Eric Klassen

5.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
71 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Eric Klassen is a scholar working on Geometry and Topology, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and Computational Mechanics. According to data from OpenAlex, Eric Klassen has authored 71 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 47 papers in Geometry and Topology, 26 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and 18 papers in Computational Mechanics. Recurrent topics in Eric Klassen's work include Morphological variations and asymmetry (35 papers), 3D Shape Modeling and Analysis (14 papers) and Image Processing and 3D Reconstruction (11 papers). Eric Klassen is often cited by papers focused on Morphological variations and asymmetry (35 papers), 3D Shape Modeling and Analysis (14 papers) and Image Processing and 3D Reconstruction (11 papers). Eric Klassen collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and France. Eric Klassen's co-authors include Anuj Srivastava, S. K. Joshi, Ian H. Jermyn, Paul Kirk, Washington Mio, Sebastian Kurtek, Shantanu H. Joshi, Zhaohua Ding, Chafik Samir and Zhengwu Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Journal of the American Statistical Association and IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence.

In The Last Decade

Eric Klassen

63 papers receiving 2.0k citations

Hit Papers

Shape Analysis of Elastic Curves in Euclidean Spaces 2010 2026 2015 2020 2010 2016 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. Shape Analysis of Elastic Curves in Euclidean Spaces
    2010 338 citations Anuj Srivastava, Eric Klassen et al. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence profile →
  2. Functional and Shape Data Analysis
    2016 183 citations Anuj Srivastava, Eric Klassen profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Eric Klassen United States 23 1.1k 988 452 258 215 71 2.1k
Facundo Mémoli United States 22 234 0.2× 746 0.8× 680 1.5× 248 1.0× 214 1.0× 67 2.2k
Jayant Shah United States 12 215 0.2× 2.7k 2.7× 689 1.5× 305 1.2× 311 1.4× 30 3.8k
Frédéric Chazal France 23 123 0.1× 663 0.7× 423 0.9× 389 1.5× 129 0.6× 63 1.9k
Ulrich Pinkall Germany 31 952 0.8× 515 0.5× 1.7k 3.8× 243 0.9× 35 0.2× 83 3.4k
Feng Luo United States 19 760 0.7× 174 0.2× 514 1.1× 222 0.9× 27 0.1× 71 1.6k
Vincent Arsigny France 14 191 0.2× 974 1.0× 257 0.6× 19 0.1× 205 1.0× 19 2.3k
David Cohen‐Steiner France 26 122 0.1× 1.2k 1.3× 1.9k 4.1× 490 1.9× 107 0.5× 58 4.1k
Leo Dorst Netherlands 20 134 0.1× 615 0.6× 187 0.4× 33 0.1× 121 0.6× 65 1.3k
Luc Florack Netherlands 19 65 0.1× 1.1k 1.2× 132 0.3× 64 0.2× 133 0.6× 101 1.8k
Alexander M. Bronstein Israel 25 198 0.2× 2.5k 2.5× 1.7k 3.8× 16 0.1× 265 1.2× 63 3.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Eric Klassen

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Bauer, Martin, et al.. (2024). Elastic Metrics on Spaces of Euclidean Curves: Theory and Algorithms. Journal of Nonlinear Science. 34(3). 1 indexed citations
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Klassen, Eric, et al.. (2023). Elastic Shape Analysis of Surfaces with Second-Order Sobolev Metrics: A Comprehensive Numerical Framework. International Journal of Computer Vision. 131(5). 1183–1209. 12 indexed citations
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Bauer, Martin, et al.. (2022). The Square Root Normal Field Distance and Unbalanced Optimal Transport. Applied Mathematics & Optimization. 85(3). 4 indexed citations
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Charon, Nicolas, et al.. (2021). Supervised deep learning of elastic SRV distances on the shape space of curves. arXiv (Cornell University). 3 indexed citations
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Bauer, Martin, Eric Klassen, Stephen C. Preston, & Zhe Su. (2021). A diffeomorphism-invariant metric on the space of vector-valued one-forms. Pure and Applied Mathematics Quarterly. 17(1). 141–183.
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Klassen, Eric & Peter W. Michor. (2019). Closed surfaces with different shapes that are indistinguishable by the SRNF. arXiv (Cornell University). 4 indexed citations
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Leuski, Anton, et al.. (2019). PRIMER: An Emotionally Aware Virtual Agent.. 4 indexed citations
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Su, Zhe, Eric Klassen, & Martin Bauer. (2018). Comparing curves in homogeneous spaces. Differential Geometry and its Applications. 60. 9–32. 6 indexed citations
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Zhang, Zhengwu, Eric Klassen, & Anuj Srivastava. (2013). Gaussian Blurring-Invariant Comparison of Signals and Images. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. 22(8). 3145–3157. 21 indexed citations
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Srivastava, Anuj, Wei Wu, Sebastian Kurtek, Eric Klassen, & J. S. Marron. (2011). Statistical Analysis and Modeling of Elastic Functions. arXiv (Cornell University). 13 indexed citations
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Kurtek, Sebastian, Eric Klassen, John C. Gore, Zhaohua Ding, & Anuj Srivastava. (2011). Elastic Geodesic Paths in Shape Space of Parameterized Surfaces. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. 34(9). 1717–1730. 52 indexed citations
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Kurtek, Sebastian, Eric Klassen, Zhaohua Ding, Malcolm J. Avison, & Anuj Srivastava. (2011). Parameterization-Invariant Shape Statistics and Probabilistic Classification of Anatomical Surfaces. Lecture notes in computer science. 22. 147–158. 24 indexed citations
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Kurtek, Sebastian, Eric Klassen, Zhaohua Ding, et al.. (2011). Parameterization-Invariant Shape Comparisons of Anatomical Surfaces. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging. 30(3). 849–858. 45 indexed citations
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Joshi, Shantanu H., Eric Klassen, Anuj Srivastava, & Ian H. Jermyn. (2007). Removing Shape-Preserving Transformations in Square-Root Elastic (SRE) Framework for Shape Analysis of Curves. Lecture notes in computer science. 4679. 387–398. 42 indexed citations
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Joshi, Shantanu H., Eric Klassen, Anuj Srivastava, & Ian H. Jermyn. (2007). A Novel Representation for Riemannian Analysis of Elastic Curves in Rn. PubMed. 2007(17-22 June 2007). 1–7. 149 indexed citations
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Klassen, Eric & Anuj Srivastava. (2006). Geodesics between 3d closed curves using pathstraightening.
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Klassen, Eric, Anuj Srivastava, Washington Mio, & S. K. Joshi. (2004). Analysis of planar shapes using geodesic paths on shape spaces. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. 26(3). 372–383. 287 indexed citations
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Klassen, Eric, et al.. (2000). Realizing alternating groups as monodromy groups of genus one covers. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 129(1). 111–119. 6 indexed citations
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Kirk, Paul & Eric Klassen. (1991). Representation spaces of Seifert fibered homology spheres. Topology. 30(1). 77–95. 24 indexed citations
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Klassen, Eric. (1991). Representations of Knot Groups in SU(2). Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 326(2). 795–795. 39 indexed citations

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