Jinghao (J.-H.) Xue
Lecturer, Department of Statistical Science, University College London, London, WC1E 6BT, UK; jinghao.xue-aT-ucl.ac.uk

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Research Interests

• Statistical pattern recognition, machine learning, data mining and image processing
• Supervised, unsupervised and incompletely-supervised learning for complex high-dimensional data

Recent Publications

• Xue, J.-H. and Hall, P. (2013) Why does rebalancing class-unbalanced data improve AUC for linear discriminant analysis? IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, revised.
• Hall, P., Xia, Y. and Xue, J.-H. (2013) Simple tiered classifiers. Biometrika, 100(2), 431-445.
• Hall, P. and Xue, J.-H. (2013) On selecting interacting features from high-dimensional data. Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, in press.
• Xue, J.-H. and Zhang, Y.-J. (2012) Ridler and Calvard's, Kittler and Illingworth's and Otsu's methods for image thresholding. Pattern Recognition Letters, 33(6), 793-797.
• Xue, J.-H. and Titterington, D.M. (2011) Median-based image thresholding. Image and Vision Computing, 29(9), 631-637.
• Xue, J.-H. and Titterington, D.M. (2011) t-tests, F-tests and Otsu's methods for image thresholding. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 20(8), 2392-2396.
• Xue, J.-H. and Titterington, D.M. (2011) The p-folded cumulative distribution function and the mean absolute deviation from the p-quantile. Statistics & Probability Letters, 81(8), 1179-1182.
• Xue, J.-H. and Titterington, D.M. (2010) Joint discriminative-generative modelling based on statistical tests for classification. Pattern Recognition Letters, 31(9), 1048-1055.
• Hall, P. and Xue, J.-H. (2010) Incorporating prior probabilities into high-dimensional classifiers. Biometrika, 97(1), 31-48.
• Xue, J.-H. and Titterington, D.M. (2010) On the generative-discriminative tradeoff approach: Interpretation, asymptotic efficiency and classification performance. Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 54(2), 438-451.
• Hall, P., Titterington, D.M. and Xue, J.-H. (2009) Median-based classifiers for high-dimensional data. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 104(488), 1597-1608.
• Hall, P., Titterington, D.M. and Xue, J.-H. (2009) Tilting methods for assessing the influence of components in a classifier. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series B, 71(4), 783-803.
• Xue, J.-H. and Titterington, D.M. (2009) Interpretation of hybrid generative/discriminative algorithms. Neurocomputing, 72(7-9), 1648-1655.
• Xue, J.-H. and Titterington, D.M. (2008) Comment on "On discriminative vs. generative classifiers: a comparison of logistic regression and naive Bayes." Neural Processing Letters, 28(3), 169-187.
• Xue, J.-H. and Titterington, D.M. (2008) Short note on two output-dependent hidden Markov models. Pattern Recognition Letters, 29(9), 1424-1426.
• Xue, J.-H. and Titterington, D.M. (2008) Do unbalanced data have a negative effect on LDA? Pattern Recognition, 41(5), 1558-1571.
• Short Discussions
  • Xue, J.-H. and Titterington, D.M. (2010) Discussion of "Maximum likelihood estimation of a multi-dimensional log-concave density" by Cule, M.L., Samworth, R.J. and Stewart, M.I. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series B, 72(5), 582.
  • Hall, P., Titterington, D.M. and Xue, J.-H. (2008) Discussion of "Sure independence screening for ultrahigh dimensional feature space" by Fan, J. and Lv, J. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series B, 70(5), 889-890.

Teaching (2012-2013)

• UCL: STATG004/M004 Applied Bayesian Methods (2nd Term)
• London Taught Course Centre: Applied Bayesian Methods (2nd Term)
• ICPR2012 Tutorial: Penalised Likelihood Methods for High-dimensional Pattern Analysis

Research Supervision

• Postdoc: Tun, T.T. (2012-2013)
• PhD: Valencia Garza, M.A. (2012-)
• MRes: Wang, Z. (2012-)
• MSc: Cao, S. (2012); Wang, Z. (2012); Charalambous, M. (2010); Tan, D. (2010); Wang, M. (2010); Lee, C.-L. (2009); Meddings, D. (2009); Tan, J. (2009)
• BSc: Zou, Y. (2011-2012); Stricker, G. (2010-2011)
• Academic visitor: Liu, H. (2013-)

Prospective Students and Postdoctoral Research Associates (Expressions of interest are welcome)

• Department of Statistical Science: postdoctoral research fellowships
• UCL: scholarships and funding for graduate students
• China Scholarship Council (CSC)

Acknowledgements

• Alma mater: Tsinghua University; Katholieke Universiteit Leuven; University of Glasgow