Yichen Wei

5.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
33 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Yichen Wei is a scholar working on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Cognitive Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Yichen Wei has authored 33 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 7 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 6 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Yichen Wei's work include Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (7 papers), Human Pose and Action Recognition (6 papers) and Advanced Vision and Imaging (6 papers). Yichen Wei is often cited by papers focused on Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (7 papers), Human Pose and Action Recognition (6 papers) and Advanced Vision and Imaging (6 papers). Yichen Wei collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Hong Kong. Yichen Wei's co-authors include Jian Sun, Xiaoou Tang, Xiao Sun, Jian Sun, Qian Chen, Kaiming He, Enhua Wu, Ziyang Ma, Long Quan and Heung‐Yeung Shum and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Brain Research and IEEE Transactions on Image Processing.

In The Last Decade

Yichen Wei

32 papers receiving 1.5k 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.

Realtime and Robust Hand Tracking from Depth

2014 302 citations Qian Chen, Xiao Sun et al. profile →
Accurate, Robust, and Flexible Real-time Hand Tracking

2015 285 citations Yichen Wei et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yichen Wei China	15	1.3k	552	301	161	140	33	1.6k
Cem Keskin United States	19	999 0.8×	848 1.5×	403 1.3×	118 0.7×	229 1.6×	36	1.4k
Takaaki Shiratori United States	22	927 0.7×	336 0.6×	481 1.6×	99 0.6×	108 0.8×	52	1.2k
Srinath Sridhar United States	11	874 0.7×	498 0.9×	245 0.8×	150 0.9×	136 1.0×	35	1.2k
Jingjing Meng United States	17	999 0.8×	674 1.2×	258 0.9×	40 0.2×	142 1.0×	44	1.6k
Sean Fanello United States	20	1.1k 0.9×	272 0.5×	130 0.4×	365 2.3×	167 1.2×	45	1.4k
Yaser Yacoob United States	22	2.3k 1.8×	391 0.7×	158 0.5×	50 0.3×	162 1.2×	51	2.7k
Taehyun Rhee New Zealand	13	567 0.4×	308 0.6×	188 0.6×	143 0.9×	72 0.5×	55	834
Thibaut Weise Switzerland	13	1.3k 1.1×	184 0.3×	315 1.0×	188 1.2×	55 0.4×	19	1.7k
Y. Yemez Türkiye	20	933 0.7×	96 0.2×	185 0.6×	186 1.2×	54 0.4×	93	1.4k
Dushyant Mehta Germany	12	2.0k 1.6×	649 1.2×	474 1.6×	69 0.4×	54 0.4×	13	2.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Yichen Wei

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yichen Wei

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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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Liang, Shuang, et al.. (2025). RelationLMM: Large Multimodal Model as Open and Versatile Visual Relationship Generalist. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. 47(5). 3515–3529. 1 indexed citations

Liu, Ying, Bei Peng, Haixia Qin, et al.. (2025). Longitudinal alterations in morphological brain networks and cognitive function in common-type COVID-19: a 3-month follow-up study. Frontiers in Neurology. 16. 1549195–1549195. 1 indexed citations

Chen, Yuxin, Yichen Wei, Ying Liu, et al.. (2023). Disrupted morphological brain network organization in subjective cognitive decline and mild cognitive impairment. Brain Imaging and Behavior. 18(2). 387–395. 6 indexed citations

Duan, Gaoxiong, Yichen Wei, Ke Xu, et al.. (2023). Altered functional connectivity density and structural covariance networks in women with premenstrual syndrome. Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery. 13(2). 835–851. 3 indexed citations

Zhang, Qingping, et al.. (2023). Altered regional homogeneity following moxibustion in mild cognitive impairment. Brain Imaging and Behavior. 18(2). 343–351. 1 indexed citations

Wei, Yichen, Ying Liu, Xiaocheng Li, et al.. (2023). Altered cortical and subcortical morphometric features and asymmetries in the subjective cognitive decline and mild cognitive impairment. Frontiers in Neurology. 14. 1297028–1297028. 5 indexed citations

Xu, Ke, Yichen Wei, Lihua Zhao, et al.. (2022). Effect of Moxibustion Treatment on Degree Centrality in Patients With Mild Cognitive Impairment: A Resting-State Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 16. 889426–889426. 4 indexed citations

Xu, Ke, Yichen Wei, Lihua Zhao, et al.. (2022). Percentage amplitude of fluctuation and structural covariance changes of subjective cognitive decline in patients: A multimodal imaging study. Frontiers in Neuroscience. 16. 888174–888174. 3 indexed citations

Zhang, Qingping, Yichen Wei, Gaoxiong Duan, et al.. (2022). Efficacy and Mechanism of Moxibustion Treatment on Mild Cognitive Impairment Patients: An fMRI Study Using ALFF. Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience. 15. 852882–852882. 17 indexed citations

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Wei, Yichen, Jie Gong, Xin He, et al.. (2022). An MRI-Based Radiomic Model for Individualized Prediction of Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Patients With Hepatitis B Virus-Related Cirrhosis. Frontiers in Oncology. 12. 800787–800787. 3 indexed citations

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Wang, Bohan, Yue Hu, Junqi Liu, et al.. (2021). End-to-End Human Object Interaction Detection with HOI Transformer. 11820–11829. 144 indexed citations

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Zhao, Lihua, Ke Xu, Yichen Wei, et al.. (2021). Altered functional connectivity density in mild cognitive impairment with moxibustion treatment: A resting-state fMRI study. Brain Research. 1775. 147732–147732. 8 indexed citations

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Zhou, Xingyi, et al.. (2017). Weakly-supervised Transfer for 3D Human Pose Estimation in the Wild.. arXiv (Cornell University). 20 indexed citations

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Chen, Qian, Xiao Sun, Yichen Wei, Xiaoou Tang, & Jian Sun. (2014). Realtime and Robust Hand Tracking from Depth. 1106–1113. 302 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ma, Ziyang, Kaiming He, Yichen Wei, Jian Sun, & Enhua Wu. (2013). Constant Time Weighted Median Filtering for Stereo Matching and Beyond. 49–56. 230 indexed citations

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Shi, Boxin, Yasuyuki Matsushita, Yichen Wei, Chao Xu, & Ping Tan. (2010). Self-calibrating photometric stereo. National University of Singapore. 1118–1125. 84 indexed citations

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Yan, Shuicheng, et al.. (2009). An improved belief propagation method for dynamic collage. The Visual Computer. 25(5-7). 431–439. 12 indexed citations

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Wei, Yichen, Jian Sun, Xiaoou Tang, & Heung‐Yeung Shum. (2007). Interactive Offline Tracking for Color Objects. Rare & Special e-Zone (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology). 1–8. 21 indexed citations

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Wei, Yichen, et al.. (2005). Outward-looking circular motion analysis of large image sequences. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. 27(2). 271–277. 2 indexed citations

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Jiang, Guang, Yichen Wei, Long Quan, & Hung-Tat Tsui. (2004). Construction and Rendering of Concentric Mosaics from a Handheld Camera. Rare & Special e-Zone (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology). 12(6). 313–313. 1 indexed citations

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