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A new framework for the integrative analytics of intravascular ultrasound and optical coherence tomography images (2018)
Journal Article
Huang, C., Xie, Y., Lan, Y., Hao, Y., Chen, F., Cheng, Y., & Peng, Y. (2018). A new framework for the integrative analytics of intravascular ultrasound and optical coherence tomography images. IEEE Access, 6, 36408-36419. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2839694

Abstract: The integrative analysis of multimodal medical images plays an important role in the diagnosis of coronary artery disease by providing additional comprehensive information that cannot be found in an individual source image. Intravascular ul... Read More about A new framework for the integrative analytics of intravascular ultrasound and optical coherence tomography images.

CDA: A clustering degree based influential spreader identification algorithm in weighted complex network (2018)
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Wang, Q., Ren, J., Wang, Y., Zhang, B., Cheng, Y., & Zhao, X. (2018). CDA: A clustering degree based influential spreader identification algorithm in weighted complex network. IEEE Access, 6, 19550-19559. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2822844

Identifying the most influential spreaders in a weighted complex network is vital for optimizing utilization of the network structure and promoting the information propagation. Most existing algorithms focus on node centrality, which consider more co... Read More about CDA: A clustering degree based influential spreader identification algorithm in weighted complex network.

Security feature measurement for frequent dynamic execution paths in software system (2018)
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Wang, Q., Ren, J., Yang, X., Cheng, Y., Davis, D. N., & Hu, C. (2018). Security feature measurement for frequent dynamic execution paths in software system. Security and communication networks, 2018, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1155/2018/5716878

© 2018 Qian Wang et al. The scale and complexity of software systems are constantly increasing, imposing new challenges for software fault location and daily maintenance. In this paper, the Security Feature measurement algorithm of Frequent dynamic e... Read More about Security feature measurement for frequent dynamic execution paths in software system.

A Novel Adaptive Spectrum Noise Cancellation Approach for Enhancing Heartbeat Rate Monitoring in a Wearable Device (2018)
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Abt, G., Yang, D., Cheng, Y., Zhu, J., Xue, D., Abt, G. A., …Peng, Y. (2018). A Novel Adaptive Spectrum Noise Cancellation Approach for Enhancing Heartbeat Rate Monitoring in a Wearable Device. IEEE Access, 6, 8364-8375. https://doi.org/10.1109/access.2018.2805223

This paper presents a novel approach, Adaptive Spectrum Noise Cancellation (ASNC), for motion artifacts removal in Photoplethysmography (PPG) signals measured by an optical biosensor to obtain clean PPG waveforms for heartbeat rate calculation. One c... Read More about A Novel Adaptive Spectrum Noise Cancellation Approach for Enhancing Heartbeat Rate Monitoring in a Wearable Device.

An Empirical study on Predicting Blood Pressure using Classification and Regression Trees (2018)
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Zhang, B., Wei, Z., Ren, J., Cheng, Y., & Zheng, Z. (2018). An Empirical study on Predicting Blood Pressure using Classification and Regression Trees. IEEE Access, 6, 21758 - 21768. https://doi.org/10.1109/access.2017.2787980

Blood pressure diseases have become one of the major threats to human health. Continuous measurement of blood pressure has proven to be a prerequisite for effective incident prevention. In contrast with the traditional prediction models with low meas... Read More about An Empirical study on Predicting Blood Pressure using Classification and Regression Trees.

An algorithm for fast mining top-rank-k frequent patterns based on node-list data structure (2017)
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Wang, Q., Ren, J., N Davis, D., & Cheng, Y. (2018). An algorithm for fast mining top-rank-k frequent patterns based on node-list data structure. Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing, 24(2), 399-404. https://doi.org/10.1080/10798587.2017.1340135

Frequent pattern mining usually requires much run time and memory usage. In some applications, only the patterns with top frequency rank are needed. Because of the limited pattern numbers, quality of the results is even more important than time and m... Read More about An algorithm for fast mining top-rank-k frequent patterns based on node-list data structure.

