Research interests
My research interests are majorly on 3D visualizations, Immersive Technologies, computer gaming and computer-generated 3D character animations, as well as real-time motion capture. I collaborate with artists and creative media industries on applied research in 3D visualizations and simulation, reconstruct events from videos to enrich computer animations; 3D visualizations for GIS; new game and user-centered design in Human Computer Interaction area. I research in the value and software hardware solutions of digital technologies in cross disciplinary forms, such as climate change related issues, immersive technology for fashion & textile industries, public engagement and educations etc.
Previous Projects:
• 01/02/2020 – 01/02/2024 PI for 48 months (one-year extension granted) project funded by AHRC, "Augmented Fashion: Immersive Interactions for Sustainable Heritage in Fashion and Textiles", £1.3 million awarded, £499,000 from AHRC + £844,349 matched funding from all partners across UK & China. Continuing project from AHRC "UK-China Creative Industries Partnership Development Grants". (https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FT011483%2F1 )
• February – May 2023, Principal Investigator, Cross Platform HCI Development for Rural Museums on historical fashion experience, £15,000 received, working with HIE XpoNorth, Highland Museum of Childhood, Grantom Museum. Pooled Innovation Voucher funded by Interface.
• April – September 2023, Co-Investigator, Datalab project: AI and machine learning algorithms for Point Cloud Data processing and applications. £25,000, working with Sabre Advanced 3D Surveying Systems Ltd. Project PI: Dr. M. S. Mekala.
• March 2022 – June 2023, Mentor & Co-PI EPSRC Digital Economy Telling the Tale of Engagement Award, “Connecting Threads”, PI – Dr. Karen Cross. The Augmented Fashion project encountered a range of issues including the impact of Covid-19 and the need for project partners to rapidly digitally upskill, and the siloed and gendered nature of computing science and fashion/textile disciplines. Fashion and textile students are predominantly female, while computing science students are mostly male. Connected Threads will undertake a range of dissemination activities to introduce female fashion and textile students to the opportunities available within the growing digital fashion economy and to explore good principles of design and aesthetics with the mainly male computing science students. Activities will deliberately target youth age groups as they are the ones currently buying fast fashion, part of the wear once, disposable fashion purchase mentality that is contributing to poor sustainability practices within the fashion industry.
• 26 August – 26 September 2023, Principal Investigator, Cash and in-kind matched funding resources from Shanghai Textile Museum to curate the one-month exhibition on “Augmented Fashion, Weaving the Past into Future” on the third floor of Shanghai Textile Museum.
• September 2022, Principal Investigator, Cash and in-kind matched funding resources from F-Plus International Co. Ltd to curate and present the project outcomes in Shanghai Fashion Week in September 2022
• June 2021, PI RGU University Captial fund (MPG) to establish an Augmented Fashion Lab, £19,600.
• March 2021 – February 2023, Co-PI for 24 months project on Arts and Humanities Research Network Award funded by The Royal Society of Edinburgh, £18,620 awarded to establish the “Immersive Scotland Network” group. Project PI: Josie Steed.
• 02/12/2019 – 04/12/2019 Funded by AHRC to attend UK-China Creative Industries Collaboration high profile event in Shanghai, lightening speech on Augmented Fashion project.
• 14/02/2019 – 14/08/2019 PI for AHRC "UK-China Creative Industries Partnership Development Grants", Project Title: "From Augmented to Authentic, Weaving the Past into Future". Project website: www.augmentedfashion.co.uk Grant of £22,335 awarded. (https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FT001283%2F1 )
• 02/2021 – 09/2024 PI: 3 * Fully-funded PhD. Studentships by School of Computing Science and Digital Media, Robert Gordon University. The projects were 36 months in duration, commencing in Feb 2021 and 2022. The studentship includes tuition fees (at the Home/EU or International level) as well as a tax-free stipend of £14,777 per annum for three years. 3 students had been appointed: Corrie Green, Kyle McPherson, Diana Menzo.
• June 2021 PI, hosting SICSA(The Scottish Informatics & Computer Science Alliance)'s DVF (Distinguished Visiting Fellow) scheme. £2,260 awarded.
• PI for SICSA (The Scottish Informatics & Computer Science Alliance) Themed Workshop Events, received funding from SICSA several times to host and organise workshops, in February 2023, successfully organized and hosted a new experiment on XR Hackathon in conjunction with the Immersive Scotland Network project.
• 15/06/2017 – 01/08/2017 PI (Fully Funded): Postdoctoral and Early Career Researcher Exchanges (PECE) from SICSA (The Scottish Informatics & Computer Science Alliance). Fully awarded research project. A grant of £5,800 was awarded.
