Yan Tong

3.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
84 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Yan Tong is a scholar working on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Artificial Intelligence and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Yan Tong has authored 84 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 27 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 16 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Yan Tong's work include Face and Expression Recognition (20 papers), Face recognition and analysis (17 papers) and Emotion and Mood Recognition (15 papers). Yan Tong is often cited by papers focused on Face and Expression Recognition (20 papers), Face recognition and analysis (17 papers) and Emotion and Mood Recognition (15 papers). Yan Tong collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and United Kingdom. Yan Tong's co-authors include Zibo Meng, Ping Liu, Qiang Ji, Shizhong Han, Wenhui Liao, Jie Cai, Shizhong Han, Jixu Chen, Qiang Ji and Frederick W. Wheeler and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence and NeuroImage.

In The Last Decade

Yan Tong

76 papers receiving 1.8k 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.

Facial Expression Recognition via a Boosted Deep Belief Network

2014 473 citations Shizhong Han, Zibo Meng et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yan Tong United States	18	1.3k	1.0k	299	213	176	84	1.9k
Guee-Sang Lee South Korea	19	981 0.7×	403 0.4×	276 0.9×	194 0.9×	178 1.0×	185	1.6k
Edilson de Aguiar Germany	20	1.8k 1.4×	432 0.4×	163 0.5×	75 0.4×	137 0.8×	52	2.3k
Qiang Ji United States	16	606 0.5×	232 0.2×	281 0.9×	102 0.5×	349 2.0×	70	1.3k
Qirong Mao China	27	1.2k 0.9×	1.3k 1.3×	1.1k 3.5×	988 4.6×	121 0.7×	120	2.7k
Zahid Akhtar United States	23	952 0.7×	263 0.3×	424 1.4×	888 4.2×	79 0.4×	123	2.0k
Minghao Yang China	22	303 0.2×	324 0.3×	265 0.9×	148 0.7×	59 0.3×	118	1.5k
Di Wang Singapore	18	337 0.3×	434 0.4×	603 2.0×	113 0.5×	131 0.7×	86	1.5k
Paul Pu Liang United States	20	928 0.7×	1.1k 1.0×	2.7k 9.0×	597 2.8×	60 0.3×	48	3.5k
Peng Song China	22	547 0.4×	1.1k 1.0×	716 2.4×	472 2.2×	212 1.2×	108	2.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Yan Tong

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yan Tong

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yan Tong

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Tong, Yan, et al.. (2025). Machine Learning-Based Two-Dimensional Ultraviolet Spectroscopy for Monitoring Protein Structures and Dynamics. Processes. 13(2). 290–290.

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Cotter, Elizabeth W., et al.. (2025). Reckoning with the past: a qualitative analysis of medical students describing their formative experiences with weight bias. Journal of Eating Disorders. 13(1). 50–50.

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Tang, Wenbin, et al.. (2025). Assembly Accuracy Analysis Method Based on Multi‐Stage Linearized Contact. Engineering Reports. 7(1).

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Li, Xiaojuan, et al.. (2024). In-situ key update and minimal key set of encrypted outsourced data under binary key-derivation tree. The Journal of Supercomputing. 81(1).

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Tong, Yan, et al.. (2024). Post-Quantum Anonymous, Traceable and Linkable Authentication Scheme Based on Blockchain for Intelligent Vehicular Transportation Systems. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. 25(9). 12108–12119. 10 indexed citations

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Liu, Wenju, et al.. (2024). Controlled synthesis of Bi2S3/g-C3N4 nanosheets for efficient degradation of rhodamine B and reduction of Cr (VI) under visible light. Surfaces and Interfaces. 52. 104885–104885. 7 indexed citations

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Li, Hong, et al.. (2022). Expression of chitinase-3-like protein 1 in different TCM syndromes and its correlation with liver fibrosis. Annals of Palliative Medicine. 11(1). 217–224. 2 indexed citations

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Li, Guozhi, et al.. (2022). An energy fault and consumption optimization strategy in wireless sensor networks with edge computing. Journal of King Saud University - Computer and Information Sciences. 35(1). 357–367. 3 indexed citations

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Khan, Ahmed Shehab, Zhiyuan Li, Jie Cai, & Yan Tong. (2021). Regional Attention Networks with Context-aware Fusion for Group Emotion Recognition. 1149–1158. 14 indexed citations

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Liang, Jing, et al.. (2020). Path Planning of Mobile Robot Based on Improved Differential Evolution Algorithm. 811–816. 7 indexed citations

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Wu, Jianming, Longgen Liu, Chunyan Ye, et al.. (2019). [Relationship between liver controlled attenuation parameters and body fat mass and its distribution].. PubMed. 27(10). 754–759. 1 indexed citations

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Li, Zhiyuan, Shizhong Han, Ahmed Shehab Khan, et al.. (2019). Pooling Map Adaptation in Convolutional Neural Network for Facial Expression Recognition. 1108–1113. 17 indexed citations

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Li, Xuesong, et al.. (2019). Deep residual network for highly accelerated fMRI reconstruction using variable density spiral trajectory. Neurocomputing. 398. 338–346. 7 indexed citations

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Li, Xuesong, Xiaodong Ma, Zhe Zhang, et al.. (2017). Dual-TRACER: High resolution fMRI with constrained evolution reconstruction. NeuroImage. 164. 172–182. 4 indexed citations

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Han, Shizhong, et al.. (2016). Incremental Boosting Convolutional Neural Network for Facial Action Unit Recognition. Neural Information Processing Systems. 29. 109–117. 40 indexed citations

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Jones, Jace W., Gregory Tudor, Fei Li, et al.. (2015). Citrulline as a Biomarker in the Murine Total-Body Irradiation Model. Health Physics. 109(5). 452–465. 41 indexed citations

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Tong, Yan, Jixu Chen, & Qiang Ji. (2008). A Unified Probabilistic Framework for Spontaneous Facial Action Modeling and Understanding. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. 32(2). 258–273. 108 indexed citations

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Tong, Yan, Wenhui Liao, & Qiang Ji. (2007). Facial Action Unit Recognition by Exploiting Their Dynamic and Semantic Relationships. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. 29(10). 1683–1699. 270 indexed citations

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Li, Ying, et al.. (2007). An Improved Particle Swarm Optimization for SVM Training. 611–615. 11 indexed citations

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Tong, Yan, Wenhui Liao, & Qiang Ji. (2006). Inferring Facial Action Units with Causal Relations. 2. 1623–1630. 23 indexed citations

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