Leaderboards/Human Motion and Animation

Human Motion and Animation

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Mathis Petrovich
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
2
Jiefeng Li
Peking University
3
Rui Chen
Guangxi University
4
Emre Aksan
Baylor College of Medicine
5
Tenglong Ao
Peking University
6
Sebastian Starke
META Health
7
Jonathan Tseng
Stanford University
8
Siyao Li
Nanyang Technological University
9
Fangzhou Hong
Nanyang Technological University
10
Shenhan Qian
Technical University of Munich

Rising Stars Papers

1
GaussianAvatars: Photorealistic Head Avatars with Rigged 3D Gaussians
Unknown Journal|2024
185 cit.
2
Multi-Track Timeline Control for Text-Driven 3D Human Motion Generation
Unknown Journal|2024
29 cit.
3
Demand side management full season optimal operation potential analysis for coupled hybrid photovoltaic/thermal, heat pump, and thermal energy storage systems
Journal of Energy Storage|2024
28 cit.
4
Unified 3D and 4D Panoptic Segmentation via Dynamic Shifting Networks
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence|2024
26 cit.
5
Surface albedo regulates aerosol direct climate effect
Nature Communications|2024
24 cit.
6
Categorical Codebook Matching for Embodied Character Controllers
ACM Transactions on Graphics|2024
17 cit.
7
HybrIK-X: Hybrid Analytical-Neural Inverse Kinematics for Whole-Body Mesh Recovery
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence|2025
13 cit.
8
Distinct Aerosol Impacts on Local Scale Convective Rainfall Between Sichuan Basin and North China Plain Regions in China
Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres|2025
10 cit.
9
Effects of herbal dregs supplementation of Salvia miltiorrhiza and Isatidis Radix residues improved production performance and gut microbiota abundance in late-phase laying hens
Frontiers in Veterinary Science|2024
6 cit.
10
Advances in understanding the mechanisms of Arctic amplification
Science China Earth Sciences|2024
6 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Gerard Pons‐Moll
TH Bingen University of Applied Sciences
2
Jun Saito
Nvidia (United States)
3
Ziwei Liu
Nanyang Technological University
4
Angjoo Kanazawa
Berkeley College
5
Wei Mao
Wenzhou Medical University
6
Cewu Lu
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
7
Dan Casas
Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
8
Qifeng Chen
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
9
Erik Andersen
Cornell University
10
Robert Wang
META Health

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
Learning to Prompt for Vision-Language Models
International Journal of Computer Vision|2022
2.7k cit.
2
Conditional Prompt Learning for Vision-Language Models
2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)|2022
1.5k cit.
3
Plenoxels: Radiance Fields without Neural Networks
2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)|2022
1.3k cit.
4
AlphaPose: Whole-Body Regional Multi-Person Pose Estimation and Tracking in Real-Time
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence|2022
672 cit.
5
K-Planes: Explicit Radiance Fields in Space, Time, and Appearance
Unknown Journal|2023
471 cit.
6
Generalized Out-of-Distribution Detection: A Survey
International Journal of Computer Vision|2024
422 cit.
7
MotionDiffuse: Text-Driven Human Motion Generation With Diffusion Model
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence|2024
251 cit.
8
Instruct-NeRF2NeRF: Editing 3D Scenes with Instructions
Unknown Journal|2023
250 cit.
9
High-Fidelity GAN Inversion for Image Attribute Editing
2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)|2022
229 cit.
10
Class-Incremental Learning: A Survey
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence|2024
221 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Daniël Thalmann
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
2
Zoran Popović
University of Belgrade
3
Jessica K. Hodgins
Carnegie Mellon University
4
Jovan Popović
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
5
Michiel van de Panne
University of British Columbia
6
Norman I. Badler
University of Pennsylvania
7
Michael J. Black
Max Planck Society
8
Nancy S. Pollard
John Brown University
9
David Forsyth
International University of the Caribbean
10
Demetri Terzopoulos
University of Toronto

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
Snakes: Active contour models
International Journal of Computer Vision|1988
17k cit.
2
SMPL
ACM Transactions on Graphics|2015
3.6k cit.
3
Describing objects by their attributes
2009 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition|2009
1.9k cit.
4
Elastically deformable models
Unknown Journal|1987
1.7k cit.
5
The Robust Estimation of Multiple Motions: Parametric and Piecewise-Smooth Flow Fields
Computer Vision and Image Understanding|1996
1.6k cit.
6
Secrets of optical flow estimation and their principles
Unknown Journal|2010
1.4k cit.
7
Optical Flow Estimation Using a Spatial Pyramid Network
Unknown Journal|2017
1.4k cit.
8
Robust anisotropic diffusion
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing|1998
1.3k cit.
9
Generalizing motion edits with Gaussian processes
ACM Transactions on Graphics|2009
1.2k cit.
10
HumanEva: Synchronized Video and Motion Capture Dataset and Baseline Algorithm for Evaluation of Articulated Human Motion
International Journal of Computer Vision|2009
1.2k cit.

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