-778, 2018. 
31. Yansheng Li, Yongjun Zhang, Xin Huang, and Jiayi Ma. "Learning Source-Invariant Deep Hashing Convolutional Neural Networks for Cross-Source Remote Sensing Image Retrieval", IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 56(11), pp. 6521-6536, 2018.
32. Jiayi Ma, Jia Wu, Ji Zhao, Junjun Jiang, Huabing Zhou, and Quan Z. Sheng. "Nonrigid Point Set Registration with Robust Transformation Learning under Manifold Regularization", IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 2018, In Press.
33. Jiayi Ma, Yong Ma, and Chang Li. "Infrared and visible image fusion methods and applications: A survey", Information Fusion, 45, pp. 153-178, 2019.
34. Jiayi Ma, Ji Zhao, Junjun Jiang, Huabing Zhou, and Xiaojie Guo. "Locality Preserving Matching", International Journal of Computer Vision, 127(5), pp. 512-531, 2019.
35. Junjun Jiang, Yi Yu, Suhua Tang, Jiayi Ma, Akiko Aizawa, and Kiyoharu Aizawa. "Context-Patch based Face Hallucination via Thresholding Locality-Constrained Representation and Reproducing Learning", IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 2018, In Press.
36. Junjun Jiang, Yi Yu, Zheng Wang, Xianming Liu, and Jiayi Ma. "Graph-Regularized Locality-Constrained Joint Dictionary and Residual Learning for Face Sketch Synthesis", IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 28(2), pp. 628-641, 2019.
37. Junjun Jiang, Jiayi Ma*, Zheng Wang, Chen Chen, and Xianming Liu. "Hyperspectral Image Classification in the Presence of Noisy Labels", IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 57(2), pp. 851-865, 2019.
38. Jiayi Ma, Wei Yu, Pengwei Liang, Chang Li, and Junjun Jiang. "FusionGAN: A generative adversarial network for infrared and visible image fusion", Information Fusion, 48, pp. 11-26, 2019.
39. Xiaojie Guo, Yu Li, Jiayi Ma, and Haibin Ling. "Mutually Guided Image Filtering", IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2018, In Press.
40. Zhongyuan Wang, Peng Yi, Kui Jiang, Junjun Jiang, Zhen Han, Tao Lu, and Jiayi Ma*. "Multi-Memory Convolutional Neural Network for Video Super-Resolution", IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 28(5), pp. 2530-2544, 2019.
41. Junjun Jiang, Yi Yu, Zheng Wang, Suhua Tang, Ruimin Hu, and Jiayi Ma*. "Ensemble Super-Resolution with A Reference Dataset", IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 2019, In Press.
42. Ji Zhao, Laurent Kneip, Yijia He, and Jiayi Ma. "Minimal Case Relative Pose Computation using Ray-Point-Ray Features", IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2019, In Press.
43. Junjun Jiang, Jiayi Ma*, Suhua Tang, Yi Yu, and Kiyoharu Aizawa. "Face Hallucination through Differential Evolution Parameter Map Learning with Facial Structure Prior", Information Sciences, 481, pp. 174-188, 2019.
44. Jiayi Ma, Xingyu Jiang, Junjun Jiang, Ji Zhao, and Xiaojie Guo. "LMR: Learning A Two-class Classifier for Mismatch Removal", IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 2019, In Press.
45. Xingyu Jiang, Junjun Jiang, Aoxiang Fan, Zhongyuan Wang, and Jiayi Ma*. "Multi-scale Locality and Rank Preservation for Robust Feature Matching of Remote Sensing Images", IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2019, In Press.
46. Yuan Gao, Jiayi Ma, Mingbo Zhao, Wei Liu, and Alan Yuille. "NDDR-CNN: Layerwise Feature Fusing in Multi-Task CNNs by Neural Discriminative Dimensionality Reduction", in Proceedings of IEEE conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2019.
47. Jiayi Ma, Xingyu Jiang, Junjun Jiang, and Yuan Gao. "Feature-guided Gaussian mixture model for image matching", Pattern Recognition, 92, pp. 231-245, 2019.
48. Peng Yi, Zhongyuan Wang, Kui Jiang, Zhenfeng Shao, and Jiayi Ma. "Multi-Temporal Ultra Dense Memory Network For Video Super-Resolution", IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 2019, In Press.
49. Jiayi Ma, Xinya Wang, and Junjun Jiang. "Image Super-Resolution via Dense Discriminative Network", IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 2019, In Press.
50. Jiayi Ma, Pengwei Liang, Wei Yu, Chen Chen, Xiaojie Guo, Jia Wu, and Junjun Jiang. "Infrared and visible image fusion via detail preserving adversarial learning", Information Fusion, 2019, In Press.
51. Peng Yi, Zhongyuan Wang, Kui Jiang, Junjun Jiang, and Jiayi Ma. "Progressive Fusion Video Super-Resolution Network via Exploiting Non-Local Spatio-Temporal Correlations", in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2019.

Full list is available at https://sites.google.com/site/jiayima2013/home; https://scholar.google.com.hk/citations?user=73trMQkAAAAJ&hl=en
Codes are available at https://github.com/jiayi-ma?tab=repositories https://github.com/junjun-jiang?tab=repositories