John Wright

33.4k total citations · 7 hit papers
95 papers, 22.5k citations indexed

About

John Wright is a scholar working on Computational Mechanics, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and Signal Processing. According to data from OpenAlex, John Wright has authored 95 papers receiving a total of 22.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 44 papers in Computational Mechanics, 42 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and 22 papers in Signal Processing. Recurrent topics in John Wright's work include Sparse and Compressive Sensing Techniques (43 papers), Blind Source Separation Techniques (19 papers) and Face and Expression Recognition (12 papers). John Wright is often cited by papers focused on Sparse and Compressive Sensing Techniques (43 papers), Blind Source Separation Techniques (19 papers) and Face and Expression Recognition (12 papers). John Wright collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Canada. John Wright's co-authors include Yi Ma, Arvind Ganesh, Yi Ma, Shankar Sastry, Emmanuel J. Candès, Xiaodong Li, Thomas S. Huang, Shuicheng Yan, Yi Ma and Yigang Peng and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Analytical Chemistry and Proceedings of the IEEE.

In The Last Decade

John Wright

94 papers receiving 21.8k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Robust Face Recognition via Sparse Representation

2009 6.9k citations John Wright, Arvind Ganesh et al. profile →
Robust principal component analysis?

2011 4.5k citations Emmanuel J. Candès, Yi Ma et al. profile →
Image Super-Resolution Via Sparse Representation

2010 3.6k citations John Wright et al. profile →
Sparse Representation for Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

2010 1.4k citations John Wright, Yi Ma et al. profile →
Robust Principal Component Analysis: Exact Recovery of Corrupted Low-Rank Matrices via Convex Optimization

2009 1.1k citations John Wright, Arvind Ganesh et al. IDEALS (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) profile →
RASL: Robust Alignment by Sparse and Low-Rank Decomposition for Linearly Correlated Images

2012 580 citations Yigang Peng, Arvind Ganesh et al. profile →
Fast Convex Optimization Algorithms for Exact Recovery of a Corrupted Low-Rank Matrix

2009 341 citations Zhouchen Lin, Arvind Ganesh et al. IDEALS (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
John Wright United States	34	14.9k	8.2k	5.6k	3.6k	3.3k	95	22.5k
Yi Ma United States	65	15.6k 1.0×	8.3k 1.0×	4.4k 0.8×	3.1k 0.9×	4.4k 1.3×	254	31.3k
Jian Yang China	74	20.3k 1.4×	3.5k 0.4×	6.7k 1.2×	3.0k 0.8×	6.1k 1.8×	647	28.4k
Xiaoou Tang Hong Kong	81	35.4k 2.4×	3.5k 0.4×	7.4k 1.3×	4.5k 1.2×	6.5k 2.0×	267	42.5k
David Kriegman United States	54	20.8k 1.4×	3.2k 0.4×	3.4k 0.6×	4.3k 1.2×	3.2k 1.0×	157	24.9k
Zhouchen Lin China	55	10.1k 0.7×	5.0k 0.6×	3.6k 0.6×	1.4k 0.4×	3.8k 1.1×	253	14.5k
Wotao Yin United States	53	6.9k 0.5×	9.6k 1.2×	1.8k 0.3×	1.7k 0.5×	2.6k 0.8×	176	18.5k
Wangmeng Zuo China	78	25.4k 1.7×	3.0k 0.4×	10.0k 1.8×	2.9k 0.8×	5.0k 1.5×	400	35.1k
Alfred M. Bruckstein⋆ Israel	46	9.2k 0.6×	5.2k 0.6×	2.7k 0.5×	2.2k 0.6×	1.5k 0.5×	245	15.7k
Deyu Meng China	63	13.2k 0.9×	2.7k 0.3×	7.1k 1.3×	937 0.3×	3.1k 0.9×	318	20.2k
Arvind Ganesh India	19	7.7k 0.5×	4.8k 0.6×	2.0k 0.4×	2.4k 0.7×	1.9k 0.6×	43	11.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of John Wright

