长期从事计算机视觉与模式识别方面的理论研究工作，以及在视觉控制和视觉检测方面的技术研究工作。在本领域重要国际期刊和学术会议中发表SCI、EI检索论文60余篇，获国家发明专利授权20项。主持国家自然科学基金等科研基金项目5项，多次受邀做学术报告。担任多个顶级期刊和国际会议的审稿人。
2010年获IEEE自动化国际会议ICAL最佳论文奖
2012年获得香港城市大学Peter Ho奖学金
2015年获IEEE机器人国际会议ROBIO最佳大会论文奖提名
2018年入选江苏省“六大人才高峰”高层次人才选拔培养资助
科研项目：
2012苏州大学人才引进项目，主持
2013江苏省自然科学基金青年项目《基于多层语义的复杂运动轨迹表示与识别方法研究》，主持
2014国家自然科学基金青年项目《复杂运动轨迹的不变量语义表示方法研究及应用》，主持
2017苏州市重点产业技术创新项目《基于可穿戴设备的智能行为识别系统研究及应用》，主持
2018国家自然科学基金面上项目《复杂行为模式的关键语义表示、流形分析及实时检测方法研究》，主持
2018 江苏省“六大人才高峰”高层次人才选拔培养资助项目《基于显著性运动特征流形分析的复杂行为理解问题研究》，主持
学生培养：
国家奖学金（徐浩然~2016）
国家大创项目优秀结题（闵睿朋、李一凡~2021）
江苏省优秀本科毕业论文、优秀指导教师（周昌鑫~2017）
江苏省大创项目优秀结题（陈桥松等~2018）
苏州大学优秀本科毕业论文（2017，2019，2021）
苏州大学挑战杯一等奖（2017）、二等奖（2015，2018）
轨道交通科技作品竞赛优秀奖（2016）
讲授课程：
讲授《人工智能》、《智能控制》、《现代控制理论》等课程
学会委员：
中国计算机学会 计算机视觉专委会委员
中国人工智能学会 模式识别与机器智能专委会委员
中国自动化学会 模式识别专委会委员
中国图象图形学会 机器视觉专委会委员
中国图象图形学会 多媒体专委会委员
Conference Service：
2017 IEEE RCAR Publicity Chair (Realtime Computing and Robotics)
2018 IEEE RCAR Publicity Chair (Realtime Computing and Robotics)
2019 IAPR ACPR Workshop Chair (Asian Conference on Pattern and Recognition)
2019 IEEE IROS Workshop Organizer (Intelligent Robots and Systems)
2022 IEEE VCIP Local Chair (Visual Communication and Image Processing)
2022 ICCIIS Program Co-Chair (Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Systems)
Associate Editor/Area Chair:
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'21'22'23)
Journal Reviewer：
IEEE Trans： T-PAMI, T-IP, T-MM, T-CSVT, T-IFS, T-CYB, T-IE，T-II，T-IM..
Elsevier： PR, CVIU, JVCI, SP, PRL，Neurocomputing..
Program Committee Member：
Computer Vision: CVPR，ICCV, ECCV, WACV, ACCV，PRCV..
Multimedia: ACM-MM，ICME，MM-Asia，ChinaMM..
Machine Learning: NeurIPS，ICML，ICLR..
Robotics: ICRA，IROS..
Graphics: CGI
Automation: CCC
发表论文：
Jinlu Zhang, Zhigang Tu, Jianyu Yang, Yujin Chen, Junsong Yuan, "MixSTE: Seq2seq Mixed Spatio-Temporal Encoder for 3D Human Pose Estimation in Video", IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'22), 2022.
Rui Jin, Jing Zhang, Jianyu Yang*, Dacheng Tao, "Multibranch Adversarial Regression for Domain Adaptative Hand Pose Estimation", IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 2022.
Jianyu Yang, Wu Liu, Junsong Yuan, Tao Mei, "Hierarchical soft quantization for skeleton-based human action recognition", IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, vol. 23, pp. 883-898, 2021.
Chen Zhu, Jianyu Yang*, Zhanpeng Shao, Chunping Liu, "Vision based hand gesture recognition using 3D shape context", IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, vol. 8, no. 9, pp. 1600-1613, 2021.
