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Derek Nowrouzezahrai

Derek Nowrouzezahrai

D-Index & Metrics

Computer Science

D-Index
38
Citations
5661
World Ranking
10299
National Ranking
408

Derek Nowrouzezahrai 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 Derek Nowrouzezahrai sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 149 publications — 26th percentile

26% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 991 publications or more.

Derek Nowrouzezahrai 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 Derek Nowrouzezahrai sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 131+

This scientist: 38 D-Index — 30th percentile

30% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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

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

    Towaki Takikawa;Joey Litalien;Kangxue Yin;Karsten Kreis

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

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

  • Kubric: A scalable dataset generator

    Unknown

  • Video browsing by direct manipulation

    Pierre Dragicevic;Gonzalo Ramos;Jacobo Bibliowitcz;Derek Nowrouzezahrai

  • Robust motion in-betweening

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

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

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

  • Extracting lines of curvature from noisy point clouds

    Evangelos Kalogerakis;Derek Nowrouzezahrai;Patricio Simari;Karan Singh

  • Robust statistical estimation of curvature on discretized surfaces

    Evangelos Kalogerakis;Patricio Simari;Derek Nowrouzezahrai;Karan Singh

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

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

  • Unifying points, beams, and paths in volumetric light transport simulation

    Jaroslav Křivánek;Iliyan Georgiev;Toshiya Hachisuka;Petr Vévoda

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

    Alexis Angelidis;Fabrice Neyret;Karan Singh;Derek Nowrouzezahrai

  • Virtual ray lights for rendering scenes with participating media

    Jan Novák;Derek Nowrouzezahrai;Carsten Dachsbacher;Wojciech Jarosz

  • Image-Based Proxy Accumulation for Real-Time Soft Global Illumination

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

  • Progressive photon beams

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

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

    Issam Laradji;Pau Rodriguez;Oscar Manas;Keegan Lensink

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

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

  • Subspace neural physics: fast data-driven interactive simulation

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

  • MeshDiffusion: Score-based Generative 3D Mesh Modeling

    Unknown

  • Image-based reconstruction and synthesis of dense foliage

    Derek Bradley;Derek Nowrouzezahrai;Paul Beardsley

  • Multi-objective shape segmentation and labeling

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

  • Hyperparameter optimization in black-box image processing using differentiable proxies

    Ethan Tseng;Felix Yu;Yuting Yang;Fahim Mannan

Frequent Co-Authors

Wojciech Jarosz
Wojciech Jarosz Dartmouth College
Evangelos Kalogerakis
Evangelos Kalogerakis Technical University of Crete
Chris Pal
Chris Pal Polytechnique Montréal
John Snyder
John Snyder Microsoft (United States)
Karan Singh
Karan Singh University of Toronto
Alec Jacobson
Alec Jacobson University of Toronto
Joelle Pineau
Joelle Pineau McGill University
Markus Gross
Markus Gross ETH Zurich
Eugene Fiume
Eugene Fiume Simon Fraser University
Carsten Dachsbacher
Carsten Dachsbacher Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

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