Jian Yao

6.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
156 papers, 4.4k citations indexed

About

Jian Yao is a scholar working on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Aerospace Engineering and Media Technology. According to data from OpenAlex, Jian Yao has authored 156 papers receiving a total of 4.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 115 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 39 papers in Aerospace Engineering and 30 papers in Media Technology. Recurrent topics in Jian Yao's work include Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques (52 papers), Advanced Vision and Imaging (47 papers) and Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization (39 papers). Jian Yao is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques (52 papers), Advanced Vision and Imaging (47 papers) and Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization (39 papers). Jian Yao collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Hong Kong. Jian Yao's co-authors include Renping Xie, Li Li, Xiaohu Lu, Menghan Xia, Yahui Liu, Wei Zhang, Jean‐Marc Odobez, Li Li, Raquel Urtasun and Sanja Fidler and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing.

In The Last Decade

Jian Yao

146 papers receiving 4.2k 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.

A Unified Framework for Street-View Panorama Stitching

2016 726 citations Li Li, Jian Yao et al. profile →
DeepCrack: A deep hierarchical feature learning architecture for crack segmentation

2019 712 citations Yahui Liu, Jian Yao et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jian Yao China	30	2.2k	797	713	645	522	156	4.4k
Kristin Dana United States	30	2.8k 1.3×	549 0.7×	259 0.4×	452 0.7×	167 0.3×	76	4.5k
Mingxing Tan United States	16	4.2k 1.9×	382 0.5×	998 1.4×	735 1.1×	229 0.4×	43	6.6k
Michael Ying Yang Netherlands	29	2.1k 1.0×	136 0.2×	830 1.2×	692 1.1×	601 1.2×	139	3.7k
Eftychios Protopapadakis Greece	23	1.0k 0.5×	617 0.8×	201 0.3×	249 0.4×	220 0.4×	99	4.1k
Kourosh Khoshelham Australia	37	1.8k 0.8×	397 0.5×	1.7k 2.3×	289 0.4×	1.5k 2.9×	181	5.3k
José García‐Rodríguez Spain	21	1.4k 0.6×	184 0.2×	321 0.5×	235 0.4×	397 0.8×	124	3.3k
Daquan Zhou China	11	2.8k 1.3×	279 0.4×	559 0.8×	740 1.1×	180 0.3×	29	4.9k
Haozhi Qi United States	9	3.4k 1.5×	169 0.2×	608 0.9×	727 1.1×	192 0.4×	17	4.6k
Ke Sun China	17	4.7k 2.1×	207 0.3×	686 1.0×	834 1.3×	327 0.6×	43	7.2k
Yuwen Xiong Canada	10	3.9k 1.7×	194 0.2×	644 0.9×	767 1.2×	195 0.4×	17	5.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Jian Yao

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Fields of papers citing papers by Jian Yao

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jian Yao

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Jian Yao. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Jian Yao 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 Yao. Jian Yao 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

Yao, Jian, et al.. (2025). A Coarse-to-Fine Image Warping Approach Using Trust Region Optimization for Orthoimage Mosaicking. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. 18. 19288–19303.

Liu, Ke, et al.. (2025). A Coarse-to-Fine Boundary Relabeling Approach for Roof Plane Segmentation. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters. 22. 1–5.

Yao, Jian, et al.. (2025). DFG-PCN: Point Cloud Completion With Degree-Flexible Point Graph. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. 31(12). 10698–10710.

Li, Li, et al.. (2024). Meta-Calib: A generic, robust and accurate camera calibration framework with ArUco-encoded meta-board. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. 212. 357–380. 1 indexed citations

Li, Jie, et al.. (2024). iMVS: Integrating multi-view information on multiple scales for 3D object recognition. Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation. 101. 104175–104175. 2 indexed citations

Li, Lili, et al.. (2024). ROI-Guided Attention Learning for Remote Sensing Image Retrieval. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. 17. 14752–14761. 2 indexed citations

Yao, Jian, et al.. (2024). A cluster-based disambiguation method using pose consistency verification for structure from motion. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. 209. 398–414. 1 indexed citations

Li, Li, et al.. (2024). A Parallelizable Global Color Consistency Optimization Algorithm for Multiple Images. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters. 22. 1–5.

Li, Yi, Jiangwei Qiao, Li Li, et al.. (2023). Automatic counting of rapeseed inflorescences using deep learning method and UAV RGB imagery. Frontiers in Plant Science. 14. 12 indexed citations

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Wang, Jing, et al.. (2023). Comparative analysis of medium and short term power load forecasting machine learning methods. 106–106. 1 indexed citations

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Li, Jie, et al.. (2023). Multi-view convolutional vision transformer for 3D object recognition. Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation. 95. 103906–103906. 11 indexed citations

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Yao, Jian, et al.. (2023). CCA-YOLO: An Improved Glove Defect Detection Algorithm Based on YOLOv5. Applied Sciences. 13(18). 10173–10173. 5 indexed citations

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Yang, Qing, et al.. (2023). Modelling the mass consumption potential of organic food: Evidence from an emerging economy. PLoS ONE. 18(9). e0291089–e0291089. 4 indexed citations

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Zhang, Mi, et al.. (2019). Line-Based Geometric Consensus Rectification and Calibration From Single Distorted Manhattan Image. IEEE Access. 7. 156400–156412. 4 indexed citations

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Li, Li, et al.. (2017). Optimal Seamline Detection for Orthoimage Mosaicking by Combining Deep Convolutional Neural Network and Graph Cuts. Remote Sensing. 9(7). 701–701. 29 indexed citations

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Yao, Jian, et al.. (2015). Estimating Drivable Collision-Free Space from Monocular Video. 420–427. 30 indexed citations

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Yao, Jian & Jean‐Marc Odobez. (2008). Fast human detection from videos using covariance features. Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). 33 indexed citations

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Yao, Jian & Jean‐Marc Odobez. (2008). Multi-camera 3D person tracking with particle filter in a surveillance environment. Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). 1–5. 13 indexed citations

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Yao, Jian & Jean‐Marc Odobez. (2008). Multi-Camera Multi-Person 3D Space Tracking with MCMC in Surveillance Scenarios. Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). 23 indexed citations

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Yao, Jian. (2000). ON TASK-BASED DIRECTIONAL MANIPULABILITY MEASURE OF REDUNDANT ROBOT. Robot. 5 indexed citations

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