Michael Kass

23.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
35 papers, 16.0k citations indexed

About

Michael Kass is a scholar working on Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and Computational Mechanics. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael Kass has authored 35 papers receiving a total of 16.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design, 20 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and 14 papers in Computational Mechanics. Recurrent topics in Michael Kass's work include Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques (24 papers), Advanced Vision and Imaging (12 papers) and 3D Shape Modeling and Analysis (10 papers). Michael Kass is often cited by papers focused on Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques (24 papers), Advanced Vision and Imaging (12 papers) and 3D Shape Modeling and Analysis (10 papers). Michael Kass collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Israel. Michael Kass's co-authors include Andrew Witkin, Demetri Terzopoulos, Gavin Miller, Tony DeRose, Ned Greene, Tien Van Truong, David Baraff, Justin Solomon, John R. Anderson and Aaron Lefohn and has published in prestigious journals such as ACM Transactions on Graphics, International Journal of Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence.

In The Last Decade

Michael Kass

35 papers receiving 14.6k 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.

Snakes: Active contour models

1988 11.6k citations Michael Kass, Andrew Witkin et al. International Journal of Computer Vision profile →
Constraints on deformable models:Recovering 3D shape and nonrigid motion

1988 529 citations Demetri Terzopoulos, Andrew Witkin et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Michael Kass United States	22	11.1k	3.1k	2.6k	2.0k	1.5k	35	16.0k
Andrew Witkin United States	38	13.1k 1.2×	4.5k 1.5×	3.7k 1.4×	2.1k 1.0×	1.7k 1.1×	70	20.0k
Ron Kimmel Israel	56	10.9k 1.0×	4.4k 1.4×	2.3k 0.9×	1.3k 0.7×	1.1k 0.7×	212	14.7k
Berthold K. P. Horn United States	47	18.9k 1.7×	2.8k 0.9×	3.0k 1.2×	1.6k 0.8×	1.5k 1.0×	157	27.3k
Jan Kautz United Kingdom	61	13.4k 1.2×	2.4k 0.8×	4.1k 1.6×	711 0.4×	2.2k 1.4×	234	17.2k
Demetri Terzopoulos United States	61	19.3k 1.7×	6.7k 2.2×	4.5k 1.8×	3.2k 1.6×	3.0k 2.0×	249	29.1k
Alfred M. Bruckstein⋆ Israel	46	9.2k 0.8×	5.2k 1.7×	800 0.3×	877 0.4×	1.5k 1.0×	245	15.7k
Allen Tannenbaum United States	55	5.7k 0.5×	1.9k 0.6×	839 0.3×	1.7k 0.8×	1.0k 0.7×	428	15.6k
Andrew Blake United Kingdom	46	14.4k 1.3×	1.3k 0.4×	1.3k 0.5×	570 0.3×	1.9k 1.3×	105	18.0k
William E. Lorensen United States	30	7.5k 0.7×	6.4k 2.1×	6.9k 2.7×	2.3k 1.2×	1.7k 1.1×	63	20.4k
Olivier Faugeras France	63	12.2k 1.1×	1.4k 0.4×	1.3k 0.5×	1.2k 0.6×	778 0.5×	295	16.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Michael Kass

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Fields of papers citing papers by Michael Kass

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michael Kass

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Whitmire, Eric, et al.. (2019). RetroTracker: Upgrading Existing Virtual Reality Tracking Systems. 23. 1034–1035. 1 indexed citations

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Bénard, Pierre, Aaron Hertzmann, & Michael Kass. (2014). Computing smooth surface contours with accurate topology. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 33(2). 1–21. 14 indexed citations

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Kass, Michael, et al.. (2011). Coherent noise for non-photorealistic rendering. 1–6. 11 indexed citations

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Kass, Michael, et al.. (2011). Coherent noise for non-photorealistic rendering. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 30(4). 1–6. 13 indexed citations

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Kass, Michael & Justin Solomon. (2010). Smoothed local histogram filters. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 29(4). 1–10. 109 indexed citations

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Kass, Michael & John R. Anderson. (2008). Animating oscillatory motion with overlap. 1–8. 3 indexed citations

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Kass, Michael, Aaron Lefohn, & John D. Owens. (2006). Interactive Depth of Field Using Simulated Diffusion on a GPU. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 39 indexed citations

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DeRose, Tony, Michael Kass, & Tien Van Truong. (1998). Subdivision surfaces in character animation. 85–94. 406 indexed citations

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Greene, Ned & Michael Kass. (1994). Error-bounded antialiased rendering of complex environments. 59–66. 32 indexed citations

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Greene, Ned, Michael Kass, & Gavin Miller. (1993). Hierarchical Z-buffer visibility. 231–238. 366 indexed citations

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Kass, Michael, et al.. (1993). Efficient, fair interpolation using Catmull-Clark surfaces. 35–44. 300 indexed citations

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Gleicher, Michael & Michael Kass. (1992). An interval refinement technique for surface intersection. Canada Human-Computer Communications Society. 242–249. 12 indexed citations

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Kass, Michael. (1991). Height-field fluids for computer graphics. Winter Simulation Conference. 1194–1198. 1 indexed citations

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Witkin, Andrew & Michael Kass. (1991). Reaction-diffusion textures. ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics. 25(4). 299–308. 119 indexed citations

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Witkin, Andrew & Michael Kass. (1991). Reaction-diffusion textures. 299–308. 203 indexed citations

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Kass, Michael. (1988). Linear image features in stereopsis. International Journal of Computer Vision. 1(4). 357–368. 16 indexed citations

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Witkin, Andrew & Michael Kass. (1988). Spacetime constraints. 159–168. 194 indexed citations

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Terzopoulos, Demetri, Andrew Witkin, & Michael Kass. (1987). Energy constraints on deformable models: recovering shape and non-rigid motion. 755–760. 17 indexed citations

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Terzopoulos, Demetri, Andrew Witkin, & Michael Kass. (1987). Stereo Matching As Constrained Optimization Using Scale Continuation Methods. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 754. 92–92. 9 indexed citations

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Kass, Michael. (1983). A Computational Framework for the Visual Correspondence Problem.. International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 1043–1045. 7 indexed citations

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