Manfred Ernst

812 total citations · 1 hit paper
14 papers, 580 citations indexed

About

Manfred Ernst is a scholar working on Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and Computational Mechanics. According to data from OpenAlex, Manfred Ernst has authored 14 papers receiving a total of 580 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design, 8 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and 5 papers in Computational Mechanics. Recurrent topics in Manfred Ernst's work include Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques (10 papers), Advanced Vision and Imaging (6 papers) and 3D Shape Modeling and Analysis (5 papers). Manfred Ernst is often cited by papers focused on Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques (10 papers), Advanced Vision and Imaging (6 papers) and 3D Shape Modeling and Analysis (5 papers). Manfred Ernst collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Manfred Ernst's co-authors include Sven Woop, Günther Greiner, Carsten Benthin, Gregory Johnson, Ingo Wald, Marc Levoy, Ignacio Garcia‐Dorado, Michael Krainin, Chia‐Kai Liang and Peyman Milanfar and has published in prestigious journals such as ACM Transactions on Graphics, ACM SIGPLAN Notices and Queue.

In The Last Decade

Manfred Ernst

13 papers receiving 532 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.

  1. Embree
    2014 255 citations Ingo Wald, Sven Woop et al. ACM Transactions on Graphics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Manfred Ernst United States 9 381 316 177 82 41 14 580
Austin Robison United States 6 345 0.9× 344 1.1× 165 0.9× 36 0.4× 45 1.1× 9 609
Johannes Günther Germany 11 412 1.1× 487 1.5× 257 1.5× 30 0.4× 37 0.9× 22 679
Sven Woop United Kingdom 12 518 1.4× 602 1.9× 316 1.8× 29 0.4× 44 1.1× 21 779
Greg Coombe United States 8 311 0.8× 299 0.9× 128 0.7× 25 0.3× 13 0.3× 13 476
Stefan Guthe Germany 16 523 1.4× 529 1.7× 300 1.7× 22 0.3× 15 0.4× 37 777
Solomon Boulos United States 18 705 1.9× 828 2.6× 398 2.2× 54 0.7× 39 1.0× 31 1.0k
Kei Iwasaki Japan 15 261 0.7× 350 1.1× 219 1.2× 57 0.7× 23 0.6× 89 646
Diego Valsesia Italy 12 319 0.8× 62 0.2× 134 0.8× 107 1.3× 29 0.7× 52 470
Eric R. Chan United States 7 677 1.8× 410 1.3× 376 2.1× 30 0.4× 9 0.2× 8 858
Diego Nehab United States 19 1.0k 2.7× 688 2.2× 381 2.2× 74 0.9× 36 0.9× 53 1.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Manfred Ernst

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Fields of papers citing papers by Manfred Ernst

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Manfred Ernst

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

All Works

14 of 14 papers shown
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Garcia‐Dorado, Ignacio, Manfred Ernst, Damien P. Kelly, et al.. (2019). Handheld multi-frame super-resolution. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 38(4). 1–18. 128 indexed citations
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Pharr, Matt, et al.. (2018). View-Region Optimized Image-Based Scene Simplification. Proceedings of the ACM on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques. 1(2). 1–22. 3 indexed citations
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Ernst, Manfred, et al.. (2016). Idle time garbage collection scheduling. ACM SIGPLAN Notices. 51(6). 570–583. 4 indexed citations
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Ernst, Manfred, et al.. (2016). Idle time garbage collection scheduling. 570–583. 16 indexed citations
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Ernst, Manfred, et al.. (2016). Idle-Time Garbage-Collection Scheduling. Queue. 14(3). 35–52.
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Wald, Ingo, Sven Woop, Carsten Benthin, Gregory Johnson, & Manfred Ernst. (2014). Embree. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 33(4). 1–8. 255 indexed citations breakdown →
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Ernst, Manfred & Sven Woop. (2011). Ray Tracing with Shared-Plane Bounding Volume Hierarchies. 15(3). 141–151. 6 indexed citations
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Ernst, Manfred, et al.. (2010). Memory efficient ray tracing with hierarchical mesh quantization. Graphics Interface. 153–160. 18 indexed citations
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Ernst, Manfred, et al.. (2008). ENTKERNER: A SYSTEM FOR REMOVAL OF GLOBALLY INVISIBLE TRIANGLES FROM LARGE MESHES. 3 indexed citations
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Ernst, Manfred & Günther Greiner. (2008). Multi bounding volume hierarchies. 35–40. 44 indexed citations
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Ernst, Manfred & Günther Greiner. (2007). Early Split Clipping for Bounding Volume Hierarchies. 73–78. 41 indexed citations
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Ernst, Manfred, Marc Stamminger, & Günther Greiner. (2006). Filter Importance Sampling. 125–132. 9 indexed citations
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Ernst, Manfred, Tomas Akenine‐Möller, & Henrik Wann Jensen. (2005). Interactive rendering of caustics using interpolated warped volumes. Graphics Interface. 87–96. 32 indexed citations
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Ernst, Manfred, et al.. (2004). Stack Implementation on Programmable Graphics Hardware.. Vision Modeling and Visualization. 255–262. 21 indexed citations

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