Marc Levoy

34.7k total citations · 15 hit papers
109 papers, 22.9k citations indexed

About

Marc Levoy is a scholar working on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design and Computational Mechanics. According to data from OpenAlex, Marc Levoy has authored 109 papers receiving a total of 22.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 77 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 56 papers in Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design and 32 papers in Computational Mechanics. Recurrent topics in Marc Levoy's work include Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques (55 papers), Advanced Vision and Imaging (55 papers) and 3D Shape Modeling and Analysis (32 papers). Marc Levoy is often cited by papers focused on Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques (55 papers), Advanced Vision and Imaging (55 papers) and 3D Shape Modeling and Analysis (32 papers). Marc Levoy collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and United Kingdom. Marc Levoy's co-authors include Szymon Rusinkiewicz, Pat Hanrahan, Brian Curless, Li‐Yi Wei, Greg Turk, Andrew Adams, Mark Horowitz, Philippe Lacroute, Vaibhav Vaish and Olaf Hall-Holt and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Communications of the ACM and Optics Express.

In The Last Decade

Marc Levoy

107 papers receiving 21.1k citations

Hit Papers

Light field rendering 1988 2026 2000 2013 1996 2002 1996 1988 1994 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k 2.5k
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.

  1. Light field rendering
    1996 2.7k citations Marc Levoy et al. profile →
  2. Efficient variants of the ICP algorithm
    2002 2.6k citations Szymon Rusinkiewicz, Marc Levoy profile →
  3. A volumetric method for building complex models from range images
    1996 2.1k citations Marc Levoy et al. profile →
  4. Display of surfaces from volume data
    1988 1.6k citations Marc Levoy IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications profile →
  5. Zippered polygon meshes from range images
    1994 949 citations Marc Levoy et al. profile →
  6. Fast texture synthesis using tree-structured vector quantization
    2000 925 citations Marc Levoy et al. profile →
  7. High performance imaging using large camera arrays
    2005 724 citations Bennett Wilburn, Neel Joshi et al. ACM Transactions on Graphics profile →
  8. QSplat
    2000 699 citations Szymon Rusinkiewicz, Marc Levoy profile →
  9. Fast volume rendering using a shear-warp factorization of the viewing transformation
    1994 679 citations Marc Levoy et al. profile →
  10. Efficient ray tracing of volume data
    1990 665 citations Marc Levoy ACM Transactions on Graphics profile →
  11. A practical model for subsurface light transport
    2001 553 citations Marc Levoy et al. profile →
  12. Light field microscopy
    2006 534 citations Marc Levoy, Andrew Adams et al. ACM Transactions on Graphics profile →
  13. Real-time 3D model acquisition
    2002 434 citations Szymon Rusinkiewicz, Olaf Hall-Holt et al. profile →
  14. Wave optics theory and 3-D deconvolution for the light field microscope
    2013 361 citations Marc Levoy et al. profile →
  15. Burst photography for high dynamic range and low-light imaging on mobile cameras
    2016 276 citations Andrew Adams, Jonathan T. Barron 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
Marc Levoy United States 58 16.0k 9.4k 6.5k 4.3k 2.9k 109 22.9k
Berthold K. P. Horn United States 47 18.9k 1.2× 3.0k 0.3× 2.8k 0.4× 5.7k 1.3× 1.4k 0.5× 157 27.3k
Richard Szeliski United States 83 29.2k 1.8× 5.8k 0.6× 2.7k 0.4× 8.4k 2.0× 4.4k 1.5× 209 34.7k
Baining Guo China 59 19.0k 1.2× 5.9k 0.6× 5.1k 0.8× 2.0k 0.5× 791 0.3× 255 30.8k
Hans‐Peter Seidel Germany 74 14.4k 0.9× 8.1k 0.9× 7.8k 1.2× 1.2k 0.3× 1.3k 0.5× 592 20.5k
Shree K. Nayar United States 79 21.1k 1.3× 3.7k 0.4× 2.2k 0.3× 2.3k 0.5× 946 0.3× 288 25.9k
Demetri Terzopoulos United States 61 19.3k 1.2× 4.5k 0.5× 6.7k 1.0× 2.3k 0.5× 555 0.2× 249 29.1k
Ravi Ramamoorthi United States 63 12.4k 0.8× 7.5k 0.8× 4.2k 0.6× 992 0.2× 974 0.3× 280 16.1k
Frédo Durand United States 76 18.8k 1.2× 5.3k 0.6× 3.4k 0.5× 845 0.2× 753 0.3× 279 25.4k
Daniel Cohen‐Or Israel 89 16.4k 1.0× 10.2k 1.1× 12.6k 1.9× 2.0k 0.5× 4.0k 1.4× 421 26.0k
Alexei A. Efros United States 63 27.1k 1.7× 3.3k 0.4× 2.0k 0.3× 2.2k 0.5× 740 0.3× 131 33.6k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Marc Levoy

