Subfield · Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design
Most cited papers in Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design
What are the most cited papers in Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design?
The most cited paper in Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design is "Snakes: Active contour models" (Michael Kass, Andrew Witkin, Demetri Terzopoulos, 1988), with 17,142 citations. Next come "High-Resolution Image Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Models" (15,702) and "The VideoToolbox software for visual psychophysics: transforming numbers into movies" (11,776).
Showing 50 of 97 papers. Every paper with more than 1,586 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Snakes: Active contour models Michael Kass, Andrew Witkin, Demetri Terzopoulos · International Journal of Computer Vision | 1988 | 17,142 |
| 2 | High-Resolution Image Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Models Robin Rombach, Andreas Blattmann, Dominik Lorenz et al. · 2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) | Jun 2022 | 15,702 |
| 3 | The VideoToolbox software for visual psychophysics: transforming numbers into movies Denis G. Pelli · Spatial Vision | 1997 | 11,776 |
| 4 | Marching cubes: A high resolution 3D surface construction algorithm William E. Lorensen, H. E. Cline | Aug 1987 | 10,249 |
| 5 | UMAP: Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection Leland McInnes, John Healy, Nathaniel Saul et al. · The Journal of Open Source Software | 2 Sep 2018 | 10,200 |
| 6 | Gmsh: A 3‐D finite element mesh generator with built‐in pre‐ and post‐processing facilities Christophe Geuzaine, Jean‐François Remacle · International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering | 7 May 2009 | 7,914 |
| 7 | NeRF Ben Mildenhall, Pratul P. Srinivasan, Matthew Tancik et al. · Communications of the ACM | 17 Dec 2021 | 6,590 |
| 8 | Cortical Surface-Based Analysis Bruce R. Fischl, Martin I. Sereno, Anders Martin Dale · NeuroImage | Feb 1999 | 6,470 |
| 9 | Image Style Transfer Using Convolutional Neural Networks Leon A. Gatys, Alexander S. Ecker, Matthias Bethge | Jun 2016 | 6,164 |
| 10 | Watersheds in digital spaces: an efficient algorithm based on immersion simulations Luc M. Vincent, Pierre Soille · IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | Jun 1991 | 5,678 |
| 11 | 3D Gaussian Splatting for Real-Time Radiance Field Rendering Bernhard Kerbl, Georgios Kopanas, Thomas Leimkühler et al. · ACM Transactions on Graphics | 26 Jul 2023 | 5,593 |
| 12 | The quickhull algorithm for convex hulls C. Bradford Barber, David Dobkin, Hannu T. Huhdanpaa · ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software | Dec 1996 | 5,441 |
| 13 | NeRF: Representing Scenes as Neural Radiance Fields for View Synthesis Ben Mildenhall, Pratul P. Srinivasan, Matthew Tancik et al. · Lecture notes in computer science | 2020 | 5,159 |
| 14 | A new polynomial-time algorithm for linear programming Narendra K. Karmarkar · COMBINATORICA | Dec 1984 | 4,858 |
| 15 | A Level Set Approach for Computing Solutions to Incompressible Two-Phase Flow Mark Sussman, Peter Smereka, Stanley Osher · Journal of Computational Physics | Sep 1994 | 4,839 |
| 16 | An analysis of approximations for maximizing submodular set functions—I George L. Nemhauser, Laurence A. Wolsey, Marshall L. Fisher · Mathematical Programming | Dec 1978 | 4,553 |
| 17 | Computational Geometry: Algorithms and Applications Mark de Berg, Otfried Cheong, Marc J. van Kreveld et al. · CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research) | 1997 | 4,503 |
| 18 | Voronoi diagrams—a survey of a fundamental geometric data structure Franz Aurenhammer · ACM Computing Surveys | Sep 1991 | 4,387 |
| 19 | Computational Geometry--An Introduction. Mikhail J. Atallah, Franco P. Preparata, Michael Ian Shamos · Mathematics of Computation | Oct 1986 | 4,274 |
| 20 | The R*-tree: an efficient and robust access method for points and rectangles Norbert Beckmann, Hans‐Peter Kriegel, Ralf Schneider et al. | May 1990 | 4,188 |
