Paul Merrell

2.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
25 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Paul Merrell is a scholar working on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Computational Mechanics and Aerospace Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Paul Merrell has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 9 papers in Computational Mechanics and 9 papers in Aerospace Engineering. Recurrent topics in Paul Merrell's work include Advanced Vision and Imaging (12 papers), Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques (9 papers) and Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization (9 papers). Paul Merrell is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Vision and Imaging (12 papers), Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques (9 papers) and Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization (9 papers). Paul Merrell collaborates with scholars based in United States. Paul Merrell's co-authors include Eric Schkufza, Vladlen Koltun, Maneesh Agrawala, Zeyang Li, Marc Pollefeys, Philippos Mordohai, D. Nistér, Ruigang Yang, Amir Akbarzadeh and Dinesh Manocha and has published in prestigious journals such as ACM Transactions on Graphics, International Journal of Computer Vision and Neurocomputing.

In The Last Decade

Paul Merrell

25 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Hit Papers

Detailed Real-Time Urban 3D Reconstruction from Video 2007 2026 2013 2019 2007 100 200 300 400 500
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. Detailed Real-Time Urban 3D Reconstruction from Video
    2007 508 citations Marc Pollefeys, D. Nistér et al. International Journal of Computer Vision profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Paul Merrell United States 15 1.3k 661 584 384 302 25 2.0k
Werner Purgathofer Austria 24 1.4k 1.0× 164 0.2× 348 0.6× 859 2.2× 398 1.3× 102 2.1k
Amir Zamir United States 17 1.4k 1.1× 438 0.7× 844 1.4× 247 0.6× 787 2.6× 27 2.4k
Suya You United States 23 1.3k 0.9× 634 1.0× 603 1.0× 173 0.5× 276 0.9× 108 2.1k
Tian Fang China 18 1.6k 1.2× 707 1.1× 431 0.7× 252 0.7× 255 0.8× 71 2.0k
Samuele Salti Italy 18 1.4k 1.1× 1.1k 1.7× 754 1.3× 78 0.2× 440 1.5× 57 2.2k
Stefano Rosa Italy 14 845 0.6× 555 0.8× 873 1.5× 205 0.5× 854 2.8× 53 2.1k
Matthias NieBner Germany 14 1.8k 1.3× 743 1.1× 562 1.0× 419 1.1× 699 2.3× 17 2.3k
Ozan Şener United States 12 889 0.7× 243 0.4× 805 1.4× 179 0.5× 753 2.5× 22 2.0k
Aleksey Golovinskiy United States 15 1.3k 1.0× 318 0.5× 580 1.0× 653 1.7× 1.1k 3.8× 16 2.0k
Maciej Halber United States 4 2.3k 1.7× 960 1.5× 1.0k 1.8× 492 1.3× 1.1k 3.8× 5 3.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Paul Merrell

Since Specialization
Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Paul Merrell's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Paul Merrell with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Paul Merrell more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Paul Merrell

Since Specialization
Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Paul Merrell

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
1.
Merrell, Paul. (2023). Example-Based Procedural Modeling Using Graph Grammars. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 42(4). 1–16. 7 indexed citations
2.
Merrell, Paul, Eric Schkufza, Zeyang Li, Maneesh Agrawala, & Vladlen Koltun. (2011). Interactive furniture layout using interior design guidelines. 1–10. 169 indexed citations
3.
Merrell, Paul, Eric Schkufza, Zeyang Li, Maneesh Agrawala, & Vladlen Koltun. (2011). Interactive furniture layout using interior design guidelines. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 30(4). 1–10. 202 indexed citations
4.
Merrell, Paul, Eric Schkufza, & Vladlen Koltun. (2010). Computer-generated residential building layouts. 1–1. 50 indexed citations
5.
Merrell, Paul, Eric Schkufza, & Vladlen Koltun. (2010). Computer-generated residential building layouts. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 29(6). 1–12. 156 indexed citations
6.
Merrell, Paul & Dinesh Manocha. (2010). Model Synthesis: A General Procedural Modeling Algorithm. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. 17(6). 715–728. 43 indexed citations
7.
Merrell, Paul & Dinesh Manocha. (2010). Example-based curve synthesis. Computers & Graphics. 34(4). 304–311. 13 indexed citations
8.
Sewall, Jason, et al.. (2010). Continuum Traffic Simulation. Computer Graphics Forum. 29(2). 439–448. 66 indexed citations
9.
Merrell, Paul & Dinesh Manocha. (2009). Constraint-based model synthesis. 101–111. 9 indexed citations
10.
Merrell, Paul & Dinesh Manocha. (2008). Continuous model synthesis. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 27(5). 1–7. 46 indexed citations
11.
Lee, Dah-Jye, Paul Merrell, Brent Nelson, & Zhaoyi Wei. (2008). Multi-frame structure from motion using optical flow probability distributions. Neurocomputing. 72(4-6). 1032–1041. 9 indexed citations
12.
Lee, Dah-Jye, Paul Merrell, Zhaoyi Wei, & Brent Nelson. (2008). Two-frame structure from motion using optical flow probability distributions for unmanned air vehicle obstacle avoidance. Machine Vision and Applications. 21(3). 229–240. 13 indexed citations
13.
Merrell, Paul, Philippos Mordohai, Jan‐Michael Frahm, & Marc Pollefeys. (2007). Evaluation of Large Scale Scene Reconstruction. 1–8. 9 indexed citations
14.
Merrell, Paul. (2007). Example-based model synthesis. 105–112. 57 indexed citations
15.
Mordohai, Philippos, Jan‐Michael Frahm, Amir Akbarzadeh, et al.. (2007). Real-Time Video-Based Reconstruction of Urban Environments. Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich). 36. 28 indexed citations
16.
Pollefeys, Marc, D. Nistér, Jan‐Michael Frahm, et al.. (2007). Detailed Real-Time Urban 3D Reconstruction from Video. International Journal of Computer Vision. 78(2-3). 143–167. 508 indexed citations breakdown →
17.
Merrell, Paul & Dah-Jye Lee. (2005). Structure from motion using optical flow probability distributions. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 5803. 39–39. 8 indexed citations
18.
Merrell, Paul, Dah-Jye Lee, & Randal W. Beard. (2004). <title>Statistical analysis of multiple optical flow values for estimation of unmanned aerial vehicle height above ground</title>. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 5608. 298–305. 4 indexed citations
19.
Merrell, Paul, Dah-Jye Lee, & Randal W. Beard. (2004). Obstacle avoidance for unmanned air vehicles using optical flow probability distributions. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 32 indexed citations
20.
Lee, Dah-Jye, Randal W. Beard, Paul Merrell, & Pengcheng Zhan. (2004). See and avoidance behaviors for autonomous navigation. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 5609. 23–23. 14 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact

Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Werner Purgathofer Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Amir Zamir Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Suya You Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Tian Fang Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Samuele Salti Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Stefano Rosa Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Matthias NieBner Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Ozan Şener Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Aleksey Golovinskiy Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Maciej Halber
Rankless by CCL
2026