Charles Loop

5.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
47 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Charles Loop is a scholar working on Computational Mechanics, Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. According to data from OpenAlex, Charles Loop has authored 47 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 38 papers in Computational Mechanics, 35 papers in Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design and 19 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Recurrent topics in Charles Loop's work include Advanced Numerical Analysis Techniques (31 papers), Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques (24 papers) and 3D Shape Modeling and Analysis (23 papers). Charles Loop is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Numerical Analysis Techniques (31 papers), Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques (24 papers) and 3D Shape Modeling and Analysis (23 papers). Charles Loop collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Charles Loop's co-authors include Tony DeRose, Zhengyou Zhang, Jim Blinn, Scott Schaefer, Cha Zhang, Matthias Nießner, Dinei Florêncio, Jos Stam, Zhengyou Zhang and Marc Stamminger and has published in prestigious journals such as ACM Transactions on Graphics, International Journal of Computer Vision and Computer Vision and Image Understanding.

In The Last Decade

Charles Loop

47 papers receiving 2.1k citations

Hit Papers

Real-time non-rigid reconstruction using an RGB-D camera 2014 2026 2018 2022 2014 2021 50 100 150 200 250
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. Real-time non-rigid reconstruction using an RGB-D camera
    2014 262 citations Matthias Nießner, Matthew Fisher et al. ACM Transactions on Graphics profile →
  2. Neural Geometric Level of Detail: Real-time Rendering with Implicit 3D Shapes
    2021 257 citations Towaki Takikawa, Kangxue Yin 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
Charles Loop United States 24 1.5k 1.3k 1.1k 264 163 47 2.3k
Nathan Carr United States 24 820 0.6× 1.0k 0.8× 950 0.8× 77 0.3× 78 0.5× 54 1.8k
Bernhard Kerbl Austria 12 502 0.3× 688 0.5× 1.1k 1.0× 294 1.1× 61 0.4× 37 1.9k
Alex Evans United Kingdom 7 743 0.5× 986 0.7× 1.6k 1.4× 405 1.5× 40 0.2× 11 2.3k
Georgios Kopanas France 7 526 0.4× 716 0.5× 1.2k 1.0× 299 1.1× 61 0.4× 9 1.8k
Emil Praun United States 15 1.7k 1.2× 1.8k 1.4× 1.2k 1.1× 63 0.2× 50 0.3× 17 2.5k
Hans‐Peter Seidel Germany 24 957 0.7× 1.1k 0.8× 1.2k 1.0× 91 0.3× 48 0.3× 163 1.9k
Sylvain Petitjean France 14 1.2k 0.8× 1.1k 0.8× 703 0.6× 142 0.5× 86 0.5× 30 1.7k
Ilya Baran United States 24 1.9k 1.3× 1.3k 1.0× 1.7k 1.4× 160 0.6× 86 0.5× 43 2.9k
Sung‐Eui Yoon South Korea 32 598 0.4× 1.2k 0.9× 2.1k 1.8× 305 1.2× 73 0.4× 148 2.7k
Tomas Akenine‐Möller Sweden 28 699 0.5× 1.7k 1.2× 1.7k 1.5× 127 0.5× 41 0.3× 97 2.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Charles Loop

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Fields of papers citing papers by Charles Loop

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Charles Loop

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Charles Loop. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Charles Loop 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 Charles Loop. Charles Loop 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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Sun, Cheng, et al.. (2025). Sparse Voxels Rasterization: Real-time High-fidelity Radiance Field Rendering. 16187–16196. 2 indexed citations
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Dong, Wei, et al.. (2023). Fast Monocular Scene Reconstruction with Global-Sparse Local-Dense Grids. 4263–4272. 5 indexed citations
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Takikawa, Towaki, Kangxue Yin, Karsten Kreis, et al.. (2021). Neural Geometric Level of Detail: Real-time Rendering with Implicit 3D Shapes. 11353–11362. 257 indexed citations breakdown →
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Loop, Charles, Qin Cai, Sergio Orts‐Escolano, & Philip A. Chou. (2016). A Closed-Form Bayesian Fusion Equation Using Occupancy Probabilities. 380–388. 9 indexed citations
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Nießner, Matthias, et al.. (2015). Real‐Time Rendering Techniques with Hardware Tessellation. Computer Graphics Forum. 35(1). 113–137. 20 indexed citations
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Zhang, Cha, Dinei Florêncio, & Charles Loop. (2014). Point cloud attribute compression with graph transform. 2066–2070. 181 indexed citations
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Loop, Charles, Cha Zhang, & Zhengyou Zhang. (2013). Real-time high-resolution sparse voxelization with application to image-based modeling. 73–79. 55 indexed citations
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Nießner, Matthias & Charles Loop. (2012). Patch-Based Occlusion Culling for Hardware Tessellation. 8 indexed citations
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Nießner, Matthias, Charles Loop, & Günther Greiner. (2012). Efficient Evaluation of Semi-Smooth Creases in Catmull-Clark Subdivision Surfaces. Eurographics. 12 indexed citations
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Loop, Charles, et al.. (2010). Fast Ray Sorting and Breadth‐First Packet Traversal for GPU Ray Tracing. Computer Graphics Forum. 29(2). 289–298. 51 indexed citations
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Loop, Charles, et al.. (2009). Real-time Patch-Based Sort-Middle Rendering on Massively Parallel Hardware. 5 indexed citations
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Loop, Charles, et al.. (2009). Approximating subdivision surfaces with Gregory patches for hardware tessellation. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 28(5). 1–9. 59 indexed citations
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Loop, Charles & Zhengyou Zhang. (2003). Computing rectifying homographies for stereo vision. 125–131. 229 indexed citations
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Loop, Charles. (2002). Smooth Ternary Subdivision of Triangle Meshes. 18 indexed citations
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Zhang, Zhengyou & Charles Loop. (2001). Estimating the Fundamental Matrix by Transforming Image Points in Projective Space. Computer Vision and Image Understanding. 82(2). 174–180. 30 indexed citations
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Loop, Charles. (2001). Triangle Mesh Subdivision with Bounded Curvature and the Convex Hull Property. 16. 15 indexed citations
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Loop, Charles & Tony DeRose. (1990). Generalized B-spline surfaces of arbitrary topology. ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics. 24(4). 347–356. 56 indexed citations
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Loop, Charles & Tony DeRose. (1990). Generalized B-spline surfaces of arbitrary topology. 347–356. 96 indexed citations
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Loop, Charles, Stephen Mann, David Meyers, et al.. (1990). <title>Testbed for the comparison of parametric surface methods</title>. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 1251. 94–105. 6 indexed citations
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Loop, Charles & Tony DeRose. (1989). A multisided generalization of Bézier surfaces. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 8(3). 204–234. 127 indexed citations

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