Jian Sun

63.6k total citations · 19 hit papers
186 papers, 31.1k citations indexed

About

Jian Sun is a scholar working on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Computational Mechanics and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Jian Sun has authored 186 papers receiving a total of 31.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 119 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 36 papers in Computational Mechanics and 30 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Jian Sun's work include Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques (40 papers), Advanced Vision and Imaging (29 papers) and 3D Shape Modeling and Analysis (23 papers). Jian Sun is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques (40 papers), Advanced Vision and Imaging (29 papers) and 3D Shape Modeling and Analysis (23 papers). Jian Sun collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Hong Kong. Jian Sun's co-authors include Kaiming He, Xiangyu Zhang, Shaoqing Ren, Xiaoou Tang, Heung‐Yeung Shum, Xudong Cao, Yi Li, Jifeng Dai, Lu Yuan and Fang Wen and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, The Journal of Chemical Physics and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Jian Sun

173 papers receiving 30.1k citations

Hit Papers

Spatial Pyramid Pooling in Deep Convolution... 2004 2026 2011 2018 2015 2012 2016 2014 2009 2.5k 5.0k 7.5k
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. Spatial Pyramid Pooling in Deep Convolutional Networks for Visual Recognition
    2015 8.1k citations Kaiming He, Xiangyu Zhang et al. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence profile →
  2. Guided Image Filtering
    2012 3.9k citations Kaiming He, Jian Sun et al. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence profile →
  3. R-FCN: Object Detection via Region-based Fully Convolutional Networks
    2016 2.2k citations Kaiming He, Jian Sun et al. profile →
  4. Saliency Optimization from Robust Background Detection
    2014 980 citations Jian Sun et al. profile →
  5. A Concise and Provably Informative Multi‐Scale Signature Based on Heat Diffusion
    2009 919 citations Jian Sun, Leonidas Guibas et al. profile →
  6. Lazy snapping
    2004 820 citations Jian Sun, Heung‐Yeung Shum et al. profile →
  7. Learning to Detect A Salient Object
    2007 689 citations Jian Sun, Heung‐Yeung Shum et al. Rare & Special e-Zone (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) profile →
  8. Image deblurring with blurred/noisy image pairs
    2007 573 citations Jian Sun, Heung‐Yeung Shum et al. Rare & Special e-Zone (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) profile →
  9. Accelerating Very Deep Convolutional Networks for Classification and Detection
    2015 565 citations Xiangyu Zhang, Kaiming He et al. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence profile →
  10. Deep ADMM-Net for compressive sensing MRI
    2016 564 citations Yan Yang, Jian Sun et al. Neural Information Processing Systems profile →
  11. ADMM-CSNet: A Deep Learning Approach for Image Compressive Sensing
    2018 560 citations Yan Yang, Jian Sun et al. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence profile →
  12. Face Alignment at 3000 FPS via Regressing Local Binary Features
    2014 550 citations Xudong Cao, Jian Sun et al. profile →
  13. Face Alignment by Explicit Shape Regression
    2013 517 citations Xudong Cao, Fang Wen et al. profile →
  14. Blessing of Dimensionality: High-Dimensional Feature and Its Efficient Compression for Face Verification
    2013 457 citations Xudong Cao, Fang Wen et al. profile →
  15. Image completion with structure propagation
    2005 370 citations Jian Sun, Heung‐Yeung Shum et al. profile →
  16. Object Detection Networks on Convolutional Feature Maps
    2016 320 citations Kaiming He, Xiangyu Zhang et al. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence profile →
  17. K-Means Hashing: An Affinity-Preserving Quantization Method for Learning Binary Compact Codes
    2013 279 citations Kaiming He, Fang Wen et al. profile →
  18. View-GCN: View-Based Graph Convolutional Network for 3D Shape Analysis
    2020 209 citations Jian Sun et al. profile →
  19. Focal Sparse Convolutional Networks for 3D Object Detection
    2022 195 citations Xiangyu Zhang, Jian Sun 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
Jian Sun China 64 23.6k 5.8k 3.4k 3.0k 2.7k 186 31.1k
Jiaya Jia Hong Kong 78 27.8k 1.2× 7.7k 1.3× 5.9k 1.7× 3.5k 1.2× 3.4k 1.3× 218 36.2k
John Canny United States 53 17.7k 0.8× 3.4k 0.6× 3.3k 1.0× 2.1k 0.7× 4.2k 1.6× 249 31.7k
Stephen Lin China 47 18.6k 0.8× 5.3k 0.9× 6.3k 1.8× 1.3k 0.4× 2.0k 0.7× 118 27.7k
Wangmeng Zuo China 78 25.4k 1.1× 10.0k 1.7× 5.0k 1.5× 3.0k 1.0× 2.0k 0.7× 400 35.1k
William T. Freeman United States 79 25.9k 1.1× 8.2k 1.4× 4.6k 1.3× 2.6k 0.9× 1.8k 0.7× 221 34.1k
Baining Guo China 59 19.0k 0.8× 4.0k 0.7× 5.7k 1.6× 5.1k 1.7× 2.0k 0.7× 255 30.8k
Alexei A. Efros United States 63 27.1k 1.1× 3.5k 0.6× 7.5k 2.2× 2.0k 0.7× 2.2k 0.8× 131 33.6k
Jean Ponce United States 51 18.7k 0.8× 4.1k 0.7× 3.6k 1.0× 3.2k 1.1× 3.9k 1.5× 172 24.8k
Xiaoou Tang Hong Kong 81 35.4k 1.5× 7.4k 1.3× 6.5k 1.9× 3.5k 1.2× 1.6k 0.6× 267 42.5k
Serge Belongie United States 68 26.4k 1.1× 3.7k 0.6× 8.5k 2.5× 1.7k 0.6× 3.5k 1.3× 184 33.9k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Jian Sun

