2026 Weisi Lin: 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	93	522	506	10	10	630	31452

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Computer Science in Singapore Leader Award

Overview

Weisi Lin is affiliated with Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. Their research primarily spans across the fields of Computer Science and Engineering, with a significant focus on subfields such as Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Media Technology, Computational Mechanics, Artificial Intelligence, and Signal Processing.

The scientist's work covers a variety of advanced topics, including:

Image and Video Quality Assessment
Visual Attention and Saliency Detection
Advanced Image Processing Techniques
Advanced Image Fusion Techniques
Advanced Vision and Imaging
Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques
3D Shape Modeling and Analysis

Weisi Lin has contributed to several recent papers that illustrate the scope of their research interests. Notable publications include:

"Hierarchical Alternate Interaction Network for RGB-D Salient Object Detection" (2021) published in IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
"An engineered CRISPR-Cas12a variant and DNA-RNA hybrid guides enable robust and rapid COVID-19 testing" (2021) published in Nature Communications
"Unified Information Fusion Network for Multi-Modal RGB-D and RGB-T Salient Object Detection" (2021) published in IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
"End-to-End Blind Image Quality Prediction With Cascaded Deep Neural Network" (2020) published in IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
"Adjacent Context Coordination Network for Salient Object Detection in Optical Remote Sensing Images" (2022) published in IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics

The scientist frequently collaborates with a number of co-authors, including:

Haoning Wu
Guangtao Zhai
Chaofeng Chen
Xiongkuo Min
Zicheng Zhang

Their work has appeared in a variety of publication venues, with a strong presence in:

arXiv (Cornell University)
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Best Publications

Perceptual visual quality metrics: A survey

Weisi Lin;C. C. Jay Kuo

1108
Citations
Image Quality Assessment Based on Gradient Similarity

Anmin Liu;Weisi Lin;M. Narwaria

830
Citations
Learning a No-Reference Quality Assessment Model of Enhanced Images With Big Data

Ke Gu;Dacheng Tao;Jun-Fei Qiao;Weisi Lin

425
Citations
A Patch-Structure Representation Method for Quality Assessment of Contrast Changed Images

Shiqi Wang;Kede Ma;Hojatollah Yeganeh;Zhou Wang

419
Citations
Review of Visual Saliency Detection With Comprehensive Information

Runmin Cong;Jianjun Lei;Huazhu Fu;Ming-Ming Cheng

400
Citations
The Analysis of Image Contrast: From Quality Assessment to Automatic Enhancement

Ke Gu;Guangtao Zhai;Weisi Lin;Min Liu

397
Citations
No-Reference Quality Assessment of Contrast-Distorted Images Based on Natural Scene Statistics

Yuming Fang;Kede Ma;Zhou Wang;Weisi Lin

375
Citations
No-Reference Quality Metric of Contrast-Distorted Images Based on Information Maximization

Ke Gu;Weisi Lin;Guangtao Zhai;Xiaokang Yang

370
Citations
Saliency Detection in the Compressed Domain for Adaptive Image Retargeting

Yuming Fang;Zhenzhong Chen;Weisi Lin;Chia-Wen Lin

365
Citations
No-Reference Image Sharpness Assessment in Autoregressive Parameter Space

Ke Gu;Guangtao Zhai;Weisi Lin;Xiaokang Yang

325
Citations
Unified Blind Quality Assessment of Compressed Natural, Graphic, and Screen Content Images

Xiongkuo Min;Kede Ma;Ke Gu;Guangtao Zhai

307
Citations
Hierarchical Alternate Interaction Network for RGB-D Salient Object Detection

Gongyang Li;Zhi Liu;Minyu Chen;Zhen Bai

297
Citations
A Psychovisual Quality Metric in Free-Energy Principle

Guangtao Zhai;Xiaolin Wu;Xiaokang Yang;Weisi Lin

292
Citations
Saliency-Guided Quality Assessment of Screen Content Images

Ke Gu;Shiqi Wang;Huan Yang;Weisi Lin

292
Citations
A locally adaptive algorithm for measuring blocking artifacts in images and videos

Feng Pan;Xiao Lin;Susanto Rahardja;Weisi Lin

286
Citations
Perceptual Quality Metric With Internal Generative Mechanism

Jinjian Wu;Weisi Lin;Guangming Shi;Anmin Liu

277
Citations
No-Reference Image Blur Assessment Based on Discrete Orthogonal Moments

Leida Li;Weisi Lin;Xuesong Wang;Gaobo Yang

277
Citations
A Saliency Detection Model Using Low-Level Features Based on Wavelet Transform

N. Imamoglu;Weisi Lin;Yuming Fang

269
Citations
A Video Saliency Detection Model in Compressed Domain

Yuming Fang;Weisi Lin;Zhenzhong Chen;Chia-Ming Tsai

261
Citations
Just Noticeable Difference for Images With Decomposition Model for Separating Edge and Textured Regions

Anmin Liu;Weisi Lin;M Paul;Chenwei Deng

259
Citations
Modeling visual attention's modulatory aftereffects on visual sensitivity and quality evaluation

Zhongkang Lu;W. Lin;X. Yang;EePing Ong

256
Citations
No-Reference Quality Assessment of Screen Content Pictures

Ke Gu;Jun Zhou;Jun-Fei Qiao;Guangtao Zhai

249
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Yuming Fang Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics

Ke Gu Beijing University of Technology

Xiaokang Yang Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Guangtao Zhai Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Jinjian Wu Xidian University

Wenjun Zhang Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Shiqi Wang City University of Hong Kong

Guangming Shi Xidian University

Feng Shao Ningbo University

Bu-Sung Lee Nanyang Technological University

External Links

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