Samuel P. Uselton

1.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
27 papers, 832 citations indexed

About

Samuel P. Uselton is a scholar working on Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and Computational Mechanics. According to data from OpenAlex, Samuel P. Uselton has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 832 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design, 13 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and 8 papers in Computational Mechanics. Recurrent topics in Samuel P. Uselton's work include Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques (17 papers), 3D Shape Modeling and Analysis (8 papers) and Advanced Vision and Imaging (6 papers). Samuel P. Uselton is often cited by papers focused on Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques (17 papers), 3D Shape Modeling and Analysis (8 papers) and Advanced Vision and Imaging (6 papers). Samuel P. Uselton collaborates with scholars based in United States. Samuel P. Uselton's co-authors include Zvi M. Kedem, Henry Fuchs, Richard A. Redner, Peter L. Williams, Alex Pang, Lloyd A. Treinish, James Ahrens, Andrei State, Leslie Keely and T. A. Lasinski and has published in prestigious journals such as Communications of the ACM, ACM Transactions on Graphics and Journal of Medical Systems.

In The Last Decade

Samuel P. Uselton

24 papers receiving 747 citations

Hit Papers

Optimal surface reconstruction from planar contours 1977 2026 1993 2009 1977 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. Optimal surface reconstruction from planar contours
    1977 540 citations Henry Fuchs, Zvi M. Kedem et al. Communications of the ACM profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Samuel P. Uselton United States 10 514 503 358 63 47 27 832
Miloš Šrámek Austria 13 400 0.8× 444 0.9× 292 0.8× 94 1.5× 40 0.9× 51 798
Christof Rezk‐Salama Germany 14 570 1.1× 567 1.1× 372 1.0× 107 1.7× 70 1.5× 31 891
Simon Premože United States 15 722 1.4× 590 1.2× 393 1.1× 43 0.7× 24 0.5× 21 871
Lee Westover United States 7 1.0k 2.0× 900 1.8× 645 1.8× 82 1.3× 40 0.9× 8 1.2k
Per H. Christensen United States 18 862 1.7× 753 1.5× 429 1.2× 73 1.2× 26 0.6× 32 1.0k
Detlev Stalling Germany 9 341 0.7× 270 0.5× 243 0.7× 30 0.5× 45 1.0× 21 521
John Amanatides Canada 12 691 1.3× 610 1.2× 404 1.1× 41 0.7× 46 1.0× 18 1.1k
Gideon Frieder United States 13 302 0.6× 408 0.8× 184 0.5× 88 1.4× 58 1.2× 36 777
Ares Lagae Belgium 17 720 1.4× 594 1.2× 500 1.4× 33 0.5× 20 0.4× 44 1.0k
Christophe Schlick France 17 674 1.3× 459 0.9× 576 1.6× 19 0.3× 30 0.6× 46 1.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Samuel P. Uselton

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Fields of papers citing papers by Samuel P. Uselton

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Samuel P. Uselton

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Samuel P. Uselton. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Samuel P. Uselton 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 Samuel P. Uselton. Samuel P. Uselton 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
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Uselton, Samuel P., et al.. (2003). Comparisons of wind tunnel experiments and computational fluid dynamics simulations. Journal of Visualization. 6(1). 31–39. 6 indexed citations
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Uselton, Samuel P.. (2002). Case study: the "Office of Real Soon Now" for visualization. IEEE Visualization. 561–566. 1 indexed citations
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Uselton, Samuel P.. (2002). exVis: developing a wind tunnel data visualization tool. 417–420,. 1 indexed citations
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Williams, Peter L. & Samuel P. Uselton. (1999). Metrics and generation specifications for comparing volume-rendered images. The Journal of Visualization and Computer Animation. 10(3). 159–178. 6 indexed citations
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Uselton, Samuel P., et al.. (1998). Multi-Source Data Analysis Challenges. 501–504. 9 indexed citations
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Keely, Leslie & Samuel P. Uselton. (1998). Development of a multi-source visualization prototype. 411–414. 3 indexed citations
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Uselton, Samuel P., et al.. (1998). <title>exVis: a visual analysis tool for wind tunnel data</title>. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 3298. 92–100. 2 indexed citations
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Pang, Alex, et al.. (1998). Data level comparison of wind tunnel and computational fluid dynamics data. 415–418. 13 indexed citations
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Uselton, Samuel P.. (1997). exVis: developing a wind tunnel data visualization tool. IEEE Visualization. 417–420. 8 indexed citations
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Williams, Peter L., et al.. (1997). Foundations for Measuring Volume Rendering Quality. NASA Technical Reports Server (NASA). 9 indexed citations
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Uselton, Samuel P.. (1996). Graphics PCs will put workstation graphics in the Smithsonian (panel). 506–506. 2 indexed citations
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Uselton, Samuel P., Michael Cox, & Craig M. Wittenbrink. (1995). Proceedings of the IEEE symposium on Parallel rendering. 1 indexed citations
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Redner, Richard A., et al.. (1995). Smooth B-spline illumination maps for bidirectional ray tracing. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 14(4). 337–362. 9 indexed citations
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Uselton, Samuel P., et al.. (1994). Validation, verification and evaluation (Panel).. IEEE Visualization. 414–418.
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Uselton, Samuel P.. (1994). Volume rendering on curvilinear grids for CFD. 32nd Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit. 3 indexed citations
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Redner, Richard A., et al.. (1985). Statistically optimized sampling for distributed ray tracing. ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics. 19(3). 61–68. 123 indexed citations
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Uselton, Samuel P.. (1983). Three-dimensional surface descriptions from sensed data. Journal of Medical Systems. 7(5). 427–435. 2 indexed citations
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Uselton, Samuel P.. (1981). Surface reconstruction from limited information. 2 indexed citations
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Fuchs, Henry, Zvi M. Kedem, & Samuel P. Uselton. (1977). Optimal surface reconstruction from planar contours. Communications of the ACM. 20(10). 693–702. 540 indexed citations breakdown →
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Fuchs, Henry, Zvi M. Kedem, & Samuel P. Uselton. (1977). Optimal surface reconstruction from planar contours. ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics. 11(2). 236–236. 27 indexed citations

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