Chul E. Kim

3.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
28 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Chul E. Kim is a scholar working on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Computational Theory and Mathematics and Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Chul E. Kim has authored 28 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 9 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics and 8 papers in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. Recurrent topics in Chul E. Kim's work include Digital Image Processing Techniques (16 papers), Medical Image Segmentation Techniques (12 papers) and Computational Geometry and Mesh Generation (7 papers). Chul E. Kim is often cited by papers focused on Digital Image Processing Techniques (16 papers), Medical Image Segmentation Techniques (12 papers) and Computational Geometry and Mesh Generation (7 papers). Chul E. Kim collaborates with scholars based in United States and Canada. Chul E. Kim's co-authors include Óscar H. Ibarra, Matthew S. Hecht, Greg N. Frederickson, Azriel Rosenfeld, Timothy A. Anderson, Ivan Stojmenović, Jack Sklansky, Sartaj Sahni and Michael A. Langston and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Pattern Recognition and Journal of the ACM.

In The Last Decade

Chul E. Kim

28 papers receiving 1.8k citations

Hit Papers

Fast Approximation Algorithms for the Knapsack and Sum of... 1975 2026 1992 2009 1975 1977 100 200 300 400 500
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. Fast Approximation Algorithms for the Knapsack and Sum of Subset Problems
    1975 543 citations Óscar H. Ibarra, Chul E. Kim Journal of the ACM profile →
  2. Heuristic Algorithms for Scheduling Independent Tasks on Nonidentical Processors
    1977 539 citations Óscar H. Ibarra, Chul E. Kim Journal of the ACM profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Chul E. Kim United States 19 958 660 511 347 336 28 2.0k
Gordon Wilfong United States 30 1.9k 2.0× 311 0.5× 817 1.6× 219 0.6× 159 0.5× 81 3.3k
Greg N. Frederickson United States 30 1.3k 1.4× 762 1.2× 270 0.5× 1.1k 3.3× 43 0.1× 106 2.7k
Renato F. Werneck United States 21 445 0.5× 696 1.1× 262 0.5× 258 0.7× 69 0.2× 44 1.8k
Rohit Khandekar United States 16 727 0.8× 228 0.3× 129 0.3× 360 1.0× 222 0.7× 58 1.3k
Naveen Garg India 21 1.4k 1.5× 459 0.7× 123 0.2× 1.0k 3.0× 179 0.5× 63 2.4k
Serge Plotkin United States 29 2.3k 2.4× 452 0.7× 113 0.2× 1.5k 4.4× 121 0.4× 69 3.3k
Tomasz Radzik United Kingdom 17 718 0.7× 151 0.2× 178 0.3× 348 1.0× 130 0.4× 54 1.5k
Peter van Beek Canada 26 1.0k 1.1× 135 0.2× 520 1.0× 196 0.6× 99 0.3× 95 2.0k
Benjamin Moseley United States 15 611 0.6× 148 0.2× 278 0.5× 226 0.7× 326 1.0× 89 1.3k
Jin Y. Yen United States 5 783 0.8× 206 0.3× 120 0.2× 190 0.5× 97 0.3× 8 2.1k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Chul E. Kim

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Chul E. Kim

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Chul E. Kim. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Chul E. Kim 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 Chul E. Kim. Chul E. Kim 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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Kim, Chul E. & Ivan Stojmenović. (1995). Sequential and parallel approximate convex hull algorithms. Computing and Informatics / Computers and Artificial Intelligence. 14(6). 597–610. 6 indexed citations
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Kim, Chul E. & Ivan Stojmenović. (1991). On the recognition of digital planes in three-dimensional space. Pattern Recognition Letters. 12(11). 665–669. 14 indexed citations
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Kim, Chul E., et al.. (1987). Digital Parallelism, Perpendicularity, and Rectangles. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. PAMI-9(2). 316–321. 10 indexed citations
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Kim, Chul E. & Michael A. Langston. (1987). Movement coordination for single‐track robot systems. Journal of Robotic Systems. 4(1). 49–62. 5 indexed citations
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Anderson, Timothy A. & Chul E. Kim. (1985). Representation of digital line segments and their preimages. Computer Vision Graphics and Image Processing. 30(3). 279–288. 25 indexed citations
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Kim, Chul E.. (1984). Digital Disks. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. PAMI-6(3). 372–374. 32 indexed citations
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Kim, Chul E.. (1984). Three-Dimensional Digital Planes. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. PAMI-6(5). 639–645. 35 indexed citations
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Kim, Chul E. & Timothy A. Anderson. (1984). Digital disks and a digital compactness measure. 117–124. 26 indexed citations
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Kim, Chul E.. (1983). Three-Dimensional Digital Line Segments. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. PAMI-5(2). 231–234. 33 indexed citations
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Kim, Chul E. & Azriel Rosenfeld. (1982). Digital Straight Lines and Convexity of Digital Regions. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. PAMI-4(2). 149–153. 71 indexed citations
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Kim, Chul E. & Azriel Rosenfeld. (1982). Convex Digital Solids. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. PAMI-4(6). 612–618. 18 indexed citations
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Kim, Chul E.. (1982). Digital Convexity, Straightness, and Convex Polygons. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. PAMI-4(6). 618–626. 39 indexed citations
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Rosenfeld, Azriel & Chul E. Kim. (1982). How a Digital Computer Can Tell Whether a Line is Straight. American Mathematical Monthly. 89(4). 230–230. 22 indexed citations
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Kim, Chul E.. (1981). On the Cellular Convexity of Complexes. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. PAMI-3(6). 617–625. 45 indexed citations
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Ibarra, Óscar H. & Chul E. Kim. (1977). Heuristic Algorithms for Scheduling Independent Tasks on Nonidentical Processors. Journal of the ACM. 24(2). 280–289. 539 indexed citations breakdown →
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Ibarra, Óscar H., Sartaj Sahni, & Chul E. Kim. (1976). Finite automata with multiplication. Theoretical Computer Science. 2(3). 271–294. 19 indexed citations
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Ibarra, Óscar H. & Chul E. Kim. (1976). A useful device for showing the solvability of some decision problems. Journal of Computer and System Sciences. 13(2). 153–160. 11 indexed citations
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Frederickson, Greg N., Matthew S. Hecht, & Chul E. Kim. (1976). Approximation algorithms for some routing problems. 216–227. 75 indexed citations
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Ibarra, Óscar H. & Chul E. Kim. (1975). On Two—Processor Scheduling of One— or Two—Unit Time Tasks with Precedence Constraints. Journal of Cybernetics. 5(3). 87–110. 3 indexed citations
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Ibarra, Óscar H. & Chul E. Kim. (1975). On 3-head versus 2-head finite automata. Acta Informatica. 4(2). 193–200. 22 indexed citations

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