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Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann

Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann

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Computer Science
Switzerland
2025

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Computer Science

D-Index
90
Citations
28137
World Ranking
615
National Ranking
18

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

  • Collision Detection for Deformable Objects

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

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

    Ronan Boulic;Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann;Daniel Thalmann

  • Joint-dependent local deformations for hand animation and object grasping

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

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

    Yujun Cai;Liuhao Ge;Jun Liu;Jianfei Cai

  • 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

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

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

  • Versatile and efficient techniques for simulating cloth and other deformable objects

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

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

  • A survey of mobile and wireless technologies for augmented reality systems

    George Papagiannakis;Gurminder Singh;Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann

  • Abstract muscle action procedures for human face animation

    Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann;E. Primeau;Daniel Thalmann

  • A survey of mobile and wireless technologies for augmented reality systems

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

    Quan Yuan;Gao Cong;Zongyang Ma;Aixin Sun

  • Fast head modeling for animation

    Won-Sook Lee;Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann

  • From early virtual garment simulation to interactive fashion design

    Pascal Volino;Frederic Cordier;Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann

  • Made-to-measure technologies for an online clothing store

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

  • Fall Detection Based on Body Part Tracking Using a Depth Camera

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

  • An automatic modeling of human bodies from sizing parameters

    Hyewon Seo;Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann

  • Modeling Dynamic Hair as a Continuum

    Sunil Hadap;Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel Thalmann
Daniel Thalmann École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Lap-Pui Chau
Lap-Pui Chau Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Junhui Hou
Junhui Hou City University of Hong Kong
Ying He
Ying He Nanyang Technological University
Susana Jiménez-Murcia
Susana Jiménez-Murcia University of Barcelona
Prem Kalra
Prem Kalra Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
Fernando Fernández-Aranda
Fernando Fernández-Aranda University of Barcelona
Ronan Boulic
Ronan Boulic École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Roser Granero
Roser Granero Autonomous University of Barcelona
José M. Menchón
José M. Menchón University of Barcelona

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