Joseph O’Rourke

10.5k total citations · 3 hit papers
177 papers, 6.1k citations indexed

About

Joseph O’Rourke is a scholar working on Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and Mechanical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Joseph O’Rourke has authored 177 papers receiving a total of 6.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 131 papers in Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design, 52 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and 32 papers in Mechanical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Joseph O’Rourke's work include Computational Geometry and Mesh Generation (127 papers), Digital Image Processing Techniques (28 papers) and Advanced Materials and Mechanics (26 papers). Joseph O’Rourke is often cited by papers focused on Computational Geometry and Mesh Generation (127 papers), Digital Image Processing Techniques (28 papers) and Advanced Materials and Mechanics (26 papers). Joseph O’Rourke collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Belgium. Joseph O’Rourke's co-authors include A. John Mallinckrodt, Erik D. Demaine, Norman I. Badler, Herbert Edelsbrunner, Raimund Seidel, Kenneth J. Supowit, Joseph S. B. Mitchell, Subhash Suri, Boris Aronov and Pankaj K. Agarwal and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Proceedings of the IEEE and IEEE Transactions on Information Theory.

In The Last Decade

Joseph O’Rourke

166 papers receiving 5.6k citations

Hit Papers

Art gallery theorems and algorithms 1987 2026 2000 2013 1987 1995 1998 250 500 750

Peers

Joseph O’Rourke
Comparison fields: 5 of 185
  • Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design 2.5k
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2.3k
  • Computational Mechanics 889
  • Aerospace Engineering 805
  • Mechanical Engineering 760
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Countries citing papers authored by Joseph O’Rourke

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Fields of papers citing papers by Joseph O’Rourke

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Joseph O’Rourke

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Joseph O’Rourke. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Joseph O’Rourke 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 Joseph O’Rourke. Joseph O’Rourke 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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Education for Syrian Refugees: The Failure of Second-Generation Human Rights during Extraordinary Crises
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Unfolding Face-Neighborhood Convex Patches: Counterexamples and Positive Results
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5
Edge-guarding Orthogonal Polyhedra
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Draining a polygon -- or -- rolling a ball out of a polygon
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7
Unfolding Polyhedra via Cut-Tree Truncation
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Unfolding Convex Polyhedra via Quasigeodesics
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9
Open Problems: Open Problems from CCCG 2005.
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10
Unfolding polyhedral bands
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11
On Flat-State Connectivity of Chains with Fixed Acute Angles
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Partitioning orthogonal polygons into fat rectangles in polynomial time.
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Partitioning orthogonal polygons into fat rectangles.
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14 27
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Recovery of Convex Hulls From External Visibility Graphs.
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Proceedings of the first annual symposium on Computational geometry
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Dynamically quantized spaces for focusing the Hough Transform
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Polyhedra of minimal area as 3D object models
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19
Human movement understanding: a variety of perspectives
3
20
Value management for construction
15

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