Rencheng Song 宋仁成

Professor

School of Instrument Science and Opto-electronics Engineering
Hefei University of Technology
Room 613, Keji Building
Hefei University of Technology
No. 193 Tunxi Road, Hefei, Anhui 230009, China
Email: rcsong@hfut.edu.cn

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Biography

I am a Professor at the School of Instrument Science and Opto-electronics Engineering, Hefei University of Technology. I received my B.S. degree from Jilin University, Changchun, China, in 2005, and my Ph.D. degree from Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China in 2010, both in computational mathematics. From 2010 to 2012, I was a Research Fellow in Prof. Xudong Chen's group at the National University of Singapore. From 2013 to 2017, I was a Principal Scientist with the Sensor Physics group at Halliburton, Singapore. Since May 2017, I have been with Hefei University of Technology.

In recent years I have been the principal investigator for research projects including the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Anhui Province Key Research and Development Program, and the Anhui Provincial Natural Science Foundation. I have published over 100 SCI papers, more than 40 as first or corresponding author, of which 4 are ESI highly cited papers. I hold 22 granted Chinese patents and 15 granted U.S. patents. I am an IEEE Senior Member, a communication reviewer for the NSFC, and a reviewer for over 30 international journals including IEEE TAP, IEEE MTT, IEEE TGRS, IEEE JBHI, IEEE TIM and Pattern Recognition.

I am looking for self-motivated master students interested in non-contact intelligent sensing, physics-driven deep learning, or biomedical measurement. Interested candidates are welcome to email me a resume.

Research areas

My research focuses on non-contact intelligent sensing and intelligent signal processing, with an emphasis on vision-based sensing, electromagnetic sensing, multimodal fusion, and physics-driven deep learning. By exploiting the complementary characteristics of visual and electromagnetic modalities, I investigate the non-contact sensing of both the apparent and the intrinsic properties of a target. My work centres on two fundamental challenges — response modelling and robust perception in complex environments — following a problem-driven paradigm that connects theoretical innovation, methodological development and real-world application.

42 papers

Vision-based Intelligent Sensing

Non-contact perception of physiological, behavioural and psychological states from visual information.

43 papers

Electromagnetic Intelligent Sensing

Response modelling, computational imaging and inverse scattering for intrinsic target properties.

31 papers

Multimodal Fusion & Physics-driven Sensing

Multimodal fusion and physics-guided learning for robust, reliable, interpretable sensing.

Selected publications

2023

Source-Free Domain Adaptation for Privacy-Preserving Seizure Prediction

Zhao, Y., S. Feng, C. Li, R. Song, D. Liang, and X. Chen

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics

Multimodal & physics-driven 45 citations
2023

Motion-Robust Respiratory Rate Estimation from Camera Videos via Fusing Pixel Movement and Pixel Intensity Information

Cheng, J., R. Liu, J. Li, R. Song, Y. Liu, and X. Chen

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Vision sensing 39 citations
2023

Push the Generalization Limitation of Learning Approaches by Multi-Domain Weight-Sharing for Full-Wave Inverse Scattering

Wang, Y., Z. Zong, S. He, R. Song, and Z. Wei

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

EM sensing 20 citations
2023

Uncertainty quantification for deep learning-based remote photoplethysmography

Song, R., H. Wang, H. Xia, J. Cheng, C. Li, and X. Chen

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Vision sensing 19 citations
2023

Physically Unrolling Network under Contraction Integral Equation for Limited-Aperture Inverse Scattering Problem

Xu, K., Z. Qian, R. Song, X. Ye, N. Xu, X.-M. Pan, P. Zhao, S. Chen, G. Wang, and W. Li

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

EM sensing 18 citations
2023

Non-contact blood pressure estimation using BP-related cardiovascular knowledge: an uncalibrated method based on consumer-level camera

Han, X., X. Yang, S. Fang, R. Song, L. Li, and J. Zhang

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Vision sensing 17 citations
2022

Patient-specific seizure prediction via adder network and supervised contrastive learning

Zhao, Y., C. Li, X. Liu, R. Qian, R. Song, and X. Chen

IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, 30: p. 1536-1547

Multimodal & physics-driven 105 citations
2022

SOM-net: Unrolling the subspace-based optimization for solving full-wave inverse scattering problems

Liu, Y., H. Zhao, R. Song, X. Chen, C. Li, and X. Chen

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 60: p. 1-15

EM sensing 73 citations
2022

EEG-based seizure prediction via model uncertainty learning

Li, C., Z. Deng, R. Song, X. Liu, R. Qian, and X. Chen

IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, 31: p. 180-191

Multimodal & physics-driven 68 citations
2022

Patient-specific seizure prediction from electroencephalogram signal via multi-channel feedback capsule network

Li, C., Y. Zhao, R. Song, X. Liu, R. Qian, and X. Chen

IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems

Multimodal & physics-driven 50 citations
2022

Application of generative adversarial network-based inversion algorithm in imaging 2-D lossy biaxial anisotropic scatterer

