Top Authors in Computer Vision

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Computer Vision Researchers in Citeseer (2006) - Historical interest only...

A (possibly inaccurate) list of the most cited computer vision researchers, derived from the August 2006 Citeseer list of the most cited authors in computer science here.
Please note that this is only approximate, and I may have missed out important people - if you spot any, please contact me. Also, some people with common names may not be dealt with properly (indicated by a ?).
The various Li-s, Browns, Smiths, Taylors, Davis's, Hills, Jones, Tans etc are hard to disambiguate, so I haven't tried.
Also note that since the Citeseer list goes by a single initial, it might well have lumped people together without me noticing.

In the top 1000 (I've gone through all 1000 looking for folk I recognise):
Rank Name Citations Location
29 Alex Pentland 6131 MIT, US
35 Geoff Hinton 5831 Toronto, Canada
47 Olivier Faugeras 5430 INRIA, France
48 Anil Jain 5428 Michigan, US
55 Takeo Kanade 5079 CMU, US
87 Dimitri Terzopoulos 4495 Toronto,Canada
97 Tomaso Poggio 4332 MIT, US
128 Zhengyou Zhang 3867 Microsoft, US
150 Thomas Huang 3660 Beckman Institute, US
165 Andrew Zisserman 3569 Oxford, UK
202 ? Andrew Blake 3239 ? Microsoft, UK
203 ?? Chris J Taylor 3238 ?? Manchester, UK
211 Stephane Mallat 3161 Ecole Polytechnique, France
220 John Canny 3113 Berkley, US
233 ? Larry Davis ? 3023 Maryland, US
239 Jitendra Malik 2982 Berkley, US
252 Berthold Horn 2922 MIT, US
269 Azriel Rosenfeld 2814 Maryland, US (d.2004)
284 Robert Haralick 2748 Washington, US
290 Dana Ballard 2731 Rochester, US
329 ? Chris Bishop 2565 ? Microsoft, UK
335 Richard Hartley 2539 ANU, Australia
367 Richard Szeliski 2436 Microsoft, US
402 Michael Kass 2360 Pixar, US
501 James Sethian 2101 Berkeley, US
562 Jan Koenderink 1977 Utrecht, The Netherlands
627 Shree Naya 1859 Columbia, US
630 Shimon Ullman 1856 Weizmann, Israel
651 Josef Kittler 1830 Surrey, UK
676 Wim Sweldens 1786 Bell Labs, US
686 Alan Yuille 1774 UCLA, US
733 Ingemar Cox 1729 UCL, UK
776 William Freeman MIT, US
777 David Lowe 1668 UBC, Canada
779 Rama Chellappa 1665 Maryland, US
794 Donald Geman 1648 John Hopkins, US
812 David Mumford 1632 Brown, US
817 Tim Cootes 1628 Manchester, UK
843 Pietro Perona 1602 CalTech, US
857 (?) Michael Black 1589 (?) Brown, US
875 W. Eric Grimson 1570 MIT, US
992 Nicholas Ayache 1460 INRIA, France
An arbitrary selection of other "Big Names", many culled from this useful list of computer vision people.:
Rank Name Citations Location
1029 Paul Heckbert 1420 Nvidia, US
1039 Carlo Tomasi 1412 Duke, US
1042 Manish Singh 1410 Rutgers, US
1079 Rachid Deriche 1384 INRIA, France
1280 David Heeger 1234 Stanford, US
1346 Allan Jepson 1193 Toronto, Canada
1366 Eero Simoncelli 1187 New York, US
1570 Gerard Medioni 1086 USC, US
1574 David Kriegman 1083 UCSD, US
1714 Paul Viola 1025 Microsoft, US
1751 Stan Sclaroff 1010 Boston, US
1763 Baback Moghaddam 1004 MERL, US
1796 Roger Mohr 995 IAPG, France
1800 Amnon Shashua 994 Jerusalem, Israel
1861 Shmuel Peleg 975 Jerusalem, Israel
1882 Jim Duncan 967 Yale, US
1935 Garry Bishop 948 UNC, US
1975 Michal Irani 936 Weizmann Institute, Israel
1999 Matthew Turk 929 California, US
2025 Roberto Cipolla 921 Cambridge, UK
2066 Peter Belhumeur 908 Columbia, US
2118 Ron Kikinis 892 Harvard, US
2263 Leonard McMillan 854 MIT, US
2377 Peter Meer 823 Rutgers, US
2502 Mike Brady 792 Oxford, UK
2511 Luc Robert 790 INRIA, France
2557 Ramin Zabih 782 Cornell, US
2697 Phil Torr 745 Oxford Brookes, UK
2773 Ron Kimmel 727 Technion, Israel
2880 Murat Tekalp 706 Rochester, US
2970 David Hogg 693 Leeds, UK
3008 Yair Weiss 685 Jerusalem, Israel
3079 Steven Seitz 675 Washington, US
3095 Patrice Simard 673 Microsoft, US
3106 Harry Shum 671 Microsoft, China
3273 Cordelia Schmid 643 INRIA, France
3280 Songchung Zu 642 UCLA, US
3401 Simon Baker 628 CMU, US
3455 Bill Triggs 620 INRIA, France
3465 Kenichi Kanatani 618 Gunma, Japan
3759 Andrew Fitzgibbon 580 Microsoft, UK
4067 Steve Pizer 544 UNC, US
4209 Jerry Prince 531 John Hopkins, US
4311 Mark Pollefey 521 UNC, US
4324 Stefan Carlsson 520 Stockholm, Sweden
4377 Alessandro Verri 515 Genova, Italy
4718 John Tsotsos 484 Toronto, Canada
4832 Peter Sturm 476 INRIA, France
4696 ? Shaogang Gong 486 ? QMW, UK
5090 David Hawkes 456 UCL, UK
5189 Bernt Schiele 449 Darmsadt, Germany
5435 Jiri Matas 431 Surrey, UK
5743 Guido Gerig 410 UNC, US
5805 Micheal Werman 405 Jerusalem, Israel
5884 Daphna Weinshall 401 Jerusalem, Israel
5935 John Illingworth 398 Surrey, UK
6067 Anand Rangarajan 392 Florida
6503 Milan Sonka 371 Iowa, US
6993 Long Quan 349 Hong Kong UST, China
7040 Kryos Kutulakos 347 Toronto, Canada
7307 Terry Boult 336 Colorado, US
7597 Kaleem Siddiqi 325 McGill, US
7602 Josef Bigun 325 Halmstad, Sweden
8035 Nikos Paragios 308 ECP, France
8736 Thiery Vieville 285 INRIA, France
8920 Adrian Hilton 280 Surrey, UK
9147 Farzin Mokhtarian 273 Surrey, UK
9513 Mark Nixon 263 Southampton, UK
Notable confusions:
Linda G. Shapiro/Larry S. Shapiro (L Shapiro is at 814, with 1630 cites)
The various Li-s, Browns, Smiths, Taylors, Davis's, Hills, Jones, Tans etc are hard to disambiguate.
There is more than one J. Graham, P. Hall, A. Clark, R. Fisher

Useful page containing links to CV people. Also here.