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96
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442
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Horst Bunke 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 Horst Bunke sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 613 publications — 97th percentile

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

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

Horst Bunke 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 Horst Bunke sits on this spectrum.

30–31 D-Index: 879 scientists 32–33 D-Index: 983 scientists 34–35 D-Index: 918 scientists 36–37 D-Index: 990 scientists 38–39 D-Index: 968 scientists 40–41 D-Index: 907 scientists 42–43 D-Index: 821 scientists 44–45 D-Index: 763 scientists 46–47 D-Index: 689 scientists 48–49 D-Index: 543 scientists 50–51 D-Index: 543 scientists 52–53 D-Index: 518 scientists 54–55 D-Index: 500 scientists 56–57 D-Index: 458 scientists 58–59 D-Index: 400 scientists 60–61 D-Index: 337 scientists 62–63 D-Index: 308 scientists 64–65 D-Index: 292 scientists 66–67 D-Index: 249 scientists 68–69 D-Index: 213 scientists 70–71 D-Index: 192 scientists 72–73 D-Index: 189 scientists 74–75 D-Index: 165 scientists 76–77 D-Index: 139 scientists 78–79 D-Index: 119 scientists 80–81 D-Index: 121 scientists 82–83 D-Index: 113 scientists 84–85 D-Index: 88 scientists 86–87 D-Index: 87 scientists 88–89 D-Index: 75 scientists 90–91 D-Index: 69 scientists 92–93 D-Index: 57 scientists 94–95 D-Index: 46 scientists 96–97 D-Index: 38 scientists 98–99 D-Index: 34 scientists 100–101 D-Index: 36 scientists 102–103 D-Index: 27 scientists 104–105 D-Index: 37 scientists 106–107 D-Index: 18 scientists 108–109 D-Index: 31 scientists 110–111 D-Index: 19 scientists 112–113 D-Index: 16 scientists 114–115 D-Index: 12 scientists 116–117 D-Index: 20 scientists 118–119 D-Index: 15 scientists 120–121 D-Index: 5 scientists 122–123 D-Index: 20 scientists 124–125 D-Index: 8 scientists 126–127 D-Index: 5 scientists 128–129 D-Index: 7 scientists 130 D-Index: 3 scientists 131+ D-Index: 98 scientists
30 D-Index 131+

This scientist: 96 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

  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2010 - IAPR King-Sun Fu Prize For pioneering work on syntactic and structural pattern recognition.
  • 1996 - Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) For contributions to structural pattern recognition and for service to IAPR

Overview

Horst Bunke is affiliated with the University of Bern in Switzerland. Their research spans several fields with a primary focus on computer science and notable contributions to environmental science and medicine.

The main fields of study for their work include:

  • Computer Science
  • Environmental Science
  • Medicine

Their subfields of study highlight a specialization in:

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Information Systems
  • Signal Processing
  • Environmental Engineering

Bunke's research topics encompass:

  • Advanced Graph Neural Networks
  • Graph Theory and Algorithms
  • Data Management and Algorithms
  • Hydrological Forecasting Using AI
  • Web Data Mining and Analysis
  • Topic Modeling
  • Natural Language Processing Techniques

Recent publications by Bunke include the following papers:

  • Graph-based pattern recognition on spectral reduced graphs, 2023, Pattern Recognition
  • A novel way to formalize stable graph cores by using matching-graphs, 2022, Pattern Recognition
  • Fast approximate maximum common subgraph computation, 2025, Pattern Recognition Letters
  • Matching-Graphs for Approximate Maximum Common Subgraph Computation, 2022, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Graph Matchings and Graph Kernels on Spectral Reduced Graphs, 2023, SSRN Electronic Journal

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Bunke include:

  • Mathias Fuchs
  • Anthony Gillioz
  • Benjamin Fankhauser
  • Vidushi Bigler
  • Hans Friedrich Witschel

Their work is often published in the following venues:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Pattern Recognition
  • Pattern Recognition Letters
  • SN Computer Science
  • arXiv (Cornell University)

Bunke has received professional recognition through awards such as the IAPR King-Sun Fu Prize in 2010 for pioneering work on syntactic and structural pattern recognition, and was named a Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) in 1996 for contributions to structural pattern recognition and service to the organization.

Best Publications

  • A Novel Connectionist System for Unconstrained Handwriting Recognition

    A. Graves;M. Liwicki;S. Fernandez;R. Bertolami

  • The IAM-database: an English sentence database for offline handwriting recognition

    Urs-Viktor Marti;Horst Bunke

  • An experimental comparison of range image segmentation algorithms

    A. Hoover;G. Jean-Baptiste;X. Jiang;P.J. Flynn

  • A graph distance metric based on the maximal common subgraph

    Horst Bunke;Kim Shearer

  • Approximate graph edit distance computation by means of bipartite graph matching

    Kaspar Riesen;Horst Bunke

  • On a relation between graph edit distance and maximum common subgraph

    H. Bunke

  • Inexact graph matching for structural pattern recognition

    H Bunke;G Allermann

  • Using a statistical language model to improve the performance of an HMM-based cursive handwriting recognition systems

    U.-V. Marti;H. Bunke

  • IAM Graph Database Repository for Graph Based Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning

    Kaspar Riesen;Horst Bunke

  • A new algorithm for error-tolerant subgraph isomorphism detection

    B.T. Messmer;H. Bunke

  • Offline recognition of unconstrained handwritten texts using HMMs and statistical language models

    H. Bunke;S. Bengio;A. Vinciarelli

  • Lexicon-free handwritten word spotting using character HMMs

    Andreas Fischer;Andreas Keller;Volkmar Frinken;Horst Bunke

  • A Novel Word Spotting Method Based on Recurrent Neural Networks

    V. Frinken;A. Fischer;R. Manmatha;H. Bunke

  • Error correcting graph matching: on the influence of the underlying cost function

    H. Bunke

  • Unconstrained On-line Handwriting Recognition with Recurrent Neural Networks

    Alex Graves;Marcus Liwicki;Horst Bunke;Jürgen Schmidhuber

  • Edge Detection in Range Images Based on Scan Line Approximation

    Xiaoyi Jiang;Horst Bunke

  • An median graphs: properties, algorithms, and applications

    Xiaoyi Jiang;A. Munger;H. Bunke

  • Handbook of Character Recognition and Document Image Analysis

    Horst O. Bunke;Patrick S.-P. Wang

  • Syntactic and structural pattern recognition : theory and applications

    Horst O. Bunke;Alberto Sanfeliu

  • Fast segmentation of range images into planar regions by scan line grouping

    Xiaoyi Jiang;Horst Bunke

  • SERIES IN MACHINE PERCEPTION AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

    H. Bunke;P. S. P. Wang;M. Xie;A. Antonacopoulos

Frequent Co-Authors

Xiaoyi Jiang
Xiaoyi Jiang University of Münster
Abraham Kandel
Abraham Kandel University of South Florida
Josep Lladós
Josep Lladós Autonomous University of Barcelona
János Csirik
János Csirik University of Szeged
Heinrich Niemann
Heinrich Niemann University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Svetha Venkatesh
Svetha Venkatesh Deakin University
Alicia Fornés
Alicia Fornés Autonomous University of Barcelona
Terry Caelli
Terry Caelli Deakin University
Jos B. T. M. Roerdink
Jos B. T. M. Roerdink University of Groningen
Dmitry B. Goldgof
Dmitry B. Goldgof University of South Florida

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