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jian Sun

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Jian Sun. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Jian 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 Jian Sun. Jian Sun 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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Sun, Jian, et al.. (2025). Self-supervised distributional and contrastive learning model for image anomaly detection. Knowledge-Based Systems. 316. 113348–113348.
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Sun, Jie, et al.. (2025). On the stochastic fundamental diagram: A general micro-macroscopic traffic flow modeling framework. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5. 100163–100163. 2 indexed citations
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Xiao, Wei, et al.. (2024). A hybrid data- and model-driven learning framework for remaining useful life prognostics. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence. 135. 108557–108557. 11 indexed citations
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Gao, Hongwei, et al.. (2024). Efficient multi-level cross-modal fusion and detection network for infrared and visible image. Alexandria Engineering Journal. 108. 306–318. 4 indexed citations
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Li, Xiaorong, et al.. (2024). Training Networks in Null Space of Feature Covariance With Self-Supervision for Incremental Learning. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. 47(4). 2563–2580.
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Sun, Jian, et al.. (2024). UniSTAD: An Unified Triple-Tower Student–Teacher Model for Multi-Class Anomaly Detection and Localization. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology. 35(4). 3196–3208.
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Sun, Jian, et al.. (2023). Generalized Semantic Segmentation by Self-Supervised Source Domain Projection and Multi-Level Contrastive Learning. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 37(9). 10789–10797. 11 indexed citations
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Wang, Jiazhen, Yan Yang, Heran Yang, et al.. (2023). MD-GraphFormer: A Model-Driven Graph Transformer for Fast Multi-Contrast MR Imaging. IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging. 9. 1018–1030. 8 indexed citations
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Zhu, Zhanxing, et al.. (2021). Spherical Motion Dynamics: Learning Dynamics of Normalized Neural Network using SGD and Weight Decay. Neural Information Processing Systems. 34. 3 indexed citations
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Yu, Xi, et al.. (2021). Adversarial Reweighting for Partial Domain Adaptation. Neural Information Processing Systems. 34. 12 indexed citations
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Yang, Heran, Jian Sun, Huibin Li, Lisheng Wang, & Zongben Xu. (2018). Neural multi-atlas label fusion: Application to cardiac MR images. Medical Image Analysis. 49. 60–75. 21 indexed citations
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Bi, Haixia, Jian Sun, & Zongben Xu. (2017). PolSAR image classification using discriminative clustering. 1–4. 4 indexed citations
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Cao, Wenfei, Yao Wang, Jian Sun, et al.. (2016). Total Variation Regularized Tensor RPCA for Background Subtraction from Compressive Measurements. Rare & Special e-Zone (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology). 84 indexed citations
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Yang, Yan, Jian Sun, Huibin Li, & Zongben Xu. (2016). Deep ADMM-Net for compressive sensing MRI. Neural Information Processing Systems. 29. 10–18. 564 indexed citations breakdown →
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Xia, Yan, Xudong Cao, Fang Wen, Gang Hua, & Jian Sun. (2015). Learning Discriminative Reconstructions for Unsupervised Outlier Removal. 1511–1519. 181 indexed citations
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Ge, Tiezheng, Kaiming He, Qifa Ke, & Jian Sun. (2013). Optimized Product Quantization for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search. 2946–2953. 224 indexed citations
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Jiang, Xiaoye, Jian Sun, & Leonidas Guibas. (2012). A Fourier-theoretic approach for inferring symmetries. Computational Geometry. 47(2). 164–174. 5 indexed citations
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Sun, Jian. (2010). Study of Keeping Consistency of Chinese Corpus of Complete Parsing. Journal of Guangxi Normal University.
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Sun, Jian, Jian Sun, Zongben Xu, & Heung‐Yeung Shum. (2010). Gradient Profile Prior and Its Applications in Image Super-Resolution and Enhancement. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. 20(6). 1529–1542. 250 indexed citations

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