2026 Oliver Bimber: 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	40	9207	8940	81	78	209	7903

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Overview

Oliver Bimber is affiliated with Johannes Kepler University of Linz in Austria. The primary research focus lies within the field of Engineering, with significant outputs in Aerospace Engineering, Media Technology, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Ocean Engineering, and Environmental Engineering.

The research topics explored include:

Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization
Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
Satellite Image Processing and Photogrammetry
Infrared Target Detection Methodologies
Advanced Image Fusion Techniques
UAV Applications and Optimization
Advanced Vision and Imaging

Oliver Bimber has published extensively in various venues. The most frequent publication venues include:

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
arXiv (Cornell University)
Scientific Reports
IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters
Communications Engineering

Among recent papers are:

"An autonomous drone for search and rescue in forests using airborne optical sectioning," 2021, Science Robotics
"Search and rescue with airborne optical sectioning," 2020, Nature Machine Intelligence
"Drone swarm strategy for the detection and tracking of occluded targets in complex environments," 2023, Communications Engineering
"Airborne Optical Sectioning for Nesting Observation," 2020, Scientific Reports
"Combined person classification with airborne optical sectioning," 2022, Scientific Reports

Co-authors most frequently collaborating with Oliver Bimber are:

Indrajit Kurmi
Rakesh John Amala Arokia Nathan
David C. Schedl
Mohamed Youssef
Robert Kerschner

Best Publications

Spatial Augmented Reality: Merging Real and Virtual Worlds

Oliver Bimber;Ramesh Raskar

1588
Citations
Tools for interacting with virtual environments

Dieter Schmalstieg;Oliver Bimber;L. Miguel Encarnacão

279
Citations
Embedded entertainment with smart projectors

O. Bimber;A. Emmerling;T. Klemmer

271
Citations
The virtual showcase

Oliver Bimber;Bernd Fröhlich;Dieter Schmalstieg;L. Miguel Encarnação

264
Citations
Modern approaches to augmented reality

Oliver Bimber;Ramesh Raskar

244
Citations
Video See-Through AR on Consumer Cell-Phones

Mathias Mohring;Christian Lessig;Oliver Bimber

243
Citations
The Virtual Showcase

O. Bimber;B. Frohlich;D. Schmalsteig;L.M. Encarnacao

238
Citations
The visual computing of projector-camera systems

Oliver Bimber;Daisuke Iwai;Gordon Wetzstein;Anselm Grundhöfer

238
Citations
The Visual Computing of Projector-Camera Systems

Oliver Bimber;Daisuke Iwai;Daisuke Iwai;Gordon Wetzstein;Anselm Grundhöfer

234
Citations
Enabling Mobile Phones To Support Large-Scale Museum Guidance

E. Bruns;B. Brombach;T. Zeidler;O. Bimber

222
Citations
Spatial Augmented Reality.

Oliver Bimber

165
Citations
PhoneGuide: museum guidance supported by on-device object recognition on mobile phones

Paul Föckler;Thomas Zeidler;Benjamin Brombach;Erich Bruns

161
Citations
The Extended Virtual Table: An Optical Extension for Table-Like Projection Systems

Oliver Bimber;L. Miguel Encarnação;Pedro Branco

157
Citations
Radiometric Compensation through Inverse Light Transport

Unknown

145
Citations
An autonomous drone for search and rescue in forests using airborne optical sectioning

David C. Schedl;Indrajit Kurmi;Oliver Bimber

142
Citations
Radiometric Compensation through Inverse Light Transport

G. Wetzstein;O. Bimber

133
Citations
Fast and robust CAMShift tracking

David Exner;Erich Bruns;Daniel Kurz;Anselm Grundhofer

130
Citations
Real-Time Adaptive Radiometric Compensation

A. Grundhofer;O. Bimber

119
Citations
The virtual showcase as a new platform for augmented reality digital storytelling

Oliver Bimber;L. Miguel Encarnação;Dieter Schmalstieg

118
Citations
Enabling View-Dependent Stereoscopic Projection in Real Environments

Oliver Bimber;Gordon Wetzstein;Andreas Emmerling;Christian Nitschke

113
Citations
Superimposing dynamic range

Oliver Bimber;Daisuke Iwai

112
Citations
Embedded entertainment with smart projectors

Oliver Bimber;Andreas Emmerling;Thomas Klemmer

58
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Ramesh Raskar MIT

Gordon Wetzstein Stanford University

Dieter Schmalstieg University of Stuttgart

Hendrik P. A. Lensch University of Tübingen

Shahram Izadi Google (United States)

Bahram Javidi University of Connecticut

Hong Hua University of Arizona

Sean Ryan Fanello Google (United States)

External Links

Wikipedia of Oliver Bimber Personal website of Oliver Bimber Google Scholar page

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