Nanfeng Zhang

Dr. Nanfeng Zhang


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Academic Career Length

10Years (2017-Present)

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

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2 December 2024 in Algorithms
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SZShengpei Zhou
Shengpei Zhou
NZNanfeng Zhang
Nanfeng Zhang
QDQin Duan
Qin Duan
XLXiaosong Liu
Xiaosong Liu
JXJinchao Xiao
Jinchao Xiao
JYJingfeng Yang
Jingfeng Yang
In an intelligent driving environment, monitoring the physiological state of drivers is crucial for ensuring driving safety. This paper proposes a method for monitoring and analyzing driver physiological characteristics by combining electronic vehicle identification (EVI) with multimodal biometric recognition. The method aims to efficiently monitor the driver’s heart rate, breathing frequency, emotional state, and fatigue level, providing real-time feedback to intelligent driving systems to enhance driving safety. First, considering the precision, adaptability, and real-time capabilities of current physiological signal monitoring devices, an intelligent cushion integrating MEMSs (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems) and optical sensors is designed. This cushion collects heart rate and breathing frequency data in real time without disrupting the driver, while an electrodermal activity monitoring system captures electromyography data. The sensor layout is optimized to accommodate various driving postures, ensuring accurate data collection. The EVI system assigns a unique identifier to each vehicle, linking it to the physiological data of different drivers. By combining the driver physiological data with the vehicle’s operational environment data, a comprehensive multi-source data fusion system is established for a driving state evaluation. Secondly, a deep learning model is employed to analyze physiological signals, specifically combining Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks. The CNN extracts spatial features from the input signals, while the LSTM processes time-series data to capture the temporal characteristics. This combined model effectively identifies and analyzes the driver’s physiological state, enabling timely anomaly detection. The method was validated through real-vehicle tests involving multiple drivers, where extensive physiological and driving behavior data were collected. Experimental results show that the proposed method significantly enhances the accuracy and real-time performance of physiological state monitoring. These findings highlight the effectiveness of combining EVI with multimodal biometric recognition, offering a reliable means for assessing driver states in intelligent driving systems. Furthermore, the results emphasize the importance of personalizing adjustments based on individual driver differences for more effective monitoring.

15 July 2019 in Interaction Studies
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MLMing Li
Ming Li
LWLinlin Wang
Linlin Wang
JYJingfeng Yang
Jingfeng Yang
ZZZhenkun Zhang
Zhenkun Zhang
NZNanfeng Zhang
Nanfeng Zhang
HZHandong Zhou
Handong Zhou
Customized bus services are conducive to improving urban traffic and environment, and have attracted widespread attention. However, the problems encountered in the new customized bus mode include the large difference between the basis of customized bus passenger flow data analysis and the basis of the traditional bus passenger flow data analysis, and the difficulty in different vehicle scheduling caused by the combination of traditional and customized bus modes. We propose a customized bus passenger flow analysis algorithm and multi-destination customized bus line capacity scheduling algorithm, and display them in an intuitive way. The experimental results show that the algorithm model established in this paper can basically meet the data requirements of operation and management, and can provide decision support for customized bus line planning.

30 September 2022 in Mathematics
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WHWANG HONGGANG
WANG HONGGANG
RYRuixue Yu
Ruixue Yu
PRpan ruoyu
pan ruoyu
PPPei Peidong
Pei Peidong
ZHZhao Han
Zhao Han
JYJingfeng Yang
Jingfeng Yang
The Identification State (IS) of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) robot systems changes continuously with the environment, so improving the identification efficiency of RFID robot systems requires adaptive control of system parameters through real-time evaluation of the IS. This paper first expounds on the important roles of the real-time evaluation of the IS and adaptive control of parameters in the RFID robot systems. Secondly, a method for real-time evaluation of the IS of UHF passive RFID robot systems in dynamic scenarios based on principal component analysis (PCA)-K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN) is proposed and establishes an experimental scene to complete algorithm verification. The results show that the accuracy of the real-time evaluation method of IS based on PCA-KNN is 92.4%, and the running time of a single data is 0.258 ms, compared with other algorithms. The proposed evaluation method has higher accuracy and shorter running time. Finally, this paper proposes a Q-learning-based adaptive control algorithm for RFID robot systems. This method dynamically controls the reader’s transmission power and the robot’s moving speed according to the IS fed back by the system; compared with the default parameters, the adaptive control algorithm effectively improves the identification rate of the system, the power consumption under the adaptive parameters is reduced by 36.4%, and the time spent decreases by 29.7%.

