My research interests include:

• Image Processing and Analysis, Computer Vision, Pattern Analysis
• Affective Computing, Human-Computer Interaction, Graphical Animation and UI Design
• Mobile Social Networking, Social Networking Analysis and Service, Opportunistic Networking

After joining NRC, I took part in several research projects in the field of image processing, computer vision, and pattern recognition. My delightful experience of two NRC achievement awards comes from the contribution to camera OCR related research and technology transfer. From 2008, I was responsible to ramp up a new research team, Mobile Social Networking, in the Rich Context Modeling focus area.

 Selected pulications:

• Anbang Yao, Guijin Wang, Xinggang Lin, Xiujuan Chai, Hao Wang, Particle Filtering and Kernel Association for Object Tracking with Scale Adaptation, submitted to IEEE Transaction on Image Processing.
• Anbang Yao, Guijin Wang, Xinggang Lin, Xiujuan Chai, Hao Wang, Whitened distance measure for color based particle filtering, submitted to Electronic Letters.
• Hao Wang, Kongqiao Wang, Affective Interaction Based on Person-Independent Facial Expression Space, NeuroComputing, vol. 71 (2008), pp. 1889-1901. Elsevier.
• Hao Wang, Facial Expression Synthesis and Analysis, Communications in Computer and Information Science, ICETE 2007, CCIS 23ICETE 2007, CCIS 23 proceedings, pp. 269-283, 2008. Springer.
• Kongqiao Wang, Yanming Zou, Hao Wang, 1D bar code reading on camera phones, International Journal of Image and Graphics, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 529-550, 2007. World Scientific Publishing.
• Hao Wang, Yangming Zou, 2D Bar Codes Reading: Solutions for Camera Phones, International Journal of Signal Processing, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 164-170, 2006. World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology
• Kun Yu, Hao Wang, Chang Liu, Jianwei Niu, Interactive Storyboard: Animated Story Creation on Touch Interfaces, to appear in AMT 2009.
• Shiming Ge, Hao Wang, Kongqiao Wang, Lei Xu, Interactive Sketch Template Creation from Realistic Pictures for Tracing Applications, ICIMCS 2009.
• Shiming Ge, Kongqiao Wang, Hao Wang, Feng Zhao. A Unified Gradient Domain Method for Seamless Image Processing. ICIP 2009.
• Feng Zhao, Hao Wang, Xiujuan Chai, Shiming Ge, A FAST AND EFFECTIVE OUTLIER DETECTION METHOD FOR MATCHING UNCALIBRATED IMAGES, ICIP 2009.
• Yang Ji, Nan Lin,Fan Zhang, Kui Zhang,ZhuoHong Zhu, Chunlei Fan, Hao Wang, Kun Yu, Requirement and Design Analysis for the Post-Trauma Mobile Psychology Service, SSME 2009.
• Fan Zhang, Yang Ji, Kui Zhang, Zhuohong Zhu, Hao Wang, Ning Liu, Post-Trauma Mobile Service: A Case Study of Psychological Counseling Service with Mobile Internet Technology, 2009.
• Lei Xu, Yingfei Liu, Kongqiao Wang, Hao Wang, Automatic Text Discovering through Stroke-based Segmentation and Text String Combination, ACM MM 2008. 
• Anbang Yao, Guijin Wang, Xinggang Lin, Hao Wang,  Kernel Based Articulated Object Tracking with Scale Adaptation and Model Update, ICASSP 2008.
• Xiujuan Chai, Kongqiao Wang, Luosi Wei, Hao Wang, Hand Gesture Tracking for Wearable Computing Systems, VISAPP 2008.
• Hao Wang, Expression Synthesis and Recognition with Intensity Alignment, SIGMAP’07. (full paper acceptance rate: 15%, with best paper award)
• Hao Wang, Yanming Zou, Camera Readable 2D Bar Codes Design and Decoding for Mobile Phones, ICIP’06.
• Yongbo Gai, Hao Wang, Kongqiao Wang, Hanqing Lu, A Virtual Mouse System for Mobile Device, MUM’05. (oral)
• Hao Wang, Image-Based Face Drawing Using Active Shape Models and Parametric Morphing, ICNNSP’03. (oral)
• Hao Wang, Jari Kangas, Character-like Region Verification for Extracting Text in Scene Images, ICDAR 2001. (oral)
• Hao Wang, Automatic Character Location and Segmentation in Color Scene Images, ICIAP 2001. (oral)