2023/01 - Now, I am a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Intelligent Robotics, Fudan University. Supervisor: Prof. Wenqiang Zhang.

2019/09 - 2023/01, I was a Ph.D. student (Outstanding Graduate of Shanghai) in Academy for Engineering and Technology, Fudan University, China. Supervisor: Prof. Wenqiang Zhang.

2016/09 - 2019/07, I was a Master student (Outstanding Graduate of Shanghai) in College of Information Technology, Shanghai Ocean University, China. Supervisor: Prof. Dongmei Huang and Prof. Wei Song.

Research Interests:

My primary reseach interests include artificial intelligence,computer vision, and image processing, Affective Computing, particularly in the domains of

Facial Expression Recognition. The purpose is to design AI models to perceive and understand human emotion from facial images or videos. The specific research topics are

1. Pose/occlusion-free Facial Expression Recognition
2. Dataset Construction for Dynamic Facial Expression Recognition and Benchmark
3. Dynamic Facial Expression Recognition
4. Knowledge-aware Dynamic Facial Expression Recognition
5. Cross-domain Dynamic Facial Expression Recognition

Image Restorationand and Enhancement, Underwater Imaging. The purpose is to develop algorithms to process an image so that result is more suitable than original image or video for specific application. The specific research topics are

1. Enhancing the images captured in adverse weather (hazy, foggy, sandy, dusty, rainy, snowy day) in terms of pixel distribution
2. Restoring images captured in special circumstances or devices (underwater and weak illumination) in terms of optical imaging mechanism
3. General Image Enhancement and Restoration

Recent News:

• 2022/06 --Two paper has been accepted by ACMMM 2022
• 2022/03 --One paper has been accepted by Information Fusion
• 2022/02 --One paper has been accepted by 2022
• 2021/11 --One paper has been accepted by AAAI 2022
• 2020/09 --One paper has been accepted by IEEE Trans. Broadcasting

Projects:

A Systematic Review on Affective Computing: Emotion Models, Databases, and Recent Advances
Accepted for Information Fusion, 2022
Yan Wang, Wei Song, Wei Tao, Dawei Yang, Antonio Liotta,Dawei Yang, Xinlei Li, Shuyong Gao, Yixuan Sun, Weifeng Ge, Wei Zhang, and Wenqiang Zhang.
PDF| Project Page| Github

FERV39k: A Large-Scale Multi-Scene Dataset for Facial Expression Recognition in Videos
CVPR, 2022
Yan Wang, Yixuan Sun, Yiwen Huang, Zhongying Liu, Shuyong Gao, Wei Zhang, Weifeng Ge, Wenqiang Zhang.
PDF| Project Page| Github

Enhancement of Underwater Images with Statistical Model of Background Light and Optimization of Transmission Map
IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting, 2020
Wei Song, Yan Wang⁺, Dongmei Huang, Antonio Liotta, Cristian Perra.
PDF| Project Page| Github

An Experimental-based Review of Image Enhancement and Image Restoration Methods for Underwater Imaging
IEEE ACCESS, 2019
Yan Wang, Wei Song, Giancarlo Fortino, Lizhe Qi, Wenqiang Zhang, Antonio Liotta.
PDF| Project Page| Github

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Honors & Awards:

• In 2022, National Scholarship for Graduate Students
• In 2021, first-class scholarship in Fudan University
• In 2020, Dong Scholarship in Fudan University
• In 2020, Outstanding Graduate student of Postgraduate backbone in Fudan University
• In 2020, Excellent graduation thesis of Shanghai Ocean University
• One paper is recognized as Featured article in IEEE Access.
• In 2019, Alumni Liaison Ambassador of Shanghai Ocean University
• In 2019, Outstanding graduate of Shanghai
• In 2018, National Scholarship for Graduate Students

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Professional Service:

• Program Committee Member/Reviewer
  • CVPR: 2021, 2022, 2023
  • ICCV: 2021
  • ECCV: 2022
  • AAAI: 2021, 2022, 2023
  • ACM MM: 2022
• Journal Reviewer
  • IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP)
  • IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS)
  • IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
  • IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting
  • IEEE Access
  • Pattern Recognition
  • Neurocomputing

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