Yichen Wei

22.1k total citations · 8 hit papers
36 papers, 9.8k citations indexed

About

Yichen Wei is a scholar working on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Artificial Intelligence and Computational Mechanics. According to data from OpenAlex, Yichen Wei has authored 36 papers receiving a total of 9.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 10 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 4 papers in Computational Mechanics. Recurrent topics in Yichen Wei's work include Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques (12 papers), Advanced Neural Network Applications (9 papers) and Face recognition and analysis (5 papers). Yichen Wei is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques (12 papers), Advanced Neural Network Applications (9 papers) and Face recognition and analysis (5 papers). Yichen Wei collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and United Kingdom. Yichen Wei's co-authors include Jifeng Dai, Han Hu, Yuwen Xiong, Guodong Zhang, Haozhi Qi, Yi Li, Jian Sun, Shuang Liang, Xudong Cao and Fang Wen and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Scientific Reports and International Journal of Computer Vision.

In The Last Decade

Yichen Wei

33 papers receiving 9.5k citations

Hit Papers

Deformable Convolutional Networks 2013 2026 2017 2021 2017 2014 2018 2020 2013 1000 2.0k 3.0k 4.0k
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. Deformable Convolutional Networks
    2017 4.3k citations Jifeng Dai, Haozhi Qi et al. profile →
  2. Saliency Optimization from Robust Background Detection
    2014 980 citations Shuang Liang, Yichen Wei et al. profile →
  3. Relation Networks for Object Detection
    2018 953 citations Han Hu, Jifeng Dai et al. profile →
  4. Circle Loss: A Unified Perspective of Pair Similarity Optimization
    2020 616 citations Yifan Sun, Changmao Cheng et al. profile →
  5. Face Alignment by Explicit Shape Regression
    2013 517 citations Xudong Cao, Yichen Wei et al. International Journal of Computer Vision profile →
  6. Deep Feature Flow for Video Recognition
    2017 416 citations Xizhou Zhu, Yuwen Xiong et al. profile →
  7. Flow-Guided Feature Aggregation for Video Object Detection
    2017 413 citations Xizhou Zhu, Yujie Wang et al. profile →
  8. Towards 3D Human Pose Estimation in the Wild: A Weakly-Supervised Approach
    2017 352 citations Xiao Sun, Yichen Wei 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
Yichen Wei China 21 8.0k 1.7k 1.1k 896 581 36 9.8k
Xiaohui Shen United States 42 8.7k 1.1× 1.5k 0.9× 1.3k 1.2× 436 0.5× 347 0.6× 99 9.9k
Ke Sun China 17 4.7k 0.6× 1.5k 0.9× 834 0.8× 686 0.8× 306 0.5× 43 7.2k
Theo Gevers Netherlands 39 7.6k 0.9× 1.4k 0.8× 1.4k 1.3× 789 0.9× 360 0.6× 181 9.4k
Wenguan Wang China 56 9.4k 1.2× 1.9k 1.1× 1.1k 1.0× 673 0.8× 184 0.3× 123 11.1k
Jifeng Dai China 26 9.2k 1.1× 2.7k 1.6× 1.5k 1.4× 1.3k 1.5× 451 0.8× 53 12.0k
Sergey Karayev United States 9 5.9k 0.7× 2.3k 1.3× 878 0.8× 551 0.6× 479 0.8× 13 8.1k
Xiaolin Hu China 37 5.4k 0.7× 2.3k 1.3× 893 0.8× 1.1k 1.2× 411 0.7× 146 8.7k
Enhua Wu China 21 5.8k 0.7× 2.1k 1.2× 1.5k 1.4× 631 0.7× 521 0.9× 198 10.1k
Peihua Li China 29 4.6k 0.6× 1.9k 1.1× 1.2k 1.1× 742 0.8× 460 0.8× 118 8.2k
Gang Hua United States 52 8.0k 1.0× 2.4k 1.4× 1.0k 0.9× 774 0.9× 860 1.5× 251 10.0k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yichen Wei

