Hui Yu
Prof. Hui Yu is the leader of Visual Computing Group at the University of Portsmouth. He previously held an appointment with the University of Glasgow. He has won prizes for his study and research including Excellent Undergraduate Prize (provincial level), the Best PhD Thesis Prize, EPSRC DHPA Awards (PhD) and Vice Chancellor Travel Prize. Prof. Yu is an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems. He is a member of the Peer Review College of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), UK.
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Research Interests
- Vision, parallel vision
- Visual computing and machine learning
- 3D/4D sensing, reconstruction and geometric processing
- Human motion understanding and affective analysis
Professional Activities
- Co-Chair, Technical Committee on Intelligent Systems to Human-aware Sustainability, IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society
- Industrial Fellow, Royal Academy of Engineering
- Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems
- Associate Editor, Neurocomputing journal
- Lead Guest Editor, Special Issue on Advanced Understanding and Modeling of Human Motions, Multimedia Tools and Applications, 2015
- Co-Guest Editor, Special Issue on Robot and Neuroscience Technology: Computational and Engineering Approaches in Medicine, Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience, 2015
- General Chair, 2018 International Conference on Information Management and Processing, London, UK, 2018
- General Chair, the 9th Inter. Conf. on Graphic and Image Processing, Qingdao, China, 2017
- Workshop Chair, 14th IEEE Inter. Conf. on Ubiq. Intelli. and Comput., San Fransisco, 2017
- Program Chair, IEEE Inter. Conf. on Cyber, Physical, and Social Computing, UK, 2017
- Publicity Chair, 23rd IEEE Inter. Conf. on Automation and Computing, Huddersfield, UK, 2017
- Co-Guest Editor, Special Issue on Robot and Neuroscience Technology: Computational and Engineering Approaches in Medicine, Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience, 2015
- Keynote Speaker, International Conference on Image, Vision and Computing, UK, 2016
- Keynote Speaker, IEEE Inter. Conf. on Imaging, Vision & Pattern Recognition, Dhaka, 2017
- Plenary speaker, Inter. Conf. on Graphics and Image Processing, Singapore, 2015
- Invited Seminar Speaker, Loughborough University, 26th March 2014
- Invited Seminar Speaker (Sponsored by IEEE System, Man and Cybernetics Society Japan Chapter and ISCIE Japanese Society), Tokyo Metropolitan University Japan, 2nd Dec. 2014
- Invited Seminar Speaker, Aberystwyth University, 16th Feb. 2015
- Invited Seminar Speaker, University of Aizu Japan, 15th Jan. 2015
- Invited Lecture, HRI Summer School, Finland, 24th -28th Aug. 2015
Publications
[1] Xiaoqiang Yan, Yangdong Ye, Hui Yu, and Milos Manic. "CMIB: unsupervised image object categorization in multiple visual contexts." IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 2019.
[2] Jianwen Lou, Yiming Wang, Charles Nduka, Mahyar Hamedi, Ifigeneia Mavridou, Fei-Yue Wang and Hui Yu. "Realistic facial expression reconstruction for VR HMD users." IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 2019.
[3] Xinghui Dong, Junyu Dong, Guimei Sun, Yuanxu Duan, Lin Qi, and Hui Yu. "Learning-based texture synthesis and automatic inpainting using support vector machines." IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 66(6):4777-4787, 2019.
[4] Muwei Jian, Junyu Dong, Maoguo Gong, Hui Yu, Liqiang Nie, Yilong Yin, and Kin-Man Lam. “Learning the traditional art of Chinese calligraphy via three-dimensional reconstruction and assessment.” IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 2019.
[5] Yiming Wang, Hui Yu, Junyu Dong, Brett Stevens, and Honghai Liu. “Facial expression-aware face frontalization.” In Asian Conference on Computer Vision(ACCV), pp. 375-388. Springer, Cham, 2016. [pdf]
[6] Hui Yu and Honghai Liu. “Regression-based facial expression optimization.” IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems 44, no. 3 (2014): 386-394.