Yan Sun

🎓 PhD, Assistant Professor, Master Supervisor

🏫 School of Computer Engineering and Science, Shanghai University

News

💬 We are now looking for self-motivated graduate candidates and undergraduate students, who have solid mathematical and coding skills, to join us! If you are interested in our work, welcome to send an e-mail with your detailed CV to yansun (at) shu (dot) edu (dot) cn.

About

Dr. Yan Sun is an Assistant Professor in School of Computer Engineering and Science, Shanghai University, China. She obtained her Ph.D. degree from University of Southampton, UK in 2018, under the supervision of Professor Mark S. Nixon and Professor Jonathon S. Hare.

She received Shanghai Pujiang Program in 2020（上海市浦江人才计划项目获得者，2020年）. She has managed 1 National Natural Science Foundation Project in 2021（国家自然科学基金，2021年）, participated 1 National High-Tech Program and 1 MIIT Special Program for Ships as a key researcher .

Her research interests mainly focus on Computer Vision, Image Processing, analyzing different types of motion in videos, including gait analysis, action recognition, object tracking and etc.

Interests

Computer Vision
Motion Analysis
Gait Analysis
Action Recognition
Object Tracking

Selected Publications

Yan Sun*, Jonathon S. Hare & Mark S. Nixon, On Parameterizing Higher-order Motion for Behavior Recognition, Pattern Recognition. 2021; 112.
Yan Sun*, Yixin Shen & Liyan Ma, MSST-RT: Multi-Stream Spatial-Temporal Relative Transformer for Skeleton-Based Action Recognition, Sensors. 2021; 21(16): 5339. [ code: https://github.com/YIXIN-85/MSST-RT ]
Yan Sun, Jonathon S. Hare* & Mark S. Nixon, Detecting Heel Strikes for Gait Analysis Through Acceleration Flow, IET Computer Vision, 2018.3.27, 12 (5): 686~692.
Zeyu Chen, Xiangfeng Luo, and Yan Sun, Synthetic Data Augmentation Rules for Maritime Object Detection, International Journal of Computation Science and Engineering, 2020, 23(2)
Yan Sun, Jonathon S. Hare* & Mark S. Nixon, Analyzing Acceleration for Motion Analysis, International Conference on Signal Image Technology and Internet Based Systems, Jaipur, India, 2017.12.4-2017.12.7.
Yan Sun, Jonathon S. Hare* & Mark S. Nixon, Detecting Acceleration for Gait and Crime Scene Analysis, International Conference on Imaging for Crime Detection and Prevention, Madrid, Spain, 2016.11.23-2016.11.25.

Projects

National Natural Science Foundation Project, 2021.01 - 2023.12 (PI, 主持)
Shanghai Pujiang Program, 2020.11 – 2022.10 (PI, 主持)
Scientific Research Fund for Outstanding Young Teachers (Key Funded Projects), 2020.01 – 2022.12 (PI, 主持)

Contact

📧 Email: yansun (at) shu (dot) edu (dot) cn