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Nikolaus F. Troje

Nikolaus F. Troje

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
51
Citations
10918
World Ranking
5200
National Ranking
349

Nikolaus F. Troje publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 248 publications — 80th percentile

80% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Nikolaus F. Troje D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Nikolaus F. Troje sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 51 D-Index — 56th percentile

56% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Overview

Nikolaus F. Troje is affiliated with York University in Canada and works primarily within the fields of Computer Science and Neuroscience. Their research spans several interdisciplinary subfields, including Cognitive Neuroscience, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Human-Computer Interaction, Social Psychology, and Control and Systems Engineering.

The research topics that Nikolaus F. Troje explores include:

  • Visual perception and processing mechanisms
  • Action Observation and Synchronization
  • Human Pose and Action Recognition
  • Human Motion and Animation
  • Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts
  • Visual Attention and Saliency Detection
  • Advanced Optical Imaging Technologies

The scientist has contributed extensively to various journals and conferences. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Journal of Vision
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Computer Graphics Forum
  • i-Perception
  • Experimental Brain Research

Recent notable papers authored or co-authored by Nikolaus F. Troje include:

  • "MoVi: A large multi-purpose human motion and video dataset" (2021), published in PLoS ONE
  • "ZeroEGGS: Zero-shot Example-based Gesture Generation from Speech" (2023), published in Computer Graphics Forum
  • "bmlTUX: Design and Control of Experiments in Virtual Reality and Beyond" (2020), published in i-Perception
  • "Life Detection From Biological Motion" (2023), published in Current Directions in Psychological Science
  • "Probabilistic Character Motion Synthesis using a Hierarchical Deep Latent Variable Model" (2020), published in Computer Graphics Forum

Frequent collaborators in Troje's research include Anne Thaler, Adam O. Bebko, Siavash Eftekharifar, Saeed Ghorbani, and Xiaoye Michael Wang. Their collaborations reflect a range of expertise contributing to their interdisciplinary research.

In addition to journal articles, Nikolaus F. Troje has contributed to book publications such as "From Picture to Reality, from Observer to Agent: Vision Research Conference" published by the Centre for Vision Research, York University eBooks in 2022.

Best Publications

  • Decomposing biological motion: A framework for analysis and synthesis of human gait patterns

    Nikolaus F. Troje

  • AMASS: Archive of Motion Capture As Surface Shapes

    Naureen Mahmood;Nima Ghorbani;Nikolaus F. Troje;Gerard Pons-Moll

  • The Inversion Effect in Biological Motion Perception: Evidence for a “Life Detector”?

    Nikolaus F. Troje;Nikolaus F. Troje;Cord Westhoff

  • Ultraviolet as a component of flower reflections, and the colour perception of Hymenoptera.

    Lars Chittka;Avi Shmida;Nikolaus Troje;Randolf Menzel

  • Embodiment of sadness and depression--gait patterns associated with dysphoric mood.

    Johannes Michalak;Nikolaus F. Troje;Julia Fischer;Patrick Vollmar

  • Face recognition under varying poses: The role of texture and shape

    Nikolaus F. Troje;Heinrich H. Bülthoff

  • Person identification from biological motion: effects of structural and kinematic cues.

    Nikolaus F. Troje;Cord Westhoff;Mikhail Lavrov

  • Perception of biological motion in autism spectrum disorders

    Christine M. Freitag;Carsten Konrad;Melanie Häberlen;Christina Kleser

  • Spectral Categories in the Learning Behaviour of Blowflies

    Nikolaus Troje

  • Exploring motor system contributions to the perception of social information: Evidence from EEG activity in the mu/alpha frequency range

    Anat Perry;Nikolaus F. Troje;Shlomo Bentin

  • Self recognition versus recognition of others by biological motion: viewpoint-dependent effects.

    Daniel Jokisch;Irene Daum;Nikolaus F Troje

  • Sex classification is better with three-dimensional head structure than with image intensity information.

    Alice J O'Toole;Thomas Vetter;Nikolaus F Troje;Heinrich H Bülthoff

  • Illumination effects in face recognition

    Wendy L. Braje;Daniel J Kersten;Michael J. Tarr;Nikolaus F. Troje

  • Acceleration carries the local inversion effect in biological motion perception.

    Dorita H. F. Chang;Nikolaus F. Troje

  • Adaptation aftereffects in the perception of gender from biological motion.

    Nikolaus F. Troje;Nikolaus F. Troje;Javid Sadr;Henning Geyer;Ken Nakayama

  • Structural encoding and recognition of biological motion: evidence from event-related potentials and source analysis

    Daniel Jokisch;Irene Daum;Boris Suchan;Nikolaus F. Troje;Nikolaus F. Troje

  • Perception of animacy and direction from local biological motion signals

    Dorita H. F. Chang;Nikolaus F. Troje

  • Categorical learning in pigeons: the role of texture and shape in complex static stimuli

    Nikolaus F Troje;Ludwig Huber;Michaela Loidolt;Ulrike Aust

  • Audiovisual phenomenal causality.

    Rainer Guski;Nikolaus F. Troje

  • No evidence for impaired perception of biological motion in adults with autistic spectrum disorders

    Patrick Murphy;Nuala Brady;Michael Fitzgerald;Nikolaus F. Troje

  • Characterizing global and local mechanisms in biological motion perception.

    Dorita H. F. Chang;Nikolaus F. Troje

Frequent Co-Authors

Heinrich H. Bülthoff
Heinrich H. Bülthoff Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics
Thomas Vetter
Thomas Vetter University of Basel
Ludwig Huber
Ludwig Huber University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna
Michael J. Black
Michael J. Black Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems
Ken Nakayama
Ken Nakayama Harvard University
Brigitte Röder
Brigitte Röder Universität Hamburg
Daniel Kersten
Daniel Kersten University of Minnesota
Onur Güntürkün
Onur Güntürkün Ruhr University Bochum
Silja Vocks
Silja Vocks Osnabrück University
Irene Daum
Irene Daum Ruhr University Bochum

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