About

Jiahui Yu is a prolific researcher specializing in human-robot interaction, computer vision, and autonomous robotics systems. His work sits at the intersection of deep learning and robotics, with a particular focus on enabling intelligent perception and interaction in complex and constrained environments, including space robotics applications. Yu's most impactful contributions center on advancing object and hand detection in human-robot interaction scenarios. His deep temporal model for identity-aware hand detection (43 citations) and his attentional spatiotemporal LSTM-based object detector (34 citations) tackle critical challenges in small-object recognition and temporal feature modeling, particularly for space human-robot interaction. Complementing this, his discriminative deep model for human action recognition (42 citations) addresses the difficulty of distinguishing prolonged and visually similar activities, earning widespread recognition in the field. Beyond perception, Yu has made meaningful contributions to autonomous navigation, developing a 2D LiDAR-based indoor mobile robot navigation system (28 citations) and smooth path planning algorithms for unknown environments. His broader portfolio spans gesture-based interaction systems, facial expression recognition for rehabilitation robotics, and motor optimization for space robots, reflecting a versatile research vision aimed at making robots more perceptive, responsive, and practically deployable across real-world domains.

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H-Index
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🏆 Most Cited Paper
Deep Temporal Model-Based Identity-Aware Hand Detection for Space Human–Robot Interaction
43 citations · 2021
📈 Most Prolific Year: 2023 (3 Papers)
🤝 Key Collaborators: 37
🏛 Institutions: University of Portsmouth, Shenyang Ligong University, Shenzhen Academy of Robotics, Zhejiang University, Nanjing University, State Key Laboratory of Modern Optical Instruments

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