Stephen Lau

827 total citations · 2 hit papers
10 papers, 645 citations indexed

About

Stephen Lau is a scholar working on Civil and Structural Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. According to data from OpenAlex, Stephen Lau has authored 10 papers receiving a total of 645 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering, 3 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 2 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Recurrent topics in Stephen Lau's work include Asphalt Pavement Performance Evaluation (5 papers), Infrastructure Maintenance and Monitoring (5 papers) and Optical Coherence Tomography Applications (3 papers). Stephen Lau is often cited by papers focused on Asphalt Pavement Performance Evaluation (5 papers), Infrastructure Maintenance and Monitoring (5 papers) and Optical Coherence Tomography Applications (3 papers). Stephen Lau collaborates with scholars based in Malaysia, China and Australia. Stephen Lau's co-authors include Xin Wang, Xu Yang, Edwin K. P. Chong, Ling Ding, Jingwei Liu, Sang Luo, Vincent C. S. Lee, Kin Fun Li, Ningqun Guo and Xin Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Access, Sensors and Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering.

In The Last Decade

Stephen Lau

10 papers receiving 633 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.

Automated pavement crack detection and segmentation based on two-step convolutional neural network

2020 286 citations Jingwei Liu, Xu Yang et al. Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering profile →
Automated Pavement Crack Segmentation Using U-Net-Based Convolutional Neural Network

2020 207 citations Stephen Lau, Edwin K. P. Chong et al. IEEE Access profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Stephen Lau Malaysia	7	507	140	92	67	43	10	645
Mark David Jenkins United Kingdom	11	372 0.7×	139 1.0×	52 0.6×	46 0.7×	52 1.2×	18	492
Wenbo Hu China	12	218 0.4×	83 0.6×	64 0.7×	107 1.6×	61 1.4×	35	460
Van-Duc Tran Vietnam	9	436 0.9×	117 0.8×	68 0.7×	34 0.5×	60 1.4×	16	533
Zihao Xu China	8	238 0.5×	64 0.5×	67 0.7×	48 0.7×	35 0.8×	18	394
Chaobo Zhang China	10	255 0.5×	123 0.9×	41 0.4×	108 1.6×	63 1.5×	44	489
Hooman Parvardeh United States	6	456 0.9×	145 1.0×	107 1.2×	46 0.7×	47 1.1×	12	551
Varun Kasireddy United States	7	724 1.4×	145 1.0×	113 1.2×	75 1.1×	91 2.1×	11	839
Shi Qiu China	10	252 0.5×	92 0.7×	35 0.4×	47 0.7×	64 1.5×	33	366
Xiaojun Wei China	12	405 0.8×	154 1.1×	32 0.3×	77 1.1×	51 1.2×	44	585

Countries citing papers authored by Stephen Lau

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Fields of papers citing papers by Stephen Lau

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Stephen Lau

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

All Works

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10 of 10 papers shown

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Lau, Stephen, et al.. (2023). Automatic pavement crack segmentation using a generative adversarial network (GAN)-based convolutional neural network. Results in Engineering. 19. 101267–101267. 33 indexed citations

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Lau, Stephen, et al.. (2023). Single-pixel image reconstruction based on block compressive sensing and convolutional neural network. International Journal of Hydromechatronics. 6(3). 258–273. 15 indexed citations

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Wang, Xin, et al.. (2023). Single-pixel image reconstruction based on block compressive sensing and convolutional neural network. International Journal of Hydromechatronics. 6(3). 258–258. 1 indexed citations

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Lau, Stephen, et al.. (2022). Transparent Object Reconstruction Based on Compressive Sensing and Super-Resolution Convolutional Neural Network. Photonic Sensors. 12(4). 4 indexed citations

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Lau, Stephen, et al.. (2022). Feature pyramid network with self-guided attention refinement module for crack segmentation. Structural Health Monitoring. 22(1). 672–688. 35 indexed citations

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Lau, Stephen, et al.. (2021). Underwater Object Detection and Reconstruction Based on Active Single-Pixel Imaging and Super-Resolution Convolutional Neural Network. Sensors. 21(1). 313–313. 25 indexed citations

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Lau, Stephen, Xin Wang, Yang Xu, & Edwin K. P. Chong. (2020). Automated Pavement Crack Segmentation Using Fully Convolutional U-Net with a Pretrained ResNet-34 Encoder.. 3 indexed citations

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Liu, Jingwei, Xu Yang, Stephen Lau, et al.. (2020). Automated pavement crack detection and segmentation based on two-step convolutional neural network. Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering. 35(11). 1291–1305. 286 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lau, Stephen, Edwin K. P. Chong, Xu Yang, & Xin Wang. (2020). Automated Pavement Crack Segmentation Using U-Net-Based Convolutional Neural Network. IEEE Access. 8. 114892–114899. 207 indexed citations breakdown →

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Li, Kin Fun, et al.. (2011). A Web-Based Sign Language Translator Using 3D Video Processing. 356–361. 36 indexed citations

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