Alexander P. Pentland

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
15 papers, 951 citations indexed

About

Alexander P. Pentland is a scholar working on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Artificial Intelligence and Computational Mechanics. According to data from OpenAlex, Alexander P. Pentland has authored 15 papers receiving a total of 951 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 3 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 2 papers in Computational Mechanics. Recurrent topics in Alexander P. Pentland's work include Image Retrieval and Classification Techniques (4 papers), Neural Networks and Applications (3 papers) and Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques (3 papers). Alexander P. Pentland is often cited by papers focused on Image Retrieval and Classification Techniques (4 papers), Neural Networks and Applications (3 papers) and Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques (3 papers). Alexander P. Pentland collaborates with scholars based in United States. Alexander P. Pentland's co-authors include Rosalind W. Picard, Baback Moghaddam, Trevor Darrell, Christopher R. Wren, Nuria Oliver, A. Azarbayejani, David J. Heeger, Matthew Turk, B. Horowitz and Sven Dickinson and has published in prestigious journals such as Cambridge University Press eBooks, Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE and Annual Meeting Optical Society of America.

In The Last Decade

Alexander P. Pentland

15 papers receiving 835 citations

Hit Papers

<title>Photobook: tools for content-based manipulat... 1994 2026 2004 2015 1994 200 400 600
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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. <title>Photobook: tools for content-based manipulation of image databases</title>
    1994 612 citations Alexander P. Pentland, Rosalind W. Picard et al. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Alexander P. Pentland United States 7 856 129 111 77 42 15 951
K. Sengupta Singapore 9 341 0.4× 121 0.9× 118 1.1× 24 0.3× 33 0.8× 33 495
H.-Y.M. Liao Taiwan 14 971 1.1× 118 0.9× 83 0.7× 93 1.2× 24 0.6× 26 1.0k
Yoram Gdalyahu Israel 9 672 0.8× 71 0.6× 197 1.8× 91 1.2× 80 1.9× 15 802
Yu Zhong United States 12 1.1k 1.2× 163 1.3× 100 0.9× 204 2.6× 8 0.2× 18 1.3k
Vasif V. Nabiyev Türkiye 16 527 0.6× 79 0.6× 189 1.7× 81 1.1× 18 0.4× 83 732
Alexia Briassouli Greece 15 599 0.7× 72 0.6× 248 2.2× 47 0.6× 21 0.5× 56 735
Jianyi Wang China 9 496 0.6× 77 0.6× 64 0.6× 142 1.8× 7 0.2× 25 663
Xiang Ma China 14 652 0.8× 35 0.3× 96 0.9× 262 3.4× 21 0.5× 40 807
Miguel García-Silvente Spain 13 308 0.4× 46 0.4× 171 1.5× 27 0.4× 11 0.3× 26 478
Hangzai Luo China 17 850 1.0× 82 0.6× 246 2.2× 138 1.8× 6 0.1× 88 1.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Alexander P. Pentland

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Fields of papers citing papers by Alexander P. Pentland

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alexander P. Pentland

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Alexander P. Pentland. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Alexander P. Pentland based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Alexander P. Pentland. Alexander P. Pentland is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

15 of 15 papers shown
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Oliver, Nuria & Alexander P. Pentland. (2000). <title>Driver behavior recognition and prediction in a SmartCar</title>. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 4023. 280–290. 53 indexed citations
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Pentland, Alexander P., et al.. (1998). Computer Vision and Human-Computer Interaction. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 7 indexed citations
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Pentland, Alexander P.. (1998). Smart rooms, desks, and clothes. 1–2. 2 indexed citations
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Wren, Christopher R., A. Azarbayejani, Trevor Darrell, & Alexander P. Pentland. (1996). <title>Pfinder: real-time tracking of the human body</title>. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 2615. 89–98. 109 indexed citations
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Pentland, Alexander P., Rosalind W. Picard, & Stan Sclaroff. (1995). <title>Photobook: tools for content-based manipulation of image databases</title>. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 2368. 37–50. 4 indexed citations
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Moghaddam, Baback & Alexander P. Pentland. (1994). <title>Face recognition using view-based and modular eigenspaces</title>. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 2277. 12–21. 125 indexed citations
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Pentland, Alexander P., et al.. (1994). <title>Photobook: tools for content-based manipulation of image databases</title>. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 2185. 34–47. 612 indexed citations breakdown →
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Picard, Rosalind W. & Alexander P. Pentland. (1992). <title>Markov/Gibbs modeling: texture and temperature</title>. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 1607. 15–26. 2 indexed citations
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Dickinson, Sven & Alexander P. Pentland. (1992). <title>Unified approach to the recognition of expected and unexpected geon-based objects</title>. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 1708. 614–627. 2 indexed citations
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Pentland, Alexander P. & B. Horowitz. (1991). <title>Practical approach to fractal-based image compression</title>. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 1605. 467–474. 5 indexed citations
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Pentland, Alexander P.. (1991). Spatial and temporal surface interpolation using wavelet bases. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 1570. 43–43. 1 indexed citations
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Turk, Matthew & Alexander P. Pentland. (1991). <title>Recognition in face space</title>. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 1381. 43–54. 8 indexed citations
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Pentland, Alexander P.. (1990). <title>Canonical fitting of deformable part models</title>. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 1260. 215–228. 3 indexed citations
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Pentland, Alexander P. & Jeff Kuo. (1990). <title>Three-dimensional line interpretation via local processing</title>. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 1249. 338–344. 1 indexed citations
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Heeger, David J. & Alexander P. Pentland. (1985). Seeing structure through chaos. Annual Meeting Optical Society of America. WD5–WD5. 17 indexed citations

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