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83
Citations
39125
World Ranking
885
National Ranking
482

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2011 - ACM Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award For fundamental contributions to the development of multidimensional spatial data structures and indexing.
  • 2010 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1996 - ACM Fellow For research and contributions in the area of hierarchical data structures for applications in spatial data bases for computer graphics, image processing, geographic information systems, and robotics.
  • 1991 - IEEE Fellow For contributions in the area of hierarchical data structures for applications in spatial data bases for computer graphics and image processing.

Overview

Hanan Samet is affiliated with the University of Maryland, College Park, in the United States. Their research spans several fields and subfields within computer science and social sciences, with a particular focus on spatial data structures and geographic information systems.

The scientist's primary fields of study include:

  • Computer Science
  • Social Sciences

Their subfields of study reflect a specialization in:

  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Signal Processing
  • Transportation
  • Geography, Planning and Development
  • Information Systems

Hanan Samet's main research topics comprise:

  • Data Management and Algorithms
  • Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis
  • Geographic Information Systems Studies
  • Data Visualization and Analytics
  • Robotic Path Planning Algorithms
  • Video Surveillance and Tracking Methods
  • Computational Geometry and Mesh Generation

The scientist has published in a range of venues, frequently contributing to:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • GeoInformatica
  • Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive Mobile Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies
  • ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology
  • Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems

Recent papers include:

  • "HealthWalks" (2020), published in Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive Mobile Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies
  • "Querying Recurrent Convoys over Trajectory Data" (2020), published in ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology
  • "Electric vehicle charging" (2022), published in Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems
  • "Enhancing local live tweet stream to detect news" (2020), published in GeoInformatica
  • "On Efficient Shortest Path Computation on Terrain Surface: A Direction-Oriented Approach" (2024), published in IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

Frequent co-authors with whom Hanan Samet has collaborated include:

  • John Kastner
  • Farhana Choudhury
  • Hong Wei
  • Jagan Sankaranarayanan
  • Brian Ondov

The scientist has received several awards recognizing contributions to spatial data structures and related applications. These include the ACM Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award in 2011, designated for fundamental contributions to multidimensional spatial data structures and indexing.

Hanan Samet has also been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2010. They were recognized as an ACM Fellow in 1996 for research related to hierarchical data structures in spatial databases, with applications spanning computer graphics, image processing, geographic information systems, and robotics. Additionally, they were awarded IEEE Fellow status in 1991 for similar contributions in hierarchical spatial data structures.

Best Publications

  • The design and analysis of spatial data structures

    Hanan Samet

  • The Quadtree and Related Hierarchical Data Structures

    Hanan Samet

  • Pruning Filters for Efficient ConvNets

    Hao Li;Asim Kadav;Igor Durdanovic;Hanan Samet

  • Foundations of Multidimensional and Metric Data Structures

    Hanan Samet;Jim Gray

  • Applications of spatial data structures: Computer graphics, image processing, and GIS

    Hanan Samet

  • Applications of spatial data structures

    Hanan Samet

  • Distance browsing in spatial databases

    Gísli R. Hjaltason;Hanan Samet

  • TwitterStand: news in tweets

    Jagan Sankaranarayanan;Hanan Samet;Benjamin E. Teitler;Michael D. Lieberman

  • A general approach to connected-component labeling for arbitrary image representations

    Michael B. Dillencourt;Hanan Samet;Markku Tamminen

  • Index-driven similarity search in metric spaces (Survey Article)

    Gisli R. Hjaltason;Hanan Samet

  • Ranking in Spatial Databases

    Gisli R. Hjaltason;Hanan Samet

  • SoftPOSIT: Simultaneous Pose and Correspondence Determination

    Philip David;Daniel Dementhon;Ramani Duraiswami;Hanan Samet

  • The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems

    Jim Gray;Mamdouh Refaat;Jim Melton;Stephen Buxton

  • Efficient component labeling of images of arbitrary dimension represented by linear bintrees

    H. Samet;M. Tamminen

  • Incremental distance join algorithms for spatial databases

    Gísli R. Hjaltason;Hanan Samet

  • Scalable network distance browsing in spatial databases

    Hanan Samet;Jagan Sankaranarayanan;Houman Alborzi

  • Neighbor finding techniques for images represented by quadtrees

    Hanan Samet

  • A hierarchical strategy for path planning among moving obstacles (mobile robot)

    K. Fujimura;H. Samet

  • Spatial join techniques

    Edwin H. Jacox;Hanan Samet

  • Hierarchical Spatial Data Structures

    Hanan Samet

  • Properties of embedding methods for similarity searching in metric spaces

    G.R. Hjaltason;H. Samet

Frequent Co-Authors

Walid G. Aref
Walid G. Aref Purdue University West Lafayette
Kikuo Fujimura
Kikuo Fujimura Honda (United States)
Azriel Rosenfeld
Azriel Rosenfeld University of Maryland, College Park
Leila De Floriani
Leila De Floriani University of Maryland, College Park
Ramani Duraiswami
Ramani Duraiswami University of Maryland, College Park
Daniel DeMenthon
Daniel DeMenthon Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Daniele Panozzo
Daniele Panozzo New York University
Leana Golubchik
Leana Golubchik University of Southern California
Enrico Puppo
Enrico Puppo University of Genoa
Yong Li
Yong Li Tsinghua University

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