Dr. Qiuming Zhu's 

Research Areas and Interests

 Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Information Systems

Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery

Pattern Recognition and Neural Networks

Digital Image Processing and Computer Vision

Multimedia Network Communications

U.S. Patents: 

Invariant, Eigenvalue based, non-degenerate data structure characterization, storage and retrieval indexing method  http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6332037.PN.&OS=PN/6332037&RS=PN/6332037

Method Comprising Intensity and/or Color Gradient Based Pre-selection of Pixels Utilized in Spatial Moment Calculations in Data Structure Characterization, Indexing, Storage and Retrieval  http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6611609.PN.&OS=PN/6611609&RS=PN/6611609

Methodology for Data Structure Characterization, Indexing, Storage and Retrieval  http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6625311.PN.&OS=PN/6625311&RS=PN/6625311