Department: Department of Information and Communication Engineering
Name: Wen YANG
E-mail address: yangwen@whu.edu.cn
Gender: Male
Title: Professor
Cell phone number: +86-27-68754367
Personal website:
Education:
1) 2001.9-2014.12 Ph.D in Communication and Information System, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
 
2) 1998.9-2001.6 M.Sc in Computer Application Technology, State Key Lab. LIESMARS, Wuhan University, China
 
3) 1994.9-1998.6 B.Sc in Electronic apparatus and Surveying technology, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
 
 
Employment/Teaching Experience:
1) 2013.11 – present Professor at School of Electronic Information, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
2) 2010.11 – 2013.10 Post-doctoral Researcher at State Key Lab. LIESMARS, Wuhan University, 129 LuoYu Road, Wuhan, 430079, China
3) 2008.09 – 2009.09 Post-doctoral Researcher/Visiting Scholar at Laboratoire Jean Kuntzmann UMR5224 51 rue des Mathématiques, 38041 Grenoble, France
4) 2006.11 – 2013.10 Associate Professor at School of Electronic Information, Wuhan Univrsity, Wuhan 430072, China
5) 2003.11 – 2006.10 Lecturer at School of Electronic Information,Wuhan Univrsity, Wuhan 430072, China
Main Courses: 1) Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
2) Machine Learning and Big Data
Research Experience and Fields of Special Interest: 1) Image Understanding and Computer Vision
2) Processing and Analyzing SAR/Optical Remote Sensing Images
Publications:
1.Wen Yang*, Bill Triggs, Dengxin Dai, GuiSong Xia. “Scene segmentation via low-dimensional semantic representation and CRFs”, EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, vol. 2010, Article ID 196036, 14 pages, 2010. doi:10.1155/2010/196036.
2.Tongyuan Zou, Wen Yang*, Dengxin Dai, Hong SUN, “Polarimetric SAR Image Classification Using Multi-Features Combination and Extremely Randomized Clustering Forests”, EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing. vol. 2010, Article ID 465612, 9 pages, 2010. doi:10.1155/2010/4656122. 
3.Dengxin Dai, Wen Yang*, and Hong Sun, “Multi-level Local Pattern Histogram for SAR Image Classification,” IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 225-229, 2011.
4.Dengxin Dai and Wen Yang*, “Satellite Image Classification via Two-layer Sparse Coding with Biased Image Representation,” IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 173–176,2011. 
5.Wen Yang*, Lijun Chen, Dengxin Dai, Guisong Xia, "Semantic Labelling of SAR Images with Conditional Random Fields on Region Adjacency Graph", IET Radar, Sonar and Navigation, vol.5, no.8, pp.835-841,2011.
6.Wei Yan, Wen Yang*, Hong Sun, Mingsheng Liao, "Unsupervised Classification of PolInSAR Data Based on Shannon Entropy Characterization Using Iterative Optimization", IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 2011,Vol.4,No.4, pp:949-959. 
7.Wen Yang*, Ying Liu, Guisong Xia, and Xin Xu, "Statistical mid-level features for building-up area extraction from full polarimetric SAR imagery," Progress In Electromagnetics Research, Vol. 132, pp. 233-254, 2012.
8.Guofeng Sheng, Wen Yang*, Tao Xu, Hong Sun, "High-resolution satellite scene classification using sparse coding based multiple features combination", International Journal of Remote Sensing, Vol.33, Issue 8, pp.2395-2412, 2012.
9.Shangtan Tu, Jiayu Chen, Wen Yang, Hong Sun*, "Laplacian Eigenmaps-based Polarimetric Dimensionality Reduction for SAR Image Classification", IEEE Trans.on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol.50, No.1, pp.170-179, 2012
10.Wen Yang*, Dengxin Dai, Bill Triggs, Guisong Xia, SAR-based Terrain Classification using Weakly Supervised Hierarchical Markov Aspect Models, IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, vol.21, no. 9, pp. 4232 - 4243, 2012 
11.Guofeng Sheng, Wen Yang*, Xinping Deng, Chu He, Yongfeng Cao, Hong Sun, Coastline Detection in Synthetic Aperture Radar(SAR) Images by Integrating Watershed Transformation and Controllable Gradient Vector Flow (GVF) Snake Model, IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering,vol.37, no.3, pp.375-383, Jul. 2012
12.Kan Xu, Wen Yang*, Gang Liu, Hong Sun, Unsupervised Satellite Image Classification Using Markov Field Topic Model, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 130–134,2013.
