2026 Daniel Kersten: Engineering and Technology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Engineering and Technology	49	4240	4076	1214	1118	213	11350

Overview

Daniel Kersten is affiliated with the University of Minnesota in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Neuroscience and Medicine, with a focus on Cognitive Neuroscience, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Social Psychology, Epidemiology, and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition.

The main topics of Kersten's work include:

Visual perception and processing mechanisms
Face Recognition and Perception
Action Observation and Synchronization
Infrared Thermography in Medicine
Ophthalmology and Visual Impairment Studies
Impact of Light on Environment and Health
Tactile and Sensory Interactions

Daniel Kersten has contributed to several scientific publications across various reputable venues. Frequent publication venues include:

Journal of Vision
Scientific Reports
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
PLoS ONE
i-Perception

Representative recent papers by Kersten and collaborators are:

"Multivoxel Pattern of Blood Oxygen Level Dependent Activity can be sensitive to stimulus specific fine scale responses," 2020, Scientific Reports
"General lighting can overcome accidental viewing," 2023, i-Perception
"Visual adaptation selective for individual limbs reveals hierarchical human body representation," 2021, Journal of Vision
"Effect of expansive optic flow and lateral motion parallax on depth estimation with normal and artificially reduced acuity," 2023, Journal of Vision
"We May Develop Medications Effective Against COVID-19, but Can We Distribute Them Equitably?", 2020, Health Equity

Kersten frequently collaborates with researchers such as Gordon E. Legge, Alexander Bratch, Alan Yuille, Siyun Liu, and Hongru Zhu. These coauthors have repeatedly contributed to research in areas related to visual perception and cognitive neuroscience.

Best Publications

Object Perception as Bayesian Inference

Daniel Kersten;Pascal Mamassian;Alan L Yuille

1560
Citations
Vision as Bayesian inference: analysis by synthesis?

Alan L Yuille;Daniel Kersten

1069
Citations
Shape perception reduces activity in human primary visual cortex

Scott O. Murray;Daniel Kersten;Bruno A. Olshausen;Paul Schrater

694
Citations
The representation of perceived angular size in human primary visual cortex

Scott O. Murray;Huseyin Boyaci;Daniel J Kersten

605
Citations
Bayesian models of object perception.

Daniel Kersten;Alan L Yuille

400
Citations
Perception of three-dimensional shape influences colour perception through mutual illumination

M. G. Bloj;D. Kersten;A. C. Hurlbert

388
Citations
Contrast discrimination in noise.

Gordon E. Legge;Daniel Kersten;Arthur E. Burgess

354
Citations
The perception of cast shadows

Pascal Mamassian;David C. Knill;Daniel Kersten

298
Citations
APPARENT SURFACE CURVATURE AFFECTS LIGHTNESS PERCEPTION

David C. Knill;Daniel Kersten

294
Citations
Moving Cast Shadows Induce Apparent Motion in Depth

Daniel Kersten;Pascal Mamassian;David C Knill

248
Citations
Illusory motion from shadows

Daniel Kersten;David C. Knill;Pascal Mamassian;Isabella Bülthoff

232
Citations
Orientation-tuned fMRI adaptation in human visual cortex

Fang Fang;Scott O. Murray;Daniel J. Kersten;Sheng He

230
Citations
Perceptual grouping and the interactions between visual cortical areas

Scott O. Murray;Paul Schrater;Daniel Kersten

221
Citations
Human efficiency for recognizing 3-D objects in luminance noise

Bosco S. Tjan;Wendy L. Braje;Gordon E. Legge;Daniel Kersten

201
Citations
Object classification for human and ideal observers

Zili Liu;David C. Knill;Daniel Kersten

196
Citations
Predictability and redundancy of natural images.

Daniel Kersten

196
Citations
Illumination effects in face recognition

Wendy L. Braje;Daniel J Kersten;Michael J. Tarr;Nikolaus F. Troje

171
Citations
Is Color an Intrinsic Property of Object Representation

Galit Naor-Raz;Michael J Tarr;Daniel Kersten

169
Citations
Visual motion and the perception of surface material.

Katja Doerschner;Roland W. Fleming;Ozgur Yilmaz;Paul R. Schrater

144
Citations
Perceptual grouping and inverse fMRI activity patterns in human visual cortex.

Fang Fang;Daniel Kersten;Scott O. Murray

141
Citations
Why the visual recognition system might encode the effects of illumination

Michael J Tarr;Daniel Kersten;Heinrich H Bülthoff

132
Citations
Light and dark bars; contrast discrimination.

Gordon E. Legge;Daniel Kersten

123
Citations
Spatial summation in visual noise.

Daniel Kersten

115
Citations
BOLD fMRI and psychophysical measurements of contrast response to broadband images.

Cheryl A. Olman;Kamil Ugurbil;Paul Schrater;Daniel Kersten

102
Citations
Viewpoint-dependent recognition of familiar faces.

Nikolaus F. Troje;Daniel J Kersten

94
Citations
Geometry of shadows.

David C. Knill;Pascal Mamassian;Daniel Kersten

90
Citations
Bootstrapped learning of novel objects.

Mark J. Brady;Daniel J Kersten

89
Citations
Distinguishing shiny from matte

Bruce Hartung;Daniel Kersten

89
Citations
Introduction: a Bayesian formulation of visual perception

David C. Knill;Daniel Kersten;Alan Yuille

88
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul Schrater University of Minnesota

Scott O. Murray University of Washington

David C. Knill University of Rochester

Pascal Mamassian École Normale Supérieure

Alan L. Yuille Johns Hopkins University

Heinrich H. Bülthoff Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics

Michael J. Tarr Carnegie Mellon University

Peter W. Battaglia DeepMind (United Kingdom)

William B. Thompson University of Utah

Kamil Ugurbil University of Minnesota

External Links

Personal website of Daniel Kersten

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