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

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.

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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.

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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., 2025, (Accepted/In press) In: IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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A Machine Learning Paradigm for Studying Pictorial Realism: How Accurate are Constable's Clouds?

Zhang, Z., Mansfield, E. C., Li, J., Russell, J., Young, G. S., Adams, C., Bowley, K. A. & Wang, J. Z., Jan 1 2024, In: IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. 46, 1, p. 33-42 10 p.

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Incorporating simulated spatial context information improves the effectiveness of contrastive learning models

Zhu, L., Wang, J. Z., Lee, W. & Wyble, B., May 10 2024, In: Patterns. 5, 5, 100964.

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Forget less, count better: a domain-incremental self-distillation learning benchmark for lifelong crowd counting

Gao, J., Li, J., Shan, H., Qu, Y., Wang, J. Z., Wang, F. Y. & Zhang, J., Feb 2023, In: Frontiers of Information Technology and Electronic Engineering. 24, 2, p. 187-202 16 p.

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A deep learning model for natural language querying in Cyber–Physical Systems

Llopis, J. A., Fernández-García, A. J., Criado, J., Iribarne, L., Ayala, R. & Wang, J. Z., Dec 2023, In: Internet of Things (Netherlands). 24, 100922.

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