Wenzel Jakob

3.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
66 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

Wenzel Jakob is a scholar working on Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and Computational Mechanics. According to data from OpenAlex, Wenzel Jakob has authored 66 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 55 papers in Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design, 48 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and 35 papers in Computational Mechanics. Recurrent topics in Wenzel Jakob's work include Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques (55 papers), 3D Shape Modeling and Analysis (34 papers) and Advanced Vision and Imaging (30 papers). Wenzel Jakob is often cited by papers focused on Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques (55 papers), 3D Shape Modeling and Analysis (34 papers) and Advanced Vision and Imaging (30 papers). Wenzel Jakob collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United States and United Kingdom. Wenzel Jakob's co-authors include Steve Marschner, Delio Vicini, Sébastien Speierer, Tizian Zeltner, Merlin Nimier-David, Daniele Panozzo, Marco Tarini, Kavita Bala, Olga Sorkine‐Hornung and Shuang Zhao and has published in prestigious journals such as Communications of the ACM, ACM Transactions on Graphics and Computer Graphics Forum.

In The Last Decade

Wenzel Jakob

64 papers receiving 2.5k 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.

  1. Instant field-aligned meshes
    2015 239 citations Wenzel Jakob et al. ACM Transactions on Graphics profile →

Peers

Wenzel Jakob
Derek Nowrouzezahrai Canada
Shuang Zhao China
Philip Dutré Belgium
Pieter Peers United States
Stephen R. Marschner United States
Carsten Dachsbacher Germany
Wojciech Jarosz United States
Tobias Ritschel Germany
Jaakko Lehtinen Finland
Tomoyuki Nishita Japan
Derek Nowrouzezahrai Canada
Wenzel Jakob
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Countries citing papers authored by Wenzel Jakob

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Fields of papers citing papers by Wenzel Jakob

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wenzel Jakob

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

All Works

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Jakob, Wenzel, et al.. (2025). Novel printing geometries for tomographic volumetric additive manufacturing. Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). 31–31. 1 indexed citations
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Madrid‐Wolff, Jorge, et al.. (2024). Inverse Rendering for Tomographic Volumetric Additive Manufacturing. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 43(6). 1–17. 1 indexed citations
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Vicini, Delio, et al.. (2024). Solving Inverse PDE Problems using Grid-Free Monte Carlo Estimators. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 43(6). 1–18. 4 indexed citations
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Rousselle, Fabrice, et al.. (2023). Recursive Control Variates for Inverse Rendering. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 42(4). 1–13. 16 indexed citations
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Nimier-David, Merlin, Thomas Müller, Alexander Keller, & Wenzel Jakob. (2022). Unbiased inverse volume rendering with differential trackers. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 41(4). 1–20. 21 indexed citations
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Hu, Yinlin, Sébastien Speierer, Wenzel Jakob, Pascal Fua, & Mathieu Salzmann. (2021). Wide-Depth-Range 6D Object Pose Estimation in Space. Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). 15865–15874. 77 indexed citations
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Vicini, Delio, Wenzel Jakob, & Anton Kaplanyan. (2021). A non-exponential transmittance model for volumetric scene representations. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 40(4). 1–16. 2 indexed citations
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Vicini, Delio, Wenzel Jakob, & Anton Kaplanyan. (2021). A non-exponential transmittance model for volumetric scene representations. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 40(4). 1–16. 18 indexed citations
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Ghosh, Abhijeet, et al.. (2020). Unified Neural Encoding of BTFs. Computer Graphics Forum. 39(2). 167–178. 32 indexed citations
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Vicini, Delio, Vladlen Koltun, & Wenzel Jakob. (2019). A learned shape-adaptive subsurface scattering model. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 38(4). 1–15. 33 indexed citations
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Dupuy, Jonathan & Wenzel Jakob. (2018). An adaptive parameterization for efficient material acquisition and rendering. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 37(6). 1–14. 65 indexed citations
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Bitterli, Benedikt, Wenzel Jakob, Jan Novák, & Wojciech Jarosz. (2017). Reversible Jump Metropolis Light Transport Using Inverse Mappings. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 37(1). 1–12. 38 indexed citations
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Jakob, Wenzel, Miloš Hašan, Ling‐Qi Yan, et al.. (2014). Discrete stochastic microfacet models. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 33(4). 1–10. 70 indexed citations
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Jakob, Wenzel & Steve Marschner. (2012). Manifold exploration. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 31(4). 1–13. 118 indexed citations
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Jakob, Wenzel, et al.. (2011). Progressive Expectation‐Maximization for Hierarchical Volumetric Photon Mapping. Computer Graphics Forum. 30(4). 1287–1297. 25 indexed citations
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Jakob, Wenzel, Adam Arbree, Jonathan T. Moon, Kavita Bala, & Steve Marschner. (2010). A radiative transfer framework for rendering materials with anisotropic structure. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 29(4). 1–1. 2 indexed citations
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Jakob, Wenzel, Jonathan T. Moon, & Steve Marschner. (2009). Capturing hair assemblies fiber by fiber. 1–9. 7 indexed citations
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Jakob, Wenzel, et al.. (1999). Solving A Highly Multimodal DesignOptimization Problem Using The ExtendedGenetic Algorithm GLEAM. WIT transactions on the built environment. 40. 1 indexed citations

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