Kurt Akeley

4.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
37 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

Kurt Akeley is a scholar working on Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and Computational Mechanics. According to data from OpenAlex, Kurt Akeley has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design, 16 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and 13 papers in Computational Mechanics. Recurrent topics in Kurt Akeley's work include Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques (20 papers), Advanced Vision and Imaging (12 papers) and 3D Shape Modeling and Analysis (11 papers). Kurt Akeley is often cited by papers focused on Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques (20 papers), Advanced Vision and Imaging (12 papers) and 3D Shape Modeling and Analysis (11 papers). Kurt Akeley collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. Kurt Akeley's co-authors include Martin S. Banks, Ahna R. Girshick, David M. Hoffman, Paul Haeberli, William R. Mark, Mark J. Kilgard, Simon J. Watt, Mark Segal, Marc O. Ernst and Pat Hanrahan and has published in prestigious journals such as Optics Express, ACM Transactions on Graphics and Journal of Vision.

In The Last Decade

Kurt Akeley

37 papers receiving 3.2k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Vergence–accommodation conflicts hinder visual performance and cause visual fatigue

2008 1.1k citations David M. Hoffman, Ahna R. Girshick et al. Journal of Vision profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kurt Akeley United States	19	1.6k	1.5k	1.2k	1.1k	911	37	3.5k
Aljoša Smolić Ireland	41	5.9k 3.7×	1.0k 0.7×	809 0.7×	406 0.4×	247 0.3×	224	6.4k
Connelly Barnes United States	25	4.2k 2.6×	474 0.3×	1.0k 0.9×	178 0.2×	93 0.1×	49	5.5k
Kari Pulli United States	30	2.7k 1.6×	514 0.4×	349 0.3×	368 0.3×	73 0.1×	95	3.7k
John C. Hart United States	28	1.8k 1.1×	110 0.1×	2.0k 1.6×	604 0.6×	233 0.3×	105	3.7k
Radek Grzeszczuk United States	29	4.3k 2.6×	569 0.4×	1.4k 1.1×	153 0.1×	87 0.1×	61	4.9k
Xiongkuo Min China	39	5.5k 3.4×	2.1k 1.5×	187 0.2×	387 0.4×	455 0.5×	244	6.8k
Anjul Patney United States	19	838 0.5×	187 0.1×	463 0.4×	446 0.4×	227 0.2×	37	1.4k
Johannes Kopf United States	38	5.0k 3.1×	1.3k 0.9×	1.4k 1.2×	128 0.1×	70 0.1×	68	5.5k
Turner Whitted United States	21	1.9k 1.1×	182 0.1×	2.2k 1.8×	187 0.2×	118 0.1×	47	3.1k
Anselmo Lastra United States	28	1.4k 0.8×	130 0.1×	1.2k 1.0×	214 0.2×	66 0.1×	90	2.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Kurt Akeley

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kurt Akeley

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Akeley, Kurt. (2015). Light‐Field Imaging Approaches Commercial Viability. Information Display. 31(6). 12–15. 2 indexed citations

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Wei, Li‐Yi, et al.. (2015). Improving light field camera sample design with irregularity and aberration. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 34(4). 1–11. 20 indexed citations

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Ravikumar, Sowmya, Kurt Akeley, & Martin S. Banks. (2011). Creating effective focus cues in multi-plane 3D displays. Optics Express. 19(21). 20940–20940. 62 indexed citations

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Fatahalian, Kayvon, Solomon Boulos, James Hegarty, et al.. (2010). Reducing shading on GPUs using quad-fragment merging. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 29(4). 1–8. 26 indexed citations

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Fatahalian, Kayvon, Edward M. Luong, Solomon Boulos, et al.. (2009). Data-parallel rasterization of micropolygons with defocus and motion blur. 59–68. 46 indexed citations

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Fisher, Matthew, Kayvon Fatahalian, Solomon Boulos, et al.. (2009). DiagSplit. 1–10. 1 indexed citations

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Hoffman, David M., Ahna R. Girshick, Kurt Akeley, & Martin S. Banks. (2008). Vergence–accommodation conflicts hinder visual performance and cause visual fatigue. Journal of Vision. 8(3). 33–33. 1134 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kilgard, Mark J. & Kurt Akeley. (2008). Modern OpenGL. 1–31. 8 indexed citations

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Akeley, Kurt & Jonathan K. Su. (2006). Minimum triangle separation for correct z-buffer occlusion. 27–27. 12 indexed citations

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Watt, Simon J., Kurt Akeley, Marc O. Ernst, & Martin S. Banks. (2005). Focus cues affect perceived depth. Journal of Vision. 5(10). 7–7. 237 indexed citations

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Akeley, Kurt, Simon J. Watt, Ahna R. Girshick, & Martin S. Banks. (2004). A stereo display prototype with multiple focal distances. 804–813. 28 indexed citations

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Olano, Marc, Kurt Akeley, John C. Hart, et al.. (2004). Real-time shading. 1–1. 6 indexed citations

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Mark, William R., et al.. (2003). Cg. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 22(3). 896–907. 171 indexed citations

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Olano, Marc, Kurt Akeley, John C. Hart, et al.. (2002). Real-Time Shading. 16 indexed citations

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Akeley, Kurt, et al.. (2000). Proceedings of the 27th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques. 4 indexed citations

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Akeley, Kurt. (1995). Computer graphics achievement award. 10–10. 2 indexed citations

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Akeley, Kurt. (1993). Reality Engine graphics. 109–116. 255 indexed citations

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Haeberli, Paul & Kurt Akeley. (1990). The accumulation buffer: hardware support for high-quality rendering. 309–318. 228 indexed citations

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Akeley, Kurt. (1989). The Silicon Graphics 4D/240GTX superworkstation. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications. 9(4). 71–83. 37 indexed citations

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Akeley, Kurt, et al.. (1988). High-performance polygon rendering. ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics. 22(4). 239–246. 93 indexed citations

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