Biography

I recieved a PhD in Intelligent Robotics from King's College, University of London. I am a Chair in Human Machine Systems at the University of Portsmouth, the Director for Biomedical Robotics and Intelligent Systems since 2005. I previously worked in industry on large-scale industrial control and system integration projects, and held appointments at the University of London and University of Aberdeen.

Research interests

My research focuses on motion sensing and understanding and its applications to human machine systems, particularly those approaches which could make contributions to the intelligent connection of perception to action with applications in exploring solutions to children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and stroke patients. I appreciate financial support from the Royal Society, the Royal Academy of Engineering, EPSRC, EU 7th Framework Programme, SEEDA, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and the British Council, as well as national and international industrial and academic partners.

Research outputs

2025

A wearable multisensor fusion system for neuroprosthetic hand

Yin, Z., Meng, J., Shi, S., Guo, W., Yang, X., Ding, H., Liu, H.

15 Apr 2025, In: IEEE Sensors Journal. 25, 8, p. 12547-12558, 12p.

Research output: Article

Dual-modal gesture recognition using adaptive weight hierarchical soft voting mechanism

Zhang, Y., Wei, S., Wang, Z., Liu, H.

7 Mar 2025, In: IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics. 55, 3, p. 1497-1508, 12p.

Research output: Article

Automatic recognition of social engagement for children with autism spectrum disorder

Wang, X., Zhang, X., Wang, Z., Nie, W., Zhang, H., Xu, X., Liu, H.

20 Jan 2025,

Research output: Conference contribution

Self-compassion, mental health, and parenting: Comparing parents of autistic and non-autistic children

Liang, K., Lai Lam, K. K., Huang, L., Lin, X., Wang, Z., Liu, H., Chi, P.

2 Jan 2025, In: Autism. 29, 1, p. 53-63, 11p.

Research output: Article

Self-supervised learning for intuitive control of prosthetic hand movements via sonomyography

Yang, X., Yin, Z., Sheng, Y., Farina, D., Liu, H.

1 Jan 2025, In: IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics. 55, 1, p. 409-420, 12p., 1

Research output: Article

2024

Ultrasound as a neurorobotic interface: a review

Yang, X., Castellini, C., Farina, D., Liu, H.

1 Jun 2024, In: IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems. 54, 6, p. 3534-3546, 13p.

Research output: Article

Training object detectors from scratch: an empirical study in the era of vision transformer

Hong, W., Ren, W., Lao, J., Xie, L., Zhong, L., Wang, J., Chen, J., Liu, H., Chu, W.

26 Feb 2024, In: International Journal of Computer Vision, 14p.

Research output: Article

2023

Action quality assessment methods for ASD behaviour evaluation

Zhang, D., Zhou, D., Liu, H.

28 Nov 2023,

Research output: Conference contribution

Analyze hand motor capabilities for potential autistic intervention: a feasibility study

Toptan, C. M., Zhang, D., Liu, H.

28 Nov 2023,

Research output: Conference contribution

Assessment of visual motor integration via hand-drawn imitation: a pilot study

Zhang, D., Lu, B., Guo, J., He, Y., Liu, H.

22 Jun 2023, In: Electronics (Switzerland). 12, 13, 13p., 2776

Research output: Article

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