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David H. Foster publication distribution in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Computer Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where David H. Foster sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 254 publications — 64th percentile

64% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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David H. Foster D-index placement in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Computer Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where David H. Foster sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 41 D-Index — 40th percentile

40% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 131 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2005 - OSA Fellows For sustained contributions to the perception of color, form, and motion over a period of thirty years

Overview

David H. Foster is affiliated with the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple domains, primarily focusing on Color Science and Applications, Visual perception and processing mechanisms, and Color perception and design. Additional topics covered include Patient Satisfaction in Healthcare, Visual Attention and Saliency Detection, Healthcare Quality and Management, and Healthcare Policy and Management.

The scientist's work intersects with several subfields including Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics; Cognitive Neuroscience; Social Psychology; Artificial Intelligence; and Infectious Diseases. This interdisciplinary approach connects physical sciences with cognitive and social perspectives.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Foster include Sérgio Nascimento, Zeinab Tirandaz, Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich Gogolʹ, A Robert, and Kinjiro Amano. These collaborations reflect a network of researchers engaged in overlapping scientific interests.

Publication venues where Foster regularly contributes are diverse. Key venues include Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature, Value in Health, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, Scientific Reports, and Health Care Management Review. Their presence in both biomedical and physical sciences journals highlights the multidisciplinary nature of their research.

Recent research publications demonstrate a range of topics and publication years:

  • Adoption of Lean management and hospital performance: Results from a national survey, 2020, Health Care Management Review
  • Colour constancy failures expected in colourful environments, 2022, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 infection among staff and students in a cohort of English primary and secondary schools during 2020-2021, 2022, The Lancet Regional Health - Europe
  • Fluctuating environmental light limits number of surfaces visually recognizable by colour, 2021, Scientific Reports
  • Little information loss with red-green color deficient vision in natural environments, 2023, iScience

In addition to journal articles, Foster has contributed to book publications. A notable work is "Reading Backwards," published by Open Book Publishers in 2021.

Their contributions have been recognized through awards, including the OSA Fellows distinction awarded in 2005. This award cited sustained contributions to the perception of color, form, and motion over a period of thirty years.

Best Publications

  • Relational colour constancy from invariant cone-excitation ratios

    David H. Foster;Sergio M. C. Nascimento

  • Frequency of metamerism in natural scenes

    David H. Foster;Kinjiro Amano;Sérgio M. C. Nascimento;Michael J. Foster

  • Statistics of Spatial Cone-Excitation Ratios in Natural Scenes

    Sérgio M. C. Nascimento;Flávio P. Ferreira;David H. Foster

  • Fuzzy topological groups

    David H Foster

  • An operational approach to colour constancy.

    B.J. Craven;David H. Foster

  • Asymmetries in oriented-line detection indicate two orthogonal filters in early vision.

    David H. Foster;Patrick A. Ward

  • Information limits on neural identification of colored surfaces in natural scenes.

    David H. Foster;Sérgio M.C. Nascimento;Kinjiro Amano

  • Thresholds From Psychometric Functions: Superiority of Bootstrap to Incremental and Probit Variance Estimators

    David H. Foster;Walter F. Bischof

  • Detection of colour vision abnormalities in uncomplicated type 1 diabetic patients with angiographically normal retinas.

    K. J. Hardy;J. Lipton;M. O. Scase;D. H. Foster

  • Detecting natural changes of cone-excitation ratios in simple and complex coloured images.

    Sérgio M. C. Nascimento;David H. Foster

  • Adaptive optics retinal imaging reveals S-cone dystrophy in tritan color-vision deficiency.

    Rigmor C. Baraas;Joseph Carroll;Karen L. Gunther;Mina Chung

  • Spatial distributions of local illumination color in natural scenes

    Sérgio M.C. Nascimento;Kinjiro Amano;David H. Foster

  • Recognizing novel three-dimensional objects by summing signals from parts and views.

    David H. Foster;Stuart J. Gilson

  • Recovering spectral data from natural scenes with an RGB digital camera and colored filters

    Eva M. Valero;Juan L. Nieves;Sérgio M. C. Nascimento;Kinjiro Amano

  • Role of second- and third-order statistics in the discriminability of natural images

    Mitchell G. A. Thomson;David H. Foster

  • Color constancy in natural scenes explained by global image statistics

    David H. Foster;Kinjiro Amano;Sérgio M.C. Nascimento

  • Cone photoreceptor mosaic disruption associated with Cys203Arg mutation in the M-cone opsin

    Joseph Carroll;Rigmor C. Baraas;Melissa Wagner-Schuman;Jungtae Rha

  • Four issues concerning colour constancy and relational colour constancy

    David H Foster;Sérgio M.C Nascimento;B.J Craven;Karina J Linnell

  • Bootstrap estimates of the statistical accuracy of thresholds obtained from psychometric functions.

    Foster Dh;Bischof Wf

  • How temporal cues can aid colour constancy

    David H. Foster;Kinjiro Amano;Sérgio M. C. Nascimento

  • Model-free estimation of the psychometric function

    David H. Foster;K. Zychaluk

  • The frequency of metamerism in natural scenes

    David H. Foster;Kinjiro Amano;Sérgio M.C. Nascimento;Michael J. Foster

Frequent Co-Authors

Luc Van Gool
Luc Van Gool Institute for Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence and Technology (INSAIT)
Walter F. Bischof
Walter F. Bischof University of British Columbia
Robert J. Lucas
Robert J. Lucas University of Manchester
Martin Gulliford
Martin Gulliford King's College London
Peter Meer
Peter Meer Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Alexander Toet
Alexander Toet Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research
Robert L. Gawthorpe
Robert L. Gawthorpe University of Bergen
Frans W. Cornelissen
Frans W. Cornelissen University Medical Center Groningen
Mary L. Phillips
Mary L. Phillips University of Pittsburgh

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