Yi Yang

81.7k total citations · 39 hit papers
702 papers, 42.4k citations indexed

About

Yi Yang is a scholar working on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Artificial Intelligence and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Yi Yang has authored 702 papers receiving a total of 42.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 492 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 247 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 51 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Yi Yang's work include Human Pose and Action Recognition (153 papers), Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques (151 papers) and Multimodal Machine Learning Applications (144 papers). Yi Yang is often cited by papers focused on Human Pose and Action Recognition (153 papers), Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques (151 papers) and Multimodal Machine Learning Applications (144 papers). Yi Yang collaborates with scholars based in China, Australia and United States. Yi Yang's co-authors include Liang Zheng, Zhedong Zheng, Linchao Zhu, Feiping Nie, Xiaojun Chang, Guoliang Kang, Alexander G. Hauptmann, Xuanyi Dong, Deva Ramanan and Zhigang Ma and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Biological Chemistry, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Yi Yang

669 papers receiving 41.5k citations

Hit Papers

Random Erasing Data Augmentation 2011 2026 2016 2021 2020 2016 2013 2018 2019 500 1000 1.5k
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. Random Erasing Data Augmentation
    2020 1.7k citations Liang Zheng, Guoliang Kang et al. profile →
  2. Attention to Scale: Scale-Aware Semantic Image Segmentation
    2016 951 citations Yi Yang et al. profile →
  3. Infrared Patch-Image Model for Small Target Detection in a Single Image
    2013 887 citations Deyu Meng, Yi Yang et al. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing profile →
  4. Image-Image Domain Adaptation with Preserved Self-Similarity and Domain-Dissimilarity for Person Re-identification
    2018 713 citations Weijian Deng, Liang Zheng et al. profile →
  5. Filter Pruning via Geometric Median for Deep Convolutional Neural Networks Acceleration
    2019 705 citations Yi Yang et al. profile →
  6. Articulated pose estimation with flexible mixtures-of-parts
    2011 647 citations Yi Yang et al. profile →
  7. A Discriminatively Learned CNN Embedding for Person Reidentification
    2017 618 citations Zhedong Zheng, Liang Zheng et al. profile →
  8. Contrastive Adaptation Network for Unsupervised Domain Adaptation
    2019 598 citations Guoliang Kang, Yi Yang et al. profile →
  9. Joint Discriminative and Generative Learning for Person Re-Identification
    2019 583 citations Zhedong Zheng, Liang Zheng et al. profile →
  10. Person Re-identification in the Wild
    2017 560 citations Liang Zheng, Yi Yang et al. profile →
  11. Taking a Closer Look at Domain Shift: Category-Level Adversaries for Semantics Consistent Domain Adaptation
    2019 541 citations Yawei Luo, Liang Zheng et al. profile →
  12. Improving person re-identification by attribute and identity learning
    2019 540 citations Yutian Lin, Liang Zheng et al. Pattern Recognition profile →
  13. SIFT Meets CNN: A Decade Survey of Instance Retrieval
    2017 508 citations Liang Zheng, Yi Yang et al. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence profile →
  14. Articulated Human Detection with Flexible Mixtures of Parts
    2012 500 citations Yi Yang et al. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence profile →
  15. Inter-media hashing for large-scale retrieval from heterogeneous data sources
    2013 484 citations Yi Yang et al. profile →
  16. Unsupervised Person Re-identification
    2018 476 citations Liang Zheng, Chenggang Yan et al. profile →
  17. Camera Style Adaptation for Person Re-identification
    2018 443 citations Liang Zheng, Zhedong Zheng et al. profile →
  18. l 2,1 -norm regularized discriminative feature selection for unsupervised learning
    2011 440 citations Yi Yang et al. profile →
