Rencheng Song 宋仁成

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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 70 SCI papers, more than 30 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 intelligent perception for biomedical measurement or machine learning. Interested candidates are welcome to email me a resume.

Research areas

Human-centered intelligent perception and natural human-machine interaction — in particular computer-vision-based sensing of human vital signs, electromagnetic inverse-scattering imaging, and natural human-machine interaction driven by multi-source information such as video and physiological signals.

Selected publications

1. 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

   Human-machine interaction 45 citations
2. 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-based vital signs 39 citations
3. 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-based vital signs 19 citations
4. 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 inverse scattering 18 citations
5. 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-based vital signs
6. 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 inverse scattering
7. 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

   Human-machine interaction 105 citations
8. 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 inverse scattering 73 citations
9. 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

   Human-machine interaction 68 citations
10. 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 inverse scattering 32 citations
11. 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 inverse scattering 22 citations
12. 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-based vital signs 18 citations
13. 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 inverse scattering 16 citations
14. 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

    Human-machine interaction
15. 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

    Human-machine interaction 100 citations
16. 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 inverse scattering 66 citations
17. 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 inverse scattering 41 citations
18. 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

    Human-machine interaction 694 citations
19. 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-based vital signs 163 citations
20. 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 inverse scattering 133 citations
21. 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 inverse scattering 76 citations
22. 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-based vital signs 31 citations
23. 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-based vital signs 12 citations
24. 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-based vital signs 271 citations
25. 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 inverse scattering 68 citations
26. 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 inverse scattering 21 citations

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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