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Gerald Sommer

Gerald Sommer

D-Index & Metrics

Engineering and Technology

D-Index
36
Citations
6253
World Ranking
8634
National Ranking
290

Gerald Sommer publication distribution in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Engineering and Technology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Gerald Sommer sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 804+

This scientist: 231 publications — 59th percentile

59% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 804 publications or more.

Gerald Sommer D-index placement in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Engineering and Technology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Gerald Sommer sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 107+

This scientist: 36 D-Index — 13th percentile

13% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 107 D-Index or more.

Overview

Gerald Sommer is affiliated with Kiel University in Germany. Their academic profile shows involvement in research without specific recent papers, frequent co-authors, publication venues, or book publications listed.

The scientist's work does not have detailed records of main fields, subfields, or main topics of study available for analysis, nor is there information on awards or honors granted.

Despite the limited data, Gerald Sommer maintains an active professional status as there is no indication of being deceased.

Best Publications

  • The monogenic signal

    M. Felsberg;G. Sommer

  • Hypercomplex signals-a novel extension of the analytic signal to the multidimensional case

    T. Bulow;G. Sommer

  • Geometric Computing with Clifford Algebras

    Gerald Sommer

  • The Monogenic Scale-Space: A Unifying Approach to Phase-Based Image Processing in Scale-Space

    M. Felsberg;G. Sommer

  • Dynamic cell structure learns perfectly topology preserving map

    Jörg Bruske;Gerald Sommer

  • Intrinsic dimensionality estimation with optimally topology preserving maps

    J. Bruske;G. Sommer

  • On Clifford neurons and Clifford multi-layer perceptrons

    Sven Buchholz;Gerald Sommer

  • Gabor Wavelet Networks for Object Representation

    Volker Krüger;Gerald Sommer

  • Gabor wavelet networks for efficient head pose estimation

    Volker Krüger;Gerald Sommer

  • Evolutionary reinforcement learning of artificial neural networks

    Nils T. Siebel;Gerald Sommer

  • Motor Algebra for 3D Kinematics: The Case of the Hand-Eye Calibration

    Eduardo Bayro-Corrochano;Kostas Daniilidis;Gerald Sommer

  • Real-Time Tracking of Moving Objects with an Active Camera

    K. Daniilidis;C. Krauss;M. Hansen;G. Sommer

  • Non-commutative hypercomplex Fourier tranforms of multidimensional signals

    Thomas Bülow;Michael Felsberg;Gerald Sommer

  • Edge and keypoint detection in facial regions

    R. Herpers;M. Michaelis;K.-H. Lichtenauer;G. Sommer

  • Commutative hypercomplex Fourier transforms of multidimensional signals

    Michael Felsberg;Thomas Bülow;Gerald Sommer

  • A New Extension of Linear Signal Processing for Estimating Local Properties and Detecting Features

    Michael Felsberg;Gerald Sommer

  • Geometric computing with Clifford algebras: theoretical foundations and applications in computer vision and robotics

    G. Sommer

  • Efficient reinforcement learning through Evolutionary Acquisition of Neural Topologies.

    Yohannes Kassahun;Gerald Sommer

  • A lie group approach to steerable filters

    Markus Michaelis;Gerald Sommer

  • Pose Estimation in Conformal Geometric Algebra Part I: The Stratification of Mathematical Spaces

    Bodo Rosenhahn;Gerald Sommer

  • Pattern Recognition by Self-Organizing Neural Networks

    Gerald Sommer

Frequent Co-Authors

Bodo Rosenhahn
Bodo Rosenhahn University of Hannover
Michael Felsberg
Michael Felsberg Linköping University
Kostas Daniilidis
Kostas Daniilidis University of Pennsylvania
Reinhard Klette
Reinhard Klette Auckland University of Technology
Joachim Weickert
Joachim Weickert Saarland University
Thomas Brox
Thomas Brox University of Freiburg
Peter J. Olver
Peter J. Olver University of Minnesota
Daniel Cremers
Daniel Cremers Technical University of Munich
Jan J. Koenderink
Jan J. Koenderink Delft University of Technology
Anthony Lasenby
Anthony Lasenby University of Cambridge

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