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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Computer Science 81 1035 1002 149 147 264 23670

Xiaodan Liang publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Xiaodan Liang between 2011 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Xiaodan Liang published across 15 years, from 2011 to 2025, averaging 36.9 papers a year. Output peaked at 85 publications in 2024. 144 of the 553 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
20 40 60 80
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 2011 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 85. Peak 85 publications in 2024. 2011: 2 publications 2012: 3 publications 2013: 6 publications 2014: 5 publications 2015: 7 publications 2016: 21 publications 2017: 29 publications 2018: 40 publications 2019: 32 publications 2020: 39 publications 2021: 80 publications 2022: 74 publications 2023: 71 publications 2024: 85 publications 2025: 59 publications
2011 2025

553 publications in total across all disciplines

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Xiaodan Liang: publications per year, 2011 to 2025
Year Publications
2011 2
2012 3
2013 6
2014 5
2015 7
2016 21
2017 29
2018 40
2019 32
2020 39
2021 80
2022 74
2023 71
2024 85
2025 59
Total 553
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Xiaodan Liang publications per year - data summary

  • Xiaodan Liang, a Computer Science scholar from Sun Yat-sen University, has 553 publications recorded across 15 years, from 2011 to 2025.
  • The oldest publication on record dates to 2011 and the most recent to 2025.
  • The most productive year is 2024, with 85 publications.
  • The least productive year with any output is 2011, with 2 publications.
  • The rate of publication averages 36.9 papers per year over the whole span, or 36.9 per year counting only the 15 years with at least one publication.
  • The last 5 years on the chart (2021-2025) hold 369 publications, 67% of the career total.
  • Split into equal eras - 2011-2015: 23 publications (4.6 per year); 2016-2020: 161 publications (32.2 per year); 2021-2025: 369 publications (73.8 per year).
  • Comparing the opening and closing eras, the overall trend of publication is rising.

Xiaodan Liang 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 Xiaodan Liang sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
200 400 600
Bar chart with 97 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 32–41 to 991+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 609. Most scientists, 609, have 142–151 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 991 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 262–271 publications, is where this scientist sits. 32–41 publications: 7 scientists 42–51 publications: 22 scientists 52–61 publications: 82 scientists 62–71 publications: 134 scientists 72–81 publications: 249 scientists 82–91 publications: 324 scientists 92–101 publications: 421 scientists 102–111 publications: 420 scientists 112–121 publications: 497 scientists 122–131 publications: 544 scientists 132–141 publications: 555 scientists 142–151 publications: 609 scientists 152–161 publications: 559 scientists 162–171 publications: 534 scientists 172–181 publications: 556 scientists 182–191 publications: 583 scientists 192–201 publications: 519 scientists 202–211 publications: 508 scientists 212–221 publications: 490 scientists 222–231 publications: 437 scientists 232–241 publications: 423 scientists 242–251 publications: 408 scientists 252–261 publications: 377 scientists 262–271 publications: 301 scientists 272–281 publications: 335 scientists 282–291 publications: 320 scientists 292–301 publications: 293 scientists 302–311 publications: 250 scientists 312–321 publications: 238 scientists 322–331 publications: 206 scientists 332–341 publications: 209 scientists 342–351 publications: 208 scientists 352–361 publications: 162 scientists 362–371 publications: 176 scientists 372–381 publications: 127 scientists 382–391 publications: 158 scientists 392–401 publications: 128 scientists 402–411 publications: 104 scientists 412–421 publications: 94 scientists 422–431 publications: 99 scientists 432–441 publications: 83 scientists 442–451 publications: 108 scientists 452–461 publications: 73 scientists 462–471 publications: 77 scientists 472–481 publications: 69 scientists 482–491 publications: 84 scientists 492–501 publications: 62 scientists 502–511 publications: 54 scientists 512–521 publications: 57 scientists 522–531 publications: 51 scientists 532–541 publications: 51 scientists 542–551 publications: 32 scientists 552–561 publications: 38 scientists 562–571 publications: 28 scientists 572–581 publications: 43 scientists 582–591 publications: 33 scientists 592–601 publications: 41 scientists 602–611 publications: 32 scientists 612–621 publications: 28 scientists 622–631 publications: 25 scientists 632–641 publications: 27 scientists 642–651 publications: 17 scientists 652–661 publications: 20 scientists 662–671 publications: 17 scientists 672–681 publications: 15 scientists 682–691 publications: 14 scientists 692–701 publications: 21 scientists 702–711 publications: 13 scientists 712–721 publications: 12 scientists 722–731 publications: 19 scientists 732–741 publications: 14 scientists 742–751 publications: 12 scientists 752–761 publications: 10 scientists 762–771 publications: 10 scientists 772–781 publications: 11 scientists 782–791 publications: 10 scientists 792–801 publications: 11 scientists 802–811 publications: 8 scientists 812–821 publications: 8 scientists 822–831 publications: 7 scientists 832–841 publications: 11 scientists 842–851 publications: 10 scientists 852–861 publications: 5 scientists 862–871 publications: 9 scientists 872–881 publications: 4 scientists 882–891 publications: 6 scientists 892–901 publications: 3 scientists 902–911 publications: 6 scientists 912–921 publications: 3 scientists 922–931 publications: 2 scientists 932–941 publications: 2 scientists 942–951 publications: 2 scientists 952–961 publications: 3 scientists 962–971 publications: 3 scientists 972–981 publications: 3 scientists 982–990 publications: 5 scientists 991+ publications: 100 scientists
32–41 publications 991+

