Yanting Ma

- Phone: 617-621-7556
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Position:
Research / Technical Staff
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Education:
Ph.D., North Carolina State University, 2017 -
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Yanting's Quick Links
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Biography
Yanting's research interests are mainly in algorithm design and analysis for inverse problems arising in computational sensing using statistical inference and optimization techniques. Additionally, she is generally interested in applied probability and convex analysis. Her PhD research focused on algorithmic and theoretical studies of approximate message passing, as well as provably convergent optimization algorithms for nonlinear diffractive imaging. Her postdoctoral work developed principled methods for dead time compensation for single-photon detectors based on Markov chain modeling.
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Recent News & Events
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NEWS MERL's Yanting Ma completed the 2022 Boston Marathon Date: April 18, 2022
Where: Boston, MA
MERL Contact: Yanting MaBrief- Researcher, Yanting Ma, qualified for and completed the Boston Marathon on Monday April 18th. We would like to congratulate her on achieving this personal goal in an impressive time of 3:18.48!!
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NEWS MERL presenting 13 papers and an industry talk at ICASSP 2020 Date: May 4, 2020 - May 8, 2020
Where: Virtual Barcelona
MERL Contacts: Karl Berntorp; Petros T. Boufounos; Chiori Hori; Toshiaki Koike-Akino; Jonathan Le Roux; Dehong Liu; Yanting Ma; Hassan Mansour; Philip V. Orlik; Anthony Vetro; Pu (Perry) Wang; Gordon Wichern
Research Areas: Computational Sensing, Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Signal Processing, Speech & AudioBrief- MERL researchers are presenting 13 papers at the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech & Signal Processing (ICASSP), which is being held virtually from May 4-8, 2020. Petros Boufounos is also presenting a talk on the Computational Sensing Revolution in Array Processing (video) in ICASSP’s Industry Track, and Siheng Chen is co-organizing and chairing a special session on a Signal-Processing View of Graph Neural Networks.
Topics to be presented include recent advances in speech recognition, audio processing, scene understanding, computational sensing, array processing, and parameter estimation. Videos for all talks are available on MERL's YouTube channel, with corresponding links in the references below.
This year again, MERL is a sponsor of the conference and will be participating in the Student Job Fair; please join us to learn about our internship program and career opportunities.
ICASSP is the flagship conference of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, and the world's largest and most comprehensive technical conference focused on the research advances and latest technological development in signal and information processing. The event attracts more than 2000 participants each year. Originally planned to be held in Barcelona, Spain, ICASSP has moved to a fully virtual setting due to the COVID-19 crisis, with free registration for participants not covering a paper.
- MERL researchers are presenting 13 papers at the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech & Signal Processing (ICASSP), which is being held virtually from May 4-8, 2020. Petros Boufounos is also presenting a talk on the Computational Sensing Revolution in Array Processing (video) in ICASSP’s Industry Track, and Siheng Chen is co-organizing and chairing a special session on a Signal-Processing View of Graph Neural Networks.
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MERL Publications
- "Learning Occlusion-Aware Dense Correspondences for Multi-Modal Images", IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance (AVSS), November 2022.BibTeX TR2022-149 PDF
- @inproceedings{Shimoya2022nov,
- author = {Shimoya, Ryosuke and Morimoto, Tahashi and van Baar, Jeroen and Boufounos, Petros T. and Ma, Yanting and Mansour, Hassan},
- title = {Learning Occlusion-Aware Dense Correspondences for Multi-Modal Images},
- booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance (AVSS)},
- year = 2022,
- month = nov,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2022-149}
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, - "Application of Pontryagin’s Maximum Principle to Quantum Metrology in Dissipative Systems", Physical Reivew A, DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.105.042621, Vol. 105, No. 4, pp. 042621, May 2022.BibTeX TR2022-048 PDF
- @article{Lin2022may,
- author = {Lin, Chungwei and Ma, Yanting and Sels, Dries},
- title = {Application of Pontryagin’s Maximum Principle to Quantum Metrology in Dissipative Systems},
- journal = {Physical Reivew A},
- year = 2022,
- volume = 105,
- number = 4,
- pages = 042621,
- month = may,
- doi = {10.1103/PhysRevA.105.042621},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2022-048}
- }
, - "Multiview Sensing with Unknown Permutations: An Optimal Transport Approach", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP39728.2021.9415075, June 2021, pp. 1440-1444.BibTeX TR2021-047 PDF
- @inproceedings{Ma2021jun,
- author = {Ma, Yanting and Boufounos, Petros T. and Mansour, Hassan and Aeron, Shuchin},
- title = {Multiview Sensing with Unknown Permutations: An Optimal Transport Approach},
- booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
- year = 2021,
- pages = {1440--1444},
- month = jun,
- doi = {10.1109/ICASSP39728.2021.9415075},
- issn = {1520-6149},
- isbn = {978-1-7281-7606-2},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2021-047}
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, - "A Consensus Equilibrium Solution for Deep Image Prior Powered by Red", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP39728.2021.9414290, June 2021, pp. 1380-1384.BibTeX TR2021-046 PDF
- @inproceedings{Hyder2021jun,
- author = {Hyder, Rakib and Mansour, Hassan and Ma, Yanting and Boufounos, Petros T. and Wang, Perry},
- title = {A Consensus Equilibrium Solution for Deep Image Prior Powered by Red},
- booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
- year = 2021,
- pages = {1380--1384},
- month = jun,
- doi = {10.1109/ICASSP39728.2021.9414290},
- issn = {2379-190X},
- isbn = {978-1-7281-7605-5},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2021-046}
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, - "Optimal Control for Quantum Metrology via Pontryagin's principle", Physical Review, DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.103.052607, Vol. 103, No. 5, pp. 052607, May 2021.BibTeX TR2021-067 PDF
- @article{Lin2021may,
- author = {Lin, Chungwei and Ma, Yanting and Sels, Dries},
- title = {Optimal Control for Quantum Metrology via Pontryagin's principle},
- journal = {Physical Review},
- year = 2021,
- volume = 103,
- number = 5,
- pages = 052607,
- month = may,
- doi = {10.1103/PhysRevA.103.052607},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2021-067}
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- "Learning Occlusion-Aware Dense Correspondences for Multi-Modal Images", IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance (AVSS), November 2022.
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Videos
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MERL Issued Patents
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Title: "System and Method for Tracking a Deformation"
Inventors: Aeron, Shuchin; Ma, Yanting; Boufounos, Petros T.; Mansour, Hassan
Patent No.: 11,500,086
Issue Date: Nov 15, 2022 -
Title: "Systems and Methods for Blind Multi-Spectral Image Fusion"
Inventors: Liu, Dehong; Ma, Yanting; Mansour, Hassan; Boufounos, Petros T.; Yu, Lantao
Patent No.: 11,481,876
Issue Date: Oct 25, 2022 -
Title: "Systems and Methods of Fusing Multi-angle View HD Images Based on Epipolar Geometry and Matrix Completion"
Inventors: Liu, Dehong; Ma, Yanting; Mansour, Hassan; Kamilov, Ulugbek; Taguchi, Yuichi; Boufounos, Petros T.; Vetro, Anthony
Patent No.: 10,212,410
Issue Date: Feb 19, 2019
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Title: "System and Method for Tracking a Deformation"