2026 Cheng Wang: 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	60	3238	3144	434	431	483	14473

Overview

Cheng Wang is a researcher affiliated with Xiamen University in China, with a focus primarily on Environmental Science. Their work spans several subfields including Environmental Engineering, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Geology, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

The scientist's research topics encompass a range of areas within remote sensing and environmental monitoring. These include:

Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
Remote Sensing in Agriculture
3D Surveying and Cultural Heritage
Forest Ecology and Management
Forest Management and Policy
Advanced Optical Sensing Technologies
Cryospheric Studies and Observations

Wang has published extensively in journals notable for remote sensing and earth observation studies. Common publication venues include:

Remote Sensing
Remote Sensing of Environment
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation
IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Some of their recent published papers are:

A Noise Removal Algorithm Based on OPTICS for Photon-Counting LiDAR Data (2020) in IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters
Retrieving building height in urban areas using ICESat-2 photon-counting LiDAR data (2021) in International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation
A Comparative Study of Water Indices and Image Classification Algorithms for Mapping Inland Surface Water Bodies Using Landsat Imagery (2020) in Remote Sensing
Mapping forest height using photon-counting LiDAR data and Landsat 8 OLI data: A case study in Virginia and North Carolina, USA (2020) in Ecological Indicators
Comprehensive LiDAR simulation with efficient physically-based DART-Lux model (I): Theory, novelty, and consistency validation (2022) in Remote Sensing of Environment

Wang has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

Xiaohuan Xi
Sheng Nie
Xiaoxiao Zhu
Xuebo Yang
Jinliang Wang

Best Publications

GMAN: A Graph Multi-Attention Network for Traffic Prediction

Chuanpan Zheng;Xiaoliang Fan;Cheng Wang;Jianzhong Qi

1511
Citations
FAIR1M: A Benchmark Dataset for Fine-grained Object Recognition in High-Resolution Remote Sensing Imagery

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630
Citations
deep learning on 3D point clouds

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523
Citations
Using mobile laser scanning data for automated extraction of road markings

Haiyan Guan;Jonathan Li;Jonathan Li;Yongtao Yu;Cheng Wang

293
Citations
Environmental Epidemiology, Volume 1: Public Health and Hazardous Wastes

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291
Citations
QT interval variability in body surface ECG: measurement, physiological basis, and clinical value: position statement and consensus guidance endorsed by the European Heart�…

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265
Citations
A novel extended local-binary-pattern operator for texture analysis

Hui Zhou;Runsheng Wang;Cheng Wang

243
Citations
Voltammetric studies of the oxygen-titanium binary system in molten calcium chloride

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223
Citations
LO-Net: Deep Real-Time Lidar Odometry

Qing Li;Shaoyang Chen;Cheng Wang;Xin Li

223
Citations
Mobile Laser Scanned Point-Clouds for Road Object Detection and Extraction: A Review

Lingfei Ma;Ying Li;Jonathan Li;Cheng Wang

214
Citations
Road extraction in remote sensing data: A survey

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213
Citations
Semiautomated Extraction of Street Light Poles From Mobile LiDAR Point-Clouds

Yongtao Yu;Jonathan Li;Haiyan Guan;Cheng Wang

204
Citations
Automated Road Information Extraction From Mobile Laser Scanning Data

Haiyan Guan;Jonathan Li;Yongtao Yu;Michael Chapman

177
Citations
Learning Hierarchical Features for Automated Extraction of Road Markings From 3-D Mobile LiDAR Point Clouds

Yongtao Yu;Jonathan Li;Haiyan Guan;Fukai Jia

177
Citations
Toward better boundary preserved supervoxel segmentation for 3D point clouds

Yangbin Lin;Cheng Wang;Dawei Zhai;Wei Li

165
Citations
NormalNet: A voxel-based CNN for 3D object classification and retrieval

Cheng Wang;Ming Cheng;Ferdous Sohel;Mohammed Bennamoun

153
Citations
PBNet: Part-based convolutional neural network for complex composite object detection in remote sensing imagery

Xian Sun;Peijin Wang;Cheng Wang;Yingfei Liu

153
Citations
A deep learning framework for road marking extraction, classification and completion from mobile laser scanning point clouds

Chenglu Wen;Xiaotian Sun;Jonathan Li;Jonathan Li;Cheng Wang

150
Citations
3D Multi-Object Tracking in Point Clouds Based on Prediction Confidence-Guided Data Association

Hai Wu;Wenkai Han;Chenglu Wen;Xin Li

145
Citations
Line segment extraction for large scale unorganized point clouds

Yangbin Lin;Cheng Wang;Jun Cheng;Bili Chen

140
Citations
CasA: A Cascade Attention Network for 3-D Object Detection From LiDAR Point Clouds

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131
Citations
Vehicle Detection in High-Resolution Aerial Images via Sparse Representation and Superpixels

Ziyi Chen;Cheng Wang;Chenglu Wen;Xiuhua Teng

125
Citations
LiDAR-Video Driving Dataset: Learning Driving Policies Effectively

Yiping Chen;Jingkang Wang;Jonathan Li;Cewu Lu

122
Citations
Review of research progress on the electrical properties and modification of mineral insulating oils used in power transformers

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117
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Jonathan Li University of Waterloo

Yongtao Yu Huaiyin Institute of Technology

See Leang Chin Université Laval

xin li Louisiana State University

Ying Wu Northwestern University

Yulan Guo Sun Yat-sen University

Naser El-Sheimy University of Calgary

Guangxiao Yang Huazhong University of Science and Technology

Guangyuan He Huazhong University of Science and Technology

Jiaqi Liu Chinese Academy of Sciences

External Links

Personal website of Cheng Wang Google Scholar page

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