This scientist: 264 publications — 66th percentile

66% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 991 publications or more.

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Number of Computer Science scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 14,188 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
32–41 7
42–51 22
52–61 82
62–71 134
72–81 249
82–91 324
92–101 421
102–111 420
112–121 497
122–131 544
132–141 555
142–151 609
152–161 559
162–171 534
172–181 556
182–191 583
192–201 519
202–211 508
212–221 490
222–231 437
232–241 423
242–251 408
252–261 377
262–271 301 264
272–281 335
282–291 320
292–301 293
302–311 250
312–321 238
322–331 206
332–341 209
342–351 208
352–361 162
362–371 176
372–381 127
382–391 158
392–401 128
402–411 104
412–421 94
422–431 99
432–441 83
442–451 108
452–461 73
462–471 77
472–481 69
482–491 84
492–501 62
502–511 54
512–521 57
522–531 51
532–541 51
542–551 32
552–561 38
562–571 28
572–581 43
582–591 33
592–601 41
602–611 32
612–621 28
622–631 25
632–641 27
642–651 17
652–661 20
662–671 17
672–681 15
682–691 14
692–701 21
702–711 13
712–721 12
722–731 19
732–741 14
742–751 12
752–761 10
762–771 10
772–781 11
782–791 10
792–801 11
802–811 8
812–821 8
822–831 7
832–841 11
842–851 10
852–861 5
862–871 9
872–881 4
882–891 6
892–901 3
902–911 6
912–921 3
922–931 2
932–941 2
942–951 2
952–961 3
962–971 3
972–981 3
982–990 5
991+ 100
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Xiaodan Liang publication distribution in Computer Science in 2026 - data summary

  • The chart plots the publication count of all 14,188 Computer Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026, grouped into 97 ranges running from 32–41 to 991+ publications.
  • Xiaodan Liang, a Computer Science scholar from Sun Yat-sen University, records 264 publications - the 66th percentile of the discipline.
  • 66% of ranked Computer Science scientists score the same or lower than Xiaodan Liang, and about 34% score higher.
  • The median of the discipline falls in the 202–211 publications range, and Xiaodan Liang ranks above the median.
  • The most crowded range is 142–151 publications, holding 609 scientists (4% of the field).
  • 70% of the field sits in the lowest quarter of the value range (up to 272–281 publications), so the distribution is heavily right-skewed and high scores are rare.
  • The final bar has no upper bound: it groups every scientist with 991 publications or more, 100 scientists in all (<1% of the field).

