Kaihao Zhang

5.3k total citations · 7 hit papers
63 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Kaihao Zhang is a scholar working on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Media Technology and Aerospace Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Kaihao Zhang has authored 63 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 55 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 14 papers in Media Technology and 6 papers in Aerospace Engineering. Recurrent topics in Kaihao Zhang's work include Advanced Image Processing Techniques (28 papers), Image Enhancement Techniques (14 papers) and Image and Signal Denoising Methods (13 papers). Kaihao Zhang is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Image Processing Techniques (28 papers), Image Enhancement Techniques (14 papers) and Image and Signal Denoising Methods (13 papers). Kaihao Zhang collaborates with scholars based in China, Australia and Japan. Kaihao Zhang's co-authors include Wenhan Luo, Hongdong Li, Björn Stenger, Liang Wang, Yongzhen Huang, Wei Liu, Yong Du, Wenqi Ren, Lin Ma and Yiran Zhong and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing and Pattern Recognition.

In The Last Decade

Kaihao Zhang

60 papers receiving 2.1k 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.

Facial Expression Recognition Based on Deep Evolutional Spatial-Temporal Networks

2017 319 citations Kaihao Zhang, Yongzhen Huang et al. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing profile →
Deblurring by Realistic Blurring

2020 267 citations Kaihao Zhang, Wenhan Luo et al. profile →
Ultra-High-Definition Low-Light Image Enhancement: A Benchmark and Transformer-Based Method

2023 218 citations Kaihao Zhang, Wenhan Luo et al. profile →
Deep Image Deblurring: A Survey

2022 190 citations Kaihao Zhang, Wenqi Ren et al. profile →
GridFormer: Residual Dense Transformer with Grid Structure for Image Restoration in Adverse Weather Conditions

2024 51 citations Tao Wang, Kaihao Zhang et al. profile →
LLDiffusion: Learning degradation representations in diffusion models for low-light image enhancement

2025 24 citations Tao Wang, Kaihao Zhang et al. Pattern Recognition profile →
MB-TaylorFormer V2: Improved Multi-Branch Linear Transformer Expanded by Taylor Formula for Image Restoration

2025 22 citations Kaihao Zhang, Hongdong Li 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						Papers	Cites
Kaihao Zhang China	23	1.9k	617	299	161	125	63	2.2k
Md. Hasanul Kabir Bangladesh	15	1.5k 0.8×	541 0.9×	171 0.6×	81 0.5×	146 1.2×	54	1.9k
Oksam Chae South Korea	17	2.2k 1.2×	605 1.0×	406 1.4×	79 0.5×	155 1.2×	45	2.5k
Yuqian Zhou United States	18	1.7k 0.9×	545 0.9×	82 0.3×	409 2.5×	127 1.0×	32	1.9k
Yi Chang China	26	1.7k 0.9×	1.2k 1.9×	115 0.4×	149 0.9×	115 0.9×	68	2.5k
M.K.H. Leung Singapore	22	1.6k 0.9×	280 0.5×	88 0.3×	107 0.7×	137 1.1×	80	1.9k
Andreas Savakis United States	17	931 0.5×	196 0.3×	64 0.2×	69 0.4×	274 2.2×	135	1.3k
Abhijeet Ghosh United States	27	1.7k 0.9×	243 0.4×	34 0.1×	166 1.0×	67 0.5×	91	2.2k
Bogdan Smołka Poland	22	1.7k 0.9×	870 1.4×	51 0.2×	54 0.3×	166 1.3×	172	2.1k
Norimichi Ukita Japan	16	1.9k 1.0×	874 1.4×	24 0.1×	104 0.6×	144 1.2×	107	2.3k

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Wang, Zhifeng, Qixuan Zhang, Peter Zhang, et al.. (2025). Visual and Textual Prompts in VLLMs for Enhancing Emotion Recognition. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology. 35(12). 12355–12368.

Dong, Xingping, et al.. (2025). Condition-Guided Diffusion for Multi-Modal Pedestrian Trajectory Prediction Incorporating Intention and Interaction Priors. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. 48(4). 4406–4419.