Yao Huang, Jianyu Yang*, "A multi-scale descriptor for real time RGB-D hand gesture recognition", Pattern Recognition Letters, vol. 144, pp. 97-104, 2021.
Jianyu Yang, Yao Huang, Zhanpeng Shao, Chunping Liu, "Learning discriminative motion feature for enhancing multi-modal action recognition", Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation (JVCI), Vol. 79, 2021.
Zhanpeng Shao, Peng Liu, Youfu Li, Jianyu yang*, Xiaolong Zhou, "A multi-level network for human pose estimation", IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'21), 2021.
Peiyao Wang, Weixin Luo, Yanyu Xu, Haojie Li, Shugong Xu, Jianyu Yang, Shenghua Gao, "SIRI: spatial relation induced network for spatial description resolution", Thirty-fourth Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS'20), 2020.
Jianyu Yang*, Chen Zhu, Junsong Yuan, "Spatio-temporal multi-scale soft quantization learning for skeleton-based human action recognition", 2019 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME'19), pp. 1078-1083, 2019.
Jianyu Yang*, Chen Zhu, Junsong Yuan, "Real time hand gesture recognition via finger-emphasized multi-scale description", 2017 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME'17), pp. 631-636, 2017.
Jianyu Yang, Junsong Yuan, Youfu Li, "Parsing 3D motion trajectory for gesture recognition", Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation (JVCI), Vol. 38, pp. 627-640, 2016.
Jianyu Yang, Hongxing Wang, Junsong Yuan, Youfu Li, Jianyang Liu, "Invariant multi-scale descriptor for shape representation, matching and retrieval", Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU), Vol. 145, pp. 43-58, 2016.
Haoran Xu, Jianyu Yang*, Junsong Yuan, "Invariant multi-scale shape descriptor for object matching and recognition", 2016 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP'16), pp. 644-648, 2016. (oral)
Jianyu Yang, Junsong Yuan, Youfu Li, "Flexible trajectory indexing for 3D motion recognition", 2015 IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV'15), pp. 326-332, 2015.
长期从事计算机视觉与模式识别方面的理论研究工作，以及在视觉控制和视觉检测方面的技术研究工作。在本领域重要国际期刊和学术会议中发表SCI、EI检索论文60余篇，获国家发明专利授权20项。主持国家自然科学基金等科研基金项目5项，多次受邀做学术报告。担任多个顶级期刊和国际会议的审稿人。
2010年获IEEE自动化国际会议ICAL最佳论文奖
2012年获得香港城市大学Peter Ho奖学金
2015年获IEEE机器人国际会议ROBIO最佳大会论文奖提名
2018年入选江苏省“六大人才高峰”高层次人才选拔培养资助
科研项目：
2012苏州大学人才引进项目，主持
2013江苏省自然科学基金青年项目《基于多层语义的复杂运动轨迹表示与识别方法研究》，主持
2014国家自然科学基金青年项目《复杂运动轨迹的不变量语义表示方法研究及应用》，主持
2017苏州市重点产业技术创新项目《基于可穿戴设备的智能行为识别系统研究及应用》，主持
2018国家自然科学基金面上项目《复杂行为模式的关键语义表示、流形分析及实时检测方法研究》，主持
2018 江苏省“六大人才高峰”高层次人才选拔培养资助项目《基于显著性运动特征流形分析的复杂行为理解问题研究》，主持
学生培养：
国家奖学金（徐浩然~2016）
国家大创项目优秀结题（闵睿朋、李一凡~2021）
江苏省优秀本科毕业论文、优秀指导教师（周昌鑫~2017）
江苏省大创项目优秀结题（陈桥松等~2018）
苏州大学优秀本科毕业论文（2017，2019，2021）
苏州大学挑战杯一等奖（2017）、二等奖（2015，2018）
轨道交通科技作品竞赛优秀奖（2016）
讲授课程：
讲授《人工智能》、《智能控制》、《现代控制理论》等课程
学会委员：
中国计算机学会 计算机视觉专委会委员
中国人工智能学会 模式识别与机器智能专委会委员
中国自动化学会 模式识别专委会委员
中国图象图形学会 机器视觉专委会委员
中国图象图形学会 多媒体专委会委员
Conference Service：
2017 IEEE RCAR Publicity Chair (Realtime Computing and Robotics)
2018 IEEE RCAR Publicity Chair (Realtime Computing and Robotics)
2019 IAPR ACPR Workshop Chair (Asian Conference on Pattern and Recognition)
2019 IEEE IROS Workshop Organizer (Intelligent Robots and Systems)
2022 IEEE VCIP Local Chair (Visual Communication and Image Processing)
2022 ICCIIS Program Co-Chair (Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Systems)
Associate Editor/Area Chair:
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'21'22'23)
Journal Reviewer：
IEEE Trans： T-PAMI, T-IP, T-MM, T-CSVT, T-IFS, T-CYB, T-IE，T-II，T-IM..
