Research Group of Underwater Acoustic

Communication and Signal Processing

Wei Huang (黄威)

Lecturer/Ph.D./IEEE Member

✉️ Email: hw@ouc.edu.cn & scholarhw@gmail.com

Wei Huang, IEEE Member, Lecturer and master supervisor in the Faculty of Information Science and Engineering, Ocean University of China (2022-now). I graduated from the School of Electronic Information at Wuhan University with a bachelor's degree in Electronic Information Science and Technology in 2014. In the same year, I majored in Communication Engineering at the School of Electronic Information, Wuhan University as a joint master's and doctoral student, and graduated in 2021.
My research interests are primarily focused on underwater sound speed field construction and prediction, underwater communication and localization, underwater signal processing, machine learning. I have published more than 30 SCI/EI papers, including 15 SCI papers as first/corresponding author. I have been granted by 13 Chinese invention patents. I was awarded the Best Paper Award at the 2024 Signal Processing and Communication Technology (SPCT) International Conference. I served as a reviewer for many journals such as IEEE JOE, IEEE TCCN, Applied Ocean Research, Remote Sensing, and as a TPC member for GLOBECOM 2024 Workshop ISCEI (Workshop on Integrated Sensing and Communications for Edge Intelligence).

🏆 News

"End-to-end underwater acoustic target classification with frequency separation strategys"

by Ning Tang has been accepted by Applied Ocean Research, SCI, JCR Q1, 中科院1区, 2025/3/31.

"Underwater Sound Speed Prediction by Mamba Neural Networks"

by Zhengyang Xiu has been accepted by Oceans, EI Conference, 2025/2/25.

"Optimal Reference Nodes Deployment for Positioning Seafloor Anchor Nodes in the Internet of Underwater Things"

has been accepted by IEEE Internet of Things Journal, SCI, JCR Q1, 中科院1区TOP, 2024/12/31.

🎓 Education and Work Experience

  • Lecturer in Electronic Engineering (Faculty of Information Science and Engineering) Ocean University of China 2022.07 to now
  • Ph.D. in Communication Engineering (School of Electronic Information) Wuhan University 2014.09-2021.12
  • B.E. in Electronic Information Science and Technology (School of Electronic Information) Wuhan University 2010.09-2014.06
  • B.E. Course: Communication electronic circuit 2022 to now
  • B.E. Course: Satellite Communication 2023 to now
  • B.E. Course: Satellite Communication Experiment 2023 to now
  • 🏆 Awards

    • [A9] "An Attention Assisted LSTM Model for Underwater Sound Speed Profile Prediction", The 4th International Conference on Signal Processing and Communication Technology (SPCT), Best Paper Award 🥇2024
    • [A8] National Scholarship for Master Students: Jiajun Lu 🥇🥈🥉 2024
    • [A7] Shandong Province Graduate Innovation Achievement Award, Supervisor 🥈 2024
    • [A6] Shandong Postdoctoral Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, Silver Prize 🥈 2024
    • [A5] The 8th Shandong Province College Student Microcontroller Application Innovation Design Competition, Third Prize 🥉 2022
    • [A4] The 15th Chinese Mathematical Modeling Competition of Graduate Student, National First Prize 🥇 2018
    • [A3] The 11th Chinese Electronic Design Competition of Graduate Student, National First Prize 🥇 2016
    • [A2] The 11th Chinese Electronic Design Competition of Graduate Student, Business Plan Special Competition, Huawei Special Prize 🥇 2016
    • [A1] National Scholarship for Doctoral Students 🥇🥈🥉 2016

    📚 Journal Papers

    2025

    ★[J23] End-to-end underwater acoustic target classification with frequency separation strategy.

    Ning Tang, Hao Zhang, Fei Zhou, Wei Huang*, Pengfei Wu, Applied Ocean Research, 2025/03, SCI, JCR Q1, 中科院小类1区. DOI:(10.1016/j.apor.2025.104554)

    ★[J22] Optimal Reference Nodes Deployment for Positioning Seafloor Anchor Nodes in the Internet of Underwater Things.

    Wei Huang, Pengfei Wu, Tianhe Xu, Hao Zhang, Kaitao Meng*, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2024/12, SCI, JCR Q1, 中科院1区TOP. DOI: (10.1109/JIOT.2024.3524405)

    2024

    ★[J21] Underwater SSP Measurement and Estimation A Survey.

