King‐Sun Fu

7.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
94 papers, 4.9k citations indexed

About

King‐Sun Fu is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and Computer Networks and Communications. According to data from OpenAlex, King‐Sun Fu has authored 94 papers receiving a total of 4.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 44 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 38 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and 15 papers in Computer Networks and Communications. Recurrent topics in King‐Sun Fu's work include Algorithms and Data Compression (20 papers), Machine Learning and Algorithms (10 papers) and Image Retrieval and Classification Techniques (10 papers). King‐Sun Fu is often cited by papers focused on Algorithms and Data Compression (20 papers), Machine Learning and Algorithms (10 papers) and Image Retrieval and Classification Techniques (10 papers). King‐Sun Fu collaborates with scholars based in United States, Taiwan and Netherlands. King‐Sun Fu's co-authors include E. Persoon, Alberto Sanfeliu, Wen‐Hsiang Tsai, М.А. Айзерман, Taylor L. Booth, Thomas S. Huang, Manfred R. Schroeder, Henri J. Nussbaumer, M. A. Eshera and Ning-San Chang and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control and IEEE Transactions on Information Theory.

In The Last Decade

King‐Sun Fu

88 papers receiving 4.5k citations

Hit Papers

Shape Discrimination Using Fourier Descriptors 1977 2026 1993 2009 1977 1983 200 400 600
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.

  1. Shape Discrimination Using Fourier Descriptors
    1977 743 citations E. Persoon, King‐Sun Fu IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics profile →
  2. A distance measure between attributed relational graphs for pattern recognition
    1983 535 citations King‐Sun Fu et al. IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics profile →

Peers

King‐Sun Fu
Jack Sklansky United States
Brett W. Bader United States
Raphael A. Finkel United States
Peter Cheeseman United States
David A. Huffman United States
Sanjoy Dasgupta United States
Edwin R. Hancock United Kingdom
Michael Ian Shamos United States
Mark Overmars Netherlands
Pasquale Foggia Italy
Jack Sklansky United States
King‐Sun Fu
Citations per year, relative to King‐Sun Fu King‐Sun Fu (= 1×) peers Jack Sklansky

Countries citing papers authored by King‐Sun Fu

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Fields of papers citing papers by King‐Sun Fu

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of King‐Sun Fu

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of King‐Sun Fu. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of King‐Sun Fu 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 King‐Sun Fu. King‐Sun Fu is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Fu, King‐Sun & Taylor L. Booth. (1986). Grammatical Inference: Introduction and Survey-Part II. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. PAMI-8(3). 360–375. 6 indexed citations
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Fu, King‐Sun, et al.. (1986). A Parallel Algorithm for Stochastic Image Segmentation. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. PAMI-8(5). 594–603. 3 indexed citations
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Fu, King‐Sun & Taylor L. Booth. (1986). Grammatical Inference: Introduction and Survey-Part I. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. PAMI-8(3). 343–359. 35 indexed citations
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Fu, King‐Sun, et al.. (1986). A Tree System Approach for Fingerprint Pattern Recognition. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. PAMI-8(3). 376–387. 60 indexed citations
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Fu, King‐Sun. (1986). Learning Control Systems-Review and Outlook. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. PAMI-8(3). 327–342. 40 indexed citations
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Huang, Kou‐Yuan & King‐Sun Fu. (1985). Syntactic pattern recognition for the classification of Ricker wavelets. Geophysics. 50(10). 1548–1555. 5 indexed citations
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Huang, Kou‐Yuan, et al.. (1985). BRANCH AND BOUND SEARCH FOR AUTOMATIC LINKING PROCESS OF SEISMOGRAM.. 287–292. 1 indexed citations
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Fu, King‐Sun, et al.. (1984). Metal surface inspection using image processing techniques. IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics. SMC-14(1). 139–146. 38 indexed citations
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Fu, King‐Sun, et al.. (1983). Matching parallel algorithm and architecture. Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel Processing. 374–380. 2 indexed citations
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Shi, Qin & King‐Sun Fu. (1983). Parsing and Translation of (Attributed) Expansive Graph Languages for Scene Analysis. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. PAMI-5(5). 472–485. 30 indexed citations
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Fu, King‐Sun, et al.. (1983). A CSG Based DBMS for CAD/CAM and its Supporting Query Language.. 123–130. 14 indexed citations
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Lee, Hsien-Che & King‐Sun Fu. (1983). Generating Object Descriptions for Model Retrieval. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. PAMI-5(5). 462–471. 11 indexed citations
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Nussbaumer, Henri J., King‐Sun Fu, Thomas S. Huang, & Manfred R. Schroeder. (1981). Fast fourier transform and convolution algorithms. Mathematics and Computers in Simulation. 23(2). 216–217. 463 indexed citations
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Fu, King‐Sun, et al.. (1980). Automated classification of nucleated blood cells using a binary tree classifier. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. PAMI-2(5). 429–443. 78 indexed citations
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Fu, King‐Sun & James T. P. Yao. (1979). Pattern Recognition and Damage Assessment. Engineering Mechanics. 344–347. 5 indexed citations
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Chen, Zen & King‐Sun Fu. (1977). Nonparametric Bayes Risk Estimation for Pattern Classification. IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics. 7(9). 651–656. 5 indexed citations
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Persoon, E. & King‐Sun Fu. (1977). Shape Discrimination Using Fourier Descriptors. IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics. 7(3). 170–179. 743 indexed citations breakdown →
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Fu, King‐Sun, et al.. (1976). Error estimation in pattern recognition viaL_alpha-distance between posterior density functions. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 22(1). 34–45. 66 indexed citations
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Fu, King‐Sun, et al.. (1967). Divergence and linear classifiers for feature selection. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. 12(6). 780–781. 2 indexed citations
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Fu, King‐Sun, et al.. (1965). A Computer-Simulated On-Line Experiment in Learning Control Systems. SIMULATION. 4(2). 117–126.

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