Yong Rui, Thomas Huang, and Shih-Fu Chang received the Most cited paper of the decade award. The paper “Image Retrieval: Current Techniques, Promising Directions, and Open Issues”, in Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, 10 (1999) 39–62, has received 564 citations in Scopus and over 1000 cites in Google Scholar, making it the most cited paper in the Journal.
Most cited paper of the decade award to the General Co-Chair Shih-Fu Chang and the Publicity Chair Yong Rui