Thom Blum

970 total citations · 1 hit paper
9 papers, 626 citations indexed

About

Thom Blum is a scholar working on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Signal Processing and Music. According to data from OpenAlex, Thom Blum has authored 9 papers receiving a total of 626 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 4 papers in Signal Processing and 3 papers in Music. Recurrent topics in Thom Blum's work include Music Technology and Sound Studies (5 papers), Music and Audio Processing (4 papers) and Video Analysis and Summarization (2 papers). Thom Blum is often cited by papers focused on Music Technology and Sound Studies (5 papers), Music and Audio Processing (4 papers) and Video Analysis and Summarization (2 papers). Thom Blum collaborates with scholars based in United States. Thom Blum's co-authors include Erling Wold, Douglas Keislar, Steve Cunningham and David Keane and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Multimedia, Computer Music Journal and The Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association.

In The Last Decade

Thom Blum

9 papers receiving 520 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.

Content-based classification, search, and retrieval of audio

1996 535 citations Erling Wold, Thom Blum et al. IEEE Multimedia profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Thom Blum United States	6	539	477	72	65	14	9	626
Douglas Keislar United States	7	561 1.0×	505 1.1×	73 1.0×	68 1.0×	16 1.1×	12	632
Luís Gustavo Martins Portugal	8	383 0.7×	319 0.7×	102 1.4×	121 1.9×	13 0.9×	17	518
Adam Berenzweig United States	9	547 1.0×	418 0.9×	151 2.1×	89 1.4×	6 0.4×	9	631
Barry Vercoe United States	14	562 1.0×	519 1.1×	78 1.1×	203 3.1×	13 0.9×	29	660
Frederic Font Spain	9	346 0.6×	192 0.4×	125 1.7×	72 1.1×	5 0.4×	23	464
Olivier Delerue France	7	239 0.4×	238 0.5×	35 0.5×	109 1.7×	10 0.7×	12	314
Erling Wold United States	6	558 1.0×	487 1.0×	73 1.0×	102 1.6×	16 1.1×	8	651
Ju-Chiang Wang Taiwan	14	374 0.7×	260 0.5×	136 1.9×	130 2.0×	6 0.4×	35	503
Nicolas Wack Spain	10	477 0.9×	373 0.8×	65 0.9×	116 1.8×	6 0.4×	20	536
Jordi Bonada Spain	19	840 1.6×	491 1.0×	337 4.7×	178 2.7×	7 0.5×	71	921

Countries citing papers authored by Thom Blum

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Fields of papers citing papers by Thom Blum

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Thom Blum

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

All Works

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9 of 9 papers shown

1.

Keislar, Douglas, et al.. (1999). A Content-Aware Sound Browser. International Computer Music Conference. 1999(2). 75–9. 4 indexed citations

2.

Blum, Thom, et al.. (1997). Audio databases with content-based retrieval. 113–135. 10 indexed citations

3.

Wold, Erling, et al.. (1996). Content-based classification, search, and retrieval of audio. IEEE Multimedia. 3(3). 27–36. 535 indexed citations breakdown →

4.

Keislar, Douglas, et al.. (1995). Audio Analysis for Content-Based Retrieval. The Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association. 1995. 6 indexed citations

5.

Blum, Thom, et al.. (1990). Programming the User Interface: Principles and Examples. Computer Music Journal. 14(2). 64–64. 14 indexed citations

6.

Blum, Thom. (1989). Concerts at the 1988 International Computer Music Conference, Cologne, September 1988. Computer Music Journal. 13(2). 86–86. 1 indexed citations

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Blum, Thom, et al.. (1989). Biofeedback and the Arts: Results of Early Experiments. Computer Music Journal. 13(4). 86–86. 17 indexed citations

8.

Blum, Thom, et al.. (1982). Musical Applications of Microprocessors. Computer Music Journal. 6(2). 79–79. 37 indexed citations

9.

Blum, Thom & David Keane. (1981). Tape Music Composition. Computer Music Journal. 5(4). 74–74. 2 indexed citations

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