  19. WikiQA: A Challenge Dataset for Open-Domain Question Answering
    2015 426 citations Yi Yang et al. profile →
  20. Pose-Guided Feature Alignment for Occluded Person Re-Identification
    2019 407 citations Yu Wu, Yi Yang et al. profile →
  21. A Bottom-Up Clustering Approach to Unsupervised Person Re-Identification
    2019 406 citations Yutian Lin, Xuanyi Dong et al. profile →
  22. Multiview Consensus Graph Clustering
    2018 401 citations Yi Yang et al. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing profile →
  23. Pedestrian Alignment Network for Large-scale Person Re-Identification
    2018 377 citations Zhedong Zheng, Liang Zheng et al. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology profile →
  24. Searching for a Robust Neural Architecture in Four GPU Hours
    2019 369 citations Xuanyi Dong, Yi Yang profile →
  25. Rectifying Pseudo Label Learning via Uncertainty Estimation for Domain Adaptive Semantic Segmentation
    2021 366 citations Zhedong Zheng, Yi Yang profile →
  26. DM-GAN: Dynamic Memory Generative Adversarial Networks for Text-To-Image Synthesis
    2019 346 citations Yi Yang et al. profile →
  27. Pose-Invariant Embedding for Deep Person Re-Identification
    2019 337 citations Liang Zheng, Yi Yang et al. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing profile →
  28. Video Paragraph Captioning Using Hierarchical Recurrent Neural Networks
    2016 337 citations Yi Yang et al. profile →
  29. A Multimedia Retrieval Framework Based on Semi-Supervised Ranking and Relevance Feedback
    2011 334 citations Yi Yang, Yueting Zhuang et al. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence profile →
  30. Multi-Class Active Learning by Uncertainty Sampling with Diversity Maximization
    2014 313 citations Yi Yang, Xiaojun Chang et al. profile →
  31. SG-One: Similarity Guidance Network for One-Shot Semantic Segmentation
    2020 302 citations Yunchao Wei, Yi Yang et al. profile →
  32. Semantic Pooling for Complex Event Analysis in Untrimmed Videos
    2016 290 citations Xiaojun Chang, Yi Yang et al. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence profile →
  33. Decomposable Nonlocal Tensor Dictionary Learning for Multispectral Image Denoising
    2014 290 citations Deyu Meng, Yi Yang et al. profile →
  34. Exploit the Unknown Gradually: One-Shot Video-Based Person Re-identification by Stepwise Learning
    2018 276 citations Yu Wu, Yutian Lin et al. profile →
  35. ActBERT: Learning Global-Local Video-Text Representations
    2020 268 citations Yi Yang et al. profile →
  36. Clustering-Guided Sparse Structural Learning for Unsupervised Feature Selection
    2013 258 citations Yi Yang et al. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering profile →
  37. Multiple knowledge representation for big data artificial intelligence: framework, applications, and case studies
    2021 242 citations Yi Yang, Yueting Zhuang et al. profile →
  38. Gated Channel Transformation for Visual Recognition
    2020 235 citations Yu Wu, Yi Yang et al. profile →
  39. A survey on LLM-based multi-agent systems: workflow, infrastructure, and challenges
    2024 49 citations Yu Wu, Yi Yang et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Yi Yang China 107 31.6k 13.9k 4.9k 3.2k 2.5k 702 42.4k
Antonio Torralba United States 86 35.7k 1.1× 13.5k 1.0× 2.9k 0.6× 4.2k 1.3× 4.3k 1.7× 250 51.5k
Dragomir Anguelov United States 30 21.5k 0.7× 10.5k 0.8× 2.3k 0.5× 3.2k 1.0× 2.9k 1.2× 57 37.3k
Ling Shao China 97 31.5k 1.0× 10.4k 0.7× 4.1k 0.8× 6.1k 1.9× 2.4k 0.9× 680 41.4k
Yangqing Jia United States 24 27.0k 0.9× 14.2k 1.0× 2.7k 0.5× 4.4k 1.4× 2.4k 1.0× 39 44.1k
Li-Jia Li United States 31 29.6k 0.9× 18.5k 1.3× 2.0k 0.4× 3.5k 1.1× 2.2k 0.9× 59 45.4k
Aditya Khosla United States 25 23.8k 0.8× 14.5k 1.0× 1.9k 0.4× 2.5k 0.8× 2.2k 0.9× 34 40.0k
Alexander C. Berg United States 35 23.2k 0.7× 12.3k 0.9× 1.8k 0.4× 2.9k 0.9× 2.3k 0.9× 56 35.6k
Xuelong Li China 109 32.8k 1.0× 11.7k 0.8× 3.1k 0.6× 9.4k 3.0× 1.8k 0.7× 773 46.5k
Dumitru Erhan United States 18 23.5k 0.7× 14.2k 1.0× 2.4k 0.5× 3.4k 1.1× 1.8k 0.7× 22 40.3k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yi Yang