Xiaodan Liang 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 Xiaodan Liang sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
200 400 600 800
Bar chart with 52 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30–31 to 131+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 990. Most scientists, 990, have 36–37 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 131 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 80–81 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 30–31 D-Index: 879 scientists 32–33 D-Index: 983 scientists 34–35 D-Index: 918 scientists 36–37 D-Index: 990 scientists 38–39 D-Index: 968 scientists 40–41 D-Index: 907 scientists 42–43 D-Index: 821 scientists 44–45 D-Index: 763 scientists 46–47 D-Index: 689 scientists 48–49 D-Index: 543 scientists 50–51 D-Index: 543 scientists 52–53 D-Index: 518 scientists 54–55 D-Index: 500 scientists 56–57 D-Index: 458 scientists 58–59 D-Index: 400 scientists 60–61 D-Index: 337 scientists 62–63 D-Index: 308 scientists 64–65 D-Index: 292 scientists 66–67 D-Index: 249 scientists 68–69 D-Index: 213 scientists 70–71 D-Index: 192 scientists 72–73 D-Index: 189 scientists 74–75 D-Index: 165 scientists 76–77 D-Index: 139 scientists 78–79 D-Index: 119 scientists 80–81 D-Index: 121 scientists 82–83 D-Index: 113 scientists 84–85 D-Index: 88 scientists 86–87 D-Index: 87 scientists 88–89 D-Index: 75 scientists 90–91 D-Index: 69 scientists 92–93 D-Index: 57 scientists 94–95 D-Index: 46 scientists 96–97 D-Index: 38 scientists 98–99 D-Index: 34 scientists 100–101 D-Index: 36 scientists 102–103 D-Index: 27 scientists 104–105 D-Index: 37 scientists 106–107 D-Index: 18 scientists 108–109 D-Index: 31 scientists 110–111 D-Index: 19 scientists 112–113 D-Index: 16 scientists 114–115 D-Index: 12 scientists 116–117 D-Index: 20 scientists 118–119 D-Index: 15 scientists 120–121 D-Index: 5 scientists 122–123 D-Index: 20 scientists 124–125 D-Index: 8 scientists 126–127 D-Index: 5 scientists 128–129 D-Index: 7 scientists 130 D-Index: 3 scientists 131+ D-Index: 98 scientists
30–31 D-Index 131+

This scientist: 81 D-Index — 93rd percentile

93% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 131 D-Index or more.

View D-Index distribution as a table
Number of Computer Science scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 14,188 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30–31 879
32–33 983
34–35 918
36–37 990
38–39 968
40–41 907
42–43 821
44–45 763
46–47 689
48–49 543
50–51 543
52–53 518
54–55 500
56–57 458
58–59 400
60–61 337
62–63 308
64–65 292
66–67 249
68–69 213
70–71 192
72–73 189
74–75 165
76–77 139
78–79 119
80–81 121 81
82–83 113
84–85 88
86–87 87
88–89 75
90–91 69
92–93 57
94–95 46
96–97 38
98–99 34
100–101 36
102–103 27
104–105 37
106–107 18
108–109 31
110–111 19
112–113 16
114–115 12
116–117 20
118–119 15
120–121 5
122–123 20
124–125 8
126–127 5
128–129 7
130 3
131+ 98
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Xiaodan Liang D-index placement in Computer Science in 2026 - data summary

  • The chart plots the discipline H-index (D-index) of all 14,188 Computer Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026, grouped into 52 ranges running from 30–31 to 131+ D-Index.
  • Xiaodan Liang, a Computer Science scholar from Sun Yat-sen University, records 81 D-Index - the 93rd percentile of the discipline.
  • 93% of ranked Computer Science scientists score the same or lower than Xiaodan Liang, and about 7% score higher.
  • The median of the discipline falls in the 44–45 D-Index range, and Xiaodan Liang ranks above the median.
  • The most crowded range is 36–37 D-Index, holding 990 scientists (7% of the field).
  • 71% of the field sits in the lowest quarter of the value range (up to 54–55 D-Index), so the distribution is heavily right-skewed and high scores are rare.
  • The final bar has no upper bound: it groups every scientist with 131 D-Index or more, 98 scientists in all (<1% of the field).

Overview

Xiaodan Liang is affiliated with Sun Yat-sen University in China and has an extensive publication record in the field of Computer Science. Their research focuses primarily on computer vision and pattern recognition, as well as artificial intelligence. Liang's contributions span multiple subfields, including control and systems engineering, computational mechanics, and aerospace engineering.

The scientist's work covers a wide range of topics, with particular emphasis on multimodal machine learning applications, domain adaptation and few-shot learning, topic modeling, advanced neural network applications, natural language processing techniques, advanced image and video retrieval techniques, and human pose and action recognition.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Xiaodan Liang include Liang Lin, Xiaojun Chang, Hang Xu, and Jianhua Han. These partnerships reflect consistent teamwork on many research projects.

The scientist has published extensively in several venues, frequently contributing to:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  • 2021 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
  • IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
  • 2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)

Recent published papers by Xiaodan Liang include:

  • FILIP: Fine-grained Interactive Language-Image Pre-Training, 2021, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Pyramid R-CNN: Towards Better Performance and Adaptability for 3D Object Detection, 2021, 2021 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
  • One Million Scenes for Autonomous Driving: ONCE Dataset, 2021, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Knowledge Distillation via the Target-aware Transformer, 2022, 2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
  • Exploring Inter-Channel Correlation for Diversity-preserved Knowledge Distillation, 2021, 2021 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)

Overall, Xiaodan Liang's research activity is notable for its breadth across topics in machine learning and computer vision, with a consistent presence in leading academic conferences and repositories. Their collaborations and publication venues indicate active engagement within the scientific community specializing in artificial intelligence and related areas.

