Kun Sun

1.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
54 papers, 905 citations indexed

About

Kun Sun is a scholar working on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Aerospace Engineering and Media Technology. According to data from OpenAlex, Kun Sun has authored 54 papers receiving a total of 905 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 44 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 19 papers in Aerospace Engineering and 14 papers in Media Technology. Recurrent topics in Kun Sun's work include Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques (18 papers), Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization (13 papers) and Advanced Neural Network Applications (10 papers). Kun Sun is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques (18 papers), Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization (13 papers) and Advanced Neural Network Applications (10 papers). Kun Sun collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Australia. Kun Sun's co-authors include Wenbing Tao, Kunqian Li, Qi Qi, Zhi Chen, Chang Tang, Guojia Hou, Fan Yang, Haiyong Zheng, Xiang Gao and Wei Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing and IEEE Transactions on Image Processing.

In The Last Decade

Kun Sun

49 papers receiving 888 citations

Hit Papers

SGUIE-Net: Semantic Attention Guided Underwater Image Enh... 2022 2026 2023 2024 2022 2023 50 100 150
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. SGUIE-Net: Semantic Attention Guided Underwater Image Enhancement With Multi-Scale Perception
    2022 159 citations Qi Qi, Kunqian Li et al. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing profile →
  2. Efficient and Effective One-Step Multiview Clustering
    2023 75 citations Chang Tang, Zhiguo Wan et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Kun Sun China 18 594 242 133 131 96 54 905
Zhizhong Zhang China 17 1.1k 1.8× 90 0.4× 299 2.2× 169 1.3× 45 0.5× 69 1.4k
N. Nandhakumar United States 15 788 1.3× 297 1.2× 184 1.4× 97 0.7× 50 0.5× 65 1.1k
Kwang Moo Yi Canada 17 926 1.6× 391 1.6× 37 0.3× 167 1.3× 99 1.0× 64 1.2k
Jeff Orchard Canada 16 461 0.8× 75 0.3× 120 0.9× 156 1.2× 46 0.5× 49 877
Zhengqin Li United States 12 897 1.5× 76 0.3× 234 1.8× 82 0.6× 196 2.0× 24 1.2k
Kan Ren China 17 404 0.7× 400 1.7× 265 2.0× 44 0.3× 60 0.6× 95 890
Weibin Liu China 14 344 0.6× 92 0.4× 92 0.7× 107 0.8× 34 0.4× 122 758
Guorong Cai China 13 403 0.7× 171 0.7× 53 0.4× 105 0.8× 87 0.9× 85 714

Countries citing papers authored by Kun Sun

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kun Sun

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Kun Sun. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Kun Sun. The network helps show where Kun Sun may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kun Sun

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Kun Sun. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Kun Sun 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 Kun Sun. Kun Sun 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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Sun, Kun, et al.. (2025). MGC-Net: Learning feature matching with multi-geometry cooperation. Knowledge-Based Systems. 333. 115062–115062.
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Chen, Yinsheng, et al.. (2025). SFAG-DeepLabv3+: An automatic segmentation approach for coronary angiography images. Neurocomputing. 650. 130781–130781. 1 indexed citations
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Yang, Jiaqi, Xiyu Zhang, Peng Wang, et al.. (2024). MAC: Maximal Cliques for 3D Registration. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. 46(12). 10645–10662. 4 indexed citations
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Zou, Xin, et al.. (2023). Inclusivity induced adaptive graph learning for multi-view clustering. Knowledge-Based Systems. 267. 110424–110424. 20 indexed citations
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Li, Zhenglai, Chang Tang, Xiao Zheng, et al.. (2023). Mutual structure learning for multiple kernel clustering. Information Sciences. 647. 119445–119445. 8 indexed citations
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Sun, Kun, et al.. (2023). Towards Accurate Image Matching by Exploring Redundancy Between Multiple Descriptors. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters. 20. 1–5. 2 indexed citations
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Chen, Zhi, et al.. (2023). SC2-PCR++: Rethinking the Generation and Selection for Efficient and Robust Point Cloud Registration. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. 45(10). 12358–12376. 24 indexed citations
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Liu, Juan, Kun Sun, San Jiang, Kunqian Li, & Wenbing Tao. (2023). MSSF: A Novel Mutual Structure Shift Feature for Removing Incorrect Keypoint Correspondences between Images. Remote Sensing. 15(4). 926–926. 6 indexed citations
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Sun, Kun, et al.. (2023). A unified feature-spatial cycle consistency fusion framework for robust image matching. Information Fusion. 97. 101810–101810. 5 indexed citations
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Tang, Chuan Yi, Kun Sun, Chang Tang, et al.. (2023). Multi-view subspace clustering via adaptive graph learning and late fusion alignment. Neural Networks. 165. 333–343. 36 indexed citations
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Qi, Qi, Kunqian Li, Haiyong Zheng, et al.. (2022). SGUIE-Net: Semantic Attention Guided Underwater Image Enhancement With Multi-Scale Perception. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. 31. 6816–6830. 159 indexed citations breakdown →
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Sun, Kun, et al.. (2021). Images super-resolution using improved generative adversarial networks. 254–258. 2 indexed citations
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Sun, Kun, Wenbing Tao, & Yuhua Qian. (2019). Guide to Match: Multi-Layer Feature Matching With a Hybrid Gaussian Mixture Model. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia. 22(9). 2246–2261. 29 indexed citations
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Sun, Kun & Wenbing Tao. (2018). A center-driven image set partition algorithm for efficient structure from motion. Information Sciences. 479. 101–115. 23 indexed citations
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Sun, Kun & Wenbing Tao. (2018). A Constrained Radial Agglomerative Clustering Algorithm for Efficient Structure From Motion. IEEE Signal Processing Letters. 25(7). 1089–1093. 20 indexed citations
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Sun, Kun, Liman Liu, & Wenbing Tao. (2017). Image Matching via Feature Fusion and Coherent Constraint. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters. 14(3). 289–293. 13 indexed citations
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Sun, Kun, et al.. (2014). Feature Guided Biased Gaussian Mixture Model for image matching. Information Sciences. 295. 323–336. 20 indexed citations

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