2026 Heung-Yeung Shum: 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	117	167	162	98	95	456	57754

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Computer Science in United States Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Computer Science in United States Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Computer Science in United States Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Computer Science in United States Leader Award
2018 - Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK)
2017 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For contributions to computer vision and computer graphics, and for leadership in industrial research and product development.
2006 - ACM Fellow For contributions to computer vision and computer graphics.
2006 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to image-based modeling and rendering.

Overview

Heung-Yeung Shum is affiliated with Microsoft in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Computer Science, with a focus on several subfields including Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Artificial Intelligence, Control and Systems Engineering, Computational Mechanics, and Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design.

The scientist has contributed to a range of topics within their research, such as:

Generative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis
Advanced Vision and Imaging
Human Motion and Animation
Topic Modeling
3D Shape Modeling and Analysis
Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques
Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning

Recent publications associated with Heung-Yeung Shum include:

"DINO: DETR with Improved DeNoising Anchor Boxes for End-to-End Object Detection" (2022, arXiv (Cornell University))
"The Design and Implementation of XiaoIce, an Empathetic Social Chatbot" (2020, Computational Linguistics)
"Locally Attentional SDF Diffusion for Controllable 3D Shape Generation" (2023, ACM Transactions on Graphics)
"Think-on-Graph: Deep and Responsible Reasoning of Large Language Model on Knowledge Graph" (2023, arXiv (Cornell University))
"On the principles of Parsimony and Self-consistency for the emergence of intelligence" (2022, Frontiers of Information Technology & Electronic Engineering)

Heung-Yeung Shum frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

Lionel M. Ni
Hongfa Wang
Chengfei Cai
Qifeng Chen
Peng-Shuai Wang

The primary venues for Shum's research dissemination are:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Frontiers of Information Technology & Electronic Engineering
Computational Linguistics
ACM Transactions on Graphics
Computational Visual Media

Awards recognizing contributions include:

Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK), 2018
Member of the National Academy of Engineering, 2017, for contributions to computer vision and computer graphics, and for leadership in industrial research and product development
IEEE Fellow, 2006, for contributions to image-based modeling and rendering
ACM Fellow, 2006, for contributions to computer vision and computer graphics

Best Publications

Learning to Detect a Salient Object

Tie Liu;Zejian Yuan;Jian Sun;Jingdong Wang

3173
Citations
Learning to Detect A Salient Object

Tie Liu;Jian Sun;Nan-Ning Zheng;Xiaoou Tang

2955
Citations
Stereo matching using belief propagation

Jian Sun;Nan-Ning Zheng;Heung-Yeung Shum

1912
Citations
Lazy snapping

Yin Li;Jian Sun;Chi-Keung Tang;Heung-Yeung Shum

1702
Citations
Creating full view panoramic image mosaics and environment maps

Richard Szeliski;Heung-Yeung Shum

1439
Citations
Image super-resolution using gradient profile prior

Jian Sun;Zongben Xu;Heung-Yeung Shum

1217
Citations
DINO: DETR with Improved DeNoising Anchor Boxes for End-to-End Object Detection

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1171
Citations
Real-time texture synthesis by patch-based sampling

Lin Liang;Ce Liu;Ying-Qing Xu;Baining Guo

1152
Citations
Plenoptic sampling

Jin-Xiang Chai;Xin Tong;Shing-Chow Chan;Heung-Yeung Shum

1041
Citations
Image deblurring with blurred/noisy image pairs

Lu Yuan;Jian Sun;Long Quan;Heung-Yeung Shum

907
Citations
Poisson matting

Jian Sun;Jiaya Jia;Chi-Keung Tang;Heung-Yeung Shum

893
Citations
Image completion with structure propagation

Jian Sun;Lu Yuan;Jiaya Jia;Heung-Yeung Shum

843
Citations
Mesh editing with poisson-based gradient field manipulation

Yizhou Yu;Kun Zhou;Dong Xu;Xiaohan Shi

825
Citations
Rendering with concentric mosaics

Heung-Yeung Shum;Li-Wei He

812
Citations
Systems and Experiment Paper: Construction of Panoramic Image Mosaics with Global and Local Alignment

Heung-Yeung Shum;Richard Szeliski

809
Citations
Full-frame video stabilization with motion inpainting

Y. Matsushita;E. Ofek;Weina Ge;Xiaoou Tang

729
Citations
From Eliza to XiaoIce: challenges and opportunities with social chatbots

Heung-yeung Shum;Xiao-dong He;Di Li

706
Citations
The Design and Implementation of XiaoIce, an Empathetic Social Chatbot

Li Zhou;Jianfeng Gao;Di Li;Heung-Yeung Shum

657
Citations
Statistical Learning of Multi-view Face Detection

Stan Z. Li;Long Zhu;ZhenQiu Zhang;Andrew Blake

629
Citations
Review of image-based rendering techniques

Harry Shum;Sing Bing Kang

627
Citations
Motion texture: a two-level statistical model for character motion synthesis

Yan Li;Tianshu Wang;Heung-Yeung Shum

613
Citations
Fundamental limits of reconstruction-based superresolution algorithms under local translation

Zhouchen Lin;Heung-Yeung Shum

612
Citations
Symmetric stereo matching for occlusion handling

Jian Sun;Yin Li;S.B. Kang;Heung-Yeung Shum

610
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Baining Guo Microsoft (United States)

Jian Sun Megvii

Ying-Qing Xu Tsinghua University

Stephen Lin Microsoft Research Asia (China)

Xin Tong Microsoft Research Asia (China)

Sing Bing Kang Zillow Group (United States)

Kun Zhou Zhejiang University

Richard Szeliski University of Washington

Xiaoou Tang Chinese University of Hong Kong

Yin Li Chinese Academy of Sciences

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