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John Canny 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 John Canny sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 319 publications — 77th percentile

77% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

John Canny 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 John Canny sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 89 D-Index — 96th percentile

96% 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

  • 2020 - ACM Fellow For contributions in robotics, machine perception, human-computer interaction, and ubiquitous computing

Overview

John Canny is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research spans primarily the field of Computer Science, with a focus on several subfields including Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Artificial Intelligence, Human-Computer Interaction, Surgery, and Molecular Biology.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Multimodal Machine Learning Applications
  • Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning
  • Video Analysis and Summarization
  • Topic Modeling
  • Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques
  • Reinforcement Learning in Robotics
  • Natural Language Processing Techniques

John Canny has contributed to a range of recent publications, with sample papers including:

  • "MSA Transformer" published in 2021 in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • "Predictive Information Accelerates Learning in RL" published in 2020 in arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "Toward explainable and advisable model for self-driving cars" published in 2021 in Applied AI Letters
  • "Conversational Physical Activity Coaches for Spanish and English Speaking Women: A User Design Study" published in 2021 in Frontiers in Digital Health
  • "Towards Understanding How Machines Can Learn Causal Overhypotheses" published in 2022 in arXiv (Cornell University)

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • David M. Chan
  • Sudheendra Vijayanarasimhan
  • Austin Myers
  • Forrest Huang

John Canny has published extensively in venues such as:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • 2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW)
  • British Journal of Surgery
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Applied AI Letters

In addition to journal and conference publications, John Canny has authored a book titled Artificial Intelligence for Human Computer Interaction: A Modern Approach, published in 2021 by Springer Nature.

John Canny's contributions have been recognized with the award of ACM Fellow in 2020, for work spanning robotics, machine perception, human-computer interaction, and ubiquitous computing.

Best Publications

  • A Computational Approach to Edge Detection

    John Canny

  • The complexity of robot motion planning

    John F. Canny

  • Finding Edges and Lines in Images

    John Canny

  • Collaborative filtering with privacy

    J. Canny

  • Some algebraic and geometric computations in PSPACE

    John Canny

  • New lower bound techniques for robot motion planning problems

    John Canny;John Reif

  • A fast algorithm for incremental distance calculation

    M.C. Lin;J.F. Canny

  • Collaborative filtering with privacy via factor analysis

    John Canny

  • Evaluating Protein Transfer Learning with TAPE

    Roshan Rao;Nicholas Bhattacharya;Neil Thomas;Yan Duan

  • Kinodynamic motion planning

    Bruce Donald;Patrick Xavier;John Canny;John Reif

  • Impulse-based simulation of rigid bodies

    Brian Mirtich;John Canny

  • Collision Detection for Moving Polyhedra

    John Canny

  • Motion of two rigid bodies with rolling constraint

    Z. Li;J. Canny

  • Efficient inverse kinematics for general 6R manipulators

    D. Manocha;J.F. Canny

  • Efficient collision detection for animation and robotics

    Ming Chieh Lin;John F. Canny

  • Interpretable Learning for Self-Driving Cars by Visualizing Causal Attention

    Jinkyu Kim;John Canny

  • Evaluating Protein Transfer Learning with TAPE.

    Roshan Rao;Nicholas Bhattacharya;Neil Thomas;Yan Duan

  • Efficiently computing and representing aspect graphs of polyhedral objects

    Z. Gigus;J. Canny;R. Seidel

  • MSA Transformer

    Roshan Rao;Jason Liu;Robert Verkuil;Joshua Meier

  • An opportunistic global path planner

    John F. Canny;Ming C. Lin

  • Planning smooth paths for mobile robots

    P. Jacobs;J. Canny

Frequent Co-Authors

Dinesh Manocha
Dinesh Manocha University of Maryland, College Park
Ken Goldberg
Ken Goldberg University of California, Berkeley
Ioannis Z. Emiris
Ioannis Z. Emiris National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Ming C. Lin
Ming C. Lin University of Maryland, College Park
Eric Paulos
Eric Paulos University of California, Berkeley
Bruce R. Donald
Bruce R. Donald Duke University
Zexiang Li
Zexiang Li Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
John H. Reif
John H. Reif Duke University
Raimund Seidel
Raimund Seidel Saarland University
Anna Rohrbach
Anna Rohrbach Technical University of Darmstadt

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