Wang, Zhifeng, Kaihao Zhang, Wenhan Luo, & Ramesh Sankaranarayana. (2024). HTNet for micro-expression recognition. Neurocomputing. 602. 128196–128196. 35 indexed citations

Wang, Tao, et al.. (2024). Dual Teacher Knowledge Distillation With Domain Alignment for Face Anti-Spoofing. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology. 34(12). 13177–13189. 2 indexed citations

Zhang, Ying, Tao Wang, Kaihao Zhang, et al.. (2024). Blind Face Video Restoration with Temporal Consistent Generative Prior and Degradation-Aware Prompt. Rare & Special e-Zone (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology). 1417–1426. 3 indexed citations

Wang, Tao, et al.. (2024). Toward Real-World Blind Face Restoration With Generative Diffusion Prior. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology. 34(9). 8494–8508. 21 indexed citations

Wang, Jianyuan, Kaihao Zhang, Nick Barnes, et al.. (2023). Vicinity Vision Transformer. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. 45(10). 12635–12649. 25 indexed citations

Zhang, Kaihao, Tao Wang, Wenhan Luo, et al.. (2023). MC-Blur: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Image Deblurring. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology. 34(5). 3755–3767. 35 indexed citations

Yu, Yanjiang, Puyang Zhang, Kaihao Zhang, Wenhan Luo, & Changsheng Li. (2023). Multiprior Learning Via Neural Architecture Search for Blind Face Restoration. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems. 36(2). 3057–3070. 5 indexed citations

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Wen, Yuanbo, Tao Gao, Jing Zhang, Kaihao Zhang, & Ting Chen. (2023). From heavy rain removal to detail restoration: A faster and better network. Pattern Recognition. 148. 110205–110205. 20 indexed citations

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Gao, Tao, Yuanbo Wen, Kaihao Zhang, et al.. (2023). Frequency-Oriented Efficient Transformer for All-in-One Weather-Degraded Image Restoration. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology. 34(3). 1886–1899. 49 indexed citations

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Wang, Tao, et al.. (2023). Blind Face Restoration for Under-Display Camera via Dictionary Guided Transformer. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology. 34(6). 4914–4927. 7 indexed citations

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Ren, Wenqi, et al.. (2023). Event-Aware Video Deraining via Multi-Patch Progressive Learning. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. 32. 3040–3053. 14 indexed citations

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Zhang, Kaihao, Dongxu Li, Wenhan Luo, Wenqi Ren, & Wei Liu. (2022). Enhanced Spatio-Temporal Interaction Learning for Video Deraining: Faster and Better. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. 45(1). 1287–1293. 65 indexed citations

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Zhang, Kaihao, Dongxu Li, Wenhan Luo, et al.. (2022). EDFace-Celeb-1 M: Benchmarking Face Hallucination With a Million-Scale Dataset. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. 45(3). 3968–3978. 14 indexed citations

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Zhang, Kaihao, et al.. (2022). Four-player GroupGAN for weak expression recognition via latent expression magnification. Knowledge-Based Systems. 251. 109304–109304. 13 indexed citations

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Li, Yanshan, et al.. (2022). T-Net: Deep Stacked Scale-Iteration Network for Image Dehazing. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia. 25. 6794–6807. 35 indexed citations

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Zhang, Kaihao, Rongqing Li, Yanjiang Yu, Wenhan Luo, & Changsheng Li. (2021). Deep Dense Multi-Scale Network for Snow Removal Using Semantic and Depth Priors. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. 30. 7419–7431. 151 indexed citations

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Zhang, Kaihao, Wenhan Luo, Lin Ma, Wenqi Ren, & Hongdong Li. (2021). Disentangled Feature Networks for Facial Portrait and Caricature Generation. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia. 24. 1378–1388. 4 indexed citations

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Zhang, Kaihao, Yongzhen Huang, Yong Du, & Liang Wang. (2017). Facial Expression Recognition Based on Deep Evolutional Spatial-Temporal Networks. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. 26(9). 4193–4203. 319 indexed citations breakdown →

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