Topic · Human Motion and Animation
Most cited papers in Human Motion and Animation
What are the most cited papers in Human Motion and Animation?
The most cited paper in Human Motion and Animation is "Minimum snap trajectory generation and control for quadrotors" (Daniel Mellinger, Vijay Kumar, 2011), with 2,396 citations. Next come "Simulated Annealing" (2,377) and "SCAPE" (1,575).
Showing 50 of 98 papers. Every paper with more than 422 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Minimum snap trajectory generation and control for quadrotors Daniel Mellinger, Vijay Kumar | May 2011 | 2,396 |
| 2 | Simulated Annealing Kathryn A. Dowsland, Jonathan M. Thompson | 2012 | 2,377 |
| 3 | SCAPE Dragomir Anguelov, Praveen Srinivasan, Daphne Koller et al. · ACM Transactions on Graphics | Jul 2005 | 1,575 |
| 4 | Synthesis and evaluation of linear motion transitions Jing Wang, Bobby Bodenheimer · ACM Transactions on Graphics | Mar 2008 | 1,540 |
| 5 | “Put-that-there” Richard Arthur Bolt | 1980 | 1,449 |
| 6 | Generalizing motion edits with Gaussian processes Leslie Ikemoto, Okan Arıkan, David Alexander Forsyth · ACM Transactions on Graphics | 2009 | 1,220 |
| 7 | Crowds by Example Alon Lerner, Yiorgos Chrysanthou, Dani Lischinski · Computer Graphics Forum | Sep 2007 | 1,196 |
| 8 | VNect Dushyant Mehta, Srinath Sridhar, Oleksandr Sotnychenko et al. · ACM Transactions on Graphics | 20 Jul 2017 | 1,192 |
| 9 | Embodied hands Javier Romero, Dimitrios Tzionas, Michael J. Black · ACM Transactions on Graphics | 20 Nov 2017 | 1,086 |
| 10 | Deformation transfer for triangle meshes Robert W. Sumner, Jovan Popović · ACM Transactions on Graphics | Aug 2004 | 1,077 |
| 11 | Motion graphs Lucas Kovar, Michael Gleicher, Frédéric Pighin | 11 Aug 2008 | 1,072 |
| 12 | Computing geodesic paths on manifolds Ron Kimmel, James A. Sethian · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 21 Jul 1998 | 1,064 |
| 13 | Decomposing biological motion: A framework for analysis and synthesis of human gait patterns Nikolaus F. Troje · Journal of Vision | 10 Sep 2002 | 1,037 |
| 14 | Walking > walking-in-place > flying, in virtual environments Martin Usoh, Kevin Arthur, Mary C. Whitton et al. | 1999 | 921 |
| 15 | Recurrent Network Models for Human Dynamics Katerina Fragkiadaki, Sergey Levine, Panna Felsen et al. | Dec 2015 | 912 |
| 16 | STOMP: Stochastic trajectory optimization for motion planning Mrinal Kalakrishnan, Sachin Chitta, Evangelos A. Theodorou et al. | May 2011 | 907 |
| 17 | Continuum crowds Adrien Treuille, Seth Cooper, Zoran Popović · ACM Transactions on Graphics | Jul 2006 | 882 |
| 18 | Data-Driven Grasp Synthesis—A Survey Jeannette Bohg, Antonio Morales, Tamim Asfour et al. · IEEE Transactions on Robotics | 31 Jan 2014 | 878 |
| 19 | Interactive control of avatars animated with human motion data Jehee Lee, Jinxiang Chai, Paul S. A. Reitsma et al. | Jul 2002 | 869 |
| 20 | Retargetting motion to new characters Michael Gleicher | 1998 | 858 |
| 21 | DeepMimic Xue Bin Peng, Pieter Abbeel, Sergey Levine et al. · ACM Transactions on Graphics | 30 Jul 2018 | 851 |
| 22 | Synthesis and stabilization of complex behaviors through online trajectory optimization Yuval Tassa, Tom Erez, Emanuel Todorov | Oct 2012 | 787 |
| 23 | BSN: Boundary Sensitive Network for Temporal Action Proposal Generation Tianwei Lin, Xu Zhao, Haisheng Su et al. · Lecture notes in computer science | 2018 | 778 |
