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Thomas S. Huang publication distribution in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Computer Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Thomas S. Huang sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 1,421 publications — 100th percentile

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Thomas S. Huang D-index placement in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Computer Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Thomas S. Huang sits on this spectrum.

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100% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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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

  • Least-Squares Fitting of Two 3-D Point Sets

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

  • Locality-constrained Linear Coding for image classification

    Jinjun Wang;Jianchao Yang;Kai Yu;Fengjun Lv

  • Linear spatial pyramid matching using sparse coding for image classification

    Jianchao Yang;Kai Yu;Yihong Gong;Thomas Huang

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Graph Regularized Nonnegative Matrix Factorization for Data Representation

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

  • Image Retrieval: Current Techniques, Promising Directions, and Open Issues

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  • Generative Image Inpainting with Contextual Attention

    Jiahui Yu;Zhe Lin;Jimei Yang;Xiaohui Shen

  • Sparse Representation for Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

    John Wright;Yi Ma;Julien Mairal;Guillermo Sapiro

  • Image super-resolution as sparse representation of raw image patches

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

  • A fast two-dimensional median filtering algorithm

    T. Huang;G. Yang;G. Tang

  • UnitBox: An Advanced Object Detection Network

    Jiahui Yu;Yuning Jiang;Zhangyang Wang;Zhimin Cao

  • Free-Form Image Inpainting With Gated Convolution

    Jiahui Yu;Zhe Lin;Jimei Yang;Xiaohui Shen

  • Multi-frame image restoration and registration

    T. S. Huang

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

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

  • Human face detection in a complex background

    Guangzheng Yang;Thomas S Huang

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

    Roger Y. Tsai;Thomas S. Huang

  • Relevance feedback in image retrieval: A comprehensive review

    Xiang Sean Zhou;Thomas S. Huang

  • Facial expression recognition from video sequences: temporal and static modeling

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Jianchao Yang
Jianchao Yang ByteDance
Yun Fu
Yun Fu Northeastern University
Mark Hasegawa-Johnson
Mark Hasegawa-Johnson University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Zhangyang Wang
Zhangyang Wang The University of Texas at Austin
Yong Rui
Yong Rui Lenovo (China)
Shiyu Chang
Shiyu Chang University of California, Santa Barbara
Shuicheng Yan
Shuicheng Yan National University of Singapore
Nicu Sebe
Nicu Sebe University of Trento
Ying Wu
Ying Wu Northwestern University
Qi Tian
Qi Tian Huawei Technologies (China)

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