13 April 2025 in Entropy
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PLPeng Liu
Peng Liu
CLCongduan Li
Congduan Li
NZNanfeng Zhang
Nanfeng Zhang
JYJingfeng Yang
Jingfeng Yang
LWLi Wang
Li Wang
The Transformer-based target detection model, DETR, has powerful feature extraction and recognition capabilities, but its high computational and storage requirements limit its deployment on resource-constrained devices. To solve this problem, we first replace the ResNet-50 backbone network in DETR with Swin-T, which realizes the unification of the backbone network with the Transformer encoder and decoder under the same Transformer processing paradigm. On this basis, we propose a quantized inference scheme based entirely on integers, which effectively serves as a data compression method for reducing memory occupation and computational complexity. Unlike previous approaches that only quantize the linear layer of DETR, we further apply integer approximation to all non-linear operational layers (e.g., Sigmoid, Softmax, LayerNorm, GELU), thus realizing the execution of the entire inference process in the integer domain. Experimental results show that our method reduces the computation and storage to 6.3% and 25% of the original model, respectively, while the average accuracy decreases by only 1.1%, which validates the effectiveness of the method as an efficient and hardware-friendly solution for target detection.

3 September 2025 in Sensors
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TLTianfen Liang
Tianfen Liang
HWHao Wen
Hao Wen
BHBinyu Huang
Binyu Huang
NZNanfeng Zhang
Nanfeng Zhang
YZYanxi Zhang
Yanxi Zhang
X-ray security screening is a well-established technology used in public spaces. The traditional method for detecting prohibited items in X-ray images relies on manual inspection, necessitating security personnel with extensive experience and focused attention to achieve satisfactory detection accuracy. However, the high-intensity and long-duration nature of the work leads to security personnel fatigue, which in turn reduces the accuracy of prohibited items detection and results in false alarms or missed detections. In response to the challenges posed by the coexistence of multiple prohibited items, incomplete identification information due to overlapping items, variable distribution positions in typical scenarios, and the need for portable detection equipment, this study proposes a lightweight automatic detection method for prohibited items. Based on establishment the sample database for prohibited items, a new backbone network with a residual structure and attention mechanism is introduced to form a deep learning algorithm. Additionally, a dilated convolutional spatial pyramid module and a depthwise separable convolution algorithm are added to fuse multi-scale features, to improve the accuracy of prohibited items detection. This study developed a lightweight automatic detection method for prohibited items, and its highest detection rate is 95.59%, which demonstrates a 1.86% mAP improvement over the YOLOv4-tiny baseline with 122 FPS. The study achieved high accurate detection of typical prohibited items, providing support for the assurance of public safety.

19 December 2024 in Entropy
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CLCongduan Li
Congduan Li
MZMingyang Zhong
Mingyang Zhong
YZYiqian Zhang
Yiqian Zhang
DSDan Song
Dan Song
NZNanfeng Zhang
Nanfeng Zhang
JYJingfeng Yang
Jingfeng Yang
This paper proposes a novel polar coding scheme tailored for indoor visible light communication (VLC) systems. Simulation results demonstrate a significant reduction in bit error rate (BER) compared to uncoded transmission, with a coding gain of at least 5 dB. Furthermore, the reliable communication area of the VLC system is substantially extended. Building on this foundation, this study explores the joint design of polar codes and physical-layer network coding (PNC) for VLC systems. Simulation results illustrate that the BER of our scheme closely approaches that of the conventional VLC relay scheme. Moreover, our approach doubles the throughput, cuts equipment expenses in half, and boosts effective bit rates per unit time-slot twofold. This proposed design noticeably advances the performance of VLC systems and is particularly well-suited for scenarios with low-latency demands.