    Wei Huang, Pengfei Wu, Jiajun Lu, Junpeng Lu, Zhengyang Xiu, Zhenpeng Xu, Sijia Li, Tianhe Xu*, Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2024/12, SCI, JCR Q1, 中科院小类2区. DOI: (10.3390/jmse12122356)

    ★[J20] Real-time estimation of underwater sound speed profiles with a data fusion convolutional neural network model.

    Pengfei Wu, Hao Zhang, Yujie Shi, Jiajun Lu, Sijia Li, Wei Huang*, Ning Tang, Shuaijun Wang, Applied Ocean Research, 2024/09, SCI, JCR Q1, 中科院小类1区. DOI: (10.1016/j.apor.2024.104088)

    ★[J19] Predictive Modeling of Future Full-Ocean Depth SSPs Utilizing Hierarchical Long Short-Term Memory Neural Networks.

    Jiajun Lu, Hao Zhang, Pengfei Wu, Sijia Li, Wei Huang*, Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2024/06, SCI, JCR Q1, 中科院小类2区. DOI: (10.3390/jmse12060943)

    ★[J18] Enhancing Few-Shot Prediction of Ocean Sound Speed Profiles through Hierarchical Long Short-Term Memory Transfer Learning.

    Jiajun Lu, Hao Zhang, Sijia Li, Pengfei Wu, Wei Huang*, Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2024/06, SCI, JCR Q1, 中科院小类2区. DOI: (10.3390/jmse12071041)

    ★[J17] Fast Ray-Tracing-Based Precise Localization for Internet of Underwater Things without Prior Acknowledgment of Target Depth.

    Wei Huang, Kaitao Meng, Wenzhou Sun, Jianxu Shu, Tianhe Xu*, Hao Zhang*, Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2024/03, SCI, JCR Q1, 中科院小类2区. DOI: (10.3390/jmse12040562)

    ☆[J16] Underwater Sound Speed Field Forecasting Based on the Least Square Support Vector Machine.

    Junting Wang, Tianhe Xu, Wei Huang, Liping Zhang, Jianxu Shu, Yangfan Liu, Linyang Li, Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2024/03, SCI, JCR Q1, 中科院小类2区. DOI: (10.3390/jmse12030480)

    ★[J15] DWSTr: a hybrid framework for ship-radiated noise recognition.

    Yan Wang, Hao Zhang, Wei Huang*, Manli Zhou, Yong Gao, Yuan An, Huifeng Jiao, Frontiers in Marine Science, 2024/02, SCI, JCR Q1, 中科院小类1区. DOI: (10.3389/fmars.2024.1334057)

    ★[J14] Expendable Conductivity–Temperature–Depth-Assisted Fast Underwater Sound Speed Estimation by Convolutional Neural Network with Reduced Fully Connected Layers.

    Sijia Li, Hao Zhang, Jiajun Lu, Pengfei Wu, Wei Huang*, Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2024/02, SCI, JCR Q1, 中科院小类2区. DOI: (10.3390/jmse12030400)

    ★[J13] Dynamic Prediction of Full-Ocean Depth SSP by a Hierarchical LSTM An Experimental Result.

    Jiajun Lu, Wei Huang*, Hao Zhang, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 2024/01, SCI, JCR Q1, 中科院3区. DOI: (10.1109/LGRS.2024.3356552)

    ☆[J12] A simplified decision feedback Chebyshev function link neural network with intelligent initialization for underwater acoustic channel equalization.

    Manli Zhou, Hao Zhang, Tingting Lv*, Wei Huang, Yingying Duan, Yong Gao, Frontiers in Marine Science, 2024/01, SCI, JCR Q1, 中科院小类1区. DOI: (10.3389/fmars.2023.1331635)

    2023

    ★[J11] Experimental Results of Underwater Sound Speed Profile Inversion by Few-shot Multi-task Learning.

    Wei Huang, Jixuan Zhou, Fan Gao, Junting Wang, Tianhe Xu*, Remote Sensing, 2023/12, SCI, JCR Q1, 中科院小类2区. DOI: (10.3390/rs16010167)

    ★[J10] Deployment Strategy Analysis for Underwater Geodetic Networks.

