Xian Sun

15.8k total citations · 7 hit papers
385 papers, 11.9k citations indexed

About

Xian Sun is a scholar working on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Media Technology and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Xian Sun has authored 385 papers receiving a total of 11.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 232 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 153 papers in Media Technology and 107 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Xian Sun's work include Remote-Sensing Image Classification (138 papers), Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques (129 papers) and Advanced Neural Network Applications (108 papers). Xian Sun is often cited by papers focused on Remote-Sensing Image Classification (138 papers), Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques (129 papers) and Advanced Neural Network Applications (108 papers). Xian Sun collaborates with scholars based in China, Germany and United States. Xian Sun's co-authors include Kun Fu, Wenhui Diao, Hongqi Wang, Menglong Yan, Yue Zhang, Hao Sun, Guangluan Xu, Zhirui Wang, Zhi Guo and Peijin Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence.

In The Last Decade

Xian Sun

362 papers receiving 11.7k citations

Hit Papers

SCRDet: Towards More Robust Detection for Small, Cluttere... 2017 2026 2020 2023 2019 2017 2018 2022 2020 200 400 600
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. SCRDet: Towards More Robust Detection for Small, Cluttered and Rotated Objects
    2019 650 citations Xue Yang, Junchi Yan et al. profile →
  2. Change Detection Based on Deep Siamese Convolutional Network for Optical Aerial Images
    2017 453 citations Kun Fu, Menglong Yan et al. profile →
  3. Automatic Ship Detection in Remote Sensing Images from Google Earth of Complex Scenes Based on Multiscale Rotation Dense Feature Pyramid Networks
    2018 431 citations Kun Fu, Xian Sun et al. profile →
  4. FAIR1M: A benchmark dataset for fine-grained object recognition in high-resolution remote sensing imagery
    2022 337 citations Xian Sun, Peijin Wang et al. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing profile →
  5. An Anchor-Free Method Based on Feature Balancing and Refinement Network for Multiscale Ship Detection in SAR Images
    2020 235 citations Xian Sun, Zhirui Wang et al. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing profile →
  6. Rotation-aware and multi-scale convolutional neural network for object detection in remote sensing images
    2020 222 citations Kun Fu, Guangluan Xu et al. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing profile →
  7. RingMo: A Remote Sensing Foundation Model With Masked Image Modeling
    2022 180 citations Xian Sun, Peijin Wang et al. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Xian Sun China 53 6.9k 5.1k 3.0k 2.1k 1.3k 385 11.9k
Kun Fu China 51 5.6k 0.8× 3.9k 0.8× 2.7k 0.9× 1.5k 0.7× 1.1k 0.9× 285 10.1k
Gong Cheng China 56 10.8k 1.6× 8.4k 1.6× 2.7k 0.9× 2.9k 1.4× 1.1k 0.8× 185 16.1k
Mihai Datcu Germany 36 4.5k 0.7× 3.7k 0.7× 1.9k 0.6× 1.2k 0.6× 871 0.7× 514 8.2k
Chunhong Pan China 45 5.7k 0.8× 3.1k 0.6× 902 0.3× 1.5k 0.7× 864 0.7× 311 9.7k
Yongjun Zhang China 40 3.0k 0.4× 3.5k 0.7× 1.2k 0.4× 886 0.4× 942 0.7× 309 7.1k
Danfeng Hong China 59 5.7k 0.8× 10.2k 2.0× 1.7k 0.6× 2.2k 1.1× 626 0.5× 247 15.3k
Qi Wang China 57 7.9k 1.1× 5.1k 1.0× 921 0.3× 3.6k 1.8× 556 0.4× 472 13.0k
Lianru Gao China 53 4.1k 0.6× 9.1k 1.8× 1.1k 0.4× 1.6k 0.8× 548 0.4× 277 12.2k
Xiao Xiang Zhu Germany 68 4.9k 0.7× 8.1k 1.6× 4.1k 1.4× 2.2k 1.0× 1.8k 1.4× 554 17.9k
Lefei Zhang China 47 5.0k 0.7× 5.7k 1.1× 699 0.2× 2.0k 0.9× 462 0.4× 195 10.3k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Xian Sun