13.Hu Fan, Wen Yang*; Chen Jiayu; Sun Hong. 2013. "Tile-Level Annotation of Satellite Images Using Multi-Level Max-Margin Discriminative Random Field." Remote Sensing, vol. 5, no. 5, pp.2275-2291.
14.Gang Liu, Wen Yang*, Gui-Song Xia, and Mingsheng Liao, "Structure preserving SAR image despeckling via l0-minimization," Progress In Electromagnetics Research, Vol. 141, 347-367, 2013.
15.Wen Shao, Wen Yang*, Gui-Song Xia, Extreme value theory-based calibration for multiple feature fusion in high-resolution satellite scene classification, International Journal of Remote Sensing, Vol. 34, No. 23, pp.8588–8602, 2013
16.Wen Yang*, Xiaoshuang Yin, Hui Song, Ying Liu, et al., "Extraction of Built-up Areas from Fully Polarimetric SAR Imagery via PU Learning", IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, Vol. 7, No. 4, pp.1207–1216, 2014
17.Wen Yang*, Hui Song, Xiaojing Huang, et al., Change Detection in High Resolution SAR Images Based on Jensen-Shannon Divergence and Hierarchical Markov Model, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing,Vol.7, No.8, pp. 3318-3327, 2014.
18.H. Zhang*, G. Bi, W. Yang, S.Razul, and C.See, IF Estimation of FM Signals based on Time-Frequency Image, IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, Vol. 51, No. 1, pp.326-343, Jan. 2015.
19.Huang, Xiaojing; Yang, Wen*; Zhang, Haijian; Xia, Gui-Song. Automatic Ship Detection in SAR Images Using Multi-Scale Heterogeneities and an A Contrario Decision. Remote Sensing, vol.7, no. 6: 7695-7711,2015
20.Hui Song, Wen Yang*, Yu Bai, Xin Xu, Unsupervised Classification of Polarimetric SAR Imagery Using Large Scale Spectral Clustering with Spatial Constraints, International Journal of Remote Sensing, Volume 36, Issue 11, pages:2816-2830, 2015
21.Wen Yang*, Xiaoshuang Yin, Guisong Xia, Learning High-level Features for Satellite Image Classification With Limited Labeled Samples, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 53, No. 8, pp.4472-4482, 2015
22.Yu, Huai; Yang, Wen*; Xia, Gui-Song; Liu, Gang. A Color-Texture-Structure Descriptor for High-Resolution Satellite Image Classification. Remote Sensing, 2016, vol.8, no.3, pp.259. 
23.Peng, Dongqing; Zhang, Haijian; Guo, Wei; Yang, Wen.Power Transmission Tower Series Extraction in PolSAR Image Based on Time-Frequency Analysis and A-Contrario Theory. Sensors, 2016, vol. 16, no.11, pp.1862.
24.Xia, Gui-Song*; Liu, Gang; Yang Wen; et al.. Meaningful objects segmentation from SAR images via a multi-scale non-local active contour model, IEEE Trans. on Geoscience and Remote Sensing,Vol.54, No.3, pp.1860-1873, 2016 
25.Wen Yang*, Xiangli Yang, Tianheng Yan,et al. Region-based Change Detection for Polarimetric SAR Images Using Wishart Mixture Models,IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing,Vol.54, No.11, pp.6746-6756,2016
26.Hui Song, Wen Yang*, Neng Zhong, Xin Xu. Unsupervised Classification of PolSAR Imagery Via Kernel Sparse Subspace Clustering,IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, Vol.13, No.10, pp. 1487-1491,2016
27.Neng Zhong, Wen Yang*, Anoop Cherian, et al. Unsupervised Classification of Polarimetric SAR Images via Riemannian Sparse Coding,IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol.55, no.9, pp.5381-5390, 2017.
28.Tianheng Yan, Wen Yang*, Xiangli Yang,et al. Polarimetric SAR Despeckling by Integrating Stochastic Sampling and Contextual Patch Dissimilarity Exploration,IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing,Volume: 10, Issue: 6, pp. 2738-2753, 2017
29.Yu, Huai; Yang Wen*; Hua, Guang; Ru, Hui; Huang, Pinging. Change Detection Using High Resolution Remote Sensing Images Based on Active Learning and Markov Random Fields. Remote Sensing, 2017, 9(12), 1233. 
