James Wang

Affiliate Researcher
Titles and Affiliations
Professor of Information Sciences and Technology, College of Information Sciences and Technology

Research Summary

Research focus is in visual database search and retrieval.

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Recent Publications

The Body in Affective Robotics: A Survey and Conceptual Positioning Using the Performing Arts as a Scaffold for Understanding Bodily Expressed Emotion

Herath, D., LaViers, A., Zhang, S., Wijesinghe, N. H., Konrad, S., Stelarc, Grant, J. B. & Wang, J. Z., Apr 1 2026, In: IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing. 17, 2, p. 1218-1236 19 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Computational Investigation of Abstraction in Claude Monet's Water Lilies Through Brushstroke Analysis

Li, J., Chun, C., Brown, K. & Wang, J. Z., Jun 1 2026, In: IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. 48, 6, p. 7129-7146 18 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

RulerNet: Learning perspective-invariant ruler representations for robust image scale estimation

Pan, Y., Mehta, M., Sincerbeaux, G., Goldstein, J. A., Gernand, A. D. & Wang, J. Z., Aug 2026, In: Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics. 134, 102805.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Refining pseudo-labels through iterative mix-up for weakly supervised semantic segmentation

Wang, Y., Yuan, K., Schaefer, G., Liu, X., Jing, L., Guo, K., Wang, J. Z. & Fang, H., Jan 2026, In: Pattern Recognition. 169, 111975.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

MUG: Multi-human Graph Network for 3D Mesh Reconstruction from 2D Pose

Wu, C., Li, Y., Tang, X., Huang, Z. & Wang, J. Z., Aug 2026, In: International Journal of Computer Vision. 134, 8, 384.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Mapping the flow of painterly gesture

Zhu, L., Chun, C., Brown, K. & Wang, J. Z., Mar 13 2026, In: Patterns. 7, 3, 101516.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate › peer-review

Deep Rank-Consistent Pyramid Model for Enhanced Crowd Counting

Gao, J., Huang, Z., Lei, Y., Shan, H., Wang, J. Z., Wang, F. Y. & Zhang, J., 2025, In: IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems. 36, 1, p. 299-312 14 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

S2S2: Semantic Stacking for Robust Semantic Segmentation in Medical Imaging

Pan, Y., Zhang, S., Gernand, A. D., Goldstein, J. A. & Wang, J., Apr 11 2025, In: Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 39, 6, p. 6335-6344 10 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Conference article › peer-review

Dissecting and Mitigating Semantic Discrepancy in Stable Diffusion for Image-to-Image Translation

Yuan, Y., Yang, G., Wang, J. Z., Zhang, H., Shan, H., Wang, F. Y. & Zhang, J., 2025, In: IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica. 12, 4, p. 705-718 14 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Guest Editorial: Special Issue on Fuzzy Affective Computing Systems

Zhao, S., Yao, H., Li, X., Wang, J. Z. & Schuller, B. W., 2025, In: IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems. 33, 9, p. 2882-2883 2 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial › peer-review

How our authors are using AI tools in manuscript writing

Bai, Y., Kosonocky, C. W. & Wang, J. Z., Oct 11 2024, In: Patterns. 5, 10, 101075.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate › peer-review

Assessment of an AI-based tool for population-wide collection of placental morphological data

Camm, E. J., Wong, G., Pan, Y., Wang, J. Z., Goldstein, J. A., Arcot, A., Murphy, C. N., Hansji, H., Mangwiro, Y. T., Saffery, R., Wlodek, M. E., Wyrwoll, C. S., Gernand, A. D. & Kaitu'u-Lino, T. J., Aug 2024, In: European Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Reproductive Biology. 299, p. 110-117 8 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Cross-modal contrastive learning for unified placenta analysis using photographs

Pan, Y., Mehta, M., Goldstein, J. A., Ngonzi, J., Bebell, L. M., Roberts, D. J., Carreon, C. K., Gallagher, K., Walker, R. E., Gernand, A. D. & Wang, J. Z., Dec 13 2024, In: Patterns. 5, 12, 101097.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Hopfield and Hinton's neural network revolution and the future of AI

Wang, J. Z. & Wyble, B. P., Nov 8 2024, In: Patterns. 5, 11, 101094.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate › peer-review

HICEM: A High-Coverage Emotion Model for Artificial Emotional Intelligence

Wortman, B. & Wang, J. Z., 2024, In: IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing. 15, 3, p. 1136-1152 17 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review