Qianru Sun

5.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
60 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

Qianru Sun is a scholar working on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Artificial Intelligence and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Qianru Sun has authored 60 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 44 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 34 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 5 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Qianru Sun's work include Multimodal Machine Learning Applications (21 papers), Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning (18 papers) and Human Pose and Action Recognition (16 papers). Qianru Sun is often cited by papers focused on Multimodal Machine Learning Applications (21 papers), Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning (18 papers) and Human Pose and Action Recognition (16 papers). Qianru Sun collaborates with scholars based in Singapore, China and Germany. Qianru Sun's co-authors include Bernt Schiele, Tat‐Seng Chua, Yaoyao Liu, Hanwang Zhang, Tan Wang, Liqian Ma, Luc Van Gool, Xian‐Sheng Hua, Hong Liu and Jianqiang Huang and has published in prestigious journals such as Gastroenterology, ACM Computing Surveys and Pattern Recognition.

In The Last Decade

Qianru Sun

55 papers receiving 2.6k citations

Hit Papers

Meta-Transfer Learning for Few-Shot Learning 2019 2026 2021 2023 2019 2022 250 500 750
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. Meta-Transfer Learning for Few-Shot Learning
    2019 781 citations Qianru Sun, Yaoyao Liu et al. profile →
  2. Class Re-Activation Maps for Weakly-Supervised Semantic Segmentation
    2022 138 citations Tan Wang, Xian‐Sheng Hua et al. profile →

Peers

Qianru Sun
Bohyung Han South Korea
Mubarak Shah United States
Zhiqiang Shen United States
R. Venkatesh Babu India
Zhenmin Tang China
Gan Sun China
Yanfeng Wang China
Jian Liang China
Ruonan Li China
Zhangjie Cao China
Bohyung Han South Korea
Qianru Sun
Citations per year, relative to Qianru Sun Qianru Sun (= 1×) peers Bohyung Han

Countries citing papers authored by Qianru Sun

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Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by Qianru Sun

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Qianru 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 Qianru Sun. The network helps show where Qianru Sun may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Qianru Sun

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Qianru Sun. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Qianru 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 Qianru Sun. Qianru 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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Liu, Zhen, et al.. (2025). Soft-Switching High Step-Up DC-DC Converter Based on Active Switched-Inductor Units. Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology. 20(4). 2451–2468.
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Lin, Mingbao, Yixin Cao, Wei Tang, et al.. (2024). LLMs-as-Instructors: Learning from Errors Toward Automating Model Improvement. 11185–11208. 1 indexed citations
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Sun, Qianru, et al.. (2024). Weakly-supervised Semantic Segmentation with Image-level Labels: From Traditional Models to Foundation Models. ACM Computing Surveys. 57(5). 1–29. 7 indexed citations
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Han, Ning, Xun Yang, Ee‐Peng Lim, Hao Chen, & Qianru Sun. (2024). Efficient Cross-Modal Video Retrieval With Meta-Optimized Frames. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia. 26. 10924–10936. 3 indexed citations
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Sun, Qianru, et al.. (2024). Unleashing Network Potentials for Semantic Scene Completion. Rare & Special e-Zone (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology). 10314–10323. 1 indexed citations
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Liu, Yaoyao, Yingying Li, Bernt Schiele, & Qianru Sun. (2023). Online Hyperparameter Optimization for Class-Incremental Learning. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 37(7). 8906–8913. 15 indexed citations
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Sun, Qianru, et al.. (2022). Generating Music With Emotions. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia. 25. 3602–3614. 14 indexed citations
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Sun, Qianru, et al.. (2022). Translate-Train Embracing Translationese Artifacts. 362–370. 5 indexed citations
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Jiang, Jing, et al.. (2022). Interventional Training for Out-Of-Distribution Natural Language Understanding. 11627–11638. 2 indexed citations
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Yue, Zhongqi, Tan Wang, Qianru Sun, Xian‐Sheng Hua, & Hanwang Zhang. (2021). Counterfactual Zero-Shot and Open-Set Visual Recognition. 15399–15409. 133 indexed citations
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Qin, Wei, Hanwang Zhang, Richang Hong, Ee‐Peng Lim, & Qianru Sun. (2021). Causal Interventional Training for Image Recognition. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia. 25. 1033–1044. 23 indexed citations
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Deng, Lixi, Jingjing Chen, Chong‐Wah Ngo, et al.. (2021). Mixed Dish Recognition With Contextual Relation and Domain Alignment. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia. 24. 2034–2045. 9 indexed citations
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Liu, Yaoyao, Qianru Sun, Xiangnan He, et al.. (2020). Generating Face Images With Attributes for Free. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems. 32(6). 2733–2743. 4 indexed citations
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Yue, Zhongqi, Hanwang Zhang, Qianru Sun, & Xian‐Sheng Hua. (2020). Interventional few-shot learning. Institutional Knowledge (InK) - Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University (Singapore Management University). 33. 2734–2746. 19 indexed citations
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Zhang, Jipeng, Roy Ka-Wei Lee, Ee‐Peng Lim, et al.. (2020). Teacher-Student Networks with Multiple Decoders for Solving Math Word Problem. 4011–4017. 38 indexed citations
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Li, Xinzhe, Qianru Sun, Yaoyao Liu, et al.. (2019). Learning to Self-Train for Semi-Supervised Few-Shot Classification. MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society). 32. 10276–10286. 111 indexed citations
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Wang, Xiaogang, Qianru Sun, Tat‐Seng Chua, & Marcelo H. Ang. (2019). Generating expensive relationship features from cheap objects. Institutional Knowledge (InK) - Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University (Singapore Management University). 224. 4 indexed citations
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Liu, Yaoyao, Qianru Sun, An-An Liu, et al.. (2019). LCC: Learning to Customize and Combine Neural Networks for Few-Shot Learning. MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society). 7 indexed citations
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Ma, Liqian, Xu Jia, Qianru Sun, et al.. (2017). Pose Guided Person Image Generation. Lirias (KU Leuven). 30. 406–416. 313 indexed citations

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