Elsevier： PR, CVIU, JVCI, SP, PRL，Neurocomputing..
Program Committee Member：
Computer Vision: CVPR，ICCV, ECCV, WACV, ACCV，PRCV..
Multimedia: ACM-MM，ICME，MM-Asia，ChinaMM..
Machine Learning: NeurIPS，ICML，ICLR..
Robotics: ICRA，IROS..
Graphics: CGI
Automation: CCC
发表论文：
Jinlu Zhang, Zhigang Tu, Jianyu Yang, Yujin Chen, Junsong Yuan, "MixSTE: Seq2seq Mixed Spatio-Temporal Encoder for 3D Human Pose Estimation in Video", IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'22), 2022.
Rui Jin, Jing Zhang, Jianyu Yang*, Dacheng Tao, "Multibranch Adversarial Regression for Domain Adaptative Hand Pose Estimation", IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 2022.
Jianyu Yang, Wu Liu, Junsong Yuan, Tao Mei, "Hierarchical soft quantization for skeleton-based human action recognition", IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, vol. 23, pp. 883-898, 2021.
Chen Zhu, Jianyu Yang*, Zhanpeng Shao, Chunping Liu, "Vision based hand gesture recognition using 3D shape context", IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, vol. 8, no. 9, pp. 1600-1613, 2021.
Yao Huang, Jianyu Yang*, "A multi-scale descriptor for real time RGB-D hand gesture recognition", Pattern Recognition Letters, vol. 144, pp. 97-104, 2021.
Jianyu Yang, Yao Huang, Zhanpeng Shao, Chunping Liu, "Learning discriminative motion feature for enhancing multi-modal action recognition", Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation (JVCI), Vol. 79, 2021.
Zhanpeng Shao, Peng Liu, Youfu Li, Jianyu yang*, Xiaolong Zhou, "A multi-level network for human pose estimation", IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'21), 2021.
Peiyao Wang, Weixin Luo, Yanyu Xu, Haojie Li, Shugong Xu, Jianyu Yang, Shenghua Gao, "SIRI: spatial relation induced network for spatial description resolution", Thirty-fourth Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS'20), 2020.
Jianyu Yang*, Chen Zhu, Junsong Yuan, "Spatio-temporal multi-scale soft quantization learning for skeleton-based human action recognition", 2019 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME'19), pp. 1078-1083, 2019.
Jianyu Yang*, Chen Zhu, Junsong Yuan, "Real time hand gesture recognition via finger-emphasized multi-scale description", 2017 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME'17), pp. 631-636, 2017.
Jianyu Yang, Junsong Yuan, Youfu Li, "Parsing 3D motion trajectory for gesture recognition", Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation (JVCI), Vol. 38, pp. 627-640, 2016.
Jianyu Yang, Hongxing Wang, Junsong Yuan, Youfu Li, Jianyang Liu, "Invariant multi-scale descriptor for shape representation, matching and retrieval", Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU), Vol. 145, pp. 43-58, 2016.
Haoran Xu, Jianyu Yang*, Junsong Yuan, "Invariant multi-scale shape descriptor for object matching and recognition", 2016 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP'16), pp. 644-648, 2016. (oral)
Jianyu Yang, Junsong Yuan, Youfu Li, "Flexible trajectory indexing for 3D motion recognition", 2015 IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV'15), pp. 326-332, 2015.