Chen Sun

14.1k total citations · 4 hit papers
69 papers, 4.6k citations indexed

About

Chen Sun is a scholar working on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Artificial Intelligence and Automotive Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Chen Sun has authored 69 papers receiving a total of 4.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 18 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 17 papers in Automotive Engineering. Recurrent topics in Chen Sun's work include Autonomous Vehicle Technology and Safety (15 papers), Human Pose and Action Recognition (15 papers) and Multimodal Machine Learning Applications (10 papers). Chen Sun is often cited by papers focused on Autonomous Vehicle Technology and Safety (15 papers), Human Pose and Action Recognition (15 papers) and Multimodal Machine Learning Applications (10 papers). Chen Sun collaborates with scholars based in China, Canada and United States. Chen Sun's co-authors include Saurabh Singh, Abhinav Gupta, Abhinav Shrivastava, Kevin Murphy, Cordelia Schmid, Yin Cui, Yang Song, Serge Belongie, Carl Vondrick and Austin Myers and has published in prestigious journals such as Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Bioresource Technology and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Chen Sun

58 papers receiving 4.5k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Revisiting Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data in Deep Learning Era

2017 1.3k citations Chen Sun, Abhinav Shrivastava et al. profile →
The iNaturalist Species Classification and Detection Dataset

2018 770 citations Yang Song, Yin Cui et al. profile →
VideoBERT: A Joint Model for Video and Language Representation Learning

2019 658 citations Chen Sun, Cordelia Schmid et al. profile →
Multiview Transformers for Video Recognition

2022 180 citations Xuehan Xiong, Anurag Arnab et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Chen Sun China	23	2.3k	1.9k	359	267	256	69	4.6k
Jiuxiang Gu United States	16	2.0k 0.8×	1.6k 0.8×	303 0.8×	374 1.4×	376 1.5×	42	5.3k
Tete Xiao United States	8	2.7k 1.2×	1.3k 0.7×	259 0.7×	408 1.5×	311 1.2×	9	5.3k
Zhong‐Qiu Zhao China	20	2.6k 1.1×	964 0.5×	201 0.6×	292 1.1×	319 1.2×	72	4.8k
Jason Kuen United States	14	2.0k 0.9×	1.4k 0.7×	274 0.8×	380 1.4×	526 2.1×	24	5.3k
Bing Shuai Singapore	17	2.4k 1.0×	1.6k 0.8×	293 0.8×	425 1.6×	451 1.8×	31	5.8k
Songyang Lao China	22	1.6k 0.7×	743 0.4×	220 0.6×	210 0.8×	171 0.7×	106	3.7k
Zhenhua Wang China	15	2.6k 1.1×	1.4k 0.7×	320 0.9×	422 1.6×	460 1.8×	50	6.0k
Bodo Rosenhahn Germany	34	3.3k 1.4×	896 0.5×	604 1.7×	99 0.4×	413 1.6×	205	4.5k
Lianyang Ma China	5	1.5k 0.6×	1.2k 0.6×	284 0.8×	361 1.4×	492 1.9×	11	4.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Chen Sun

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Fields of papers citing papers by Chen Sun

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Chen Sun

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Chen Sun. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Chen Sun based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Chen Sun. Chen Sun is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Sun, Chen, et al.. (2025). Cascaded Safety Analysis and Test Scenario Generation Techniques for Autonomous Driving: A Case Study with WATonoBus. Automotive Innovation. 8(2). 252–263.

Sun, Chen. (2025). Analyzing User Behavior in Social Networks Using Big Data: Opportunities, Challenges, and Future Directions. Academic Journal of Science and Technology. 14(1). 75–79.

Deng, Zejian, et al.. (2025). Social Predictive Intelligent Driver Model for Autonomous Driving Simulation. Automotive Innovation. 8(1). 1–12. 6 indexed citations

Sun, Chen, Jia Liu, Hongjun Li, & Youyou Yan. (2025). Melatonin attenuates ischemia-reperfusion-induced acute kidney injury by regulating abnormal autophagy and pyroptosis through SIRT1-mediated p53 deacetylation. International Immunopharmacology. 162. 115092–115092. 3 indexed citations

Sun, Chen, et al.. (2024). Practical solution for attenuating industrial heavy vehicle vibration: A new gain-adaptive coordinated suspension control system. Control Engineering Practice. 154. 106125–106125. 4 indexed citations

Sun, Chen, et al.. (2024). An Uncertainty-Aware, Dual-Tiered Decision-Making Method for Safe Autonomous Driving. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. 26(1). 691–702. 1 indexed citations

Gritsenko, Alexey A., Xuehan Xiong, Josip Djolonga, et al.. (2024). End-to-End Spatio-Temporal Action Localisation with Video Transformers. 18373–18383. 5 indexed citations

Sun, Chen, et al.. (2024). Real-Time MPC for WATonoBus Path Tracking. The HKU Scholars Hub (University of Hong Kong). 3233–3238.

Sun, Chen, et al.. (2023). Toward Ensuring Safety for Autonomous Driving Perception: Standardization Progress, Research Advances, and Perspectives. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. 25(5). 3286–3304. 22 indexed citations

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Sun, Chen, et al.. (2023). Medium-Fidelity Evaluation and Modeling for Perception Systems of Intelligent and Connected Vehicles. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles. 9(1). 1711–1721. 4 indexed citations

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Cui, Yaodong, Yutong Wang, Chen Sun, et al.. (2023). DriveLLM: Charting the Path Toward Full Autonomous Driving With Large Language Models. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles. 9(1). 1450–1464. 49 indexed citations

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Nagrani, Arsha, Shan Yang, Anurag Arnab, et al.. (2021). Attention Bottlenecks for Multimodal Fusion. Neural Information Processing Systems. 34.

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Sun, Chen & En‐hui Yang. (2021). A Watermarking-Based Framework for Protecting Deep Image Classifiers Against Adversarial Attacks. 3324–3333. 5 indexed citations

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Cao, Weixing, Mimi Wang, Mengmeng Liu, et al.. (2018). The chemical and dynamic distribution characteristics of iron, cobalt and nickel in three different anaerobic digestates: Effect of pH and trace elements dosage. Bioresource Technology. 269. 363–374. 38 indexed citations

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Cui, Yin, Yang Song, Chen Sun, Andrew Howard, & Serge Belongie. (2018). Large Scale Fine-Grained Categorization and Domain-Specific Transfer Learning. 4109–4118. 279 indexed citations

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Sun, Chen, Abhinav Shrivastava, Saurabh Singh, & Abhinav Gupta. (2017). Revisiting Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data in Deep Learning Era. 843–852. 1326 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wu, Wei, et al.. (2017). H₂S Donor NaHS Changes the Production of Endogenous H₂S and NO in D‐Galactose‐Induced Accelerated Ageing. Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity. 2017(1). 5707830–5707830. 46 indexed citations

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Li, Xinghui, Wenlong Xue, Ming-Jie Wang, et al.. (2017). H2S regulates endothelial nitric oxide synthase protein stability by promoting microRNA-455-3p expression. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 44807–44807. 33 indexed citations

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Yuan, Jie, et al.. (2016). Clinical value of urine NAG combined with serum CysC in predicting diagosis and prognosis of acute kidney injury in critically ill patients. Zhonghua jizhen yixue zazhi. 25(2). 194–199. 1 indexed citations

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Yin, Renzhan, et al.. (2012). Influence of particle size on performance of a pilot-scale fixed-bed gasification system. Bioresource Technology. 119. 15–21. 82 indexed citations

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