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Wright, John, et al.. (2021). Compressed Sensing Image Reconstruction of Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy Measurements Carried Out at Ultrahigh Scan Speeds Using Continuous Line Probes. Analytical Chemistry. 93(37). 12574–12581. 2 indexed citations

West, Alan C., et al.. (2020). Probing the Speed Limits of Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy with In situ Colorimetric Imaging. ChemElectroChem. 7(11). 2424–2432. 2 indexed citations

Liao, Zhenyu, et al.. (2020). Complete Dictionary Learning via L4-Norm Maximization over the Orthogonal Group. arXiv (Cornell University). 21(165). 1–68. 9 indexed citations

Wright, John, et al.. (2020). A Multi-Branch Receiver With Modulated Mixer Clocks for Concurrent Dual-Carrier Reception and Rapid Compressive-Sampling Spectrum Scanning. IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits. 56(1). 235–253. 8 indexed citations

Wright, John, et al.. (2019). Design and operation of a scanning electrochemical microscope for imaging with continuous line probes. Review of Scientific Instruments. 90(8). 83702–83702. 5 indexed citations

Zhang, Yuqian, et al.. (2018). Structured Local Minima in Sparse Blind Deconvolution. Neural Information Processing Systems. 31. 2322–2331. 2 indexed citations

O’Neil, Glen D., et al.. (2018). Scanning Line Probe Microscopy: Beyond the Point Probe. Analytical Chemistry. 90(19). 11531–11537. 6 indexed citations

Zhang, Yudong, et al.. (2017). A Direct RF-to-Information Converter for reception and wideband interferer detection employing pseudo-random LO modulation. 268–271. 4 indexed citations

Sun, Ju, Qing Qu, & John Wright. (2015). Complete Dictionary Recovery Using Nonconvex Optimization. International Conference on Machine Learning. 2351–2360. 16 indexed citations

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Wu, Xiao-Ming, Zhenguo Li, Anthony Man–Cho So, John Wright, & Shih‐Fu Chang. (2012). Learning with Partially Absorbing Random Walks. Neural Information Processing Systems. 25. 3077–3085. 72 indexed citations

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Spielman, Daniel A., Huan Wang, & John Wright. (2012). Exact Recovery of Sparsely-Used Dictionaries. arXiv (Cornell University). 31 indexed citations

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Peng, Yigang, Arvind Ganesh, John Wright, Wenli Xu, & Yi Ma. (2010). RASL: Robust alignment by sparse and low-rank decomposition for linearly correlated images. 763–770. 178 indexed citations

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Ganesh, Arvind, John Wright, Xiaodong Li, Emmanuel J. Candès, & Yi Ma. (2010). Dense error correction for low-rank matrices via Principal Component Pursuit. 61 indexed citations

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Min, Kerui, Linjun Yang, John Wright, et al.. (2010). Compact projection: Simple and efficient near neighbor search with practical memory requirements. 1. 3477–3484. 28 indexed citations

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Wright, John, Arvind Ganesh, Shankar Rao, Yigang Peng, & Yi Ma. (2009). Robust Principal Component Analysis: Exact Recovery of Corrupted Low-Rank Matrices via Convex Optimization. IDEALS (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign). 22. 2080–2088. 1059 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wright, John & Yi Ma. (2009). Dense error correction via l1-minimization. 3033–3036. 38 indexed citations

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Ganesh, Arvind, Zhouchen Lin, John Wright, et al.. (2009). Fast algorithms for recovering a corrupted low-rank matrix. 213–216. 143 indexed citations

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Wright, John, et al.. (2009). Minimum sum of distances estimator: Robustness and stability. 524–530. 10 indexed citations

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Wright, John, Yangyu Tao, Zhouchen Lin, Yi Ma, & Heung‐Yeung Shum. (2007). Classification via Minimum Incremental Coding Length (MICL). SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences. 20. 1633–1640. 8 indexed citations

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Hong, Wei, John Wright, Kun Huang, & Yi Ma. (2005). A multiscale hybrid linear model for lossy image representation. 764–771 Vol. 1. 23 indexed citations

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