Ke Gu

10.9k total citations · 7 hit papers
168 papers, 8.5k citations indexed

About

Ke Gu is a scholar working on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Media Technology and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Ke Gu has authored 168 papers receiving a total of 8.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 146 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 78 papers in Media Technology and 9 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Ke Gu's work include Image and Video Quality Assessment (123 papers), Advanced Image Fusion Techniques (67 papers) and Visual Attention and Saliency Detection (56 papers). Ke Gu is often cited by papers focused on Image and Video Quality Assessment (123 papers), Advanced Image Fusion Techniques (67 papers) and Visual Attention and Saliency Detection (56 papers). Ke Gu collaborates with scholars based in China, Singapore and United States. Ke Gu's co-authors include Guangtao Zhai, Xiaokang Yang, Weisi Lin, Wenjun Zhang, Xiongkuo Min, Junfei Qiao, Chang Wen Chen, Shiqi Wang, Yutao Liu and Min Liu and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing and IEEE Access.

In The Last Decade

Ke Gu

165 papers receiving 8.4k 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.

Using Free Energy Principle For Blind Image Quality Assessment

2014 485 citations Ke Gu, Guangtao Zhai et al. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia profile →
Blind Image Quality Estimation via Distortion Aggravation

2018 370 citations Xiongkuo Min, Guangtao Zhai et al. IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting profile →
Blind Quality Assessment Based on Pseudo-Reference Image

2017 330 citations Xiongkuo Min, Ke Gu et al. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia profile →
Learning a No-Reference Quality Assessment Model of Enhanced Images With Big Data

2017 329 citations Ke Gu, Weisi Lin et al. profile →
The Analysis of Image Contrast: From Quality Assessment to Automatic Enhancement

2015 306 citations Ke Gu, Guangtao Zhai et al. profile →
No-Reference Quality Metric of Contrast-Distorted Images Based on Information Maximization

2016 298 citations Ke Gu, Weisi Lin et al. profile →
Screen Content Quality Assessment: Overview, Benchmark, and Beyond

2021 192 citations Xiongkuo Min, Ke Gu et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ke Gu China	45	7.4k	3.7k	689	369	330	168	8.5k
Hang Zhao United States	20	4.0k 0.5×	841 0.2×	92 0.1×	256 0.7×	690 2.1×	50	6.6k
Feng Shao China	33	3.4k 0.5×	1.9k 0.5×	225 0.3×	81 0.2×	635 1.9×	256	4.6k
Ming-Yu Liu United States	26	6.4k 0.9×	1.2k 0.3×	61 0.1×	198 0.5×	354 1.1×	73	8.2k
Xiaohui Shen United States	42	8.7k 1.2×	1.3k 0.3×	110 0.2×	133 0.4×	347 1.1×	99	9.9k
Ashish Kumar Bhandari India	33	2.3k 0.3×	1.4k 0.4×	105 0.2×	118 0.3×	77 0.2×	125	3.5k
Zhe Lin United States	51	9.8k 1.3×	1.8k 0.5×	72 0.1×	140 0.4×	597 1.8×	169	11.4k
Ding Liu China	32	3.8k 0.5×	1.5k 0.4×	107 0.2×	131 0.4×	342 1.0×	122	5.7k
Vijayan K. Asari United States	28	3.0k 0.4×	686 0.2×	106 0.2×	173 0.5×	373 1.1×	283	5.5k
Yu Li China	36	4.9k 0.7×	1.9k 0.5×	207 0.3×	106 0.3×	90 0.3×	150	6.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ke Gu

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Lei, Zhen, et al.. (2025). Generating Gezi Opera Scores with a Large Language Model and a High-Quality Dataset. 1–5.

