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Steven W. Zucker

Steven W. Zucker

D-Index & Metrics

Mathematics

D-Index
68
Citations
24487
World Ranking
303
National Ranking
169

Computer Science

D-Index
67
Citations
24583
World Ranking
2153
National Ranking
1080

Steven W. Zucker publication distribution in Mathematics in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Mathematics in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Steven W. Zucker sits on this spectrum.

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42 publications 537+

This scientist: 258 publications — 79th percentile

79% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 537 publications or more.

Steven W. Zucker D-index placement in Mathematics in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Mathematics scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Steven W. Zucker sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 86+

This scientist: 68 D-Index — 92nd percentile

92% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 86 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science
  • 2013 - Fellow of the American Mathematical Society
  • 1988 - IEEE Fellow For contributions in computer vision and image processing

Overview

Steven W. Zucker was affiliated with Yale University in the United States. Their research spanned multiple areas within computer science and neuroscience, with significant contributions to cognitive neuroscience, computer vision and pattern recognition, computational theory and mathematics, artificial intelligence, and geometry and topology.

The scientist's notable recent publications included:

  • From boundaries to bumps: When closed (extremal) contours are critical (2021), Journal of Vision
  • Population encoding of stimulus features along the visual hierarchy (2024), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • IAN: Iterated Adaptive Neighborhoods for Manifold Learning and Dimensionality Estimation (2023), Neural Computation
  • Good continuation in 3D: the neurogeometry of stereo vision (2024), Frontiers in Computer Science
  • Population encoding of stimulus features along the visual hierarchy (2023), bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Frequent co-authors in their work included Luciano Dyballa, Benjamin Kunsberg, Maria Virginia Bolelli, Giovanna Citti, and Alessandro Sarti.

The scientist published frequently in venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), Journal of Vision, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), and Neural Computation.

The main fields of study they addressed were Computer Science and Neuroscience. Their research focused on these subfields:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Computational Theory and Mathematics
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Geometry and Topology

Key topics in their work included:

  • Visual perception and processing mechanisms
  • Topological and Geometric Data Analysis
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Advanced Vision and Imaging
  • Image Retrieval and Classification Techniques
  • Morphological variations and asymmetry
  • Face and Expression Recognition

Steven W. Zucker received several awards during their career. They were named an IEEE Fellow in 1988 for contributions in computer vision and image processing. In 2013, they were elected Fellow of the American Mathematical Society. They were also recognized as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2017 under the Academy of Science.

Best Publications

  • Scene Labeling by Relaxation Operations

    Azriel Rosenfeld;Robert A. Hummel;Steven W. Zucker

  • Geometric diffusions as a tool for harmonic analysis and structure definition of data: Diffusion maps

    R. R. Coifman;S. Lafon;A. B. Lee;M. Maggioni

  • On the Foundations of Relaxation Labeling Processes

    Robert A. Hummel;Steven W. Zucker

  • Shock graphs and shape matching

    K. Siddiqi;A. Shokoufandeh;S.J. Dickenson;S.W. Zucker

  • Toward efficient trajectory planning: the path-velocity decomposition

    K Kant;S W Zucker

  • Region growing: Childhood and adolescence*

    Steven W. Zucker

  • Shapes, shocks, and deformations I: the components of two-dimensional shape and the reaction-diffusion space

    Benjamin B. Kimia;Allen R. Tannenbaum;Steven W. Zucker

  • Local scale control for edge detection and blur estimation

    J.H. Elder;S.W. Zucker

  • Trace inference, curvature consistency, and curve detection

    P. Parent;S.W. Zucker

  • Evaluating the fractal dimension of profiles

    B. Dubuc;J. F. Quiniou;C. Roques-Carmes;C. Tricot

  • Hamilton-Jacobi Skeletons

    Kaleem Siddiqi;Sylvain Bouix;Allen Tannenbaum;Steven W. Zucker

  • Matching hierarchical structures using association graphs

    M. Pelillo;K. Siddiqi;S.W. Zucker

  • Area and length minimizing flows for shape segmentation

    K. Siddiqi;Y.B. Lauziere;A. Tannenbaum;S.W. Zucker

  • Variation of mixed Hodge structure. I

    Joseph Steenbrink;Steven Zucker

  • A Three-Dimensional Edge Operator

    Steven W. Zucker;Robert A. Hummel

  • Endstopped neurons in the visual cortex as a substrate for calculating curvature.

    Allan Dobbins;Steven W. Zucker;Max S. Cynader

  • Finding structure in Co-occurrence matrices for texture analysis

    Steven W. Zucker;Demetri Terzopoulos

  • The Effect of Contour Closure on the Rapid Discrimination of Two-Dimensional Shapes

    James Elder;Steven Zucker

  • Methods for filtering data and filling in missing data using nonlinear inference

    Edo Liberty;Steven Zucker;Yosi Keller;Mauro M. Maggioni

  • L2 Cohomology and Warped Products and Arithmetic Groups.

    Steven Zucker

Frequent Co-Authors

Kaleem Siddiqi
Kaleem Siddiqi McGill University
Allen Tannenbaum
Allen Tannenbaum Stony Brook University
Benjamin B. Kimia
Benjamin B. Kimia Brown University
Ronald R. Coifman
Ronald R. Coifman Yale University
Marcello Pelillo
Marcello Pelillo Ca Foscari University of Venice
Azriel Rosenfeld
Azriel Rosenfeld University of Maryland, College Park
Mauro Maggioni
Mauro Maggioni Johns Hopkins University
Ali Shokoufandeh
Ali Shokoufandeh Drexel University
Sven Dickinson
Sven Dickinson University of Toronto
Michael P. Stryker
Michael P. Stryker University of California, San Francisco

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