2026 Zongben Xu: 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	88	690	669	101	99	446	27357

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

Overview

Zongben Xu is affiliated with Xi'an Jiaotong University in China and conducts research primarily in the fields of Computer Science and Engineering. Their work spans several subfields, including Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Artificial Intelligence, Media Technology, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, and Biomedical Engineering.

The scientist's research topics include Remote-Sensing Image Classification, Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning, Advanced Image Fusion Techniques, Generative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis, Advanced Neural Network Applications, Face and Expression Recognition, and Machine Learning and Data Classification.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Zongben Xu include:

Deyu Meng (13 publications)
Jian Sun (7 publications)
Qian Zhao (4 publications)
Jing Yao (4 publications)
Danfeng Hong (4 publications)

Major venues in which the scientist has published are:

arXiv (Cornell University), 11 publications
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 4 publications
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2 publications
National Science Review, 2 publications
IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 1 publication

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Zongben Xu include:

"MHF-Net: An Interpretable Deep Network for Multispectral and Hyperspectral Image Fusion," 2020, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
"Unsupervised MR-to-CT Synthesis Using Structure-Constrained CycleGAN," 2020, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging
"Multimodal GANs: Toward Crossmodal Hyperspectral-Multispectral Image Segmentation," 2020, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
"Polarimetric SAR Image Semantic Segmentation With 3D Discrete Wavelet Transform and Markov Random Field," 2020, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
"Sparsity-Enhanced Convolutional Decomposition: A Novel Tensor-Based Paradigm for Blind Hyperspectral Unmixing," 2021, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Best Publications

Image super-resolution using gradient profile prior

Jian Sun;Zongben Xu;Heung-Yeung Shum

1217
Citations
$L_{1/2}$ Regularization: A Thresholding Representation Theory and a Fast Solver

Zongben Xu;Xiangyu Chang;Fengmin Xu;Hai Zhang

1156
Citations
Deep ADMM-Net for compressive sensing MRI

Yan Yang;Jian Sun;Huibin Li;Zongben Xu

1059
Citations
Learning a convolutional neural network for non-uniform motion blur removal

Jian Sun;Wenfei Cao;Zongben Xu;Jean Ponce

946
Citations
ADMM-CSNet: A Deep Learning Approach for Image Compressive Sensing

Yan Yang;Jian Sun;Huibin Li;Zongben Xu

784
Citations
Image Inpainting by Patch Propagation Using Patch Sparsity

Zongben Xu;Jian Sun

746
Citations
Model-Driven Deep Learning for Physical Layer Communications

Hengtao He;Shi Jin;Chao-Kai Wen;Feifei Gao

668
Citations
Meta-Weight-Net: Learning an Explicit Mapping For Sample Weighting

Jun Shu;Qi Xie;Lixuan Yi;Qian Zhao

536
Citations
Determination of the spread parameter in the Gaussian kernel for classification and regression

Wenjian Wang;Zongben Xu;Weizhen Lu;Xiaoyun Zhang

531
Citations
Hyperspectral Image Classification With Markov Random Fields and a Convolutional Neural Network

Xiangyong Cao;Feng Zhou;Lin Xu;Deyu Meng

451
Citations
Clustering by scale-space filtering

Yee Leung;Jiang-She Zhang;Zong-Ben Xu

448
Citations
Semi-Supervised Transfer Learning for Image Rain Removal

Wei Wei;Deyu Meng;Qian Zhao;Zongben Xu

430
Citations
Characteristic inequalities of uniformly convex and uniformly smooth Banach spaces

Zong-Ben Xu;G.F Roach

418
Citations
Gradient Profile Prior and Its Applications in Image Super-Resolution and Enhancement

Jian Sun;Zongben Xu;Heung-Yeung Shum

398
Citations
Decomposable Nonlocal Tensor Dictionary Learning for Multispectral Image Denoising

Yi Peng;Deyu Meng;Zongben Xu;Chenqiang Gao

379
Citations
Hyperspectral Image Classification With Convolutional Neural Network and Active Learning

Xiangyong Cao;Jing Yao;Zongben Xu;Deyu Meng

338
Citations
Degree of population diversity - a perspective on premature convergence in genetic algorithms and its Markov chain analysis

Yee Leung;Yong Gao;Zong-Ben Xu

317
Citations
Kronecker-Basis-Representation Based Tensor Sparsity and Its Applications to Tensor Recovery

Qi Xie;Qian Zhao;Deyu Meng;Zongben Xu

305
Citations
Fast Compressed Sensing SAR Imaging Based on Approximated Observation

Jian Fang;Zongben Xu;Bingchen Zhang;Wen Hong

299
Citations
Universal Approximation of Extreme Learning Machine With Adaptive Growth of Hidden Nodes

Rui Zhang;Yuan Lan;Guang-Bin Huang;Zong-Ben Xu

282
Citations
Multispectral and Hyperspectral Image Fusion by MS/HS Fusion Net

Qi Xie;Minghao Zhou;Qian Zhao;Deyu Meng

273
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Deyu Meng Xi'an Jiaotong University

Qian Zhao Xi'an Jiaotong University

Jian Sun Megvii

Kwong-Sak Leung Chinese University of Hong Kong

Yee Leung Chinese University of Hong Kong

Hong Qiao Chinese Academy of Sciences

Ting-Zhu Huang University of Electronic Science and Technology of China

Xi-Le Zhao University of Electronic Science and Technology of China

Guang-Bin Huang Nanyang Technological University

Yuan Yan Tang University of Macau

External Links

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