Yimin D. Zhang

15.5k total citations · 8 hit papers
384 papers, 12.0k citations indexed

About

Yimin D. Zhang is a scholar working on Aerospace Engineering, Signal Processing and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Yimin D. Zhang has authored 384 papers receiving a total of 12.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 193 papers in Aerospace Engineering, 149 papers in Signal Processing and 119 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Yimin D. Zhang's work include Direction-of-Arrival Estimation Techniques (127 papers), Radar Systems and Signal Processing (108 papers) and Advanced SAR Imaging Techniques (96 papers). Yimin D. Zhang is often cited by papers focused on Direction-of-Arrival Estimation Techniques (127 papers), Radar Systems and Signal Processing (108 papers) and Advanced SAR Imaging Techniques (96 papers). Yimin D. Zhang collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Australia. Yimin D. Zhang's co-authors include Moeness G. Amin, Fauzia Ahmad, Braham Himed, Si Qin, Aboulnasr Hassanien, Fan Yang, Lei Zhang, Yujie Gu, Ammar Ahmed and Chengwei Zhou and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Proceedings of the IEEE and Journal of Power Sources.

In The Last Decade

Yimin D. Zhang

369 papers receiving 11.7k citations

Hit Papers

Road crack detection using deep convolutional neural network 2013 2026 2017 2021 2016 2015 2015 2018 2016 250 500 750 1000
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. Road crack detection using deep convolutional neural network
    2016 1.1k citations Yimin D. Zhang et al. profile →
  2. Generalized Coprime Array Configurations for Direction-of-Arrival Estimation
    2015 741 citations Yimin D. Zhang, Moeness G. Amin et al. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing profile →
  3. Dual-Function Radar-Communications: Information Embedding Using Sidelobe Control and Waveform Diversity
    2015 491 citations Moeness G. Amin, Yimin D. Zhang et al. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing profile →
  4. Direction-of-Arrival Estimation for Coprime Array via Virtual Array Interpolation
    2018 437 citations Chengwei Zhou, Yujie Gu et al. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing profile →
  5. Radar Signal Processing for Elderly Fall Detection: The future for in-home monitoring
    2016 308 citations Moeness G. Amin, Yimin D. Zhang et al. profile →
  6. Sparsity-based DOA estimation using co-prime arrays
    2013 308 citations Yimin D. Zhang, Moeness G. Amin et al. profile →
  7. Signaling strategies for dual-function radar communications: an overview
    2016 296 citations Moeness G. Amin, Yimin D. Zhang et al. profile →
  8. MISC Array: A New Sparse Array Design Achieving Increased Degrees of Freedom and Reduced Mutual Coupling Effect
    2019 228 citations Zhi Zheng, Wen-Qin Wang et al. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Yimin D. Zhang United States 53 6.0k 4.9k 3.6k 1.8k 1.5k 384 12.0k
Wei Liu China 44 3.5k 0.6× 3.8k 0.8× 2.4k 0.7× 619 0.4× 1.3k 0.9× 745 8.8k
Jian Li United States 68 10.5k 1.7× 6.9k 1.4× 5.9k 1.7× 3.6k 2.1× 3.3k 2.2× 594 20.2k
Moeness G. Amin United States 68 10.4k 1.7× 5.9k 1.2× 5.6k 1.6× 6.8k 3.9× 3.3k 2.2× 735 19.2k
Abdelhak M. Zoubir Germany 42 1.8k 0.3× 1.8k 0.4× 1.6k 0.4× 1.3k 0.7× 1.1k 0.7× 509 6.5k
K. C. Ho United States 49 3.1k 0.5× 3.1k 0.6× 7.3k 2.0× 1.6k 0.9× 923 0.6× 348 11.2k
Guisheng Liao China 50 8.4k 1.4× 3.1k 0.6× 1.5k 0.4× 1.8k 1.0× 875 0.6× 558 10.1k
Andrea Massa Italy 62 8.2k 1.4× 1.1k 0.2× 7.0k 1.9× 3.5k 2.0× 1.1k 0.7× 533 13.7k
Hongwei Liu China 49 6.7k 1.1× 960 0.2× 1.3k 0.4× 1.2k 0.7× 958 0.6× 685 10.8k
Randolph L. Moses United States 38 2.8k 0.5× 1.3k 0.3× 3.7k 1.0× 917 0.5× 828 0.6× 173 7.3k
Ljubiša Stanković Montenegro 45 1.7k 0.3× 2.0k 0.4× 1.2k 0.3× 1.1k 0.6× 1.2k 0.8× 286 6.8k

