Yufei Niu

Dr. Yufei Niu


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Academic Career Length

4Years (2023-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

Representative Publications

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14 July 2024 in Sensors
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YLYuhai Li
Yuhai Li
YFYouchen Fan
Youchen Fan
SHShunhu Hou
Shunhu Hou
YNYufei Niu
Yufei Niu
YFYou Fu
You Fu
HLHanzhe Li
Hanzhe Li
Communication signal reconstruction technology represents a critical area of research within communication countermeasures and signal processing. Considering traditional OFDM signal reconstruction methods’ intricacy and suboptimal reconstruction performance, a dual discriminator CGAN model incorporating LSTM and Transformer is proposed. When reconstructing OFDM signals using the traditional CNN network, it becomes challenging to extract intricate temporal information. Therefore, the BiLSTM network is incorporated into the first discriminator to capture timing details of the IQ (In-phase and Quadrature-phase) sequence and constellation map information of the AP (Amplitude and Phase) sequence. Subsequently, following the addition of fixed position coding, these data are fed into the core network constructed based on the Transformer Encoder for further learning. Simultaneously, to capture the correlation between the two IQ signals, the VIT (Vision in Transformer) concept is incorporated into the second discriminator. The IQ sequence is treated as a single-channel two-dimensional image and segmented into pixel blocks containing IQ sequence through Conv2d. Fixed position coding is added and sent to the Transformer core network for learning. The generator network transforms input noise data into a dimensional space aligned with the IQ signal and embedding vector dimensions. It appends identical position encoding information to the IQ sequence before sending it to the Transformer network. The experimental results demonstrate that, under commonly utilized OFDM modulation formats such as BPSK, QPSK, and 16QAM, the time series waveform, constellation diagram, and spectral diagram exhibit high-quality reconstruction. Our algorithm achieves improved signal quality while managing complexity compared to other reconstruction methods.

2 May 2023 in Electronics
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YFYouchen Fan
Youchen Fan
YWYitong Wang
Yitong Wang
KFKai Feng
Kai Feng
YLYuntian Liu
Yuntian Liu
JYJiang Yawen
Jiang Yawen
HWHongyan Wang
Hongyan Wang
In distance-selected imaging, the contrast of laser images is reduced due to long imaging distances, insufficient laser power, and atmospheric turbulence. An enhancement algorithm based on the EnlightenGAN network is proposed to improve the contrast of laser images. Firstly, the laser images are acquired using a distance selection pass system to establish the laser image dataset and expand the dataset, and the traditional algorithm is used to enhance the images and establish the mapping relationship between low-quality images and high-quality images. The global discriminator based on PatchGAN with the improved VGG model is used to regularize the self-feature retention loss and construct the depth link between the global discriminator and the local discriminator to improve the generalization ability of the model; adjust the attention map to the second layer before the CLB convolution module and also add the residual structure in the second layer CLB to improve the robustness of the model; adopt the idea of gray-scale layering with a low drop and high rise to improve the self regularization mechanism to achieve the enhancement of the key region; finally, use the improved EnlightenGAN to fit the relationship between a low-quality image and high-quality image. Finally, EnlightenGAN is used to fit the relationship between low-quality images and high-quality images, extract laser image features, and enhance low-quality images. The experimental results show that the improved algorithm improves PSNR by 12.3% and 0.7% on average, SSIM by 57% and 10.3% on average, and NIQE by 21% and 13% on average compared to other algorithms and the original EnlightenGAN algorithm, respectively. The algorithm improves the signal-to-noise ratio and contrast of laser images with richer image details. It provides a new idea for pre-processing laser images.

19 December 2025 in Remote Sensing
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YFYou Fu
You Fu
YFYouchen Fan
Youchen Fan
LYLiu Yi
Liu Yi
SHShunhu Hou
Shunhu Hou
YNYufei Niu
Yufei Niu
SFShengliang Fang
Shengliang Fang
To address the need for wide-area electromagnetic spectrum sensing of space targets from sparse Low-Earth Orbit constellation observations, this paper proposes SRFlow, a flow-matching generative model. We first construct a high-fidelity dataset covering diverse scenarios via STK-MATLAB co-simulation. By integrating multi-source priors and an iterative measurement injection strategy, SRFlow achieves high-quality reconstruction of full spectrum maps from sparse measurements. Experiments demonstrate that SRFlow significantly outperforms state-of-the-art baselines, including the physics-informed diffusion model RMDM, in both reconstruction accuracy (NMSE/SSIM) and computational efficiency (parameters/inference time), under both known and unknown target-position conditions. Moreover, it trains nearly an order of magnitude faster than diffusion models. This work contributes the first dedicated dataset for space-based spectrum sensing, introduces the accurate and efficient SRFlow model, and establishes a rigorous benchmark for future research.