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Marc Levoy

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Kee, Eric, et al.. (2025). Removing Reflections from RAW Photos. 161–171.
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Wadhwa, Neal, Rahul Garg, David E. Jacobs, et al.. (2018). Synthetic depth-of-field with a single-camera mobile phone. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 37(4). 1–13. 94 indexed citations
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Ragan‐Kelley, Jonathan, Andrew Adams, Sylvain Paris, et al.. (2012). Decoupling algorithms from schedules for easy optimization of image processing pipelines. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 31(4). 1–12. 167 indexed citations
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Kaye, Elena, M. Marx, Beat Werner, et al.. (2012). Application of Zernike polynomials towards accelerated adaptive focusing of transcranial high intensity focused ultrasound. Medical Physics. 39(10). 6254–6263. 27 indexed citations
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Davis, Abe, Marc Levoy, & Frédo Durand. (2012). Unstructured Light Fields. Computer Graphics Forum. 31(2pt1). 305–314. 137 indexed citations
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Levoy, Marc. (2010). Light field photography, microscopy, and illumination. ITuB3–ITuB3. 2 indexed citations
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Levoy, Marc. (2007). ACM SIGGRAPH 2007 papers. 9 indexed citations
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Adams, Andrew & Marc Levoy. (2007). General linear cameras with finite aperture. 121–126. 7 indexed citations
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Levoy, Marc & Vaibhav Vaish. (2007). Synthetic Aperture Imaging Using Dense Camera Arrays. 161(10). 5472–80. 11 indexed citations
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Vaish, Vaibhav, Gaurav Garg, Eino-Ville Talvala, et al.. (2006). Synthetic Aperture Focusing using a Shear-Warp Factorization of the Viewing Transform. 3. 129–129. 55 indexed citations
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Chen, Billy, Eyal Ofek, Heung‐Yeung Shum, & Marc Levoy. (2005). Interactive deformation of light fields. Rare & Special e-Zone (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology). 139–146. 14 indexed citations
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Vaish, Vaibhav, Bennett Wilburn, Neel Joshi, & Marc Levoy. (2004). Using plane + parallax for calibrating dense camera arrays. 1. 2–9. 170 indexed citations
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Gelfand, Natasha, Leslie Ikemoto, Szymon Rusinkiewicz, & Marc Levoy. (2004). Geometrically stable sampling for the ICP algorithm. 260–267. 247 indexed citations
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Davis, James, et al.. (2003). Filling holes in complex surfaces using volumetric diffusion. 428–861. 330 indexed citations
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Rusinkiewicz, Szymon, Olaf Hall-Holt, & Marc Levoy. (2002). Real-time 3D model acquisition. 438–446. 434 indexed citations breakdown →
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Levoy, Marc & Szymon Rusinkiewicz. (2001). Real-time acquisition and rendering of large three-dimensional models. 3 indexed citations
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Levoy, Marc. (1995). Polygon-assisted JPEG and MPEG compression of synthetic images. 21–28. 69 indexed citations
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Levoy, Marc & Ross Whitaker. (1990). Gaze-directed volume rendering. 217–223. 117 indexed citations
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Levoy, Marc. (1990). A hybrid ray tracer for rendering polygon and volume data. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications. 10(2). 33–40. 151 indexed citations
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Levoy, Marc. (1977). A color animation system. ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics. 11(2). 65–71. 12 indexed citations

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