2026 Thomas S. Huang: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Best Scientists	178	643	402	1432	148087
Computer Science	178	12	6	1421	149355

Research.com Recognitions

2025 - Research.com Best Scientists Award
2025 - Research.com Computer Science in United States Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Computer Science in United States Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Computer Science in United States Leader Award
2002 - IAPR King-Sun Fu Prize
2001 - Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal For pioneering and sustained contributions to image sequence processing and its applications to digital TV
1997 - SPIE Fellow
1994 - Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) For contributions to computer vision and image processing, including motion analysis and image compression and service to the IAPR
1979 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to the theory and application of image processing and digital filtering.
1971 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Thomas S. Huang was affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Their research spanned the field of computer science, with a strong focus on subfields such as computer vision and pattern recognition, artificial intelligence, media technology, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, and plant science.

The main topics covered in their work included advanced neural network applications, domain adaptation and few-shot learning, image and signal denoising methods, advanced image processing techniques, multimodal machine learning applications, advanced image and video retrieval techniques, and advanced image fusion techniques.

Among the recent papers authored or co-authored by Huang were:

CCNet: Criss-Cross Attention for Semantic Segmentation, 2020, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
SG-One: Similarity Guidance Network for One-Shot Semantic Segmentation, 2020, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics
Connecting Image Denoising and High-Level Vision Tasks via Deep Learning, 2020, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
AlignSeg: Feature-Aligned Segmentation Networks, 2021, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Pyramid Attention Network for Image Restoration, 2023, International Journal of Computer Vision

Collaborators frequently associated with Huang included:

Humphrey Shi
Yunchao Wei
Ding Liu
Yuchen Fan
Zilong Huang

Publications appeared most often in venues such as:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
International Journal of Computer Vision
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Huang received multiple awards over the course of their career, including:

IAPR King-Sun Fu Prize, 2002
Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal, 2001, for pioneering and sustained contributions to image sequence processing and its applications to digital TV
SPIE Fellow, 1997
Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR), 1994, for contributions to computer vision and image processing, including motion analysis and image compression and service to the IAPR
IEEE Fellow, 1979, for contributions to the theory and application of image processing and digital filtering
Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1971

Best Publications

Image Super-Resolution Via Sparse Representation

Jianchao Yang;John Wright;Thomas S Huang;Yi Ma

6326
Citations
Least-Squares Fitting of Two 3-D Point Sets

K. S. Arun;T. S. Huang;S. D. Blostein

5719
Citations
Locality-constrained Linear Coding for image classification

Jinjun Wang;Jianchao Yang;Kai Yu;Fengjun Lv

4077
Citations
Linear spatial pyramid matching using sparse coding for image classification

Jianchao Yang;Kai Yu;Yihong Gong;Thomas Huang

3948
Citations
A Survey of Affect Recognition Methods: Audio, Visual, and Spontaneous Expressions

Zhihong Zeng;M. Pantic;G.I. Roisman;T.S. Huang

3605
Citations
Visual interpretation of hand gestures for human-computer interaction: a review

V.I. Pavlovic;R. Sharma;T.S. Huang

2916
Citations
Relevance feedback: a power tool for interactive content-based image retrieval

Yong Rui;T.S. Huang;M. Ortega;S. Mehrotra

2763
Citations
Graph Regularized Nonnegative Matrix Factorization for Data Representation

Deng Cai;Xiaofei He;Jiawei Han;T S Huang

2696
Citations
Image Retrieval: Current Techniques, Promising Directions, and Open Issues

Unknown

2670
Citations
Generative Image Inpainting with Contextual Attention

Jiahui Yu;Zhe Lin;Jimei Yang;Xiaohui Shen

2506
Citations
Sparse Representation for Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

John Wright;Yi Ma;Julien Mairal;Guillermo Sapiro

2344
Citations
Image super-resolution as sparse representation of raw image patches

Jianchao Yang;J. Wright;T. Huang;Yi Ma

2081
Citations
A fast two-dimensional median filtering algorithm

T. Huang;G. Yang;G. Tang

1951
Citations
UnitBox: An Advanced Object Detection Network

Jiahui Yu;Yuning Jiang;Zhangyang Wang;Zhimin Cao

1635
Citations
Free-Form Image Inpainting With Gated Convolution

Jiahui Yu;Zhe Lin;Jimei Yang;Xiaohui Shen

1634
Citations
Multi-frame image restoration and registration

T. S. Huang

1515
Citations
NTIRE 2017 Challenge on Single Image Super-Resolution: Methods and Results

Radu Timofte;Eirikur Agustsson;Luc Van Gool;Ming-Hsuan Yang

1483
Citations
Human face detection in a complex background

Guangzheng Yang;Thomas S Huang

1365
Citations
Uniqueness and Estimation of Three-Dimensional Motion Parameters of Rigid Objects with Curved Surfaces

Roger Y. Tsai;Thomas S. Huang

1322
Citations
Relevance feedback in image retrieval: A comprehensive review

Xiang Sean Zhou;Thomas S. Huang

1255
Citations
Facial expression recognition from video sequences: temporal and static modeling

Ira Cohen;Nicu Sebe;Ashutosh Garg;Lawrence S. Chen

1218
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Jianchao Yang ByteDance

Yun Fu Northeastern University

Mark Hasegawa-Johnson University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Zhangyang Wang The University of Texas at Austin

Yong Rui Lenovo (China)

Shiyu Chang University of California, Santa Barbara

Shuicheng Yan National University of Singapore

Nicu Sebe University of Trento

Ying Wu Northwestern University

Qi Tian Huawei Technologies (China)

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