About

I am a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in the School of Management at University of Bath. Before this, I worked as a Research Associate in the Psychometrics Centre, Cambridge Judge Business School at University of Cambridge. I received the Ph.D degree in Computer Science from University of Warwick in 2014. I was also a Visiting Researcher in the National Lab of Pattern Recognition (NLPR) at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

I have been working in Computer Science, Psychology and Business School departments doing interdisciplinary research investigating the relationship between human factors and computational techniques, and how humans interact with new data technologies. My current work focuses on analysing and predicting behavioural and psychological traits (e.g., personality) of human from their social network data (e.g., text, image, activities, etc), which can be applied to improve business practice in marketing and management.

News

• Our paper "How smart does your profile image look? Estimating intelligence from social network profile images" has been accepted by the ACM WSDM 2017 (accept rate: 16%). [Slides] [Poster]
• Our book chapter "Face Recognition Technologies for Evidential Evaluation of Video Traces" in the "Handbook of Biometrics for Forensic Science" is in press now.
• Our paper "The science and detection of tilting" has been accepted by the ACM ICMR 2016.
• Our paper "On the Generalization Power of Face and Gait in Gender Recognition" published in the International Journal of Digital Crime and Forensics has won the IGI Global's Excellence in Research Journal Award for 2014.

Publication

Book Chapter

1. 2016, X. Wei and C.-T. Li, “Face Recognition Technologies for Evidential Evaluation of Video Traces”, Handbook of Biometrics for Forensic Science, ed. by M. Tistarelli and C. Champod, Springer (in press) [Bibtex] [PDF]
2. 2015, B. Arbab-Zavar, X. Wei, J.D. Bustard, M.S. Nixon and C.-T. Li, "On Forensic Use of Biometrics", Handbook of Digital Forensics of Multimedia Data and Devices, ed. by A. T. S. Ho and S Li, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.[Bibtex] [PDF]

Journal

1. 2014, X. Wei, C.-T. Li, Z. Lei, D. Yi, Stan Z. Li, "Dynamic Image-to-Class Warping for Occluded Face Recognition", IEEE Trans. Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), vol. 9, no. 12, Dec. 2014 [Bibtex] [PDF] [Code]
2. 2014, Y. Guan, X. Wei, and C.-T. Li, "On the Generalization Power of Face and Gait in Gender Recognition", International Journal of Digital Crime and Forensics (IJDCF), vol. 6, no. 1, Jan. 2014 [Bibtex] [PDF] (Winner of the 2014 IGI Global's Excellence in Research Journal Award)

Conference (Proceeding)

1. 2017, X. Wei and D. Stillwell, “How smart does your profile image look? Estimating intelligence from social network profile images”, ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM), Feb., 2017, UK [Bibtex] [PDF] [Slides] [Poster]
2. 2016, X. Wei*, J. Palomaki*, J. Yan and P. Robinson, "The Science and Detection of Tilting", ACM International Conference in Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR), Jun., 2016, US (*denotes equal contribution) [Bibtex] [PDF] [Slides]
3. 2015, B.-B. Liu, X. Wei and J. Yan, "Enhancing sensor pattern noise for source camera identification: an empirical evaluation", ACM Workshop on Information Hiding and Multimedia Security (IH&MMSEC), Jun., 2015, US [Bibtex] [PDF]
4. 2014, Y. Guan, X. Wei, C.-T. Li, and Y. Keller, "People Identification and Tracking through Fusion of Facial and Gait Features", Invited Paper, Int. Workshop on Biometrics (BIOMET), Jun., 2014, Bulgaria [Bibtex] [PDF]
5. 2014, X. Lin, X. Wei and C.-T. Li, "Two improved forensic methods of detecting contrast enhancement in digital images", IS&T/SPIE Conf. on Media Watermarking, Security, and Forensics, Feb., 2014, US [Bibtex] [PDF]
6. 2013, Y. Guan, X. Wei, C.-T. Li, G. L. Marcialis, F. Roli and M. Tistarelli, "Combining Gait and Face for Tackling the Elapsed Time Challenges" IEEE Int. Conf. on Biometrics: Theory, Applications and Systems (BTAS), Sep. 2013, US [Bibtex] [PDF]
7. 2013, X. Wei and C.-T. Li, "Fixation and Saccade based Face Recognition from Single Image per Person with Various Occlusions and Expressions", IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshop on Biometrics (CVPRW), Jun. 2013, US [Bibtex] [PDF] [Slides]
8. 2013, X. Wei, C.-T. Li and Y. Hu, "Face Recognition with Occlusion Using Dynamic Image-to-Class Warping (DICW)", IEEE Int. Conf. on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG), Apr. 2013, China [Bibtex] [PDF] [Slides] [Poster] [Code]
9. 2013, X. Wei, C.-T. Li and Y. Hu, "Robust Face Recognition with Occlusions in both Reference and Query Images", Int. Workshop on Biometrics and Forensics (IWBF), Apr. 2013, Portugal [Bibtex] [PDF] [Slides]
10. 2012, X. Wei, C.-T. Li and Y. Hu, “Robust Face Recognition under Varying Illumination and Occlusion considering Structured Sparsity”, Int. Conf. on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (DICTA), Dec. 2012, Australia [Bibtex] [PDF] [Slides]

