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Hanspeter Pfister

Hanspeter Pfister

D-Index & Metrics

Computer Science

D-Index
97
Citations
41210
World Ranking
421
National Ranking
233

Hanspeter Pfister 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 Hanspeter Pfister sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 464 publications — 91st percentile

91% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Hanspeter Pfister 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 Hanspeter Pfister sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 97 D-Index — 97th percentile

97% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - ACM Fellow For contributions to volume rendering, visualization, computer graphics, and computer vision applications

Overview

Hanspeter Pfister is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research spans primarily the field of Computer Science, with a focus on subfields including Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Artificial Intelligence, Biophysics, Molecular Biology, and Cognitive Neuroscience.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics, highlighted by Cell Image Analysis Techniques, Data Visualization and Analytics, Video Analysis and Summarization, Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications, Advanced Neural Network Applications, Advanced Vision and Imaging, and Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Hanspeter Pfister include:

  • Genome-wide enhancer maps link risk variants to disease genes, 2021, Nature
  • MedMNIST v2 - A large-scale lightweight benchmark for 2D and 3D biomedical image classification, 2023, Scientific Data
  • A connectomic study of a petascale fragment of human cerebral cortex, 2021, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • MST++: Multi-stage Spectral-wise Transformer for Efficient Spectral Reconstruction, 2022, 2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW)
  • A petavoxel fragment of human cerebral cortex reconstructed at nanoscale resolution, 2024, Science

The scientist has frequent collaborations with several researchers, notably Donglai Wei (86 collaborations), Johanna Beyer (38), Zudi Lin (37), Jeff W. Lichtman (25), and Peter K. Sorger (23).

Hanspeter Pfister's publications are frequently found in venues such as:

  • arXiv (Cornell University) with 87 publications
  • IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics with 27 publications
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) with 25 publications
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) with 20 publications
  • Lecture notes in computer science with 6 publications

Among the recognitions received, Hanspeter Pfister was named an ACM Fellow in 2019 for contributions to volume rendering, visualization, computer graphics, and computer vision applications.

Best Publications

  • UpSet: Visualization of Intersecting Sets.

    Alexander Lex;Nils Gehlenborg;Hendrik Strobelt;Romain Vuillemot

  • HiGlass: web-based visual exploration and analysis of genome interaction maps

    Peter Kerpedjiev;Nezar Abdennur;Fritz Lekschas;Chuck McCallum

  • Surfels: surface elements as rendering primitives

    Hanspeter Pfister;Matthias Zwicker;Jeroen van Baar;Markus Gross

  • Surface splatting

    Matthias Zwicker;Hanspeter Pfister;Jeroen van Baar;Markus Gross

  • A data-driven reflectance model

    Wojciech Matusik;Hanspeter Pfister;Matt Brand;Leonard McMillan

  • Blind Image Deblurring Using Dark Channel Prior

    Jinshan Pan;Jinshan Pan;Jinshan Pan;Deqing Sun;Deqing Sun;Hanspeter Pfister;Ming-Hsuan Yang

  • Design galleries: a general approach to setting parameters for computer graphics and animation

    J. Marks;B. Andalman;P. A. Beardsley;W. Freeman

  • What Makes a Visualization Memorable

    Michelle A. Borkin;Azalea A. Vo;Zoya Bylinskii;Phillip Isola

  • 3D TV: a scalable system for real-time acquisition, transmission, and autostereoscopic display of dynamic scenes

    Wojciech Matusik;Hanspeter Pfister

  • Genome-wide enhancer maps link risk variants to disease genes

    Joseph Nasser;Drew T. Bergman;Charles P. Fulco;Charles P. Fulco;Philine Guckelberger;Philine Guckelberger

  • Face transfer with multilinear models

    Daniel Vlasic;Matthew Brand;Hanspeter Pfister;Jovan Popović

  • The VolumePro real-time ray-casting system

    Hanspeter Pfister;Jan Hardenbergh;Jim Knittel;Hugh Lauer

  • The Human Tumor Atlas Network: Charting Tumor Transitions Across Space and Time at Single-Cell Resolution

    Orit Rozenblatt-Rosen;Aviv Regev;Aviv Regev;Aviv Regev;Philipp Oberdoerffer;Tal Nawy

  • Visualization and computer graphics

    David S. Ebert;Charles D. Hansen;Georges-Pierre Bonneau;L. A. B. Gravir

  • LSTMVis: A Tool for Visual Analysis of Hidden State Dynamics in Recurrent Neural Networks

    Hendrik Strobelt;Sebastian Gehrmann;Hanspeter Pfister;Alexander M. Rush

  • The transfer function bake-off

    H. Pfister;B. Lorensen;C. Bajaj;G. Kindlmann

  • Sliced and Radon Wasserstein Barycenters of Measures

    Nicolas Bonneel;Julien Rabin;Gabriel Peyré;Hanspeter Pfister

  • Beyond Memorability: Visualization Recognition and Recall

    Michelle A. Borkin;Zoya Bylinskii;Nam Wook Kim;Constance May Bainbridge

  • Analysis of human faces using a measurement-based skin reflectance model

    Tim Weyrich;Wojciech Matusik;Hanspeter Pfister;Bernd Bickel

  • LineUp: Visual Analysis of Multi-Attribute Rankings

    Samuel Gratzl;Alexander Lex;Nils Gehlenborg;Hanspeter Pfister

  • Generation of transfer functions with stochastic search techniques

    Taosong He;Lichan Hong;Arie Kaufman;Hanspeter Pfister

  • Point-Based Graphics

    Markus Gross;Hanspeter Pfister

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeff W. Lichtman
Jeff W. Lichtman Harvard University
Markus Gross
Markus Gross ETH Zurich
Matthias Zwicker
Matthias Zwicker University of Maryland, College Park
Hendrik Strobelt
Hendrik Strobelt IBM (United States)
Arie E. Kaufman
Arie E. Kaufman Stony Brook University
Markus Hadwiger
Markus Hadwiger King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Kalyan Sunkavalli
Kalyan Sunkavalli Adobe Systems (United States)
Deqing Sun
Deqing Sun Google (United States)

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