| 24 | SMPL: A Skinned Multi-Person Linear Model Matthew Loper, Naureen Mahmood, Javier Romero et al. · ACM eBooks | Aug 2023 | 775 |
| 25 | Physically Based Deformable Models in Computer Graphics Andrew Nealen, Matthias Müller, Richard Keiser et al. · Computer Graphics Forum | Dec 2006 | 761 |
| 26 | BEAT Justine Cassell, Hannes Högni Vilhjálmsson, Timothy Bickmore | Aug 2001 | 740 |
| 27 | Verbs and adverbs: multidimensional motion interpolation C Rose, Michael F. Cohen, Bobby Bodenheimer · IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications | 1998 | 733 |
| 28 | A domain-independent framework for modeling emotion Jonathan S. Gratch, Stacy Marsella · Cognitive Systems Research | 15 Apr 2004 | 729 |
| 29 | Modeling Temporal Structure of Decomposable Motion Segments for Activity Classification Juan Carlos Niebles, Chih‐Wei Chen, Li Fei-Fei · Lecture notes in computer science | 2010 | 724 |
| 30 | Spacetime constraints Andrew Witkin, Michael Kass · ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics | Jun 1988 | 718 |
| 31 | Style machines Matthew Brand, Aaron Hertzmann | 2000 | 709 |
| 32 | Cooperative Pathfinding David Lawrence Silver · Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment | Jun 2005 | 693 |
| 33 | Collision Detection and Response for Computer Animation Matthew R. Moore, Jane P. Wilhelms · ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics | Jun 1988 | 682 |
| 34 | The law relating the kinematic and figural aspects of drawing movements Francesco Lacquaniti, Carlo A. Terzuolo, Paolo Viviani · Acta Psychologica | Oct 1983 | 681 |
| 35 | Animating rotation with quaternion curves Ken Shoemake | 1985 | 680 |
| 36 | As-rigid-as-possible shape manipulation Takeo Igarashi, Tomer Moscovich, John F. Hughes · ACM Transactions on Graphics | Jul 2005 | 679 |
| 37 | Rendering synthetic objects into real scenes Paul E. Debevec | 1998 | 670 |
| 38 | Everybody Dance Now Caroline Chan, Shiry Ginosar, Tinghui Zhou et al. | Oct 2019 | 669 |
| 39 | Motion signal processing Armin Bruderlin, Lance R. Williams | 1995 | 666 |
| 40 | Practical animation of liquids Nick Foster, Ronald P. Fedkiw | Aug 2001 | 665 |
| 41 | A deep learning framework for character motion synthesis and editing Daniel Holden, Jun Saito, Taku Komura · ACM Transactions on Graphics | 11 Jul 2016 | 662 |
| 42 | Animating sand as a fluid Yongning Zhu, Robert Bridson · ACM Transactions on Graphics | Jul 2005 | 652 |
| 43 | Improv Ken Perlin, Athomas Goldberg | Aug 1996 | 650 |
| 44 | Style-based inverse kinematics Keith Grochow, Steven Martin, Aaron Hertzmann et al. · ACM Transactions on Graphics | Aug 2004 | 648 |
| 45 | Articulated mesh animation from multi-view silhouettes Daniel Vlasic, Ilya Baran, Wojciech Matusik et al. · ACM Transactions on Graphics | Aug 2008 | 638 |
| 46 | Animating human athletics Jessica K. Hodgins, Wayne L. Wooten, David C. Brogan et al. | 1995 | 630 |
| 47 | Artificial fishes Xiaoyuan Tu, Demetri Terzopoulos | 1994 | 625 |
| 48 | Functional reactive animation Conal M. Elliott, Paul Hudak | Aug 1997 | 624 |
| 49 | Modeling video evolution for action recognition Basura Fernando, Efstratios Gavves, José Oramas et al. | Jun 2015 | 618 |
| 50 | Real-time hand-tracking with a color glove Robert Y. Wang, Jovan Popović · ACM Transactions on Graphics | 27 Jul 2009 | 612 |
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