Ian Simon

3.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
18 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Ian Simon is a scholar working on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Signal Processing and Aerospace Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Ian Simon has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 5 papers in Signal Processing and 3 papers in Aerospace Engineering. Recurrent topics in Ian Simon's work include Music Technology and Sound Studies (8 papers), Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques (7 papers) and Music and Audio Processing (5 papers). Ian Simon is often cited by papers focused on Music Technology and Sound Studies (8 papers), Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques (7 papers) and Music and Audio Processing (5 papers). Ian Simon collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Germany. Ian Simon's co-authors include Steven M. Seitz, Noah Snavely, Richard Szeliski, Sameer Agarwal, Brian Curless, Yasutaka Furukawa, Sumit Basu, Dan Morris, Curtis Hawthorne and Michael Goesele and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the IEEE, Communications of the ACM and International Journal of Technology Management and Sustainable Development.

In The Last Decade

Ian Simon

16 papers receiving 1.9k 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.

Building Rome in a day

2009 684 citations Sameer Agarwal, Noah Snavely et al. profile →
Building Rome in a day

2011 671 citations Sameer Agarwal, Yasutaka Furukawa et al. Communications of the ACM profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ian Simon United States	10	1.6k	836	422	294	240	18	2.0k
Philippos Mordohai United States	22	2.1k 1.3×	963 1.2×	537 1.3×	57 0.2×	344 1.4×	66	2.5k
Loong‐Fah Cheong Singapore	25	1.9k 1.1×	330 0.4×	82 0.2×	133 0.5×	60 0.3×	66	2.1k
Relja Arandjelović United Kingdom	8	1.6k 1.0×	844 1.0×	135 0.3×	321 1.1×	77 0.3×	11	2.0k
Benjamín Bustos Chile	20	1.4k 0.9×	440 0.5×	279 0.7×	294 1.0×	97 0.4×	89	1.8k
Tian Fang China	18	1.6k 1.0×	707 0.8×	431 1.0×	29 0.1×	209 0.9×	71	2.0k
Natasha Gelfand United States	23	1.8k 1.1×	648 0.8×	480 1.1×	43 0.1×	120 0.5×	34	2.2k
Paul Merrell United States	15	1.3k 0.8×	661 0.8×	584 1.4×	35 0.1×	242 1.0×	25	2.0k
Stefan Gumhold Germany	24	1.5k 0.9×	712 0.9×	280 0.7×	121 0.4×	136 0.6×	85	2.4k
Chunxia Xiao China	27	2.0k 1.2×	300 0.4×	238 0.6×	57 0.2×	173 0.7×	149	2.6k
João Carreira United States	18	1.6k 1.0×	338 0.4×	87 0.2×	54 0.2×	73 0.3×	30	1.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Ian Simon

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ian Simon

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This network shows the impact of papers produced by Ian Simon. 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 Ian Simon. The network helps show where Ian Simon may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ian Simon

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Ian Simon. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Ian Simon 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 Ian Simon. Ian Simon is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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18 of 18 papers shown

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Wu, Yusong, et al.. (2025). ReaLJam: Real-Time Human-AI Music Jamming with Reinforcement Learning-Tuned Transformers. 1–9.

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Huang, Cheng-Zhi Anna, Ashish Vaswani, Jakob Uszkoreit, et al.. (2019). Music Transformer: Generating Music with Long-Term Structure. International Conference on Learning Representations. 119 indexed citations

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Roberts, Adam P., Curtis Hawthorne, & Ian Simon. (2018). Magenta.js: A JavaScript API for Augmenting Creativity with Deep Learning. 10 indexed citations

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Hawthorne, Curtis, Adam P. Roberts, Ian Simon, et al.. (2018). Enabling Factorized Piano Music Modeling and Generation with the MAESTRO Dataset. arXiv (Cornell University). 51 indexed citations

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Oore, Sageev, et al.. (2017). Learning to Create Piano Performances. 5 indexed citations

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Agarwal, Sameer, Yasutaka Furukawa, Noah Snavely, et al.. (2011). Building Rome in a day. Communications of the ACM. 54(10). 105–112. 671 indexed citations breakdown →

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Simon, Ian. (2011). Scene Understanding Using Internet Photo Collections. 1 indexed citations

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Simon, Ian, et al.. (2011). A study in the growth of international biomedical research collaboration in Korea. International Journal of Technology Management and Sustainable Development. 10(2). 147–164. 2 indexed citations

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Snavely, Noah, Ian Simon, Michael Goesele, Richard Szeliski, & Steven M. Seitz. (2010). Scene Reconstruction and Visualization From Community Photo Collections. Proceedings of the IEEE. 98(8). 1370–1390. 98 indexed citations

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Agarwal, Sameer, Noah Snavely, Ian Simon, Steven M. Seitz, & Richard Szeliski. (2009). Building Rome in a day. 72–79. 684 indexed citations breakdown →

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Morris, Dan, Ian Simon, & Sumit Basu. (2008). Exposing parameters of a trained dynamic model for interactive music creation. National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 784–791. 18 indexed citations

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Simon, Ian, Dan Morris, & Sumit Basu. (2008). MySong. 725–734. 106 indexed citations

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Simon, Ian & Steven M. Seitz. (2007). A Probabilistic Model for Object Recognition, Segmentation, and Non-Rigid Correspondence. 1–7. 8 indexed citations

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Simon, Ian, Noah Snavely, & Steven M. Seitz. (2007). Scene Summarization for Online Image Collections. 1–8. 242 indexed citations

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Simon, Ian, Sumit Basu, David Salesin, & Maneesh Agrawala. (2005). AUDIO ANALOGIES: CREATING NEW MUSIC FROM AN EXISTING PERFORMANCE BY CONCATENATIVE SYNTHESIS. The Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association. 2005. 9 indexed citations

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Simon, Ian. (2004). Dilutive trade mark applications: trading on reputations or just playing games?. UCL Discovery (University College London).

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Pless, Robert & Ian Simon. (2002). Using Thousands of Images of an Object.. 684–687. 13 indexed citations

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Young, R. Michael, et al.. (1989). Multiple mutually-supporting representations for procedural knowledge. 21–30. 1 indexed citations

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