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xian Sun

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Xian Sun. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Xian 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 Xian Sun. Xian 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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Sun, Xian, Sarminah Samad, & Shah Ali Murtaza. (2025). Leveraging AI-driven organizational interaction to foster employee green creativity: A human resource perspective. Acta Psychologica. 260. 105598–105598.
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Feng, Yingchao, et al.. (2025). DeepGolf: A fine-grained perception framework for golf course distribution in the real world based on multi-source remote sensing data. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. 136. 104394–104394. 1 indexed citations
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Chen, Kaiqiang, Zhirui Wang, Menglong Yan, et al.. (2024). PriNeRF: Prior constrained Neural Radiance Field for robust novel view synthesis of urban scenes with fewer views. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. 215. 383–399. 1 indexed citations
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Li, Yansheng, Xue Yang, Qi Wang, et al.. (2024). STAR: A First-Ever Dataset and a Large-Scale Benchmark for Scene Graph Generation in Large-Size Satellite Imagery. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. 47(3). 1832–1849. 23 indexed citations
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Fu, Kun, et al.. (2024). Spatially Variant Filtering Network Based on Generalized Optimal Constraints for Sidelobe Suppression in SAR Images. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 62. 1–14. 1 indexed citations
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Wang, Zhirui, et al.. (2024). FCIL-MSN: A Federated Class-Incremental Learning Method for Multisatellite Networks. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 62. 1–15. 4 indexed citations
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Chang, Hao, Peijin Wang, Wenhui Diao, Guangluan Xu, & Xian Sun. (2024). Remote Sensing Change Detection With Bitemporal and Differential Feature Interactive Perception. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. 33. 4543–4555. 9 indexed citations
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Zhang, Wenkai, et al.. (2023). A Survey on Learning Objects’ Relationship for Image Captioning. Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience. 2023(1). 8600853–8600853. 2 indexed citations
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He, Qibin, et al.. (2023). Retraction notice to “Transformer-induced graph reasoning for multimodal semantic segmentation in remote sensing” [ISPRS J. Photogramm. Remote Sens. 193 (2022) 90-103]. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. 203. 165–165. 1 indexed citations
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Liu, Jin‐Tao, Zequn Zhang, Zhi Guo, et al.. (2023). Emotion-cause pair extraction with bidirectional multi-label sequence tagging. Applied Intelligence. 53(24). 30400–30415. 4 indexed citations
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Lü, Xiaonan, Wenhui Diao, Yongqiang Mao, et al.. (2023). Breaking Immutable: Information-Coupled Prototype Elaboration for Few-Shot Object Detection. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 37(2). 1844–1852. 31 indexed citations
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Wang, Peijin, et al.. (2023). Few-shot incremental learning with continual prototype calibration for remote sensing image fine-grained classification. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. 196. 210–227. 16 indexed citations
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Wu, Youming, et al.. (2023). DPFF-Net: Dual-Polarization Image Feature Fusion Network for SAR Ship Detection. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 61. 1–14. 6 indexed citations
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Diao, Wenhui, et al.. (2023). Self-Training-Based Semantic-Balanced Network for Weakly Supervised Object Detection in Remote-Sensing Images. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 62. 1–12.
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Zhu, Zicong, Xian Sun, Wenhui Diao, et al.. (2023). CODet: Component Object Detector Extracting Structural Features Based on Target Characteristics. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 61. 1–14. 6 indexed citations
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Sun, Xian, Wenhui Diao, Hao Li, et al.. (2022). Adaptive Knowledge Distillation for Lightweight Remote Sensing Object Detectors Optimizing. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 60. 1–15. 71 indexed citations
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Hu, Wen-Shuai, Heng-Chao Li, Yang‐Jun Deng, et al.. (2021). Lightweight Tensor Attention-Driven ConvLSTM Neural Network for Hyperspectral Image Classification. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing. 15(3). 734–745. 31 indexed citations
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Wang, Zhirui, et al.. (2021). PSRN: Polarimetric Space Reconstruction Network for PolSAR Image Semantic Segmentation. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. 14. 10716–10732. 20 indexed citations
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Sun, Xian, et al.. (2020). BAS$^{4}$Net: Boundary-Aware Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation Network for Very High Resolution Remote Sensing Images. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. 13. 5398–5413. 106 indexed citations
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Zhang, Zequn, Kun Fu, Xian Sun, & Wenjuan Ren. (2019). Multiple Target Tracking Based on Multiple Hypotheses Tracking and Modified Ensemble Kalman Filter in Multi-Sensor Fusion. Sensors. 19(14). 3118–3118. 28 indexed citations

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