2026 Ali Borji: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	58	3533	3433	31	31	181	24382

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Computer Science

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Overview

Ali Borji is affiliated with Quintic AI in India and has contributed extensively to the field of computer science, particularly in areas related to computer vision, artificial intelligence, and cognitive neuroscience. Their research portfolio comprises over 100 publications, with significant work in both main and subfields of computer science.

Their primary fields of study include:

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Cognitive Neuroscience
Sensory Systems
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

Ali Borji's research focuses on a range of scientific topics, including:

Visual Attention and Saliency Detection
Advanced Neural Network Applications
Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning
Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques
Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning
Image and Video Quality Assessment
Anomaly Detection Techniques and Applications

They have published in several academic venues, with a strong presence in:

arXiv (Cornell University)
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
SSRN Electronic Journal
Research Square (Research Square)
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Notable recent publications by Ali Borji include:

"A Categorical Archive of ChatGPT Failures," 2023, Research Square (Research Square)
"Generated Faces in the Wild: Quantitative Comparison of Stable Diffusion, Midjourney and DALL-E 2," 2022, arXiv (Cornell University)
"A Highly Efficient Model to Study the Semantics of Salient Object Detection," 2021, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
"A Categorical Archive of ChatGPT Failures," 2023, arXiv (Cornell University)
"A Multistage Refinement Network for Salient Object Detection," 2020, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Throughout their career, Ali Borji has collaborated with multiple co-authors, frequently working with:

Hamed R. Tavakoli
Mai Xu
Guangtao Zhai
Patrick Le Callet
Minglang Qiao

Best Publications

State-of-the-Art in Visual Attention Modeling

A. Borji;L. Itti

2292
Citations
Salient Object Detection: A Benchmark

Ali Borji;Ming-Ming Cheng;Huaizu Jiang;Jia Li

2137
Citations
Structure-Measure: A New Way to Evaluate Foreground Maps

Deng-Ping Fan;Ming-Ming Cheng;Yun Liu;Tao Li

1760
Citations
Enhanced-alignment Measure for Binary Foreground Map Evaluation

Deng-Ping Fan;Cheng Gong;Yang Cao;Bo Ren

1456
Citations
Deeply Supervised Salient Object Detection with Short Connections

Qibin Hou;Ming-Ming Cheng;Xiaowei Hu;Ali Borji

1455
Citations
Deeply Supervised Salient Object Detection with Short Connections

Qibin Hou;Ming-Ming Cheng;Xiaowei Hu;Ali Borji

1299
Citations
Salient Object Detection: A Survey

Ali Borji;Ming Ming Cheng;Qibin Hou;Huaizu Jiang

1203
Citations
Pros and Cons of GAN Evaluation Measures

Ali Borji

909
Citations
Quantitative Analysis of Human-Model Agreement in Visual Saliency Modeling: A Comparative Study

Ali Borji;D. N. Sihite;L. Itti

777
Citations
Salient object detection: a benchmark

Ali Borji;Dicky N. Sihite;Laurent Itti

586
Citations
Salient Object Detection With Pyramid Attention and Salient Edges

Wenguan Wang;Shuyang Zhao;Jianbing Shen;Steven C. H. Hoi

519
Citations
Detect Globally, Refine Locally: A Novel Approach to Saliency Detection

Tiantian Wang;Lihe Zhang;Shuo Wang;Huchuan Lu

465
Citations
A Stagewise Refinement Model for Detecting Salient Objects in Images

Tiantian Wang;Ali Borji;Lihe Zhang;Pingping Zhang

464
Citations
Exploiting local and global patch rarities for saliency detection

Ali Borji;Laurent Itti

445
Citations
Salient Objects in Clutter: Bringing Salient Object Detection to the Foreground

Deng-Ping Fan;Ming-Ming Cheng;Jiang-Jiang Liu;Shang-Hua Gao

351
Citations
Boosting bottom-up and top-down visual features for saliency estimation

Ali Borji

331
Citations
BBS-Net: RGB-D Salient Object Detection with a Bifurcated Backbone Strategy Network

Deng-Ping Fan;Yingjie Zhai;Ali Borji;Jufeng Yang

307
Citations
Revisiting Video Saliency Prediction in the Deep Learning Era

Wenguan Wang;Jianbing Shen;Jianwen Xie;Ming-Ming Cheng

294
Citations
CAT2000: A Large Scale Fixation Dataset for Boosting Saliency Research

Ali Borji;Laurent Itti

293
Citations
Defending Yarbus: eye movements reveal observers' task.

Ali Borji;Laurent Itti

290
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Laurent Itti University of Southern California

Ming-Ming Cheng Nankai University

Huchuan Lu Dalian University of Technology

Guangtao Zhai Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Babak Nadjar Araabi University of Tehran

Deng-Ping Fan Nankai University

Qibin Hou Nankai University

Jorma Laaksonen Aalto University

Esa Rahtu Tampere University

Wenguan Wang Zhejiang University

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