2026 Aaron F. Bobick: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	63	2693	2613	1336	1287	169	22983

Aaron F. Bobick 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 Aaron F. Bobick sits on this spectrum.

32 publications 991+

This scientist: 169 publications — 34th percentile

34% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Aaron F. Bobick 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 Aaron F. Bobick sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 131+

This scientist: 63 D-Index — 81st percentile

81% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

2015 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to activity recognition in computer vision
2011 - ACM Distinguished Member

Overview

Aaron F. Bobick is affiliated with Washington University in St. Louis in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily within computer science, neuroscience, and psychology.

Their recent publications highlight contributions in areas such as human activity comprehension, human-robot interaction, and event cognition. Notable papers include:

"The multi-angle extended three-dimensional activities (META) stimulus set: A tool for studying event cognition," 2022, published in Behavior Research Methods
"Modeling human activity comprehension at human scale: Prediction, segmentation, and categorization," 2024, published in PNAS Nexus
"Toward Safe and Efficient Human-Robot Interaction via Behavior-Driven Danger Signaling," 2023, published in IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology
"Robot Action Planning in the Presence of Careless Humans," 2024, published in IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics Systems
"Toward Safe and Efficient Human-Robot Interaction via Behavior-Driven Danger Signaling," 2021, published on arXiv (Cornell University)

The range of publication venues where they often contribute includes:

PNAS Nexus
Behavior Research Methods
IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology
IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics Systems
arXiv (Cornell University)

Aaron F. Bobick has collaborated frequently with several co-authors such as Mehdi Hosseinzadeh, Bruno Sinopoli, Matthew A. Bezdek, Todd S. Braver, and Jeffrey M. Zacks. These collaborations have often resulted in multiple joint publications.

Their work covers several subfields, including cognitive neuroscience, social psychology, computer vision and pattern recognition, statistics, probability and uncertainty, and artificial intelligence.

Research topics addressed in their publications encompass neural and behavioral psychology studies, action observation and synchronization, EEG and brain-computer interfaces, risk and safety analysis, generative adversarial networks and image synthesis, and computer graphics and visualization techniques.

Aaron F. Bobick has received awards such as the IEEE Fellow distinction in 2015 for contributions to activity recognition in computer vision, as well as being named an ACM Distinguished Member in 2011.

Best Publications

The recognition of human movement using temporal templates

A.F. Bobick;J.W. Davis

3888
Citations
Graphcut textures: image and video synthesis using graph cuts

Vivek Kwatra;Arno Schödl;Irfan Essa;Greg Turk

2060
Citations
The representation and recognition of human movement using temporal templates

J.W. Davis;A.F. Bobick

1014
Citations
Recognition of visual activities and interactions by stochastic parsing

Y.A. Ivanov;A.F. Bobick

952
Citations
Texture optimization for example-based synthesis

Vivek Kwatra;Irfan Essa;Aaron Bobick;Nipun Kwatra

877
Citations
Parametric hidden Markov models for gesture recognition

A.D. Wilson;A.F. Bobick

873
Citations
Interactive exercise apparatus

W. Thatcher Ulrich;Harvey A. Koselka;Aaron F. Bobick;Michael H. Benjamin

784
Citations
Large Occlusion Stereo

Aaron F. Bobick;Stephen S. Intille

781
Citations
The KidsRoom: A Perceptually-Based Interactive and Immersive Story Environment

Aaron F. Bobick;Stephen S. Intille;James W. Davis;Freedom Baird

522
Citations
Gait recognition using static, activity-specific parameters

A.F. Bobick;A.Y. Johnson

503
Citations
Recognition of human body motion using phase space constraints

L.W. Campbell;A.F. Bobick

496
Citations
Movement, activity and action: the role of knowledge in the perception of motion

Aaron F. Bobick

458
Citations
A state-based approach to the representation and recognition of gesture

A.F. Bobick;A.D. Wilson

447
Citations
Real-time closed-world tracking

S.S. Intille;J.W. Davis;A.F. Bobick

410
Citations
Invariant features for 3-D gesture recognition

L.W. Campbell;D.A. Becker;A. Azarbayejani;A.F. Bobick

329
Citations
Fast Lighting Independent Background Subtraction

Yuri Ivanov;Aaron Bobick;John Liu

325
Citations
Real-time recognition of activity using temporal templates

A. Bobick;J. Davis

311
Citations
Disparity-Space Images and Large Occlusion Stereo

Stephen S. Intille;Aaron F. Bobick

297
Citations
Gait recognition from time-normalized joint-angle trajectories in the walking plane

R. Tanawongsuwan;A. Bobick

295
Citations
A Multi-view Method for Gait Recognition Using Static Body Parameters

Amos Y. Johnson;Aaron F. Bobick

293
Citations
On Human Action

Aaron F. Bobick;Volker Krüger

5
Citations
A Perceptually-Based Interactive and Immersive Story Environment

Aaron F. Bobick;Stephen S. Intille;James W. Davis;Freedom Baird

4
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew D. Wilson Microsoft (United States)

James W. Davis The Ohio State University

Stephen S. Intille Northeastern University

Irfan Essa Georgia Institute of Technology

James M. Rehg University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Allen Tannenbaum Stony Brook University

Andrea L. Thomaz The University of Texas at Austin

Magnus Egerstedt University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Gregory D. Abowd Northeastern University

Elizabeth D. Mynatt Northeastern University

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