Yong Fang Professor

• Department: School of Information Engineering
• Gender: male
• BirthDate: 1979-07-09
• Career: Professor
• Degree: Ph.D
• Academic Credentials: Graduate Student
• Graduate School: Xidian University
• Tel: 18681857066
• Email: fy@chd.edu.cn
• Address School: Middle-section of Nan er Huan Road Xi an, ShaanXi Province
• PostCode School: 710064
• Fax School: 18681857066
• Office Location: Room 201, 8-th main building
• Education experience:

  • 2003.03–2005.12: PhD in Electronic Engineering, National Key Lab on ISN, School of Telecommunications Engineering, Xidian University, Xi’an, China.

  • 2000.09–2003.03: MEng in Electronic Engineering, National Key Lab on ISN, School of Telecommunications Engineering, Xidian University, Xi’an, China.

  • 1996.09–2000.06: BEng in Electronic Engineering, School of Telecommunications Engineering, Xidian University, Xi’an, China.

  
  

Yong Fang received his BEng, MEng, and PhD degrees from the School of Telecommunications Engineering, Xidian University, Xi’an, China, in 2000, 2003, and 2005, respectively. Then he was a lecturer/postdoc-fellow for one year in the School of Electronics&Information Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnic University, Xi’an, China. From 2007 to 2008, he joined the Department of Electrical&Computer Engineering, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea, as a research professor. From 2009 to 2016, he was a full professor with the College of Information Engineering, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China. Since 2017, he is a full professor with the School of Information Engineering, Chang'an University, Xian, Shaanxi, China. His research interests include coding technique and theory, deep learning, compressive sensing, intelligent transportation systems, image/video coding, processing, and transmission, etc. He had a long experience in hardware development, e.g. FPGA-based (Xilinx Vertex series) video codec design, DSP-based (TI C64 series) video surveillance system, etc.

Services for Journals

    Editor, IEEE Communications Letters (since Jan. 2020)

    Associate Editor, Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems

    Area Editor, Elsevier International Journal of Electronics and Communications

    Guest Editor, Elsevier International Journal of Sustainable Cities and Societies

Services for Conferences

    Co-chair, International Conference on IoT as a Service (IoTaS), 2019

Coding technique and theory

Deep learning, 

Compressive sensing, 

Intelligent transportation systems, 

Image/video coding, processing, and transmission

b2408005y, Artificial Neural Network, for foreign graduate students. Autumn semester, since 2017 Lectures.pdfbp_test.zipauto_encode_test.zip

HandWrittenNumRec.zip

Digital Image Analysis for Graduate Students,Spring semester since 2019

Information Security for Undergraduate Students, open Spring semester every year, since 2019

Signal and System for Undergraduate Students, open Autumn semester every year, since 2010

Theory and Application of Arithmetic Coding Spectrum, National Science Foundation of China

Dynamic On-line Correlation Estimation in Distributed Video Coding, National Science Foundation of China

Application of Distributed Coding in Wireless Sensor Network, Provincial Science Foundation of Shaanxi, China

Distributed Arithmetic Coding Spectrum, Scientific Research Foundation for the Returned Overseas Chinese Scholars, State Education Ministry

SUBMISSIONS

    [1] Yong Fang, “Decoding Polar Codes for Symmetric Binary-Input Channel with Unknown Memory,” submitted to the IEEE T-COM.  Codec.zip , Polarization.zip , Source.zip

    [2] Y. Fang, “Decoding polar codes via weighted-window soft cancellation for slowly-varying channel,” submitted to GlobeCOM 2020.

SELECTED JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

1.   *Yong Fang and Vladimir Stankovic, “Codebook Cardinality Spectrum of Distributed Arithmetic Codes for Independent and Identically-Distributed Binary Sources,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, accepted. software.zip

2.  Dandan Ding, Wenyu Wang, Junchao Tong, Xinbo Gao, Zoe Liu, and *Yong Fang, “Bi-Prediction Based Video Quality Enhancement via Learning,” IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, in press.

3.   Dandan Ding, Lingyi Kong, Guangyao Chen, Zoe Liu, and *Yong Fang, “A Switchable Deep Learning Approach for In-loop Filtering in Video Coding,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2019.2935508.

4.   Bowei Shan and *Yong Fang, “A Cross Entropy Based Deep Neural Network Model for Road Extraction from Satellite Images,” Entropy, 2020, 22, 535.

5.   Bowei Shan, Sihua Chen, and *Yong Fang, “A parallel sliding-window belief propagation algorithm for Q-ary LDPC codes accelerated by GPU,” Multimedia Tools Applications (2020). (in press)

6.  Gwanggil Jeon, Marco Anisetti, and *Yong Fang, “Editorial of the Special Issue on Dense Surveillance Systems for Urban Traffic,” Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 217-220, May 2020.

