Ziang Cao

1.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
12 papers, 824 citations indexed

About

Ziang Cao is a scholar working on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Aerospace Engineering and Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality. According to data from OpenAlex, Ziang Cao has authored 12 papers receiving a total of 824 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 4 papers in Aerospace Engineering and 3 papers in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality. Recurrent topics in Ziang Cao's work include Video Surveillance and Tracking Methods (10 papers), Human Pose and Action Recognition (5 papers) and Advanced Vision and Imaging (5 papers). Ziang Cao is often cited by papers focused on Video Surveillance and Tracking Methods (10 papers), Human Pose and Action Recognition (5 papers) and Advanced Vision and Imaging (5 papers). Ziang Cao collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Singapore. Ziang Cao's co-authors include Changhong Fu, Junjie Ye, Yiming Li, Bowen Li, Liang Pan, Ziwei Liu, Shiwei Zhang, Ziyuan Huang, Chen Feng and Guangze Zheng and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing and Artificial Intelligence Review.

In The Last Decade

Ziang Cao

12 papers receiving 793 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.

HiFT: Hierarchical Feature Transformer for Aerial Tracking

2021 214 citations Ziang Cao, Changhong Fu et al. 2021 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) profile →
TCTrack: Temporal Contexts for Aerial Tracking

2022 157 citations Ziang Cao, Ziyuan Huang et al. 2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ziang Cao China	11	747	449	150	106	70	12	824
Fangqiang Ding China	11	567 0.8×	376 0.8×	188 1.3×	85 0.8×	97 1.4×	20	679
Ge Deng United States	3	1.0k 1.4×	277 0.6×	244 1.6×	111 1.0×	82 1.2×	4	1.1k
Fuling Lin China	14	734 1.0×	457 1.0×	262 1.7×	67 0.6×	85 1.2×	17	796
Yinda Xu China	4	596 0.8×	190 0.4×	148 1.0×	75 0.7×	58 0.8×	6	672
Ashton Fagg Australia	2	1.1k 1.5×	411 0.9×	315 2.1×	59 0.6×	123 1.8×	2	1.2k
Abel González-García Spain	5	478 0.6×	95 0.2×	72 0.5×	139 1.3×	30 0.4×	8	552
Zhiqiang Hou China	12	360 0.5×	123 0.3×	55 0.4×	57 0.5×	71 1.0×	87	476

Countries citing papers authored by Ziang Cao

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ziang Cao

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Ziang Cao. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Ziang Cao. The network helps show where Ziang Cao may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ziang Cao

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

All Works

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12 of 12 papers shown

Cao, Ziang, Fangzhou Hong, Tong Wu, Liang Pan, & Ziwei Liu. (2025). DiffTF++: 3D-Aware Diffusion Transformer for Large-Vocabulary 3D Generation. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. 47(4). 3018–3030. 2 indexed citations

Fu, Changhong, Guangze Zheng, Junjie Ye, et al.. (2023). Siamese object tracking for unmanned aerial vehicle: a review and comprehensive analysis. Artificial Intelligence Review. 56(S1). 1417–1477. 60 indexed citations

Cao, Ziang, Ziyuan Huang, Liang Pan, et al.. (2023). Towards Real-World Visual Tracking With Temporal Contexts. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. 45(12). 15834–15849. 54 indexed citations

Ye, Junjie, Changhong Fu, Ziang Cao, et al.. (2022). Tracker Meets Night: A Transformer Enhancer for UAV Tracking. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 7(2). 3866–3873. 52 indexed citations

Li, Yiming, et al.. (2022). Egocentric Prediction of Action Target in 3D. 2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). 20971–20980. 12 indexed citations

Fu, Changhong, et al.. (2022). Ad²Attack: Adaptive Adversarial Attack on Real-Time UAV Tracking. 2022 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). 5893–5899. 16 indexed citations

Cao, Ziang, Ziyuan Huang, Liang Pan, et al.. (2022). TCTrack: Temporal Contexts for Aerial Tracking. 2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). 14778–14788. 157 indexed citations breakdown →

Fu, Changhong, et al.. (2022). Local Perception-Aware Transformer for Aerial Tracking. 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). 12122–12129. 11 indexed citations

Fu, Changhong, Ziang Cao, Yiming Li, Junjie Ye, & Chen Feng. (2021). Onboard Real-Time Aerial Tracking With Efficient Siamese Anchor Proposal Network. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 60. 1–13. 74 indexed citations

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Cao, Ziang, Changhong Fu, Junjie Ye, Bowen Li, & Yiming Li. (2021). SiamAPN++: Siamese Attentional Aggregation Network for Real-Time UAV Tracking. 2021 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). 3086–3092. 109 indexed citations

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Cao, Ziang, Changhong Fu, Junjie Ye, Bowen Li, & Yiming Li. (2021). HiFT: Hierarchical Feature Transformer for Aerial Tracking. 2021 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV). 15437–15446. 214 indexed citations breakdown →

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Fu, Changhong, Ziang Cao, Yiming Li, Junjie Ye, & Chen Feng. (2021). Siamese Anchor Proposal Network for High-Speed Aerial Tracking. 510–516. 63 indexed citations

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