PeopleofSuperintelligence

Researcher

Gong Cheng

Also known as 程塨

Gong Cheng is a computer-vision researcher whose work spans object detection, remote-sensing scene classification and visual tracking. He earned degrees at Xidian University and Northwestern Polytechnical University, then coauthored papers introducing RIFD-CNN and the NWPU-RESISC45 benchmark. His papers received IEEE GRSS Highest Impact Paper Awards in 2021 and 2023; a coauthored co-saliency paper also won the IEEE TCSVT Best Paper Award in 2021. As of October 2026, he is a professor in Northwestern Polytechnical University's School of Automation.

Works
187
Citations
23,560
h-index
63

Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 22 October 2026.

Timeline

  1. 2007–2013

    Degrees from Xidian and NWPU

    He earns a B.S. from Xidian University in 2007, an M.S. from Northwestern Polytechnical University in 2010 and a Ph.D. there in 2013.

  2. 2016

    RIFD-CNN for object detection

    With Peicheng Zhou and Junwei Han, he proposes RIFD-CNN for object detection in 2016. The model combines a rotation-invariant layer with a Fisher discriminative layer.

  3. 2017

    NWPU-RESISC45 benchmark

    He coauthors a survey of remote-sensing image scene classification with Junwei Han and Xiaoqiang Lu in 2017. The paper introduces NWPU-RESISC45, a public benchmark of 31,500 images across 45 scene classes.

  4. May 2021

    IEEE TCSVT Best Paper Award

    In May 2021, his 2018 paper with Junwei Han on co-saliency detection receives the IEEE TCSVT Best Paper Award.

  5. July 2021

    GRSS award for object detection

    In July 2021, his 2016 paper with Peicheng Zhou and Junwei Han on rotation-invariant CNNs for object detection receives the IEEE GRSS Highest Impact Paper Award.

  6. 2023

    GRSS scene-classification award

    In 2023, his 2018 paper with Junwei Han and colleagues on remote-sensing image scene classification receives the IEEE GRSS Highest Impact Paper Award.

  7. June 2025

    RGB-T UAV tracking

    Published online in June 2025, he coauthors a feature-cooperative reconstruction method for RGB-T UAV tracking with Dong Gao and Pujian Lai. It uses a cross-modal interaction encoder and feature reconstruction decoder to combine visible-light and thermal-infrared information.

  8. As of October 2026

    Professor in the School of Automation

    As of October 2026, he is a professor in the School of Automation at Northwestern Polytechnical University. His research interests include computer vision, pattern recognition and remote-sensing image analysis.

Career

  1. Since 2010Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityProfessor

Education

  1. 2013Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityPh.D.
  2. 2010Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityM.S.
  3. 2007Xidian UniversityB.S.

From the biography and OpenAlex affiliations (the years of papers that list the organization), so some years are approximate.

  1. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology trained or employed 44 of the 187 AI major-prize winners, more than any other universityIncludes Gong Cheng. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology trained or employed 44 of the 187 AI major-prize winners, more than any other university. We compare doctorate and 5+ year employment links, career timing and current workplaces for 187 major-prize and 1,111 best-paper winners.
  2. More people shaping AI studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology than at any other institutionIncludes Northwestern Polytechnical University. We estimate where the people shaping AI studied and where their careers led. Massachusetts Institute of Technology leads with 467 former students, including 291 recorded doctorates.
  3. The company share of AI researchers’ top papers was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974Includes Northwestern Polytechnical University. We estimate where the people shaping AI worked when their most-cited papers appeared: the company share was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974, and Google led all organizations in 2020–2024.
  4. The median h-index is 48 at universities and 14 at frontier AI labsIncludes Northwestern Polytechnical University. The median h-index is 48 at universities and 14 at frontier AI labs. We compare publishing careers, recent citations, dual appointments and job moves across 2,420 university researchers and 308 frontier-lab researchers.

Colleagues

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Sources and credits

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  1. Gong CHENG gcheng-nwpu.github.io. Checked 22 October 2026.
  2. RIFD-CNN: Rotation-Invariant and Fisher Discriminative Convolutional Neural Networks for Object Detection openaccess.thecvf.com. Checked 22 October 2026.
  3. Remote Sensing Image Scene Classification: Benchmark and State of the Art arxiv.org. Checked 22 October 2026.
  4. The Brain and Artificial Intelligence Research Team of the School of Automation Has Won the Top International Academic Award for 3 Years en.nwpu.edu.cn. Checked 22 October 2026.
  5. RGB-T UAV object tracking based on feature-cooperative reconstruction hkxb.buaa.edu.cn. Checked 22 October 2026.