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Discipline name D-index D-index (Discipline H-index) only includes papers and citation values for an examined discipline in contrast to General H-index which accounts for publications across all disciplines. Citations Publications World Ranking National Ranking
Computer Science D-index 63 Citations 18,999 231 World Ranking 1722 National Ranking 942

Research.com Recognitions

Awards & Achievements

2012 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to computer vision and graphics

2008 - ACM Senior Member

Overview

What is he best known for?

The fields of study he is best known for:

  • Artificial intelligence
  • Computer vision
  • Machine learning

His primary areas of study are Artificial intelligence, Computer vision, Ubiquitous computing, Activity recognition and Robustness. His research integrates issues of Machine learning and Pattern recognition in his study of Artificial intelligence. His Computer vision study incorporates themes from Animation, Computer graphics and Facial expression.

The various areas that he examines in his Ubiquitous computing study include Wearable computer, Living lab and Engineering management. His Activity recognition study integrates concerns from other disciplines, such as Smartwatch, Simulation and Applied psychology. Irfan Essa has researched Motion estimation in several fields, including Motion, Smart camera and Facial Action Coding System.

His most cited work include:

  • Graphcut textures: image and video synthesis using graph cuts (1310 citations)
  • The Aware Home: A Living Laboratory for Ubiquitous Computing Research (913 citations)
  • Coding, analysis, interpretation, and recognition of facial expressions (853 citations)

What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?

Irfan Essa mainly investigates Artificial intelligence, Computer vision, Pattern recognition, Machine learning and Segmentation. His Artificial intelligence research is multidisciplinary, incorporating elements of Speech recognition and Natural language processing. His Computer vision research is multidisciplinary, relying on both Facial expression and Computer graphics.

His study in Animation, Computer animation, Rendering and Image-based modeling and rendering falls under the purview of Computer graphics. His Computer animation research is mostly focused on the topic Computer facial animation. His Pattern recognition research incorporates elements of Contextual image classification and Pixel.

He most often published in these fields:

  • Artificial intelligence (69.44%)
  • Computer vision (36.11%)
  • Pattern recognition (17.06%)

What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2017-2021)?

  • Artificial intelligence (69.44%)
  • Machine learning (13.49%)
  • Task (5.16%)

In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:

Irfan Essa focuses on Artificial intelligence, Machine learning, Task, Activity recognition and Robot. His Artificial intelligence research incorporates themes from Computer vision and Pattern recognition. Irfan Essa has included themes like Frame and Semantic mapping in his Computer vision study.

His Machine learning study combines topics in areas such as Adversarial system, Generative grammar and Discriminator. His work in Activity recognition addresses issues such as Unsupervised learning, which are connected to fields such as Frame, High-motion, Transfer of learning, Spatial contextual awareness and Context. His work carried out in the field of Robot brings together such families of science as Assisted GPS and Reinforcement learning.

Between 2017 and 2021, his most popular works were:

  • DD-PPO: Learning Near-Perfect PointGoal Navigators from 2.5 Billion Frames (57 citations)
  • End-to-end Audio Visual Scene-aware Dialog Using Multimodal Attention-based Video Features (48 citations)
  • Automated surgical skill assessment in RMIS training. (43 citations)

In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • Artificial intelligence
  • Computer vision
  • Machine learning

Artificial intelligence, Dialog box, Task, Human–computer interaction and Audio visual are his primary areas of study. His work deals with themes such as Context, Machine learning and Computer vision, which intersect with Artificial intelligence. Irfan Essa has included themes like Adversarial system and Discriminator in his Machine learning study.

His Motion analysis and Discrete cosine transform study in the realm of Computer vision connects with subjects such as Knot tying and Predictability. In his study, Point cloud, Embodied cognition, Deep learning, Feature extraction and The Internet is inextricably linked to Question answering, which falls within the broad field of Human–computer interaction. His Audio visual research is multidisciplinary, incorporating elements of Benchmark and Natural language processing.

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Best Publications

Graphcut textures: image and video synthesis using graph cuts

Vivek Kwatra;Arno Schödl;Irfan Essa;Greg Turk.
international conference on computer graphics and interactive techniques (2003)

2051 Citations

The Aware Home: A Living Laboratory for Ubiquitous Computing Research

Cory D. Kidd;Robert Orr;Gregory D. Abowd;Christopher G. Atkeson.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (1999)

1593 Citations

Coding, analysis, interpretation, and recognition of facial expressions

I.A. Essa;A.P. Pentland.
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (1997)

1347 Citations

Efficient hierarchical graph-based video segmentation

Matthias Grundmann;Vivek Kwatra;Mei Han;Irfan Essa.
computer vision and pattern recognition (2010)

929 Citations

Texture optimization for example-based synthesis

Vivek Kwatra;Irfan Essa;Aaron Bobick;Nipun Kwatra.
international conference on computer graphics and interactive techniques (2005)

838 Citations

Video textures

Arno Schödl;Richard Szeliski;David H. Salesin;Irfan Essa.
international conference on computer graphics and interactive techniques (2000)

811 Citations

Exploiting human actions and object context for recognition tasks

D.J. Moore;I.A. Essa;M.H. Hayes.
international conference on computer vision (1999)

422 Citations

Facial expression recognition using a dynamic model and motion energy

I.A. Essa;A.P. Pentland.
international conference on computer vision (1995)

412 Citations

Auto-directed video stabilization with robust L1 optimal camera paths

Matthias Grundmann;Vivek Kwatra;Irfan Essa.
computer vision and pattern recognition (2011)

407 Citations

Image and video based painterly animation

James Hays;Irfan Essa.
non-photorealistic animation and rendering (2004)

357 Citations

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