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YANI ZHANG
 
I was born in Qianxian, Shaanxi, P. R. China. I got my Bachelor degree from Xi'an Institute of Technology(P. R. China) in 1993, Master degree from  Xi'an Jiaotong University (P.R. China) in 1998, Ph.D. from Nanyang Technological University(Singapore) in 2002. Postdoctoral researcher at the Vision and Image Understanding lab (2002-present) in University of California, Santa Barbara.
The current focus of my research is on medical image perception, including psychophysical and computer automated evaluation and optimization of image compression algortihms, computer model observers with nonlinear components study, and oriented texture perception.

I am also interested in the following research areas:
  •        Computer vision/pattern recognition;
  •        Image processing/signal processing;
  •        Artificial Intelligence;
  •        Industrial automation/computer-based decision & control;
  •        Engineering software development (C/C++) .
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