Yiying Tong

6.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
107 papers, 3.9k citations indexed

About

Yiying Tong is a scholar working on Computational Mechanics, Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. According to data from OpenAlex, Yiying Tong has authored 107 papers receiving a total of 3.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 68 papers in Computational Mechanics, 59 papers in Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design and 26 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Recurrent topics in Yiying Tong's work include 3D Shape Modeling and Analysis (53 papers), Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques (49 papers) and Computational Geometry and Mesh Generation (28 papers). Yiying Tong is often cited by papers focused on 3D Shape Modeling and Analysis (53 papers), Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques (49 papers) and Computational Geometry and Mesh Generation (28 papers). Yiying Tong collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and France. Yiying Tong's co-authors include Mathieu Desbrun, Kun Zhou, Yanlin Weng, Hujun Bao, Eva Kanso, Unsang Park, Anil K. Jain, Patrick Mullen, Santiago Lombeyda and Jin Huang and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, The Journal of Cell Biology and Bioinformatics.

In The Last Decade

Yiying Tong

102 papers receiving 3.8k 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.

FaceWarehouse: A 3D Facial Expression Database for Visual Computing

2013 648 citations Yanlin Weng, Yiying Tong et al. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yiying Tong United States	33	2.0k	1.8k	1.5k	335	323	107	3.9k
Jean‐Daniel Boissonnat France	32	1.4k 0.7×	1.5k 0.9×	2.0k 1.3×	290 0.9×	484 1.5×	120	3.9k
Bruno Lévy France	34	4.5k 2.2×	2.0k 1.1×	4.2k 2.7×	92 0.3×	186 0.6×	98	6.5k
Aaron Lefohn United States	30	884 0.4×	2.0k 1.1×	1.5k 1.0×	269 0.8×	169 0.5×	65	4.1k
Michela Spagnuolo Italy	30	2.0k 1.0×	1.8k 1.0×	1.2k 0.8×	86 0.3×	306 0.9×	147	3.4k
Craig Gotsman Israel	39	3.2k 1.6×	2.5k 1.4×	3.0k 2.0×	283 0.8×	159 0.5×	155	5.2k
Marcelo Bertalmı́o Spain	28	1.1k 0.5×	6.2k 3.5×	1.5k 0.9×	302 0.9×	158 0.5×	133	7.3k
Scott Schaefer United States	31	2.8k 1.4×	1.5k 0.8×	2.4k 1.5×	49 0.1×	97 0.3×	82	4.1k
Martin Rumpf Germany	32	1.5k 0.7×	956 0.5×	875 0.6×	45 0.1×	383 1.2×	131	2.8k
Tien‐Tsin Wong Hong Kong	38	818 0.4×	3.4k 1.9×	1.3k 0.9×	187 0.6×	102 0.3×	193	4.6k
Denis Zorin United States	47	5.0k 2.5×	1.5k 0.8×	4.0k 2.6×	47 0.1×	271 0.8×	161	7.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Yiying Tong

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yiying Tong

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Yiying Tong. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Yiying Tong 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 Yiying Tong. Yiying Tong 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

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Tong, Yiying, et al.. (2025). Discrete Torsion of Connection Forms on Simplicial Meshes. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 44(4). 1–10.

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Tong, Yiying, et al.. (2025). Computing skeleton-based handle/tunnel loops. Computers & Graphics. 127. 104177–104177.

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Tong, Yiying, et al.. (2024). Angle-Based Representation of Triangulated Surfaces. 36.2. 68–75.

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Su, Zhe, et al.. (2024). Persistent de Rham-Hodge Laplacians in Eulerian representation for manifold topological learning. AIMS Mathematics. 9(10). 27438–27470. 5 indexed citations

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Su, Zhe, Yiying Tong, & Guo‐Wei Wei. (2024). Hodge decomposition of vector fields in Cartesian grids. PubMed. 2024. 1–10.

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Wang, Rui, et al.. (2024). Combinatorial and Hodge Laplacians: Similarities and Differences. SIAM Review. 66(3). 575–601. 3 indexed citations

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Li, Pai, et al.. (2022). ILEE: Algorithms and toolbox for unguided and accurate quantitative analysis of cytoskeletal images. The Journal of Cell Biology. 222(2). 7 indexed citations

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Wang, Rui, et al.. (2021). HERMES: Persistent spectral graph software. PubMed. 3(1). 67–97. 22 indexed citations

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Chen, Jiahui, et al.. (2020). Evolutionary de Rham-Hodge method. Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - B. 26(7). 3785–3821. 41 indexed citations

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Wang, Menglun, et al.. (2020). The de Rham–Hodge Analysis and Modeling of Biomolecules. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology. 82(8). 108–108. 13 indexed citations

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Huang, Jin, et al.. (2015). Frame field generation through metric customization. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 34(4). 1–11. 31 indexed citations

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Tong, Yiying, et al.. (2013). Choking Loops on Surfaces. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. 19(8). 1298–1306. 6 indexed citations

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Xia, Kelin, et al.. (2013). Multiscale geometric modeling of macromolecules I: Cartesian representation. Journal of Computational Physics. 257(Pt A). 912–936. 31 indexed citations

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Weng, Yanlin, et al.. (2013). FaceWarehouse: A 3D Facial Expression Database for Visual Computing. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. 20(3). 413–425. 648 indexed citations breakdown →

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Pan, Zherong, Jin Huang, Yiying Tong, Changxi Zheng, & Hujun Bao. (2013). Interactive localized liquid motion editing. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 32(6). 1–10. 38 indexed citations

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Zhang, Yizhong, Huamin Wang, Shuai Wang, Yiying Tong, & Kun Zhou. (2011). A Deformable Surface Model for Real-Time Water Drop Animation. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. 18(8). 1281–1289. 38 indexed citations

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Huang, Jin, Yiying Tong, Hongyu Wei, & Hujun Bao. (2011). Boundary aligned smooth 3D cross-frame field. 1–8. 50 indexed citations

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Stern, Ari, Yiying Tong, Mathieu Desbrun, & Jerrold E. Marsden. (2007). Computational Electromagnetism with Variational Integrators and Discrete Differential Forms. arXiv (Cornell University). 4 indexed citations

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Tong, Yiying, Santiago Lombeyda, Anil N. Hirani, & Mathieu Desbrun. (2003). Discrete multiscale vector field decomposition. 445–452. 151 indexed citations

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Jasiuk, Iwona & Yiying Tong. (1989). Effect of interface on the elastic stiffness of composites. 100. 49–54. 33 indexed citations

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