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Computer Science
China
2025

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Computer Science

D-Index
87
Citations
32766
World Ranking
719
National Ranking
107

Research.com Recognitions

  • 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 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 2017 - ACM Fellow For contributions to image, video and multimedia analysis, understanding, and retrieval
  • 2016 - Edward J. McCluskey Technical Achievement Award, IEEE Computer Society For pioneering contributions to multimedia analysis and retrieval
  • 2012 - SPIE Fellow
  • 2012 - Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) For contributions to visual pattern analysis, recognition and retrieval
  • 2009 - ACM Distinguished Member
  • 2006 - ACM Senior Member
  • The Canadian Academy of Engineering
  • The Canadian Academy of Engineering
  • The Canadian Academy of Engineering

Overview

Yong Rui is affiliated with Lenovo (China) in China and specializes in computer science with a focus on subfields such as computer vision and pattern recognition, artificial intelligence, information systems, biomedical engineering, and industrial and manufacturing engineering.

Their research covers a range of topics, including:

  • Multimodal Machine Learning Applications
  • Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning
  • Human Pose and Action Recognition
  • Text and Document Classification Technologies
  • Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques
  • Image Retrieval and Classification Techniques
  • Advanced Graph Neural Networks

Yong Rui has contributed multiple papers published in well-known venues. Recent papers include:

  • "Hierarchical User Intent Graph Network for Multimedia Recommendation" (2021), IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
  • "Graph Attention Transformer Network for Multi-label Image Classification" (2022), ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications
  • "Self-Supervised Agent Learning for Unsupervised Cross-Domain Person Re-Identification" (2020), IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
  • "Convolution-Enhanced Bi-Branch Adaptive Transformer With Cross-Task Interaction for Food Category and Ingredient Recognition" (2024), IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
  • "A Survey on Video Moment Localization" (2022), ACM Computing Surveys

Their frequent coauthors include Zhongchao Shi, Jianping Fan, Xin Geng, Jin Yuan, and Meng Wang.

Yong Rui's work has been published predominantly in the following venues:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
  • ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications
  • IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
  • Proceedings of the 30th ACM International Conference on Multimedia

Awards and recognitions received by Yong Rui:

  • Member of Academia Europaea (2019)
  • ACM Fellow (2017) for contributions to image, video and multimedia analysis, understanding, and retrieval
  • Edward J. McCluskey Technical Achievement Award, IEEE Computer Society (2016) for pioneering contributions to multimedia analysis and retrieval
  • SPIE Fellow (2012)
  • Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) (2012) for contributions to visual pattern analysis, recognition and retrieval
  • ACM Distinguished Member (2009)
  • ACM Senior Member (2006)
  • The Canadian Academy of Engineering (year unspecified)

Best Publications

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

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

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

    Unknown

  • MSR-VTT: A Large Video Description Dataset for Bridging Video and Language

    Jun Xu;Tao Mei;Ting Yao;Yong Rui

  • Content-based image retrieval with relevance feedback in MARS

    Y. Rui;T.S. Huang;S. Mehrotra

  • Adaptive key frame extraction using unsupervised clustering

    Yueting Zhuang;Yong Rui;T.S. Huang;S. Mehrotra

  • Automatically extracting highlights for TV Baseball programs

    Yong Rui;Anoop Gupta;Alex Acero

  • GeoMF: joint geographical modeling and matrix factorization for point-of-interest recommendation

    Defu Lian;Cong Zhao;Xing Xie;Guangzhong Sun

  • Correlative multi-label video annotation

    Guo-Jun Qi;Xian-Sheng Hua;Yong Rui;Jinhui Tang

  • Jointly Modeling Embedding and Translation to Bridge Video and Language

    Yingwei Pan;Tao Mei;Ting Yao;Houqiang Li

  • Click Prediction for Web Image Reranking Using Multimodal Sparse Coding

    Jun Yu;Yong Rui;Dacheng Tao

  • system and method for distributed meetings

    Ross Cutler;Yong Rui;Anoop Gupta

  • Optimizing learning in image retrieval

    Y. Rui;T. Huang

  • Hierarchical Deep Click Feature Prediction for Fine-grained Image Recognition.

    Jun Yu;Min Tan;Hongyuan Zhang;Dacheng Tao

  • Learning to Rank Using User Clicks and Visual Features for Image Retrieval

    Jun Yu;Dacheng Tao;Meng Wang;Yong Rui

  • Better proposal distributions: object tracking using unscented particle filter

    Yong Rui;Yunqiang Chen

  • Systems and methods for novel real-time audio-visual communication and data collaboration

    Eric Rudolph;Yong Rui;Henrique Malvar;Li-wei He

  • Constructing table-of-content for videos

    Yong Rui;Thomas S. Huang;Sharad Mehrotra

  • Supporting similarity queries in MARS

    Michael Ortega;Yong Rui;Kaushik Chakrabarti;Sharad Mehrotra

  • Distributed meetings: a meeting capture and broadcasting system

    Ross Cutler;Yong Rui;Anoop Gupta;JJ Cadiz

  • Highlight Detection with Pairwise Deep Ranking for First-Person Video Summarization

    Ting Yao;Tao Mei;Yong Rui

  • Proceedings of the 22nd ACM international conference on Multimedia

    Kien A. Hua;Yong Rui;Ralf Steinmetz;Alan Hanjalic

  • IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS FOR VIDEO TECHNOLOGY Editor-in-Chief

    Chang Wen Chen;Hamid Gharavi;Thomas Sikora;Ishfaq Ahmad

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas S. Huang
Thomas S. Huang University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Tao Mei
Tao Mei Jingdong (China)
Cha Zhang
Cha Zhang Microsoft (United States)
Ting Yao
Ting Yao University of Science and Technology of China
Dacheng Tao
Dacheng Tao Nanyang Technological University
Qi Tian
Qi Tian Huawei Technologies (China)
Sharad Mehrotra
Sharad Mehrotra University of California, Irvine
Guo-Jun Qi
Guo-Jun Qi Futurewei Technologies
Xing Xie
Xing Xie Microsoft Research Asia (China)

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