A.Y. Ng

3.5k citations

18 papers · 2.5k · 1 hit paper · h-index 16

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Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition top 0.5%
- Advanced Vision and Imaging
- Optical measurement and interference techniques
- Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques
- Advanced Image Processing Techniques
Media Technology top 0.5%
- Image Processing Techniques and Applications

Papers in

Control and Systems Engineering 7
- Robot Manipulation and Learning 4
Artificial Intelligence 7
- Reinforcement Learning in Robotics 3
- AI in cancer detection 3

Co-authors: Amit Saxena (1 shared paper)Min Sun (1 shared paper)Honglak Lee (2 shared papers)Ashutosh Saxena (3 shared papers)Erick Delage (1 shared paper)J. Zico Kolter (3 shared papers)Sebastian Thrun (2 shared papers)Geremy Heitz (1 shared paper)
Journals: Scientific Reports (1 paper)Nature Medicine (1 paper)BMC Cancer (1 paper)IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (1 paper)BMJ Health & Care Informatics (1 paper)
Partner nations: United States United Kingdom Hungary

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18 papers receiving 2.4k citations

A.Y. Ng's Hit Papers

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Make3D: Learning 3D Scene Structure from a Single Still Image 2009 · 1.2k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2009 IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

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18 of 18 papers shown

#	Work
1	Make3D: Learning 3D Scene Structure from a Single Still Image IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence ·Amit Saxena, Min Sun, A.Y. Ng Hit paper breakdown →	2009	1248
2	Discriminative Learning of Markov Random Fields for Segmentation of 3D Scan Data Dragomir Anguelov, Ben Taskar, Vassil Chatalbashev, Daphne Koller, Dhruv Gupta, Geremy Heitz, A.Y. Ng	2005	305
3	A Dynamic Bayesian Network Model for Autonomous 3D Reconstruction from a Single Indoor Image Erick Delage, Honglak Lee, A.Y. Ng	2006	177
4	Bayesian estimation for autonomous object manipulation based on tactile sensors Anna Petrovskaya, Oussama Khatib, Sebastian Thrun, A.Y. Ng	2006	106
5	Grasping novel objects with depth segmentation D. V. Rao, Quoc V. Le, Thanathorn Phoka, Martin Quigley, Attawith Sudsang, A.Y. Ng	2010	92
6	Apprenticeship learning for motion planning with application to parking lot navigation Pieter Abbeel, Dmitri Dolgov, A.Y. Ng, Sebastian Thrun	2008	91
7	Prospective implementation of AI-assisted screen reading to improve early detection of breast cancer Nature Medicine ·A.Y. Ng, Cary Oberije, Éva Ambrózay, Endre Szabó, Orsolya Serfőző, Edit Karpati, Georgia Fox, Ben Glocker, Elizabeth A. Morris, Gábor Forrai, Peter D. Kecskemethy	2023	77
8	Learning to open new doors Ellen Klingbeil, Ashutosh Saxena, A.Y. Ng	2010	74
9	Learning 3-D object orientation from images Ashutosh Saxena, Justin Driemeyer, A.Y. Ng	2009	55
10	Task-space trajectories via cubic spline optimization J. Zico Kolter, A.Y. Ng	2009	52
11	Learning sound location from a single microphone Ashutosh Saxena, A.Y. Ng	2009	45
12	Policy search via the signed derivative J. Zico Kolter, A.Y. Ng	2009	43
13	Multi-vendor evaluation of artificial intelligence as an independent reader for double reading in breast cancer screening on 275,900 mammograms BMC Cancer ·Nisha Sharma, A.Y. Ng, Jonathan J. James, Galvin Khara, Éva Ambrózay, Christopher Austin, Gábor Forrai, Georgia Fox, Ben Glocker, Andreas Heindl, Edit Karpati, Tobias Rijken, V. Vignesh, Joseph Yearsley, Peter D. Kecskemethy	2023	39
14	Quadruped robot obstacle negotiation via reinforcement learning Honglak Lee, Yirong Shen, Chih-Han Yu, Gurpreet Singh, A.Y. Ng	2006	39
15	Low-cost accelerometers for robotic manipulator perception Martin Quigley, Rubell Brewer, Sai Prashanth Soundararaj, Vijay Pradeep, Quoc V. Le, A.Y. Ng	2010	34
16	Learning omnidirectional path following using dimensionality reduction J. Zico Kolter, A.Y. Ng	2007	22
17	A proof of concept for a deep learning system that can aid embryologists in predicting blastocyst survival after thaw Scientific Reports ·Phil Marsh, Dahlia Radif, Pranav Rajpurkar, Z Wang, Eduardo Hariton, Salustiano Ribeiro, Rhodel Simbulan, Amy Kaing, Wen Lin, Anthony M. Rajah, F. Rabara, Matthew P. Lungren, Utkan Demirci, A.Y. Ng, Mitchell P. Rosen	2022	8
18	Assessing artificial intelligence in breast screening with stratified results on 306 839 mammograms across geographic regions, age, breast density and ethnicity: A Retrospective Investigation Evaluating Screening (ARIES) study BMJ Health & Care Informatics ·Cary Oberije, Rachel Currie, Alice Leaver, Alan Redman, William Teh, Nisha Sharma, Georgia Fox, Ben Glocker, Galvin Khara, Jonathan Nash, A.Y. Ng, Peter D. Kecskemethy	2025	3

About A.Y. Ng

A.Y. Ng is a scholar working on Control and Systems Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Aerospace Engineering and Biomedical Engineering, having authored 18 papers that have together received 2.5k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization (5 papers), Advanced Vision and Imaging (4 papers), Robot Manipulation and Learning (4 papers), Robotic Path Planning Algorithms (3 papers), Reinforcement Learning in Robotics (3 papers), AI in cancer detection (3 papers), Robotic Locomotion and Control (2 papers) and 3D Surveying and Cultural Heritage (2 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (1.7k citations), Media Technology (621 citations), Health Informatics (46 citations), Geology (195 citations) and Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design (97 citations). A.Y. Ng has collaborated with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Hungary. Frequent co-authors include Amit Saxena, Min Sun, Honglak Lee, Ashutosh Saxena, Erick Delage, J. Zico Kolter, Sebastian Thrun, Geremy Heitz, Dragomir Anguelov and Daphne Koller. Their work appears in journals such as Scientific Reports, Nature Medicine, BMC Cancer, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence and BMJ Health & Care Informatics.

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