OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Exploring evolution of augmented and virtual reality education space in 2020 through systematic literature review	19
ExpressGesture: Expressive gesture generation from speech through database matching	19
I feel a moving crowd surrounds me: Exploring tactile feedback during immersive walking in a virtual crowd	17
Exploring neural and peripheral physiological correlates of simulator sickness	13
Building information modeling indoor path planning: A lightweight approach for complex BIM building	13
Immersive walking in a virtual crowd: The effects of the density, speed, and direction of a virtual crowd on human movement behavior	13
X‐person asymmetric interaction in virtual and augmented realities	12
A simplified force model for mixed traffic simulation	10
Implementation of grey wolf optimization controller for multiple humanoid navigation	10
AFF‐Dehazing: Attention‐based feature fusion network for low‐light image Dehazing	10
Point cloud semantic scene segmentation based on coordinate convolution	9
Automatic text‐to‐gesture rule generation for embodied conversational agents	9
Virtual reconstruction of the ancient city of Karakorum	8
The realm of metaverse: A survey	8
Toward understanding embodied human‐virtual character interaction through virtual and tactile hugging	8
FaceCaps for facial expression recognition	7
UGSC‐GAN: User‐guided sketch colorization with deep convolution generative adversarial networks	7
The use of virtual reality in the training of professionals: with the example of firefighters	7
Enhancing Emotional Experience by Building Emotional Virtual Characters in VR Volleyball Games	7
SCANET: Improving multimodal representation and fusion with sparse‐ and cross‐attention for multimodal sentiment analysis	6
Eye fixations and electrodermal activity during low‐budget virtual reality embodiment	6
Local control editing paradigms for part‐based 3D face morphable models	5
FASTSWARM: A data‐driven framework for real‐time flying insect swarm simulation	5
Comparing technologies for conveying emotions through realistic avatars in virtual reality‐based metaverse experiences	5
PhyCoVIS: A visual analytic tool of physical coordination for cheer and dance training	5

Interactive multi‐character motion retargeting	5
CEBOW: A Cloud‐Edge‐Browser Online Web3D approach for visualizing large BIM scenes	5
Synthesizing Large‐Scale Fluid Simulations with Surface and Wave Foams via Sharp Wave Pattern and Cloudy Foam	5
The role of digital interactive technology in cultural heritage learning: Evaluating a mid‐air gesture‐based interactive media of Ruihetu	4
Sketch‐based modeling with a differentiable renderer	4
Design and evaluation of postural interactions between users and a listening virtual agent during a simulated job interview	4
Resolving hand‐object occlusion for mixed reality with joint deep learning and model optimization	4
An encoder‐decoder based CNN architecture using end to end dehaze and detection network for proper image visualization and detection	4
Human posture tracking with flexible sensors for motion recognition	4
Embedding 3D models in offline physical environments	4
OVS‐Net: An effective feature extraction network for optical coherence tomography angiography vessel segmentation	4
Using a social robot for children with autism: A therapist‐robot interactive model	4
Real‐time visual and physical cutting of a meshless model deformed on a background grid	4
A review of collision detection for deformable objects	4
Modeling crowd emotion from emergent event video	4
Parallel realistic visualization of particle‐based fluid	3
Path planning for multiple agents in an unknown environment using soft actor critic and curriculum learning	3
Real‐time suturing simulation for virtual reality medical training	3
A “magic world” for children: Design and development of a serious game to improve spatial ability	3
Interactive character posing with efficient collision handling	3
Generation of multiagent animation for object transportation using deep reinforcement learning and blend‐trees	3
Brushwork master: Chinese ink painting synthesis for animating brushwork process	3
One‐shot video‐based person re‐identification with variance subsampling algorithm	3
Exploring the influencing factors of wall‐following behavior in a virtual reality fire evacuation game	3
Stereoscopic 3D teaching material usability analysis for interactive boards	3
Simulation‐as‐a‐Service: Analyzing Crowd Movements in Virtual Environments	3
ORCANet: Differentiable multi‐parameter learning for crowd simulation	3
Interactive learning in the classroom: A mobile augmented reality assistance application for learning	3
Holographic sign language avatar interpreter: A user interaction study in a mixed reality classroom	3
SCPA‐Net: Self‐calibrated pyramid aggregation for image dehazing	3
Disentangling audio content and emotion with adaptive instance normalization for expressive facial animation synthesis	3
DCR‐Net: Dilated convolutional residual network for fashion image retrieval	3
Dense multiview stereo based on image texture enhancement	3
Evaluation of particle‐based smoothed particle hydrodynamics boundary handling approaches in computer animation	3
Multiagent evacuation framework for a virtual fire emergency scenario based on generative adversarial imitation learning	3
ASFNet: Adaptive multiscale segmentation fusion network for real‐time semantic segmentation	3
Hybrid features for skeleton‐based action recognition based on network fusion	2
Spatial semantic graph enhanced monocular SLAM System	2
KeyFrame extraction for human motion capture data via multiple binomial fitting	2
Interactive exploration of drapes by simulation parameters	2
The “rebirth” of traditional musical instrument: An interactive installation based on augmented reality and somatosensory technology to empower the exhibition of chimes	2
Iris recognition based on few‐shot learning	2
DeepHistory: A convolutional neural network for automatic animation of museum paintings	2
An interaction design model for virtual reality mindfulness meditation using imagery‐based transformation and positive feedback	2
HAO‐CNN: Filament‐aware hair reconstruction based on volumetric vector fields	2
Densely connected GCN model for motion prediction	2
Dynamic disk B‐spline curves	2
Tooth instance segmentation based on capturing dependencies and receptive field adjustment in cone beam computed tomography	2
An advanced hybrid smoothed particle hydrodynamics–fluid implicit particle method on adaptive grid for condensation simulation	2
The uncanny valley of a virtual animal	2

Power‐VR: Interactive 3D virtual environment to increase motivation levels of powerlifters during training sessions	2
Role‐based attention in deep reinforcement learning for games	2
Engagement estimation of the elderly from wild multiparty human–robot interaction	2
Fusing surveillance videos and three‐dimensional scene: A mixed reality system	2
Experts' review of a virtual environment for virtual clinical simulation in South Africa	2
Improved divergence‐free smoothed particle hydrodynamics via priority of divergence‐free solver and SOR	2
Distillation of human–object interaction contexts for action recognition	2
RAIF: A deep learning‐based architecture for multi‐modal aesthetic biometric system	2
A natural language interface with casual users for crowd animation	2
Bidirectional temporal feature for 3D human pose and shape estimation from a video	2
Interacting with virtual instructors: The effect of gender and years of study on the perception of in‐game instructors	2
Generation of small groups with rich behaviors from natural language interface	2
Single‐view procedural braided hair modeling through braid unit identification	2
A semantic‐driven generation of 3D Chinese opera performance scenes	2
Animating turbulent fluid with a robust and efficient high‐order advection method	2
Multi‐level tetrahedralization‐based accelerator for ray‐tracing animated scenes	2
Functional narrative animation as visual feedback for interactions in 3D visualization	2
Deep learning for assessing the aesthetics of professional photographs	2
Learning‐based pose edition for efficient and interactive design	2
Anchor‐based crowd formation transformation	2