Frank Nielsen

7.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
161 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Frank Nielsen is a scholar working on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Artificial Intelligence and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Frank Nielsen has authored 161 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 58 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 51 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 29 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in Frank Nielsen's work include Statistical Mechanics and Entropy (28 papers), Bayesian Methods and Mixture Models (21 papers) and Advanced Statistical Methods and Models (21 papers). Frank Nielsen is often cited by papers focused on Statistical Mechanics and Entropy (28 papers), Bayesian Methods and Mixture Models (21 papers) and Advanced Statistical Methods and Models (21 papers). Frank Nielsen collaborates with scholars based in Japan, France and United States. Frank Nielsen's co-authors include Richard Nock, Шун-ичи Амари, Vincent Garcia, Meizhu Liu, Baba C. Vemuri, Shigeru Owada, Michel Barlaud, Éric Debreuve, Jean‐Daniel Boissonnat and Frédéric Barbaresco and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence.

In The Last Decade

Frank Nielsen

154 papers receiving 2.9k citations

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Frank Nielsen

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	A geometric modeling of Occam’s razor in deep learning 2025 ·Ke Sun, Frank Nielsen	0
2	Symplectic Bregman Divergences 2024 ·Entropy ·Frank Nielsen	0
3	Review of the state-of-the-art of in-line holographic microscopy 2023 ·University of Southern Denmark Research Portal (University of Southern Denmark) ·(unknown), (unknown), Peter E. Larsen, Frank Nielsen, Jesper Glückstad	1
4	Fast Approximations of the Jeffreys Divergence between Univariate Gaussian Mixtures via Mixture Conversions to Exponential-Polynomial Distributions 2021 ·Entropy ·Frank Nielsen	9
5	On Balls in a Hilbert Polygonal Geometry (Multimedia Contribution) 2017 ·DROPS (Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz Center for Informatics) ·Frank Nielsen, (unknown)	1
6	Relative fisher information and natural gradient for learning large modular models 2017 ·King Abdullah University of Science and Technology Repository (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology) ·Ke Sun, Frank Nielsen	4
7	Differential Geometrical Theory of Statistics 2017 ·BiblioBoard Library Catalog (Open Research Library) ·Frédéric Barbaresco, Frank Nielsen	2
8	Geometric Science of Information: Second International Conference, GSI 2015 Palaiseau, France, October 28-30, 2015 Proceedings 2015 ·Lecture notes in computer science ·Frank Nielsen, Frédéric Barbaresco	3
9	Geometric science of information : first International Conference, GSI 2013, Paris, France, August 28-30, 2013, proceedings 2013 ·Digital Access to Libraries (Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), l'Université de Namur (UNamur) and the Université Saint-Louis (USL-B)) ·Frank Nielsen, Frédéric Barbaresco	2
10	On tracking portfolios with certainty equivalents on a generalization of Markowitz model: the Fool, the Wise and the Adaptive 2011 ·International Conference on Machine Learning ·Richard Nock, (unknown), Éric Briys, Frank Nielsen	4
11	K-nearest neighbor search: Fast GPU-based implementations and application to high-dimensional feature matching 2010 ·Vincent Garcia, Éric Debreuve, Frank Nielsen, Michel Barlaud	106
12	Total Bregman Divergence and Its Applications to DTI Analysis 2010 ·IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging ·Baba C. Vemuri, Meizhu Liu, Шун-ичи Амари, Frank Nielsen	64
13	Emerging Trends in Visual Computing: LIX Fall Colloquium, ETVC 2008, Palaiseau, France, November 18-20, 2008. Revised Invited Papers 2009 ·Springer eBooks ·Frank Nielsen	5
14	On the Efficient Minimization of Classification Calibrated Surrogates 2008 ·Neural Information Processing Systems ·Richard Nock, Frank Nielsen	9
15	Fast Graph Segmentation Based on Statistical Aggregation Phenomena. 2007 ·Machine Vision and Applications ·Frank Nielsen, Richard Nock	2
16	A Real generalization of discrete AdaBoost 2006 ·European Conference on Artificial Intelligence ·Richard Nock, Frank Nielsen	3
17	Visual computing : geometry, graphics, and vision 2005 ·Frank Nielsen	24
18	Combinatorial optimization algorithms for radio network planning 2001 ·Theoretical Computer Science ·(unknown), Frédéric Guidec, Pierre Kuonen, Frank Nielsen	31
19	On point covers of c-oriented polygons 2001 ·Theoretical Computer Science ·Frank Nielsen	1
20	Wilbur O. Atwater: Father of American nutrition science. 1993 ·(unknown), (unknown), Frank Nielsen, (unknown), (unknown)	2

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