• 01/2019 – 12/2019 Co-PI for National Centre for Resilience Research Grants, project title "Developing a Digital Flood Evacuation Model for Climate Change and Wellbeing". A grant of £35,812 was awarded. Project PI: Dr. Leslie Mabon. (https://www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/ncr/projects/headline_730598_en.html )
• 02/2019 – 12/2019, Co-PI for "Fraserburgh Digital Culture Heritage Project", H2020 Fraserburgh 2021 Regeneration – Heritage, Culture and Citizens in Fraserburgh (HCC). A grant of £35,000 was awarded. Project PI: Dr. Marianthi Leon. (https://www.fraserburgh.app/ )
• 12/2018 – 07/2019 Co-I for Robert Gordon University internal Pump Priming Grant, project title "Customisable evacuation simulation tool for historic buildings", Project PI: Dr. Arthur Stewart Grant of £13,092 awarded
• 06/11/2018 – 07/11/2018 Funded by AHRC to attend UK-China Collaborations in the Creative Industries workshop in Shanghai.
• 27/06/2018 – 30/06/2018 Funded by Newton Fund to attend UK-China Newton Fund Researcher Links Workshop Health and Well-being Through VR and AR, Presentation entitled: "Mixed Reality for health incentivization".
Publications:
1)Lyndsay Mesjar, Karen Cross, Yang Jiang and Josie Steed, “The Intersection of Fashion, Immersive Technology, and Sustainability: A Literature Review”, MDPI, Sustainability (IF:3.889) 2023, 15(4), 3761; https://doi.org/10.3390/su15043761
2)Corrie Green, Yang Jiang, “Modular 3D Interface Design for Accessible VR Applications”, International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-35634-6_2
3)Chen Wang, Alessandro Gimona, Mark Wilkinson, Paola Ovando-Pol, Bethany Wilkins and Yang Jiang, Bringing more exploration and interaction to scenario modelling and data visualisation through 3D GIS and Virtual Reality, GISRUK 2022, University of Liverpool, April 2022. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6514225
4)Karen Cross, Josie Steed, Jiang. Y, “Harris Tweed: A glocal case study”, Volume 8 Number 4, 1 October 2021, PP475-494. Fashion, Style & Popular Culture. https://doi.org/10.1386/fspc_00102_1
5)Chunyun Hu, Yafan Zhao, Long Yu, Jiang Y, Yunhui Xiong, A simple encoder scheme for distributed residual video coding, Multimedia Tools and Applications (IF: 2.1), 1-18. Published 13/04/2020. DOI: 10.1007/s11042-020-08811-y
6)Jiang, Y., Chen, W., Joan, A, "Immersive Flooding Event Simulation for Climate Resilience Analysis", accepted by EGU General Assembly Conference, May 2020 https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/link_gateway/2020EGUGA..2218273J/doi:10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-18273
7)Chen, W., Jiang, Y., "Use of Digital and 3D Visualisation Technology in Planning for Woodland Expansion", accepted by EGU General Assembly Conference, May 2020
8)Wang, C.; Gimona, A.; Jiang, Y. (2019) Design and implementation of an integrated platform for forest landscape visualization. 10th IALE World Congress, Milan, Italy, 1-5 July 2019
9)Cross, K. Jiang, Y., Steed, J., Abstract "Harris Tweed: a global case study; authentic product; augmented reality; sustainable consumption; sustainable communities" accepted for paper presentation at the IFFTI 2020 conference at Kent State University
10)Steed, J., Jiang, Y., Cross, K. 2019. Conference Paper: From Augmented to Authentic: Weaving the Past into the Future, Shoormal Conference, New coasts and shorelines: Shifting sands in the creative economy; Mareel, Lerwick, Shetland 18-20 September 2019. https://www.shetlandarts.org/our-work/projects/shoormalconference
11)Chen Wang, Jingming Hou, David Miller, Iain Brown and Jiang Y, "Flood Risk Management in Sponge Cities: The Role of Integrated Simulation and 3D Visualization", International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (IF 2.568). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2019.101139
12)SHEN, L., LI, G., XIAN, C., JIANG, Y. and XIONG, Y. 2019. Door and window in a 3D point cloud of indoor scenes. Journal of computer-aided design and computer graphics [online], 31(9), pages 1494-1501. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3724/SP.J.1089.2019.17575 .
13)Daming Shi, Xiaoyan Zhang, Jiang, Y. etc. Author and Editor: Book Chapter of Character Animation for Virtual Realities, Introduction to Virtual Reality - A Textbook for Chinese Higher Education Institutes in Computer Science. Work with Shenzhen University, 07/2019, ISBN: 978-7-04-051533-6.
