Professor Hui Yu

  • Professor (School of Psychology & Neuroscience)

Research interests

Hui Yu is a Professor of Visual and Cognitive Computing at the University of Glasgow.
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=K9bBXkYAAAAJ
Yu's Lab: https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/psychologyneuroscience/research/researchgroups/huiyu/

Hui Yu’s research specializes in visual and cognitive computing, machine learning, and social robotics, with a focus on developing theoretical frameworks for visual understanding and perception. His work applies to 3D vision, 4D facial avatar, social signal analysis, human-machine interaction, healthcare and intelligent vehicles.

Prof. Yu leads the Visual Computing and Social Robotics Group (VCSR) in cSCAN at the University of Glasgow. He has been awarded the Industrial Fellowship by the Royal Academy of Engineering. His research has been funded by EPSRC, EU FP7, Horizon Europe, Royal Academy of Engineering, Royal Society, Innovate UK, industries and so on. He has also been awarded the Newton International Fellowship project by Royal Society. Prof. Yu serves as the Associate Vice President of the IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society (SMC), and the Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Social Computing and Social Intelligence. He is listed among the top 2% of the most cited scholars in the world by Stanford University and Elsevier (based on single year).

He is an Associate Editor for several journals including Neurocomputing, IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles and IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems as well as Deputy Editor-in-Chief for International Journal of Network Dynamics and Intelligence (2022-).
A full publication list can be found on Google Scholar.

Hui Yu is recruiting PhD students in following areas/topics:
• Visual and cognitive computing,
• Machine learning
• 3D vision, 3D/4D facial tracking
• Social signal analysis
• Social robotics

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The listed grants and awards are those recently received and currently active.

ACMod: from facial expression to mind reading
EPSRC EU Guarantee
2024-2028

Real-time 4D wave imaging for seakeeping
EPSRC
2025-2027

Publications

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Jump to: 2026 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011
Number of items: 8.

2026

Wang, Xu, Jin, Yi, Yu, Hui ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7655-9228, Cen, Yigang and Li, Yidong (2026) Visual perception-inspired 3D point cloud sampling. Pattern Recognition, 169, 111883. (doi: 10.1016/j.patcog.2025.111883)

2015

Yu, Hui ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7655-9228, Garrod, Oliver, Jack, Rachael ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3687-0799 and Schyns, Philippe ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8542-7489 (2015) A framework for automatic and perceptually valid facial expression generation. Multimedia Tools and Applications, 74(21), pp. 9427-9447. (doi: 10.1007/s11042-014-2125-9)

2014

Yu, Hui ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7655-9228, Garrod, Oliver, Jack, Rachael ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3687-0799 and Schyns, Philippe ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8542-7489 (2014) Realistic facial animation generation based on facial expression mapping. In: Fifth International Conference on Graphic and Image Processing (ICGIP 2013), Hong Kong, China, 26-27 Oct 2013, pp. 906903-1. (doi: 10.1117/12.2049921)

2013

Jack, R.E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3687-0799, Garrod, O.G.B., Yu, H. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7655-9228, Caldara, R. and Schyns, P.G. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8542-7489 (2013) Reply to Sauter and Eisner: differences outweigh commonalities in the communication of emotions across human cultures. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 110(3), E181-E182. (doi: 10.1073/pnas.1211865110)

2012

Jack, Rachael ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3687-0799, Garrod, Oliver, Yu, Hui ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7655-9228, Caldara, Roberto and Schyns, Philippe ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8542-7489 (2012) Beyond Darwin: revealing culture-specificities in the temporal dynamics of 4D facial expressions. Journal of Vision, 12(9), p. 971. (doi: 10.1167/12.9.971)

Jack, R.E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3687-0799, Garrod, O.G.B., Yu, H. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7655-9228, Caldara, R. and Schyns, P.G. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8542-7489 (2012) Facial expressions of emotion are not culturally universal. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 109(19), pp. 7241-7244. (doi: 10.1073/pnas.1200155109)

