Yimian Dai

3.3k total citations · 3 hit papers
26 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Yimian Dai is a scholar working on Aerospace Engineering, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and Mechanics of Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Yimian Dai has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Aerospace Engineering, 9 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and 8 papers in Mechanics of Materials. Recurrent topics in Yimian Dai's work include Infrared Target Detection Methodologies (17 papers), Thermography and Photoacoustic Techniques (8 papers) and Image and Signal Denoising Methods (3 papers). Yimian Dai is often cited by papers focused on Infrared Target Detection Methodologies (17 papers), Thermography and Photoacoustic Techniques (8 papers) and Image and Signal Denoising Methods (3 papers). Yimian Dai collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Denmark. Yimian Dai's co-authors include Yiquan Wu, Kobus Barnard, Fei Zhou, Fabian Gieseke, Stefan Oehmcke, Yiquan Wu, Yu Song, Jian Yang, Xiang Li and Yiquan Wu and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, IEEE Access and Remote Sensing.

In The Last Decade

Yimian Dai

25 papers receiving 2.2k 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.

Attentional Feature Fusion

2021 696 citations Yimian Dai, Fabian Gieseke et al. Research at the University of Copenhagen (University of Copenhagen) profile →
Asymmetric Contextual Modulation for Infrared Small Target Detection

2021 475 citations Yimian Dai, Yiquan Wu et al. profile →
Reweighted Infrared Patch-Tensor Model With Both Nonlocal and Local Priors for Single-Frame Small Target Detection

2017 408 citations Yimian Dai, Yiquan Wu IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yimian Dai China	12	1.5k	972	547	498	437	26	2.2k
Yongtao Wang China	19	1.1k 0.7×	701 0.7×	1.5k 2.7×	528 1.1×	245 0.6×	107	2.8k
Chenqiang Gao China	24	1.3k 0.9×	920 0.9×	1.4k 2.6×	773 1.6×	335 0.8×	113	3.1k
Yiquan Wu China	11	1.4k 1.0×	923 0.9×	399 0.7×	408 0.8×	417 1.0×	25	1.8k
Yulan Guo China	15	897 0.6×	448 0.5×	554 1.0×	189 0.4×	125 0.3×	74	1.6k
Longguang Wang China	23	694 0.5×	488 0.5×	1.5k 2.8×	873 1.8×	123 0.3×	73	2.4k
Fei Zhou China	12	699 0.5×	476 0.5×	395 0.7×	244 0.5×	172 0.4×	35	1.3k
Changcai Yang China	18	427 0.3×	210 0.2×	517 0.9×	286 0.6×	60 0.1×	73	1.1k
Shuhui Bu China	27	468 0.3×	226 0.2×	1.6k 2.9×	885 1.8×	67 0.2×	90	2.6k
Ji‐Hoon Bae South Korea	17	498 0.3×	280 0.3×	732 1.3×	253 0.5×	45 0.1×	88	1.7k
Yanpeng Cao China	23	341 0.2×	144 0.1×	1.1k 1.9×	505 1.0×	185 0.4×	82	1.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yimian Dai

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Yimian Dai. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Yimian Dai 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 Yimian Dai. Yimian Dai is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Zhou, Fei, Fengyi Wu, Maixia Fu, et al.. (2025). DRPCA-Net: Make Robust PCA Great Again for Infrared Small Target Detection. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 63. 1–16. 2 indexed citations

Sun, Yang, Zaiping Lin, Ting Liu, et al.. (2025). Infrared Small Target Detection via Nonconvex Weighted Tensor Rank Minimization and Adaptive Spatial–Temporal Modeling. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 63. 1–18. 1 indexed citations

Dai, Qun, Yimian Dai, Yuxuan Li, et al.. (2025). MoCoLSK: Modality-Conditioned High-Resolution Downscaling for Land Surface Temperature. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 63. 1–17. 1 indexed citations

Zhao, Jinmiao, Zelin Shi, Chuang Yu, et al.. (2025). Multi-Scale Direction-Aware Network for Infrared Small Target Detection. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 63. 1–18. 1 indexed citations

Dai, Yimian, et al.. (2024). DenoDet: Attention as Deformable Multisubspace Feature Denoising for Target Detection in SAR Images. IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems. 61(2). 4729–4743. 6 indexed citations

Dai, Yimian, et al.. (2024). Pick of the Bunch: Detecting Infrared Small Targets Beyond Hit-Miss Trade-Offs via Selective Rank-Aware Attention. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 62. 1–15. 11 indexed citations

Zhou, Fei, et al.. (2024). Sparse Prior Is Not All You Need: When Differential Directionality Meets Saliency Coherence for Infrared Small Target Detection. IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement. 73. 1–18. 3 indexed citations

Zhang, Feifei, et al.. (2024). Display method for high dynamic range infrared image based on gradient domain guided image filter. Optical Engineering. 63(1). 2 indexed citations

Zhang, Feifei, et al.. (2023). Brightness segmentation-based plateau histogram equalization algorithm for displaying high dynamic range infrared images. Infrared Physics & Technology. 134. 104894–104894. 10 indexed citations

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Dai, Yimian, et al.. (2023). One-Stage Cascade Refinement Networks for Infrared Small Target Detection. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 61. 1–17. 80 indexed citations

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Dai, Yimian, Yiquan Wu, Fei Zhou, & Kobus Barnard. (2021). Asymmetric Contextual Modulation for Infrared Small Target Detection. 949–958. 475 indexed citations breakdown →

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Dai, Yimian, Stefan Oehmcke, Fabian Gieseke, Yiquan Wu, & Kobus Barnard. (2021). Attention as Activation. Research at the University of Copenhagen (University of Copenhagen). 9156–9163. 6 indexed citations

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Dai, Yimian, Fabian Gieseke, Stefan Oehmcke, Yiquan Wu, & Kobus Barnard. (2021). Attentional Feature Fusion. Research at the University of Copenhagen (University of Copenhagen). 3559–3568. 696 indexed citations breakdown →

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Dai, Yimian, et al.. (2021). An Algorithm to Construct 3D Pipeline Bending Shape Based on Ultra-weak FBG Curvature Sensor. T4F.2–T4F.2.

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Zhou, Fei, et al.. (2019). Graph-Regularized Laplace Approximation for Detecting Small Infrared Target Against Complex Backgrounds. IEEE Access. 7. 85354–85371. 18 indexed citations

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Wu, Yiquan, et al.. (2017). Small target detection based on reweighted infrared patch‐image model. IET Image Processing. 12(1). 70–79. 74 indexed citations

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Dai, Yimian & Yiquan Wu. (2017). Reweighted Infrared Patch-Tensor Model With Both Nonlocal and Local Priors for Single-Frame Small Target Detection. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. 10(8). 3752–3767. 408 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wu, Yiquan, et al.. (2016). Automatic river target detection from remote sensing images based on image decomposition and distance regularized CV model. Computers & Electrical Engineering. 54. 285–295. 4 indexed citations

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Wu, Yiquan, Yimian Dai, Jun Yin, & Jian Wu. (2015). Fast non-local means algorithm based on Krawtchouk moments. Transactions of Tianjin University. 21(2). 104–112. 2 indexed citations

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Song, Yu, Yiquan Wu, & Yimian Dai. (2015). A new active contour remote sensing river image segmentation algorithm inspired from the cross entropy. Digital Signal Processing. 48. 322–332. 40 indexed citations

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