Stephen Lin

51.6k total citations · 7 hit papers
118 papers, 27.7k citations indexed

About

Stephen Lin is a scholar working on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Artificial Intelligence and Media Technology. According to data from OpenAlex, Stephen Lin has authored 118 papers receiving a total of 27.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 101 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 21 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 21 papers in Media Technology. Recurrent topics in Stephen Lin's work include Advanced Vision and Imaging (45 papers), Image Enhancement Techniques (27 papers) and Advanced Image Processing Techniques (21 papers). Stephen Lin is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Vision and Imaging (45 papers), Image Enhancement Techniques (27 papers) and Advanced Image Processing Techniques (21 papers). Stephen Lin collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and United Kingdom. Stephen Lin's co-authors include Han Hu, Zheng Zhang, Yue Cao, Yixuan Wei, Ze Liu, Baining Guo, Yutong Lin, Shuicheng Yan, Dong Xu and Hao Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as Bioinformatics, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence and IEEE Transactions on Image Processing.

In The Last Decade

Stephen Lin

110 papers receiving 27.1k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Swin Transformer: Hierarchical Vision Transformer using Shifted Windows

2021 17.6k citations Zheng Zhang, Stephen Lin et al. profile →
Graph Embedding and Extensions: A General Framework for Dimensionality Reduction

2006 2.2k citations Shuicheng Yan, Dong Xu et al. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence profile →
Video Swin Transformer

2022 1.1k citations Zheng Zhang, Stephen Lin et al. profile →
RepPoints: Point Set Representation for Object Detection

2019 744 citations Liwei Wang, Stephen Lin et al. profile →
A High-Quality Denoising Dataset for Smartphone Cameras

2018 467 citations Stephen Lin et al. profile →
An Empirical Study of Spatial Attention Mechanisms in Deep Networks

2019 341 citations Xizhou Zhu, Dazhi Cheng et al. profile →
Propagate Yourself: Exploring Pixel-Level Consistency for Unsupervised Visual Representation Learning

2021 221 citations Zheng Zhang, Stephen Lin et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Stephen Lin China	47	18.6k	6.3k	5.3k	2.2k	2.0k	118	27.7k
Han Hu China	24	18.2k 1.0×	7.2k 1.1×	4.4k 0.8×	2.6k 1.2×	2.6k 1.3×	44	28.3k
Jiashi Feng Singapore	75	18.0k 1.0×	7.7k 1.2×	3.1k 0.6×	1.6k 0.8×	1.6k 0.8×	278	26.0k
Chunhua Shen Australia	85	25.2k 1.4×	9.6k 1.5×	5.4k 1.0×	2.0k 0.9×	3.3k 1.6×	352	32.9k
Piotr Dollár United States	37	24.5k 1.3×	9.7k 1.5×	3.2k 0.6×	2.7k 1.2×	3.0k 1.5×	45	36.7k
Jian Sun China	64	23.6k 1.3×	3.4k 0.5×	5.8k 1.1×	1.8k 0.9×	2.7k 1.4×	186	31.1k
Yue Cao China	17	13.2k 0.7×	5.9k 0.9×	3.5k 0.7×	2.2k 1.0×	1.8k 0.9×	28	22.0k
Alexei A. Efros United States	63	27.1k 1.5×	7.5k 1.2×	3.5k 0.7×	2.0k 0.9×	2.2k 1.1×	131	33.6k
Alexander C. Berg United States	35	23.2k 1.2×	12.3k 2.0×	2.9k 0.5×	3.0k 1.4×	2.3k 1.2×	56	35.6k
Yixuan Wei China	20	12.2k 0.7×	5.3k 0.8×	3.3k 0.6×	2.1k 1.0×	1.6k 0.8×	50	21.9k
Baining Guo China	59	19.0k 1.0×	5.7k 0.9×	4.0k 0.7×	2.3k 1.0×	2.0k 1.0×	255	30.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Stephen Lin

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Lin, Stephen, et al.. (2025). Research on ship dynamic feature extraction and prediction method based on visual data. Ocean Engineering. 327. 120938–120938.