Yu, Hui ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7655-9228, Garrod, Oliver G.B. and Schyns, Philippe G. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8542-7489 (2012) Perception-driven facial expression synthesis. Computers and Graphics, 36(3), pp. 152-162. (doi: 10.1016/j.cag.2011.12.002)

2011

Jack, Rachael ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3687-0799, Garrod, Oliver, Yu, Hui ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7655-9228, Caldara, Roberto and Schyns, Philippe ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8542-7489 (2011) Dynamic cultural representations of facial expressions of emotion are not universal. Journal of Vision, 11(11), p. 563. (doi: 10.1167/11.11.563)

This list was generated on Sun Jul 6 08:42:52 2025 BST.
Jump to: Articles | Conference Proceedings
Number of items: 8.

Articles

Wang, Xu, Jin, Yi, Yu, Hui ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7655-9228, Cen, Yigang and Li, Yidong (2026) Visual perception-inspired 3D point cloud sampling. Pattern Recognition, 169, 111883. (doi: 10.1016/j.patcog.2025.111883)

Yu, Hui ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7655-9228, Garrod, Oliver, Jack, Rachael ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3687-0799 and Schyns, Philippe ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8542-7489 (2015) A framework for automatic and perceptually valid facial expression generation. Multimedia Tools and Applications, 74(21), pp. 9427-9447. (doi: 10.1007/s11042-014-2125-9)

Jack, R.E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3687-0799, Garrod, O.G.B., Yu, H. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7655-9228, Caldara, R. and Schyns, P.G. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8542-7489 (2013) Reply to Sauter and Eisner: differences outweigh commonalities in the communication of emotions across human cultures. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 110(3), E181-E182. (doi: 10.1073/pnas.1211865110)

Jack, Rachael ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3687-0799, Garrod, Oliver, Yu, Hui ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7655-9228, Caldara, Roberto and Schyns, Philippe ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8542-7489 (2012) Beyond Darwin: revealing culture-specificities in the temporal dynamics of 4D facial expressions. Journal of Vision, 12(9), p. 971. (doi: 10.1167/12.9.971)

Jack, R.E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3687-0799, Garrod, O.G.B., Yu, H. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7655-9228, Caldara, R. and Schyns, P.G. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8542-7489 (2012) Facial expressions of emotion are not culturally universal. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 109(19), pp. 7241-7244. (doi: 10.1073/pnas.1200155109)

Yu, Hui ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7655-9228, Garrod, Oliver G.B. and Schyns, Philippe G. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8542-7489 (2012) Perception-driven facial expression synthesis. Computers and Graphics, 36(3), pp. 152-162. (doi: 10.1016/j.cag.2011.12.002)

Jack, Rachael ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3687-0799, Garrod, Oliver, Yu, Hui ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7655-9228, Caldara, Roberto and Schyns, Philippe ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8542-7489 (2011) Dynamic cultural representations of facial expressions of emotion are not universal. Journal of Vision, 11(11), p. 563. (doi: 10.1167/11.11.563)

Conference Proceedings

Yu, Hui ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7655-9228, Garrod, Oliver, Jack, Rachael ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3687-0799 and Schyns, Philippe ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8542-7489 (2014) Realistic facial animation generation based on facial expression mapping. In: Fifth International Conference on Graphic and Image Processing (ICGIP 2013), Hong Kong, China, 26-27 Oct 2013, pp. 906903-1. (doi: 10.1117/12.2049921)

This list was generated on Sun Jul 6 08:42:52 2025 BST.

Grants

Grants and Awards listed are those received whilst working with the University of Glasgow.

  • Enhancing maritime safety: developing an accessible real-time semantic wave imaging analyser for seakeeping
    Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
    2025 - 2027
     
  • ACMod : Affective Computing Models: from Facial Expression to Mind-Reading
    EPSRC EU Guarantee
    2024 - 2028
     

Supervision

Supervised Postgraduate Student

  • Wei Liang (Visiting Postgraduate)


Professor Hui Yu