30.Yu Huai, Wang Jinwang, Bai Yu, Yang Wen, Xia Gui-Song. Analysis of Large Scale UAV Images Using A Multi-scal Hierarchical Representation. Geo-spatial Information Science, 2018, 21(1):33-44
31.Wei Guo, Wen Yang*, Haijian Zhang, Guang Hua. Geospatial Object Detection in High Resolution Satellite Images Based on Multi-Scale Convolutional Neural Network, Remote Sensing, 2018,10(1):131,doi:10.3390/rs10010131
32.XiangLi Yang, Wen Yang*, Hui Song, et al.,Polarimetric SAR Image Classification Using Geodesic Distances and Composite Kernels, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observation and Remote Sensing, 2018, Volume: 11 Issue: 5, pp: 1606-1614
33.Huai Yu, Wen Yang*, and Yan Liu, Coarse-to-Fine Accurate Registration for Airborne SAR Images Using SAR-FAST and DSP-LATCH, Progress In Electromagnetics Research, Vol. 163, 89-106, 2018
34.Yu Bai, Stefano Tebaldini, Dinh Ho Tong Minh, Wen Yang*. An empirical study on the impact of changing weather conditions on repeat-pass SAR Tomography, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observation and Remote Sensing, 2018, Volume: 11, Issue: 9, Pages: 3505-3511
35.Xinping Deng, Jinsong Chen, Hongzhong Li, Pengpeng Han, Wen Yang,Log-cumulants of the finite mixture model and their application to statistical analysis of fully polarimetric UAVSAR data. Geo-spatial Information Science 21(1): 45-55 (2018)
36.Gui-Song Xia, Mihai Datcu, Wen Yang, Xiang Bai,Information processing for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in surveying, mapping, and navigation. Geo-spatial Information Science 21(1): 1 (2018)
37.Cheng, W.; Yang, W.*; Wang, M.; Wang, G.; Chen, J. Context Aggregation Network for Semantic Labeling in Aerial Images. Remote Sens. 2019, 11, 1158.
38.Zhang, H.; Yang, W.*; Yu, H.; Zhang, H.; Xia, G.-S. Detecting Power Lines in UAV Images with Convolutional Features and Structured Constraints. Remote Sens. 2019, 11, 1342.
39.Lin, S.; Wang, J.; Peng, R.; Yang, W*. Development of an Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Manipulator Based on a Real-Time Oriented-Object Detection Method. Sensors 2019, 19, 2396.
40.Gang Yang, Heng-Chao Li, Wen Yang, Kun Fu, Yong-Jian Sun, William J. Emery,Unsupervised Change Detection of SAR Images Based on Variational Multivariate Gaussian Mixture Model and Shannon Entropy. IEEE Geosci. Remote Sensing Lett. 16(5): 826-830 (2019)
41.Gang Yang, Heng-Chao Li, Wen Yang, Kun Fu, Turgay Çelik, William J. Emery,Variational Bayesian Change Detection of Remote Sensing Images Based on Spatially Variant Gaussian Mixture Model and Separability Criterion. IEEE J Sel. Topics in Appl. Earth Observ. and Remote Sensing 12(3): 849-861 (2019)
42.Gang Yang, Heng-Chao Li, Wei-Ye Wang, Wen Yang and William J. Emery. Unsupervised Change Detection Based on a Unified Framework for Weighted Collaborative Representation With RDDL and Fuzzy Clustering, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 57(11): 8890-8903, 2019
43.Dong Peng, Ting Pan, Wen Yang*, Hengchao Li. K-Matrix: A Novel Change Pattern Mining Method for SAR Image Time Series. Remote Sensing, 2019, 11, 2161.
44.Ting Pan, Dong Peng, Wen Yang*, Hengchao Li. A Filter for SAR Image Despeckling using Pre-trained Convolutional Neural Network Model. Remote Sensing, 2019, 11, 2379.
45.Wang, Jinwang; Ding, Jian; Guo, Haowen; Cheng, Wensheng; Pan, Ting; Yang, Wen*. Mask OBB: A Semantic Attention-Based Mask Oriented Bounding Box Representation for Multi-Category Object Detection in Aerial Images. Remote Sens. 2019, 11, 2930.
