2026 Derek Nowrouzezahrai: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	38	10301	10013	409	391	149	5661

Overview

Derek Nowrouzezahrai is affiliated with McGill University in Canada. Their research primarily spans the fields of computer science and engineering, with a strong focus on areas related to computer vision, artificial intelligence, and computer graphics.

The scientist's work covers several subfields, including:

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design
Computational Mechanics
Control and Systems Engineering

The main topics of study in their research include:

Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques
Advanced Vision and Imaging
3D Shape Modeling and Analysis
Advanced Numerical Analysis Techniques
Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization
Reinforcement Learning in Robotics
Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning

Among recent papers authored by Derek Nowrouzezahrai, notable publications include:

"Robust motion in-betweening" (2020), published in ACM Transactions on Graphics
"Kubric: A scalable dataset generator" (2022), presented at the 2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
"Differentiable Compound Optics and Processing Pipeline Optimization for End-to-end Camera Design" (2021), published in ACM Transactions on Graphics
"gradSim: Differentiable simulation for system identification and visuomotor control" (2021), available on arXiv (Cornell University)
"On the Effectiveness of Weight-Encoded Neural Implicit 3D Shapes" (2020), also available on arXiv (Cornell University)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Derek Nowrouzezahrai include:

Issam Laradji
Christopher Pal
Pau Rodríguez
Florian Golemo
Adrien Gruson

The scientist publishes frequently in venues such as:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Computer Graphics Forum
ACM Transactions on Graphics
2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
Scientific Reports

Best Publications

Learning hatching for pen-and-ink illustration of surfaces

Evangelos Kalogerakis;Derek Nowrouzezahrai;Simon Breslav;Aaron Hertzmann

658
Citations
Neural Geometric Level of Detail: Real-time Rendering with Implicit 3D Shapes

Towaki Takikawa;Joey Litalien;Kangxue Yin;Karsten Kreis

425
Citations
Interactive reconstruction of Monte Carlo image sequences using a recurrent denoising autoencoder

Chakravarty R. Alla Chaitanya;Anton S. Kaplanyan;Christoph Schied;Marco Salvi

319
Citations
Kubric: A scalable dataset generator

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291
Citations
Video browsing by direct manipulation

Pierre Dragicevic;Gonzalo Ramos;Jacobo Bibliowitcz;Derek Nowrouzezahrai

253
Citations
Robust motion in-betweening

Félix G. Harvey;Mike Yurick;Derek Nowrouzezahrai;Christopher Pal

236
Citations
A comprehensive theory of volumetric radiance estimation using photon points and beams

Wojciech Jarosz;Derek Nowrouzezahrai;Iman Sadeghi;Henrik Wann Jensen

152
Citations
Extracting lines of curvature from noisy point clouds

Evangelos Kalogerakis;Derek Nowrouzezahrai;Patricio Simari;Karan Singh

121
Citations
Robust statistical estimation of curvature on discretized surfaces

Evangelos Kalogerakis;Patricio Simari;Derek Nowrouzezahrai;Karan Singh

112
Citations
Differentiable Compound Optics and Processing Pipeline Optimization for End-to-end Camera Design

Ethan Tseng;Ali Mosleh;Fahim Mannan;Karl St-Arnaud

107
Citations
Unifying points, beams, and paths in volumetric light transport simulation

Jaroslav Křivánek;Iliyan Georgiev;Toshiya Hachisuka;Petr Vévoda

104
Citations
A controllable, fast and stable basis for vortex based smoke simulation

Alexis Angelidis;Fabrice Neyret;Karan Singh;Derek Nowrouzezahrai

98
Citations
Virtual ray lights for rendering scenes with participating media

Jan Novák;Derek Nowrouzezahrai;Carsten Dachsbacher;Wojciech Jarosz

97
Citations
Image-Based Proxy Accumulation for Real-Time Soft Global Illumination

P.-P. Sloan;N.K. Govindaraju;D. Nowrouzezahrai;J. Snyder

90
Citations
Progressive photon beams

Wojciech Jarosz;Derek Nowrouzezahrai;Robert Thomas;Peter-Pike Sloan

87
Citations
A Weakly Supervised Consistency-based Learning Method for COVID-19 Segmentation in CT Images

Issam Laradji;Pau Rodriguez;Oscar Manas;Keegan Lensink

86
Citations
Beyond Pixel Norm-Balls: Parametric Adversaries using an Analytically Differentiable Renderer

Hsueh-Ti Derek Liu;Michael Tao;Chun-Liang Li;Derek Nowrouzezahrai

83
Citations
Subspace neural physics: fast data-driven interactive simulation

Daniel Holden;Bang Chi Duong;Sayantan Datta;Derek Nowrouzezahrai

77
Citations
MeshDiffusion: Score-based Generative 3D Mesh Modeling

Unknown

77
Citations
Image-based reconstruction and synthesis of dense foliage

Derek Bradley;Derek Nowrouzezahrai;Paul Beardsley

73
Citations
Multi-objective shape segmentation and labeling

P. Simari;D. Nowrouzezahrai;E. Kalogerakis;K. Singh

69
Citations
Hyperparameter optimization in black-box image processing using differentiable proxies

Ethan Tseng;Felix Yu;Yuting Yang;Fahim Mannan

55
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Wojciech Jarosz Dartmouth College

Evangelos Kalogerakis Technical University of Crete

Chris Pal Polytechnique Montréal

John Snyder Microsoft (United States)

Karan Singh University of Toronto

Alec Jacobson University of Toronto

Joelle Pineau McGill University

Markus Gross ETH Zurich

Eugene Fiume Simon Fraser University

Carsten Dachsbacher Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

External Links

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