Yao Wang

8.8k total citations · 3 hit papers
246 papers, 6.3k citations indexed

About

Yao Wang is a scholar working on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Computational Mechanics and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Yao Wang has authored 246 papers receiving a total of 6.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 66 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 50 papers in Computational Mechanics and 37 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Yao Wang's work include Sparse and Compressive Sensing Techniques (41 papers), Image and Signal Denoising Methods (36 papers) and Advanced Image Fusion Techniques (16 papers). Yao Wang is often cited by papers focused on Sparse and Compressive Sensing Techniques (41 papers), Image and Signal Denoising Methods (36 papers) and Advanced Image Fusion Techniques (16 papers). Yao Wang collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Macao. Yao Wang's co-authors include Deyu Meng, Jöern Ostermann, Qian Zhao, Xi-Le Zhao, Jincheng Huang, Zhu Liu, Jiangjun Peng, Zongben Xu, Yee Leung and Byrav Ramamurthy and has published in prestigious journals such as Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Applied Physics Letters and Bioinformatics.

In The Last Decade

Yao Wang

221 papers receiving 6.1k 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.

Video Processing and Communications

2001 540 citations Yao Wang et al. profile →
Hyperspectral Image Restoration Via Total Variation Regularized Low-Rank Tensor Decomposition

2017 343 citations Yao Wang, Jiangjun Peng et al. profile →
L 1/2 regularization

2010 316 citations Yao Wang et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yao Wang China	38	2.5k	1.1k	1.1k	838	728	246	6.3k
Zhao Zhang China	46	3.8k 1.5×	779 0.7×	435 0.4×	1.2k 1.4×	566 0.8×	342	7.0k
Wei Chen China	38	1.5k 0.6×	849 0.8×	442 0.4×	399 0.5×	1.9k 2.5×	467	5.5k
Xin Yuan China	48	3.4k 1.3×	2.9k 2.6×	926 0.9×	1.7k 2.0×	851 1.2×	342	8.0k
Sheng Li China	42	1.9k 0.8×	502 0.5×	334 0.3×	403 0.5×	1.3k 1.8×	352	7.7k
Jinhui Tang China	68	13.3k 5.2×	1.0k 0.9×	1.0k 1.0×	1.9k 2.3×	374 0.5×	459	18.8k
Ming Li China	39	1.1k 0.5×	470 0.4×	579 0.5×	199 0.2×	1.0k 1.4×	450	7.9k
Mika Sirén Germany	12	2.8k 1.1×	385 0.3×	776 0.7×	576 0.7×	267 0.4×	17	5.9k
Tongliang Liu Australia	46	3.8k 1.5×	361 0.3×	344 0.3×	685 0.8×	270 0.4×	186	6.7k
Fei Sha China	42	3.6k 1.4×	346 0.3×	791 0.7×	367 0.4×	588 0.8×	218	9.0k
Bin Yu China	39	2.2k 0.9×	515 0.5×	324 0.3×	1.2k 1.4×	243 0.3×	157	6.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Yao Wang

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yao Wang

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yao Wang

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Yao Wang. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Yao Wang 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 Yao Wang. Yao Wang 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

Liu, Jiapeng, et al.. (2025). A Probabilistic preference learning approach for multiple criteria ranking in dynamic decision context. European Journal of Operational Research. 330(2). 558–574.

Zhan, Xin, Ming‐Sheng Wang, Yao Wang, et al.. (2025). Low temperature creep behavior of directionally solidified superalloys. Materials Today Communications. 45. 112212–112212.

Zheng, Yi, Yao Wang, Tariq Aziz, et al.. (2025). Canopy Chlorophyll Content Inversion of Mountainous Heterogeneous Grasslands Based on the Synergy of Ground Hyperspectral and Sentinel-2 Data: A New Vegetation Index Approach. Remote Sensing. 17(13). 2149–2149. 1 indexed citations

Wang, Yao, et al.. (2025). Unlocking the Potential of Rare Earth‐Doped Down‐Conversion Materials for Enhanced Solar Cell Performance and Durability. Solar RRL. 9(5). 7 indexed citations

Peng, Jiangjun, et al.. (2024). Guaranteed matrix recovery using weighted nuclear norm plus weighted total variation minimization. Signal Processing. 227. 109706–109706. 1 indexed citations

Wang, Yao, et al.. (2024). Nijenhuis-operator on Hom-Lie conformal algebras. Topology and its Applications. 344. 108817–108817. 3 indexed citations

Zhao, Xi-Le, et al.. (2024). Snapshot Compressive Imaging Using Domain-Factorized Deep Video Prior. IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging. 10. 93–102.

Wang, Yao, et al.. (2023). Fuzzy clustering for feature extraction in wavelet-based fault gear identification of electrical machines. Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems. 46(1). 2415–2431.

Wang, Ce, Shuai He, Yao Wang, et al.. (2023). Acoustic 3D trapping of microparticles in flowing liquid using circular cavity. Sensors and Actuators A Physical. 363. 114698–114698. 5 indexed citations

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Wang, Ce, et al.. (2023). Development of air-assisted atomization device for the delivery of cells in viscous biological ink prepared with sodium alginate. Review of Scientific Instruments. 94(4). 4 indexed citations

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Yao, Junping, et al.. (2023). A Spectral–Spatial Feature Rotation-Based Ensemble Method for Imbalanced Hyperspectral Image Classification. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 61. 1–18. 3 indexed citations

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Liu, Sheng, Jinsong Leng, Xi-Le Zhao, et al.. (2023). Learnable Spatial-Spectral Transform-Based Tensor Nuclear Norm for Multi-Dimensional Visual Data Recovery. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology. 34(5). 3633–3646. 8 indexed citations

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Wang, Yao, et al.. (2020). Hyperspectral and Multispectral Image Fusion via Nonlocal Low-Rank Tensor Decomposition and Spectral Unmixing. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 58(11). 7654–7671. 39 indexed citations

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Zhao, Xi-Le, Wenhao Xu, Tai-Xiang Jiang, Yao Wang, & Michael K. Ng. (2020). Deep plug-and-play prior for low-rank tensor completion. Neurocomputing. 400. 137–149. 80 indexed citations

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Landsberg, J. M., et al.. (2020). Towards a geometric approach to Strassen’s asymptotic rank conjecture. Collectanea mathematica. 72(1). 63–86. 5 indexed citations

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Jiang, Tai-Xiang, Ting‐Zhu Huang, Xi-Le Zhao, Liang-Jian Deng, & Yao Wang. (2017). A Novel Tensor-Based Video Rain Streaks Removal Approach via Utilizing Discriminatively Intrinsic Priors. 2818–2827. 120 indexed citations

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Wang, Yao, et al.. (2017). Compressive Sensing of Hyperspectral Images via Joint Tensor Tucker Decomposition and Weighted Total Variation Regularization. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters. 14(12). 2457–2461. 74 indexed citations

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Cao, Wenfei, Yao Wang, Jian Sun, et al.. (2016). Total Variation Regularized Tensor RPCA for Background Subtraction from Compressive Measurements. Rare & Special e-Zone (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology). 84 indexed citations

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Wang, Yao, Kyoko Yoshida, Joy Vink, et al.. (2014). Measuring the compressive viscoelastic mechanical properties of human cervical tissue using indentation. Journal of the mechanical behavior of biomedical materials. 34. 18–26. 45 indexed citations

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Wang, Yao, et al.. (2005). Tables of Bounds for Distributions with Monotone Log-Odds Rate. Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation. 34(1). 1–20. 5 indexed citations

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