2026 Kun Zhou: 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	65	2480	2403	335	332	246	15064

Research.com Recognitions

2020 - ACM Fellow For contributions to computer graphics

Overview

Kun Zhou is affiliated with Zhejiang University in China and has contributed extensively to the field of computer science, with a focus on research spanning computer vision, computational mechanics, molecular biology, computer graphics, and epidemiology.

The scientist's recent publications include diverse topics and collaborations, with notable papers such as:

"A novel lane-changing model of connected and automated vehicles: Using the safety potential field theory" (2020), published in Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications
"ShuttleSpace: Exploring and Analyzing Movement Trajectory in Immersive Visualization" (2020), published in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
"SketchGNN: Semantic Sketch Segmentation with Graph Neural Networks" (2021), published in ACM Transactions on Graphics
"A global dataset for prevalence of Salmonella Gallinarum between 1945 and 2021" (2022), published in Scientific Data
"ONE Health Approach to Address Zoonotic Brucellosis: A Spatiotemporal Associations Study Between Animals and Humans" (2020), published in Frontiers in Veterinary Science

Frequent collaborators include Tianjia Shao, Youyi Zheng, Haofei Hong, Zhimeng Wu, and Yin Yang.

Kun Zhou has published extensively in several scientific venues, particularly in:

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (16 publications)
arXiv (Cornell University) (12 publications)
ACM Transactions on Graphics (11 publications)
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (4 publications)
Science China Information Sciences (3 publications)

The main fields of study reflect a concentration in computer science, supported by a substantial number of publications (112 in total). The subfields include:

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (85 publications)
Computational Mechanics (22 publications)
Molecular Biology (21 publications)
Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design (14 publications)
Epidemiology (12 publications)

The key research topics associated with Kun Zhou's work encompass:

3D Shape Modeling and Analysis
Human Pose and Action Recognition
Advanced Vision and Imaging
Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques
Generative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis
Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies Research
Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research

In 2020, Kun Zhou was recognized as an ACM Fellow for contributions to computer graphics.

Best Publications

FaceWarehouse: A 3D Facial Expression Database for Visual Computing

Chen Cao;Yanlin Weng;Shun Zhou;Yiying Tong

1120
Citations
Real-time KD-tree construction on graphics hardware

Kun Zhou;Qiming Hou;Rui Wang;Baining Guo

843
Citations
Mesh editing with poisson-based gradient field manipulation

Yizhou Yu;Kun Zhou;Dong Xu;Xiaohan Shi

825
Citations
Locality sensitive discriminant analysis

Deng Cai;Xiaofei He;Kun Zhou;Jiawei Han

612
Citations
Large mesh deformation using the volumetric graph Laplacian

Kun Zhou;Jin Huang;John Snyder;Xinguo Liu

533
Citations
3D shape regression for real-time facial animation

Chen Cao;Yanlin Weng;Stephen Lin;Kun Zhou

430
Citations
Displaced dynamic expression regression for real-time facial tracking and animation

Chen Cao;Qiming Hou;Kun Zhou

414
Citations
Subspace gradient domain mesh deformation

Jin Huang;Xiaohan Shi;Xinguo Liu;Kun Zhou

350
Citations
Synthesis of progressively-variant textures on arbitrary surfaces

Jingdan Zhang;Kun Zhou;Luiz Velho;Baining Guo

274
Citations
An interactive approach to semantic modeling of indoor scenes with an RGBD camera

Tianjia Shao;Weiwei Xu;Kun Zhou;Jingdong Wang

269
Citations
Real-time high-fidelity facial performance capture

Chen Cao;Derek Bradley;Kun Zhou;Thabo Beeler

268
Citations
Iso-charts: stretch-driven mesh parameterization using spectral analysis

Kun Zhou;John Synder;Baining Guo;Heung-Yeung Shum

239
Citations
Data-Parallel Octrees for Surface Reconstruction

Kun Zhou;Minmin Gong;Xin Huang;Baining Guo

228
Citations
Precomputed shadow fields for dynamic scenes

Kun Zhou;Yaohua Hu;Stephen Lin;Baining Guo

214
Citations
Real-time facial animation with image-based dynamic avatars

Chen Cao;Hongzhi Wu;Yanlin Weng;Tianjia Shao

188
Citations
Real-time soft shadows in dynamic scenes using spherical harmonic exponentiation

Zhong Ren;Rui Wang;John Snyder;Kun Zhou

176
Citations
Interactive images: cuboid proxies for smart image manipulation

Youyi Zheng;Xiang Chen;Ming-Ming Cheng;Kun Zhou

169
Citations
2D shape deformation using nonlinear least squares optimization

Yanlin Weng;Weiwei Xu;Yanchen Wu;Kun Zhou

165
Citations
An efficient GPU-based approach for interactive global illumination

Rui Wang;Kun Zhou;Minghao Pan;Hujun Bao

164
Citations
Inverse texture synthesis

Li-Yi Wei;Jianwei Han;Kun Zhou;Hujun Bao

145
Citations
High dynamic range image hallucination

Lvdi Wang;Li-Yi Wei;Kun Zhou;Baining Guo

139
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Baining Guo Microsoft (United States)

Heung-Yeung Shum Microsoft (United States)

Stephen Lin Microsoft Research Asia (China)

Hujun Bao Zhejiang University

Yiying Tong Michigan State University

John Snyder Microsoft (United States)

Yizhou Yu University of Hong Kong

Rui Wang Zhejiang University

Xiaoguang Han Chinese University of Hong Kong

Mathieu Desbrun California Institute of Technology

External Links

Personal website of Kun Zhou Google Scholar page

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