Sunil Arya

5.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
47 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Sunil Arya is a scholar working on Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and Signal Processing. According to data from OpenAlex, Sunil Arya has authored 47 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 39 papers in Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design, 23 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and 18 papers in Signal Processing. Recurrent topics in Sunil Arya's work include Computational Geometry and Mesh Generation (39 papers), Data Management and Algorithms (18 papers) and Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques (12 papers). Sunil Arya is often cited by papers focused on Computational Geometry and Mesh Generation (39 papers), Data Management and Algorithms (18 papers) and Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques (12 papers). Sunil Arya collaborates with scholars based in United States, Hong Kong and Germany. Sunil Arya's co-authors include David M. Mount, Ruth Silverman, Angela Y. Wu, Nathan S. Netanyahu, Theocharis Malamatos, Marcel Smid, Michiel Smid, Jeffrey S. Salowe, Gautam Das and Onuttom Narayan and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the ACM, Pattern Recognition Letters and SIAM Journal on Computing.

In The Last Decade

Sunil Arya

45 papers receiving 2.8k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

An optimal algorithm for approximate nearest neighbor searching fixed dimensions

1998 1.5k citations Sunil Arya, David M. Mount et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sunil Arya United States	18	1.7k	772	737	622	582	47	3.1k
Jorge Stolfi Brazil	22	1.3k 0.8×	519 0.7×	1.4k 1.9×	267 0.4×	263 0.5×	74	3.2k
Godfried T. Toussaint Canada	24	1.3k 0.8×	516 0.7×	1.1k 1.5×	459 0.7×	316 0.5×	139	3.2k
Amnon Shashua Israel	37	3.7k 2.2×	490 0.6×	280 0.4×	1.2k 1.9×	709 1.2×	105	5.4k
Michael Werman Israel	28	3.5k 2.0×	250 0.3×	621 0.8×	478 0.8×	412 0.7×	117	4.6k
D. T. Lee United States	21	886 0.5×	495 0.6×	1.3k 1.7×	252 0.4×	299 0.5×	42	3.1k
L. Paul Chew United States	24	965 0.6×	362 0.5×	1.1k 1.6×	261 0.4×	262 0.5×	47	2.9k
Raimund Seidel United States	32	1.4k 0.8×	781 1.0×	2.2k 3.0×	541 0.9×	445 0.8×	85	4.5k
Robert A. Hummel United States	19	2.1k 1.2×	316 0.4×	200 0.3×	559 0.9×	335 0.6×	56	3.2k
Michael Lindenbaum Israel	27	1.9k 1.1×	201 0.3×	257 0.3×	518 0.8×	411 0.7×	93	3.0k
Longin Jan Latecki United States	43	5.4k 3.2×	418 0.5×	277 0.4×	1.5k 2.3×	638 1.1×	212	7.0k

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Arya, Sunil, et al.. (2022). Optimal Bound on the Combinatorial Complexity of Approximating Polytopes. ACM Transactions on Algorithms. 18(4). 1–29.

Arya, Sunil, et al.. (2017). Optimal approximate polytope membership. Symposium on Discrete Algorithms. 270–288. 1 indexed citations

Arya, Sunil & Timothy M. Chan. (2014). Better ϵ-Dependencies for Offline Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search, Euclidean Minimum Spanning Trees, and ϵ-Kernels. Rare & Special e-Zone (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology). 416–425. 5 indexed citations

Arya, Sunil, et al.. (2012). Polytope Approximation and the Mahler Volume. Rare & Special e-Zone (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology). 29–42. 1 indexed citations

Arya, Sunil, et al.. (2008). Space-Time Tradeoffs for Proximity Searching in Doubling Spaces. Lecture notes in computer science. 5193. 112. 1 indexed citations

Arya, Sunil, Theocharis Malamatos, & David M. Mount. (2007). A simple entropy-based algorithm for planar point location. ACM Transactions on Algorithms. 3(2). 17–17. 12 indexed citations

Arya, Sunil, Theocharis Malamatos, & David M. Mount. (2005). Space-Time Tradeoffs for Approximate Spherical Range Counting. Digital Repository at the University of Maryland (University of Maryland College Park). 535–544. 1 indexed citations

Arya, Sunil, et al.. (2003). Expected-Case Complexity of Approximate Nearest Neighbor Searching. SIAM Journal on Computing. 32(3). 793–815. 5 indexed citations

Arya, Sunil & Theocharis Malamatos. (2002). Linear-size approximate voronoi diagrams. Symposium on Discrete Algorithms. 147–155. 21 indexed citations

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Arya, Sunil, Theocharis Malamatos, & David M. Mount. (2002). Space-efficient approximate Voronoi diagrams. 6 indexed citations

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Arya, Sunil, Theocharis Malamatos, & David M. Mount. (2001). A simple entropy-based algorithm for planar point location. Symposium on Discrete Algorithms. 262–268. 12 indexed citations

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Arya, Sunil, Theocharis Malamatos, & David M. Mount. (2001). Entropy-preserving cuttings and space-efficient planar point location. Symposium on Discrete Algorithms. 256–261. 17 indexed citations

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Arya, Sunil, et al.. (2000). Expected-case complexity of approximate nearest neighbor searching. Symposium on Discrete Algorithms. 379–388. 6 indexed citations

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Arya, Sunil & David M. Mount. (2000). Approximate range searching☆☆A preliminary version of this paper appeared in the Proc. of the 11th Annual ACM Symp. on Computational Geometry, 1995, pp. 172–181.. Computational Geometry. 17(3-4). 135–152. 66 indexed citations

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Arya, Sunil, David M. Mount, & Michiel Smid. (1999). Dynamic algorithms for geometric spanners of small diameter: Randomized solutions. Computational Geometry. 13(2). 91–107. 16 indexed citations

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Arya, Sunil, et al.. (1998). ANN: library for approximate nearest neighbor searching. Rare & Special e-Zone (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology). 158 indexed citations

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Arya, Sunil, Gautam Das, David M. Mount, Jeffrey S. Salowe, & Michiel Smid. (1995). Euclidean spanners: short, thin, and lanky. Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics. 489–498. 5 indexed citations

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Arya, Sunil, David M. Mount, Nathan S. Netanyahu, Ruth Silverman, & Angela Y. Wu. (1994). An optimal algorithm for approximate nearest neighbor searching. Symposium on Discrete Algorithms. 573–582. 389 indexed citations

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Arya, Sunil & David M. Mount. (1993). Approximate nearest neighbor queries in fixed dimensions. Symposium on Discrete Algorithms. 271–280. 222 indexed citations

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Arya, Sunil, Daniel DeMenthon, Peter Meer, & Larry S. Davis. (1991). Textural analysis of range images. Pattern Recognition Letters. 12(10). 619–626. 4 indexed citations

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