Chongyi Li

16.3k total citations · 24 hit papers
126 papers, 10.2k citations indexed

About

Chongyi Li is a scholar working on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Media Technology and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Chongyi Li has authored 126 papers receiving a total of 10.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 105 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 39 papers in Media Technology and 9 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Chongyi Li's work include Image Enhancement Techniques (66 papers), Advanced Image Processing Techniques (54 papers) and Advanced Image Fusion Techniques (31 papers). Chongyi Li is often cited by papers focused on Image Enhancement Techniques (66 papers), Advanced Image Processing Techniques (54 papers) and Advanced Image Fusion Techniques (31 papers). Chongyi Li collaborates with scholars based in China, Singapore and Hong Kong. Chongyi Li's co-authors include Runmin Cong, Chunle Guo, Jichang Guo, Fatih Porikli, Saeed Anwar, Peixian Zhuang, Sam Kwong, Weidong Zhang, Yanwei Pang and Chen Change Loy and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Scientific Reports and Chemical Engineering Journal.

In The Last Decade

Chongyi Li

120 papers receiving 9.9k citations

Hit Papers

Zero-Reference Deep Curve Estimation for Low-Light I... 2016 2026 2019 2022 2020 2019 2016 2022 2021 400 800 1.2k
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.

  1. Zero-Reference Deep Curve Estimation for Low-Light Image Enhancement
    2020 1.2k citations Chunle Guo, Chongyi Li et al. profile →
  2. Underwater scene prior inspired deep underwater image and video enhancement
    2019 806 citations Chongyi Li, Saeed Anwar et al. profile →
  3. Underwater Image Enhancement by Dehazing With Minimum Information Loss and Histogram Distribution Prior
    2016 639 citations Chongyi Li, Jichang Guo et al. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing profile →
  4. Underwater Image Enhancement via Minimal Color Loss and Locally Adaptive Contrast Enhancement
    2022 498 citations Sam Kwong, Chongyi Li et al. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing profile →
  5. Learning to Enhance Low-Light Image via Zero-Reference Deep Curve Estimation
    2021 431 citations Chongyi Li, Chunle Guo et al. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence profile →
  6. LightenNet: A Convolutional Neural Network for weakly illuminated image enhancement
    2018 356 citations Chongyi Li, Jichang Guo et al. profile →
  7. Underwater Image Enhancement With Hyper-Laplacian Reflectance Priors
    2022 349 citations Chongyi Li et al. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing profile →
  8. Low-Light Image and Video Enhancement Using Deep Learning: A Survey
    2021 348 citations Chongyi Li, Chunle Guo et al. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence profile →
  9. Bayesian retinex underwater image enhancement
    2021 298 citations Chongyi Li et al. profile →
  10. Image Dehazing Transformer with Transmission-Aware 3D Position Embedding
    2022 273 citations Chunle Guo, Saeed Anwar et al. profile →
  11. Dense Attention Fluid Network for Salient Object Detection in Optical Remote Sensing Images
    2020 231 citations Qijian Zhang, Runmin Cong et al. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing profile →
  12. Underwater Image Enhancement by Attenuated Color Channel Correction and Detail Preserved Contrast Enhancement
    2022 205 citations Yudong Wang, Chongyi Li et al. profile →
  13. Underwater Image Enhancement via Weighted Wavelet Visual Perception Fusion
    2023 199 citations Chongyi Li et al. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology profile →
  14. Underwater Image Enhancement Quality Evaluation: Benchmark Dataset and Objective Metric
    2022 182 citations Qiuping Jiang, Chongyi Li et al. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology profile →
  15. A Perception-Aware Decomposition and Fusion Framework for Underwater Image Enhancement
    2022 167 citations Qiuping Jiang, Chongyi Li et al. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology profile →
  16. PUGAN: Physical Model-Guided Underwater Image Enhancement Using GAN With Dual-Discriminators
    2023 162 citations Runmin Cong, Wei Zhang et al. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing profile →
  17. CIR-Net: Cross-Modality Interaction and Refinement for RGB-D Salient Object Detection
    2022 136 citations Runmin Cong, Chongyi Li et al. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing profile →
  18. Non-Uniform Illumination Underwater Image Restoration via Illumination Channel Sparsity Prior
    2023 131 citations Chongyi Li et al. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology profile →
  19. Underwater Image Enhancement via Piecewise Color Correction and Dual Prior Optimized Contrast Enhancement
    2023 122 citations Chongyi Li et al. profile →
  20. Underwater Ranker: Learn Which Is Better and How to Be Better
    2023 112 citations Chunle Guo, Chongyi Li et al. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence profile →
  21. Learning Semantic-Aware Knowledge Guidance for Low-Light Image Enhancement
    2023 111 citations Yuhui Wu, Guoqing Wang et al. profile →
  22. RIDCP: Revitalizing Real Image Dehazing via High-Quality Codebook Priors
    2023 103 citations Chunle Guo, Chongyi Li et al. profile →
  23. HCLR-Net: Hybrid Contrastive Learning Regularization with Locally Randomized Perturbation for Underwater Image Enhancement
    2024 84 citations Jingchun Zhou, Chongyi Li et al. profile →
  24. A General Spatial-Frequency Learning Framework for Multimodal Image Fusion
    2024 57 citations Man Zhou, Jie Huang et al. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Chongyi Li China 44 9.1k 3.9k 448 419 417 126 10.2k
Xin Fan China 43 5.5k 0.6× 3.0k 0.8× 232 0.5× 804 1.9× 122 0.3× 298 7.7k
Risheng Liu China 38 5.9k 0.6× 3.2k 0.8× 209 0.5× 744 1.8× 126 0.3× 204 7.3k
Runmin Cong China 38 6.1k 0.7× 2.2k 0.6× 124 0.3× 479 1.1× 141 0.3× 109 6.8k
Wenqi Ren China 46 7.0k 0.8× 3.2k 0.8× 86 0.2× 224 0.5× 143 0.3× 161 7.8k
Qiuping Jiang China 34 3.3k 0.4× 1.4k 0.4× 136 0.3× 221 0.5× 159 0.4× 211 4.4k
Zhongxuan Luo China 31 3.3k 0.4× 1.8k 0.5× 118 0.3× 504 1.2× 85 0.2× 186 4.8k
Srinivasa G. Narasimhan United States 42 7.1k 0.8× 3.3k 0.9× 48 0.1× 428 1.0× 470 1.1× 139 8.5k
Xueyang Fu China 39 6.7k 0.7× 3.7k 0.9× 56 0.1× 178 0.4× 259 0.6× 116 7.5k
Zhenwei Shi China 47 4.8k 0.5× 5.3k 1.4× 147 0.3× 1.2k 2.9× 47 0.1× 271 9.8k
Lu Yuan China 49 8.4k 0.9× 1.9k 0.5× 53 0.1× 697 1.7× 151 0.4× 107 10.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Chongyi Li