14)Wang, C and Jiang Y, "GIS-Based Visualization of Future Landscape", EGU General Assembly Conference, Vol.20, EGU 2018-1447-1, 2018
15)Wang.C, Jiang. Y, Xie.H, Miller.D and Brown. I, "Development of a Flood Warning Simulation System: A Case Study of 2007 Tewkesbury Flood", Flood Risk, volume 7, pp. 1-5, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/20160718021
16)Wang C, Miller D, Jiang Y and Brown I. Integration of GIS and Virtual Reality for Future Land-Use: A Case Study from Royal Deeside. GISRUK 2016, University of Greenwich, 30th March – 1st April 2016
17)Wang C, Miller D, Brown I, Jiang Y and Castellazzi M, 2015. Visualisation techniques to support public interpretation of future climate change and land-use choices: a case study from N-E Scotland. International Journal of Digital Earth (IF: 3.291), International Journal of Digital Earth, Volume 9, Issue 6, pp.586-605, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1080/17538947.2015.1111949
18)Wang C, Miller D, Jiang Y, Brown I, Marine & Seascape Visualisation to Support Planning of Renewable Energy Developments, 2015 International Conference on Sustainable Energy & Environmental Protection, the University of the West of Scotland, UK, August 11 to 14, 2015.
19)Wang. C, Miller. D, Jiang Y and Donaldson-Selby. G, "Use of 3D Visualisation Tools for Representing Urban Greenspace Spatial Planning", 2015 IEEE International Conference on Information Science and Control Engineering (ICISCE 2015), 24-26 April, pp 528-532, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICISCE.2015.123
20)Wang. C, Miller. D, Horne.P, Jiang.Y, Donaldson-Selby.G., and Morrice. J.: "Visualisation of Spread of Chalara Ash Dieback for Raising Public Awareness and Responsible Woodland Access", GISRUK 2015, University of Leeds, 15th – 17th April, 2015
21)Wang, C., Miller. D.R., Jiang, Y., Donaldson-Selby, G., Horne, P., Morrice, J, "3D Modelling of Offshore Wind Farms for the West Coast of Scotland", GIS Research UK, University of Glasgow, 16th-18th April 2014.
22)Hubert P. H. Shum, Edmond S. L. Ho, Yang Jiang and Shu Takagi, "Real-Time Posture Reconstruction for Microsoft Kinect", IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics (IF: 3.469), Volume: 43, Issue: 5, 2013; 10.1109/TCYB.2013.2275945
23)Wang.C, Miller.D, Jiang.Y and Morrice.J, "Developing a Novel Approach for 3D Visualisation of Tarland", IEEE 17th International Conference on Information Visualisation, London,UK. 15-18 July 2013. 10.1109/IV.2013.66
24)MA Al-Mamun, N Kazmi, MA Hossain, P Vickers, Y Jiang, "An intelligent decision support system for personalized cancer treatment", CIS2012: 11th IEEE Conference on Cybernetic Intelligent Systems, 23-24. DOI: 10.1109/CIS.2013.6782159
25)Wang. C, Miller. D, Jiang.Y, Horne. P and Morrice. J, "Integration of Maya and ArcGIS: A New Approach to Representation in Virtual Environments", 12th International Conference on Design & Decision Support Systems in Architecture and Urban Planning, August 27th-29th 2012
26)Xiao G., Jiang Y., Song G. and Jiang J. 'Support-vector-machine tree-based domain knowledge learning towards automated sports video classification', Optical Engineering (IF: 0.954), Vol 49, No 127003-127003-6, December, 2010. https://doi.org/10.1117/1.3518080
27)Yang Jiang, Jianmin Jiang. 'Algorithm Development towards Intelligent Analysis and Interpretation of Digital Media Content', Proceeding of IEEE 18th International Electrotechnical and Computer Science Conference, Slovenia, September 21~23, 2009;
28)Yang Jiang, Jianmin Jiang and Paolo Capodieci. 'A SVM-based behavior monitoring algorithm towards detection of un-desired events in critical infrastructures', Lecture Notes in Computer Science, SPRINGER, Vol 63, PP61-68, 2009, ISSN: 1615-3871;
29)Yang Jiang, Jianmin Jiang and Ian Palmer 'A Decision Tree Approach for Scene Pattern Recognition and Extraction in Snooker Videos', Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg; ISSN: 0302-9743 (Print) 1611-3349 (Online); Volume 5627, 2009, PP947-954;
30)Yang Jiang, Jianmin Jiang and I.J. Palmer 'Computerised Interactive Gaming via Supporting Vector Machines', Hindawi Publishing Corporation, International Journal of Computer Games Technology, Volume 2008, Article ID 186941, ISSN:1687-7047, 2008;
31)Yang Jiang, Jianmin Jiang, and Ian Palmer 'A SVM based AI design for interactive gaming', International Conference on Computer Gaming and Relevant Technologies, Singapore, April 28~30, 2008 (best student paper award);