2026 Huifang Sun: 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	57	3906	3795	1849	1782	212	10178

Research.com Recognitions

2001 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to digital video technologies including coding optimization, down-conversion, and error resilience.

Overview

Huifang Sun is affiliated with Mitsubishi Electric (United States) and conducts research primarily in the fields of Environmental Science and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology.

Their work spans multiple subfields including Aquatic Science, Water Science and Technology, Biotechnology, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, and Biomedical Engineering. Key research topics involve Seaweed-derived Bioactive Compounds, Marine Sponges and Natural Products, Echinoderm biology and ecology, Proteoglycans and glycosaminoglycans research, Membrane Separation Technologies, Advanced oxidation water treatment, and Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal.

Sun has published extensively in several frequent venues such as Carbohydrate Polymers, Marine Drugs, Water Research, Chinese Chemical Letters, and Chemical Engineering Journal.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Huifang Sun include Jinhua Zhao, Ronghua Yin, Na Gao, Lutan Zhou, and Lisha Lin.

The following recent papers outline some of Sun's research contributions:

Insights into the enhanced flux of graphene oxide composite membrane in direct contact membrane distillation: The different role at evaporation and condensation interfaces, 2022, Water Research
Exploring Rich Subjective Quality Information for Image Quality Assessment in the Wild, 2025, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
Effects of Native Fucosylated Glycosaminoglycan, Its Depolymerized Derivatives on Intrinsic Factor Xase, Coagulation, Thrombosis, and Hemorrhagic Risk, 2020, Thrombosis and Haemostasis
A regular fucan sulfate from Stichopus herrmanni and its peroxide depolymerization: Structure and anticoagulant activity, 2020, Carbohydrate Polymers
Layer-by-layer stacked graphene nanocoatings by Marangoni self-assembly for corrosion protection of stainless steel, 2020, Chinese Chemical Letters

Huifang Sun was awarded the IEEE Fellow distinction in 2001 for contributions to digital video technologies including coding optimization, down-conversion, and error resilience.

Best Publications

Video transcoding architectures and techniques: an overview

A. Vetro;C. Christopoulos;Huifang Sun

1028
Citations
Algorithms and system for segmentation and structure analysis in soccer video

Peng Xu;Lexing Xie;Shih-Fu Chang;A. Divakaran

353
Citations
MPEG-4 rate control for multiple video objects

A. Vetro;Huifang Sun;Yao Wang

352
Citations
Structure analysis of soccer video with hidden Markov models

Lexing Xie;Shih-Fu Chang;Ajay Divakaran;Huifang Sun

326
Citations
Structure analysis of soccer video with domain knowledge and hidden Markov models

Lexing Xie;Peng Xu;Shih-Fu Chang;Ajay Divakaran

287
Citations
Network monitoring and controlling system

Dagerlaca P;Vitrol A;Duracarlan A

216
Citations
METHOD FOR DECODING MULTI-VIEW VIDEO

Martinian Emin;Anthony Vetro;Xin Jun;Yea Sehoon

210
Citations
Optimizing Multistage Discriminative Dictionaries for Blind Image Quality Assessment

Qiuping Jiang;Feng Shao;Weisi Lin;Ke Gu

189
Citations
Method and apparatus for transcoding of compressed image

Anthony Vetro;Ajay Divakaran;Huifang Sun

180
Citations
Survey of compressed-domain features used in audio-visual indexing and analysis

Hualu Wang;Ajay Divakaran;Anthony Vetro;Shih-Fu Chang

170
Citations
Image Interpolation Via Regularized Local Linear Regression

Xianming Liu;Debin Zhao;Ruiqin Xiong;Siwei Ma

163
Citations
Method and system of managing multiview video

Vetro Anthony;Alexander Behrens;Emin Martinian;Huifang Sun

160
Citations
Error concealment in digital simulcast AD-HDTV decoder

H. Sun;K. Challapali;J. Zdepski

147
Citations
Transcoding method of compressed video

Vetro A;Divakaran A;Sun H

137
Citations
Drift compensation for reduced spatial resolution transcoding

Peng Yin;A. Vetro;Bede Liu;Huifang Sun

135
Citations
Extensions of H.264/AVC for Multiview Video Compression

E. Martinian;A. Behrens;J. Xin;A. Vetro

133
Citations
Image Sequence Coding Using Vector Quantization

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131
Citations
Constant quality constrained rate allocation for FGS-coded video

Xi Min Zhang;A. Vetro;Y.Q. Shi;Huifang Sun

128
Citations
Object-based transcoding for adaptable video content delivery

A. Vetro;Huifang Sun;Yao Wang

120
Citations
METHOD FOR EXTRACTING CHARACTERISTICS OF VIDEO SEQUENCE

Divakaran Ajay;Sun Huifang;Ito Hiroshi

111
Citations
Method and apparatus for distributing compressed bit stream to user device over network

Anthony Vetro;Ajay Divakaran;Huifang Sun

109
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Anthony Vetro Mitsubishi Electric (United States)

Ajay Divakaran SRI International

Shih-Fu Chang Columbia University

Lexing Xie Australian National University

Bede Liu Princeton University

Wen Gao Peking University

Fatih Porikli Australian National University

Ching-Yung Lin National Chi Nan University

Debin Zhao Harbin Institute of Technology

Yen-Kuang Chen Alibaba Group (China)

External Links

Personal website of Huifang Sun

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