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Bryan Plummer

Visual Recognition Scene Understanding Interpretable Machine Learning Vision And Language
Boston University Computer Science

About

Bryan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Boston University, where he also previously worked as a Postdoctoral Associate and Research Assistant Professor, and is a member of the IVC Group. He obtained his PhD in the computer vision group at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Bryan’s research interests fall within the umbrella of artificial intelligence with a focus visual recognition, scene understanding, interpretable machine learning, and understanding the relationship between vision and language.

Research Performance Summary

102
Total Papers
7646
Total Citations
34
H-Index
2014-2026
Active Research Span

First Recorded Paper

Real-time driver observation and scoring for driver's education

Year: 2014

Citations: 386

Venue: US Patent 8,876

Latest Recorded Paper

Breaking the Assistant Mold: Modeling Behavioral Variation in LLM Based Procedural Character Generation

Year: 2026

Citations: 0

Venue: arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.03396

Last 10 Years Publication Activity

This timeline shows the professor's yearly publication activity.

2026
2
2025
14
2024
23
2023
12
2022
8
2021
10
2020
7
2019
7
2018
5
2017
5
2016
4

Publication Venues and Collaboration

Journal, Conference, and Book Publication Breakdown

Conference 40
Journal 3
Book 1

Top Coauthors

Plummer Saenko

Research Impact by Period

2025-2026

Period Stats
Papers 16
Citations 48
Avg. Citations / Paper 3
H-Index 3

2020-2024

Period Stats
Papers 60
Citations 1838
Avg. Citations / Paper 30.6
H-Index 24

2015-2019

Period Stats
Papers 23
Citations 5058
Avg. Citations / Paper 219.9
H-Index 15

2010-2014

Period Stats
Papers 3
Citations 702
Avg. Citations / Paper 234
H-Index 3

Contact and Professional Links

Contact Information

bplum@bu.edu

Detected Research Keywords

Real Time Driver Systems Methods Assessing Time Driver Observation Assessing Property Damage Vision Language Navigation Methods Assessing Roof Representations Vision Language Vision Language Tasks Neural Parameter Allocation Parameter Allocation Search