2026 James Davis: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	45	7011	6807	3073	2957	108	15229

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Computer Science

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Overview

James Davis is an academic researcher affiliated with the University of California, Santa Cruz in the United States. The primary fields of study in Davis's work include Computer Science and Engineering.

The researcher's subfields focus mainly on:

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Oceanography
Computer Science Applications
Earth-Surface Processes

Davis's work covers various main topics, with multiple publications related to:

Coastal and Marine Dynamics
Underwater Acoustics Research
Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing
3D Shape Modeling and Analysis
Face Recognition and Analysis
Teaching and Learning Programming
Advanced Image Processing Techniques

The research output includes contributions to several recent papers such as:

Automated rip current detection with region based convolutional neural networks, 2021, Coastal Engineering
RipViz: Finding Rip Currents by Learning Pathline Behavior, 2023, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
Flow-Based Rip Current Detection and Visualization, 2022, IEEE Access
Enhancing Complex Light Beam Propagation in Turbulent Atmosphere with Active Convolved Illumination, 2024, ACS Photonics
How much does input data type impact final face model accuracy?, 2022, 2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Davis include:

Akila de Silva
Alex Pang
Gregory Dusek
Fahim Hasan Khan
Durdu Ö. Güney

Davis has published multiple works in well-known venues such as:

arXiv (Cornell University)
JMIRx Med
2021 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE)
SSRN Electronic Journal
Coastal Engineering

Best Publications

The digital Michelangelo project: 3D scanning of large statues

Marc Levoy;Kari Pulli;Brian Curless;Szymon Rusinkiewicz

2717
Citations
SCAPE: shape completion and animation of people

Dragomir Anguelov;Praveen Srinivasan;Daphne Koller;Sebastian Thrun

1938
Citations
Spatial-Depth Super Resolution for Range Images

Qingxiong Yang;Ruigang Yang;J. Davis;D. Nister

996
Citations
Copy detection mechanisms for digital documents

Sergey Brin;James Davis;Héctor García-Molina

905
Citations
Filling holes in complex surfaces using volumetric diffusion

J. Davis;S.R. Marschner;M. Garr;M. Levoy

712
Citations
Spacetime stereo: a unifying framework for depth from triangulation

J. Davis;R. Ramamoorthi;S. Rusinkiewicz

560
Citations
Spacetime stereo: a unifying framework for depth from triangulation

J. Davis;D. Nehab;R. Ramamoorthi;S. Rusinkiewicz

555
Citations
Efficiently combining positions and normals for precise 3D geometry

Diego Nehab;Szymon Rusinkiewicz;James Davis;Ravi Ramamoorthi

545
Citations
Mosaics of scenes with moving objects

J. Davis

537
Citations
Detailed Human Shape and Pose from Images

A.O. Balan;L. Sigal;M.J. Black;J.E. Davis

399
Citations
Fusion of time-of-flight depth and stereo for high accuracy depth maps

Jiejie Zhu;Liang Wang;Ruigang Yang;J. Davis

389
Citations
The Correlated Correspondence Algorithm for Unsupervised Registration of Nonrigid Surfaces

Dragomir Anguelov;Praveen Srinivasan;Hoi-cheung Pang;Daphne Koller

304
Citations
LidarBoost: Depth superresolution for ToF 3D shape scanning

Sebastian Schuon;Christian Theobalt;James Davis;Sebastian Thrun

265
Citations
Looking around the corner using transient imaging

Ahmed Kirmani;Tyler Hutchison;James Davis;Ramesh Raskar

233
Citations
A sketching interface for articulated figure animation

James Davis;Maneesh Agrawala;Erika Chuang;Zoran Popović

229
Citations
High-quality scanning using time-of-flight depth superresolution

S. Schuon;C. Theobalt;J. Davis;S. Thrun

212
Citations
Reliability Fusion of Time-of-Flight Depth and Stereo Geometry for High Quality Depth Maps

Jiejie Zhu;Liang Wang;Ruigang Yang;J E Davis

205
Citations
The digital Michelangelo project

M. Levoy;S. Rusinkiewicz;M. Ginzton;J. Ginsberg

202
Citations
Real-time foreground segmentation via range and color imaging

R. Crabb;C. Tracey;A. Puranik;J. Davis

198
Citations
A sketching interface for articulated figure animation

James Davis;Maneesh Agrawala;Erika Chuang;Zoran Popović

194
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Ruigang Yang University of Kentucky

Oliver Wang Adobe Systems (United States)

Szymon Rusinkiewicz Princeton University

Sebastian Thrun Stanford University

Ravi Ramamoorthi University of California, San Diego

Ramesh Raskar MIT

Qingxiong Yang City University of Hong Kong

Marc Levoy Google (United States)

Christian Theobalt Max Planck Institute for Informatics

Daphne Koller insitro Inc.

External Links

Personal website of James Davis Google Scholar page

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