    Wei Huang, Runying Qiu, Jixuan Zhou, Tianhe Xu*, Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2023/12, SCI, JCR Q1, 中科院小类2区. DOI: (10.3390/jmse12010025)

    ★[J9] Fast ship radiated noise recognition using three-dimensional mel-spectrograms with an additive attention based transformer.

    Yan Wang, Hao Zhang*, Wei Huang*, Frontiers in Marine Science, 2023/11, SCI, JCR Q1, 中科院小类1区. DOI: (10.3389/fmars.2023.1280708)

    ★[J8] 水下声速场构建方法综述.

    黄威, 高凡, 王君婷, 徐天河*. 哈尔滨工程大学学报, 2023/10, EI, 北大核心. DOI: (23.1390.U.20230928.1803.021)

    ★[J7] A Wasserstein generative adversarial network with gradient penalty for active sonar signal reverberation suppression.

    Zhen Wang, Hao Zhang*, Wei Huang*, Xiao Chen, Ning Tang, Yuan An, Frontiers in Marine Science, 2023/10, SCI, JCR Q1, 中科院小类1区. DOI: (10.3389/fmars.2023.1280305)

    ☆[J6] 联合匹配场和神经网络的声速时间场构建方法.

    李林洋, 徐天河, 王君婷, 黄威, 高凡, 舒建旭. 哈尔滨工程大学学报, 2023/10, EI, 北大核心. DOI: (23.1390.U.20231007.1556.010)

    ★[J5] A meta-deep-learning framework for spatio-temporal underwater SSP inversion.

    Wei Huang, Deshi Li, Hao Zhang, Tianhe Xu, Feng Yin*, Frontiers in Marine Science, 2023/08, SCI, JCR Q1, 中科院小类1区. DOI: (10.3389/fmars.2023.1146333)

    2021

    ★[J4] Collaborating Ray Tracing and AI Model for AUV-Assisted 3-D Underwater Sound-Speed Inversion.

    Wei Huang, Mingliu Liu, Deshi Li*, Feng Yin, Haole Chen, Jixuan Zhou, Huihui Xu, IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, 2021/10, SCI, JCR Q1, 中科院小类1区. DOI: (10.1109/JOE.2021.3066780)

    2020

    ☆[J3] QoE-Driven Intelligent Handover for User-Centric Mobile Satellite Networks.

    Mingliu Liu, Deshi Li, Yuanyuan Zeng*, Wei Huang, Kaitao Meng, Haole Chen. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 2020/06, SCI, JCR Q1, 中科院2区TOP. DOI: (10.1109/TVT.2020.3000908)

    ☆[J2] Discovery of Multimodal Sensor Data Through Webpage Exploration.

    Mingliu Liu, Deshi Li, Yuanyuan Zeng*, Wei Huang, Kaitao Meng, Haole Chen. IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2020/01, SCI, JCR Q1, 中科院1区TOP. DOI: (10.1109/JIOT.2019.2899612)

    2019

    ☆[J1] Combinatorial-Oriented Feedback for Sensor Data Search in Internet of Things.

    Mingliu Liu, Deshi Li*, Chan Xu, Jixuan Zhou, Wei Huang, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2019/06, SCI, JCR Q1, 中科院1区TOP. DOI: (10.1109/JIOT.2019.2944660)

    📚 Conference Papers

    2025

    ★[C10] A Hierarchical Kolmogorov–Arnold Network Model for Underwater Sound Speed Prediction With Ocean Experimental Results.

    Junpeng Lu, Wei Huang*, Zhengyang Xiu, Zhenpeng Xu, Hao Zhang, Accepted by IEEE ICCSN, 2025/07, EI.

    ★[C9] Multi-Task Attention Convolutional Neural Network for Underwater Acoustic Target Recognition in Few-shot Scenarios.

    Shumeng Sun, Hao Zhang*, Wei Huang*, Zhenpeng Xu, Junpeng Lu, Yan Wang, Accepted by IEEE ICCSN, 2025/07, EI.

    ★[C8] Underwater Sound Speed Prediction by Mamba Neural Networks.

    Zhengyang Xiu, Wei Huang*, Junpeng Lu, Zhenpeng Xu, Accepted by Oceans 2025, 2025/06, EI.

    2024

    ★[C7] An Attention Assisted LSTM Model for Underwater Sound Speed Profile Prediction (Best paper award).

    Pengfei Wu, Wei Huang, Junpeng Lu, Zhengyang Xiu, Zhenpeng Xu, the 4th International Conference on Signal Processing and Communication Technology (SPCT), 2024/12, EI.

