Yanlin Weng

2.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
30 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Yanlin Weng is a scholar working on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Computational Mechanics and Control and Systems Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Yanlin Weng has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 18 papers in Computational Mechanics and 11 papers in Control and Systems Engineering. Recurrent topics in Yanlin Weng's work include 3D Shape Modeling and Analysis (17 papers), Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques (10 papers) and Face recognition and analysis (10 papers). Yanlin Weng is often cited by papers focused on 3D Shape Modeling and Analysis (17 papers), Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques (10 papers) and Face recognition and analysis (10 papers). Yanlin Weng collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and United Kingdom. Yanlin Weng's co-authors include Kun Zhou, Yiying Tong, Chen Cao, Stephen Lin, Tianjia Shao, Menglei Chai, Hongzhi Wu, Lvdi Wang, Baining Guo and Youyi Zheng and has published in prestigious journals such as ACM Transactions on Graphics, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics and Computer Graphics Forum.

In The Last Decade

Yanlin Weng

26 papers receiving 1.4k citations

Hit Papers

FaceWarehouse: A 3D Facial Expression Database for Visual... 2013 2026 2017 2021 2013 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. FaceWarehouse: A 3D Facial Expression Database for Visual Computing
    2013 648 citations Yanlin Weng, Yiying Tong et al. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Yanlin Weng China 14 1.3k 622 271 202 174 30 1.5k
Timo Bolkart Germany 12 1.4k 1.0× 701 1.1× 241 0.9× 134 0.7× 225 1.3× 30 1.6k
Thibaut Weise Switzerland 13 1.3k 1.0× 537 0.9× 188 0.7× 142 0.7× 315 1.8× 19 1.7k
Junyong Noh South Korea 18 942 0.7× 451 0.7× 199 0.7× 71 0.4× 500 2.9× 104 1.3k
Forrester Cole United States 21 1.2k 1.0× 712 1.1× 707 2.6× 31 0.2× 135 0.8× 39 1.7k
Tianjia Shao China 19 847 0.6× 435 0.7× 244 0.9× 41 0.2× 240 1.4× 53 1.1k
Chenglei Wu United States 21 1.3k 1.0× 645 1.0× 442 1.6× 45 0.2× 150 0.9× 30 1.5k
Iacopo Masi Italy 18 2.0k 1.5× 230 0.4× 31 0.1× 517 2.6× 19 0.1× 33 2.2k
Epameinondas Antonakos United Kingdom 11 1.0k 0.8× 146 0.2× 18 0.1× 322 1.6× 15 0.1× 20 1.2k
Graham Fyffe United States 18 1.4k 1.1× 432 0.7× 731 2.7× 56 0.3× 89 0.5× 41 1.6k
Thorsten Thormählen Germany 18 1.1k 0.8× 467 0.8× 302 1.1× 24 0.1× 163 0.9× 44 1.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Yanlin Weng

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yanlin Weng

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yanlin Weng

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Yanlin Weng. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Yanlin Weng 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 Yanlin Weng. Yanlin Weng 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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Shao, Tianjia, et al.. (2025). Animatable 3D Gaussians for modeling dynamic humans. Frontiers of Computer Science. 19(9).
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Zheng, Youyi, et al.. (2025). Relightable Gaussian blendshapes for head avatar animation. Computers & Graphics. 132. 104324–104324.
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Shao, Tianjia, et al.. (2025). As-Rigid-As-Possible Deformation of Gaussian Radiance Fields. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. 31(10). 7727–7739.
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Wang, He, et al.. (2023). Unsupervised image translation with distributional semantics awareness. Computational Visual Media. 9(3). 619–631. 3 indexed citations
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Shao, Tianjia, et al.. (2022). Personalized Audio-Driven 3D Facial Animation via Style-Content Disentanglement. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. 30(3). 1803–1820. 4 indexed citations
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Weng, Yanlin, et al.. (2021). Single-view facial reflectance inference with a differentiable renderer. Science China Information Sciences. 64(11). 1 indexed citations
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Shao, Tianjia, Yin Yang, Yanlin Weng, Qiming Hou, & Kun Zhou. (2018). H-CNN: Spatial Hashing Based CNN for 3D Shape Analysis. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. 26(7). 2403–2416. 27 indexed citations
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Zhang, Meng, Pan Wu, Hongzhi Wu, et al.. (2018). Modeling hair from an RGB-D camera. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 37(6). 1–10. 22 indexed citations
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Weng, Yanlin, et al.. (2013). FaceWarehouse: A 3D Facial Expression Database for Visual Computing. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. 20(3). 413–425. 648 indexed citations breakdown →
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Weng, Yanlin, Dongping Li, & Yiying Tong. (2013). Texture mapping subdivision surfaces with hard constraints. The Visual Computer. 29(11). 1231–1241. 1 indexed citations
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Chai, Menglei, Lvdi Wang, Yanlin Weng, Xiaogang Jin, & Kun Zhou. (2013). Dynamic hair manipulation in images and videos. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 32(4). 1–8. 67 indexed citations
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Cao, Chen, Yanlin Weng, Stephen Lin, & Kun Zhou. (2013). 3D shape regression for real-time facial animation. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 32(4). 1–10. 232 indexed citations
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Weng, Yanlin, et al.. (2013). Real-time facial animation on mobile devices. Graphical Models. 76(3). 172–179. 14 indexed citations
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Weng, Yanlin, et al.. (2012). Surface Mesh Controlled Fast Hair Modeling. Journal of Computer-Aided Design & Computer Graphics. 24(8). 975–983. 1 indexed citations
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Chai, Menglei, Lvdi Wang, Yanlin Weng, et al.. (2012). Single-view hair modeling for portrait manipulation. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 31(4). 1–8. 3 indexed citations
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Wang, Yuanzhen, et al.. (2012). Compact combinatorial maps: A volume mesh data structure. Graphical Models. 75(3). 149–156. 3 indexed citations
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Weng, Yanlin, et al.. (2008). Keyframe Based Video Object Deformation. 23. 142–149. 2 indexed citations
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Weng, Yanlin, Weiwei Xu, Yanchen Wu, Kun Zhou, & Baining Guo. (2006). 2D shape deformation using nonlinear least squares optimization. The Visual Computer. 22(9-11). 653–660. 68 indexed citations
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Weng, Yanlin & WU Tie-jun. (2001). Car-following model of vehicular traffic. 3(4). 412–417. 13 indexed citations

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