Xinggang Wang

Some Highly Influential Papers

^# first author is my student, ^* corresponding author

• Zilong Huang^#, Xinggang Wang^*, et al. CCNet: Criss-Cross Attention for Semantic Segmentation. ICCV 2019 & IEEE TPAMI 2023. 4500+ citations, #5 most influential ICCV 2019, used in AlphaFold.
• Lianghui Zhu^#, Bencheng Liao^#, Qian Zhang, Xinlong Wang, Wenyu Liu, Xinggang Wang^*. Vision Mamba: Efficient Visual Representation Learning with Bidirectional State Space Model. ICML 2024. 4000+ citations, 3.9k stars.
• Guanjun Wu^#, Taoran Yi^#, Jiemin Fang, Lingxi Xie, Xiaopeng Zhang, Wei Wei, Wenyu Liu, Qi Tian, Xinggang Wang^*. 4D Gaussian Splatting for Real-Time Dynamic Scene Rendering. CVPR 2024. 1700+ citations, #3 most influential CVPR 2024, 3.7k stars.
• Zhaojin Huang^#, Lichao Huang, Yongchao Gong, Chang Huang, Xinggang Wang^*. Mask Scoring R-CNN. CVPR 2019 Oral. 1500+ citations.
• Xinggang Wang, Xianbo Deng, Qing Fu, Qiang Zhou, Jiapei Feng, Hui Ma, Wenyu Liu, Chuansheng Zheng. COVID-19 Classification & Lesion Localization from Chest CT. IEEE TMI 2020. 1200+ citations.
• Yifu Zhang^#, Chunyu Wang, Xinggang Wang^*, Wenjun Zeng, Wenyu Liu. FairMOT: On the Fairness of Detection and Re-Identification in MOT. IJCV 2021. 2500+ citations, 4.2k stars.
• Yifu Zhang^#, Peize Sun, Yi Jiang, Dongdong Yu, Fucheng Weng, Zehuan Yuan, Ping Luo, Wenyu Liu, Xinggang Wang^*. ByteTrack: Multi-Object Tracking by Associating Every Detection Box. ECCV 2022. 4000+ citations, #1 most influential ECCV 2022, integrated in YOLOv8, 6.6k stars.
• Yuxin Fang^#, Wen Wang, Binhui Xie, Quan Sun, Ledell Wu, Xinggang Wang^*, Tiejun Huang, Xinlong Wang^*, Yue Cao^*. EVA: Exploring the Limits of Masked Visual Representation Learning at Scale. CVPR 2023 Highlight. 1000+ citations, #7 most influential CVPR 2023.
• Tianheng Cheng^#, Lin Song^*, Yixiao Ge, Wenyu Liu, Xinggang Wang^*, Ying Shan. YOLO-World: Real-Time Open-Vocabulary Object Detection. CVPR 2024. 1300+ citations, 6.5k stars.

Academic Activities

• Co-Editor in Chief: Image and Vision Computing

• Area Chair: CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, ICML, AAAI, ICIG, WACV, BMVC

• Associate Editor/Editorial Board Member: IEEE TPAMI, Machine Vision and Applications, IEEE JBHI, Journal of Harbin Engineering University, Virtual Reality & Intelligent Hardware.

• Reviewer for the following journals/institutes/conferences: National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), European Research Council (ERC), Nature, Nature Computational Science, IEEE TPAMI, JMLR, Pattern Recognition, IEEE T. Cybernetics, IEEE TIP, IEEE TMM, IEEE TCSVT, IVC, IEEE TITS, CVIU, Neurocomputing, Scientific Reports, NeurIPS, ICDM, ICCV, ECCV, CVPR, ICME, ICIP, ICPR, AISTATS, ICML, ICLR.

• Website chair of VALSE 2016 / Website chair of IEEE SIDAS 2016 / Website chair of IEEE CAS conference on intelligent media computing

• VALSE VOOC, Member of CSIG, Member of CCF, Senior Member of IEEE

Awards

• Clarivate "Highly Cited Researcher", 2025

• Elsevier "Highly Cited Chinese Researcher", 2021 - present

• Young Top-notch Talent of the National "Ten Thousand Talents Program", 2021

• Hubei Youth May 4th Medal, 2023

• CSIG Young Scientist Award, 2022

• Wu Wenjun AI Excellent Young Scholar Award, 2021

• Second Prize of Hubei Provincial Natural Science Award (ranked 1st), 2025

• Young Talent Support Program of China Association for Science and Technology, 2015

• Microsoft Research Asia Fellowship, 2012 (10 recipients in Asia-Pacific) [more information]

• Excellent Award of CCF-Tencent Research Fund, 2017

Short Bio

He completed his Ph.D. and B.E. in Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 2014 and 2009 respectively. His Ph.D. supervisors were Prof. Wenyu Liu and Prof. Xiang Bai. During his Ph.D. period, he visited UCLA and Temple University where he was supervised by Prof. Alan Yuille and Prof. Longin Latecki, respectively. He also worked in the visual computing group in Microsoft Research Asia as an intern, supervised by Prof. Zhuowen Tu and collaborated with Prof. Yi Ma.