Shaobo Xia

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
36 papers, 917 citations indexed

About

Shaobo Xia is a scholar working on Environmental Engineering, Geology and Media Technology. According to data from OpenAlex, Shaobo Xia has authored 36 papers receiving a total of 917 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Environmental Engineering, 14 papers in Geology and 10 papers in Media Technology. Recurrent topics in Shaobo Xia's work include Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (23 papers), 3D Surveying and Cultural Heritage (14 papers) and Remote-Sensing Image Classification (9 papers). Shaobo Xia is often cited by papers focused on Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (23 papers), 3D Surveying and Cultural Heritage (14 papers) and Remote-Sensing Image Classification (9 papers). Shaobo Xia collaborates with scholars based in China, Canada and United States. Shaobo Xia's co-authors include Ruisheng Wang, Jun Yue, Leyuan Fang, Xiaohuan Xi, Cheng Wang, Dong Chen, Shezhou Luo, Feifei Pan, Yue Deng and Jiayi Ma and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing and Remote Sensing.

In The Last Decade

Shaobo Xia

32 papers receiving 890 citations

Hit Papers

Dif-Fusion: Toward High Color Fidelity in Infrared and Vi... 2023 2026 2024 2025 2023 40 80 120
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. Dif-Fusion: Toward High Color Fidelity in Infrared and Visible Image Fusion With Diffusion Models
    2023 125 citations Jun Yue, Leyuan Fang et al. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Shaobo Xia China 15 485 263 260 245 198 36 917
Kirsi Karila Finland 16 529 1.1× 160 0.6× 143 0.6× 340 1.4× 73 0.4× 32 839
E. Baltsavias Switzerland 11 372 0.8× 624 2.4× 145 0.6× 260 1.1× 465 2.3× 22 1.1k
Zhengjun Liu China 15 329 0.7× 170 0.6× 106 0.4× 143 0.6× 117 0.6× 67 678
G. Jóźków Poland 12 399 0.8× 105 0.4× 279 1.1× 197 0.8× 131 0.7× 45 846
Leena Matikainen Finland 20 927 1.9× 229 0.9× 427 1.6× 470 1.9× 168 0.8× 39 1.4k
Eero Ahokas Finland 17 987 2.0× 144 0.5× 542 2.1× 455 1.9× 146 0.7× 32 1.3k
Shangshu Cai China 13 397 0.8× 97 0.4× 238 0.9× 140 0.6× 104 0.5× 34 598
Hossein Arefi Iran 20 773 1.6× 255 1.0× 436 1.7× 238 1.0× 292 1.5× 119 1.3k
‪Rama Rao Nidamanuri India 19 394 0.8× 338 1.3× 117 0.5× 528 2.2× 82 0.4× 104 1.1k
Lauri Markelin Finland 20 608 1.3× 170 0.6× 253 1.0× 646 2.6× 63 0.3× 50 1.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Shaobo Xia

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Fields of papers citing papers by Shaobo Xia

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Shaobo Xia

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Shaobo Xia. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Shaobo Xia 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 Shaobo Xia. Shaobo Xia 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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Nie, Sheng, Shaobo Xia, Cheng Wang, et al.. (2025). Benchmarking ULS-TLS Point Cloud Registration Algorithms in Forest Environments. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 63. 1–14. 1 indexed citations
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Gao, Yuan, et al.. (2024). Semantic Segmentation of Airborne LiDAR Point Clouds With Noisy Labels. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 62. 1–14.
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Yue, Jun, et al.. (2024). Diffusion Models Meet Remote Sensing: Principles, Methods, and Perspectives. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 62. 1–22. 20 indexed citations
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Nie, Sheng, Xiaohuan Xi, Shaobo Xia, et al.. (2024). A Novel Multidimensional Statistics Denoising Algorithm Based on Gaussian Mixture Model for Photon-Counting LiDAR Data. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. 17. 13308–13323.
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Fang, Leyuan, et al.. (2024). Spectral Query Spatial: Revisiting the Role of Center Pixel in Transformer for Hyperspectral Image Classification. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 62. 1–14. 33 indexed citations
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Yue, Jun, et al.. (2024). HyperMamba: A Spectral-Spatial Adaptive Mamba for Hyperspectral Image Classification. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 62. 1–14. 30 indexed citations
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Liu, Anfeng, et al.. (2024). HyperMLL: Toward Robust Hyperspectral Image Classification With Multisource Label Learning. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 62. 1–15. 4 indexed citations
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Yue, Jun, Leyuan Fang, Shaobo Xia, Yue Deng, & Jiayi Ma. (2023). Dif-Fusion: Toward High Color Fidelity in Infrared and Visible Image Fusion With Diffusion Models. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. 32. 5705–5720. 125 indexed citations breakdown →
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Wang, Pu, Di Cao, Shaobo Xia, & Cheng Wang. (2022). A Crown Guess and Selection Framework for Individual Tree Detection From ALS Point Clouds. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. 15. 3533–3538. 7 indexed citations
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Xia, Shaobo, Dong Chen, Jiju Peethambaran, Pu Wang, & Sheng Xu. (2021). Point Cloud Inversion: A Novel Approach for the Localization of Trees in Forests from TLS Data. Remote Sensing. 13(3). 338–338. 12 indexed citations
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Xia, Shaobo, Sheng Nie, Pu Wang, et al.. (2021). A Gap-Based Method for LiDAR Point Cloud Division. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters. 19. 1–5. 2 indexed citations
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Xia, Shaobo, Sheng Xu, Ruisheng Wang, Jonathan Li, & Guanghui Wang. (2021). Building Instance Mapping From ALS Point Clouds Aided by Polygonal Maps. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 60. 1–13. 8 indexed citations
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Chen, Dong, et al.. (2021). Tunnel Reconstruction With Block Level Precision by Combining Data-Driven Segmentation and Model-Driven Assembly. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 59(10). 8853–8872. 16 indexed citations
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Tong, Guofeng, Yong Li, Dong Chen, et al.. (2020). Multi-View Features Joint Learning with Label and Local Distribution Consistency for Point Cloud Classification. Remote Sensing. 12(1). 135–135. 6 indexed citations
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Xia, Shaobo & Ruisheng Wang. (2019). Façade Separation in Ground-Based LiDAR Point Clouds Based on Edges and Windows. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. 12(3). 1041–1052. 24 indexed citations
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Xia, Shaobo & Ruisheng Wang. (2019). Semiautomatic Construction of 2-D Façade Footprints From Mobile LiDAR Data. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 57(6). 4005–4020. 10 indexed citations
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Li, Yong, et al.. (2019). Higher-Order Conditional Random Fields-Based 3D Semantic Labeling of Airborne Laser-Scanning Point Clouds. Remote Sensing. 11(10). 1248–1248. 12 indexed citations
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Xi, Xiaohuan, T. T. Han, Cheng Wang, et al.. (2016). Forest above Ground Biomass Inversion by Fusing GLAS with Optical Remote Sensing Data. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information. 5(4). 45–45. 10 indexed citations
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Xia, Shaobo, et al.. (2015). Detecting Stems in Dense and Homogeneous Forest Using Single-Scan TLS. Forests. 6(11). 3923–3945. 64 indexed citations
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Luo, Shezhou, Cheng Wang, Xiaohuan Xi, et al.. (2015). Fusion of Airborne Discrete-Return LiDAR and Hyperspectral Data for Land Cover Classification. Remote Sensing. 8(1). 3–3. 62 indexed citations

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