7.   Bowei Shan and *Yong Fang, “GPU Accelerated Parallel Algorithm of Sliding-Window Belief Propagation for LDPC Codes,” International Journal of Parallel Programming, vol. 48, pp. 566–579, Apr. 2020.

8.   Zhe Dai, Huansheng Song, Xuan Wang, Yong Fang, Xu Yun, Zhaoyang Zhang, Huaiyu Li, “Video-Based Vehicle Counting Framework,” IEEE Access, vol. 7, pp. 64460–64470, May 2019.

9.  *Yong Fang, Vladimir Stankovic, Samuel Cheng, and En-hui Yang, “Analysis on tailed distributed arithmetic codes for uniform binary sources,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 64, no. 10, pp. 4305–4319, Oct. 2016.

10.  Yuan   Dai,   *Yong   Fang,   Long   Yang,   Gwanggil   Jeon,   “Graphics   processing unit-accelerated joint-bitplane belief propagation algorithm in DSC,” The Journal of Supercomputing, vol. 72, no. 6, pp. 2351-2375, Jun. 2016.

11. *Yong Fang, Vladimir Stankovic, Samuel Cheng, and En-hui Yang, “Hamming distance spectrum of DAC codes for equiprobable binary sources,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 64, no. 3, pp. 1232–1245, Mar. 2016.

12. Yingqiu Huo, *Yong Fang, Lei Huang, “3D sparse signal recovery via3D orthogonal matching pursuit,”Elsevier Journal of Systems Architecture, vol. 64, pp. 3-10, Mar. 2016.

13. *Yong Fang and Liang Chen, “Improved binary DAC codec with spectrum for equiprobable sources,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 62, no. 1, pp. 256–268, Jan. 2014. 

14. *Yong Fang, “Asymmetric Slepian-Wolf coding of nonstationarily-correlated M-ary sources with sliding-window belief propagation,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 61, no. 12, pp. 5114-5124, Dec. 2013.

15. *Yong Fang, “DAC spectrum of binary sources with equally-likely symbols,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 61, no. 4, pp. 1584-1594, Apr. 2013.

16. *Yong Fang, “LDPC-based lossless compression of nonstationary binary sources using sliding-window belief propagation,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 60, no. 11, pp. 3161-3166, Nov. 2012.

17. Hao Duan, *Yong Fang, and Bormin Huang, “Parallel design of JPEG-LS encoder on graphics processing units,” SPIE Journal of Applied Remote Sensing, vol 6, no. 1, 061508, Sep. 2012.

18. *Yong Fang, Jiaji Wu, and Bormin Huang, “2D sparse signal recovery via 2D orthogonal matching pursuit,” Science China: Information Sciences, vol. 55, no. 4, pp. 889-897, Apr. 2012.

19. *Yong Fang, “Analysis on crossover probability estimation using LDPC syndrome,” Science China: Information Sciences, vol. 54, no. 9, pp. 1895-1904, Sep. 2011.

20. *Yong Fang, “Joint source-channel estimation using accumulated LDPC syndrome,” IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 14, no. 11, pp. 1044-1046, Nov. 2010.

21. *Yong Fang, “EREC-based length coding of variable-length data blocks,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 20, no. 10, pp. 1358-1366, Oct. 2010.

22. *Yong Fang, “Distribution of distributed arithmetic codewords for equiprobable binary sources,” IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 16, no. 12, pp. 1079-1082, Dec. 2009.

23. *Yong Fang, “Crossover probability estimation using mean-intrinsic-LLR of LDPC syndrome,” IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 13, no. 9, pp. 679-681, Sep. 2009.

24. *Yong Fang, Gwanggil Jeon, and Jechang Jeong, “State-information-assisting EREC,” IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 16, no. 4, pp. 260-263, Apr. 2009.

25. *Yong Fang and Jechang Jeong, “Correlation parameter estimation for LDPC-based Slepian-Wolf coding,” IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 37-39, Jan. 2009.

26. *Yong Fang, Jechang Jeong, and Chengke Wu, “Error detection based on MB types,” Science in China-Series F: Information Sciences, vol. 51, no. 4, pp. 433-439, Apr. 2008.

27. *Yong Fang, Jechang Jeong, et al, “Robust video transmission using block-interleaved error resilient entropy coding,” SPIE Optical Engineering, vol. 46, no. 12, 127401-1-7, Dec. 2007.

28. Bo Li, Roberto Battiti, and Yong Fang, “Achieving Optimal Performance by Using the IEEE 802.11 MAC Protocol With Service Differentiation Enhancements,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 56, no. 3, pp. 1374 - 1387, May 2007.

29. *Yong Fang, Chengke Wu, et al, “Video transmission using advanced partial backward decodable bit stream,” Elsevier Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 186-190, Apr. 2007.

