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2025

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Citations
28749
World Ranking
490
National Ranking
16

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Switzerland Leader Award

Overview

Daniel Thalmann is affiliated with the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland. Their recent scholarly contributions focus primarily on computer animation and virtual worlds, as evidenced by publications in this domain.

Thalmann's recent papers include:

  • "Editorial," 2023, published in Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds
  • "Editorial issue 32.5," 2021, published in Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds

The prominent venue for their publications is the journal Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds, where they have published multiple works.

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Rae Earnshaw
  • Susan Liggett
  • P.S. Excell
  • Jinman Kim
  • George Papagiannakis

Thalmann has authored books published by Springer Science+Business Media. These book publications include:

  • Technology, Design and the Arts - Opportunities and Challenges (2020)
  • Computer Animation and Social Agents (2025)

Their work concentrates on the multidisciplinary intersection of technology, design, and arts, with particular focus on computer animation and social agents as applied fields of study.

Best Publications

  • A global human walking model with real-time kinematic personification

    Ronan Boulic;Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann;Daniel Thalmann

  • Hierarchical model for real time simulation of virtual human crowds

    S.R. Musse;D. Thalmann

  • Stepping into Virtual Reality

    Mario Gutierrez;F Vexo;Daniel Thalmann

  • Simulation of Facial Muscle Actions Based on Rational Free Form Deformations

    Prem Kalra;Angelo Mangili;Nadia Magnenat Thalmann;Daniel Thalmann

  • Dressing animated synthetic actors with complex deformable clothes

    Michel Carignan;Ying Yang;Nadia Magnenat Thalmann;Daniel Thalmann

  • A Model of Human Crowd Behavior: Group Inter-Relationship and Collision Detection Analysis*

    Soraia Raupp Musse;Daniel Thalmann

  • Simulation of object and human skin formations in a grasping task

    J.-P. Gourret;N. M. Thalmann;D. Thalmann

  • Abstract muscle action procedures for human face animation

    Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann;E. Primeau;Daniel Thalmann

  • Merging trust in collaborative filtering to alleviate data sparsity and cold start

    Guibing Guo;Jie Zhang;Daniel Thalmann

  • Robust 3D Hand Pose Estimation in Single Depth Images: From Single-View CNN to Multi-View CNNs

    Liuhao Ge;Hui Liang;Junsong Yuan;Daniel Thalmann

  • Real time muscle deformations using mass-spring systems

    L.P. Nedel;D. Thalmann

  • 3D Convolutional Neural Networks for Efficient and Robust Hand Pose Estimation from Single Depth Images

    Liuhao Ge;Hui Liang;Junsong Yuan;Daniel Thalmann

  • Computer animation

    Nadia Magnenat Thalmann;Daniel Thalmann

  • A vision-based approach to behavioural animation

    Olivier Renault;Nadia Magnenat Thalmann;Daniel Thalmann

  • Computer Animation: Theory and Practice

    Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann;Daniel Thalmann

  • A VISION-BASED APPROACH TO BEHAVIORAL ANIMATION

    Olivier Renault;Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann;Daniel Thalmann

  • Planning collision-free reaching motions for interactive object manipulation and grasping

    Marcelo Kallmann;Amaury Aubel;Tolga Abaci;Daniel Thalmann

  • Mixing virtual and real scenes in the site of ancient Pompeii

    George Papagiannakis;Sébastien Schertenleib;Brian O'Kennedy;Marlene Arevalo-Poizat

  • The Direction of Synthetic Actors in the Film Rendez-Vous a Montreal

    Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann;Daniel Thalmann

  • NAVIGATION FOR DIGITAL ACTORS BASED ON SYNTHETIC VISION, MEMORY, AND LEARNING

    Hansrudi Noser;Olivier Renault;Daniel Thalmann;Nadia Magnenat Thalmann

Frequent Co-Authors

Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann
Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann University of Geneva
Ronan Boulic
Ronan Boulic École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Junsong Yuan
Junsong Yuan University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Pascal Fua
Pascal Fua École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Prem Kalra
Prem Kalra Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
Julien Pettré
Julien Pettré French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation - INRIA
Justin Dauwels
Justin Dauwels Nanyang Technological University
Steven Feiner
Steven Feiner Columbia University
Weisi Lin
Weisi Lin Nanyang Technological University
Jie Zhang
Jie Zhang Nanyang Technological University

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