W. Niblack

10.4k citations

34 papers · 5.6k indexed · 4 hit papers · h-index 16

Impact in

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition top 0.1%
- Image Retrieval and Classification Techniques
- Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques
- Video Analysis and Summarization
- Handwritten Text Recognition Techniques
- Medical Image Segmentation Techniques
Media Technology top 0.5%

Papers in

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 26
- Image Retrieval and Classification Techniques 17
- Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques 14
- Image and Object Detection Techniques 6
- Medical Image Segmentation Techniques 5
- Video Analysis and Summarization 4
- Image Processing and 3D Reconstruction 4
Signal Processing 6
- Data Management and Algorithms 6

Co-authors: Myron Flickner John W. Hafner Dragutin Petković Harpreet Sawhney W. Equitz Byron Dom David A. Steele D. Lee
Journals: Machine Vision and Applications (3 papers)Computer (1 paper)ACM SIGMOD Record (1 paper)Journal of Intelligent Information Systems (1 paper)IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (1 paper)
Partner nations: United States Israel Canada

In The Last Decade

W. Niblack

33 papers receiving 5.0k citations

Hit Papers

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Efficient color histogram indexing for quadratic form distance functions 1995 · 543 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

1995 IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
1995 Computer
1994 Journal of Intelligent Information Systems
1986 Medical Entomology and Zoology

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All Works

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#	Work
1	Sentiment Mining in WebFountain Gustav Dinga, W. Niblack	2005	60
2	Sentiment analyzer: extracting sentiments about a given topic using natural language processing techniques Gustav Dinga, Tetsuya Nasukawa, Răzvan Bunescu, W. Niblack	2004	463
3	On improving the accuracy of the Hough transform: theory, simulations, and experiments W. Niblack, Dragutin Petković	2003	18
4	Research directions in image database management William I. Grosky, R. Mehrotra, Forouzan Golshani, H. V. Jagadish, Melissa A. Jennings, W. Niblack	2003	2
5	Feature selection with stochastic complexity Byron Dom, W. Niblack, J. Sheinvald	2003	11
6	Multi-resolution disambiguation of term occurrences Einat Amitay, Rani Nelken, W. Niblack, S. Kiefer, Aya Soffer	2003	9
7	Unsupervised image segmentation using the minimum description length principle J. Sheinvald, Byron Dom, W. Niblack, David A. Steele	2003	2
8	Towards heterogeneous multimedia information systems: the Garlic approach Michael J. Carey, Laura M. Haas, Peter Schwarz, Manish Arya, William F. Cody, Ronald Fagin, Myron Flickner, Allen Luniewski, W. Niblack, Dragutin Petković, John Thomas, John H. Williams, Edward L. Wimmers	2002	126
9	A modeling approach to feature selection J. Sheinvald, Byron Dom, W. Niblack	2002	28
10	Storage and Retrieval for Image and Video Databases III W. Niblack, Ramesh Jain	1997	20
11	Segmenting and representing background in color images Qian Huang, Byron Dom, Nimrod Megiddo, W. Niblack	1996	6
12	Efficient color histogram indexing for quadratic form distance functions IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence ·John W. Hafner, Harpreet Sawhney, W. Equitz, Myron Flickner, W. Niblack Hit paper breakdown →	1995	543
13	The query by image content (QBIC) system ACM SIGMOD Record ·Jonathan Ashley, Myron Flickner, James Lee Hafner, C. Pincella, W. Niblack, Dragutin Petković	1995	17
14	The query by image content (QBIC) system Jonathan Ashley, Myron Flickner, James Lee Hafner, C. Pincella, W. Niblack, Dragutin Petković	1995	55
15	Efficient and effective Querying by Image Content Journal of Intelligent Information Systems ·Christos Faloutsos, Ronald Barber, Myron Flickner, John W. Hafner, W. Niblack, Dragutin Petković, W. Equitz Hit paper breakdown →	1994	831
16	Image Storage and Retrieval Systems M V Beena, W. Niblack	1992	18
17	Image storage and retrieval systems; Proceedings of the Meeting, San Jose, CA, Feb. 13, 14, 1992 OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information) ·M V Beena, W. Niblack	1992	1
18	Finding Line Segments by Surface Fitting to the Hough Transform. Machine Vision and Applications ·W. Niblack, Tai Truong	1990	12
19	On improving the accuracy of the Hough transform Machine Vision and Applications ·W. Niblack, Dragutin Petković	1990	47
20	An introduction to digital image processing Medical Entomology and Zoology ·W. Niblack Hit paper breakdown →	1986	1291

About W. Niblack

W. Niblack is a scholar working on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Signal Processing, Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design, Media Technology and Artificial Intelligence, having authored 34 papers that have together received 5.6k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Image Retrieval and Classification Techniques (17 papers), Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques (14 papers), Image and Object Detection Techniques (6 papers), Data Management and Algorithms (6 papers), Medical Image Segmentation Techniques (5 papers), Video Analysis and Summarization (4 papers), Image Processing and 3D Reconstruction (4 papers) and Web Data Mining and Analysis (3 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (4.3k citations), Media Technology (675 citations), Signal Processing (777 citations), Artificial Intelligence (1.1k citations) and Information Systems (316 citations). W. Niblack has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Israel and Canada. Frequent co-authors include Myron Flickner, John W. Hafner, Dragutin Petković, Harpreet Sawhney, W. Equitz, Byron Dom, David A. Steele, D. Lee, Qian Huang and J. Ashley. Their work appears in journals such as Machine Vision and Applications, Computer, ACM SIGMOD Record, Journal of Intelligent Information Systems and IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence.

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