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Yair Weiss 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 Yair Weiss sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 126 publications — 17th percentile

17% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Yair Weiss 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 Yair Weiss sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 67 D-Index — 85th percentile

85% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Yair Weiss is affiliated with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel. Their research primarily spans the field of Computer Science, with a strong focus on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition as well as Artificial Intelligence.

The scientist has contributed to multiple subfields including Management Science and Operations Research, General Decision Sciences, and Biophysics. Their work covers a range of specialized topics such as Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning, Advanced Image Processing Techniques, Generative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis, Advanced Neural Network Applications, Anomaly Detection Techniques and Applications, Digital Media Forensic Detection, and Bayesian Modeling and Causal Inference.

Yair Weiss has published extensively with over twenty-six publications in Computer Science, and specifically sixteen in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Their most frequent publication venues include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • American Economic Review Insights
  • International Journal of Computer Vision
  • Annual Review of Vision Science
  • Frontiers for Young Minds

Among recent publications are the following papers:

  • "Special Issue: Advances in Architectures and Theories for Computer Vision," 2020, International Journal of Computer Vision
  • "A Bayes-Optimal View on Adversarial Examples," 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "Cheating with Models," 2021, American Economic Review Insights
  • "Posterior Sampling for Image Restoration using Explicit Patch Priors," 2021, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "Generating natural images with direct Patch Distributions Matching," 2022, arXiv (Cornell University)

Yair Weiss frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including:

  • Roy Friedman
  • Ariel Elnekave
  • Ofir Shifman
  • Eitan Richardson
  • Daniella Har-Shalom

Best Publications

  • On Spectral Clustering: Analysis and an algorithm

    Andrew Y. Ng;Michael I. Jordan;Yair Weiss

  • Spectral Hashing

    Yair Weiss;Antonio Torralba;Rob Fergus

  • A Closed-Form Solution to Natural Image Matting

    A. Levin;D. Lischinski;Y. Weiss

  • Colorization using optimization

    Anat Levin;Dani Lischinski;Yair Weiss

  • Understanding belief propagation and its generalizations

    Jonathan S. Yedidia;William T. Freeman;Yair Weiss

  • Constructing free-energy approximations and generalized belief propagation algorithms

    J.S. Yedidia;W.T. Freeman;Y. Weiss

  • Loopy belief propagation for approximate inference: an empirical study

    Kevin P. Murphy;Yair Weiss;Michael I. Jordan

  • A Closed Form Solution to Natural Image Matting

    A. Levin;D. Lischinski;Y. Weiss

  • From learning models of natural image patches to whole image restoration

    Daniel Zoran;Yair Weiss

  • Understanding and evaluating blind deconvolution algorithms

    Anat Levin;Yair Weiss;Fredo Durand;William T Freeman

  • Generalized Belief Propagation

    Jonathan S Yedidia;William T. Freeman;Yair Weiss

  • Motion illusions as optimal percepts

    Yair Weiss;Eero P. Simoncelli;Edward H. Adelson

  • Segmentation using eigenvectors: a unifying view

    Y. Weiss

  • Small codes and large image databases for recognition

    A. Torralba;R. Fergus;Y. Weiss

  • On the optimality of solutions of the max-product belief-propagation algorithm in arbitrary graphs

    Y. Weiss;W.T. Freeman

  • Deriving intrinsic images from image sequences

    Y. Weiss

  • Efficient marginal likelihood optimization in blind deconvolution

    Anat Levin;Yair Weiss;Fredo Durand;William T. Freeman

  • Seamless Image Stitching in the Gradient Domain

    Anat Levin;Assaf Zomet;Shmuel Peleg;Yair Weiss

  • Correctness of Local Probability Propagation in Graphical Models with Loops

    Yair Weiss

  • Correctness of Belief Propagation in Gaussian Graphical Models of Arbitrary Topology

    Yair Weiss;William T. Freeman

Frequent Co-Authors

Anat Levin
Anat Levin Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Amir Globerson
Amir Globerson Tel Aviv University
Michael I. Jordan
Michael I. Jordan University of California, Berkeley
Rob Fergus
Rob Fergus New York University
Shimon Edelman
Shimon Edelman Cornell University
Dani Lischinski
Dani Lischinski Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Jonathan S. Yedidia
Jonathan S. Yedidia Walt Disney (United States)

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