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Sven Dickinson

Sven Dickinson

D-Index & Metrics

Computer Science

D-Index
46
Citations
10010
World Ranking
6779
National Ranking
267

Sven Dickinson 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 Sven Dickinson sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 162 publications — 32nd percentile

32% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Sven Dickinson 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 Sven Dickinson sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 131+

This scientist: 46 D-Index — 53rd percentile

53% 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

  • 2018 - Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) For contributions to shape perception, object recognition, perceptual organization, and graph-based methods in computer vision

Overview

Sven Dickinson is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada. Their research primarily focuses on areas within computer science and engineering, with publications also touching on related subfields such as computer vision and pattern recognition, computational mechanics, control and systems engineering, cognitive neuroscience, and computer graphics and computer-aided design.

The scientist's main fields of study include:

  • Computer Science
  • Engineering

Subfields notably covered in their work are:

  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Computational Mechanics
  • Control and Systems Engineering
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design

The research topics addressed in their publications include:

  • 3D Shape Modeling and Analysis
  • Robot Manipulation and Learning
  • Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques
  • Advanced Vision and Imaging
  • Human Pose and Action Recognition
  • Hand Gesture Recognition Systems
  • Image Processing and 3D Reconstruction

Sven Dickinson's recent papers illustrate a range of contributions in these fields. The papers include:

  • "DeepFlux for Skeleton Detection in the Wild" (2021), published in International Journal of Computer Vision
  • "Disentangling Geometric Deformation Spaces in Generative Latent Shape Models" (2023), published in International Journal of Computer Vision
  • "Neural correlates of local parallelism during naturalistic vision" (2022), published in PLoS ONE
  • "Shape-Based Measures Improve Scene Categorization" (2023), published in IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
  • "Grasp'D: Differentiable Contact-rich Grasp Synthesis for Multi-fingered Hands" (2022), published in arXiv (Cornell University)

The scientist frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
  • International Journal of Computer Vision
  • PLoS ONE
  • Journal of Vision

Collaboration is a part of Sven Dickinson's work, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Stavros Tsogkas
  • Allan Jepson
  • Tristan Aumentado-Armstrong
  • Dylan Turpin
  • Animesh Garg

In 2018, Sven Dickinson was recognized as a Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) for contributions to shape perception, object recognition, perceptual organization, and graph-based methods in computer vision.

Best Publications

  • TurboPixels: Fast Superpixels Using Geometric Flows

    A. Levinshtein;A. Stere;K.N. Kutulakos;D.J. Fleet

  • Shock graphs and shape matching

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

  • Skeleton based shape matching and retrieval

    H. Sundar;D. Silver;N. Gagvani;S. Dickinson

  • 3-D shape recovery using distributed aspect matching

    S.J. Dickinson;A.P. Pentland;A. Rosenfeld

  • Retrieving articulated 3-D models using medial surfaces

    Kaleem Siddiqi;Juan Zhang;Diego Macrini;Ali Shokoufandeh

  • From volumes to views: an approach to 3-D object recognition

    Sven J. Dickinson;Alex P. Pentland;Azriel Rosenfeld

  • 3D Object Detection and Viewpoint Estimation with a Deformable 3D Cuboid Model

    Sanja Fidler;Sven Dickinson;Raquel Urtasun

  • Recognize Human Activities from Partially Observed Videos

    Yu Cao;Daniel Barrett;Andrei Barbu;Siddharth Narayanaswamy

  • Indexing using a spectral encoding of topological structure

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

  • Object Recognition as Many-to-Many Feature Matching

    M. Fatih Demirci;Ali Shokoufandeh;Yakov Keselman;Lars Bretzner

  • Recognition by functional parts

    Ehud Rivlin;Sven J. Dickinson;Azriel Rosenfeld

  • 3D object retrieval using many-to-many matching of curve skeletons

    N.D. Cornea;M.F. Demirci;D. Silver;Shokoufandeh

  • Indexing hierarchical structures using graph spectra

    A. Shokoufandeh;D. Macrini;S. Dickinson;K. Siddiqi

  • Active Object Recognition Integrating Attention and Viewpoint Control

    Sven J Dickinson;Henrik I Christensen;John K Tsotsos;Göran Olofsson

  • Video in sentences out

    Andrei Barbu;Alexander Bridge;Zachary Burchill;Dan Coroian

  • Server-Customer Interaction Tracker: Computer Vision-Based System to Estimate Dirt-Loading Cycles

    Ehsan Rezazadeh Azar;Sven Dickinson;Brenda McCabe

  • View-based object recognition using saliency maps

    Ali Shokoufandeh;Ivan Marsic;Sven J. Dickinson

  • Generic model abstraction from examples

    Y. Keselman;S. Dickinson

  • Landmark Selection for Vision-Based Navigation

    P. Sala;R. Sim;A. Shokoufandeh;S. Dickinson

  • Multiscale Symmetric Part Detection and Grouping

    Alex Levinshtein;Cristian Sminchisescu;Sven Dickinson

Frequent Co-Authors

Ali Shokoufandeh
Ali Shokoufandeh Drexel University
Kaleem Siddiqi
Kaleem Siddiqi McGill University
Allan D. Jepson
Allan D. Jepson University of Toronto
Cristian Sminchisescu
Cristian Sminchisescu Google (United States)
Sanja Fidler
Sanja Fidler University of Toronto
John K. Tsotsos
John K. Tsotsos York University
Dimitris N. Metaxas
Dimitris N. Metaxas Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Azriel Rosenfeld
Azriel Rosenfeld University of Maryland, College Park
Bernt Schiele
Bernt Schiele Max Planck Institute for Informatics

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