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yichen Wei

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Yichen Wei. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Yichen Wei 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 Yichen Wei. Yichen Wei 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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Qin, Tian, et al.. (2025). Building robust traffic classifier under low quality data: A federated contrastive learning approach. Digital Communications and Networks. 11(5). 1479–1492.
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Su, Yuting, Yichen Wei, Weizhi Nie, Sicheng Zhao, & An-An Liu. (2024). Dynamic Causal Disentanglement Model for Dialogue Emotion Detection. IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing. 16(1). 1–14. 7 indexed citations
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Yang, Hualin, et al.. (2024). Fine-grained recognition of bitter gourd maturity based on Improved YOLOv5-seg model. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 10856–10856. 5 indexed citations
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Qin, Tian, et al.. (2023). Hier-SFL: Client-edge-cloud collaborative traffic classification framework based on hierarchical federated split learning. Future Generation Computer Systems. 149. 12–24. 14 indexed citations
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Wei, Yichen, Guang Cheng, Tian Qin, & Zihan Chen. (2023). A Hypernetwork-based Personalized Federated Learning Framework for Encrypted Traffic Classification. 536–543. 1 indexed citations
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Wang, Lina, Yichen Wei, & Lijun Yi. (2021). Ana priorierror analysis of thehp-version of theC0-continuous Petrov-Galerkin method for nonlinear second-order delay differential equations. International Journal of Computer Mathematics. 99(8). 1557–1578.
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Chang, Jie, et al.. (2020). Data Uncertainty Learning in Face Recognition. 5709–5718. 193 indexed citations
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Chu, Ruihang, Yifan Sun, Yadong Li, et al.. (2019). Vehicle Re-Identification With Viewpoint-Aware Metric Learning. 8281–8290. 136 indexed citations
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Wei, Yichen, et al.. (2019). An hp-version of the discontinuous Galerkin time-stepping method for nonlinear second-order delay differential equations with vanishing delays. Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics. 364. 112348–112348. 2 indexed citations
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Zhao, Xiangyun, Shuang Liang, & Yichen Wei. (2018). Pseudo Mask Augmented Object Detection. 4061–4070. 23 indexed citations
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Liang, Shuang, Xiao Sun, & Yichen Wei. (2018). Compositional Human Pose Regression. Computer Vision and Image Understanding. 176-177. 1–8. 41 indexed citations
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Zhu, Xizhou, Yuwen Xiong, Jifeng Dai, Lu Yuan, & Yichen Wei. (2017). Deep Feature Flow for Video Recognition. 4141–4150. 416 indexed citations breakdown →
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Zhu, Xizhou, Yujie Wang, Jifeng Dai, Lu Yuan, & Yichen Wei. (2017). Flow-Guided Feature Aggregation for Video Object Detection. 408–417. 413 indexed citations breakdown →
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Dai, Jifeng, Haozhi Qi, Yuwen Xiong, et al.. (2017). Deformable Convolutional Networks. 764–773. 4265 indexed citations breakdown →
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Sun, Xiao, Yichen Wei, Shuang Liang, Xiaoou Tang, & Jian Sun. (2015). Cascaded hand pose regression. 824–832. 256 indexed citations
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Cao, Xudong, Yichen Wei, Fang Wen, & Jian Sun. (2013). Face Alignment by Explicit Shape Regression. International Journal of Computer Vision. 107(2). 177–190. 517 indexed citations breakdown →
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Wei, Yichen & Long Quan. (2005). Asymmetrical Occlusion Handling Using Graph Cut for Multi-View Stereo. Rare & Special e-Zone (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology). 2. 902–909. 36 indexed citations
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Quan, Long, Yichen Wei, Le Lü, & Heung‐Yeung Shum. (2004). Constrained planar motion analysis by decomposition. Image and Vision Computing. 22(5). 379–389. 4 indexed citations
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Wei, Yichen, et al.. (2003). 資料倉儲於圖書館管理應用之研究─以分析館藏圖書探討圖書採購決策 The Study of Applying Data Warehouse to Library Management-Acquisition Policy Marking Based on Collections Analysis. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2 indexed citations

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