Liu, Hongyan, et al.. (2024). Subjective and objective quality evaluation for industrial images. Displays. 85. 102858–102858. 1 indexed citations

Yang, Chunjing, Aimin Wu, Liqiang Tan, et al.. (2023). Epigallocatechin-3-Gallate Alleviates Liver Oxidative Damage Caused by Iron Overload in Mice through Inhibiting Ferroptosis. Nutrients. 15(8). 1993–1993. 31 indexed citations

Zhu, Yucheng, Xiongkuo Min, Dandan Zhu, et al.. (2022). Toward Visual Behavior and Attention Understanding for Augmented 360 Degree Videos. ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications. 19(2s). 1–24. 22 indexed citations

Gu, Ke, et al.. (2020). Kernel-Ridge Regression-Based Quality Measure and Enhancement of Three-Dimensional-Synthesized Images. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics. 68(1). 423–433. 14 indexed citations

Wang, Guangcheng, Zhongyuan Wang, Ke Gu, et al.. (2019). Blind Quality Metric of DIBR-Synthesized Images in the Discrete Wavelet Transform Domain. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. 29. 1802–1814. 58 indexed citations

Xia, Zhifang, Ke Gu, Shiqi Wang, Hantao Liu, & Sam Kwong. (2019). Toward Accurate Quality Estimation of Screen Content Pictures With Very Sparse Reference Information. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics. 67(3). 2251–2261. 12 indexed citations

Jiang, Kui, Zhongyuan Wang, Peng Yi, et al.. (2019). ATMFN: Adaptive-Threshold-Based Multi-Model Fusion Network for Compressed Face Hallucination. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia. 22(10). 2734–2747. 101 indexed citations

Liu, Yutao, Ke Gu, Shiqi Wang, Debin Zhao, & Wen Gao. (2018). Blind Quality Assessment of Camera Images Based on Low-Level and High-Level Statistical Features. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia. 21(1). 135–146. 55 indexed citations

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Yue, Guanghui, et al.. (2018). Analysis of Structural Characteristics for Quality Assessment of Multiply Distorted Images. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia. 20(10). 2722–2732. 33 indexed citations

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Gu, Ke, et al.. (2018). A Highly Efficient Blind Image Quality Assessment Metric of 3-D Synthesized Images Using Outlier Detection. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics. 15(7). 4120–4128. 46 indexed citations

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Gu, Ke, et al.. (2018). Full-Reference Image Quality Assessment by Combining Features in Spatial and Frequency Domains. IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting. 65(1). 138–151. 34 indexed citations

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Zhou, Yu, Leida Li, Jinjian Wu, et al.. (2018). Blind Quality Index for Multiply Distorted Images Using Biorder Structure Degradation and Nonlocal Statistics. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia. 20(11). 3019–3032. 30 indexed citations

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Li, Leida, Yu Zhou, Ke Gu, Weisi Lin, & Shiqi Wang. (2017). Quality Assessment of DIBR-Synthesized Images by Measuring Local Geometric Distortions and Global Sharpness. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia. 20(4). 914–926. 91 indexed citations

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Qian, Jiansheng, et al.. (2017). Towards efficient blind quality evaluation of screen content images based on edge‐preserving filter. Electronics Letters. 53(9). 592–594. 10 indexed citations

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Wu, Jun, et al.. (2017). No-reference image quality assessment with center-surround based natural scene statistics. Multimedia Tools and Applications. 77(16). 20731–20751. 8 indexed citations

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Yue, Guanghui, Chunping Hou, & Ke Gu. (2017). Subjective quality assessment of animation images. 1–4. 6 indexed citations

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Wang, Shiqi, Ke Gu, Xinfeng Zhang, et al.. (2016). Reduced-Reference Quality Assessment of Screen Content Images. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology. 28(1). 1–14. 89 indexed citations

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Min, Xiongkuo, Guangtao Zhai, Zhongpai Gao, & Ke Gu. (2014). Visual attention data for image quality assessment databases. 10. 894–897. 22 indexed citations

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Gu, Ke, Guangtao Zhai, Xiaokang Yang, & Wenjun Zhang. (2012). An improved full-reference image quality metric based on structure compensation. Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference. 1–6. 14 indexed citations

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