Analysis of the EPSRC Principles of Robotics in regard to key research topics (2017)
Journal Article
Gning, A., Davis, D. N., Cheng, Y., & Robinson, P. (2017). Analysis of the EPSRC Principles of Robotics in regard to key research topics. Connection Science, 29(3), 249-253. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540091.2017.1323456

© 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. In this paper, we review the five rules published in EPSRC Principles of Robotics with a specific focus on future robotics research topics. It is demonstrated through a pictorial represe... Read More about Analysis of the EPSRC Principles of Robotics in regard to key research topics.

Unfalsified visual servoing for simultaneous object recognition and pose tracking (2016)
Journal Article
Jiang, P., Cheng, Y., Wang, X., & Feng, Z. (2016). Unfalsified visual servoing for simultaneous object recognition and pose tracking. IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 46(12), 3032-3046. https://doi.org/10.1109/TCYB.2015.2495157

In a complex environment, simultaneous object recognition and tracking has been one of the challenging topics in computer vision and robotics. Current approaches are usually fragile due to spurious feature matching and local convergence for pose dete... Read More about Unfalsified visual servoing for simultaneous object recognition and pose tracking.

Technology demonstrator of a novel software defined radio-based aeronautical communications system (2014)
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Cheng, Y., Xu, K., Hu, Y. F., Pillai, P., Baddoo, J., Smith, A., …Pillai, A. (2014). Technology demonstrator of a novel software defined radio-based aeronautical communications system. IET science, measurement & technology, 8(6), 370-379. https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-smt.2014.0003

This study presents the architectural design, software implementation, the validation and flight trial results of an aeronautical communications system developed within the Seamless Aeronautical Networking through integration of Data links Radios and... Read More about Technology demonstrator of a novel software defined radio-based aeronautical communications system.

Flight trial demonstration of seamless aeronautical networking (2014)
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Plass, S., Hermenier, R., Lücke, O., Depoorter, D. G., Tordjman, T., Chatterton, M., …Zaytsev, A. (2014). Flight trial demonstration of seamless aeronautical networking. IEEE Communications Magazine, 52(5), 119-128. https://doi.org/10.1109/MCOM.2014.6815902

This article presents the in-flight demonstration of a new integrated aircraft communications system combining legacy and future radio technologies. This system, developed and validated under real environmental conditions during flight trials, integr... Read More about Flight trial demonstration of seamless aeronautical networking.

A snake-based scheme for path planning and control with constraints by distributed visual sensors (2013)
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Cheng, Y., Jiang, P., & Hu, Y. F. (2014). A snake-based scheme for path planning and control with constraints by distributed visual sensors. Robotica, 32(4), 477-499. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0263574713000805

This paper proposes a robot navigation scheme using wireless visual sensors deployed in an environment. Different from the conventional autonomous robot approaches, the scheme intends to relieve massive on-board information processing required by a r... Read More about A snake-based scheme for path planning and control with constraints by distributed visual sensors.

Design of a multiple bloom filter for distributed navigation routing (2013)
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Jiang, P., Ji, Y., Wang, X., Zhu, J., & Cheng, Y. (2014). Design of a multiple bloom filter for distributed navigation routing. IEEE transactions on systems, man, and cybernetics. Systems, 44(2), 254-260. https://doi.org/10.1109/TSMC.2013.2242884

Unmanned navigation of vehicles and mobile robots can be greatly simplified by providing environmental intelligence with dispersed wireless sensors. The wireless sensors can work as active landmarks for vehicle localization and routing. However, wire... Read More about Design of a multiple bloom filter for distributed navigation routing.

A mosaic of eyes (2011)
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Jiang, P., Feng, Z., Cheng, Y., Ji, Y., Zhu, J., Baruch, J., …Hu, F. (2011). A mosaic of eyes. IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, 18(3), 104-113. https://doi.org/10.1109/MRA.2011.942119

Autonomous navigation is a traditional research topic in intelligent robotics and vehicles, which requires a robot to perceive its environment through onboard sensors such as cameras or laser scanners, to enable it to drive to its goal. Most research... Read More about A mosaic of eyes.