Dr. Hui Liu
Enrique-Schmidt-Str. 5
Cartesium, Room 2.14
28359 Bremen
+49(0)421-218-64278
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I studied electrical engineering at the Technical University of Berlin (Dipl.-Ing., 2009) and information and communication systems at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (M.Sc., 2011). Since 2016, I have been a researcher for biosignal processing, human activity recognition, virtual reality, music information retrieval, and multidisciplinary application of AI at the Cognitive Systems Lab of the University of Bremen, where I received my Ph.D. (2021). I am co-responsible for three multipartner projects: Arthrokinemat (intelligent knee bandage), IntEL4CoRo (interactive learning for cognitive robotics), and NF-BWB (young talent development). I developed the first smart knee bandage that recognizes users' activities in real-time (Best Student Paper, BIODEVICES 2019) and proposed Motion Units, an activity modeling method with interpretability, generalizability, and expandability, rationalizing kinesiology and speech recognition knowledge into human activity research (2021). Two papers on high-level feature design (co-author) and music signal processing (first author) were the Best Paper Finalists by BIOSIGNALS 2022 and SIGMAP 2022, respectively. Seven articles for which I am the single first or/and corresponding author were marked as "Highly Cited Paper" (top 1%) and "Hot paper" (top 0.1%) by World of Science. I collected and released the 19-channel, 22-activity, 20-subject human activity dataset CSL-SHARE (2021). A dataset of ECG acquisition artifacts called sensORder was published under my guidance (2024). I received the following third-party funding and awards: the Erasmus Teaching Mobility Award (2018), the CAMPUSiDEEN Public Choice Award for advanced sensing and recognition technology (2022), and the YERUN Research Mobility Award (2022/2023). I served as a PC for 17th BIOSIGNALS, and will be a TPC for 2nd ArtInHCI, Pub.C. for 2nd AIGC, as well as an AC for 33rd ICANN and 7th CEII. I am an editorial member of several international journals, and was awarded Sensors 2023 Outstanding Reviewer.
Recently, my international collaboration has expanded to AI for energy, assistance tool for amateur singers and exoskeletons, among others, for which a considerable number of topics are carried out in parallel. I always eagerly await new interdisciplinary and cross-border cooperation in various fields!
Awards for Scientific Publications
2019 Best Student Paper Award, first author, BIODEVICES (BIOSTEC), with Schultz, : A Wearable Real-Time Human Activity Recognition System using Biosensors Integrated into a Knee Bandage
2022 Best Student Paper Finalist, second author, BIOSIGNALS (BIOSTEC), with Y. Hartmann and T. Schultz: Interpretable High-Level Features for Human Activity Recognition
2022 Best Paper Finalist, first author, SIGMAP, with T. Xue and T. Schultz: Merged Pitch Histogram and Pitch-Duration Histogram
2023 Hot Paper (top 0.1% in Engineering) and Highly Cited Paper (top 1% in Engineering) by World of Science (WoS), corresponding author, IEEE Access, mit M. K. A. Jannat, M. S. Islam, und S-H Yang: Efficient Wi-Fi-Based Human Activity Recognition Using Adaptive Antenna Elimination
2023 Hot Paper and Highly Cited Paper in Biology & Biochemistry by WoS, corresponding author, Front. Physiol., mit L. Cai, S. Yan, C. Ouyang, T. Zhang, J. Zhu, L. Chen, und X. Ma: Muscle Synergies in Joystick Manipulation
2023 Hot Paper and Highly Cited Paper in Biology & Biochemistry by WoS, corresponding author, Front. Physiol., mit J. Li, JW. Li, C. Wang, F. J. Verbeek, and T. Schultz: Outlier detection using iterative adaptive mini-minimum spanning tree generation with applications on medical data
2024 Hot Paper and Highly Cited Paper in Engineering by WoS, first and corresponding author, IEEE Sensors, mit S. Zhang, H. Gamboa, T. Xue, C. Zhou, und T. Schultz: Taxonomy and Real-Time Classification of Artifacts during Biosignal Acquisition: A Starter Study and Dataset of ECG
2024 Hot Paper and Highly Cited Paper in Biology & Biochemistry by WoS, corresponding author, Front. Physiol., mit D. Khan, M. Alonazi, M. Abdelhaq, N. Al Mudawi, A. Algarni, and A. Jalal: Robust human locomotion and localization activity recognition over multisensory
Job/Thesis Information
Student Assistant/Bachelor-/Master-Thesis: Software Porting on Windows/Android (2024)
Bachelor-/Master-Thesis: Real-time Human Activity Recognition with Virtual Reality (2024)
Bachelor-/Master-Thesis: Comparison of manual, semi-automated, and automatic segmentation of human activity data (2024)
Spontaneously designed thesis/work topics related to my research interests are always highly welcomed!
