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Visual Attention and Saliency Detection

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Wenhai Wang
Zhejiang University
2
Meng-Hao Guo
Tsinghua University
3
Linfeng Tang
Wuhan University
4
Zhuofan Xia
Tsinghua University
5
Haiyang Mei
National University of Singapore
6
Yu-Huan Wu
Agency for Science, Technology and Research
7
Stéphane d’Ascoli
Université Paris Sciences et Lettres
8
Ge-Peng Ji
Australian National University
9
Yehao Li
Sun Yat-sen University
10
Hang Wang
Linyi University

Rising Stars Papers

1
GSVA: Generalized Segmentation via Multimodal Large Language Models
Unknown Journal|2024
44 cit.
2
DRMF: Degradation-Robust Multi-Modal Image Fusion via Composable Diffusion Prior
Unknown Journal|2024
31 cit.
3
C2RF: Bridging Multi-modal Image Registration and Fusion via Commonality Mining and Contrastive Learning
International Journal of Computer Vision|2025
31 cit.
4
Detection of SARS-CoV-2 using machine learning-enabled paper-assisted ratiometric fluorescent sensors based on target-induced magnetic DNAzyme
Biosensors and Bioelectronics|2024
16 cit.
5
Fast dentification of overlapping fluorescence spectra of oil species based on LDA and two-dimensional convolutional neural network
Spectrochimica Acta Part A Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy|2024
13 cit.
6
Mask-DiFuser: A Masked Diffusion Model for Unified Unsupervised Image Fusion
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence|2025
13 cit.
7
Towards decoding individual words from non-invasive brain recordings
Nature Communications|2025
11 cit.
8
Rethinking Polyp Segmentation From An Out-of-distribution Perspective
Machine Intelligence Research|2024
10 cit.
9
Bridging the Divide: Reconsidering Softmax and Linear Attention
Unknown Journal|2024
9 cit.
10
Tram: A Token-level Retrieval-augmented Mechanism for Source Code Summarization
Unknown Journal|2024
8 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Tong He
Sichuan University
2
Ming‐Ming Cheng
Nankai University
3
Tian Xia
The University of Sydney
4
Eleonora Vig
Amazon (Germany)
5
Errui Ding
Vision Technology (United States)
6
Hua Zong
Beijing Aerospace Flight Control Center
7
Levent Sagun
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
8
Kyunghyun Cho
New York University
9
Yulun Zhang
Carnegie Mellon University
10
Been Kim
Google (United States)

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
ConViT: improving vision transformers with soft convolutional inductive biases*
Journal of Statistical Mechanics Theory and Experiment|2022
716 cit.
2
Retinexformer: One-stage Retinex-based Transformer for Low-light Image Enhancement
Unknown Journal|2023
658 cit.
3
P2T: Pyramid Pooling Transformer for Scene Understanding
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence|2022
291 cit.
4
Localization Distillation for Dense Object Detection
2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)|2022
183 cit.
5
YOLO-MS: Rethinking Multi-Scale Representation Learning for Real-Time Object Detection
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence|2025
160 cit.
6
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.
7
Towards An End-to-End Framework for Flow-Guided Video Inpainting
2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)|2022
138 cit.
8
Representation Compensation Networks for Continual Semantic Segmentation
2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)|2022
103 cit.
9
Class-Specific Semantic Reconstruction for Open Set Recognition
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence|2022
95 cit.
10
Spatial-Spectral Transformer for Hyperspectral Image Denoising
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence|2023
94 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Eero P. Simoncelli
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
2
Michael Jones
Mitsubishi Electric (United States)
3
Ernst Niebur
Kennedy Krieger Institute
4
Garry A. Gelade
Molde University College
5
Shi‐Min Hu
Center for Information Technology
6
Philip H. S. Torr
University of Oxford
7
Ling Shao
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
8
Christof Koch
Gere Foundation
9
Ross Girshick
Allen Institute
10
Jitendra Malik
Berkeley College

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
Image quality assessment: from error visibility to structural similarity
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing|2004
56k cit.
2
Rich Feature Hierarchies for Accurate Object Detection and Semantic Segmentation
Unknown Journal|2014
31.8k cit.
3
Fast R-CNN
Unknown Journal|2015
27.9k cit.
4
Rapid object detection using a boosted cascade of simple features
Unknown Journal|2005
18.2k cit.
5
Normalized cuts and image segmentation
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence|2000
15.7k cit.
6
Robust Real-Time Face Detection
International Journal of Computer Vision|2004
14.2k cit.
7
A feature-integration theory of attention
Cognitive Psychology|1980
12.4k cit.
8
Scale-space and edge detection using anisotropic diffusion
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence|1990
12k cit.
9
Momentum Contrast for Unsupervised Visual Representation Learning
Unknown Journal|2020
12k cit.
10
A model of saliency-based visual attention for rapid scene analysis
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence|1998
11.3k cit.

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