PhD thesis

2014, Unconstrained Face Recognition with Occlusions, University of Warwick, UK, Dec. 2014 [Bibtex] [PDF]

Teaching

Since 2017, University of Bath

• MN20014 Managing Enterprise Information Systems
• MN20074 Digital business innovation
• MN50361 E-marketing

2011-2014, University of Warwick

• CS130 Mathematics for Computer Scientists I
• CS403 Multimedia Processing, Communications and Storage

Media

Selected media coverage around our paper How smart does your profile image look? Estimating intelligence from social network profile images:

Cambridge News

The Bold Italic

Digital Trends

Techspot

Fusion

Professional Activity

Associate Editor

• Since 2015, Int. Journal of Digital Crime and Forensics (IJDCF)

Invited Talk

• 2017, Short course of 2 lectures, "Computational vsiual analysis techniques", University of Science and Technology Beijing, China
• 2017, Invited speaker on "Do you fit in your business school? University personality study from social media", The Jingshi Conference on Educational Data Mining and Applications, China
• 2017, Panel discussion on "Technology & methodologies in digital mental health", Innovation & Strategies for Digital Interventions in Mental Health, UK

Conference and Workshop Organisation

• 2017, Session Chair, Workshop on Hybrid Human-Machine Computing (HHMC), UK
• 2017, Workshop leader, "View from the street: visual literacy and digital photographic analysis for helping homeless people", Innovation & Strategies for Digital Interventions in Mental Health, UK

Program Committees Member

• 2017, Workshop on Hybrid Human-Machine Computing (HHMC), UK
• 2017, Int. Workshop on Biometrics and Forensics (IWBF), UK
• 2016, Int. Conf. on Advances in Signal, Image and Video Processing (SIGNAL), Portugal
• 2015, Int. Conf. on Intelligent Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing (IIH-MSP), Australia
• 2014, Int. Conf. in Information Security and Digital Forensics (ISDF), Greece
• 2014, IEEE Int. Conf. on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), China

Journal Reviewer

• IET Biometrics
• IEEE Signal Processing Letters
• Information Science
• Neurocomputing
• IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS)
• IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP)
• Image and Vision Computing
• Pattern Recognition Letters (PRL)

Conference Reviewer

• Int. Workshop on Digital-forensics and Watermarking (IWDW)
• IEEE Int. Conf. on Multimedia and Expo (ICME)
• IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Processing (ICIP)
• IEEE Int. Workshop on Information Forensics and Security (WIFS)
• ACM Workshop on Multimedia and Security (MM&Sec)

Personal Hobbies

Photography: Flickr, Instagram

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