Research Projects and Fundings
Arthrokinemat
IntETL4Coro
NF-BWB
ETAP (Participation in the planning)
YERUN (Young European Research Universities Network) Research Mobility Awards (YRMA), 2022
Erasmus Teaching Staff Mobility für Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal), 2018
Academic Activities and Contributions
Editorial Board
Editor
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
Guest Editor
Biosensors (Q1, IF5.4)
Your contribution is welcome: Innovative Technologies of Acquiring, Processing, Modeling, or Utilizing Biomedical and Physiological Signals from Biosensing
Your contribution is welcome: Sensors for Human Activity Recognition: 3rd Edition
Sensors (Q2, IF3.9)
Your contribution is welcome: Sensors for Human Activity Recognition: 3rd Edition
Your contribution is welcome: Electroencephalogram/Electromyogram-Based Sensing Technologies for Biomedical Applications: Challenges and Possible Application
Program Chair
BIOSIGNALS 2024 (in BIOSTEC 2024) – 17th International Conference on Bio-Inspired Systems and Signal Processing (Rome, Italy)
Technical Program Co-Chair
ArtInHCI 2024 – 2nd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Human-Computer Interaction (Kunming, China; Malaysia)
Area Chair
ICANN 2024 – 33rd International Conference on Bio-Inspired Systems and Signal Processing (Lugano, Switzerland)
CEII 2024 – 7th Asia Conference on Cognitive Engineering and Intelligent Interaction, Singapore (Singapore)
Publicity Chair
AIGC 2024 – 2nd International Conference on AI-Generated Content
Session Chair
HEALTHINF 2022 (in BIOSTEC 2022) – 15th International Conference on Health Informatics (Vienna, Austria)
SIGMAP 2022 – 19th International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications (Lisbon, Portugal)
BIOSTEC 2023 – 16th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies (Lisbon, Portugal)
Keynote/Invited/Tutorial Speaker
Academics and Art, Verein der CDHAW-Absolventen und Mitglieder der Tongji-Universität, Düsseldorf, Germany, 2018
From Offline towards Real-Time, BIOSTEC 2019 — 12th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies, Prague, Czech
Smart Bandage, KIT Adaptive Systems Talks, Karlsruhe, Germany, 2022
Peer Reviewer
For 43 international journals, including Nat. Commun., IEEE Sens. J., Biomed. Signal Process. Control, Geo-Spat. Inf. Sci., Remote Sens., Foods, Front. Plant Sci., Front. Bioeng. Biotechnol., Front. Med., Physiol. Meas., Phys. Scr., Biomimetics, Smart Cities, and Biosensors
For various conferences, including IEEE BSN and BHI; ACM ICMI, ISWC, and AUTOMOTIVEUI; ITG
2023 Outstanding Reviewer Award of Sensors
IOP Trusted Reviewer in recognition of an exceptionally high level of peer review competence
Open-Source Codebanks, datasets, and Tutorial Contributor
Industry-Oriented activities
Bremen.AI 2019
- Demonstration of real-time human activity recognition
- Demonstration of MR game platform for rehabilitation assistance
MindDay 2021 (Bremen)
- Demonstration of an intelligent knee bandage
CAMPUSiDEEN 2022
Golden Panda 2022 Global Competition of Innovation and Entrepreneurship
- Judge
Courses
Hot Topics in Sensors and Human Activity Research
Thursday 14:00 – 16:00
Biosignals and User Interfaces
Tuesday 14:15 – 16:15
Wednesday 16:15 – 17:15
- Scoreboard_2020
Selected Topics of Cognitive Systems
Fundamentals of Machine Learning (Partially: Clustering)
Software Project II
Bachelor Project: RoboARinth (Winter Semester 2020/2021, Summer Semester 2021)
Publications (Inhouse)
Forthcoming:
Muscle Synergy and Co-Contraction Effects on Joystick Manipulation (Book Chapter). Ouyang, C., Cai, L.*, Yan, S., Zhang, T., Zhu, J., Chen, L., and Liu, H.* (2024). In Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies, Springer Nature Switzerland.
EMG-Based Action Unit Recognition: Feature Engineering, Machine Learning, and Real-Time Classification (Book Chapter). Liu, H.*, Veldanda, A., Koschke, R., Schultz, T., and Küster, D.* (2024). In Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies, Springer Nature Switzerland.
Sensors for Human Activity II (Book). Liu, H., Gamboa, H., and Schultz, T. (eds.) (2024). MDPI.