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D-Index
42
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13453
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8169
National Ranking
400

Thomas Sikora 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 Thomas Sikora sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 364 publications — 83rd percentile

83% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Thomas Sikora 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 Thomas Sikora sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 131+

This scientist: 42 D-Index — 43rd percentile

43% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 131 D-Index or more.

Overview

Thomas Sikora is affiliated with the Technical University of Berlin in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on computer science, with a specialization in computer vision and pattern recognition. Additional areas of study include computational mechanics, control and systems engineering, social psychology, and atomic and molecular physics and optics.

Their work covers various topics within image processing and analysis. Key themes include:

  • Image and signal denoising methods
  • Sparse and compressive sensing techniques
  • Medical image segmentation techniques
  • Advanced image processing techniques
  • Advanced data compression techniques
  • Generative adversarial networks and image synthesis
  • Human motion and animation

Recent publications by Thomas Sikora demonstrate a focus on image modeling, compression, and representation. Notable papers include:

  • Steered Mixture-of-Experts Autoencoder Design for Real-Time Image Modelling and Denoising (2023), published in arXiv (Cornell University)
  • The virtual balance. An input device for VR environments (2022), published in Fraunhofer-Publica (Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft)
  • Sparse Video Representation Using Steered Mixture-of-Experts With Global Motion Compensation (2022), published in arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Accelerated Deep Lossless Image Coding with Unified Paralleleized GPU Coding Architecture (2022), published in arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Edge-Aware Autoencoder Design for Real-Time Mixture-of-Experts Image Compression (2022), published in arXiv (Cornell University)

Thomas Sikora frequently publishes in venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), Fraunhofer-Publica (Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft), SSRN Electronic Journal, Journal of Electronic Imaging, and IEEE Transactions on Multimedia.

The researcher collaborates regularly with several co-authors. Frequent collaborators include:

  • Yi-Hsin Li
  • Sebastian Knorr
  • Mårten Sjöström
  • Erik Bochinski
  • Elvira Fleig

Best Publications

  • Introduction to MPEG-7: Multimedia Content Description Interface

    Phillipe Salembier;Thomas Sikora;B.S. Manjunath

  • The MPEG-4 video standard verification model

    T. Sikora

  • The MPEG-7 visual standard for content description-an overview

    T. Sikora

  • Overview of the MPEG-7 standard

    Shih-Fu Chang;T. Sikora;A. Purl

  • High-Speed tracking-by-detection without using image information

    Erik Bochinski;Volker Eiselein;Thomas Sikora

  • MPEG digital video-coding standards

    T. Sikora

  • MPEG-7 Audio and Beyond: Audio Content Indexing and Retrieval

    Hyoung-Gook Kim;Nicolas Moreau;Thomas Sikora

  • Shape-adaptive DCT for generic coding of video

    T. Sikora;B. Makai

  • Trends and Perspectives in Image and Video Coding

    T. Sikora

  • 3D Videocommunication: Algorithms, concepts and real-time systems in human centred communication

    Oliver Schreer;Peter Kauff;Thomas Sikora

  • Long-term global motion estimation and its application for sprite coding, content description, and segmentation

    A. Smolic;T. Sikora;J.-R. Ohm

  • Image sequence analysis for emerging interactive multimedia services-the European COST 211 framework

    A.A. Alatan;L. Onural;M. Wollborn;R. Mech

  • Digital video coding standards and their role in video communications

    R. Schafer;T. Sikora

  • Extending IOU Based Multi-Object Tracking by Visual Information

    Erik Bochinski;Tobias Senst;Thomas Sikora

  • Low complexity shape-adaptive DCT for coding of arbitrarily shaped image segments

    Thomas Sikora

  • Hyper-parameter optimization for convolutional neural network committees based on evolutionary algorithms

    Erik Bochinski;Tobias Senst;Thomas Sikora

  • Audio classification based on MPEG-7 spectral basis representations

    Hyoung-Gook Kim;N. Moreau;T. Sikora

  • Robust Local Optical Flow for Feature Tracking

    T. Senst;V. Eiselein;T. Sikora

  • UA-DETRAC 2017: Report of AVSS2017 & IWT4S Challenge on Advanced Traffic Monitoring

    Siwei Lyu;Ming-Ching Chang;Dawei Du;Longyin Wen

  • AN ASSESSMENT OF 3DTV TECHNOLOGIES

    Levent Onural;Aljoscha Smolic;Thomas Sikora;M. Reha

  • IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS FOR VIDEO TECHNOLOGY Editor-in-Chief

    Chang Wen Chen;Hamid Gharavi;Thomas Sikora;Ishfaq Ahmad

Frequent Co-Authors

Mrinal Mandal
Mrinal Mandal University of Alberta
Ebroul Izquierdo
Ebroul Izquierdo Queen Mary University of London
Pascal Frossard
Pascal Frossard École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Touradj Ebrahimi
Touradj Ebrahimi École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Jörn Ostermann
Jörn Ostermann University of Hannover
Holger Theisel
Holger Theisel Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg
Kannan Ramchandran
Kannan Ramchandran University of California, Berkeley
Homer H. Chen
Homer H. Chen National Taiwan University
Dawei Du
Dawei Du ByteDance

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