Claudio Silva

10.3k total citations · 4 hit papers
224 papers, 6.5k citations indexed

About

Claudio Silva is a scholar working on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design and Computational Mechanics. According to data from OpenAlex, Claudio Silva has authored 224 papers receiving a total of 6.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 120 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 80 papers in Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design and 56 papers in Computational Mechanics. Recurrent topics in Claudio Silva's work include Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques (77 papers), Data Visualization and Analytics (67 papers) and 3D Shape Modeling and Analysis (52 papers). Claudio Silva is often cited by papers focused on Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques (77 papers), Data Visualization and Analytics (67 papers) and 3D Shape Modeling and Analysis (52 papers). Claudio Silva collaborates with scholars based in United States, Brazil and France. Claudio Silva's co-authors include Juliana Freire, Shachar Fleishman, Daniel Cohen‐Or, Huy T. Vo, Carlos Scheidegger, Steven P. Callahan, Nivan Ferreira, Jorge Poco, Marc Alexa and Harish Doraiswamy and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Communications of the ACM and The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.

In The Last Decade

Claudio Silva

212 papers receiving 6.2k citations

Hit Papers

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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. Robust moving least-squares fitting with sharp features
    2005 416 citations Shachar Fleishman, Daniel Cohen‐Or et al. profile →
  2. Visual Exploration of Big Spatio-Temporal Urban Data: A Study of New York City Taxi Trips
    2013 369 citations Nivan Ferreira, Jorge Poco et al. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics profile →
  3. A Survey of Surface Reconstruction from Point Clouds
    2016 322 citations Claudio Silva et al. profile →
  4. Quad‐Mesh Generation and Processing: A Survey
    2013 238 citations Claudio Silva et al. profile →

Author Peers

Peers are selected by citation overlap in the author's most active subfields. citations · hero ref

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Claudio Silva 2.8k 2.3k 2.1k 663 653 224 6.5k
Maneesh Agrawala 9.5k 3.4× 2.1k 0.9× 1.1k 0.5× 815 1.2× 198 0.3× 222 13.2k
Kwan‐Liu Ma 5.9k 2.1× 2.8k 1.2× 1.1k 0.5× 1.1k 1.7× 1.1k 1.7× 433 8.7k
Jarke J. van Wijk 5.2k 1.8× 1.8k 0.8× 1000 0.5× 1.3k 2.0× 541 0.8× 177 7.5k
Alexandru Telea 3.2k 1.2× 831 0.4× 623 0.3× 582 0.9× 290 0.4× 252 4.9k
Daniel Weiskopf 5.4k 1.9× 2.1k 0.9× 1.1k 0.5× 972 1.5× 209 0.3× 388 8.0k
William Ribarsky 2.8k 1.0× 1.1k 0.5× 380 0.2× 495 0.7× 148 0.2× 170 4.5k
Ramesh Jain 10.3k 3.7× 474 0.2× 725 0.3× 1.9k 2.8× 662 1.0× 410 14.4k
Helwig Hauser 4.1k 1.5× 1.9k 0.8× 817 0.4× 979 1.5× 148 0.2× 171 5.5k
Daniel P. Huttenlocher 7.1k 2.5× 411 0.2× 366 0.2× 554 0.8× 608 0.9× 51 12.4k
Tobias Schreck 3.4k 1.2× 303 0.1× 737 0.3× 887 1.3× 118 0.2× 236 4.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Claudio Silva

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Fields of papers citing papers by Claudio Silva

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Claudio Silva. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Claudio Silva. The network helps show where Claudio Silva may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Claudio Silva

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Claudio Silva. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Claudio Silva 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 Claudio Silva. Claudio Silva 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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Wu, EX, et al.. (2025). BDIViz: An Interactive Visualization System for Biomedical Schema Matching with LLM-Powered Validation. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. 32(1). 1208–1218.
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Nonato, Luís Gustavo, et al.. (2024). Mountaineer: Topology-Driven Visual Analytics for Comparing Local Explanations. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. 30(12). 7763–7775. 1 indexed citations
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Doraiswamy, Harish, et al.. (2024). TopoMap++: A Faster and More Space Efficient Technique to Compute Projections with Topological Guarantees. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. 31(1). 229–239. 1 indexed citations
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Sun, Qi, et al.. (2024). HuBar: A Visual Analytics Tool to Explore Human Behavior Based on fNIRS in AR Guidance Systems. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. 31(1). 119–129. 2 indexed citations
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Poco, Jorge, et al.. (2024). Granularity at Scale: Estimating Neighborhood Socioeconomic Indicators From High-Resolution Orthographic Imagery and Hybrid Learning. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. 17. 5668–5679. 1 indexed citations
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Chen, Shaoyu, et al.. (2024). ARTiST: Automated Text Simplification for Task Guidance in Augmented Reality. 1–24. 6 indexed citations
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Chen, Shaoyu, Kyunghyun Cho, Qi Sun, et al.. (2023). ARGUS: Visualization of AI-Assisted Task Guidance in AR. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. 30(1). 1313–1323. 12 indexed citations
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Özbay, Kaan, et al.. (2023). StreetAware: A High-Resolution Synchronized Multimodal Urban Scene Dataset. Sensors. 23(7). 3710–3710. 7 indexed citations
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Chen, Shaoyu, Fábio Miranda, Nivan Ferreira, et al.. (2021). UrbanRama: Navigating Cities in Virtual Reality. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. 28(12). 4685–4699. 20 indexed citations
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Miranda, Fábio, et al.. (2018). Shadow Accrual Maps: Efficient Accumulation of City-Scale Shadows Over Time. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. 25(3). 1559–1574. 29 indexed citations
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Petronetto, Fabiano, et al.. (2017). Wavelet-Based Visual Analysis of Dynamic Networks. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. 24(8). 2456–2469. 21 indexed citations
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Freire, Juliana, Claudio Silva, Huy T. Vo, et al.. (2014). Riding from Urban Data to Insight Using New York City Taxis. IEEE Data(base) Engineering Bulletin. 37(4). 43–55. 1 indexed citations
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Hansen, Charles, Chris R. Johnson, Valerio Pascucci, & Claudio Silva. (2009). Visualization for data-intensive science.. 153–163. 5 indexed citations
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Vo, Huy T., Steven P. Callahan, Nathan Smith, et al.. (2007). iRun: interactive rendering of large unstructured grids. 93–100. 6 indexed citations
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Theisel, Holger, Jan Sahner, Tino Weinkauf, et al.. (2005). Extraction of parallel vector surfaces in 3D time-dependent fields and applications to vortex core line tracking. Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics. 631–638. 1 indexed citations
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Lindström, Peter & Claudio Silva. (2001). A memory insensitive technique for large model simplification. IEEE Visualization. 121–126. 63 indexed citations
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Alexa, Marc, Johannes Behr, Daniel Cohen‐Or, et al.. (2001). Point set surfaces. IEEE Visualization. 21–28. 415 indexed citations
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Klosowski, James T. & Claudio Silva. (1999). Rendering on a budget: a framework for time-critical rendering. IEEE Visualization. 115–122. 23 indexed citations
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Chiang, Yi‐Jen & Claudio Silva. (1997). I/O optimal isosurface extraction (extended abstract). IEEE Visualization. 293–300. 42 indexed citations

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