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Advanced Image Processing Techniques

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Jingyun Liang
ETH Zurich
2
Bernhard Kerbl
Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies du numérique
3
Yifan Jiang
The University of Texas at Austin
4
Hanting Chen
Huawei Technologies (Sweden)
5
Xintao Wang
Ganzhou People's Hospital
6
Chitwan Saharia
Google (United States)
7
Andreas Lugmayr
Google (United States)
8
Yuning Cui
Technical University of Munich
9
Yuda Song
Zhejiang University
10
Dan Hendrycks
Meso Scale Discovery (United States)

Rising Stars Papers

1
Omni-Kernel Network for Image Restoration
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence|2024
222 cit.
2
VRT: A Video Restoration Transformer
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing|2024
181 cit.
3
Revitalizing Convolutional Network for Image Restoration
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence|2024
179 cit.
4
A Hierarchical 3D Gaussian Representation for Real-Time Rendering of Very Large Datasets
ACM Transactions on Graphics|2024
143 cit.
5
EENet: An effective and efficient network for single image dehazing
Pattern Recognition|2024
70 cit.
6
Experimental investigation on in-cylinder working process and thermal efficiency of ammonia/diesel low-carbon engine with pre-injection strategy
Applied Thermal Engineering|2024
41 cit.
7
Modumer: Modulating Transformer for Image Restoration
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems|2025
30 cit.
8
Omni-Kernel Modulation for Universal Image Restoration
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology|2024
26 cit.
9
Exploring the Potential of Pooling Techniques for Universal Image Restoration
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing|2025
19 cit.
10
Enhancing Local–Global Representation Learning for Image Restoration
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics|2024
13 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Wenzhe Shi
Digital China Health (China)
2
Radu Timofte
ETH Zurich
3
Zehan Wang
Shandong University
4
Stephen Paul Smolley
Hatch (Canada)
5
Zhangyang Wang
The University of Texas at Austin
6
Chongyi Li
Nankai University
7
Chao Dong
Chinese Academy of Sciences
8
Runmin Cong
Beijing Jiaotong University
9
Jonathon Shlens
Google (United States)
10
Dmitry Ulyanov
Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
Activating More Pixels in Image Super-Resolution Transformer
Unknown Journal|2023
993 cit.
2
Underwater Image Enhancement via Minimal Color Loss and Locally Adaptive Contrast Enhancement
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing|2022
792 cit.
3
Image Dehazing Transformer with Transmission-Aware 3D Position Embedding
2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)|2022
484 cit.
4
Underwater Image Enhancement With Hyper-Laplacian Reflectance Priors
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing|2022
479 cit.
5
Underwater Image Enhancement via Weighted Wavelet Visual Perception Fusion
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology|2023
338 cit.
6
Underwater Image Enhancement by Attenuated Color Channel Correction and Detail Preserved Contrast Enhancement
IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering|2022
313 cit.
7
PUGAN: Physical Model-Guided Underwater Image Enhancement Using GAN With Dual-Discriminators
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing|2023
285 cit.
8
Blueprint Separable Residual Network for Efficient Image Super-Resolution
2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW)|2022
253 cit.
9
Video super-resolution based on deep learning: a comprehensive survey
Artificial Intelligence Review|2022
220 cit.
10
Non-Uniform Illumination Underwater Image Restoration via Illumination Channel Sparsity Prior
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology|2023
201 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Geoffrey E. Hinton
University of Toronto
2
Alexei A. Efros
Berkeley College
3
Lei Zhang
Nanjing University
4
Ming–Hsuan Yang
University of California, Merced
5
Björn Ommer
Heidelberg University
6
Kyoung Mu Lee
Seoul National University
7
Alan C. Bovik
The University of Texas at Austin
8
Peyman Milanfar
University of California, Santa Cruz
9
Jiaya Jia
Chinese University of Hong Kong
10
Ramin Zabih
Cornell University

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
ImageNet classification with deep convolutional neural networks
Communications of the ACM|2017
75.7k cit.
2
Visualizing Data using t-SNE
Journal of Machine Learning Research|2008
35.7k cit.
3
Unpaired Image-to-Image Translation Using Cycle-Consistent Adversarial Networks
Unknown Journal|2017
21.9k cit.
4
Reducing the Dimensionality of Data with Neural Networks
Science|2006
21k cit.
5
A Fast Learning Algorithm for Deep Belief Nets
Neural Computation|2006
16.4k cit.
6
Pyramid Scene Parsing Network
Unknown Journal|2017
15.5k cit.
7
High-Resolution Image Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Models
2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)|2022
13.7k cit.
8
Rectified Linear Units Improve Restricted Boltzmann Machines
International Conference on Machine Learning|2010
13.2k cit.
9
Deep Neural Networks for Acoustic Modeling in Speech Recognition: The Shared Views of Four Research Groups
IEEE Signal Processing Magazine|2012
10.3k cit.
10
Speech recognition with deep recurrent neural networks
Unknown Journal|2013
8.8k cit.

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