| 21 | Free software helps map and display data Paul Wessel, Walter H. F. Smith · Eos | 8 Oct 1991 | 4,159 |
| 22 | Instant neural graphics primitives with a multiresolution hash encoding Thomas J. Muller, Alex Evans, Christoph Schied et al. · ACM Transactions on Graphics | Jul 2022 | 4,064 |
| 23 | SMPL Matthew Loper, Naureen Mahmood, Javier Romero et al. · ACM Transactions on Graphics | 26 Oct 2015 | 3,807 |
| 24 | Light field rendering Marc Levoy, Pat Hanrahan | Aug 1996 | 3,785 |
| 25 | Geometric Deep Learning: Going beyond Euclidean data Michael M. Bronstein, Joan Bruna, Yann LeCun et al. · IEEE Signal Processing Magazine | Jul 2017 | 3,748 |
| 26 | Image inpainting Marcelo Bertalmı́o, Guillermo Sapiro, V. Caselles et al. | 2000 | 3,634 |
| 27 | RRT-connect: An efficient approach to single-query path planning James Kuffner, Steven M. LaValle | 7 Nov 2002 | 3,525 |
| 28 | Surface simplification using quadric error metrics Michael J. Garland, Paul S. Heckbert | 1997 | 3,436 |
| 29 | Affine Invariant Flows in the Beltrami Framework Nir Sochen · Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision | 2004 | 3,309 |
| 30 | Region Filling and Object Removal by Exemplar-Based Image Inpainting Antonio Criminisi, Patrick Pérez, Kentaro Toyama · IEEE Transactions on Image Processing | 16 Aug 2004 | 3,287 |
| 31 | A fast marching level set method for monotonically advancing fronts. James A. Sethian · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 20 Feb 1996 | 3,254 |
| 32 | A level set method for structural topology optimization Michael Yu Wang, Xiaoming Wang, Dongming Guo · Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering | 27 Dec 2002 | 3,247 |
| 33 | A volumetric method for building complex models from range images Brian Curless, Marc Levoy | Aug 1996 | 3,171 |
| 34 | Shape modeling with front propagation: a level set approach R. Malladi, James A. Sethian, Baba C. Vemuri · IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 1995 | 3,163 |
| 35 | A threshold of ln n for approximating set cover Uriel Feige · Journal of the ACM | Jul 1998 | 3,149 |
| 36 | Accurate, Dense, and Robust Multiview Stereopsis Yasutaka Furukawa, Jean Ponce · IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | Sep 2009 | 3,089 |
| 37 | Illumination for computer generated pictures Bui Tuong Phong · Communications of the ACM | Jun 1975 | 3,014 |
| 38 | The design and use of steerable filters William T. Freeman, Edward H. Adelson · IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 1991 | 2,951 |
| 39 | Semantic Image Synthesis With Spatially-Adaptive Normalization Taesung Park, Ming-Yu Liu, Ting-Chun Wang et al. | Jun 2019 | 2,926 |
| 40 | OctoMap: an efficient probabilistic 3D mapping framework based on octrees Armin Hornung, Kai M. Wurm, Maren Bennewitz et al. · Autonomous Robots | 6 Feb 2013 | 2,907 |
| 41 | Progressive meshes Hugues Hoppe | Aug 1996 | 2,828 |
| 42 | A fast parallel algorithm for thinning digital patterns Tingwei Zhang, Ching Y. Suen · Communications of the ACM | Mar 1984 | 2,781 |
| 43 | Surface reconstruction from unorganized points Hugues Hoppe, Tony DeRose, Tom Duchamp et al. | Jul 1992 | 2,762 |
| 44 | High Accuracy Optical Flow Estimation Based on a Theory for Warping Thomas Brox, Andrés Bruhn, Nils Papenberg et al. · Lecture notes in computer science | 2004 | 2,614 |
| 45 | Free-form deformation of solid geometric models Thomas W. Sederberg, Scott R. Parry · ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics | 31 Aug 1986 | 2,599 |
| 46 | Generative Image Inpainting with Contextual Attention Jiahui Yu, Zhe Lin, Jimei Yang et al. | Jun 2018 | 2,537 |
| 47 | Three-dimensional alpha shapes Herbert Edelsbrunner, Ernst P. Mücke · ACM Transactions on Graphics | 1994 | 2,504 |
| 48 | The lumigraph Steven J. Gortler, Radek Grzeszczuk, Richard Szeliski et al. | Aug 1996 | 2,484 |
| 49 | Image matching as a diffusion process: an analogy with Maxwell's demons J.-P. Thirion · Medical Image Analysis | Sep 1998 | 2,471 |
| 50 | Display of surfaces from volume data Marc Levoy · IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications | May 1988 | 2,457 |
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