Bruce Walter

3.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
75 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

Bruce Walter is a scholar working on Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and Computational Mechanics. According to data from OpenAlex, Bruce Walter has authored 75 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 55 papers in Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design, 47 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and 28 papers in Computational Mechanics. Recurrent topics in Bruce Walter's work include Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques (55 papers), Advanced Vision and Imaging (32 papers) and 3D Shape Modeling and Analysis (22 papers). Bruce Walter is often cited by papers focused on Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques (55 papers), Advanced Vision and Imaging (32 papers) and 3D Shape Modeling and Analysis (22 papers). Bruce Walter collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Czechia. Bruce Walter's co-authors include Kavita Bala, Donald P. Greenberg, Ganesh Ramanarayanan, Adam Arbree, Keshav Pingali, Milind Kulkarni, L. Paul Chew, James A. Ferwerda, Steve Marschner and Miloš Hašan and has published in prestigious journals such as Communications of the ACM, ACM Transactions on Graphics and Energy and Buildings.

In The Last Decade

Bruce Walter

71 papers receiving 2.6k citations

Hit Papers

Optimistic parallelism requires abstractions 2007 2026 2013 2019 2007 100 200 300
What are hit papers?

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. Optimistic parallelism requires abstractions
    2007 311 citations Milind Kulkarni, Keshav Pingali et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Bruce Walter United States 30 1.8k 1.7k 747 462 436 75 2.8k
Pedro V. Sander United States 28 1.6k 0.9× 1.3k 0.8× 961 1.3× 508 1.1× 185 0.4× 79 2.8k
Anselmo Lastra United States 28 1.4k 0.8× 1.2k 0.7× 611 0.8× 180 0.4× 177 0.4× 90 2.3k
Tomas Akenine‐Möller Sweden 28 1.7k 0.9× 1.7k 0.9× 699 0.9× 104 0.2× 148 0.3× 97 2.3k
Samuli Laine United Kingdom 26 1.6k 0.9× 1.1k 0.6× 457 0.6× 125 0.3× 125 0.3× 59 2.2k
Carsten Dachsbacher Germany 31 2.2k 1.2× 2.4k 1.4× 1.2k 1.6× 73 0.2× 69 0.2× 158 3.0k
Peter‐Pike Sloan United States 24 2.3k 1.3× 2.5k 1.4× 1.3k 1.7× 89 0.2× 83 0.2× 61 2.9k
Thomas Porter United States 13 1.4k 0.8× 1.3k 0.7× 602 0.8× 73 0.2× 80 0.2× 22 2.1k
Don P. Mitchell United States 16 1.1k 0.6× 944 0.5× 538 0.7× 94 0.2× 44 0.1× 26 1.7k
P. J. Narayanan India 21 1.7k 0.9× 480 0.3× 244 0.3× 250 0.5× 253 0.6× 130 2.2k
Michael McCool Canada 23 731 0.4× 834 0.5× 478 0.6× 338 0.7× 371 0.9× 51 1.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Bruce Walter

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Fields of papers citing papers by Bruce Walter

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Bruce Walter

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Bruce Walter. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Bruce Walter 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 Bruce Walter. Bruce Walter is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Weidlich, Andrea, et al.. (2024). Appearance Modeling of Iridescent Feathers with Diverse Nanostructures. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 43(6). 1–18.
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Wu, Lifan, Bruce Walter, Ravi Ramamoorthi, et al.. (2024). Reconstructing translucent thin objects from photos. 1–11.
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Walter, Bruce, et al.. (2023). A Practical Wave Optics Reflection Model for Hair and Fur. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 42(4). 1–15. 6 indexed citations
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Dong, Zhao, et al.. (2015). Complex Luminaires. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 34(3). 1–15. 6 indexed citations
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Xiao, Bei, et al.. (2014). Looking against the light: how perception of translucency depends on lighting direction and phase function. Journal of Vision. 14(10). 1316–1316. 1 indexed citations
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Xiao, Bei, Bruce Walter, Ioannis Gkioulekas, et al.. (2014). Looking against the light: How perception of translucency depends on lighting direction. Journal of Vision. 14(3). 17–17. 64 indexed citations
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Dachsbacher, Carsten, Jaroslav Křivánek, Miloš Hašan, et al.. (2013). Scalable Realistic Rendering with Many‐Light Methods. Computer Graphics Forum. 33(1). 88–104. 92 indexed citations
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Hašan, Miloš, Jaroslav Křivánek, Bruce Walter, & Kavita Bala. (2009). Virtual spherical lights for many-light rendering of glossy scenes. 1–6. 12 indexed citations
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Arbree, Adam, Bruce Walter, & Kavita Bala. (2009). Diffusion Formulation for Heterogeneous Subsurface Scattering. eCommons (Cornell University). 2 indexed citations
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Kulkarni, Milind, Keshav Pingali, Bruce Walter, et al.. (2009). Optimistic parallelism requires abstractions. Communications of the ACM. 52(9). 89–97. 23 indexed citations
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Zhao, Shuang, et al.. (2009). Automatic bounding of programmable shaders for efficient global illumination. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 28(5). 1–9. 5 indexed citations
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Kulkarni, Milind, Patrick Carribault, Keshav Pingali, et al.. (2008). Scheduling strategies for optimistic parallel execution of irregular programs. 217–228. 42 indexed citations
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Bala, Kavita, et al.. (2006). Implementing the render cache and the edge-and-point image on graphics hardware. eCommons (Cornell University). 211–217. 6 indexed citations
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Walter, Bruce, et al.. (2006). Accurate direct illumination using iterative adaptive sampling. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. 12(3). 353–364. 21 indexed citations
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Walter, Bruce, et al.. (2005). Lightcuts. 1098–1107. 29 indexed citations
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Walter, Bruce, Sumanta Pattanaik, & Donald P. Greenberg. (2002). Using Perceptual Texture Masking for Efficient Image Synthesis. Computer Graphics Forum. 21(3). 393–399. 7 indexed citations
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Walter, Bruce, Sumanta Pattanaik, & Donald P. Greenberg. (2002). Using Perceptual Texture Masking for Efficient Image Synthesis. Computer Graphics Forum. 21(3). 393–399. 26 indexed citations
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Bala, Kavita, Bruce Walter, & Donald P. Greenberg. (2002). Combining Edges and Points for Interactive Anti-Aliased Rendering. 2 indexed citations
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Walter, Bruce, George Drettakis, & Steven G. Parker. (1999). Interactive Rendering using the Render Cache. Eurographics. 104 indexed citations
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Walter, Bruce, et al.. (1997). Fitting virtual lights for non-diffuse walkthroughs. 45–48. 40 indexed citations

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