Lee Westover

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
8 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Lee Westover is a scholar working on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design and Computational Mechanics. According to data from OpenAlex, Lee Westover has authored 8 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 6 papers in Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design and 3 papers in Computational Mechanics. Recurrent topics in Lee Westover's work include Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques (6 papers), Advanced Vision and Imaging (6 papers) and 3D Shape Modeling and Analysis (3 papers). Lee Westover is often cited by papers focused on Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques (6 papers), Advanced Vision and Imaging (6 papers) and 3D Shape Modeling and Analysis (3 papers). Lee Westover collaborates with scholars based in United States. Lee Westover's co-authors include Steven Molnar, Nick England, John Eyles, Trey Greer, Anselmo Lastra, John W. Poulton and Leonard McMillan and has published in prestigious journals such as ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics.

In The Last Decade

Lee Westover

8 papers receiving 1.0k 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.

Footprint evaluation for volume rendering

1990 537 citations Lee Westover profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Lee Westover United States	7	1.0k	900	645	82	53	8	1.2k
Samuel P. Uselton United States	10	514 0.5×	503 0.6×	358 0.6×	63 0.8×	26 0.5×	27	832
Per H. Christensen United States	18	862 0.9×	753 0.8×	429 0.7×	73 0.9×	7 0.1×	32	1.0k
Armin Kanitsar Austria	18	570 0.6×	707 0.8×	270 0.4×	130 1.6×	16 0.3×	31	960
Lisa Avila United States	9	234 0.2×	293 0.3×	116 0.2×	53 0.6×	13 0.2×	14	536
Barthold Lichtenbelt United States	4	234 0.2×	238 0.3×	142 0.2×	28 0.3×	11 0.2×	7	420
Ravi Krishna Kolluri United States	4	523 0.5×	399 0.4×	552 0.9×	24 0.3×	6 0.1×	7	921
Sven Woop United Kingdom	12	602 0.6×	518 0.6×	316 0.5×	23 0.3×	2 0.0×	21	779
Austin Robison United States	6	344 0.3×	345 0.4×	165 0.3×	39 0.5×	2 0.0×	9	609
Simon Stegmaier Germany	10	335 0.3×	298 0.3×	232 0.4×	11 0.1×	19 0.4×	17	481
Henri Gouraud United States	3	315 0.3×	241 0.3×	236 0.4×	18 0.2×	6 0.1×	3	500

Countries citing papers authored by Lee Westover

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Fields of papers citing papers by Lee Westover

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lee Westover

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

All Works

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8 of 8 papers shown

1.

McMillan, Leonard & Lee Westover. (2003). A forward-mapping realization of the inverse discrete cosine transform. 219–228. 10 indexed citations

2.

Eyles, John, Steven Molnar, John W. Poulton, et al.. (1997). PixelFlow. 57–68. 65 indexed citations

3.

McMillan, Leonard, et al.. (1994). Adaptive colormap selection algorithm for motion sequences. 341–ff.. 4 indexed citations

4.

Westover, Lee. (1991). Splatting: a parallel, feed-forward volume rendering algorithm. 85 indexed citations

5.

Westover, Lee. (1990). Footprint evaluation for volume rendering. ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics. 24(4). 367–376. 291 indexed citations

6.

Westover, Lee. (1990). Footprint evaluation for volume rendering. 367–376. 537 indexed citations breakdown →

7.

Westover, Lee. (1989). Interactive volume rendering. 9–16. 165 indexed citations

8.

Westover, Lee, et al.. (1985). Efficient alias-free rendering using bit-masks and look-up tables. ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics. 19(3). 53–59. 25 indexed citations

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