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70
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1879
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Zhenan Sun 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 Zhenan Sun sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 317 publications — 77th percentile

77% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Zhenan Sun 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 Zhenan Sun sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 70 D-Index — 87th percentile

87% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2016 - Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) For contributions to automatic iris recognition and applications

Overview

Zhenan Sun is affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China and has made significant contributions in the field of computer science, with a particular focus on computer vision and pattern recognition.

Their research primarily covers the following subfields:

  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Signal Processing
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Neurology

Main topics of their work include:

  • Face recognition and analysis
  • Generative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis
  • Biometric Identification and Security
  • Human Pose and Action Recognition
  • Video Surveillance and Tracking Methods
  • Advanced Image Processing Techniques
  • Digital Media Forensic Detection

Zhenan Sun has published extensively in a variety of venues. The most frequent publication venues are:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security
  • IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
  • International Journal of Computer Vision
  • IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Noteworthy recent papers by Zhenan Sun include:

  • A Review on Generative Adversarial Networks: Algorithms, Theory, and Applications, 2021, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
  • PyMAF: 3D Human Pose and Shape Regression with Pyramidal Mesh Alignment Feedback Loop, 2021, 2021 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
  • A Review on Generative Adversarial Networks: Algorithms, Theory, and Applications, 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • A Survey on Self-Supervised Learning: Algorithms, Applications, and Future Trends, 2024, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
  • Towards Complete and Accurate Iris Segmentation Using Deep Multi-Task Attention Network for Non-Cooperative Iris Recognition, 2020, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Yunlong Wang
  • Qi Li
  • Kunbo Zhang
  • Muyi Sun
  • Yunfan Liu

Zhenan Sun has also contributed to book publications, notably with Springer Science+Business Media. Titles include:

  • Biometric Recognition, 2022
  • Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision, 2020

In terms of recognition, Zhenan Sun was awarded the Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) in 2016 for contributions to automatic iris recognition and applications.

Best Publications

  • A Review on Generative Adversarial Networks: Algorithms, Theory, and Applications

    Jie Gui;Zhenan Sun;Yonggang Wen;Dacheng Tao

  • A Light CNN for Deep Face Representation With Noisy Labels

    Xiang Wu;Ran He;Zhenan Sun;Tieniu Tan

  • Ordinal palmprint represention for personal identification [represention read representation]

    Zhenan Sun;Tieniu Tan;Yunhong Wang;S.Z. Li

  • Toward Accurate and Fast Iris Segmentation for Iris Biometrics

    Zhaofeng He;Tieniu Tan;Zhenan Sun;Xianchao Qiu

  • Wavelet-SRNet: A Wavelet-Based CNN for Multi-scale Face Super Resolution

    Huaibo Huang;Ran He;Zhenan Sun;Tieniu Tan

  • Ordinal Measures for Iris Recognition

    Zhenan Sun;Tieniu Tan

  • Efficient and robust segmentation of noisy iris images for non-cooperative iris recognition

    Tieniu Tan;Zhaofeng He;Zhenan Sun

  • Half-Quadratic-Based Iterative Minimization for Robust Sparse Representation

    Ran He;Wei-Shi Zheng;Tieniu Tan;Zhenan Sun

  • Feature Selection Based on Structured Sparsity: A Comprehensive Study

    Jie Gui;Zhenan Sun;Shuiwang Ji;Dacheng Tao

  • Deep Spatial Feature Reconstruction for Partial Person Re-identification: Alignment-free Approach

    Lingxiao He;Jian Liang;Haiqing Li;Zhenan Sun

  • Wasserstein CNN: Learning Invariant Features for NIR-VIS Face Recognition

    Ran He;Xiang Wu;Zhenan Sun;Tieniu Tan

  • PyMAF: 3D Human Pose and Shape Regression With Pyramidal Mesh Alignment Feedback Loop

    Hongwen Zhang;Yating Tian;Xinchi Zhou;Wanli Ouyang

  • Discriminant sparse neighborhood preserving embedding for face recognition

    Jie Gui;Zhenan Sun;Wei Jia;Rongxiang Hu

  • Fast Supervised Discrete Hashing

    Jie Gui;Tongliang Liu;Zhenan Sun;Dacheng Tao

  • IntroVAE: Introspective Variational Autoencoders for Photographic Image Synthesis

    Huaibo Huang;zhihang li;Ran He;Zhenan Sun

  • A fast and robust iris localization method based on texture segmentation

    Jiali Cui;Yunhong Wang;Tieniu Tan;Li Ma

  • Multispectral palm image fusion for accurate contact-free palmprint recognition

    Ying Hao;Zhenan Sun;Tieniu Tan;Chao Ren

  • Deep Supervised Discrete Hashing

    Qi Li;Zhenan Sun;Ran He;Tieniu Tan

  • Pose-Guided Photorealistic Face Rotation

    Yibo Hu;Xiang Wu;Bing Yu;Ran He

  • Accurate iris segmentation in non-cooperative environments using fully convolutional networks

    Nianfeng Liu;Haiqing Li;Man Zhang;Jing Liu

  • A Lightened CNN for Deep Face Representation

    Xiang Wu;Ran He;Zhenan Sun

Frequent Co-Authors

Tieniu Tan
Tieniu Tan Chinese Academy of Sciences
Ran He
Ran He Chinese Academy of Sciences
Yunhong Wang
Yunhong Wang Beihang University
Dacheng Tao
Dacheng Tao Nanyang Technological University
Stan Z. Li
Stan Z. Li Westlake University
Tongliang Liu
Tongliang Liu University of Sydney
Wanli Ouyang
Wanli Ouyang Shanghai AI Lab
Wu Liu
Wu Liu University of Science and Technology of China
Shuiwang Ji
Shuiwang Ji Texas A&M University
Shengcai Liao
Shengcai Liao United Arab Emirates University

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