Leaderboards/Image Processing and 3D Reconstruction

Image Processing and 3D Reconstruction

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Shengyu Huang
ETH Zurich
2
Minghao Li
Northwestern Polytechnical University
3
Antoine Guédon
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
4
Axel Sauer
Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems
5
Shi-Xue Zhang
University of Science and Technology Beijing
6
Steve Kench
Korea Polar Research Institute
7
Nico Engel
Universität Ulm
8
Xiaohan Ding
Tencent (China)
9
Gihyun Kwon
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
10
Sara Rolfe
Seattle Children's Hospital

Rising Stars Papers

1
SuGaR: Surface-Aligned Gaussian Splatting for Efficient 3D Mesh Reconstruction and High-Quality Mesh Rendering
Unknown Journal|2024
363 cit.
2
UniRepLKNet: A Universal Perception Large-Kernel ConvNet for Audio, Video, Point Cloud, Time-Series and Image Recognition
Unknown Journal|2024
274 cit.
3
Li-ion battery design through microstructural optimization using generative AI
Matter|2024
47 cit.
4
Inverse-Like Antagonistic Scene Text Spotting via Reading-Order Estimation and Dynamic Sampling
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing|2024
16 cit.
5
Concept Weaver: Enabling Multi-Concept Fusion in Text-to-Image Models
Unknown Journal|2024
8 cit.
6
Dynamic LiDAR Re-Simulation Using Compositional Neural Fields
Unknown Journal|2024
7 cit.
7
A fish evasion behavior-based vector field histogram method for obstacle avoidance of multi-UAVs
Aerospace Science and Technology|2025
6 cit.
8
Streamlining asymmetry quantification in fetal mouse imaging: A semi‐automated pipeline supported by expert guidance
Developmental Dynamics|2025
5 cit.
9
3D Gaussian Inpainting with Depth-Guided Cross-View Consistency
Unknown Journal|2025
5 cit.
10
MAtCha Gaussians: Atlas of Charts for High-Quality Geometry and Photorealism From Sparse Views
Unknown Journal|2025
3 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Hwalsuk Lee
Naver (South Korea)
2
Hannes Svardal
Naturalis Biodiversity Center
3
Maysoon Khazaal Abbas Maaroof
University of Sfax
4
Zenghui Sun
Alibaba Group (United States)
5
Junyu Han
Baidu (China)
6
Kyunghyun Cho
Université de Montréal
7
Maria Soprano
Federico II University Hospital
8
Steve Branson
California Institute of Technology
9
Errui Ding
Vision Technology (United States)
10
Stuart James
Durham University

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
Rope3D: The Roadside Perception Dataset for Autonomous Driving and Monocular 3D Object Detection Task
2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)|2022
138 cit.
2
MobileFaceSwap: A Lightweight Framework for Video Face Swapping
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence|2022
62 cit.
3
Predict, Prevent, and Evaluate: Disentangled Text-Driven Image Manipulation Empowered by Pre-Trained Vision-Language Model
2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)|2022
38 cit.
4
Towards Bidirectional Arbitrary Image Rescaling: Joint Optimization and Cycle Idempotence
2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)|2022
36 cit.
5
Box-Grained Reranking Matching for Multi-Camera Multi-Target Tracking
2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW)|2022
29 cit.
6
Adversarial Dual-Student With Differentiable Spatial Warping for Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology|2022
22 cit.
7
Introgression dynamics of sex-linked chromosomal inversions shape the Malawi cichlid radiation
Science|2025
20 cit.
8
HD-Fusion: Detailed Text-to-3D Generation Leveraging Multiple Noise Estimation
Unknown Journal|2024
18 cit.
9
KD-DETR: Knowledge Distillation for Detection Transformer with Consistent Distillation Points Sampling
Unknown Journal|2024
17 cit.
10
PMF-GRN: a variational inference approach to single-cell gene regulatory network inference using probabilistic matrix factorization
Genome biology|2024
16 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
John Wheeler
University of Liverpool
2
Leonidas Guibas
Stanford University
3
Bas Kempen
Wageningen University & Research
4
Paul Longley
Nanjing Normal University
5
Josef Kittler
University of Surrey
6
Cong Yao
Tianjin University
7
Martial Hebert
Carnegie Mellon University
8
J. Andrés Christen
Mathematics Research Center
9
Robert B. Fisher
University of Edinburgh
10
Sargur N. Srihari
New York University

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
<i>The Fractal Geometry of Nature</i>
American Journal of Physics|1983
21.9k cit.
2
PointNet: Deep Learning on Point Sets for 3D Classification and Segmentation
Unknown Journal|2017
9.8k cit.
3
The Fractal Geometry of Nature
Unknown Journal|1982
5.5k cit.
4
On combining classifiers
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence|1998
5.3k cit.
5
SoilGrids250m: Global gridded soil information based on machine learning
PLoS ONE|2017
4.7k cit.
6
Flexible paleoclimate age-depth models using an autoregressive gamma process
Bayesian Analysis|2011
3.8k cit.
7
An End-to-End Trainable Neural Network for Image-Based Sequence Recognition and Its Application to Scene Text Recognition
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence|2016
3.1k cit.
8
Floating search methods in feature selection
Pattern Recognition Letters|1994
3.1k cit.
9
Direct least square fitting of ellipses
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence|1999
2.7k cit.
10
Stability of a Schwarzschild Singularity
Physical Review|1957
2.7k cit.

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