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Advanced Optical Imaging Technologies

Advanced Optical Imaging Technologies is a research topic within Media Technology. Science Explorer counts 22k research works in it since 1950. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores various technologies and methods related to three-dimensional displays, including stereoscopic displays, holographic displays, integral imaging, virtual reality, and augmented reality. It also investigates visual discomfort and fatigue associated with viewing 3D content, as well as techniques such as computer-generated holography and near-eye displays.

  • Stereoscopic Displays
  • Holographic Displays
  • Integral Imaging
  • Virtual Reality
  • Augmented Reality
  • Visual Fatigue
  • Computer-Generated Holography
  • Near-Eye Displays
  • Light Field Displays
  • Spatial Light Modulators
Research works
22k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+7%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
45% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Advanced Optical Imaging Technologies

Which countries lead Advanced Optical Imaging Technologies research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (1.3k and 409 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.3k works
  2. 2 United States 409 works
  3. 3 Japan 365 works
  4. 4 South Korea 224 works
  5. 5 Germany 111 works
  6. 6 India 108 works
  7. 7 Taiwan 108 works
  8. 8 United Kingdom 102 works
  9. 9 Russia 87 works
  10. 10 France 64 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

China: 44.9%United States: 14.3%Japan: 12.7%South Korea: 7.8%6 others listed: 20.2%45%largest
China1,288 · 44.9%United States409 · 14.3%Japan365 · 12.7%South Korea224 · 7.8%6 others listed580 · 20.2%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Advanced Optical Imaging Technologies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Advanced Optical Imaging Technologies research, followed by Beijing Institute of Technology and Tsinghua University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 62 works
  2. 2 Beijing Institute of TechnologyChina 48 works
  3. 3 Tsinghua UniversityChina 39 works
  4. 4 Beihang UniversityChina 32 works
  5. 5 BOE Technology Group (China)China 29 works
  6. 6 Beijing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChina 28 works
  7. 7 University of Central FloridaUnited States 28 works
  8. 8 Zhejiang UniversityChina 27 works
  9. 9 Sichuan UniversityChina 26 works
  10. 10 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 26 works

Who are the leading researchers in Advanced Optical Imaging Technologies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Advanced Optical Imaging Technologies include Ben Zhong Tang, Kai You Wang and Hua Zhang.

  1. 1 Ben Zhong Tang China 261k citations
  2. 2 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  3. 3 Hua Zhang Singapore 196k citations
  4. 4 Luc Van Gool Switzerland 177k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Advanced Optical Imaging Technologies?

The most cited paper in Advanced Optical Imaging Technologies is "The VideoToolbox software for visual psychophysics: transforming numbers into movies" (Denis G. Pelli, 1997), with 11,776 citations. Next come "Random Laser Action in Semiconductor Powder" (1,667) and "Reconstructed Wavefronts and Communication Theory*" (1,656).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The VideoToolbox software for visual psychophysics: transforming numbers into movies Denis G. Pelli · Spatial Vision 1997 11,776
2 Random Laser Action in Semiconductor Powder Hui W. Cao, Yuxia Zhao, Seng Tiong Ho et al. · Physical Review Letters 15 Mar 1999 1,667
3 Reconstructed Wavefronts and Communication Theory* Emmett N. Leith, Juris Upatnieks · Journal of the Optical Society of America Oct 1962 1,656
4 Vergence–accommodation conflicts hinder visual performance and cause visual fatigue David M. Hoffman, Ahna Reza Girshick, Kurt Akeley et al. · Journal of Vision Open access 28 Mar 2008 1,641
5 Helical-wavefront laser beams produced with a spiral phaseplate Marco W. Beijersbergen, R.P.C. Coerwinkel, M. Kristensen et al. · Optics Communications Dec 1994 1,601
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Where is Advanced Optical Imaging Technologies research done?

The largest centres of Advanced Optical Imaging Technologies research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Tokyo (Japan), Seoul (South Korea) and Shanghai (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Utsunomiya, Orlando and Chiba.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 315 works
  2. 2 TokyoJapan 132 works
  3. 3 SeoulSouth Korea 104 works
  4. 4 ShanghaiChina 95 works
  5. 5 Xi'anChina 65 works
  6. 6 NanjingChina 64 works
  7. 7 ChengduChina 64 works
  8. 8 HangzhouChina 55 works
  9. 9 HefeiChina 54 works
  10. 10 GuangzhouChina 50 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. UtsunomiyaJP · 26.0 works121×
  2. OrlandoUS · 28.2 works17×
  3. ChibaJP · 23.5 works15×
  4. HsinchuTW · 29.5 works11×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Advanced Optical Imaging Technologies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Advanced Optical Imaging Technologies?

Among universities, judged by research, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Beijing Institute of Technology and University of Central Florida score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%mean 19.69%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Hong Kong Polytechni…University of Hong K…University of Centra…Beijing Institute of…
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 77.233.1%6.2×16 +110.7%
2Beijing Institute of TechnologyChina 66.717.5%13.9×48 -1.7%
3University of Central FloridaUnited States 63.918.6%26.2×28 -8.6%
4University of Hong KongChina 62.419.9%5.1×14 +155.6%
5City University of Hong KongChina 58.029.0%5.1×8 +70.1%
6Tsinghua UniversityChina 57.720.6%5.8×39 -20.4%
7Beihang UniversityChina 56.715.3%9.9×32 -7.7%
8University of California, Los AngelesUnited States 56.118.0%4.7×16 +124.4%
9Chiba UniversityJapan 55.69.8%29.5×22 +30.5%
10Hefei University of TechnologyChina 55.515.1%14.6×23 +101.2%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Advanced Optical Imaging Technologies, country by country

Is Advanced Optical Imaging Technologies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 7% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Advanced Optical Imaging Technologies.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Advanced Optical Imaging Technologies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.015% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Advanced Optical Imaging Technologies over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Advanced Optical Imaging Technologies9.9% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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