Wu, Huimin, Chenyang Lei, Xiao Sun, et al.. (2023). Randomized Quantization: A Generic Augmentation for Data Agnostic Self-supervised Learning. Rare & Special e-Zone (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology). 16259–16270. 4 indexed citations

Kim, Dong-Jin, Xiao Sun, Jinsoo Choi, Stephen Lin, & In So Kweon. (2021). ACP++: Action Co-occurrence Priors for Human-Object Interaction Detection. arXiv (Cornell University). 10 indexed citations

Wang, Yujie, et al.. (2020). Machine Boss: rapid prototyping of bioinformatic automata. Bioinformatics. 37(1). 29–35. 2 indexed citations

Chen, Yihong, Zheng Zhang, Yue Cao, et al.. (2020). RepPoints v2: Verification Meets Regression for Object Detection. Neural Information Processing Systems. 33. 5621–5631. 10 indexed citations

Gao, Hang, Xizhou Zhu, Stephen Lin, & Jifeng Dai. (2020). Deformable Kernels: Adapting Effective Receptive Fields for Object Deformation. arXiv (Cornell University). 8 indexed citations

Zhu, Xizhou, Dazhi Cheng, Zheng Zhang, Stephen Lin, & Jifeng Dai. (2019). An Empirical Study of Spatial Attention Mechanisms in Deep Networks. 6687–6696. 341 indexed citations breakdown →

Kürzinger, Marie‐Laure, et al.. (2019). Comparison of text processing methods in social media–based signal detection. Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety. 28(10). 1309–1317. 13 indexed citations

Kürzinger, Marie‐Laure, Stéphane Schück, Nathalie Texier, et al.. (2018). Web-Based Signal Detection Using Medical Forums Data in France: Comparative Analysis. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 20(11). e10466–e10466. 14 indexed citations

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Sun, Xiao, et al.. (2018). Explicit Pose Deformation Learning for Tracking Human Poses.. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations

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Huang, Ying, Stephen Lin, Xiaoqing Ding, Baining Guo, & Harry Shum. (2017). Real-time Lip Synchronization Based on Hidden Markov Models.

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Su, Shuochen, et al.. (2015). Bayesian Depth-From-Defocus With Shading Constraints. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. 25(2). 589–600. 5 indexed citations

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Jiang, Guannan, Stephen Lin, Md Arifur Rahman, et al.. (2015). Image contrast enhancement with brightness preservation using an optimal gamma correction and weighted sum approach. Journal of Modern Optics. 62(7). 536–547. 50 indexed citations

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Jiang, Guannan, et al.. (2014). A Review for Image Segmentation Approaches Using Module-Based Framework. Lecture notes in electrical engineering. 169–179.

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Liu, Huiying, Dong Xu, Qingming Huang, et al.. (2013). Semantically-Based Human Scanpath Estimation with HMMs. 3232–3239. 33 indexed citations

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Kim, Seon Joo, Hai Lin, Zheng Lu, et al.. (2012). A New In-Camera Imaging Model for Color Computer Vision and Its Application. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. 34(12). 2289–2302. 107 indexed citations

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Cao, Xun, Xin Tong, Qionghai Dai, & Stephen Lin. (2011). High resolution multispectral video capture with a hybrid camera system. 297–304. 57 indexed citations

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Lin, Stephen & R.W. Wright. (2010). Evolutionary tile coding: an automated state abstraction algorithm for reinforcement learning. National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 42–47. 13 indexed citations

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Xu, Dong, Shuicheng Yan, Stephen Lin, Thomas S. Huang, & Shih‐Fu Chang. (2009). Enhancing Bilinear Subspace Learning by Element Rearrangement. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. 31(10). 1913–1920. 26 indexed citations

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Tan, Ping, Stephen Lin, & Long Quan. (2006). Resolution-Enhanced Photometric Stereo. Lecture notes in computer science. 3953. 58–71. 9 indexed citations

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