2026 Xilin Chen: 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	103	323	313	38	36	580	41831

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Computer Science in China Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Computer Science in China Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Computer Science in China Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Computer Science in China Leader Award
2019 - ACM Fellow For contributions to face and sign language recognition and multimedia systems
2016 - Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) For contributions to image modeling and object recognition
2016 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to machine vision for facial image analysis and sign language recognition

Overview

Xilin Chen is affiliated with the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences in China and has contributed extensively to research in computer science, particularly in computer vision and pattern recognition. Their scholarly work spans over 320 publications, with significant subfields including Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Artificial Intelligence, Signal Processing, Surgery, and Biomedical Engineering.

The scientist's research topics cover a broad spectrum of areas within machine learning and image analysis, including:

Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning
Face recognition and analysis
Human Pose and Action Recognition
Multimodal Machine Learning Applications
Advanced Neural Network Applications
Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques
Video Surveillance and Tracking Methods

Xilin Chen has published work in various notable venues, including:

arXiv (Cornell University)
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
2021 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
Pattern Recognition
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Recent papers feature a range of topics and venues, such as:

"OCNet: Object Context for Semantic Segmentation," 2021, International Journal of Computer Vision
"Clothes-Changing Person Re-identification with RGB Modality Only," 2022, 2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
"Visual Alignment Constraint for Continuous Sign Language Recognition," 2021, 2021 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
"Unsupervised Adversarial Domain Adaptation for Cross-Domain Face Presentation Attack Detection," 2020, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security
"HRFormer: High-Resolution Transformer for Dense Prediction," 2021, arXiv (Cornell University)

The scientist has collaborated frequently with co-authors including:

Shiguang Shan
Ruiping Wang
Hong Chang
Bingpeng Ma
Ruibing Hou

In terms of book publications, Xilin Chen has contributed 13 books published by Springer Science+Business Media. These works share the title Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision across multiple editions from 2020 to 2023.

The scientist has received recognitions such as:

ACM Fellow (2019) for contributions to face and sign language recognition and multimedia systems
Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) (2016) for contributions to image modeling and object recognition
IEEE Fellow (2016) for contributions to machine vision for facial image analysis and sign language recognition

Best Publications

Deep Supervised Hashing for Fast Image Retrieval

Haomiao Liu;Ruiping Wang;Shiguang Shan;Xilin Chen

1612
Citations
The CAS-PEAL Large-Scale Chinese Face Database and Baseline Evaluations

Wen Gao;Bo Cao;Shiguang Shan;Xilin Chen

1451
Citations
Local Gabor binary pattern histogram sequence (LGBPHS): a novel non-statistical model for face representation and recognition

Wenchao Zhang;Shiguang Shan;Wen Gao;Xilin Chen

1441
Citations
WLD: A Robust Local Image Descriptor

Jie Chen;Shiguang Shan;Chu He;Guoying Zhao

1318
Citations
Object-Contextual Representations for Semantic Segmentation

Yuhui Yuan;Xilin Chen;Jingdong Wang

1080
Citations
Occlusion Aware Facial Expression Recognition Using CNN With Attention Mechanism

Yong Li;Jiabei Zeng;Shiguang Shan;Xilin Chen

837
Citations
AttGAN: Facial Attribute Editing by Only Changing What You Want

Zhenliang He;Wangmeng Zuo;Meina Kan;Shiguang Shan

820
Citations
Multi-View Discriminant Analysis

Meina Kan;Shiguang Shan;Haihong Zhang;Shihong Lao

790
Citations
Histogram of Gabor Phase Patterns (HGPP): A Novel Object Representation Approach for Face Recognition

Baochang Zhang;Shiguang Shan;Xilin Chen;Wen Gao

772
Citations
Self-Supervised Equivariant Attention Mechanism for Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation

Yude Wang;Jie Zhang;Meina Kan;Shiguang Shan

765
Citations
Coarse-to-Fine Auto-Encoder Networks (CFAN) for Real-Time Face Alignment

Jie Zhang;Shiguang Shan;Meina Kan;Xilin Chen

671
Citations
Dynamic R-CNN: Towards High Quality Object Detection via Dynamic Training

Hongkai Zhang;Hong Chang;Bingpeng Ma;Naiyan Wang

603
Citations
Manifold-Manifold Distance with application to face recognition based on image set

Ruiping Wang;Shiguang Shan;Xilin Chen;Wen Gao

548
Citations
Fusing Local Patterns of Gabor Magnitude and Phase for Face Recognition

Shufu Xie;Shiguang Shan;Xilin Chen;Jie Chen

494
Citations
Segmentation Transformer: Object-Contextual Representations for Semantic Segmentation

Yuhui Yuan;Xiaokang Chen;Xilin Chen;Jingdong Wang

491
Citations
Hierarchical Ensemble of Global and Local Classifiers for Face Recognition

Yu Su;Shiguang Shan;Xilin Chen;Wen Gao

454
Citations
Learning Expressionlets on Spatio-temporal Manifold for Dynamic Facial Expression Recognition

Mengyi Liu;Shiguang Shan;Ruiping Wang;Xilin Chen

434
Citations
Automatic detection and recognition of signs from natural scenes

Xilin Chen;Jie Yang;Jing Zhang;A. Waibel

425
Citations
Interaction-And-Aggregation Network for Person Re-Identification

Ruibing Hou;Bingpeng Ma;Hong Chang;Xinqian Gu

417
Citations
Cross Attention Network for Few-shot Classification

Ruibing Hou;Hong Chang;Bingpeng Ma;Shiguang Shan

414
Citations
Manifold Discriminant Analysis

Ruiping Wang;Xilin Chen

374
Citations
UniViLM: A Unified Video and Language Pre-Training Model for Multimodal Understanding and Generation.

Huaishao Luo;Lei Ji;Botian Shi;Haoyang Huang

126
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Shiguang Shan Chinese Academy of Sciences

Wen Gao Peking University

Ruiping Wang Chinese Academy of Sciences

Hong Chang Chinese Academy of Sciences

Meina Kan Chinese Academy of Sciences

Hu Han Chinese Academy of Sciences

Jie Yang Carnegie Mellon University

Debin Zhao Harbin Institute of Technology

Hongxun Yao Harbin Institute of Technology

Shihong Lao SenseTime

External Links

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