Yanping Lu

Dr. Yanping Lu

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Academic Career Length

2Years (2025-Present)

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

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20 May 2026 in Applied System Innovation
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FZFang Zheng
Fang Zheng
YLYanping Lu
Yanping Lu
JLJunghee Lee
Junghee Lee
HLHongyan Liu
Hongyan Liu
DWDandan Wang
Dandan Wang
MKMyeon Kim
Myeon Kim
With the rapid expansion of the smart clothing market, designers face increasing pressure to balance functional performance, material suitability, environmental impact, and development efficiency. Conventional design workflows and rule-based assistance methods often struggle to provide adaptive and data-driven support for multi-constraint decision-making. To address this issue, this study proposes an AI-driven decision support system for sustainable smart clothing design based on a multi-scale dynamic graph convolutional network (MDGCN). The proposed system integrates material properties, environmental indicators, and user-oriented design requirements into a unified decision-support framework and further enhances feature extraction through an attention mechanism. Two datasets, the Wearable Technology Material Properties Dataset (WTMPD) and the Environmental Impact Assessment Dataset (EIAD), were used to validate the model and system effectiveness. Experimental results showed that the MDGCN-based model achieved accuracies of 0.964 and 0.943, with recalls of 0.923 and 0.920 on the WTMPD and EIAD datasets, respectively. In system-level evaluation, the proposed decision support system reduced design time from 120 h to 60 h, improved material selection accuracy to 90.2%, and achieved superior operational performance in terms of resource utilization (77.45%), energy consumption (115.25 kWh), and response time (1.56 s). These results demonstrate that the proposed framework can effectively support complex design decision-making while improving efficiency, sustainability, and adaptability in smart clothing development. The study provides a practical AI-enabled system innovation approach for sustainable smart clothing design by linking flexible material selection, environmental impact prediction, and designer-oriented decision support. In addition, the prototype deployment demonstrates the feasibility of applying the proposed system as a design-stage wearable AI tool for mediating human, technological, and environmental considerations in smart clothing development.

8 April 2026 in Electronics
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YLYanping Lu
Yanping Lu
MKMyeon Kim
Myeon Kim
In response to the redundant spatio-temporal modeling and insufficient adaptation to dynamic decision-making in eye-tracking interaction of smart home interfaces, a smart home interface eye-tracking response optimization model based on spatio-temporal Transformer and gate control cross-attention is proposed. It adapts the physiological characteristics of eye-tracking jumps through dynamic sparse attention gating to compress computational redundancy and combines multi-objective reinforcement learning attention modulation to construct a closed-loop decision-making mechanism, optimizing interface parameters in real-time. Experiments showed that the model reduced eye-tracking trajectory prediction error by 23.7% compared to advanced benchmarks, increased the success rate of adapting to dynamic mutation scenarios to 89.2%, and controlled performance fluctuations within 2.3% under noise interference. In high-fidelity user testing, the accuracy of cross-task gaze transfer reached 93.4%, the failure rate of glare interference was optimized to 2.4%, and the user cognitive load index was reduced by 27.9%. Its resource consumption and energy consumption were reduced by 26.7% and 44.9%, respectively, while its posture deviation tolerance remained at 3.5°. The sparse spatio-temporal modeling of the spatio-temporal adaptive Transformer module and the enhanced gating mechanism of the hierarchical gated cross-attention module work together to break through the limitations of traditional methods in computational efficiency and dynamic feedback, providing high-precision and low-latency eye-tracking interaction solutions for smart home interface systems, and promoting the practical evolution of personalized human–machine collaborative control.

29 March 2026 in Sensors
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YLYanping Lu
Yanping Lu
MKMyeon Kim
Myeon Kim
Zhang Hanwen HanWen ZhangZhang Hanwen HanWen Zhang
Zhang Hanwen HanWen Zhang
Flexible wearable electronics have shown strong potential for medical and health monitoring; however, conventional materials often fail to simultaneously satisfy the requirements of signal stability, wear comfort, and environmental adaptability under dynamic use conditions. To address this issue, this study proposes a data-driven material selection framework for flexible wearable sensors based on the extreme gradient boosting (XGBoost) algorithm. The model integrates user perception, material physical parameters, and environmental coupling performance indicators to enable intelligent material matching and recommendation. Experimental results show that the proposed model achieves a recommendation accuracy of 94.5%, outperforming conventional comparison methods. Among the candidate materials, silver nanowires (AgNWs) exhibit superior overall performance, including a higher signal-to-noise ratio, lower skin-contact impedance, and stronger sweat resistance. In physiological monitoring experiments, the maximum deviation of the sensor response was below 3% under both static and motion conditions. In environmental coupling tests, the recommended material improved the system signal-to-noise ratio by 68% and reduced 24-h sensitivity decay by 75%. These results indicate that the proposed XGBoost-based framework can effectively support material selection for flexible wearable sensors and improve signal reliability and environmental adaptability in complex application scenarios.