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yi Yang

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Wang, Haitao, et al.. (2025). Active Precision Adjustment Mechanism for Large Space Reflectors. Chinese Journal of Mechanical Engineering. 38(1).
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Wu, Jingzhu, Yi Yang, Xia Tong, et al.. (2024). Research on terahertz image analysis of thin-shell seeds based on semantic segmentation. Spectrochimica Acta Part A Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy. 323. 124897–124897.
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Li, Jiamin, et al.. (2024). Effect of heat treatment on the microstructure and corrosion properties of plasma wire arc additive manufactured Mg-Gd-Y-Zr alloy. Materials Today Communications. 41. 111020–111020. 3 indexed citations
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Yang, Yi, Enze Zhou, X. Peng, et al.. (2024). The role of phenazines in marine Pseudomonas aeruginosa microbiologically influenced corrosion against 316L stainless steel. Corrosion Science. 242. 112587–112587. 9 indexed citations
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Wu, Jingzhu, Qian Zhang, Le Yu, et al.. (2024). Maturity detection of single maize seeds based on hyperspectral imaging and transfer learning. Infrared Physics & Technology. 138. 105242–105242. 9 indexed citations
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Ma, Fan, et al.. (2024). FedPAM: Federated Personalized Augmentation Model for Text-to-Image Retrieval. 1185–1189. 2 indexed citations
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Wang, Tingyu, Zhedong Zheng, Yaoqi Sun, et al.. (2024). Multiple-environment Self-adaptive Network for aerial-view geo-localization. Pattern Recognition. 152. 110363–110363. 19 indexed citations
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Luo, Yawei, et al.. (2024). Knowledge-Guided Causal Intervention for Weakly-Supervised Object Localization. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. 36(11). 6477–6489. 3 indexed citations
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Han, Mingfei, et al.. (2024). Progressive Frame-Proposal Mining for Weakly Supervised Video Object Detection. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. 33. 1560–1573. 3 indexed citations
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Yang, Yi, et al.. (2023). Video Object Segmentation in Panoptic Wild Scenes. 1604–1612. 12 indexed citations
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Zhou, Tianfei, Yi Yang, & Wenguan Wang. (2023). Differentiable Multi-Granularity Human Parsing. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. 45(7). 1–14. 30 indexed citations
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Luo, Yawei, et al.. (2023). Dark Knowledge Balance Learning for Unbiased Scene Graph Generation. 4838–4847. 4 indexed citations
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Yang, Yi, et al.. (2022). Benchmarking Intersectional Biases in NLP. Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies. 3598–3609. 30 indexed citations
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Zheng, Zhedong, Xiaohan Wang, Nenggan Zheng, & Yi Yang. (2022). Parameter-Efficient Person Re-Identification in the 3D Space. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems. 35(6). 7534–7547. 45 indexed citations
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Wu, Aming, Yahong Han, Zhou Zhao, & Yi Yang. (2020). Hierarchical Memory Decoder for Visual Narrating. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology. 31(6). 2438–2449. 11 indexed citations
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Kang, Guoliang, Yunchao Wei, Yi Yang, Yueting Zhuang, & Alexander G. Hauptmann. (2020). Pixel-Level Cycle Association: A New Perspective for Domain Adaptive Semantic Segmentation. arXiv (Cornell University). 33. 3569–3580. 4 indexed citations
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Lin, Yutian, Yu Wu, Chenggang Yan, Mingliang Xu, & Yi Yang. (2020). Unsupervised Person Re-identification via Cross-Camera Similarity Exploration. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. 29. 5481–5490. 77 indexed citations
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Zheng, Zhedong, Tao Ruan, Yunchao Wei, & Yi Yang. (2019). VehicleNet: Learning Robust Feature Representation for Vehicle Re-identification. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. 1–4. 16 indexed citations
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Deng, Weijian, Liang Zheng, Qixiang Ye, et al.. (2018). Image-Image Domain Adaptation with Preserved Self-Similarity and Domain-Dissimilarity for Person Re-identification. 994–1003. 713 indexed citations breakdown →
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Dong, Xuanyi, Liang Zheng, Fan Ma, Yi Yang, & Deyu Meng. (2017). Few-shot Object Detection. arXiv (Cornell University). 4 indexed citations

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