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Song-Chun Zhu

Song-Chun Zhu

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Computer Science
China
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Computer Science

D-Index
98
Citations
39484
World Ranking
405
National Ranking
52

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Computer Science in China Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in China Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in China Leader Award

Overview

Song-Chun Zhu is affiliated with Peking University in China, contributing to the field of Computer Science with a focus on Artificial Intelligence and related subfields. Their research spans several areas including Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Control and Systems Engineering, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Aerospace Engineering.

Their publication record highlights a concentration in Artificial Intelligence, with notable exploration in topics such as Multimodal Machine Learning Applications, Topic Modeling, Natural Language Processing Techniques, Human Pose and Action Recognition, Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning, Robot Manipulation and Learning, and Generative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis.

Frequent co-authors of Song-Chun Zhu include:

  • Yixin Zhu
  • Siyuan Huang
  • Ying Wu
  • Hangxin Liu
  • Ziyuan Jiao

The venues where Song-Chun Zhu most commonly publishes research are:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  • IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
  • Engineering
  • IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Song-Chun Zhu include:

  • Learn to Explain: Multimodal Reasoning via Thought Chains for Science Question Answering (2022, arXiv (Cornell University))
  • Spatio-temporal Self-Supervised Representation Learning for 3D Point Clouds (2021, 2021 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV))
  • Cascaded Parsing of Human-Object Interaction Recognition (2021, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence)
  • Dark, Beyond Deep: A Paradigm Shift to Cognitive AI with Humanlike Common Sense (2020, Engineering)
  • Chameleon: Plug-and-Play Compositional Reasoning with Large Language Models (2023, arXiv (Cornell University))

Song-Chun Zhu's body of work is situated predominantly within computer science, emphasizing areas that intersect with machine learning, vision, and cognitive modeling techniques. The diversity of topics and frequent collaboration with multiple researchers underlines an interdisciplinary approach to artificial intelligence research.

Best Publications

  • Region competition: unifying snakes, region growing, and Bayes/MDL for multiband image segmentation

    Song Chun Zhu;A. Yuille

  • Region competition: unifying snakes, region growing, energy/Bayes/MDL for multi-band image segmentation

    S.C. Zhu;T.S. Lee;A.L. Yuille

  • Filters, Random Fields and Maximum Entropy (FRAME): Towards a Unified Theory for Texture Modeling

    Song Chun Zhu;Yingnian Wu;David Mumford

  • Visual interpretability for deep learning: a survey

    Quan-shi Zhang;Song-chun Zhu

  • Image parsing : Unifying segmentation, detection, and recognition

    Zhuowen Tu;Xiangrong Chen;Alan L. Yuille;Song Chun Zhu

  • Image segmentation by data-driven Markov chain Monte Carlo

    Zhuowen Tu;Song-Chun Zhu

  • Image parsing: unifying segmentation, detection, and recognition

    Zhuowen Tu;Xiangrong Chen;Yuille;Zhu

  • Interpretable Convolutional Neural Networks

    Quanshi Zhang;Ying Nian Wu;Song-Chun Zhu

  • On Advances in Statistical Modeling of Natural Images

    A. Srivastava;A. B. Lee;E. P. Simoncelli;S.-C. Zhu

  • A Stochastic Grammar of Images

    Song-Chun Zhu;David Mumford

  • Cross-View Action Modeling, Learning, and Recognition

    Jiang Wang;Xiaohan Nie;Yin Xia;Ying Wu

  • Minimax Entropy Principle and Its Application to Texture Modeling

    Song Chun Zhu;Ying Nian Wu;David Mumford

  • Learning Human-Object Interactions by Graph Parsing Neural Networks

    Siyuan Qi;Wenguan Wang;Baoxiong Jia;Jianbing Shen

  • Prior learning and Gibbs reaction-diffusion

    Song Chun Zhu;D. Mumford

  • Statistical edge detection: learning and evaluating edge cues

    S. Konishi;A.L. Yuille;J.M. Coughlan;Song Chun Zhu

  • FORMS: a flexible object recognition and modeling system

    Song Chun Zhu;Alan L. Yuille

  • I2T: Image Parsing to Text Description

    Benjamin Z Yao;Xiong Yang;Liang Lin;Mun Wai Lee

  • Learn to Explain: Multimodal Reasoning via Thought Chains for Science Question Answering

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  • Learning Pose Grammar to Encode Human Body Configuration for 3D Pose Estimation

    Hao-Shu Fang;Yuanlu Xu;Wenguan Wang;Xiaobai Liu

  • A Compositional and Dynamic Model for Face Aging

    Jinli Suo;Song-Chun Zhu;Shiguang Shan;Xilin Chen

  • FORMS: a flexible object recognition and modelling system

    S.C. Zhu;A.L. Yuille

Frequent Co-Authors

Ying Nian Wu
Ying Nian Wu University of California, Los Angeles
Yixin Zhu
Yixin Zhu Peking University
Alan L. Yuille
Alan L. Yuille Johns Hopkins University
Wenguan Wang
Wenguan Wang Zhejiang University
Yizhou Wang
Yizhou Wang Peking University
Sinisa Todorovic
Sinisa Todorovic Oregon State University
Zhuowen Tu
Zhuowen Tu University of California, San Diego
Liang Lin
Liang Lin Sun Yat-sen University
Caiming Xiong
Caiming Xiong Salesforce (United States)
Nanning Zheng
Nanning Zheng Xi'an Jiaotong University

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