46.Fan Hu,Gui-Song Xia,Wen Yang,Liangpei Zhang,Mining deep semnantic representations for scene classification of high-resolution remote sensing. IEEE Transactions on Big Data, 2020, Vol. 6, Issue. 3, pp. 522-536.
47.Heng-Chao Li, Gang Yang, Wen Yang, Qian Du, William J. Emery, Deep nonsmooth nonnegative matrix factorization network with semi-supervised learning for SAR image change detection, ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Volume 160, February 2020, Pages: 167-179.
48.Jie Xu, Meng Jiang, Lei Yu, Wen Yang and Wenwei Wang. Robust Motion Compensation for Event Cameras with Smooth Constraint. IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging, 2020, vol.6, no.1, pp.604-614
49.Xu, Fang; Yang, Wen*; Jiang, Tianbi; Lin, Shijie; Luo, Hao; Xia, Gui-Song, Mental Retrieval of Remote Sensing Images via Adversarial Sketch-Image Feature Learning, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2020, vol. 58, no. 11, pp. 7801-7814
50.Shijie Lin, Fang Xu, Xuhong Wang, Wen Yang*, Lei Yu, Efficient Spatial Temporal Normalization of SAE Representation for Event Camera,IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters,  2020,vol.5, issue.3, pp.4265-4272
51.Huai Yu, Weikun Zhen, Wen Yang*, Sebastian Scherer, Line-based 2D-3D Registration and Camera Localization in Structured Environments,IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement,2020, vol. 69, issue:11, pp. 8962-8972
52. Bishan Wang, Jingwei He, Lei Yu, Gui-Song Xia, Wen Yang, Event Enhanced High-Quality Image Recovery. ECCV (13) 2020: 155-171
53. Huai Yu, Weikun Zhen, Wen Yang, Ji Zhang, Sebastian A. Scherer, Monocular Camera Localization in Prior LiDAR Maps with 2D-3D Line Correspondences. IROS 2020: 4588-4594
54. Jinwang Wang, Wen Yang*, Heng-Chao Li, Haijian Zhang, Gui-Song Xia, Learning Center Probability Map for Detecting Objects in Aerial Images, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2021, Vol. 59, No. 5, pp.4307-4323, May 2021
55. Yang Long; Gui-Song Xia; Shengyang Li; Wen Yang; Michael Yang; Xiaoxiang Zhu; Liangpei Zhang; Deren Li. On Creating Benchmark Dataset for Aerial Image Interpretation: Reviews, Guidances and Million-AID, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, vol. 14, pp. 4205-4230, May 2021
56. Hao Li, Huai Yu, Jinwang Wang, Wen Yang*, Lei Yu*, Sebastian Scherer, ULSD: Unified line segment detection across pinhole, fisheye, and spherical cameras, ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Volume 178, 2021,Pages 187-202
57. Xiang Zhang, Wei Liao, Lei Yu, Wen Yang, Gui-Song Xia, Event-based Synthetic Aperture Imaging with a Hybrid Network, CVPR 2021, pp. 14235-14244 (Best Paper Award Finalist)
58. Xu Fang, Yu Lei*, Wang Bishan, Yang Wen*, Xia Guisong, Jia Xu, Qiao Zhendong, and Liu Jianzhuang, Motion Deblurring with Real Events, ICCV 2021
59.Haowen Guo , Ruixiang Zhang, Yuxuan Wang, Wen Yang*, Heng-Chao Li, and Gui-Song Xia,Accurate Bridge Detection in Aerial Images With an Auxiliary Waterbody Extraction Task,IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing,vol. 14, pp. 9651-9666, 2021
60. K. Yang, G.-S. Xia, Z. Liu, B. Du, W. Yang, L. Zhang, M. Pelillo. Asymmetric Siamese Networks for Semantic Change Detection,IEEE Trans. on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, in press, 10.1109/TGRS.2021.3113912
61. J. Ding, N.Xue, G.-S. Xia, X. Bai, W. Yang, M. Y. Yang, S. Belongie, J. Luo, M. Datcu, M. Pelillo, L. Zhang. Object Detection in Aerial Images: A Large-Scale Benchmark and Challenges,IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, in press, 10.1109/TPAMI.2021.3117983