    2023

    ★[C6] Estimation of Underwater Sound Speed Profile via Meta Learning with Data-driven Learning Rate An Experimental Result.

    Wei Huang, Tianhe Xu*, Fan Gao, Zhenqiang Song, Jianxu Shu, Hao Zhang, WUWNet'2023, 2023/11, EI.

    ★[C5] Fast Estimation of Full Depth Sound Speed Profile based on Partial Prior Information.

    Wei Huang, Jiajun Lu, Sijia Li, Tianhe Xu, Junting Wang, Hao Zhang*, IEEE 6th ICEICT, 2023/07, EI.

    2020

    ☆[C4] A Hybrid Routing Algorithm in Terrestrial-Satellite Integrated Network.

    Huihui Xu, Deshi Li*, Mingliu Liu, Guangjie Han, Wei Huang, Chan Xu, IEEE ICCC, 2020/11, EI.

    ☆[C3] Clustered-Sparse Bayesian Learning for Channel Estimation in Underwater Acoustic OFDM Systems.

    Shuaijun Wang, Deshi Li*, Mingliu Liu, Wei Huang, Haole Chen, Yi Cen, the 12th International Conference on Wireless Communications and Signal Processing, 2020/10, EI.

    2019

    ★[C2] A Stratified Linear Sound Speed Profile Simplification Method for Localization Correction.

    Wei Huang, Mingliu Liu*, Yi Cen, WUWNet'2019, 2019/10, EI.

    2018

    ★[C1] Underwater Sound Speed Inversion by Joint Artificial Neural Network and Ray Theory.

    Wei Huang, Deshi Li*, Peng Jiang, WUWNet'2018, 2018/12, EI.

    🌟 Patents

    2024

    [P13] Long term prediction method of sound velocity profile based on Transformer.

    基于Transformer的声速剖面长期预测方法.

  • Chinese inventor patent, 2024/10/15: Wei Huang, Jiajun Lu, Hao Zhang, Pengfei Wu, Sijia Li, Jiahe Zhu, Ke Wang, Yujie Shi, Haoran Zhao.
  • [P12] Real time sound velocity profile prediction method based on multimodal data fusion and self attention.

    基于多模态数据融合与自注意力的实时声速剖面预测方法.

  • Chinese inventor patent, 2024/06/05: Wei Huang, Pengfei Wu, Yujie Shi, Hao Zhang, Jiajun Lu, Sijia Li, Jiahe Zhu.
  • [P11] A few-shot ocean sound velocity profile prediction method based on transfer learning.

    一种基于迁移学习的小样本海洋声速剖面预报方法.

  • Chinese inventor patent, 2024/05/14: Wei Huang, Jiajun Lu, Hao Zhang, Pengfei Wu, Sijia Li, Shike Zhang, Xinyuan Wang, Zeyu Ni.
  • [P10] A method for estimating sound velocity profile based on convolutional neural network.

    一种基于卷积神经网络的声速剖面估计方法.

  • Chinese inventor patent, 2024/05/07: Wei Huang, Sijia Li, Pengfei Wu, Hao Zhang, Jiajun Lu.
  • [P9] A precise underwater acoustic positioning method based on iterative depth fine-tuning.

    一种基于迭代深度微调的精密水声定位方法.

  • Chinese inventor patent, 2024/04/05: Wei Huang, Deshi Li, Hao Zhang, Tianhe Xu, Xiang Xing.
  • [P8] A method for predicting sound velocity distribution based on long short-term memory neural network.

    一种基于长短期记忆神经网络的声速分布预报方法.

  • Chinese inventor patent, 2024/01/09: Wei Huang, Jiajun Lu, Hao Zhang, Sijia Li, Pengfei Wu.
  • 2023

    [P7] Passive velocity estimation method for underwater nodes based on Doppler frequency shift estimation.

    基于多普勒频移估计的水下节点被动运动速度估计方法.

  • Chinese inventor patent, 2023/07/18: Deshi Li, Wei Huang, Jian Chen, Minliu Liu, Kaitao Meng, Haole Chen.
  • [P6] A few-shot sound velocity profile inversion method based on meta learning.

    一种基于元学习的小样本声速剖面反演方法.

