2026 Chong-Wah Ngo: 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	64	2618	2538	46	46	347	15211

Overview

Chong-Wah Ngo is affiliated with Singapore Management University in Singapore. Their research is primarily situated within the field of Computer Science, with a particular focus on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. This subfield comprises the majority of their work, alongside significant contributions to Artificial Intelligence, Biomedical Engineering, Molecular Biology, and Nutrition and Dietetics.

The scientist's research topics span several specialized areas, including:

Multimodal Machine Learning Applications
Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques
Human Pose and Action Recognition
Advanced Vision and Imaging
Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning
Image Retrieval and Classification Techniques
Advanced Neural Network Applications

Chong-Wah Ngo has published extensively, contributing prominently to multiple publication venues. The most frequent venues include:

arXiv (Cornell University) with 44 publications
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia with 9 publications
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence with 3 publications
ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications with 3 publications
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing with 2 publications

Some of their recent papers are:

"A Study of Multi-Task and Region-Wise Deep Learning for Food Ingredient Recognition" (2020), published in IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
"Zero-Shot Ingredient Recognition by Multi-Relational Graph Convolutional Network" (2020), published in Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
"Group Contextualization for Video Recognition" (2022), published in 2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
"Approximate k-NN Graph Construction: A Generic Online Approach" (2021), published in IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
"SibNet: Food instance counting and segmentation" (2021), published in Pattern Recognition

The scientist has collaborated frequently with a number of co-authors, including:

Ting Yao
Tao Mei
Jiaxin Wu
Jingjing Chen
W. K. Chan

Best Publications

Evaluating bag-of-visual-words representations in scene classification

Jun Yang;Yu-Gang Jiang;Alexander G. Hauptmann;Chong-Wah Ngo

1198
Citations
Towards optimal bag-of-features for object categorization and semantic video retrieval

Yu-Gang Jiang;Chong-Wah Ngo;Jun Yang

884
Citations
Practical elimination of near-duplicates from web video search

Xiao Wu;Alexander G. Hauptmann;Chong-Wah Ngo

465
Citations
Video summarization and scene detection by graph modeling

Chong-Wah Ngo;Yu-Fei Ma;Hong-Jiang Zhang

438
Citations
Deep-based Ingredient Recognition for Cooking Recipe Retrieval

Jingjing Chen;Chong-wah Ngo

412
Citations
Transferrable Prototypical Networks for Unsupervised Domain Adaptation

Yingwei Pan;Ting Yao;Yehao Li;Yu Wang

409
Citations
Exploring Object Relation in Mean Teacher for Cross-Domain Detection

Qi Cai;Yingwei Pan;Chong-Wah Ngo;Xinmei Tian

353
Citations
Representations of Keypoint-Based Semantic Concept Detection: A Comprehensive Study

Yu-Gang Jiang;Jun Yang;Chong-Wah Ngo;A.G. Hauptmann

332
Citations
Proceedings of the 27th ACM International Conference on Multimedia

Laurent Amsaleg;Benoit Huet;Martha Larson;Martha Larson;Guillaume Gravier

308
Citations
Trajectory-Based modeling of human actions with motion reference points

Yu-Gang Jiang;Qi Dai;Xiangyang Xue;Wei Liu

294
Citations
Semi-supervised Domain Adaptation with Subspace Learning for visual recognition

Ting Yao;Yingwei Pan;Chong-Wah Ngo;Houqiang Li

248
Citations
Real-Time Near-Duplicate Elimination for Web Video Search With Content and Context

Xiao Wu;Chong-Wah Ngo;A.G. Hauptmann;Hung-Khoon Tan

217
Citations
Near-Duplicate Keyframe Identification With Interest Point Matching and Pattern Learning

Wan-Lei Zhao;Chong-Wah Ngo;Hung-Khoon Tan;Xiao Wu

217
Citations
Learning Spatio-Temporal Representation With Local and Global Diffusion

Zhaofan Qiu;Ting Yao;Chong-Wah Ngo;Xinmei Tian

203
Citations
Motion analysis and segmentation through spatio-temporal slices processing

Chong-Wah Ngo;Ting-Chuen Pong;Hong-Jiang Zhang

196
Citations
Automatic video summarization by graph modeling

Chong-Wah Ngo;Yu-Fei Ma;Hong-Jiang Zhang

194
Citations
Near-duplicate video retrieval: Current research and future trends

Jiajun Liu;Zi Huang;Hongyun Cai;Heng Tao Shen

177
Citations
On the Annotation of Web Videos by Efficient Near-Duplicate Search

Wan-Lei Zhao;Xiao Wu;Chong-Wah Ngo

176
Citations
On clustering and retrieval of video shots through temporal slices analysis

Chong-Wah Ngo;Ting-Chuen Pong;Hong-Jiang Zhang

173
Citations
Flip-Invariant SIFT for Copy and Object Detection

Wan-Lei Zhao;Chong-Wah Ngo

171
Citations
Scale-Rotation Invariant Pattern Entropy for Keypoint-Based Near-Duplicate Detection

Wan-Lei Zhao;Chong-Wah Ngo

166
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Yu-Gang Jiang Fudan University

Ting Yao University of Science and Technology of China

Tao Mei Jingdong (China)

Tat-Seng Chua National University of Singapore

Yingwei Pan University of Science and Technology of China

Alexander G. Hauptmann Carnegie Mellon University

Wessel Kraaij Leiden University

Hong-Jiang Zhang ByteDance

Shuicheng Yan National University of Singapore

Changsheng Xu Chinese Academy of Sciences

External Links

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