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William A. P. Smith

William A. P. Smith

D-Index & Metrics

Engineering and Technology

D-Index
40
Citations
6635
World Ranking
7307
National Ranking
455

William A. P. Smith publication distribution in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Engineering and Technology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where William A. P. Smith sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 804+

This scientist: 205 publications — 50th percentile

50% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 804 publications or more.

William A. P. Smith D-index placement in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Engineering and Technology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where William A. P. Smith sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 107+

This scientist: 40 D-Index — 27th percentile

27% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 107 D-Index or more.

Overview

William A. P. Smith is a researcher affiliated with the University of York in the United Kingdom. Their work spans multiple fields related to computer science and engineering, with a primary focus on computer vision and pattern recognition as well as computer graphics and computer-aided design. The research also touches on aerospace engineering, computational mechanics, and biomedical engineering.

The topics of their research cover a broad range of advanced imaging and modeling techniques. Key areas include advanced vision and imaging, computer graphics and visualization techniques, image enhancement techniques, 3D shape modeling and analysis, robotics and sensor-based localization, face recognition and analysis, and generative adversarial networks and image synthesis.

Frequent publication venues for William A. P. Smith include arXiv (Cornell University), IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Physical Review Accelerators and Beams, Measurement, and ACM Transactions on Graphics.

William A. P. Smith has collaborated extensively with several researchers, with notable frequent coauthors including Bernhard Egger, Christian Theobalt, Ye Yu, Dizhong Zhu, and James Gardner.

Selected recent papers illustrate a diverse interest in different scientific domains:

  • "Design, specifications, and first beam measurements of the compact linear accelerator for research and applications front end" (2020), Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
  • "Evaluation of structure-from-motion for analysis of small-scale glacier dynamics" (2020), Measurement
  • "Outdoor inverse rendering from a single image using multiview self-supervision" (2021), IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
  • "3D Morphable Face Models-Past, Present, and Future" (2020), ACM Transactions on Graphics
  • "EgoActive: Integrated Wireless Wearable Sensors for Capturing Infant Egocentric Auditory-Visual Statistics and Autonomic Nervous System Function 'in the Wild'" (2023), Sensors

Best Publications

  • DL_POLY_3: new dimensions in molecular dynamics simulations via massive parallelism

    Ilian T. Todorov;Ilian T. Todorov;William Smith;Kostya Trachenko;Martin T. Dove

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

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

  • A short description of DL_POLY

    William Smith;Ilian Todorov Todorov

  • Inverse Rendering of Faces with a 3D Morphable Model

    O. Aldrian;W. A. P. Smith

  • Living on a high sugar diet: the fate of sucrose ingested by a phloem-feeding insect, the pea aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum.

    D.A Ashford;W.A Smith;A.E Douglas

  • DL_MESO: highly scalable mesoscale simulations

    Michael A. Seaton;Richard L. Anderson;Sebastian Metz;William Smith

  • DL_POLY_3: the CCP5 national UK code for molecular-dynamics simulations.

    I. T. Todorov;W. Smith

  • InverseRenderNet: Learning Single Image Inverse Rendering

    Ye Yu;William A. P. Smith

  • Recovering Facial Shape Using a Statistical Model of Surface Normal Direction

    W.A.P. Smith;E.R. Hancock

  • A 3D Morphable Model of Craniofacial Shape and Texture Variation

    Hang Dai;Nick Pears;William Smith;Christian Duncan

  • 3D morphable face models revisited

    Ankur Patel;William A P Smith

  • Statistical Modeling of Craniofacial Shape and Texture

    Hang Dai;Nicholas Edwin Pears;William Alfred Peter Smith;Christian Duncan

  • Towards a Complete 3D Morphable Model of the Human Head

    Stylianos Ploumpis;Evangelos Ververas;Eimear Oa Sullivan;Stylianos Moschoglou

  • Molecular dynamics using atomic-resolution structure reveal structural fluctuations that may lead to polymerization of human Cu–Zn superoxide dismutase

    Richard W. Strange;Chin W. Yong;William Smith;S. Samar Hasnain

  • Fitting a 3D Morphable Model to Edges: A Comparison Between Hard and Soft Correspondences

    Anil Bas;William A. P. Smith;Timo Bolkart;Stefanie Wuhrer

  • Atomistic simulations of resistance to amorphization by radiation damage

    Kostya Trachenko;Martin T. Dove;Emilio Artacho;Ilian T. Todorov

  • SHAKE, Rattle, and Roll: Efficient Constraint Algorithms for Linked Rigid Bodies

    Timothy R. Forester;William Smith

  • BLUEMOON SIMULATIONS OF BENZENE IN SILICALITE-1 : PREDICTION OF FREE ENERGIES AND DIFFUSION COEFFICIENTS

    Timothy R. Forester;William Smith

  • Linear Depth Estimation from an Uncalibrated, Monocular Polarisation Image

    William Alfred Peter Smith;Ravi Ramamoorthi;Silvia Tozza

  • Combining 3D Morphable Models: A Large Scale Face-And-Head Model

    Stylianos Ploumpis;Haoyang Wang;Nick Pears;William A. P. Smith

Frequent Co-Authors

Edwin R. Hancock
Edwin R. Hancock University of York
Martin T. Dove
Martin T. Dove Sichuan University
Richard C. Wilson
Richard C. Wilson University of York
Christian Theobalt
Christian Theobalt Max Planck Institute for Informatics
Ravi Ramamoorthi
Ravi Ramamoorthi University of California, San Diego
Stefanos Zafeiriou
Stefanos Zafeiriou Imperial College London
Emilio Artacho
Emilio Artacho University of Cambridge
Kevin Kendall
Kevin Kendall Hydrogen United
Timothy J. Andrews
Timothy J. Andrews University of York
John P. Brodholt
John P. Brodholt University College London

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