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 Michael J. Black sits on this spectrum.
This scientist: 445 publications — 90th percentile
90% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.
The last bar groups every scientist with 991 publications or more.
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 Michael J. Black sits on this spectrum.
This scientist: 140 D-Index — 100th percentile
100% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.
The last bar groups every scientist with 131 D-Index or more.
Michael J. Black is affiliated with the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Germany. Their research spans multiple fields with a primary focus on Computer Science and Engineering. Within these broader disciplines, their work is concentrated in subfields such as Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Computational Mechanics, Control and Systems Engineering, Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design, and Human-Computer Interaction.
The scientist's recent publications demonstrate engagement with cutting-edge topics in visual computing and 3D modeling. Notable papers include "Learning an animatable detailed 3D face model from in-the-wild images" (2021, ACM Transactions on Graphics), "Action-Conditioned 3D Human Motion Synthesis with Transformer VAE" (2021, 2021 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision), "ICON: Implicit Clothed humans Obtained from Normals" (2022, 2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition), "SNARF: Differentiable Forward Skinning for Animating Non-Rigid Neural Implicit Shapes" (2021, 2021 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision), and "EMOCA: Emotion Driven Monocular Face Capture and Animation" (2022, 2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition).
Their work addresses topics including Human Pose and Action Recognition, 3D Shape Modeling and Analysis, Human Motion and Animation, Advanced Vision and Imaging, Generative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis, Video Surveillance and Tracking Methods, as well as Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques.
Frequent collaboration partners include Dimitrios Tzionas, Timo Bolkart, Otmar Hilliges, Siyu Tang, and Jinlong Yang.
Michael J. Black's works have been published extensively in venues such as arXiv (Cornell University) with 88 publications, 2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) with 11 publications, 2021 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) with 10 publications, ACM Transactions on Graphics with 5, and IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters with 4.
Among their contributions to academic literature is a book titled Transparent Designs published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 2022.
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Matthew Loper;Naureen Mahmood;Javier Romero;Gerard Pons-Moll
Simon Baker;Daniel Scharstein;J. P. Lewis;Stefan Roth
Michael J. Black;P. Anandan
Daniel J. Butler;Jonas Wulff;Garrett B. Stanley;Michael J. Black
M.J. Black;G. Sapiro;D.H. Marimont;D. Heeger
Deqing Sun;Stefan Roth;Michael J. Black
Angjoo Kanazawa;Michael J. Black;David W. Jacobs;Jitendra Malik
S. Baker;D. Scharstein;J.P. Lewis;S. Roth
Federica Bogo;Angjoo Kanazawa;Christoph Lassner;Christoph Lassner;Peter V. Gehler;Peter V. Gehler
Michael J. Black;Allan D. Jepson
S. Roth;M.J. Black
Leonid Sigal;Alexandru O. Balan;Michael J. Black
Anurag Ranjan;Michael J. Black
Georgios Pavlakos;Vasileios Choutas;Nima Ghorbani;Timo Bolkart
Michael J. Black;Anand Rangarajan
Tianye Li;Timo Bolkart;Michael J. Black;Hao Li
Hedvig Sidenbladh;Michael J. Black;David J. Fleet
Timo von Marcard;Roberto Henschel;Michael J. Black;Bodo Rosenhahn
Stefan Roth;Michael J. Black
Hueihan Jhuang;Juergen Gall;Silvia Zuffi;Cordelia Schmid
Gul Varol;Javier Romero;Xavier Martin;Naureen Mahmood
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