15 July 2025 in Journal of Imaging
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Zhang Hanwen HanWen ZhangZhang Hanwen HanWen Zhang
Zhang Hanwen HanWen Zhang
MKMyeon Kim
Myeon Kim
BLBaitong Li
Baitong Li
YLYanping Lu
Yanping Lu
With the advancement of information technology, human activity recognition (HAR) has been widely applied in fields such as intelligent surveillance, health monitoring, and human–computer interaction. As a crucial component of HAR, facial recognition plays a key role, especially in vision-based activity recognition. However, current facial recognition models on the market perform poorly in handling blurry images and dynamic scenarios, limiting their effectiveness in real-world HAR applications. This study aims to construct a fast and accurate facial recognition model based on novel adversarial learning and deblurring theory to enhance its performance in human activity recognition. The model employs a generative adversarial network (GAN) as the core algorithm, optimizing its generation and recognition modules by decomposing the global loss function and incorporating a feature pyramid, thereby solving the balance challenge in GAN training. Additionally, deblurring techniques are introduced to improve the model’s ability to handle blurry and dynamic images. Experimental results show that the proposed model achieves high accuracy and recall rates across multiple facial recognition datasets, with an average recall rate of 87.40% and accuracy rates of 81.06% and 79.77% on the YTF, IMDB-WIKI, and WiderFace datasets, respectively. These findings confirm that the model effectively addresses the challenges of recognizing faces in dynamic and blurry conditions in human activity recognition, demonstrating significant application potential.

3 June 2026 in Applied Sciences
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SHShiyao Hou
Shiyao Hou
HLHongyan Liu
Hongyan Liu
YLYanping Lu
Yanping Lu
JLJunghee Lee
Junghee Lee
DWDandan Wang
Dandan Wang
Zhang Hanwen HanWen ZhangZhang Hanwen HanWen Zhang
Zhang Hanwen HanWen Zhang
Improving indoor acoustic comfort in buildings remains challenging for conventional acoustic design methods because they often rely on empirical formulas, static databases, and limited adaptability to dynamic environmental changes. To address these limitations, this study proposes a physics-informed Transformer framework for indoor acoustic comfort optimization in buildings. The proposed framework integrates measured, simulated, and publicly available acoustic data to construct an adaptive dataset for indoor acoustic modeling. A hierarchical time–frequency attention mechanism is introduced to capture complex acoustic features, while a physics-informed module is incorporated to improve the physical consistency of the predicted acoustic responses. In addition, a dynamic optimization strategy is developed to adjust acoustic parameters under changing indoor conditions while considering both acoustic performance and energy efficiency. Experimental results show that the proposed framework achieves a Mel-spectral distortion of 6.12 dB and a speech intelligibility score of 89.3%, while reducing the prediction errors of reverberation time and early decay time to 0.11 s and 0.09 s, respectively. In practical deployment tests, the proposed method increased the early sound energy ratio by 46.4%, improved reverberation time control accuracy by 41.2%, reduced total energy consumption by 29.7%, and increased the user acoustic comfort score by 38.1%, with an average response time of 1.8 s. These results demonstrate that the proposed framework provides an effective data-driven and physics-informed approach for improving indoor acoustic comfort and energy-efficient acoustic management in buildings.

17 June 2026 in Sustainability
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BZBaoli Zhang
Baoli Zhang
YLYanping Lu
Yanping Lu
DWDandan Wang
Dandan Wang
HLHongyan Liu
Hongyan Liu
Urban acoustic environments and performing-arts spaces strongly influence speech communication quality, acoustic comfort, and public wellbeing, particularly in noise-exposed shared environments such as transport hubs, campuses, healthcare spaces, public service facilities, music-education settings, and rehearsal or performance-related spaces. To address speech–noise separation in low signal-to-noise ratio and acoustically complex scenarios, this study proposes a lightweight two-stage deep learning framework termed LCGRU–Wave-SkipConvNet. In the preprocessing stage, a Lightweight Convolutional Gated Recurrent Unit (LCGRU) model is employed to achieve preliminary separation of target speech and background noise by capturing both spatial and temporal acoustic features. In the post-processing stage, a Wave-SkipConvNet model is introduced to further suppress residual noise and enhance speech quality. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed framework achieves superior performance under different signal-to-noise ratios, sound-source angles, and target angle errors. For example, in the preprocessing stage, the LCGRU model achieved a perceptual evaluation of speech quality (PESQ) score of 2.64 at source angles between 0° and 30°, outperforming the convolutional neural network-long short-term memory (CNN-LSTM) model by 1.17. In the post-processing stage, the Wave-SkipConvNet model achieved higher short-time objective intelligibility (STOI) and segmental signal-to-noise ratio (segSNR) values than the comparison models under different SNR conditions. The proposed framework provides an effective and deployment-oriented AI solution for improving speech accessibility and acoustic comfort in urban acoustic environments and performing-arts spaces. Beyond speech enhancement, it offers practical potential for supporting healthier, more inclusive, and more equitable acoustic environments in noise-sensitive public and educational spaces. It should be noted that this study focuses on the objective acoustic environment and signal-level speech enhancement, rather than subjective soundscape perception, musical perception, or human perceptual evaluation.