James Wang
Professor of Information Science and Technology
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IST Bldg
University Park, PA - jzw11@psu.edu
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Research Summary
Modeling of objects, concepts, aesthetics, and emotions in big visual data from various domains.
Huck Affiliations
Most Recent Publications
Assessment of an AI-based tool for population-wide collection of placental morphological data
E. J. Camm, G. Wong, Y. Pan, J. Z. Wang, J. A. Goldstein, A. Arcot, C. N. Murphy, H. Hansji, Y. T. Mangwiro, R. Saffery, M. E. Wlodek, C. S. Wyrwoll, A. D. Gernand, T. J. Kaitu'u-Lino, 2024, European Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Reproductive Biology on p. 110-117
Incorporating simulated spatial context information improves the effectiveness of contrastive learning models
Lizhen Zhu, James Z. Wang, Wonseuk Lee, Bradley Paul Wyble, 2024, Patterns
Tutorial on Movement Notation: An Interdisciplinary Methodology for HRI to Reveal the Bodily Expression of Human Counterparts via Collecting Annotations from Dancers in a Shared Data Repository
Amy LaViers, Cat Maguire, James Z. Wang, Rachelle Tsachor, 2024, on p. 1332-1334
Unleashing the Problem-Solving Potential of Next-Generation Data Scientists
Lizhen Zhu, James Wang, 2024,
High-Speed Joint Learning of Action Units and Facial Expressions
Feng Xu, Yifan Yuan, Junping Zhang, James Wang, 2024,
Modeling Visual Aesthetics, Emotion, and Artistic Style
James Wang, R Adams, 2024,
ExpressionFlow: A Microexpression Descriptor for Efficient Recognition
Feng Xu, Yifan Yuan, Junping Zhang, James Wang, 2024,
A deep learning model for natural language querying in Cyber–Physical Systems
Juan Alberto Llopis, Antonio Jesús Fernández-García, Javier Criado, Luis Iribarne, Rosa Ayala, James Z. Wang, 2023, Internet of Things (The Netherlands)
Demographic differences and biases in affect evoked by visual features.
B. Kandemir, Hanjoo Kim, Michelle Newman, R Adams, J Li, J Wang, 2023, on p. 331- 347
A Machine Learning Paradigm for Studying Pictorial Realism: How Accurate are Constable's Clouds?
Zhuomin Zhang, Elizabeth C. Mansfield, Jia Li, John Russell, G Young, Catherine Adams, Kevin A. Bowley, J Wang, James Z. Wang, 2023, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence on p. 33-42
Most-Cited Papers
Rapid: Rating pictorial aesthetics using deep learning
Xin Lu, Zhe Lin, Hailin Jin, Jianchao Yang, James Z. Wang, 2014, on p. 457-466
Rethinking the smaller-norm-less-informative assumption in channel pruning of convolution layers
Jianbo Ye, Xin Lu, Zhe Lin, James Z. Wang, 2018,
Deep multi-patch aggregation network for image style, aesthetics, and quality estimation
Xin Lu, Zhe Lin, Xiaohui Shen, Radomir Mech, James Wang, 2015, on p. 990-998
Microexpression Identification and Categorization Using a Facial Dynamics Map
Feng Xu, Junping Zhang, James Z. Wang, 2017, IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing on p. 254-267
Rating Image Aesthetics Using Deep Learning
Xin Lu, Zhe Lin, Hailin Jin, Jianchao Yang, James Z. Wang, 2015, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia on p. 2021-2034
POLYGALACTURONASE INVOLVED IN EXPANSION3 functions in seedling development, rosette growth, and stomatal dynamics in Arabidopsis thaliana
Yue Rui, Chaowen Xiao, Hojae Yi, Baris Kandemir, James Z. Wang, Virendra M. Puri, Charles T. Anderson, 2017, Plant Cell on p. 2413-2432
PaDNet: Pan-Density Crowd Counting
Yukun Tian, Yiming Lei, Junping Zhang, James Z. Wang, 2020, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing on p. 2714-2727
Fast discrete distribution clustering using wasserstein barycenter with sparse support
Jianbo Ye, Panruo Wu, James Z. Wang, Jia Li, 2017, IRE Transactions on Audio on p. 2317-2332
ARBEE: Towards Automated Recognition of Bodily Expression of Emotion in the Wild
Yu Luo, Y Lou, J Ye, Reginald B. Adams, Jia Li, Michelle G. Newman, James Z. Wang, 2020, International Journal of Computer Vision on p. 1-25
A recommender system for component-based applications using machine learning techniques
Antonio Jesús Fernández-García, Luis Iribarne, Antonio Corral, Javier Criado, James Z. Wang, 2019, Knowledge-Based Systems on p. 68-84
News Articles Featuring James Wang
May 17, 2023
Perception of human emotion in movement focus of $2 million NSF grant
A Penn State-led research team received a $2 million National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to study how machines perceive and process human body language.
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Dec 09, 2022
Novel 3D imaging model may show path to more water-efficient plants
Changes in Earth’s orbit that favored hotter conditions may have helped trigger a rapid global warming event 56 million years ago that is considered an analogue for modern climate change, according to an international team of scientists.
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Nov 08, 2022
High-tech tool to perform low-cost health screening for newborns and mothers
In 2017, nearly 300,000 women died during or following childbirth, but most of those could have been prevented, according to the World Health Organization. Additionally, four million babies die each year before reaching their first birthday.
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Jul 20, 2022
James Wang earns fourth consecutive Amazon Research Award
James Wang, distinguished professor in the Penn State College of Information Sciences and Technology, is the recipient of an Amazon Research Award for the fourth consecutive year.
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