2026 Cong Yao: 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	40	9024	8770	1159	1153	93	16805

Overview

Cong Yao is affiliated with Alibaba Group (China) and has contributed extensively to research in the fields of computer science and medicine. Their publications span various topics including computer vision, artificial intelligence, and mental health disciplines.

The main fields of study for Cong Yao consist of:

Computer Science
Medicine

Their research within computer science particularly focuses on subfields such as:

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence

In medicine, the subfields include:

Psychiatry and Mental Health
Biological Psychiatry
Epidemiology

Key research topics covered in their work include:

Handwritten Text Recognition Techniques
Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques
Schizophrenia Research and Treatment
Image Processing and 3D Reconstruction
Image Retrieval and Classification Techniques
Natural Language Processing Techniques
Tryptophan and Brain Disorders

Cong Yao has published frequently in venues such as:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Journal of Neural Transmission
Journal of Affective Disorders
Pattern Recognition
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Among Cong Yao's recent publications are the following:

Real-Time Scene Text Detection with Differentiable Binarization, 2020, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Scene Text Detection and Recognition: The Deep Learning Era, 2020, International Journal of Computer Vision
Real-Time Scene Text Detection With Differentiable Binarization and Adaptive Scale Fusion, 2022, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
TextScanner: Reading Characters in Order for Robust Scene Text Recognition, 2020, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
SynthText3D: synthesizing scene text images from 3D virtual worlds, 2020, Science China Information Sciences

Frequent collaborators with Cong Yao include:

Zhibo Yang
Xiang Bai
Zhaoyi Wan
Guoshuai Luo
Meijuan Li

Best Publications

An End-to-End Trainable Neural Network for Image-Based Sequence Recognition and Its Application to Scene Text Recognition

Baoguang Shi;Xiang Bai;Cong Yao

3109
Citations
EAST: An Efficient and Accurate Scene Text Detector

Xinyu Zhou;Cong Yao;He Wen;Yuzhi Wang

1872
Citations
Detecting texts of arbitrary orientations in natural images

Cong Yao;Xiang Bai;Wenyu Liu;Yi Ma

945
Citations
ASTER: An Attentional Scene Text Recognizer with Flexible Rectification

Baoguang Shi;Mingkun Yang;Xinggang Wang;Pengyuan Lyu

876
Citations
Real-Time Scene Text Detection with Differentiable Binarization

Minghui Liao;Zhaoyi Wan;Cong Yao;Kai Chen

805
Citations
Robust Scene Text Recognition with Automatic Rectification

Baoguang Shi;Xinggang Wang;Pengyuan Lyu;Cong Yao

729
Citations
Multi-oriented Text Detection with Fully Convolutional Networks

Zheng Zhang;Chengquan Zhang;Wei Shen;Cong Yao

628
Citations
TextSnake: A Flexible Representation for Detecting Text of Arbitrary Shapes

Shangbang Long;Jiaqiang Ruan;Wenjie Zhang;Xin He

619
Citations
Mask TextSpotter: An End-to-End Trainable Neural Network for Spotting Text with Arbitrary Shapes

Pengyuan Lyu;Minghui Liao;Cong Yao;Wenhao Wu

550
Citations
Mask TextSpotter: An End-to-End Trainable Neural Network for Spotting Text with Arbitrary Shapes

Minghui Liao;Pengyuan Lyu;Minghang He;Cong Yao

462
Citations
Scene text detection and recognition: recent advances and future trends

Yingying Zhu;Cong Yao;Xiang Bai

426
Citations
Real-Time Scene Text Detection With Differentiable Binarization and Adaptive Scale Fusion

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425
Citations
Scene Text Detection and Recognition: The Deep Learning Era

Shangbang Long;Xin He;Cong Yao

418
Citations
Multi-oriented Scene Text Detection via Corner Localization and Region Segmentation

Pengyuan Lyu;Cong Yao;Wenhao Wu;Shuicheng Yan

386
Citations
A unified framework for multioriented text detection and recognition.

Cong Yao;Xiang Bai;Wenyu Liu

382
Citations
Strokelets: A Learned Multi-scale Representation for Scene Text Recognition

Cong Yao;Xiang Bai;Baoguang Shi;Wenyu Liu

348
Citations
Symmetry-based text line detection in natural scenes

Zheng Zhang;Wei Shen;Cong Yao;Xiang Bai

328
Citations
Scene Text Recognition from Two-Dimensional Perspective

Minghui Liao;Jian Zhang;Zhaoyi Wan;Fengming Xie

271
Citations
Scene Text Detection via Holistic, Multi-Channel Prediction

Cong Yao;Xiang Bai;Nong Sang;Xinyu Zhou

257
Citations
ICDAR2017 Competition on Reading Chinese Text in the Wild (RCTW-17)

Baoguang Shi;Cong Yao;Minghui Liao;Mingkun Yang

249
Citations
Scene Text Detection with Supervised Pyramid Context Network

Enze Xie;Yuhang Zang;Shuai Shao;Gang Yu

221
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Xiang Bai Huazhong University of Science and Technology

Wenyu Liu Huazhong University of Science and Technology

Xinggang Wang Huazhong University of Science and Technology

Kaigui Bian Peking University

Song Bai ByteDance

Wei Shen Johns Hopkins University

Zhuowen Tu University of California, San Diego

Jiebo Luo University of Rochester

Bin Zhang Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Zhengmin Qian Saint Louis University

External Links

Personal website of Cong Yao Google Scholar page

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