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Switzerland
2025

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Computer Science

D-Index
56
Citations
23633
World Ranking
3956
National Ranking
88

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Switzerland Leader Award

Overview

Thomas Vetter is affiliated with the University of Basel in Switzerland and has contributed extensively to research across engineering, materials science, and computer science. Their work spans multiple specialized subfields, including materials chemistry, computer vision and pattern recognition, biomedical engineering, computational mechanics, and spectroscopy.

Vetter's research topics prominently feature crystallization and solubility studies, face recognition and analysis, 3D shape modeling and analysis, analytical chemistry and chromatography, innovative microfluidic and catalytic techniques innovation, medical image segmentation techniques, and face recognition and perception.

Frequent publication venues for Vetter include:

  • Crystal Growth & Design
  • Chemical Engineering Science
  • Powder Technology
  • Organic Process Research & Development
  • arXiv (Cornell University)

Recent publications by Thomas Vetter include:

  • Explaining face representation in the primate brain using different computational models, 2021, Current Biology
  • A mechanistic model to predict droplet drying history and particle shell formation in multicomponent systems, 2020, Chemical Engineering Science
  • Exploiting the Surface Properties of Graphene for Polymorph Selectivity, 2020, ACS Nano
  • A novel image analysis technique for 2D characterization of overlapping needle-like crystals, 2021, Powder Technology
  • Predicting filtration of needle-like crystals: A Monte Carlo simulation study of polydisperse packings of spherocylinders, 2020, Chemical Engineering Science

Among frequent coauthors are Aurora J. Cruz-Cabeza, Andreas Morel-Forster, Bernhard Egger, Petros Neoptolemou, and Giovanni Aprile, reflecting collaboration across interdisciplinary research projects.

Best Publications

  • A morphable model for the synthesis of 3D faces

    Volker Blanz;Thomas Vetter

  • Face recognition based on fitting a 3D morphable model

    V. Blanz;T. Vetter

  • A 3D Face Model for Pose and Illumination Invariant Face Recognition

    Pascal Paysan;Reinhard Knothe;Brian Amberg;Sami Romdhani

  • Prototype-referenced shape encoding revealed by high-level aftereffects

    David A. Leopold;Alice J. O'Toole;Thomas Vetter;Volker Blanz

  • Optimal Step Nonrigid ICP Algorithms for Surface Registration

    B. Amberg;S. Romdhani;T. Vetter

  • Linear object classes and image synthesis from a single example image

    T. Vetter;T. Poggio

  • Reanimating Faces in Images and Video

    Volker Blanz;Curzio Basso;Tomaso A. Poggio;Thomas Vetter

  • Face identification across different poses and illuminations with a 3D morphable model

    V. Blanz;S. Romdhani;T. Vetter

  • Face Identification by Fitting a 3D Morphable Model Using Linear Shape and Texture Error Functions

    Sami Romdhani;Volker Blanz;Thomas Vetter

  • Comparison of View-Based Object Recognition Algorithms Using Realistic 3D Models

    Volker Blanz;Volker Blanz;Bernhard Schölkopf;Bernhard Schölkopf;Heinrich H. Bülthoff;Chris Burges

  • Estimating 3D shape and texture using pixel intensity, edges, specular highlights, texture constraints and a prior

    S. Romdhani;T. Vetter

  • 3D Morphable Face Models—Past, Present, and Future

    Bernhard Egger;William A. P. Smith;Ayush Tewari;Stefanie Wuhrer

  • Face recognition based on frontal views generated from non-frontal images

    V. Blanz;P. Grother;P.J. Phillips;T. Vetter

  • Exchanging Faces in Images

    Volker Blanz;Kristina Scherbaum;Thomas Vetter;Hans-Peter Seidel

  • Recognition and Structure from one 2D Model View: Observations on Prototypes, Object Classes and Symmetries

    Tomaso Poggio;Thomas Vetter

  • Expression invariant 3D face recognition with a Morphable Model

    B. Amberg;R. Knothe;T. Vetter

  • Synthesis of Novel Views from a Single Face Image

    Thomas Vetter

  • A statistical method for robust 3D surface reconstruction from sparse data

    V. Blanz;A. Mehl;T. Vetter;H.-P. Seidel

  • Morphable Face Models - An Open Framework

    Thomas Gerig;Andreas Morel-Forster;Clemens Blumer;Bernhard Egger

  • Method and apparatus for the processing of images

    Volker Blanz;Thomas Vetter

  • Morphable Face Models - An Open Framework

    Thomas Gerig;Andreas Morel-Forster;Clemens Blumer;Bernhard Egger

  • Comparison of view { based object recognition algorithms using realistic 3D models

    V Blanz;B Scholkopf;H Bultho;C Burges

Frequent Co-Authors

Volker Blanz
Volker Blanz University of Siegen
Alice J. O'Toole
Alice J. O'Toole The University of Texas at Dallas
Heinrich H. Bülthoff
Heinrich H. Bülthoff Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics
Nikolaus F. Troje
Nikolaus F. Troje York University
Sabine Sczesny
Sabine Sczesny University of Bern
Peter Fromherz
Peter Fromherz Max Planck Society
Fiona N. Newell
Fiona N. Newell Trinity College Dublin
Volker Roth
Volker Roth University of Basel
Doris Y. Tsao
Doris Y. Tsao University of California, Berkeley

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