OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
ExpressGesture: Expressive gesture generation from speech through database matching	20
Exploring evolution of augmented and virtual reality education space in 2020 through systematic literature review	20
I feel a moving crowd surrounds me: Exploring tactile feedback during immersive walking in a virtual crowd	18
Immersive walking in a virtual crowd: The effects of the density, speed, and direction of a virtual crowd on human movement behavior	15
Building information modeling indoor path planning: A lightweight approach for complex BIM building	14
Exploring neural and peripheral physiological correlates of simulator sickness	13
X‐person asymmetric interaction in virtual and augmented realities	12
Point cloud semantic scene segmentation based on coordinate convolution	11
The realm of metaverse: A survey	11
A simplified force model for mixed traffic simulation	10
AFF‐Dehazing: Attention‐based feature fusion network for low‐light image Dehazing	10
Comparing technologies for conveying emotions through realistic avatars in virtual reality‐based metaverse experiences	9
Virtual reconstruction of the ancient city of Karakorum	9
Enhancing Emotional Experience by Building Emotional Virtual Characters in VR Volleyball Games	9
Automatic text‐to‐gesture rule generation for embodied conversational agents	9
FaceCaps for facial expression recognition	8
Toward understanding embodied human‐virtual character interaction through virtual and tactile hugging	8
UGSC‐GAN: User‐guided sketch colorization with deep convolution generative adversarial networks	7
The use of virtual reality in the training of professionals: with the example of firefighters	7
Embedding 3D models in offline physical environments	7
Eye fixations and electrodermal activity during low‐budget virtual reality embodiment	6
SCANET: Improving multimodal representation and fusion with sparse‐ and cross‐attention for multimodal sentiment analysis	6
Human‐virtual crowd interaction: Towards understanding the effects of crowd avoidance proximity in an immersive virtual environment	5
Interactive multi‐character motion retargeting	5
Disentangling audio content and emotion with adaptive instance normalization for expressive facial animation synthesis	5

PhyCoVIS: A visual analytic tool of physical coordination for cheer and dance training	5
FASTSWARM: A data‐driven framework for real‐time flying insect swarm simulation	5
A review of collision detection for deformable objects	5
An encoder‐decoder based CNN architecture using end to end dehaze and detection network for proper image visualization and detection	5
CEBOW: A Cloud‐Edge‐Browser Online Web3D approach for visualizing large BIM scenes	5
Synthesizing Large‐Scale Fluid Simulations with Surface and Wave Foams via Sharp Wave Pattern and Cloudy Foam	5
Bidirectional temporal feature for 3D human pose and shape estimation from a video	5
Local control editing paradigms for part‐based 3D face morphable models	5
Modeling crowd emotion from emergent event video	4
Resolving hand‐object occlusion for mixed reality with joint deep learning and model optimization	4
Research on occlusion block face recognition based on feature point location	4
Using a social robot for children with autism: A therapist‐robot interactive model	4
Sketch‐based modeling with a differentiable renderer	4
Design and evaluation of postural interactions between users and a listening virtual agent during a simulated job interview	4
SCPA‐Net: Self‐calibrated pyramid aggregation for image dehazing	4
The role of digital interactive technology in cultural heritage learning: Evaluating a mid‐air gesture‐based interactive media of Ruihetu	4
DCR‐Net: Dilated convolutional residual network for fashion image retrieval	4
Human posture tracking with flexible sensors for motion recognition	4
ORCANet: Differentiable multi‐parameter learning for crowd simulation	4
ASFNet: Adaptive multiscale segmentation fusion network for real‐time semantic segmentation	4
OVS‐Net: An effective feature extraction network for optical coherence tomography angiography vessel segmentation	4
Exploring the influencing factors of wall‐following behavior in a virtual reality fire evacuation game	4
A “magic world” for children: Design and development of a serious game to improve spatial ability	4
Real‐time visual and physical cutting of a meshless model deformed on a background grid	4
Tooth instance segmentation based on capturing dependencies and receptive field adjustment in cone beam computed tomography	4
