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Dr Hongying Meng (name)

Reader in signal processing and AI

Dept. of Electronic and Electrical Engineering
College of Engineering, Design and Phys. Sciences (Institute of Environment, Health and Societies)
Brunel University London
Kingston Lane, Uxbridge, UB8 3PH, UK
Phone: +44 (0) 1895265496
Email: hongying.meng at brunel.ac.uk


News

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Research

I have a wide research interests including digital signal processing, machine learning, human computer interaction, affective computing, computer vision, image processing and embedded systems.

Research Projects

  • Intel Neuromorphic Research Community Project - Spiking Sparse Distributed Memory Model and Its Implementation on Loihi Architecture, PI, Aug. 2018 - Dec. 2022.
  • Royal Society and National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) - Framework for image segmentation based on multi-scale feature learning, Research Exchange with Cost-share Scheme, Co-I, Mar. 2018 - Mar. 2020.
  • EU Horizon 2020 (H2020-ICT-2016-2) - IoRL: Internet of Radio Light (20 partners: https://5g-ppp.eu/iorl/), Co-I, Jun. 2017 - Nov. 2020.
  • Royal Society and National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) - Differential Geometry and Deep Learning for Dynamic Facial Expression Analysis, Research Exchange with Cost-share Scheme (with Dr Huibin Li from Xi'an Jiaotong University, China), PI, Mar. 2017 - Mar. 2019.
  • EPSRC - Image Analysis for Complex Data in Non Destructive Testing, Industrial CASE project with TWI Ltd, PI, 2016-2019.
  • Royal Academy of Engineering - Deep learning based artificial intelligence methods for fault detection in high speed railway applications, Distinguished Visiting Fellowship Scheme (with Professor Weihua Zhang from Southwest Jiaotong University, China), PI, Jun. 2016 - Aug. 2016.
  • Brunel Research Catalyst Fund, Research Visibility Award, PI, Nov. 2015.
  • Majlis Amanah Rakyat (MARA) Scholarship, PI, Mar. 2014 ‐ Feb. 2018. (PhD studentship, Malaysia)
  • School of Engineering & Design/Thomas Gerald Gray PGR Scholarship, PI, Oct. 2013 - Sep. 2016. (PhD scholarship)
  • Brunel Research Initiative & Enterprise Fund - Automatic Emotional State Detection and Analysis on Embedded Devices, PI, Nov. 2012 - Oct 2013.
  • Royal Academy of EngineeringReal-time affective state monitoring via naturalistic facial expression on embedded systems, PI, (with Professor Yangdong Deng, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.), Jun. 2012 - Sep. 2013.
  • EPSRC - Emo&Pain: Pain rehabilitation: E/Motion-based automated coaching.(as a UCL honorary research associate, project offical website), 2010-2014.

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Publications

Selected journal publications

  • (2019) Liu, S., Liu, J., Zhao, Q., Cao, X., Li, H., Meng, D., Meng, H. and Liu, S., Discovering Influential Factors in Variational Autoencoders, Pattern Recognition. [DOI] (Online: Dec. 2019)  (IF: 5.898)
  • (2019) Lei, T., Liu, P., Jia, X., Zhang, X., Meng, H. and Nandi, A., Automatic Fuzzy Clustering Framework for Image Segmentation, IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems [DOI] ( IEEE Online: Jul. 2019). [Code].  (IF: 8.759)
  • (2019) Lei, T., Jia X, Liu T, Liu S, Meng, H. and Nandi, A., Adaptive Morphological Reconstruction for Seeded Image Segmentation, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 28(11):5510-5523. [DOI] ( IEEE Online: Jun. 2019). (IF: 6.79)
  • (2018) Lei, T., Jia, X., Zhang, Y., Liu, S., Meng, H. and Nandi, A., Superpixel-based Fast Fuzzy C-Means Clustering for Color Image Segmentation, IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems. [DOI] ( IEEE Online: Dec. 2018). [Code]. (IF: 8.759)
  • (2018) Zhang, Z., Chen, T., Meng, H., Liu, G., and Fu, X., SMEConvNet: A Convolutional Neural Network for Spotting Spontaneous Facial Micro-Expression from Long Videos, IEEE Access . [DOI] ( IEEE Online: Nov. 2018). (IF: 4.098)
  • (2018) Lei, T., Jia, X., Zhang, Y., He, L., Meng, H. and Nandi, A., Significantly Fast and Robust Fuzzy C-Means Clustering Algorithm Based on Morphological Reconstruction and Membership Filtering, IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems. 26(5):3027-3041. [DOI] ( IEEE Online: Jan. 2018).[Code] (IF: 8.759)
  • (2018) Jan, A. , Meng, H. , Gaus, Y. and Zhang, F. Artificial Intelligent System for Automatic Depression Level Analysis through Visual and Vocal Expressions , IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems. 10(3):668-680. [DOI] (IEEE Open Access, Online: Jul. 2017)[Bib TeX] (IF: 2.755)
  • (2016) Meng H., Bianchi-Berthouze N., Deng Y., Cheng J., Cosmas J.,Time-delay neural network for continuous emotional dimension prediction from facial expression sequences, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics.46 (4): 916-929. [DOI](IEEE Open Access, Online: Apr. 2015) [Bib TeX] (IF: 10.387)
  • (2016) Aung M., Kaltwang S., Romera-Paredes B., Martinez B., Singh A., Cella M., Valstar M., Meng H., Kemp A., Shafizadeh M., Elkins A., Kanakam N., Rothschild A., Tyler N., Watson P., Williams A., Pantic M., and Bianchi-Berthouze B., The automatic detection of chronic pain-related expression: requirements, challenges and a multimodal dataset, IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing. 7(4): 435-451. [DOI](IEEE Open Access, July, 2015.) [Bib TeX] (IF: 6.288)
  • (2014) Meng H., Bianchi-Berthouze N., Affective state level recognition in naturalistic facial and vocal expressions, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 44(3): 315-328. [PDF] [DOI](IEEE Open Access) [Bib TeX] (IF: 10.387)
  • (2012) Gao Y. Bianchi-Berthouze, N. and Meng H., What does touch tell us about emotions in touchscreen-based gameplay? ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction 19(4). [PDF][DOI] [Bib TeX][Youtube]
  • (2012) Appiah, K., Hunter, A., Dickinson, P. and Meng, H., Implementation and Applications of Tri-State Self Organising Maps on FPGA, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology 22 (8) : 1150- 1160 [PDF] [DOI] [Bib TeX] (IF: 4.046)
  • (2006) Abel, E., Meng, H., Forster, A. and Holder, D., Singularity characteristics of needle EMG IP signals, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering 53 (2) : 219- 225 Download publication [Bib TeX] (IF: 4.491)
  • (2004) Liu, L., Chen, N., Meng, H., Zhang, L., Wang, Z. and Chen, H., A VLSI architecture of JPEG2000 encoder, IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits 39 (11) : 2032- 2040 Download publication [Bib TeX] (IF: 5.173)

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