2026 Eero P. Simoncelli: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	68	2690	2458	1260	1131	180	90324
Computer Science	94	475	462	260	252	283	116478

Research.com Recognitions

2019 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2016 - Golden Brain Award, Minerva Foundation
2009 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to statistical models of visual images
1998 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Eero P. Simoncelli is affiliated with New York University in the United States. Their research spans several fields, primarily focusing on neuroscience and computer science, with significant contributions to cognitive neuroscience and computer vision.

The main fields of study covered by Simoncelli include:

Neuroscience
Computer Science

Within these, they have worked extensively in the following subfields:

Cognitive Neuroscience
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Biophysics
Artificial Intelligence
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

The research topics frequently addressed by Simoncelli cover areas such as:

Neural dynamics and brain function
Visual perception and processing mechanisms
Visual Attention and Saliency Detection
Image and Signal Denoising Methods
Cell Image Analysis Techniques
Advanced Memory and Neural Computing
Neural Networks and Applications

Simoncelli has coauthored work with several researchers, including:

J. Anthony Movshon
Lyndon Duong
William F. Broderick
Zahra Kadkhodaie
Timothy D. Oleskiw

Their publications have appeared in a variety of venues, with the most frequent being:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Journal of Vision
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Nature Communications
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Selected recent papers by Eero P. Simoncelli include:

Image Quality Assessment: Unifying Structure and Texture Similarity, 2020, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Catalyzing next-generation Artificial Intelligence through NeuroAI, 2023, Nature Communications
Inference of nonlinear receptive field subunits with spike-triggered clustering, 2020, eLife
Primary visual cortex straightens natural video trajectories, 2021, Nature Communications
Mapping spatial frequency preferences across human primary visual cortex, 2022, Journal of Vision

Awards received by Simoncelli include:

Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2019
Golden Brain Award, Minerva Foundation, 2016
IEEE Fellow, 2009, for contributions to statistical models of visual images
Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 1998

Best Publications

Image quality assessment: from error visibility to structural similarity

Zhou Wang;A.C. Bovik;H.R. Sheikh;E.P. Simoncelli

60569
Citations
Multiscale structural similarity for image quality assessment

Z. Wang;E.P. Simoncelli;A.C. Bovik

7011
Citations
Image denoising using scale mixtures of Gaussians in the wavelet domain

J. Portilla;V. Strela;M.J. Wainwright;E.P. Simoncelli

3179
Citations
Natural image statistics and neural representation

Eero P Simoncelli;Bruno A Olshausen

3064
Citations
A Parametric Texture Model Based on Joint Statistics of Complex Wavelet Coefficients

Javier Portilla;Eero P. Simoncelli

2471
Citations
Shiftable multiscale transforms

E.P. Simoncelli;W.T. Freeman;E.H. Adelson;D.J. Heeger

2092
Citations
Spatio-temporal correlations and visual signalling in a complete neuronal population

Jonathan William Pillow;Jonathon Shlens;Liam Paninski;Alexander Sher

1705
Citations
End-to-end optimized image compression

Johannes Ballé;Valero Laparra;Eero P. Simoncelli

1646
Citations
The steerable pyramid: a flexible architecture for multi-scale derivative computation

E.P. Simoncelli;W.T. Freeman

1591
Citations
Multi-scale structural similarity for image quality assessment

Zhou Wang;Eero P. Simoncelli;Alan C. Bovik

1487
Citations
Motion illusions as optimal percepts

Yair Weiss;Eero P. Simoncelli;Edward H. Adelson

1329
Citations
A model of neuronal responses in visual area MT.

Eero P. Simoncelli;David J. Heeger

1187
Citations
Natural signal statistics and sensory gain control

Odelia Schwartz;Eero P. Simoncelli

1048
Citations
Noise characteristics and prior expectations in human visual speed perception

Alan A Stocker;Eero P Simoncelli

1026
Citations
Noise removal via Bayesian wavelet coring

E.P. Simoncelli;E.H. Adelson

988
Citations
Image Quality Assessment: From Error Measurement to Structural Similarity

Zhou Wang;Alan C. Bovik;Hamid R. Sheikh;Eero P. Simoncelli

874
Citations
Image compression via joint statistical characterization in the wavelet domain

R.W. Buccigrossi;E.P. Simoncelli

798
Citations
Metamers of the ventral stream

Jeremy Freeman;Eero P Simoncelli;Eero P Simoncelli;Eero P Simoncelli

791
Citations
Image Quality Assessment: Unifying Structure and Texture Similarity.

Keyan Ding;Kede Ma;Shiqi Wang;Eero P. Simoncelli

773
Citations
Cardinal rules: Visual orientation perception reflects knowledge of environmental statistics

Ahna R Girshick;Michael S Landy;Michael S Landy;Eero P Simoncelli

762
Citations
On Advances in Statistical Modeling of Natural Images

A. Srivastava;A. B. Lee;E. P. Simoncelli;S.-C. Zhu

700
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

J. Anthony Movshon New York University

E. J. Chichilnisky Stanford University

Liam Paninski Columbia University

Zhou Wang University of Waterloo

Jonathan W. Pillow Princeton University

David J. Heeger New York University

Michael S. Landy New York University

Martin J. Wainwright MIT

Hany Farid University of California, Berkeley

Alexander Sher University of California, Santa Cruz

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