Yaakov Weiss

9.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
64 papers, 6.2k citations indexed

About

Yaakov Weiss is a scholar working on Geophysics, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Yaakov Weiss has authored 64 papers receiving a total of 6.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Geophysics, 15 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and 11 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Yaakov Weiss's work include Geological and Geochemical Analysis (30 papers), High-pressure geophysics and materials (28 papers) and earthquake and tectonic studies (16 papers). Yaakov Weiss is often cited by papers focused on Geological and Geochemical Analysis (30 papers), High-pressure geophysics and materials (28 papers) and earthquake and tectonic studies (16 papers). Yaakov Weiss collaborates with scholars based in Israel, United States and United Kingdom. Yaakov Weiss's co-authors include Anat Levin, William T. Freeman, Dani Lischinski, Jonathan S. Yedidia, Oded Navon, Edward H. Adelson, Amit Gruber, A. Zomet, Frédo Durand and William L. Griffin and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and The Journal of Chemical Physics.

In The Last Decade

Yaakov Weiss

60 papers receiving 5.9k 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.

A Closed-Form Solution to Natural Image Matting

2007 1.1k citations Anat Levin, Yaakov Weiss et al. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence profile →
Constructing Free-Energy Approximations and Generalized Belief Propagation Algorithms

2005 925 citations William T. Freeman, Yaakov Weiss et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yaakov Weiss Israel	28	3.5k	1.2k	1.0k	1.0k	568	64	6.2k
Tom Goldstein United States	24	2.4k 0.7×	848 0.7×	679 0.7×	271 0.3×	333 0.6×	91	5.5k
Gabriel Peyré France	38	2.4k 0.7×	670 0.6×	506 0.5×	299 0.3×	129 0.2×	104	6.1k
A.C. Kak United States	38	4.4k 1.2×	1.2k 1.0×	703 0.7×	316 0.3×	747 1.3×	151	9.5k
Jelena Kovačević United States	38	4.4k 1.2×	2.2k 1.8×	851 0.8×	198 0.2×	518 0.9×	153	8.6k
Alejandro Acosta Spain	11	6.7k 1.9×	733 0.6×	2.9k 2.8×	128 0.1×	117 0.2×	34	8.3k
Charles A. Bouman United States	39	3.4k 1.0×	636 0.5×	913 0.9×	199 0.2×	86 0.2×	349	9.5k
Avinash C. Kak United States	24	1.6k 0.5×	543 0.5×	169 0.2×	351 0.3×	251 0.4×	87	7.0k
Thomas Pock Austria	46	6.2k 1.7×	805 0.7×	1.6k 1.5×	176 0.2×	151 0.3×	138	12.0k
Lucas Theis United States	15	7.0k 2.0×	867 0.7×	2.7k 2.7×	131 0.1×	69 0.1×	23	8.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yaakov Weiss

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All Works

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Dalton, Hayden, Andrea Giuliani, David Phillips, et al.. (2025). Extreme enriched-mantle (EM) compositions recorded by the Sr-Nd-Hf isotopes of global cratonic lamproites. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 394. 220–243. 2 indexed citations

Weiss, Yaakov, et al.. (2025). Second generation ‘diamond-in-water’ ablation – a step forward in trace element and isotopic composition analysis. Mineralogy and Petrology. 119(3). 449–464. 2 indexed citations

Giuliani, Andrea, et al.. (2025). The origin of compositional variations in kimberlites based on comparative petrology and geochemistry of samples from four cratons. Mineralogy and Petrology. 119(4). 935–964.

Tirosh, Ofir, et al.. (2024). Trace element compositions of diamond-forming fluids in Voorspoed diamonds. 1 indexed citations

Giuliani, Andrea, et al.. (2023). Diamond preservation in the lithospheric mantle recorded by olivine in kimberlites. Nature Communications. 14(1). 6999–6999. 17 indexed citations

Weiss, Yaakov, Janne M. Koornneef, & G.R. Davies. (2023). Sr-Nd-Pb isotopes of fluids in diamond record two-stage modification of the continental lithosphere. Geochemical Perspectives Letters. 27. 20–25. 3 indexed citations

Rosenberg, Danny, et al.. (2022). Long-distance trade in the Middle Chalcolithic of the southern Levant: The case of the olivine beads from Tel Tsaf, Jordan Valley, Israel. PLoS ONE. 17(8). e0271547–e0271547. 4 indexed citations

Weiss, Yaakov, Yael Kiro, Cornelia Class, et al.. (2021). Helium in diamonds unravels over a billion years of craton metasomatism. Nature Communications. 12(1). 2667–2667. 13 indexed citations

Weiss, Yaakov, Ronit Kessel, William L. Griffin, et al.. (2019). Diamond forming fluids from Kankan, Guinea: major and trace element study. 3 indexed citations

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Jaques, A. L., et al.. (2018). N-δ13C-inclusion profiles of cloudy diamonds from Koffiefontein: Evidence for formation by continuous Rayleigh fractionation and multiple fluids. Chemical Geology. 483. 31–46. 9 indexed citations

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Weiss, Yaakov, Cornelia Class, S. L. Goldstein, & Takeshi Hanyu. (2016). Key new pieces of the HIMU puzzle from olivines and diamond inclusions. Nature. 537(7622). 666–670. 137 indexed citations

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Weiss, Yaakov, et al.. (2014). High-density fluids and the growth of monocrystalline diamonds. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 141. 145–159. 47 indexed citations

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Levin, Anat, Yaakov Weiss, Frédo Durand, & William T. Freeman. (2011). Understanding Blind Deconvolution Algorithms. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. 33(12). 2354–2367. 265 indexed citations

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Weiss, Yaakov, I. Kiflawi, & Oded Navon. (2010). IR spectroscopy: Quantitative determination of the mineralogy and bulk composition of fluid microinclusions in diamonds. Chemical Geology. 275(1-2). 26–34. 36 indexed citations

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Weiss, Yaakov, Ronit Kessel, William L. Griffin, et al.. (2009). A new model for the evolution of diamond-forming fluids. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 795. 15 indexed citations

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Weiss, Yaakov, William L. Griffin, & Oded Navon. (2009). Trace elements of fibrous diamonds. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 802. 1 indexed citations

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Zomet, A., Anat Levin, Bezalel Peleg, & Yaakov Weiss. (2006). Seamless image stitching by minimizing false edges. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. 15(4). 969–977. 129 indexed citations

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Saul, L.K., Yaakov Weiss, & Léon Bottou. (2004). Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. 184 indexed citations

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Weiss, Yaakov. (2002). Deriving intrinsic images from image sequences. 2. 68–75. 394 indexed citations

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Weiss, Yaakov, et al.. (1995). Patient data management systems in anaesthesia: an emerging technology. Canadian Journal of Anesthesia/Journal canadien d anesthésie. 42(10). 914–921. 11 indexed citations

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