Ren Ng

21.8k total citations · 5 hit papers
45 papers, 7.7k citations indexed

About

Ren Ng is a scholar working on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Media Technology and Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design. According to data from OpenAlex, Ren Ng has authored 45 papers receiving a total of 7.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 15 papers in Media Technology and 14 papers in Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design. Recurrent topics in Ren Ng's work include Advanced Vision and Imaging (21 papers), Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques (14 papers) and Advanced Image Processing Techniques (9 papers). Ren Ng is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Vision and Imaging (21 papers), Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques (14 papers) and Advanced Image Processing Techniques (9 papers). Ren Ng collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Israel. Ren Ng's co-authors include Ravi Ramamoorthi, Pratul P. Srinivasan, Ben Mildenhall, Matthew Tancik, Jonathan T. Barron, Pat Hanrahan, Patrick Hanrahan, Marc Levoy, Matthew J. Footer and Andrew Adams and has published in prestigious journals such as Communications of the ACM, Science Advances and Optics Express.

In The Last Decade

Ren Ng

45 papers receiving 7.3k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

NeRF

2021 2.7k citations Ben Mildenhall, Pratul P. Srinivasan et al. Communications of the ACM profile →
Local light field fusion

2019 573 citations Ben Mildenhall, Pratul P. Srinivasan et al. ACM Transactions on Graphics profile →
Light field microscopy

2006 534 citations Marc Levoy, Ren Ng et al. ACM Transactions on Graphics profile →
PlenOctrees for Real-time Rendering of Neural Radiance Fields

2021 520 citations Matthew Tancik, Ren Ng et al. profile →
Chromium

2002 381 citations Greg Humphreys, Mike Houston et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ren Ng United States	27	5.5k	2.6k	1.6k	1.4k	678	45	7.7k
Wolfgang Heidrich Canada	57	7.7k 1.4×	2.6k 1.0×	1.8k 1.2×	2.7k 1.9×	839 1.2×	291	11.7k
Jonathan T. Barron United States	38	8.7k 1.6×	3.8k 1.5×	2.8k 1.8×	1.1k 0.8×	1.4k 2.0×	64	10.9k
Dani Lischinski Israel	56	13.4k 2.4×	3.1k 1.2×	1.7k 1.1×	3.4k 2.5×	592 0.9×	140	15.2k
Paul Debevec United States	49	9.8k 1.8×	4.8k 1.8×	2.1k 1.3×	2.0k 1.5×	781 1.2×	200	11.8k
Jan Kautz United Kingdom	61	13.4k 2.4×	4.1k 1.5×	2.4k 1.5×	2.4k 1.7×	983 1.4×	234	17.2k
Eli Shechtman United States	47	12.3k 2.2×	1.8k 0.7×	1.0k 0.6×	1.2k 0.9×	658 1.0×	120	13.4k
Michael F. Cohen United States	50	8.2k 1.5×	3.8k 1.5×	1.7k 1.1×	1.3k 1.0×	625 0.9×	103	9.8k
David Luebke United States	42	3.9k 0.7×	2.7k 1.0×	1.7k 1.1×	1.5k 1.1×	416 0.6×	121	9.3k
Ravi Ramamoorthi United States	63	12.4k 2.3×	7.5k 2.9×	4.2k 2.7×	1.7k 1.2×	992 1.5×	280	16.1k
Ronen Basri Israel	37	7.0k 1.3×	748 0.3×	1.1k 0.7×	714 0.5×	905 1.3×	111	8.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Ren Ng

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ren Ng

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ren Ng

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Wang, Congli, Alexandra E. Boehm, Vimal Prabhu Pandiyan, et al.. (2025). Novel color via stimulation of individual photoreceptors at population scale. Science Advances. 11(16). eadu1052–eadu1052. 1 indexed citations

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Jennings, Nicholas B., et al.. (2024). Theory of Human Tetrachromatic Color Experience and Printing. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 43(4). 1–15. 1 indexed citations

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Doyle, Hannah, et al.. (2023). Boosting 2-photon vision with adaptive optics. Journal of Vision. 23(12). 4–4. 5 indexed citations

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Pandiyan, Vimal Prabhu, et al.. (2022). Characterizing cone spectral classification by optoretinography. Biomedical Optics Express. 13(12). 6574–6574. 13 indexed citations

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Tancik, Matthew, et al.. (2021). Learned Initializations for Optimizing Coordinate-Based Neural Representations. 2845–2854. 124 indexed citations

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Mildenhall, Ben, Pratul P. Srinivasan, Matthew Tancik, et al.. (2021). NeRF. Communications of the ACM. 65(1). 99–106. 2680 indexed citations breakdown →

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Tancik, Matthew, Pratul P. Srinivasan, Ben Mildenhall, et al.. (2020). Fourier Features Let Networks Learn High Frequency Functions in Low Dimensional Domains. Neural Information Processing Systems. 33. 7537–7547. 36 indexed citations

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Kuo, Grace, Laura Waller, Ren Ng, & Andrew Maimone. (2020). High resolution étendue expansion for holographic displays. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 39(4). 53 indexed citations

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Srinivasan, Pratul P., Richard Tucker, Jonathan T. Barron, et al.. (2019). Pushing the Boundaries of View Extrapolation With Multiplane Images. 175–184. 189 indexed citations

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Chen, Qifeng, et al.. (2019). Zoom to Learn, Learn to Zoom. Rare & Special e-Zone (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology). 3757–3765. 151 indexed citations

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Mildenhall, Ben, Pratul P. Srinivasan, Rodrigo Ortiz-Cayon, et al.. (2019). Local light field fusion. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 38(4). 1–14. 573 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kuo, Grace, Nick Antipa, Ren Ng, & Laura Waller. (2017). DiffuserCam: Diffuser-Based Lensless Cameras. CTu3B.2–CTu3B.2. 15 indexed citations

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Cholewiak, Steven A., Gordon D. Love, Pratul P. Srinivasan, Ren Ng, & Martin S. Banks. (2017). Chromablur. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 36(6). 1–12. 43 indexed citations

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Humphreys, Greg, Mike Houston, Ren Ng, et al.. (2008). Chromium. 1–10. 1 indexed citations

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Ng, Ren, et al.. (2007). 4D compression and relighting with high-resolution light transport matrices. 81–88. 5 indexed citations

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Ng, Ren & Pat Hanrahan. (2006). Digital correction of lens aberrations in light field photography. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 6342. 63421E–63421E. 26 indexed citations

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Levoy, Marc, Ren Ng, Andrew Adams, Matthew J. Footer, & Mark Horowitz. (2006). Light field microscopy. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 25(3). 924–934. 534 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ng, Ren, Ravi Ramamoorthi, & Pat Hanrahan. (2004). Triple product wavelet integrals for all-frequency relighting. 477–487. 32 indexed citations

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Chan, Eric R., Ren Ng, Pradeep Sen, Kekoa Proudfoot, & Pat Hanrahan. (2002). Efficient partitioning of fragment shaders for multipass rendering on programmable graphics hardware. 69–78. 24 indexed citations

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Humphreys, Greg, Mike Houston, Ren Ng, et al.. (2002). Chromium. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 21(3). 693–702. 115 indexed citations

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