Alejandro Beacco

908 total citations · 1 hit paper
25 papers, 529 citations indexed

About

Alejandro Beacco is a scholar working on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Human-Computer Interaction and Control and Systems Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Alejandro Beacco has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 529 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 12 papers in Human-Computer Interaction and 9 papers in Control and Systems Engineering. Recurrent topics in Alejandro Beacco's work include Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts (12 papers), Human Motion and Animation (9 papers) and Evacuation and Crowd Dynamics (8 papers). Alejandro Beacco is often cited by papers focused on Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts (12 papers), Human Motion and Animation (9 papers) and Evacuation and Crowd Dynamics (8 papers). Alejandro Beacco collaborates with scholars based in Spain, United Kingdom and United States. Alejandro Beacco's co-authors include Mel Slater, Ramon Oliva, Domna Banakou, Jaime Gallego, Xavi Navarro, Nuria Pelechano, Solène Neyret, Sofía Seinfeld, Carlos Andújar and Joanna Hale and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Alejandro Beacco

23 papers receiving 511 citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

A Separate Reality: An Update on Place Illusion and Plausibility in Virtual Reality

2022 129 citations Mel Slater, Domna Banakou et al. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alejandro Beacco Spain	11	306	142	135	84	67	25	529
Ramon Oliva Spain	11	304 1.0×	72 0.5×	172 1.3×	89 1.1×	29 0.4×	18	447
Ye Pan United Kingdom	14	610 2.0×	272 1.9×	234 1.7×	177 2.1×	57 0.9×	21	758
Catherine Zanbaka United States	8	279 0.9×	107 0.8×	147 1.1×	97 1.2×	24 0.4×	11	414
Andrew Robb United States	17	503 1.6×	129 0.9×	246 1.8×	204 2.4×	40 0.6×	64	805
Andrea Brogni Italy	11	562 1.8×	191 1.3×	272 2.0×	194 2.3×	60 0.9×	29	769
Despina Michael‐Grigoriou Cyprus	12	261 0.9×	85 0.6×	114 0.8×	76 0.9×	19 0.3×	39	452
Amy Ulinski United States	8	334 1.1×	129 0.9×	101 0.7×	118 1.4×	28 0.4×	12	423
Insu Yu United Kingdom	7	329 1.1×	130 0.9×	136 1.0×	150 1.8×	15 0.2×	12	476
Dominic Kao United States	16	258 0.8×	102 0.7×	102 0.8×	78 0.9×	26 0.4×	58	572
Kristopher J. Blom Germany	10	305 1.0×	66 0.5×	152 1.1×	180 2.1×	27 0.4×	23	456

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alejandro Beacco

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Matamala-Gomez, Marta, Giacomo Guidali, Carlotta Lega, et al.. (2025). Virtual body continuity during action observation affects motor cortical excitability. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 13364–13364.

Banakou, Domna, et al.. (2024). Desensitizing Anxiety Through Imperceptible Change: Feasibility Study on a Paradigm for Single-Session Exposure Therapy for Fear of Public Speaking. JMIR Formative Research. 8. e52212–e52212. 2 indexed citations

Oliva, Ramon, et al.. (2023). The Making of a Newspaper Interview in Virtual Reality: Realistic Avatars, Philosophy, and Sushi. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications. 43(6). 117–125. 5 indexed citations

Slater, Mel, et al.. (2022). The sentiment of a virtual rock concert. Virtual Reality. 27(2). 651–675. 18 indexed citations

Beacco, Alejandro, Jaime Gallego, & Mel Slater. (2022). 3D objects reconstruction from frontal images: an example with guitars. The Visual Computer. 39(11). 5421–5436. 3 indexed citations

Oliva, Ramon, Alejandro Beacco, Xavi Navarro, & Mel Slater. (2022). QuickVR: A standard library for virtual embodiment in unity. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3. 14 indexed citations

Slater, Mel, et al.. (2022). A Separate Reality: An Update on Place Illusion and Plausibility in Virtual Reality. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3. 129 indexed citations breakdown →

Gallego, Jaime, Alejandro Beacco, & Mel Slater. (2022). 3D Objects Reconstruction Using Frontal Images. An Example With Guitars. 2022 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP). 1291–1295. 1 indexed citations

Gorisse, Geoffrey, Domna Banakou, Alejandro Beacco, et al.. (2021). Self-observation of a virtual body-double engaged in social interaction reduces persecutory thoughts. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 23923–23923. 10 indexed citations

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Neyret, Solène, Xavi Navarro, Alejandro Beacco, et al.. (2020). An Embodied Perspective as a Victim of Sexual Harassment in Virtual Reality Reduces Action Conformity in a Later Milgram Obedience Scenario. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 6207–6207. 50 indexed citations

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Banakou, Domna, et al.. (2020). Virtual body ownership and its consequences for implicit racial bias are dependent on social context. Royal Society Open Science. 7(12). 201848–201848. 56 indexed citations

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Beacco, Alejandro, Jaime Gallego, & Mel Slater. (2020). Automatic 3D Character Reconstruction from Frontal and Lateral Monocular 2D RGB Views. QRU Quaderns de Recerca en Urbanisme. 2785–2789. 10 indexed citations

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Slater, Mel, et al.. (2018). Virtually Being Lenin Enhances Presence and Engagement in a Scene From the Russian Revolution. Frontiers in Robotics and AI. 5. 91–91. 32 indexed citations

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Pan, Xueni, Mel Slater, Alejandro Beacco, et al.. (2016). The Responses of Medical General Practitioners to Unreasonable Patient Demand for Antibiotics - A Study of Medical Ethics Using Immersive Virtual Reality. PLoS ONE. 11(2). e0146837–e0146837. 92 indexed citations

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Beacco, Alejandro, Nuria Pelechano, Mubbasir Kapadia, & Norman I. Badler. (2015). Footstep parameterized motion blending using barycentric coordinates. Computers & Graphics. 47. 105–112. 7 indexed citations

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Beacco, Alejandro, Nuria Pelechano, & Carlos Andújar. (2015). A Survey of Real‐Time Crowd Rendering. Computer Graphics Forum. 35(8). 32–50. 18 indexed citations

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Beacco, Alejandro, Carlos Andújar, Nuria Pelechano, & Bernhard Spanlang. (2012). Efficient rendering of animated characters through optimized per‐joint impostors. Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds. 23(1). 33–47. 6 indexed citations

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Pelechano, Nuria, Bernhard Spanlang, & Alejandro Beacco. (2011). Avatar Locomotion in Crowd Simulation. International Journal of Virtual Reality. 10(1). 13–19. 6 indexed citations

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Beacco, Alejandro, Bernhard Spanlang, Carlos Andújar, & Nuria Pelechano. (2011). A Flexible Approach for Output‐Sensitive Rendering of Animated Characters. Computer Graphics Forum. 30(8). 2328–2340. 4 indexed citations

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Pelechano, Nuria, Bernhard Spanlang, & Alejandro Beacco. (2009). A Framework for Rendering, Simulation and Animation of Crowds. Eurographics. 1–10. 1 indexed citations

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