Wa James Tam

2.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
71 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Wa James Tam is a scholar working on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Cognitive Neuroscience and Media Technology. According to data from OpenAlex, Wa James Tam has authored 71 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 45 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 30 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 27 papers in Media Technology. Recurrent topics in Wa James Tam's work include Visual perception and processing mechanisms (28 papers), Advanced Optical Imaging Technologies (25 papers) and Image and Video Quality Assessment (25 papers). Wa James Tam is often cited by papers focused on Visual perception and processing mechanisms (28 papers), Advanced Optical Imaging Technologies (25 papers) and Image and Video Quality Assessment (25 papers). Wa James Tam collaborates with scholars based in Canada, Japan and South Korea. Wa James Tam's co-authors include L. Zhang, Lew B. Stelmach, Filippo Speranza, Koichi Shimono, Daniel V. Meegan, Liang Zhang, Hiroshi Ono, Sumio Yano, A. Vincent and Hiroshi Ono and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance, Behavioral and Brain Sciences and Vision Research.

In The Last Decade

Wa James Tam

69 papers receiving 1.8k citations

Hit Papers

Stereoscopic Image Generation Based on Depth Images for 3... 2005 2026 2012 2019 2005 100 200 300
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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.

  1. Stereoscopic Image Generation Based on Depth Images for 3D TV
    2005 392 citations Wa James Tam et al. IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Wa James Tam Canada 20 1.4k 746 488 486 265 71 1.9k
Filippo Speranza Canada 19 933 0.6× 558 0.7× 384 0.8× 243 0.5× 242 0.9× 57 1.3k
Lew B. Stelmach Canada 19 581 0.4× 280 0.4× 825 1.7× 166 0.3× 106 0.4× 51 1.4k
Yong Ju Jung South Korea 17 697 0.5× 491 0.7× 262 0.5× 73 0.2× 238 0.9× 63 956
Marcus Barkowsky France 16 764 0.5× 349 0.5× 209 0.4× 157 0.3× 161 0.6× 69 957
Masaki Emoto Japan 14 348 0.2× 560 0.8× 460 0.9× 51 0.1× 469 1.8× 47 980
Du‐Sik Park South Korea 15 543 0.4× 193 0.3× 103 0.2× 219 0.5× 124 0.5× 69 819
D.E. Pearson United Kingdom 17 663 0.5× 104 0.1× 197 0.4× 203 0.4× 353 1.3× 49 1.1k
Tilke Judd United States 8 1.9k 1.3× 101 0.1× 533 1.1× 19 0.0× 532 2.0× 10 2.2k
Yuri Ostrovsky United States 10 486 0.3× 43 0.1× 477 1.0× 128 0.3× 29 0.1× 18 1.0k
Jeffrey S. Perry United States 9 423 0.3× 80 0.1× 369 0.8× 48 0.1× 154 0.6× 11 683

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wa James Tam

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Wa James Tam. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Wa James Tam 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 Wa James Tam. Wa James Tam 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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Wang, Wenyi, Jiying Zhao, Wa James Tam, & Filippo Speranza. (2012). Hiding depth information into H.264 compressed video using reversible watermarking. 27–32. 1 indexed citations
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Speranza, Filippo, et al.. (2012). Perceived Picture Quality of Frame-Compatible 3DTV Video Formats. 640–645. 4 indexed citations
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Tam, Wa James, Filippo Speranza, Sumio Yano, Koichi Shimono, & Hiroshi Ono. (2011). Stereoscopic 3D-TV: Visual Comfort. IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting. 57(2). 335–346. 228 indexed citations
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Vázquez, Carlos & Wa James Tam. (2010). CRC-CSDM: 2D-to-3D conversion using colour-based surrogate depth maps. 7 indexed citations
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Zhang, Liang, et al.. (2007). Virtual View Generation Based on Multiple Images. 1631–1634. 2 indexed citations
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Tam, Wa James, et al.. (2005). Stereoscopic image rendering based on depth maps created from blur and edge information. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 5664. 104–104. 19 indexed citations
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Tam, Wa James, et al.. (2005). Depth image based rendering for multiview stereoscopic displays: role of information at object boundaries. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 6016. 601609–601609. 18 indexed citations
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Tam, Wa James, et al.. (2004). Smoothing depth maps for improved steroscopic image quality. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 5599. 162–162. 65 indexed citations
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Tam, Wa James, et al.. (2003). Stereoscopic video telephony: naturalness and sense of presence. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 5243. 19–19. 1 indexed citations
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Stelmach, Lew B., et al.. (2002). Human perception of mismatched stereoscopic 3D inputs. 1. 5–8. 43 indexed citations
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Craig, Gregory, Lew B. Stelmach, & Wa James Tam. (1999). Control of reflexive and voluntary saccades in the gap effect. Perception & Psychophysics. 61(5). 935–942. 11 indexed citations
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Shimono, Koichi, et al.. (1999). Wheatstone—Panum limiting case: Occlusion, camouflage, and vergence-induced disparity cues. Perception & Psychophysics. 61(3). 445–455. 12 indexed citations
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Stelmach, Lew B. & Wa James Tam. (1998). Stereoscopic image coding: Effect of disparate image-quality in left- and right-eye views. Signal Processing Image Communication. 14(1-2). 111–117. 63 indexed citations
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Tam, Wa James & Lew B. Stelmach. (1997). <title>Perceived image quality of MPEG-2 stereoscopic sequences</title>. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 3016. 296–301. 5 indexed citations
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Tam, Wa James & Hiroshi Ono. (1994). Fixation disengagement and eye-movement latency. Perception & Psychophysics. 56(3). 251–260. 52 indexed citations
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Tam, Wa James, et al.. (1993). <title>Temporal frequency discrimination of moving stimuli</title>. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 1913. 146–153. 1 indexed citations
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Tam, Wa James & Lew B. Stelmach. (1993). Viewing behavior: Ocular and attentional disengagement. Perception & Psychophysics. 54(2). 211–222. 60 indexed citations
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Stelmach, Lew B., et al.. (1991). <title>Static and dynamic spatial resolution in image coding: an investigation of eye movements</title>. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 1453. 147–152. 33 indexed citations
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Barbeito, Raphael, Wa James Tam, & Hiroshi Ono. (1986). TWO FACTORS AFFECTING SACCADIC AMPLITUDE DURING VERGENCE: THE LOCATION OF THE CYCLOPEAN EYE AND A LEFT‐RIGHT BIAS. Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics. 6(2). 201–205. 4 indexed citations
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Ono, Hiroshi, et al.. (1983). Apparent displacement with a monocular prism differs from optical displacement.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance. 9(4). 652–656. 5 indexed citations

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