  • Chinese inventor patent, 2023/07/14: Wei Huang, Tianhe Xu, Deshi Li, Hao Zhang, Xiang Xing.
  • [P5] A fast estimation method for sound velocity distribution based on cross temporal and spatial sound velocity profile clustering.

    基于跨时空声速剖面聚类的声速分布快速估计方法.

  • Chinese inventor patent, 2023/02/03: Wei Huang, Deshi Li, Tianhe Xu, Fan Gao.
  • 2022

    [P4] A method and system for extending sound velocity profiles based on orthogonal empirical function decomposition.

    一种基于正交经验函数分解的声速剖面延拓方法及系统.

  • Chinese inventor patent, 2022/09/15: Tianhe Xu, Wei Huang, Fan Gao, Junting Wang, Yangfan Liu.
  • [P3] A shallow water sound velocity profile inversion method based on neural network and ray theory.

    一种神经网络和射线理论的浅海声速剖面反演方法.

  • Chinese inventor patent, 2022/06/14: Deshi Li, Wei Huang, Jian Chen, Shuaijun Wang, Kaitao Meng.
  • 2021

    [P2] Underwater acoustic communication capacity extension and interruption network system and method with sleep wake-up function.

    具备休眠唤醒功能的水声通信容延容断网络系统及方法.

  • Chinese inventor patent, 2021/05/18: Wei Huang, Deshi Li, Peng Jiang, Jian Chen, Kaitao Meng, Shuaijun Wang, Chan Xu.
  • 2020

    [P1] A direct signal propagation time measurement method based on underwater autonomous vehicles.

    一种基于水下自主航行器的直达信号传播时间测量方法.

  • Chinese inventor patent, 2020/10/13: Deshi Li, Wei Huang, Jian Chen, Yi Cen, Chan Xu.
  • 💻 Projects in progress

    Intelligent construction and prediction technology of ocean sound velocity field elasticity for high-precision underwater acoustic positioning.

  • National Natural Science Foundation of China (C), 30W RMB,2025/01-2027/12, in progress
  • Research on the Intelligent Construction and Prediction Method of Ocean Sound Velocity Field Elasticity.

  • Joint Fund of the Ministry of Education (Youth), 50W RMB,2024/01-2025/12, in progress
  • Research on high-precision underwater acoustic positioning method based on joint sound velocity intelligent inversion.

  • Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province (C), 15W RMB,2024/01-2026/12, in progress
  • Deep sea acoustic data and ocean environmental data processing.

  • Horizontal projects with Shandong university, 50W RMB,2023/05-now, in progress
  • Research on Intelligent Construction Technology of Underwater Navigation Sound Velocity Field.

  • Horizontal projects with Shandong university, 20W RMB,2023/03-now, in progress
  • Research on Precise Underwater Acoustic Positioning Method Based on Sound Velocity Intelligent Inversion.

  • Qingdao Postdoctoral Natural Science Foundation, 5W RMB,2022/12-now, in progress
  • 💻 Projects Finished

    Research on Underwater Acoustic Localization Method Based on Joint Subsea Reference Network Design and Rapid Construction of Sound Velocity Field.

  • The 72nd batch of general funding from the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, 8W RMB, 2022/11-2024/07, completed.
  • Research on Precise Underwater Acoustic Positioning Method Based on Sound Line Correction.

  • The fundamental research funds for the central universities, 10W RMB,2023/01-2024/12, completed.
  • 🛠️ Current Directions

    Underwater Sound Speed Field Construction and Prediction

    • Multi-modal data fusion for underwater sound speed field construction.
    • Underwater sound speed field prediction
    • Super resolution reconstruction of sound velocity distribution

    Underwater Acoustic Target Recognition

    • Multi-modal data fusion for underwater acoustic target recognition.
    • End-to-end underwater acoustic target recognition

    Underwater Communication and Localization

    • Integrated Sensing and Communication.
    • Optimal node deployment for anchor nodes.

    🤝 Ph.D. candidate

    • Pengfei Wu (吴鹏飞) 2022

    🤝 M.S. candidate

    • Jiajun Lu (鹿佳俊-国家电网), Sijia Li (李思佳-中国移动) 2022
    • Shumeng Sun (孙淑萌) 2023
    • Junpeng Lu (陆俊鹏), Zhengyang Xiu (修正阳), ZhenPeng Xu (徐振鹏) 2024

    🤝 Graduate master students