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Jian Sun

Jian Sun

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Computer Science
China
2025

D-Index & Metrics

Computer Science

D-Index
132
Citations
462461
World Ranking
94
National Ranking
10

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in China Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Computer Science in China Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in China Leader Award

Overview

Jian Sun was affiliated with Megvii in China and contributed extensively to the fields of computer science and engineering, with a particular focus on computer vision and related subfields. Their research spanned over 65 publications in computer science and 17 in engineering disciplines.

Their main subfields of study included:

  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Ocean Engineering
  • Civil and Structural Engineering
  • Control and Systems Engineering

Jian Sun contributed to various topics in advanced neural networks and video analysis, including:

  • Advanced Neural Network Applications
  • Video Surveillance and Tracking Methods
  • Human Pose and Action Recognition
  • Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques
  • Anomaly Detection Techniques and Applications
  • Image Enhancement Techniques
  • Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning

Some of their recent papers included the following:

  • "DetNAS: Backbone Search for Object Detection," published in 2024 in TIB Data Manager
  • "Progressive End-to-End Object Detection in Crowded Scenes," published in 2022 at the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
  • "High-Order Information Matters: Learning Relation and Topology for Occluded Person Re-Identification," published in 2020 on arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "Learning Delicate Local Representations for Multi-Person Pose Estimation," published in 2020 on arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "PointINS: Point-Based Instance Segmentation," published in 2021 in IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Jian Sun frequently collaborated with several co-authors, including:

  • Xiangyu Zhang
  • Zhicheng Wang
  • Erjin Zhou
  • Chi-Man Vong
  • Yuanhao Cai

The most common venues for Jian Sun's publications were:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • 2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
  • Optics Express
  • Complex & Intelligent Systems
  • IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Best Publications

  • Deep Residual Learning for Image Recognition

    Kaiming He;Xiangyu Zhang;Shaoqing Ren;Jian Sun

  • Faster R-CNN: Towards Real-Time Object Detection with Region Proposal Networks

    Shaoqing Ren;Kaiming He;Ross Girshick;Jian Sun

  • Delving Deep into Rectifiers: Surpassing Human-Level Performance on ImageNet Classification

    Kaiming He;Xiangyu Zhang;Shaoqing Ren;Jian Sun

  • Spatial Pyramid Pooling in Deep Convolutional Networks for Visual Recognition

    Kaiming He;Xiangyu Zhang;Shaoqing Ren;Jian Sun

  • Identity Mappings in Deep Residual Networks

    Kaiming He;Xiangyu Zhang;Shaoqing Ren;Jian Sun

  • ShuffleNet: An Extremely Efficient Convolutional Neural Network for Mobile Devices

    Xiangyu Zhang;Xinyu Zhou;Mengxiao Lin;Jian Sun

  • Single Image Haze Removal Using Dark Channel Prior

    Kaiming He;Jian Sun;Xiaoou Tang

  • Single image haze removal using dark channel prior

    Kaiming He;Jian Sun;Xiaoou Tang

  • ShuffleNet V2: Practical Guidelines for Efficient CNN Architecture Design

    Ningning Ma;Xiangyu Zhang;Hai-Tao Zheng;Jian Sun

  • Guided image filtering

    Kaiming He;Jian Sun;Xiaoou Tang

  • R-FCN: Object Detection via Region-based Fully Convolutional Networks

    Jifeng Dai;Yi Li;Kaiming He;Jian Sun

  • Guided Image Filtering

    Kaiming He;Jian Sun;Xiaoou Tang

  • Learning to Detect a Salient Object

    Tie Liu;Zejian Yuan;Jian Sun;Jingdong Wang

  • YOLOX: Exceeding YOLO Series in 2021

    Zheng Ge;Songtao Liu;Feng Wang;Zeming Li

  • Learning to Detect A Salient Object

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

  • Channel Pruning for Accelerating Very Deep Neural Networks

    Yihui He;Xiangyu Zhang;Jian Sun

  • Stereo matching using belief propagation

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

  • A concise and provably informative multi-scale signature based on heat diffusion

    Jian Sun;Maks Ovsjanikov;Leonidas Guibas

  • Cascaded Pyramid Network for Multi-person Pose Estimation

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  • Large Kernel Matters — Improve Semantic Segmentation by Global Convolutional Network

    Chao Peng;Xiangyu Zhang;Gang Yu;Guiming Luo

  • Lazy snapping

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Kaiming He
Kaiming He Facebook (United States)
Heung-Yeung Shum
Heung-Yeung Shum Microsoft (United States)
Xiaoou Tang
Xiaoou Tang Chinese University of Hong Kong
Zongben Xu
Zongben Xu Xi'an Jiaotong University
Lu Yuan
Lu Yuan Microsoft (United States)
Yichen Wei
Yichen Wei Microsoft Research Asia (China)
Jiaya Jia
Jiaya Jia Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Yin Li
Yin Li Chinese Academy of Sciences
Jifeng Dai
Jifeng Dai Tsinghua University

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