Wei Lu

    Email: luwei@iastate.edu

     Office: 3133 Coover Hall, Department of ECE, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, 50011

     Advisor: Dr. Namrata Vaswani

   
    Research Area
     Signal Processing, Image and Video Processing, Compressive Sensing and Sparse Reconstruction, Computer Vision,
     Medical Image Processing, Pattern Recognition, Machine Learning, Optimization

      Education

    Sept.2006 - Dec. 2011  Ph.D in the Department of Electrical and  Computer Engineering in

                                       Iowa State University                                               GPA:3.83

     Sept.2003 - July 2006   M.E. in the Department of Electronic Engineering and Information Science in

                                       University of Science and Technology of China               GPA:3.8

     Sept.1999 - July 2003   B.E. in the Department of Electrical Engineering in Nanjing University of Posts

                                       and Telecommunications                                                GPA:3.92(top 2/92)

     Summary

           - Four years experience on image and video compression and restoration, signal processing, compressive sensing and sparse reconstruction,
         functional MRI reconstruction and detection (team leader), optimization

        - Three years experience on image classification, pattern recognition, statistical signal processing

        - Three years experience on image retrieval, machine learning

    Specialties

           - Solid knowledge on image and video processing, signal processing, sparse reconstruction, computer vision, machine learning, pattern recognition,
         optimization, estimation and detection,information retrieval

       - Familiar with image and video compression standard such as JPEG, MPEG

       - Familiar with medical image processing in MRI, CT and ultrasound imaging

        - Strong mathematical ability and programming skills on Matlab/Simulink, C/C++/C#, OpenCV, R

     Academic experience (detailed in Resume)

    Research Assistant                                                                           2006 - 2011
     ISU, Department of ECE                                                        Communication and Signal Processing Lab
      - Image reconstruction and detection with application to functional MR Imaging
       - Image compression with application in video compression and real-time dynamic MRI reconstruction  (Modified Compressive Sensing )
      - Pattern recognition and its application to human activity classification and surveillance: reconstruction and detection with application to functional MR Imaging
       - Modeling image sequences and its application to shape tracking of changing objects

    Research Assistant                                                                            2003 - 2006
    USTC, Department of EEIS                                                     Information Processing Center    
      - Image retrival based on subjective feeling
       - Remote sensing image retrival

    Research Assistant                                                                            2002 - 2003
   NUPT, Department of EE                                                       Automatic Control Lab
   - Control of chaos using time-delayed feedback

   Teaching

    Spring 2008                       Lab Instructor, Signal and System, ISU

     Fall 2006                              Lab Instructor, Digital Signal Processing , ISU

                                            Teaching Assistant, Signal and System, ISU

   Spring 2005                       Teaching Assistant, Digital Logic Circuit, USTC

    
  
  
    Paper

• Wei Lu and Namrata Vaswani,  Exact Reconstruction Conditions for Regularized Modified Basis Pursuit (Reg-Modified-BP),  IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, May 2012
• Wei Lu and Namrata Vaswani,  Regularized Modified BPDN for Noisy Sparse Reconstruction with Partial Erroneous Support and Signal Value Knowledge,  IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, January 2012

• Wei Lu,  Taoran Li, Ian Atkinson and Namrata Vaswani, Modified-​CS-residua​l for Recursive Reconstruc​tion of Highly Undersampl​ed Functional MRI Sequences,  IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2011   

• Wei Lu and Namrata Vaswani, Exact Reconstruction Conditions and Error Bounds for Regularized Modified Basis Pursuit (Reg-Modified-BP),  44th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, 2010 (invited)

• Namrata Vaswani and Wei Lu,  Modified-CS: Modifying Compressive Sensing for Problems with Partially Known Support,  IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 58, NO. 9, September 2010
  

• Wei Lu and Namrata Vaswani, Modified Basis Pursuit Denoising (Modified-BPDN) For Noisy Compressive Sensing With Partially Known Support, IEEE Intl. Conf. Acous. Speech. Sig.Proc.(ICASSP), 2010

• Wei Lu and Namrata Vaswani, Modified Compressive Sensing for Real-time Dynamic MR Imaging, IEEE Intl. Conf. Image Proc (ICIP), 2009

• Namrata Vaswani and Wei Lu,  Modified-CS: Modifying Compressive Sensing for Problems with Partially Known Support, IEEE Intl. Symp. Info. Theory (ISIT), 2009   (cited 64 times)

• Chenlu Qiu, Wei Lu, Namrata Vaswani, Real-time Dynamic MRI Reconstruction using Kalman Filtered CS, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, Signal processing (ICASSP), 2009
  

• Wei Lu and Namrata Vaswani, Wiener-Khinchin Theorem for Non-wide Sense Stationary Random Processes        Full text      Appendix 

• Wei Lu  and Lin Ni,  Kansei Image Retrieval based on Region of Interest, Proceedings of SPIE, the Fourth International Symposium on Multispectral Image Processing and Pattern Recognition (MIPPR), 2005

• Lei Niu, Lin Ni, Wei Lu and Miao Yuan, A method of Remote Sensing Image Retrieval based on ROI,  IEEE Third International Conference on Information Technology and Applications (ICITA), 2005