Michael Wimmer

6.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
198 papers, 4.0k citations indexed

About

Michael Wimmer 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 Wimmer has authored 198 papers receiving a total of 4.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 119 papers in Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design, 104 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and 62 papers in Computational Mechanics. Recurrent topics in Michael Wimmer's work include Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques (117 papers), Advanced Vision and Imaging (73 papers) and 3D Shape Modeling and Analysis (61 papers). Michael Wimmer is often cited by papers focused on Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques (117 papers), Advanced Vision and Imaging (73 papers) and 3D Shape Modeling and Analysis (61 papers). Michael Wimmer collaborates with scholars based in Austria, United States and Germany. Michael Wimmer's co-authors include Peter Wonka, François X. Sillion, Werner Purgathofer, William Ribarsky, Przemysław Musialski, Oliver Mattausch, Jiřı́ Bittner, Xiaowei Xu, Martin Ester and Jörg Sander and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Sensors.

In The Last Decade

Michael Wimmer

185 papers receiving 3.8k 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.

A Survey of Urban Reconstruction

2013 298 citations Przemysław Musialski, Peter Wonka et al. Computer Graphics Forum profile →
A Hierarchical 3D Gaussian Representation for Real-Time Rendering of Very Large Datasets

2024 49 citations Michael Wimmer et al. ACM Transactions on Graphics profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Michael Wimmer	2.0k	1.7k	884	779	736	198	4.0k
Reinhard Klein	3.3k 1.6×	2.0k 1.2×	1.9k 2.2×	2.1k 2.7×	1.4k 2.0×	260	6.5k
François X. Sillion	2.6k 1.3×	2.7k 1.6×	467 0.5×	1.5k 1.9×	390 0.5×	83	4.1k
Enrico Gobbetti	2.1k 1.0×	1.7k 1.0×	711 0.8×	885 1.1×	439 0.6×	238	3.5k
Ping Tan	5.7k 2.9×	1.2k 0.7×	745 0.8×	725 0.9×	596 0.8×	138	6.8k
Renato Pajarola	1.6k 0.8×	1.9k 1.2×	575 0.7×	1.6k 2.1×	511 0.7×	143	3.5k
Paul S. Heckbert	4.0k 2.0×	4.3k 2.6×	422 0.5×	3.2k 4.1×	350 0.5×	41	6.9k
Julie Dorsey	3.9k 1.9×	2.6k 1.5×	423 0.5×	1.6k 2.1×	284 0.4×	113	5.6k
Matthew Tancik	4.2k 2.1×	2.4k 1.4×	536 0.6×	1.8k 2.4×	357 0.5×	20	5.9k
Michela Spagnuolo	1.8k 0.9×	1.2k 0.7×	400 0.5×	2.0k 2.5×	206 0.3×	147	3.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Michael Wimmer

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Fields of papers citing papers by Michael Wimmer

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michael Wimmer

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

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Hofmann, Thomas, et al.. (2025). New Approaches for the Use of Extended Mock-Ups for the Development of Air Traffic Controller Working Positions. Aerospace. 12(2). 114–114.

Wimmer, Michael, et al.. (2024). Strokes2Surface: Recovering Curve Networks From 4D Architectural Design Sketches. Computer Graphics Forum. 43(2). 5 indexed citations

Rist, Florian, et al.. (2024). View-Independent Adjoint Light Tracing for Lighting Design Optimization. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 43(3). 1–16. 1 indexed citations

Blöschl, Günter, Daniel Cornel, Markus Hollaus, et al.. (2024). Hyper-resolution flood hazard mapping at the national scale. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 24(6). 2071–2091. 3 indexed citations

Wimmer, Michael, et al.. (2024). SimLOD: Simultaneous LOD Generation and Rendering for Point Clouds. Proceedings of the ACM on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques. 7(1). 1–20. 2 indexed citations

Guerrero, Paul, et al.. (2024). PPSurf: Combining Patches and Point Convolutions for Detailed Surface Reconstruction. Computer Graphics Forum. 43(1). 1 indexed citations

Königsberger, Markus, et al.. (2024). Micromechanics stiffness upscaling of plant fiber-reinforced composites. Composites Part B Engineering. 281. 111571–111571. 8 indexed citations

Wimmer, Michael, et al.. (2023). Exploiting Light Polarization for Deep HDR Imaging from a Single Exposure. Sensors. 23(12). 5370–5370. 5 indexed citations

Gilmutdinov, I.F., et al.. (2022). Assessment of Material Layers in Building Walls Using GeoRadar. Remote Sensing. 14(19). 5038–5038. 2 indexed citations

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Wimmer, Michael, et al.. (2017). Relation-based parametrization and exploration of shape collections. Computers & Graphics. 67. 127–137. 2 indexed citations

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Koller, Hans‐Christoph, Michael Wimmer, Paul Mecheril, et al.. (2014). Heterogenität. 1 indexed citations

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Sturn, Tobias, et al.. (2013). Landspotting - Games for improving global land cover.. Foundations of Digital Games. 117–125. 3 indexed citations

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Wimmer, Michael, et al.. (2013). Interactive Grass Rendering Using Real-Time Tessellation. Digital Library (University of West Bohemia). 114–122. 1 indexed citations

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Tanzmeister, Georg, et al.. (2012). Interactive BRDF Estimation for Mixed-Reality Applications. Digital Library (University of West Bohemia). 20. 47–56. 7 indexed citations

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Schedl, David C. & Michael Wimmer. (2012). A layered depth-of-field method for solving partial occlusion.. Digital Library (University of West Bohemia). 20. 239–246. 7 indexed citations

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Wonka, Peter, et al.. (2009). Parallel generation of L-systems. Vision Modeling and Visualization. 205–214. 3 indexed citations

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Habel, Ralf, Michael Wimmer, & Stefan Jeschke. (2007). Instant Animated Grass.. Digital Library (University of West Bohemia). 15. 123–128. 8 indexed citations

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Habel, Ralf, et al.. (2007). Physically based real-time translucency for leaves. 253–263. 10 indexed citations

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Bittner, Jiřı́, Peter Wonka, & Michael Wimmer. (2005). Fast exact from-region visibility in urban scenes. 223–230. 11 indexed citations

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Ester, Martin, Hans‐Peter Kriegel, Jörg Sander, Michael Wimmer, & Xiaowei Xu. (1998). Incremental Clustering for Mining in a Data Warehousing Environment. Very Large Data Bases. 323–333. 296 indexed citations

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