Dirk B. Walther

4.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
90 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

Dirk B. Walther is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Dirk B. Walther has authored 90 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 64 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 40 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and 10 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Dirk B. Walther's work include Visual perception and processing mechanisms (34 papers), Visual Attention and Saliency Detection (32 papers) and Face Recognition and Perception (24 papers). Dirk B. Walther is often cited by papers focused on Visual perception and processing mechanisms (34 papers), Visual Attention and Saliency Detection (32 papers) and Face Recognition and Perception (24 papers). Dirk B. Walther collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and United Kingdom. Dirk B. Walther's co-authors include Christof Koch, Ueli Rutishauser, Pietro Perona, Li Fei-Fei, Diane M. Beck, Eamon Caddigan, Duane Edgington, Dandan Shen, John Wilder and Thomas O’Connell and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Neuroscience and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Dirk B. Walther

82 papers receiving 2.9k citations

Hit Papers

Modeling attention to salient proto-objects 2006 2026 2012 2019 2006 250 500 750
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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. Modeling attention to salient proto-objects
    2006 890 citations Dirk B. Walther, Christof Koch profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Dirk B. Walther Canada 23 1.9k 1.5k 446 295 249 90 3.0k
L. Itti United States 7 2.1k 1.1× 1.8k 1.1× 594 1.3× 593 2.0× 248 1.0× 17 3.2k
Monica S. Castelhano Canada 23 2.1k 1.1× 2.3k 1.5× 482 1.1× 937 3.2× 391 1.6× 55 3.5k
Ming Jiang United States 20 1.1k 0.6× 733 0.5× 155 0.3× 362 1.2× 140 0.6× 97 2.0k
Olivier Le Meur France 25 2.9k 1.5× 713 0.5× 525 1.2× 522 1.8× 60 0.2× 89 3.2k
Wolfgang Einhäuser Germany 34 1.4k 0.7× 3.0k 1.9× 551 1.2× 614 2.1× 382 1.5× 108 3.9k
Alan Chalmers United Kingdom 27 2.2k 1.2× 528 0.3× 122 0.3× 600 2.0× 212 0.9× 255 3.4k
Walter F. Bischof Canada 34 853 0.5× 2.2k 1.4× 231 0.5× 469 1.6× 453 1.8× 146 3.5k
Peter J. Bex United States 41 789 0.4× 3.5k 2.3× 109 0.2× 335 1.1× 319 1.3× 244 5.1k
Benjamin W. Tatler United Kingdom 31 2.3k 1.2× 3.0k 1.9× 656 1.5× 1.2k 4.2× 467 1.9× 68 4.5k
Daniel Kersten United States 36 895 0.5× 3.7k 2.4× 140 0.3× 128 0.4× 626 2.5× 129 4.5k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Dirk B. Walther

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All Works

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Cunningham, William A., et al.. (2025). Less is more: Aesthetic liking is inversely related to metabolic expense by the visual system. PNAS Nexus. 4(12). pgaf347–pgaf347.
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Liu, Hanyu, et al.. (2024). Aesthetic processing in neurodiverse populations. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. 166. 105878–105878.
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Walther, Dirk B., et al.. (2024). Brief category learning distorts perceptual space for complex scenes. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 31(5). 2234–2248. 2 indexed citations
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Walther, Dirk B., et al.. (2023). The mid-level vision toolbox for computing structural properties of real-world images. Frontiers in Computer Science. 5. 10 indexed citations
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Rezanejad, Morteza, et al.. (2023). Memorability of line drawings of scenes: the role of contour properties. Memory & Cognition. 53(1). 33–53. 4 indexed citations
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Walther, Dirk B., et al.. (2022). Characterising and dissecting human perception of scene complexity. Cognition. 231. 105319–105319. 7 indexed citations
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Wilder, John, et al.. (2021). Where to draw the line?. PLoS ONE. 16(11). e0258376–e0258376. 3 indexed citations
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Walther, Dirk B., et al.. (2021). Scene wheels: Measuring perception and memory of real-world scenes with a continuous stimulus space. Behavior Research Methods. 54(1). 444–456. 14 indexed citations
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Deng, Wei, et al.. (2020). The Development of Attention to Objects and Scenes: From Object-Biased to Unbiased. Child Development. 92(3). 1173–1186. 9 indexed citations
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Larsen, Bart, et al.. (2018). Modality-Independent Coding of Scene Categories in Prefrontal Cortex. Journal of Neuroscience. 38(26). 5969–5981. 23 indexed citations
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Wilder, John, Morteza Rezanejad, Sven Dickinson, et al.. (2018). Local contour symmetry facilitates scene categorization. Cognition. 182. 307–317. 19 indexed citations
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Nasar, Jack L., et al.. (2017). Neural codes of seeing architectural styles. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 40201–40201. 28 indexed citations
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Berman, Daniel S. & Dirk B. Walther. (2014). Differential Selectivity for Spatial Frequencies in Anterior and Posterior PPA. Journal of Vision. 14(10). 1081–1081. 1 indexed citations
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Walther, Dirk B., et al.. (2012). Categorization of line drawings of natural scenes using non-accidental properties matches human behavior. Journal of Vision. 12(9). 593–593. 1 indexed citations
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O’Connell, Thomas & Dirk B. Walther. (2012). Fixation patterns predict scene category. Journal of Vision. 12(9). 801–801. 4 indexed citations
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Yao, Bangpeng, Dirk B. Walther, Diane M. Beck, & Li Fei-Fei. (2009). Hierarchical Mixture of Classification Experts Uncovers Interactions between Brain Regions. Neural Information Processing Systems. 22. 2178–2186. 12 indexed citations
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Walther, Dirk B., et al.. (2009). Exploring Functional Connectivities of the Human Brain using Multivariate Information Analysis. Neural Information Processing Systems. 22. 270–278. 51 indexed citations
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Walther, Dirk B. & Christof Koch. (2007). Attention in hierarchical models of object recognition. Progress in brain research. 165. 57–78. 48 indexed citations
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Edgington, Duane, et al.. (2003). Detection of Visual Events in Underwater Video Using a Neuromorphic Saliency-based Attention System. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2003. 1 indexed citations

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