Guojia Hou

1.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
50 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Guojia Hou is a scholar working on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Media Technology and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Guojia Hou has authored 50 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 41 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 19 papers in Media Technology and 8 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Guojia Hou's work include Image Enhancement Techniques (32 papers), Advanced Image Processing Techniques (22 papers) and Advanced Image Fusion Techniques (17 papers). Guojia Hou is often cited by papers focused on Image Enhancement Techniques (32 papers), Advanced Image Processing Techniques (22 papers) and Advanced Image Fusion Techniques (17 papers). Guojia Hou collaborates with scholars based in China, United Kingdom and Australia. Guojia Hou's co-authors include Zhenkuan Pan, Guodong Wang, Kunqian Li, Huan Yang, Baoxiang Huang, Xinjie Li, Lu Tan, Peixian Zhuang, Chongyi Li and Jingming Li and has published in prestigious journals such as The Science of The Total Environment, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing and IEEE Transactions on Image Processing.

In The Last Decade

Guojia Hou

47 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Hit Papers

SGUIE-Net: Semantic Attention Guided Underwater Image Enh... 2022 2026 2023 2024 2022 2023 50 100 150
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. SGUIE-Net: Semantic Attention Guided Underwater Image Enhancement With Multi-Scale Perception
    2022 159 citations Qi Qi, Kunqian Li et al. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing profile →
  2. Non-Uniform Illumination Underwater Image Restoration via Illumination Channel Sparsity Prior
    2023 131 citations Guojia Hou, Peixian Zhuang et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Guojia Hou China 18 1.2k 547 108 92 82 50 1.4k
Dehuan Zhang China 18 808 0.7× 353 0.6× 50 0.5× 87 0.9× 50 0.6× 38 1.0k
Miao Yang China 10 1.4k 1.1× 636 1.2× 71 0.7× 82 0.9× 82 1.0× 40 1.6k
Yan‐Tsung Peng Taiwan 14 1.8k 1.5× 877 1.6× 85 0.8× 68 0.7× 86 1.0× 52 2.0k
Codruta O. Ancuti Belgium 16 2.4k 2.0× 1.4k 2.6× 129 1.2× 63 0.7× 50 0.6× 41 2.5k
Li-Wei Kang Taiwan 13 1.2k 1.0× 415 0.8× 9 0.1× 41 0.4× 48 0.6× 32 1.3k
Hai-Han Sun Australia 19 710 0.6× 300 0.5× 42 0.4× 106 1.2× 35 0.4× 57 1.6k
Wenda Zhao China 19 819 0.7× 830 1.5× 18 0.2× 15 0.2× 39 0.5× 53 1.2k
Xu Yang China 16 265 0.2× 113 0.2× 69 0.6× 23 0.3× 22 0.3× 65 655

Countries citing papers authored by Guojia Hou

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Fields of papers citing papers by Guojia Hou

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Guojia Hou

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Guojia Hou. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Guojia Hou 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 Guojia Hou. Guojia Hou 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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Liu, Zhimin, et al.. (2025). Restoration of underwater optical image with non-uniform illumination via foreground and background segmentation. Optics & Laser Technology. 192. 113565–113565. 2 indexed citations
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Li, Yuemei, Guojia Hou, Peixian Zhuang, & Zhenkuan Pan. (2025). Dual High-Order Total Variation Model for Underwater Image Restoration. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia. 27. 8118–8130. 5 indexed citations
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Li, Kunqian, et al.. (2025). WaterMono: Teacher-Guided Anomaly Masking and Enhancement Boosting for Robust Underwater Self-Supervised Monocular Depth Estimation. IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement. 74. 1–14.
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Hou, Guojia, et al.. (2025). Toward a blind quality assessment for underwater images. Signal Processing Image Communication. 138. 117370–117370. 2 indexed citations
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Hou, Guojia, et al.. (2025). PQGAL-net: Perceptual quality guided generative adversarial learning for non-uniform illumination underwater image enhancement. Digital Signal Processing. 160. 105048–105048. 4 indexed citations
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Hou, Guojia, et al.. (2024). Contour and texture preservation underwater image restoration via low-rank regularizations. Expert Systems with Applications. 262. 125549–125549. 17 indexed citations
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Huang, Baoxiang, et al.. (2024). Global Oceanic Mesoscale Eddies Trajectories Prediction With Knowledge-Fused Neural Network. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 62. 1–14. 6 indexed citations
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Li, Xueyong, Weidong Zhang, Huimin Lu, et al.. (2024). DAPNet: Dual Attention Probabilistic Network for Underwater Image Enhancement. IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering. 50(1). 178–191. 1 indexed citations
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Huang, Baoxiang, Ge Chen, Hongfeng Zhang, Guojia Hou, & Milena Radenkovic. (2023). Instant deep sea debris detection for maneuverable underwater machines to build sustainable ocean using deep neural network. The Science of The Total Environment. 878. 162826–162826. 22 indexed citations
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Hou, Guojia, et al.. (2023). Texture enhanced underwater image restoration via Laplacian regularization. Applied Mathematical Modelling. 119. 68–84. 11 indexed citations
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Zhang, Xiao-Ya, Baoxiang Huang, Ge Chen, Milena Radenkovic, & Guojia Hou. (2023). WildFishNet: Open Set Wild Fish Recognition Deep Neural Network With Fusion Activation Pattern. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. 16. 7303–7314. 8 indexed citations
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Hou, Guojia, et al.. (2022). A Training-Based Blind Underwater Image Quality Evaluation Metric. 236–241. 2 indexed citations
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Qi, Qi, Kunqian Li, Haiyong Zheng, et al.. (2022). SGUIE-Net: Semantic Attention Guided Underwater Image Enhancement With Multi-Scale Perception. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. 31. 6816–6830. 159 indexed citations breakdown →
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Li, Yajing, Baoxiang Huang, Huan Yang, et al.. (2020). Efficient image structural similarity quality assessment method using image regularised feature. IET Image Processing. 14(16). 4401–4411. 7 indexed citations
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Li, Xinjie, Guojia Hou, Lu Tan, & Wanquan Liu. (2020). A Hybrid Framework for Underwater Image Enhancement. IEEE Access. 8. 197448–197462. 63 indexed citations
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Hou, Guojia, Jingming Li, Guodong Wang, et al.. (2019). A novel dark channel prior guided variational framework for underwater image restoration. Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation. 66. 102732–102732. 93 indexed citations
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Huang, Baoxiang, et al.. (2019). An Enhanced High-Order Variational Model Based on Speckle Noise Removal With $G^0$ Distribution. IEEE Access. 7. 104365–104379. 7 indexed citations
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Huang, Baoxiang, et al.. (2017). Optimizing stations location for urban noise continuous intelligent monitoring. Applied Acoustics. 127. 250–259. 6 indexed citations
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Luan, Xin, et al.. (2014). Underwater Color Image Enhancement Using Combining Schemes. Marine Technology Society Journal. 48(3). 57–62. 8 indexed citations

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