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All Works

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Zhang, Shengzhong, et al.. (2024). Graph Batch Coarsening framework for scalable graph neural networks. Neural Networks. 183. 106931–106931. 4 indexed citations
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Zhang, Yimin D., et al.. (2024). Direction-of-arrival estimation in closely distributed array exploiting mixed-precision covariance matrices. Signal Processing. 220. 109463–109463. 1 indexed citations
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Kremer, Peleg, et al.. (2024). Spatial-temporal modeling of the relationship between surface temperature and air temperature in metropolitan urban systems. Urban Climate. 55. 101921–101921. 5 indexed citations
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Liu, Wei, et al.. (2024). Multi-Target Location and Doppler Estimation in Multistatic Automotive Radar Applications. IEEE Transactions on Radar Systems. 2. 215–225. 4 indexed citations
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Zhang, Yimin D., et al.. (2024). Direction-of-Arrival Estimation of Mixed Coherent and Uncorrelated Signals. IEEE Signal Processing Letters. 31. 2180–2184. 6 indexed citations
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Zhang, Yimin D., et al.. (2023). ISAC system assisted by RIS with sparse active elements. EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing. 2023(1). 14 indexed citations
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Bai, Huang, et al.. (2022). Unit-norm tight frame-based sparse representation with application to speech inpainting. Digital Signal Processing. 123. 103426–103426. 3 indexed citations
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Liu, Shengheng, et al.. (2022). Joint DoA-Range Estimation Using Space-Frequency Virtual Difference Coarray. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. 70. 2576–2592. 44 indexed citations
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Zhang, Shuimei, Ammar Ahmed, Yimin D. Zhang, & Shunqiao Sun. (2021). Enhanced DOA Estimation Exploiting Multi-Frequency Sparse Array. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. 69. 5935–5946. 38 indexed citations
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Sun, Shunqiao & Yimin D. Zhang. (2021). 4D Automotive Radar Sensing for Autonomous Vehicles: A Sparsity-Oriented Approach. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing. 15(4). 879–891. 129 indexed citations
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Zhang, Shuimei, Yujie Gu, & Yimin D. Zhang. (2019). Robust Astronomical Imaging in the Presence of Radio Frequency Interference. Journal of Astronomical Instrumentation. 8(1). 8 indexed citations
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Zheng, Zhi, Wen-Qin Wang, Yangyang Kong, & Yimin D. Zhang. (2019). MISC Array: A New Sparse Array Design Achieving Increased Degrees of Freedom and Reduced Mutual Coupling Effect. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. 67(7). 1728–1741. 228 indexed citations breakdown →
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Zhang, Yimin D., et al.. (2018). Performance Analysis for Uniform Linear Arrays Exploiting Two Coprime Frequencies. IEEE Signal Processing Letters. 25(6). 838–842. 15 indexed citations
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Zhou, Chengwei, Yujie Gu, Xing Fan, et al.. (2018). Direction-of-Arrival Estimation for Coprime Array via Virtual Array Interpolation. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. 66(22). 5956–5971. 437 indexed citations breakdown →
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Frey, Jesse & Yimin D. Zhang. (2017). Testing perfect rankings in ranked‐set sampling with binary data. Canadian Journal of Statistics. 45(3). 326–339. 9 indexed citations
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Zhang, Jun, et al.. (2016). Ultra-wideband radar and vision based human motion classification for assisted living. 1–5. 5 indexed citations
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Amin, Moeness G. & Yimin D. Zhang. (2014). Nonstationary Jammer Excision for GPS Receivers using Sparse Reconstruction Techniques. 3469–3474. 9 indexed citations
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Zhang, Yimin D., et al.. (2003). Polarimetric time-frequency music in coherent signal environment. 1 indexed citations

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