2026 Jean-Michel Morel: Engineering and Technology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Engineering and Technology	71	941	890	176	175	427	45231

Overview

Jean-Michel Morel is affiliated with City University of Hong Kong in China. Their research focuses predominantly on computer science and engineering, with key expertise in computer vision and pattern recognition, artificial intelligence, media technology, aerospace engineering, and modeling and simulation.

The scientist's work spans several main topics, including:

Advanced Image Processing Techniques
Image and Signal Denoising Methods
Image Processing Techniques and Applications
Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques
COVID-19 epidemiological studies
Digital Media Forensic Detection
Advanced Vision and Imaging

They have contributed to numerous papers, including:

"Global Tracking and Quantification of Oil and Gas Methane Emissions from Recurrent Sentinel-2 Imagery", 2022, Environmental Science & Technology
"Clinical Evidence of the Benefits of Phytonutrients in Human Healthcare", 2022, Nutrients
"Global Tracking and Quantification of Oil and Gas Methane Emissions from Recurrent Sentinel-2 Imagery", 2021, arXiv (Cornell University)
"Computing the daily reproduction number of COVID-19 by inverting the renewal equation using a variational technique", 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
"Fast, Nonlocal and Neural: A Lightweight High Quality Solution to Image Denoising", 2021, IEEE Signal Processing Letters

Frequent coauthors include:

Gabriele Facciolo
Rafael Grompone von Gioi
Thibaud Ehret
Miguel Colom
Carlo de Franchis

Morel has published extensively in key venues such as:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Image Processing On Line
ISPRS annals of the photogrammetry, remote sensing and spatial information sciences
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision

They also have contributions in book publications, including a title published by Presses Universitaires De France called La Phyto-aromathérapie in 2020.

Best Publications

A non-local algorithm for image denoising

A. Buades;B. Coll;J.-M. Morel

9099
Citations
A Review of Image Denoising Algorithms, with a New One

Antoni Buades;Bartomeu Coll;Jean-Michel Morel

5827
Citations
Image selective smoothing and edge detection by nonlinear diffusion. II

Luis Alvarez;Pierre-Louis Lions;Jean-Michel Morel

2598
Citations
LSD: A Fast Line Segment Detector with a False Detection Control

R.G. von Gioi;J. Jakubowicz;J.-M. Morel;G. Randall

2243
Citations
ASIFT: A New Framework for Fully Affine Invariant Image Comparison

Jean-Michel Morel;Guoshen Yu

2041
Citations
Axioms and fundamental equations of image processing

Luis Alvarez;Frédéric Guichard;Pierre Louis Lions;Jean Michel Morel

1462
Citations
Image Selective Smoothing and Edge Detection by Nonlinear Diffusion

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1423
Citations
Non-Local Means Denoising

Antoni Buades;Bartomeu Coll;Jean-Michel Morel

1108
Citations
Variational Methods in Image Segmentation: with seven image processing experiments

Jean-Michel Morel;Sergio Solimini

1072
Citations
Nonlocal Image and Movie Denoising

Antoni Buades;Bartomeu Coll;Jean-Michel Morel

1018
Citations
LSD: a Line Segment Detector

Rafael Grompone von Gioi;Jérémie Jakubowicz;Jean-Michel Morel;Gregory Randall

945
Citations
Variational methods in image segmentation

Jean Michel Morel;Sergio Solimini

878
Citations
Level lines based disocclusion

S. Masnou;J.-M. Morel

800
Citations
Image Denoising Methods. A New Nonlocal Principle

A. Buades;B. Coll;J. M. Morel

618
Citations
From Gestalt Theory to Image Analysis: A Probabilistic Approach

Agns Desolneux;Lionel Moisan;Jean-Michel Morel

611
Citations
An axiomatic approach to image interpolation

V. Caselles;J.-M. Morel;C. Sbert

473
Citations
ASIFT: An Algorithm for Fully Affine Invariant Comparison

Guoshen Yu;Jean-Michel Morel

444
Citations
On image denoising methods

Antoni Buades;Bartomeu Coll;Jean Michel Morel

379
Citations
A Nonlocal Bayesian Image Denoising Algorithm

Marc Lebrun;Antoni Buades;Jean-Michel Morel

378
Citations
A multiscale algorithm for image segmentation by variational method

G. Koepfler;C. Lopez;J. M. Morel

336
Citations
The staircasing effect in neighborhood filters and its solution

A. Buades;B. Coll;J.-M. Morel

329
Citations
Edge Detection by Helmholtz Principle

Agnès Desolneux;Lionel Moisan;Jean-Michel Morel

292
Citations
A variational method in image segmentation: Existence and approximation results

Gianni Dal Maso;Jean-Michel Morel;Sergio Solimini

257
Citations
Fast Cartoon + Texture Image Filters

Antoni Buades;Triet M Le;Jean-Michel Morel;Luminita A Vese

255
Citations
Shape preserving local histogram modification

V. Caselles;J.-L. Lisani;J.-M. Morel;G. Sapiro

247
Citations
Neighborhood filters and PDE’s

Antoni Buades;Bartomeu Coll;Jean-Michel Morel

244
Citations
Connected components of sets of finite perimeter and applications to image processing

Luigi Ambrosio;Vicent Caselles;Simon Masnou;Jean-Michel Morel

241
Citations
A PDE Formalization of Retinex Theory

Jean Michel Morel;Ana Belén Petro;Catalina Sbert

233
Citations
Topographic Maps and Local Contrast Changes in Natural Images

Vicent Caselles;Bartomeu Coll;Jean-Michel Morel

231
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Kaushik De The University of Texas at Arlington

B. Gibbard Brookhaven National Laboratory

Hermann Kolanoski Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY

J. T. Linnemann Michigan State University

External Links

Personal website of Jean-Michel Morel Google Scholar page

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