2026 Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann: 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	90	615	598	18	18	906	28137

Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann 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 Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann sits on this spectrum.

32 publications 991+

This scientist: 906 publications — 99th percentile

99% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann 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 Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 131+

This scientist: 90 D-Index — 96th percentile

96% 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

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

Overview

Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann is affiliated with the University of Geneva in Switzerland. Their research primarily spans the field of Computer Science with a focus on several subfields including Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Control and Systems Engineering, Social Psychology, Human-Computer Interaction, and Artificial Intelligence.

The scientist's work involves a range of topics, notably:

Social Robot Interaction and HRI
Human Motion and Animation
Human Pose and Action Recognition
Augmented Reality Applications
Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts
AI in Service Interactions
Museums and Cultural Heritage

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

The Visual Computer
Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds
Heritage
arXiv (Cornell University)
Frontiers in Public Health

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann include:

"A systematic review: Virtual-reality-based techniques for human exercises and health improvement" (2023, Frontiers in Public Health)
"Salsa dance learning evaluation and motion analysis in gamified virtual reality environment" (2020, Multimedia Tools and Applications)
"Realistic Virtual Humans for Cultural Heritage Applications" (2021, Heritage)
"Can a humanoid social robot stimulate the interactivity of cognitively impaired elderly? A thorough study based on computer vision methods" (2021, The Visual Computer)
"Mixed-Reality Demonstration and Training of Glassblowing" (2022, Heritage)

Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann has collaborated frequently with a group of co-authors including Daniël Thalmann, Nikolaos Partarakis, Xenophon Zabulis, Nedjma Cadi, and Danae Kaplanidi.

In terms of book publications, the scientist has contributed to works published by the European Organization for Nuclear Research and Springer Science+Business Media. Titles include:

The Mingei Handbook on Heritage Craft representation and preservation (2022)
The Mingei Handbook (2022)
Advances in Computer Graphics (2021, 2022, 2023)

Best Publications

Time-aware point-of-interest recommendation

Quan Yuan;Gao Cong;Zongyang Ma;Aixin Sun

935
Citations
Collision Detection for Deformable Objects

M. Teschner;S. Kimmerle;B. Heidelberger;G. Zachmann

869
Citations
A global human walking model with real-time kinematic personification

Ronan Boulic;Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann;Daniel Thalmann

726
Citations
Joint-dependent local deformations for hand animation and object grasping

N. Magnenat-Thalmann;R. Laperrière;D. Thalmann

650
Citations
Exploiting Spatial-Temporal Relationships for 3D Pose Estimation via Graph Convolutional Networks

Yujun Cai;Liuhao Ge;Jun Liu;Jianfei Cai

509
Citations
Simulation of Facial Muscle Actions Based on Rational Free Form Deformations

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

485
Citations
Dressing animated synthetic actors with complex deformable clothes

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

484
Citations
Eliza in the uncanny valley : anthropomorphizing consumer robots increases their perceived warmth but decreases liking

Seo Young Kim;Bernd H. Schmitt;Nadia Magnenat Thalmann

448
Citations
Versatile and efficient techniques for simulating cloth and other deformable objects

Unknown

423
Citations
Simulation of object and human skin formations in a grasping task

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

412
Citations
A survey of mobile and wireless technologies for augmented reality systems

George Papagiannakis;Gurminder Singh;Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann

355
Citations
Abstract muscle action procedures for human face animation

Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann;E. Primeau;Daniel Thalmann

330
Citations
A survey of mobile and wireless technologies for augmented reality systems

Unknown

302
Citations
Who, where, when and what: discover spatio-temporal topics for twitter users

Quan Yuan;Gao Cong;Zongyang Ma;Aixin Sun

298
Citations
Fast head modeling for animation

Won-Sook Lee;Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann

292
Citations
From early virtual garment simulation to interactive fashion design

Pascal Volino;Frederic Cordier;Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann

291
Citations
Made-to-measure technologies for an online clothing store

F. Cordier;Hyewon Seo;N. Magnenat-Thalmann

290
Citations
Fall Detection Based on Body Part Tracking Using a Depth Camera

Zhen-Peng Bian;Junhui Hou;Lap-Pui Chau;Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann

288
Citations
Computer Animation: Theory and Practice

Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann;Daniel Thalmann

274
Citations
A VISION-BASED APPROACH TO BEHAVIORAL ANIMATION

Olivier Renault;Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann;Daniel Thalmann

262
Citations
An automatic modeling of human bodies from sizing parameters

Hyewon Seo;Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann

260
Citations
Modeling Dynamic Hair as a Continuum

Sunil Hadap;Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann

246
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel Thalmann École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Lap-Pui Chau Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Junhui Hou City University of Hong Kong

Ying He Nanyang Technological University

Susana Jiménez-Murcia University of Barcelona

Prem Kalra Indian Institute of Technology Delhi

Fernando Fernández-Aranda University of Barcelona

Ronan Boulic École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Roser Granero Autonomous University of Barcelona

José M. Menchón University of Barcelona

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