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Chongyi Li. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Chongyi Li 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 Chongyi Li. Chongyi Li is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Guo, Jichang, et al.. (2025). Data-driven gradient priors integrated into blind image deblurring. Signal Processing Image Communication. 135. 117275–117275. 1 indexed citations
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Chen, Long, Junyu Dong, Qi Xu, et al.. (2025). Underwater Optical Object Detection in the Era of Artificial Intelligence: Current, Challenge, and Future. ACM Computing Surveys. 58(3). 1–34. 1 indexed citations
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Jiang, Qiuping, et al.. (2025). Deep Underwater Image Quality Assessment With Explicit Degradation Awareness Embedding. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. 34. 1297–1310. 10 indexed citations
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Wang, Ruiyao, et al.. (2025). Injectable, conductive MXene@Mg2+ hydrogel with photothermal antibacterial and angiogenic properties for bacteria-infected wound healing. Chemical Engineering Journal. 514. 163472–163472. 6 indexed citations
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Anwar, Saeed, Muhammad Tahir, Chongyi Li, et al.. (2024). Image colorization: A survey and dataset. Information Fusion. 114. 102720–102720. 9 indexed citations
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Li, Chongyi, et al.. (2024). Flare7K++: Mixing Synthetic and Real Datasets for Nighttime Flare Removal and Beyond. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. 46(11). 7041–7055. 8 indexed citations
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Zhou, Jingchun, Kin‐Man Lam, Yudong Wang, et al.. (2024). AMSP-UOD: When Vortex Convolution and Stochastic Perturbation Meet Underwater Object Detection. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 38(7). 7659–7667. 20 indexed citations
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Liu, Qiao, et al.. (2024). Generalizing ISP Model by Unsupervised Raw-to-raw Mapping. 3809–3817.
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Wu, Yuhui, Guoqing Wang, Yang Yang, et al.. (2024). Towards a Flexible Semantic Guided Model for Single Image Enhancement and Restoration. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. 46(12). 9921–9939. 7 indexed citations
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Zhou, Man, Jie Huang, Keyu Yan, et al.. (2024). A General Spatial-Frequency Learning Framework for Multimodal Image Fusion. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. 47(7). 5281–5298. 57 indexed citations breakdown →
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Guo, Chunle, et al.. (2023). BeautyREC: Robust, Efficient, and Component-Specific Makeup Transfer. 1102–1110. 11 indexed citations
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Zhou, Man, Jie Huang, Danfeng Hong, et al.. (2023). Rethinking Pan-Sharpening in Closed-Loop Regularization. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems. 35(10). 14544–14558. 22 indexed citations
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Jiang, Qiuping, et al.. (2023). Perception-Driven Deep Underwater Image Enhancement Without Paired Supervision. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia. 26. 4884–4897. 65 indexed citations
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Cong, Runmin, Wei Zhang, Chongyi Li, et al.. (2023). PUGAN: Physical Model-Guided Underwater Image Enhancement Using GAN With Dual-Discriminators. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. 32. 4472–4485. 162 indexed citations breakdown →
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Cong, Runmin, Ning Yang, Chongyi Li, et al.. (2022). Global-and-Local Collaborative Learning for Co-Salient Object Detection. IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics. 53(3). 1920–1931. 75 indexed citations
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Li, Chongyi, et al.. (2022). An Optimized Algorithm for Dangerous Driving Behavior Identification Based on Unbalanced Data. Electronics. 11(10). 1557–1557. 8 indexed citations
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Jiang, Qiuping, et al.. (2022). A Perception-Aware Decomposition and Fusion Framework for Underwater Image Enhancement. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology. 33(3). 988–1002. 167 indexed citations breakdown →
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Luo, Jun, Wenqi Ren, Tao Wang, Chongyi Li, & Xiaochun Cao. (2022). Under-Display Camera Image Enhancement via Cascaded Curve Estimation. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. 31. 4856–4868. 10 indexed citations
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Zhang, Qijian, Runmin Cong, Chongyi Li, et al.. (2020). Dense Attention Fluid Network for Salient Object Detection in Optical Remote Sensing Images. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. 30. 1305–1317. 231 indexed citations breakdown →
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Li, Chongyi. (2013). Further Study of Yunnan Drought during the 2009/2010 Winter:Numerical Simulation of Impact of Antecedent Soil Moisture. Climatic and Environmental Research. 2 indexed citations

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