User:Markjz86

I am a second year PhD student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh. = Research interest = My research interests are machine learning, computer vision and pattern recognition. My current project involves in improving accuracy of an image classification system with machine learning techniques. I previously published papers and applied patents on visual saliency detection and handwriting character recognition. My character recognition engine then outperformed many competitive systems. = Social Computing = I am currently enrolled in a course INFSCI 2430 Social Computing.

I am interested in applying machine learning algorithms to social data/network analysis, especially visualization. Illustrating big social data, and making it illuminating to researchers in all subjects fascinate me a lot.

I am also eager to know how to enhance the performance of an intelligent system with human-computer interaction (HCI). The cutting-edge machine learning methods, e.g., deep neural network, greatly boost the prediction capability. However, machine learners do not understand the world as human brain does. The machine learning systems actually remember raining samples, but not learn them. Therefore the final solution for improving a intelligent system, I believe, is to integrate collective intelligence into machines. The reCAPTCHA inspired me a lot, I want to further study on human computation topics such as crowd-sourcing.