Publications

A curated list of accepted and peer-reviewed publications, workshop papers, and patents.

Accepted Publications

  1. MuscleSense: Making Muscle Effort Audible for Eyes-Free In-the-Loop Regulation
    Wenbo Zhang, Chenxu Zhang, Xingying Yan, Guanyu Xin, Yu He, Wenkang Zhang, Jagmohan Chauhan, Yang Gao, Zhanpeng Jin.
    Accepted, ACM IMWUT, 2026. DOI

  2. HALO: Inferring Hidden Activation-Loading Organization from Sparse Wearables
    Wenbo Zhang, Xingying Yan, Chenxu Zhang, Dong Huitian, Haoyang Li, Chenxu Zhu, Yang Gao, Jagmohan Chauhan, Zhanpeng Jin.
    Accepted, ACM IMWUT, 2026.

Workshop Papers

  1. Beyond Sensor Streams: HALO-Agent as a Body-State Representation Layer for Wearable Agents
    Wenbo Zhang, Yuan Gao, Dong Huitian, Chenxu Zhu, Chenxu Zhang, Wenkang Zhang, Yang Gao, Jagmohan Chauhan, Zhanpeng Jin.
    WearAgent Workshop, ACM UbiComp/ISWC, 2026. Program

Peer-Reviewed Publications

  1. WatchForce: Wearables Can Tell How Strong You Grasp From Your Wrist
    Lingde Hu*, Wenbo Zhang*, Seokmin Choi, Yang Gao, Zhanpeng Jin.
    Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, 2026. * Equal contribution.

  2. KineticsSense: A Multimodal Wearable Sensor Framework for Modeling Lower-Limb Motion Kinetics
    Wenbo Zhang, Chenxu Zhang, Yang Gao, Zhanpeng Jin.
    ACM IMWUT, 2025. DOI Cite

  3. PPGSpeech: A Wearable Silent Speech Interface Leveraging Neck-Worn Photoplethysmography
    Lingde Hu*, Wenbo Zhang*, Wenkang Zhang, Yu He, Seokmin Choi, Yang Gao, Jagmohan Chauhan, Zhanpeng Jin.
    IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2026. * Equal contribution.

  4. PressInPose: Integrating Pressure and Inertial Sensors for Full-Body Pose Estimation in Activities
    Yang Gao, Wenbo Zhang, Junbin Ren, Ruihao Zheng, Yincheng Jin, Di Wu, Lin Shu, Xiangmin Xu, Zhanpeng Jin.
    ACM IMWUT, 2024. DOI Cite

  5. Motion2Press: Cross-Modal Learning from IMU to Plantar Pressure for Gait Analysis
    Junbin Ren, Ruihao Zheng, Wenbo Zhang, Dong She, Yuting Bai, Zhanpeng Jin, Yang Gao.
    ACM IMWUT, 2025. DOI Cite

  6. A Survey on Brain Decoding: Reconstruction of Audio-Visual Perception
    He Yu, Wenkang Zhang, Wenbo Zhang, Lingde Hu, Muhammad Adil, Yincheng Jin, Zhanpeng Jin.
    ACM Computing Surveys, 2025.

  7. Spatial-Temporal Transformer for End-to-End Sign Language Recognition
    Zhenchao Cui, Wenbo Zhang, Zhaoxin Li, Zhaoqi Wang.
    Complex & Intelligent Systems, 2023.

Patents

  1. A Full-Body Pose Estimation Method and System Based on Pressure and Inertial Sensors
    Wenbo Zhang et al.
    Granted Chinese invention patent, 2025.