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Dr Ying Bi

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

School of Engineering and Computer Science(SECS),
Victoria University of Wellington (VUW), Wellington, New Zealand

Email: Ying.Bi@ecs.vuw.ac.nz
Address: Rm CO351, School of Engineering and Computer Science, Victoria University of Wellington,
PO Box 600, Wellington 6140, New Zealand

New Book

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Genetic Programming for Image Classification: An Automated Approach to Feature Learning

Author: Ying Bi, Bing Xue, and Mengjie Zhang.

XXVIII, 258pp. Springer International Publishing, 2021

DOI: https:doi.org10.1007978-3-030-65927-1

It is the first book on Genetic Programming for Image Classification.

[Book Link] [Book Code]

Survey Paper

A Survey on Evolutionary Computation for Computer Vision and Image Analysis: Past, Present, and Future Trends

Author: Ying Bi, Bing Xue, Pablo Mesejo, Stefano Cagnoni, Mengjie Zhang.

[Arxiv Link]

Call for Papers and Events

  • Applied Soft Computing: Special issue on Evolutionary Deep Learning for Computer Vision and Image Processing, 2022-2023 Call for Papers

  • Algorithms: special issue on Artificial Intelligence for Fault Detection and Diagnosis, 2021-2022 Call for Papers

News

  • Sep 2022 Our paper: A Survey on Fault Diagnosis of Rolling Bearings is accepted by Algorithms

  • Sep 2022 Our paper: Evolving Effective Ensembles for Image Classification Using Multi-objective Multi-tree Genetic Programming is accepted by AJCAI 2022

  • Sep 2022 Our paper: Automatically Designing U-Nets Using A Genetic Algorithm for Tree Image Segmentation is accepted by IEEE SSCI 2022

  • Aug 2022 Our paper: Genetic Programming to Automatically Learn High-level Features for Crop Classification is accepted by Remote Sensing [http]

  • June 2022 Our paper: A New Artificial Intelligent Approach to Buoy Detection for Mussel Farming is accepted by Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand [http]

  • May 2022 Our paper: Multitask Feature Learning as Multiobjective Optimisation: A New Genetic Programming Approach to Image Classification is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics [http]

  • April 2022 Our paper: Genetic Programming for Image Classification: A New Program Representation with Flexible Feature Reuse is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation [http]

  • March 2022 Our paper: An Object-based Genetic Programming Approach to Cropland Field Extraction is accepted by Remote Sensing [http]

  • Jan 2022 Our paper on Using a Small Number of Training Instances in Genetic Programming for Face Image Classification is accepted by Information Sciences [http]

  • Jan 2022 Our paper on Genetic Programming for Feature Extraction and Construction in Image Classification is accepted by Applied Soft Computing http]

Research Interests

My main research lies in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, and Evolutionary Computation.

  • Evolutionary computer vision, particularly image classification and analysis

  • Evolutionary computation, particularly genetic programming, particle swarm optimisation, surrogate-assisted evolutionary algorithms

  • Evolutionary machine learning, ensemble learning and transfer learning

  • Evolutionary multi-objective optimisation

  • Feature extraction, feature construction, and feature learning

  • Applications of Evolutionary Computation, including image analysis, fault diagnosis, remote sensing image analysis, aquaculture data analysis, and others