William McIlhagga

929 total citations
22 papers, 715 citations indexed

About

William McIlhagga is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. According to data from OpenAlex, William McIlhagga has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 715 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 11 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 4 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Recurrent topics in William McIlhagga's work include Visual perception and processing mechanisms (19 papers), Color Science and Applications (11 papers) and Infrared Target Detection Methodologies (4 papers). William McIlhagga is often cited by papers focused on Visual perception and processing mechanisms (19 papers), Color Science and Applications (11 papers) and Infrared Target Detection Methodologies (4 papers). William McIlhagga collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Australia and Canada. William McIlhagga's co-authors include Graeme R. Cole, Trevor J. Hine, Kathy T. Mullen, Robert F. Hess, David J. Field, William Beaudot, Axel Larsen, Claus Bundesen, Ari Pääkkönen and Jeroen Baert and has published in prestigious journals such as Vision Research, International Journal of Computer Vision and Journal of the Optical Society of America A.

In The Last Decade

William McIlhagga

22 papers receiving 693 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
William McIlhagga United Kingdom 14 541 256 165 141 126 22 715
Hirohisa Yaguchi Japan 15 472 0.9× 275 1.1× 220 1.3× 102 0.7× 98 0.8× 61 645
Andrew J. Schofield United Kingdom 16 612 1.1× 192 0.8× 129 0.8× 186 1.3× 68 0.5× 54 767
Stephen T. Hammett United Kingdom 16 754 1.4× 154 0.6× 120 0.7× 144 1.0× 70 0.6× 30 854
Hans Brettel France 15 547 1.0× 424 1.7× 177 1.1× 385 2.7× 88 0.7× 45 1.0k
Floris L. van Nes Netherlands 8 598 1.1× 211 0.8× 113 0.7× 149 1.1× 127 1.0× 24 884
Mark W. Cannon United States 12 715 1.3× 267 1.0× 98 0.6× 139 1.0× 92 0.7× 23 813
S. P. McKee United States 13 535 1.0× 95 0.4× 73 0.4× 127 0.9× 189 1.5× 19 611
Anthony Hayes Australia 16 658 1.2× 138 0.5× 111 0.7× 157 1.1× 45 0.4× 33 806
Susan F. te Pas Netherlands 17 566 1.0× 188 0.7× 197 1.2× 113 0.8× 48 0.4× 53 881
Christina A. Burbeck United States 18 667 1.2× 181 0.7× 85 0.5× 313 2.2× 80 0.6× 28 952

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of William McIlhagga

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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McIlhagga, William. (2021). Classification images for contrast discrimination. Vision Research. 182. 36–45. 1 indexed citations
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McIlhagga, William. (2018). Estimates of edge detection filters in human vision. Vision Research. 153. 30–36. 17 indexed citations
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McIlhagga, William & Kathy T. Mullen. (2018). Evidence for chromatic edge detectors in human vision using classification images. Journal of Vision. 18(9). 8–8. 9 indexed citations
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McIlhagga, William & Keith A. May. (2012). Optimal edge filters explain human blur detection. Journal of Vision. 12(10). 9–9. 15 indexed citations
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McIlhagga, William. (2010). The Canny Edge Detector Revisited. International Journal of Computer Vision. 91(3). 251–261. 122 indexed citations
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McIlhagga, William. (2008). Serial correlations and 1/f power spectra in visual search reaction times. Journal of Vision. 8(9). 5–5. 2 indexed citations
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McIlhagga, William, et al.. (2006). Sinusoid=light bar+dark bar?. Vision Research. 46(12). 1934–1945. 13 indexed citations
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McIlhagga, William. (2004). Denoising and contrast constancy. Vision Research. 44(23). 2659–2666. 10 indexed citations
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McIlhagga, William & Ari Pääkkönen. (2003). Effects of contrast and length on vernier acuity explained with noisy templates. Vision Research. 43(6). 707–716. 4 indexed citations
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Larsen, Axel, William McIlhagga, Jeroen Baert, & Claus Bundesen. (2003). Seeing or hearing? Perceptual independence, modality confusions, and crossmodal congruity effects with focused and divided attention. Perception & Psychophysics. 65(4). 568–574. 31 indexed citations
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Mullen, Kathy T., William Beaudot, & William McIlhagga. (2000). Contour integration in color vision: a common process for the blue–yellow, red–green and luminance mechanisms?. Vision Research. 40(6). 639–655. 57 indexed citations
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McIlhagga, William & Ari Pääkkönen. (1999). Noisy templates explain area summation. Vision Research. 39(2). 367–372. 15 indexed citations
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Larsen, Axel, William McIlhagga, & Claus Bundesen. (1999). Visual pattern matching: Effects of size ratio, complexity, and similarity in simultaneous and successive matching. Psychological Research. 62(4). 280–288. 14 indexed citations
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Hess, Robert F., William McIlhagga, & David J. Field. (1997). Contour integration in strabismic amblyopia: The sufficiency of an explanation based on positional uncertainty. Vision Research. 37(22). 3145–3161. 99 indexed citations
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McIlhagga, William & Ari Pääkkönen. (1997). Noisy Template Matching: A Model for Detection and Discrimination. Perception. 26(1_suppl). 263–263. 1 indexed citations
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McIlhagga, William & Kathy T. Mullen. (1996). Contour integration with colour and luminance contrast. Vision Research. 36(9). 1265–1279. 77 indexed citations
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Cole, Graeme R., Trevor J. Hine, & William McIlhagga. (1994). Estimation of linear detection mechanisms for stimuli of medium spatial frequency. Vision Research. 34(10). 1267–1278. 16 indexed citations
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Cole, Graeme R., Trevor J. Hine, & William McIlhagga. (1993). Detection mechanisms in L-, M-, and S-cone contrast space. Journal of the Optical Society of America A. 10(1). 38–38. 167 indexed citations
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McIlhagga, William. (1991). A model for simple cells as optimal edge detectors. Biological Cybernetics. 66(2). 177–183. 1 indexed citations
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McIlhagga, William, et al.. (1990). Texture segregation with luminance and chromatic contrast. Vision Research. 30(3). 489–495. 27 indexed citations

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