Best Publications

  • Is Faster R-CNN Doing Well for Pedestrian Detection?

    Liliang Zhang;Liang Lin;Xiaodan Liang;Kaiming He

  • Object Region Mining with Adversarial Erasing: A Simple Classification to Semantic Segmentation Approach

    Yunchao Wei;Jiashi Feng;Xiaodan Liang;Ming-Ming Cheng

  • Perceptual Generative Adversarial Networks for Small Object Detection

    Jianan Li;Xiaodan Liang;Yunchao Wei;Tingfa Xu

  • Toward controlled generation of text

    Zhiting Hu;Zichao Yang;Xiaodan Liang;Ruslan Salakhutdinov

  • Scale-Aware Fast R-CNN for Pedestrian Detection

    Jianan Li;Xiaodan Liang;Shengmei Shen;Tingfa Xu

  • STC: A Simple to Complex Framework for Weakly-Supervised Semantic Segmentation

    Yunchao Wei;Xiaodan Liang;Yunpeng Chen;Xiaohui Shen

  • Meta R-CNN: Towards General Solver for Instance-Level Low-Shot Learning

    Xiaopeng Yan;Ziliang Chen;Anni Xu;Xiaoxi Wang

  • Look into Person: Self-Supervised Structure-Sensitive Learning and a New Benchmark for Human Parsing

    Ke Gong;Xiaodan Liang;Dongyu Zhang;Xiaohui Shen

  • Semantic Object Parsing with Graph LSTM

    Xiaodan Liang;Xiaohui Shen;Jiashi Feng;Liang Lin

  • Toward Characteristic-Preserving Image-Based Virtual Try-On Network

    Bochao Wang;Huabin Zheng;Xiaodan Liang;Yimin Chen

  • Dual Motion GAN for Future-Flow Embedded Video Prediction

    Xiaodan Liang;Lisa Lee;Wei Dai;Eric P. Xing

  • Look into Person: Joint Body Parsing & Pose Estimation Network and a New Benchmark

    Xiaodan Liang;Ke Gong;Xiaohui Shen;Liang Lin

  • Instance-Level Human Parsing via Part Grouping Network.

    Ke Gong;Xiaodan Liang;Yicheng Li;Yimin Chen

  • Rethinking Knowledge Graph Propagation for Zero-Shot Learning

    Michael Kampffmeyer;Yinbo Chen;Xiaodan Liang;Hao Wang

  • Peak-Piloted Deep Network for Facial Expression Recognition

    Xiangyun Zhao;Xiaodan Liang;Luoqi Liu;Teng Li

  • Human Parsing with Contextualized Convolutional Neural Network

    Xiaodan Liang;Chunyan Xu;Xiaohui Shen;Jianchao Yang

  • Deep Human Parsing with Active Template Regression

    Xiaodan Liang;Si Liu;Xiaohui Shen;Jianchao Yang

  • Knowledge-Driven Encode, Retrieve, Paraphrase for Medical Image Report Generation

    Christy Y. Li;Xiaodan Liang;Zhiting Hu;Eric P. Xing

  • Poseidon: an efficient communication architecture for distributed deep learning on GPU clusters

    Hao Zhang;Zeyu Zheng;Shizhen Xu;Wei Dai

  • Adversarial Geometry-Aware Human Motion Prediction

    Liang-Yan Gui;Yu-Xiong Wang;Xiaodan Liang;José M. F. Moura

  • Proposal-Free Network for Instance-Level Object Segmentation

    Xiaodan Liang;Liang Lin;Yunchao Wei;Xiaohui Shen

  • Hybrid Retrieval-Generation Reinforced Agent for Medical Image Report Generation

    Yuan Li;Xiaodan Liang;Zhiting Hu;Eric P. Xing

Frequent Co-Authors

Liang Lin
Liang Lin Sun Yat-sen University
Eric P. Xing
Eric P. Xing Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence
Shuicheng Yan
Shuicheng Yan National University of Singapore
Zhiting Hu
Zhiting Hu University of California, San Diego
Xiaohui Shen
Xiaohui Shen ByteDance
Jiashi Feng
Jiashi Feng ByteDance
Yunchao Wei
Yunchao Wei Beijing Jiaotong University
Zhenguo Li
Zhenguo Li Huawei Technologies (China)
Hao Zhang
Hao Zhang Simon Fraser University
Jianchao Yang
Jianchao Yang ByteDance

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