Zhiwen Yu

Zhiwen Yu is currently a professor and Ph.D. supervisor at the School of Computer Science, Northwestern Polytechnical University, P. R. China. He received his B.Eng, M.Eng and Ph.D. degree of Engineering in computer science and technology in 2000, 2003 and 2005 respectively from the Northwestern Polytechnical University. He has worked as a research fellow at the Academic Center for Computing and Media Studies, Kyoto University, Japan from Feb. 2007 to Jan. 2009, and a post-doctoral researcher at the Information Technology Center, Nagoya University, Japan in 2006-2007. He has been a visiting researcher at the Context-Aware Systems Department, Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), Singapore from Sep. 2004 to May 2005. He has been an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Mannheim University, Germany from Nov. 2009 to Oct. 2010.

Publications

Activity Recognition Using Ubiquitous Sensors: An Overview
Activity Recognition Using Ubiquitous Sensors: An Overview
Yunji Liang, Xingshe Zhou, Bin Guo, Zhiwen Yu. © 2018. 32 pages.
With the unprecedented sensing capabilities and the emergence of Internet of things, studies on activity recognition have been hot issues for different application areas, such as...
Towards Personal, Social, and Urban Awareness
Towards Personal, Social, and Urban Awareness
Bin Guo, Yunji Liang, Zhu Wang, Zhiwen Yu, Daqing Zhang, Xingshe Zhou. © 2014. 20 pages.
In the past decades, numerous research efforts have been made to model and extract the contexts of users in pervasive computing environments. The recent explosion of...
Activity Recognition Using Ubiquitous Sensors: An Overview
Activity Recognition Using Ubiquitous Sensors: An Overview
Yunji Liang, Xingshe Zhou, Bin Guo, Zhiwen Yu. © 2014. 31 pages.
With the unprecedented sensing capabilities and the emergence of Internet of things, studies on activity recognition have been hot issues for different application areas, such as...
Community Detection and Profiling in Location-Based Social Networks
Community Detection and Profiling in Location-Based Social Networks
Zhu Wang, Xingshe Zhou, Daqing Zhang, Bin Guo, Zhiwen Yu. © 2014. 18 pages.
Due to the proliferation of GPS-enabled smartphones, Location-Based Social Networking (LBSNs) services have been experiencing a remarkable growth over the last few years....
Supporting Social Interaction in Campus-Scale Environments by Embracing Mobile Social Networking
Supporting Social Interaction in Campus-Scale Environments by Embracing Mobile Social Networking
Zhiwen Yu, Yunji Liang, Yue Yang, Bin Guo. © 2013. 20 pages.
With the popularity of smart phones, the warm embrace of social networking services, and the perfection of wireless communication, mobile social networking has become a hot...
Media in the Ubiquitous Era: Ambient, Social and Gaming Media
Media in the Ubiquitous Era: Ambient, Social and Gaming Media
Artur Lugmayr, Helja Franssila, Pertti Näränen, Olli Sotamaa, Jukka Vanhala, Zhiwen Yu. © 2012. 312 pages.
Media in the ubiquitous area is undergoing a tremendous change. Social media and Web 2.0 are applied in ever more diverse practices both in private and public communities and...
Middleware Support for Context-Aware Ubiquitous Multimedia Services
Middleware Support for Context-Aware Ubiquitous Multimedia Services
Zhiwen Yu, Daqing Zhang. © 2006. 15 pages.
In order to facilitate the development and proliferation of multimedia services in ubiquitous environment, a context-aware multimedia middleware is indispensable. This chapter...