🚩 Hi, there！

I’m Yifan 😊. I am now a Research Associate 🧱 at the School of Airspace and Engineering, Shandong University.
I obtained my Ph.D. degree at the 🏛️ School of Creative Technologies, University of Portsmouth, in Sept. 2021. Before that, I earned my master’s degree at the 🏛️ School of Computer Science and Technology, Ocean University of China, in June 2017.
My research interests 🎯 focus on Face Perception Computing, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition .
If you are seeking any form of cooperation 🙋, please feel free 🌈 to email me at 📩 xiayifan@sdu.edu.cn.

🔥 News

2026.01: Happy New Year!!!🎉🎉🎉
2024.10: A webpage was released for the AFLFP database. Welcome to download!
2024.08: One paper was accepted by IEEE TNSRE!🎉🎉🎉

💻 Experience

Research Associate

School of Airspace and Engineering, Shandong University, Weihai, China
2021.12 - Present

📝 Selected Publications

IEEE TNSRE

Artificial Intelligence-based Facial Palsy Evaluation: A Survey

Y. Zhang, W. Gao, H. Yu, J. Dong and Y. Xia*

IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, vol. 32, pp. 3116-3134, 2024.
This work reviews the recent development of artificial intelligence-based facial palsy evaluation, discusses the existing research challenges, and provides some guidelines about future directions for researchers.

IEEE TCSS

AFLFP: A Database with Annotated Facial Landmarks for Facial Palsy

Y. Xia, C. Nduka, R. Yap Kannan, E. Pescarini, J. Enrique Berner and H. Yu

[Database@Github]

IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, vol. 10, no. 4, pp. 1975-1985, 2023.
This work presents a diverse and reliable facial palsy database that contains facial images with 16-class asymmetric facial expressions. Each facial image is independently and manually annotated with 68 facial landmarks.

Y. Wang, H. Yu, W. Gao, Y. Xia and C. Nduka, “MGEED: A Multimodal Genuine Emotion and Expression Detection Database,” IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 606-619, 2024. [PDF][Database@Github]
S. Liu, Y. Xia, Y. Liu, Z. Shi, H. Yu, Z. Li and J. Lin, “Tool Path Planning of Consecutive Free-Form Sheet Metal Stamping with Deep Learning,” Journal of Materials Processing Technology, vol. 303, pp. 1-15, 2022. [PDF]
Y. Xia, W. Zheng, Y. Wang, H. Yu, J. Dong and F. -Y. Wang, “Local and Global Perception Generative Adversarial Network for Facial Expression Synthesis,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 32, no. 3, pp. 1443-1452, 2022. [PDF]
Y. Xia, H. Yu, X. Wang, M. Jian and F. -Y. Wang, “Relation-Aware Facial Expression Recognition,” IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 1143-1154, 2022. [PDF]
S. Liu, Y. Xia, Z. Shi, H. Yu, Z. Li and J. Lin, “Deep Learning in Sheet Metal Bending with a Novel Theory-Guided Deep Neural Network,” IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 565-581, 2021. [PDF]
X. Liu, Y. Xia, H. Yu, J. Dong, M. Jian and T. D. Pham, “Region Based Parallel Hierarchy Convolutional Neural Network for Automatic Facial Nerve Paralysis Evaluation,” IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, vol. 28, no. 10, pp. 2325-2332, 2020. [PDF]
Y. Xia, H. Yu and F. -Y. Wang, “Accurate and Robust Eye Center Localization via Fully Convolutional Networks,” IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, vol. 6, no. 5, pp. 1127-1138, 2019. [PDF]

Please find my full paper list at my [Google Scholar]

📖 Education

2018.02 - 2021.09, Ph.D., University of Portsmouth, UK.
2014.09 - 2017.06, Master, Ocean University of China, China.
2010.09 - 2014.06, Bachelor, Yantai University, China.

💬 Teaching

C Programming (Undergraduate), @Shandong University
Robot Operating System (Undergraduate), @Shandong University

🎖 Academic Services

Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems, IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, Neurocomputing, etc.