Karel Zikan

1.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
13 papers, 737 citations indexed

About

Karel Zikan is a scholar working on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Control and Systems Engineering and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Karel Zikan has authored 13 papers receiving a total of 737 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2 papers in Control and Systems Engineering and 2 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Karel Zikan's work include Neural Networks and Applications (2 papers), Augmented Reality Applications (2 papers) and Computational Geometry and Mesh Generation (2 papers). Karel Zikan is often cited by papers focused on Neural Networks and Applications (2 papers), Augmented Reality Applications (2 papers) and Computational Geometry and Mesh Generation (2 papers). Karel Zikan collaborates with scholars based in United States and Czechia. Karel Zikan's co-authors include Henry A. Sowizral, Martin Held, Joseph S. B. Mitchell, James T. Klosowski, Richard W. Cottle, Steven G. Duvall, Adam Janin, Petr Konečný, Thomas P. Caudell and David Mizell and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, American Mathematical Monthly and INFORMS Journal on Computing.

In The Last Decade

Karel Zikan

12 papers receiving 642 citations

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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.

Efficient collision detection using bounding volume hierarchies of k-DOPs

1998 622 citations James T. Klosowski, Martin Held et al. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Karel Zikan United States	7	459	323	192	149	132	13	737
Madhav K. Ponamgi United States	6	497 1.1×	318 1.0×	198 1.0×	100 0.7×	168 1.3×	9	668
Russell Gayle United States	17	543 1.2×	330 1.0×	159 0.8×	193 1.3×	228 1.7×	26	828
Guodong Rong United States	12	286 0.6×	269 0.8×	80 0.4×	163 1.1×	100 0.8×	16	752
Christian Lauterbach United States	13	557 1.2×	505 1.6×	121 0.6×	256 1.7×	58 0.4×	19	884
Lluís Ros Spain	16	330 0.7×	54 0.2×	191 1.0×	101 0.7×	546 4.1×	58	972
Naiyao Zhang China	13	669 1.5×	66 0.2×	171 0.9×	326 2.2×	283 2.1×	39	1.1k
Jaroslaw R. Rossignac United States	15	289 0.6×	534 1.7×	26 0.1×	479 3.2×	46 0.3×	37	878
Chen-Hsuan Lin United States	10	616 1.3×	421 1.3×	111 0.6×	480 3.2×	96 0.7×	26	983
Zen Chen Taiwan	13	522 1.1×	40 0.1×	146 0.8×	86 0.6×	47 0.4×	67	739
Victor Milenkovic United States	19	235 0.5×	667 2.1×	35 0.2×	335 2.2×	94 0.7×	66	974

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Karel Zikan

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

All Works

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13 of 13 papers shown

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Caudell, Thomas P. & Karel Zikan. (2003). Neural network architecture for linear programming. 3. 91–96. 2 indexed citations

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Janin, Adam, et al.. (2002). A note on averaging rotations. 377–385. 18 indexed citations

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Zikan, Karel & Thomas P. Caudell. (2002). D-ART: a pattern recognition system based on adaptive resonance and algebraic metric space theories. ii. 959–959. 1 indexed citations

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Klosowski, James T., Martin Held, Joseph S. B. Mitchell, Henry A. Sowizral, & Karel Zikan. (1998). Efficient collision detection using bounding volume hierarchies of k-DOPs. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. 4(1). 21–36. 622 indexed citations breakdown →

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Konečný, Petr & Karel Zikan. (1997). Lower bound of distance in 3D. Digital Library (University of West Bohemia). 9 indexed citations

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Zikan, Karel, et al.. (1995). <title>Fusion of absolute and incremental position and orientation sensors</title>. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 2351. 316–327. 4 indexed citations

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Zikan, Karel, et al.. (1995). <title>Note on dynamics of human head motions and on predictive filtering of head-set orientations</title>. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 2351. 328–336. 13 indexed citations

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Janin, Adam, et al.. (1995). <title>Videometric head tracker for augmented reality applications</title>. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 2351. 308–315. 7 indexed citations

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Janin, Adam, et al.. (1994). A videometric head tracker for augmented reality applications.. Proc SPIE. 2351. 308–315. 2 indexed citations

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Zikan, Karel. (1991). Technical Note—Least-Squares Image Registration. INFORMS Journal on Computing. 3(2). 169–172.

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Zikan, Karel. (1990). The theory and applications of algebraic metric spaces. 3 indexed citations

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Cottle, Richard W., Steven G. Duvall, & Karel Zikan. (1986). A lagrangean relaxation algorithm for the constrained matrix problem. Naval Research Logistics Quarterly. 33(1). 55–76. 45 indexed citations

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Zikan, Karel, et al.. (1986). E2999. American Mathematical Monthly. 93(5). 402–402. 11 indexed citations

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