30. *Yong Fang, Chengke Wu, et al, “Bi-directional error resilient entropy coding (BEREC),” EURASIP Signal Processing: Image Communication, vol. 21, no. 8, pp. 647-652, Sep. 2006.

SELECTED CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS

1. Bowei Shan, *Yong Fang, Vladimir Stankovic, Samuel Cheng, and En-hui Yang, “Depth-First Decoding of Distributed Arithmetic Codes for Uniform Binary Sources,” Proc. of IEEE Data Compression Conference (DCC), Mar. 2020.

2. Bowei Shan, Sihua Chen, *Yong Fang, “Accelerating Q-ary Sliding-Window Belief Propagation Algorithm with GPU,” In: Li B., Zheng J., Fang Y., Yang M., Yan Z. (eds) IoT as a Service. IoTaaS 2019. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 316. Springer, Cham

3. Jiao Fan, Bowei Shan, *Yong Fang, “Sliding-Window Belief Propagation with Unequal Window Size for Nonstationary Heterogeneous Source,” In: Li B., Zheng J., Fang Y., Yang M., Yan Z. (eds) IoT as a Service. IoTaaS 2019. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 316. Springer, Cham

4. Zhaotun Feng, Bowei Shan, *Yong Fang, “Unequally Weighted Sliding-Window Belief Propagation for Binary LDPC Codes,” In: Li B., Zheng J., Fang Y., Yang M., Yan Z. (eds) IoT as a Service. IoTaaS 2019. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 316. Springer, Cham

5. Linlong Guo, Bowei Shan, *Yong Fang, “Wyner-Ziv Video Coding for Highway Traffic Surveillance Using LDPC Codes,” In: Li B., Zheng J., Fang Y., Yang M., Yan Z. (eds) IoT as a Service. IoTaaS 2019. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 316. Springer, Cham

6. *Yong Fang, Liang Chen, Jiaji Wu, Bormin Huang, “GPU implementation of orthogonal matching pursuit for compressive sensing,” Proc. IEEE ICPADS, pp. 1044-1047, Dec 2011.

7. *Yong Fang, Gwanggil Jeon, and Jechang Jeong, “Rate-adaptive compression of LDPC syndromes for Slepian-Wolf coding,” IEEE PCS 2009, May 2009.

8. *Yong Fang, Jechang Jeong, et al, “Improved algorithm of error-resilient entropy coding using state information,” Proc. of Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems (ACIVS), LNCS 4678, pp. 1084-1095, Aug. 2007.

9. *Yong Fang and Lu Yu,“Block-interleaved error resilient entropy coding”, Proc. of IEEE Int. Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), pp. 53-56, May 2007.

10. *Yong Fang, Jechang Jeong, et al, “VLR-Based optimal positioning of resynchronization markers,”Proc. of IEEE Data Compression Conference (DCC), p. 381, Mar. 2007.

BOOKS

Shuang Wang, Yong Fang, and Samuel Cheng, “Distributed Source Coding: Theory and Practice,” John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2017.

Codebook Cardinality Spectrum (CCS) and Hamming Distance Spectrum (HDS) for distributed  arithmetic codes 

Weighted-Window Soft Cancellation (W^2SCAN) Decoding for polar codes

Sliding-Window Belief Propagation (SWBP) for LDPC codes

2D Orthogonal Matching Pursuit (2D-OMP) for compressive sensing

States-Assisted Error-Resilient Entropy Coding 

Best Student Paper Award, AMIA-TBI, 2016, PALME:PAtients Like My gEnome.

Third-Class Award for the Advances of Science & Technology, China, 2016

Second-Class Award for the Advances of Science & Technology in Universities, China, 2015

Man of the Year, Scientific Chinese Magazine, 2015

New Century Excellent Talent, Ministry of Education, China, 2013

Youth Nova of Science and Technology, Shaanxi Province, China, 2014

Excellent Teacher Award, Northwest A&F University, China, 2012

First Class Scholarship, Xidian University, China, 2000, 2001, 2005 

Third Class Scholarship, Xidian University, China, 1999 

• 2017.06–now: full professor and PhD tutor, School of Information Engineering, Chang'an University

• 2016.07–2016.08: Visiting Professor, Department of Bioinformatics, University of California–San Diego

• 2015.03–2015-09: Senior Visiting Fellow/Visiting Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, sponsored by the China Scholarship Council, cooperator: Prof. Enhui Yang.

• 2009.03–2017.05: full professor (Tie-3 since Jan. 1st, 2014) and PhD tutor, College of Information Engineering, Northwest A&F University.

• 2007.03–2009.02: Research Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea.

• 2006.05–2007.02: Lecturer/Post-doc, School of Electronical and Information Engineering, Northern Polytechnique University, Xi'an, China.

• 2002.07–2003.01: Group Leader of video codec chip development, LianSheng Microelectronics Company Ltd., Xi’an, China.