Kechen Song

7.1k total citations · 4 hit papers
144 papers, 5.1k citations indexed

About

Kechen Song is a scholar working on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Kechen Song has authored 144 papers receiving a total of 5.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 81 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 50 papers in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and 34 papers in Mechanical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Kechen Song's work include Industrial Vision Systems and Defect Detection (50 papers), Advanced Neural Network Applications (31 papers) and Infrastructure Maintenance and Monitoring (28 papers). Kechen Song is often cited by papers focused on Industrial Vision Systems and Defect Detection (50 papers), Advanced Neural Network Applications (31 papers) and Infrastructure Maintenance and Monitoring (28 papers). Kechen Song collaborates with scholars based in China, United Kingdom and Japan. Kechen Song's co-authors include Yunhui Yan, Yu He, Qinggang Meng, Hongwen Dong, Liming Huang, Jing Xu, Menghui Niu, Yanyan Wang, Yanqi Bao and Jie Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Scientific Reports and IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics.

In The Last Decade

Kechen Song

128 papers receiving 5.0k 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.

An End-to-End Steel Surface Defect Detection Approach via Fusing Multiple Hierarchical Features

2019 850 citations Kechen Song, Yunhui Yan et al. IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement profile →
A noise robust method based on completed local binary patterns for hot-rolled steel strip surface defects

2013 630 citations Kechen Song, Yunhui Yan profile →
PGA-Net: Pyramid Feature Fusion and Global Context Attention Network for Automated Surface Defect Detection

2019 379 citations Kechen Song, Jing Xu et al. profile →
Triplet-Graph Reasoning Network for Few-Shot Metal Generic Surface Defect Segmentation

2021 199 citations Kechen Song, Yanyan Wang et al. IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kechen Song China	35	3.1k	2.6k	1.3k	1.2k	1.0k	144	5.1k
Yunhui Yan China	35	3.1k 1.0×	2.7k 1.0×	1.3k 1.0×	1.2k 1.0×	1.1k 1.0×	164	5.3k
De Xu China	32	1.1k 0.4×	2.2k 0.8×	986 0.7×	273 0.2×	251 0.2×	269	4.3k
Jing Xu China	32	471 0.2×	1.6k 0.6×	2.0k 1.5×	123 0.1×	285 0.3×	173	4.4k
Jorge Angeles Canada	49	1.6k 0.5×	1.2k 0.5×	3.2k 2.4×	517 0.4×	662 0.6×	423	11.7k
Junfeng Fan China	27	542 0.2×	771 0.3×	851 0.6×	155 0.1×	126 0.1×	111	2.2k
Dikai Liu Australia	28	483 0.2×	617 0.2×	599 0.5×	478 0.4×	67 0.1×	228	2.9k
Du Jiang China	40	596 0.2×	1.5k 0.6×	376 0.3×	133 0.1×	106 0.1×	98	3.6k
Song Yao China	31	229 0.1×	1.4k 0.5×	1.0k 0.8×	594 0.5×	187 0.2×	102	4.1k
Sang Woo Kim South Korea	29	494 0.2×	458 0.2×	441 0.3×	165 0.1×	414 0.4×	191	2.7k
Jianyi Kong China	29	465 0.1×	990 0.4×	373 0.3×	153 0.1×	113 0.1×	112	2.9k

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Wang, Yanyan, Kechen Song, Yuyuan Liu, et al.. (2025). Leveraging labelled data knowledge: A cooperative rectification learning network for semi-supervised 3D medical image segmentation. Medical Image Analysis. 101. 103461–103461. 5 indexed citations

Li, Qingqing, et al.. (2024). An efficient tool for real-time global carbon neutrality with credibility of delicacy management: A Modelx + MRV + O system. Applied Energy. 372. 123763–123763. 1 indexed citations

Song, Kechen, et al.. (2024). Nondestructive in-ovo sexing of Hy-Line Sonia eggs by EggFormer using hyperspectral imaging. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture. 225. 109298–109298. 6 indexed citations

Song, Kechen, et al.. (2024). An efficient targeted design for real-time defect detection of surface defects. Optics and Lasers in Engineering. 178. 108174–108174. 8 indexed citations

Yan, Yunhui, et al.. (2024). Uncertainty inspired domain adaptation network for rail surface defect segmentation. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence. 135. 108860–108860. 5 indexed citations

Song, Kechen, et al.. (2024). Will Government Digital Focus Affect Local Economic Development. Academic Journal of Science and Technology. 10(1). 442–444.

Wang, Hai‐Kun, et al.. (2024). Sparse Transformer-based bins and Polarized Cross Attention decoder for monocular depth estimation. Engineering Science and Technology an International Journal. 54. 101705–101705. 1 indexed citations

Xu, Jianwei, et al.. (2024). Analysis of abnormal bright band characteristics of forging for a new low-cost titanium alloy. Materials Letters. 369. 136746–136746. 2 indexed citations

Song, Kechen, et al.. (2023). NFCF: Industrial Surface Anomaly Detection with Normalizing Flow Cross-Fitting Network. Optics and Lasers in Engineering. 168. 107655–107655. 6 indexed citations

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Ma, Shuai, Kechen Song, Menghui Niu, et al.. (2023). Feature-based domain disentanglement and randomization: A generalized framework for rail surface defect segmentation in unseen scenarios. Advanced Engineering Informatics. 59. 102274–102274. 18 indexed citations

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Song, Kechen, et al.. (2023). Exploring the potential of Siamese network for RGBT object tracking. Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation. 95. 103882–103882. 10 indexed citations

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Song, Kechen, et al.. (2023). MFS enhanced SAM: Achieving superior performance in bimodal few-shot segmentation. Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation. 97. 103946–103946. 7 indexed citations

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Song, Kechen, et al.. (2023). DASR: Dual-Attention Transformer for infrared image super-resolution. Infrared Physics & Technology. 133. 104837–104837. 15 indexed citations

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Song, Kechen, et al.. (2023). Balanced multi-scale target score network for ceramic tile surface defect detection. Measurement. 224. 113914–113914. 18 indexed citations

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Song, Kechen, et al.. (2023). Hierarchical Two-stage modal fusion for Triple-modality salient object detection. Measurement. 218. 113180–113180. 3 indexed citations

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Zhao, Wenli, et al.. (2023). FaNet: Feature-aware network for few shot classification of strip steel surface defects. Measurement. 208. 112446–112446. 38 indexed citations

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Tian, Hongkun, Kechen Song, Jing Xu, Shuai Ma, & Yunhui Yan. (2023). Antipodal-points-aware dual-decoding network for robotic visual grasp detection oriented to multi-object clutter scenes. Expert Systems with Applications. 230. 120545–120545. 10 indexed citations

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Song, Kechen, et al.. (2023). Modality Registration and Object Search Framework for UAV-Based Unregistered RGB-T Image Salient Object Detection. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 61. 1–15. 12 indexed citations

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Song, Kechen, et al.. (2023). Cross-modality salient object detection network with universality and anti-interference. Knowledge-Based Systems. 264. 110322–110322. 25 indexed citations

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Song, Kechen, et al.. (2022). A Multi-Exposure Fusion Method for Reflection Suppression of Curved Workpieces. IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement. 71. 1–4. 5 indexed citations

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