Weiling Cai

1.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
24 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Weiling Cai is a scholar working on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Artificial Intelligence and Media Technology. According to data from OpenAlex, Weiling Cai has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 11 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 5 papers in Media Technology. Recurrent topics in Weiling Cai's work include Face and Expression Recognition (8 papers), Advanced Clustering Algorithms Research (7 papers) and Image Retrieval and Classification Techniques (4 papers). Weiling Cai is often cited by papers focused on Face and Expression Recognition (8 papers), Advanced Clustering Algorithms Research (7 papers) and Image Retrieval and Classification Techniques (4 papers). Weiling Cai collaborates with scholars based in China and Canada. Weiling Cai's co-authors include Daoqiang Zhang, Songcan Chen, Chenyu Dong, Chen Zhao, Songcan Chen, Le Xu, Lei Lei, Qiang Qian, Cheng Luo and Shengsuo Cai and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Access, Pattern Recognition and Neural Networks.

In The Last Decade

Weiling Cai

23 papers receiving 1.0k citations

Hit Papers

Fast and robust fuzzy c-means clustering algorithms incor... 2006 2026 2012 2019 2006 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. Fast and robust fuzzy c-means clustering algorithms incorporating local information for image segmentation
    2006 801 citations Weiling Cai, Songcan Chen et al. Pattern Recognition profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Weiling Cai China 12 780 400 336 100 57 24 1.1k
Vassilios Chatzis Greece 8 794 1.0× 493 1.2× 248 0.7× 73 0.7× 130 2.3× 29 1.2k
Nebras Ahmed Mohamed United States 5 1.1k 1.4× 500 1.3× 316 0.9× 231 2.3× 71 1.2× 9 1.4k
M.N. Ahmed United States 6 1.2k 1.5× 517 1.3× 325 1.0× 239 2.4× 73 1.3× 10 1.5k
Thanh Minh Nguyen Canada 22 782 1.0× 206 0.5× 493 1.5× 34 0.3× 23 0.4× 51 1.3k
Sanjay Agrawal India 18 736 0.9× 398 1.0× 309 0.9× 153 1.5× 16 0.3× 63 1.2k
Tamalika Chaira India 17 566 0.7× 321 0.8× 371 1.1× 67 0.7× 16 0.3× 38 1.1k
Basel Solaiman France 17 420 0.5× 294 0.7× 276 0.8× 37 0.4× 142 2.5× 136 1.0k
Yanwen Chong China 18 473 0.6× 338 0.8× 230 0.7× 24 0.2× 94 1.6× 54 906
Jason E. Fritts United States 15 896 1.1× 339 0.8× 255 0.8× 27 0.3× 65 1.1× 38 1.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Weiling Cai

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Fields of papers citing papers by Weiling Cai

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Weiling Cai

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

All Works

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Cai, Weiling, et al.. (2024). Cycle contrastive adversarial learning with structural consistency for unsupervised high-quality image deraining transformer. Neural Networks. 178. 106428–106428. 7 indexed citations
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Cai, Weiling, et al.. (2024). Spectral normalization and dual contrastive regularization for image-to-image translation. The Visual Computer. 41(1). 129–140. 13 indexed citations
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Zhao, Chen, et al.. (2024). Toward Sufficient Spatial-Frequency Interaction for Gradient-Aware Underwater Image Enhancement. 3220–3224. 22 indexed citations
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Cai, Weiling, et al.. (2022). C-Lop: Accurate contention-based modeling of MPI concurrent communication. Parallel Computing. 111. 102925–102925. 1 indexed citations
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Chen, Heng, et al.. (2021). A hybrid CPU/GPU Scheme for Optimizing ChaCha20 Stream Cipher. 1171–1178. 6 indexed citations
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Cai, Weiling, et al.. (2020). Clustering Preserving Projections for High-Dimensional Data. Journal of Physics Conference Series. 1693(1). 12031–12031. 1 indexed citations
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Cai, Weiling, et al.. (2019). A New Fuzzy Belonging-based Multi-view K-means Clustering Algorithm. 1 indexed citations
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Cai, Weiling. (2016). A dimension reduction algorithm preserving both global and local clustering structure. Knowledge-Based Systems. 118. 191–203. 22 indexed citations
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Lei, Lei, et al.. (2014). A dynamic TDMA-based MAC protocol with QoS guarantees for fully connected ad hoc networks. Telecommunication Systems. 60(1). 43–53. 13 indexed citations
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Qian, Qiang, Songcan Chen, & Weiling Cai. (2011). Simultaneous clustering and classification over cluster structure representation. Pattern Recognition. 45(6). 2227–2236. 15 indexed citations
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Cai, Weiling, Songcan Chen, & Daoqiang Zhang. (2009). A Multiobjective Simultaneous Learning Framework for Clustering and Classification. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks. 21(2). 185–200. 43 indexed citations
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Cai, Weiling, Songcan Chen, & Lei Lei. (2009). A Fuzzy Clustering Algorithm for Image Segmentation Using Dependable Neighbor Pixels. 1–5. 1 indexed citations
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Cai, Weiling, Songcan Chen, & Daoqiang Zhang. (2008). A simultaneous learning framework for clustering and classification. Pattern Recognition. 42(7). 1248–1259. 21 indexed citations
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Cai, Weiling, Songcan Chen, & Daoqiang Zhang. (2007). Enhanced fuzzy relational classifier with representative training samples. 3697. 112–117. 2 indexed citations
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Cai, Weiling, Songcan Chen, & Daoqiang Zhang. (2007). Robust fuzzy relational classifier incorporating the soft class labels. Pattern Recognition Letters. 28(16). 2250–2263. 20 indexed citations
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Cai, Weiling, Songcan Chen, & Daoqiang Zhang. (2006). Fast and robust fuzzy c-means clustering algorithms incorporating local information for image segmentation. Pattern Recognition. 40(3). 825–838. 801 indexed citations breakdown →

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