Ye, X., N. Du, D. Yang, X. Yuan, R. Song, S. Sun, and D. Fang

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, 70(9): p. 8262-8275

EM sensing 32 citations
2022

Learning-based inversion method for solving electromagnetic inverse scattering with mixed boundary conditions

Song, R., Y. Huang, X. Ye, K. Xu, C. Li, and X. Chen

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, 70(8): p. 6218-6228

EM sensing 22 citations
2022

VideoCAD: an uncertainty-driven neural network for coronary artery disease screening from facial videos

Liu, X., X. Yang, R. Song, J. Zhang, and L. Li

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 72: p. 1-12

Vision sensing 18 citations
2022

Electromagnetic Inverse Scattering With an Untrained SOM-Net

Song, R., M. Li, K. Xu, C. Li, and X. Chen

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, 70(11): p. 4980-4990

EM sensing 16 citations
2021

EEG-based emotion recognition via neural architecture search

Li, C., Z. Zhang, R. Song, J. Cheng, Y. Liu, and X. Chen

IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing

Multimodal & physics-driven 100 citations
2021

Electromagnetic inverse scattering with perceptual generative adversarial networks

Song, R., Y. Huang, K. Xu, X. Ye, C. Li, and X. Chen

IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging, 7: p. 689-699

EM sensing 66 citations
2021

Fast full-wave electromagnetic inverse scattering based on scalable cascaded convolutional neural networks

Xu, K., C. Zhang, X. Ye, and R. Song

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 60: p. 1-11

EM sensing 41 citations
2020

EEG-based emotion recognition via channel-wise attention and self attention

Tao, W., C. Li, R. Song, J. Cheng, Y. Liu, F. Wan, and X. Chen

IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing

Multimodal & physics-driven 694 citations
2020

Heart rate estimation from facial videos using a spatiotemporal representation with convolutional neural networks

Song, R., S. Zhang, C. Li, Y. Zhang, J. Cheng, and X. Chen

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 69(10): p. 7411-7421

Vision sensing 163 citations
2020

Learning-based fast electromagnetic scattering solver through generative adversarial network

Ma, Z., K. Xu, R. Song, C.-F. Wang, and X. Chen

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, 69(4): p. 2194-2208

EM sensing 133 citations
2020

An inhomogeneous background imaging method based on generative adversarial network

Ye, X., Y. Bai, R. Song, K. Xu, and J. An

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, 68(11): p. 4684-4693

EM sensing 76 citationscheck
2020

Remote heart rate measurement from near-infrared videos based on joint blind source separation with delay-coordinate transformation

Cheng, J., P. Wang, R. Song, Y. Liu, C. Li, Y. Liu, and X. Chen

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 70: p. 1-13

Vision sensing 31 citations
2020

Motion robust imaging ballistocardiography through a two-step canonical correlation analysis

Song, R., J. Li, J. Cheng, C. Li, Y. Liu, and X. Chen

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 70: p. 1-10

Vision sensing 12 citations
2018

Video-based heart rate measurement: Recent advances and future prospects

Chen, X., J. Cheng, R. Song, Y. Liu, R. Ward, and Z.J. Wang

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 68(10): p. 3600-3615

Vision sensing 271 citations
2014

Multiplicative-Regularized FFT Twofold Subspace-Based Optimization Method for Inverse Scattering Problems

Xu, K., Y. Zhong, R. Song, X. Chen, and L. Ran

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, (99): p. 1-10

EM sensing 68 citations
2013

Simultaneous reconstruction of dielectric and perfectly conducting scatterers via T-matrix method

Ye, X., X. Chen, Y. Zhong, and R. Song

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, (99): p. 1-1

EM sensing 21 citations

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Datasets & Codes

LTHRV Video-based Pulse, Breathing, and Long-term HRV Analysis Dataset PV3D Physiological-assisted Visual Deception Detection Dataset BSIPL-motion Biomedical Signal and Image Processing Laboratory Motion Scenario Dataset

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Grants

2023–2026National Natural Science Foundation of China (PI)
2021–2023Key R&D Program of Anhui Province (PI)
2021–2023Natural Science Foundation of Anhui Province (PI)
2021–2022Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (PI)

Patents · 15 granted (US)

US 11,574,459Distance-to-bed-boundary inversion solution pixelation
US 11,467,318Inversion processing of well log data
US 11,525,353System and methods for evaluating a formation using pixelated solutions of formation data
US 11,299,978Multi-layer distance to bed boundary (DTBB) inversion with multiple initial guesses
US 11,098,578Quality factors for appraising resistivity LWD inversion performance
US 11,118,441Optimized geosteering using real-time geological models

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Teaching

2017–presentMultivariate statistical analysis
2019–presentNeural networks
2022–presentIntroduction to deep learning