Multiagent evacuation framework for a virtual fire emergency scenario based on generative adversarial imitation learning	3
KeyFrame extraction for human motion capture data via multiple binomial fitting	3
Brushwork master: Chinese ink painting synthesis for animating brushwork process	3
Fusing surveillance videos and three‐dimensional scene: A mixed reality system	3
Path planning for multiple agents in an unknown environment using soft actor critic and curriculum learning	3
Functional narrative animation as visual feedback for interactions in 3D visualization	3
Muscle‐driven virtual human motion generation approach based on deep reinforcement learning	3
Generation of multiagent animation for object transportation using deep reinforcement learning and blend‐trees	3
AeS‐GCN: Attention‐enhanced semantic‐guided graph convolutional networks for skeleton‐based action recognition	3
The uncanny valley of a virtual animal	3
Parallel realistic visualization of particle‐based fluid	3
Stereoscopic 3D teaching material usability analysis for interactive boards	3
Real‐time suturing simulation for virtual reality medical training	3
Dense multiview stereo based on image texture enhancement	3
Densely connected GCN model for motion prediction	3
Interactive learning in the classroom: A mobile augmented reality assistance application for learning	3
Holographic sign language avatar interpreter: A user interaction study in a mixed reality classroom	3
Interactive exploration of drapes by simulation parameters	3
The “rebirth” of traditional musical instrument: An interactive installation based on augmented reality and somatosensory technology to empower the exhibition of chimes	3
One‐shot video‐based person re‐identification with variance subsampling algorithm	3
Evaluation of particle‐based smoothed particle hydrodynamics boundary handling approaches in computer animation	3
Simulation‐as‐a‐Service: Analyzing Crowd Movements in Virtual Environments	3
Learning‐based pose edition for efficient and interactive design	2
Anchor‐based crowd formation transformation	2
Distillation of human–object interaction contexts for action recognition	2

RAIF: A deep learning‐based architecture for multi‐modal aesthetic biometric system	2
Hybrid features for skeleton‐based action recognition based on network fusion	2
Generation of small groups with rich behaviors from natural language interface	2
DeepORCA: Realistic crowd simulation for varying scenes	2
Interacting with virtual instructors: The effect of gender and years of study on the perception of in‐game instructors	2
Engagement estimation of the elderly from wild multiparty human–robot interaction	2
Power‐VR: Interactive 3D virtual environment to increase motivation levels of powerlifters during training sessions	2
3D scanning digital models for virtual museums	2
An interaction design model for virtual reality mindfulness meditation using imagery‐based transformation and positive feedback	2
HAO‐CNN: Filament‐aware hair reconstruction based on volumetric vector fields	2
Parallel‐branch network for 3D human pose and shape estimation in video	2
A semantic‐driven generation of 3D Chinese opera performance scenes	2
Region feature smoothness assumption for weakly semi‐supervised crowd counting	2
Dynamic disk B‐spline curves	2
VDN: Variant‐depth network for motion deblurring	2
Modeling craftspeople for cultural heritage: A case study	2
Role‐based attention in deep reinforcement learning for games	2
Is the avatar scared? Pupil as a perceptual cue	2
Animating turbulent fluid with a robust and efficient high‐order advection method	2
Multi‐level tetrahedralization‐based accelerator for ray‐tracing animated scenes	2
Improved divergence‐free smoothed particle hydrodynamics via priority of divergence‐free solver and SOR	2
Semantic interaction learning for fine‐grained vehicle recognition	2
Spatial semantic graph enhanced monocular SLAM System	2
A natural language interface with casual users for crowd animation	2
An advanced hybrid smoothed particle hydrodynamics–fluid implicit particle method on adaptive grid for condensation simulation	2
Trajectory‐BERT: Pre‐training and fine‐tuning bidirectional transformers for crowd trajectory enhancement	2
Laplacian face blending	2
Experts' review of a virtual environment for virtual clinical simulation in South Africa	2
Single‐view procedural braided hair modeling through braid unit identification	2
Iris recognition based on few‐shot learning	2
DeepHistory: A convolutional neural network for automatic animation of museum paintings	2
Deep learning for assessing the aesthetics of professional photographs	2