2026 Shengcai Liao: 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	52	4957	4821	28	27	140	19212

Overview

Shengcai Liao is affiliated with the Inception Institute of Artificial Intelligence in the United Arab Emirates. Their research primarily focuses on computer science and engineering, with significant contributions in the subfields of computer vision and pattern recognition, artificial intelligence, biomedical engineering, electrical and electronic engineering, and control and systems engineering.

The main research topics covered by Liao include:

Video Surveillance and Tracking Methods
Advanced Neural Network Applications
Face Recognition and Analysis
Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning
Gait Recognition and Analysis
Human Pose and Action Recognition
Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques

Liao has published extensively, with a notable presence in venues such as:

arXiv (Cornell University)
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Pattern Recognition

Several recent papers authored or co-authored by Liao include:

"Graph Sampling Based Deep Metric Learning for Generalizable Person Re-Identification," 2022, 2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
"Pixel-Aware Deep Function-Mixture Network for Spectral Super-Resolution," 2020, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (authored by Lei Zhang, co-author context)
"Attentive WaveBlock: Complementarity-Enhanced Mutual Networks for Unsupervised Domain Adaptation in Person Re-Identification and Beyond," 2022, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (authored by W. Wang, co-author context)
"Center and Scale Prediction: Anchor-free Approach for Pedestrian and Face Detection," 2022, Pattern Recognition (authored by Wei Liu, co-author context)
"Learning Anchored Unsigned Distance Functions with Gradient Direction Alignment for Single-view Garment Reconstruction," 2021, 2021 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) (authored by Fang Zhao, co-author context)

Frequent collaborators with Liao include Ling Shao, Jinpeng Li, Jie Qin, Yichao Yan, and Fang Zhao.

Best Publications

Person re-identification by Local Maximal Occurrence representation and metric learning

Shengcai Liao;Yang Hu;Xiangyu Zhu;Stan Z. Li

2390
Citations
Learning Face Representation from Scratch

Dong Yi;Zhen Lei;Shengcai Liao;Stan Z. Li

2236
Citations
Deep Metric Learning for Person Re-identification

Dong Yi;Zhen Lei;Shengcai Liao;Stan Z. Li

1239
Citations
Learning multi-scale block local binary patterns for face recognition

Shengcai Liao;Xiangxin Zhu;Zhen Lei;Lun Zhang

833
Citations
Illumination Invariant Face Recognition Using Near-Infrared Images

S.Z. Li;RuFeng Chu;ShengCai Liao;Lun Zhang

818
Citations
Face detection based on multi-block LBP representation

Lun Zhang;Rufeng Chu;Shiming Xiang;Shengcai Liao

580
Citations
Salient Color Names for Person Re-identification

Yang Yang;Jimei Yang;Junjie Yan;Shengcai Liao

579
Citations
Modeling pixel process with scale invariant local patterns for background subtraction in complex scenes

Shengcai Liao;Guoying Zhao;Vili Kellokumpu;Matti Pietikainen

493
Citations
Efficient PSD Constrained Asymmetric Metric Learning for Person Re-Identification

Shengcai Liao;Stan Z. Li

478
Citations
High-Level Semantic Feature Detection: A New Perspective for Pedestrian Detection

Wei Liu;Shengcai Liao;Weiqiang Ren;Weidong Hu

427
Citations
Partial Face Recognition: Alignment-Free Approach

Shengcai Liao;A. K. Jain;S. Z. Li

410
Citations
A Fast and Accurate Unconstrained Face Detector

Shengcai Liao;Anil K. Jain;Stan Z. Li

395
Citations
The Visual Object Tracking VOT2014 challenge results

Matej Kristan;Roman P. Pflugfelder;Ales Leonardis;Jiri Matas

391
Citations
Partial face recognition: An alignment free approach

Shengcai Liao;Anil K. Jain

374
Citations
The CASIA NIR-VIS 2.0 Face Database

Stan Z. Li;Dong Yi;Zhen Lei;Shengcai Liao

356
Citations
Embedding Deep Metric for Person Re-identification: A Study Against Large Variations

Hailin Shi;Yang Yang;Xiangyu Zhu;Shengcai Liao

351
Citations
Partial Person Re-Identification

Wei-Shi Zheng;Xiang Li;Tao Xiang;Shengcai Liao

322
Citations
Face liveness detection with component dependent descriptor

Jianwei Yang;Zhen Lei;Shengcai Liao;Stan Z. Li

295
Citations
Learning Efficient Single-Stage Pedestrian Detectors by Asymptotic Localization Fitting

Wei Liu;Shengcai Liao;Weidong Hu;Xuezhi Liang

257
Citations
Learning Consistent Feature Representation for Cross-Modal Multimedia Retrieval

Cuicui Kang;Shiming Xiang;Shengcai Liao;Changsheng Xu

241
Citations
Embedding Deep Metric for Person Re-identication A Study Against Large Variations

Hailin Shi;Yang Yang;Xiangyu Zhu;Shengcai Liao

98
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Stan Z. Li Westlake University

Zhen Lei Chinese Academy of Sciences

Ling Shao Terminus International

Dong Yi Winsense Co., Ltd.

Ran He Chinese Academy of Sciences

Shiming Xiang Chinese Academy of Sciences

Chunhong Pan Chinese Academy of Sciences

Anil K. Jain Michigan State University

Wei-Shi Zheng Sun Yat-sen University

Wei Liu Tencent (China)

External Links

Personal website of Shengcai Liao Google Scholar page

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