Alois Ferscha

4.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
204 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

Alois Ferscha is a scholar working on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Human-Computer Interaction and Computer Networks and Communications. According to data from OpenAlex, Alois Ferscha has authored 204 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 80 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 50 papers in Human-Computer Interaction and 44 papers in Computer Networks and Communications. Recurrent topics in Alois Ferscha's work include Context-Aware Activity Recognition Systems (58 papers), Simulation Techniques and Applications (26 papers) and Gaze Tracking and Assistive Technology (24 papers). Alois Ferscha is often cited by papers focused on Context-Aware Activity Recognition Systems (58 papers), Simulation Techniques and Applications (26 papers) and Gaze Tracking and Assistive Technology (24 papers). Alois Ferscha collaborates with scholars based in Austria, Germany and Switzerland. Alois Ferscha's co-authors include Andreas Riener, Paul Lukowicz, Kashif Zia, Satish K. Tripathi, Daniel Roggen, Clemens Holzmann, Ricardo Chavarriaga, Marc Kurz, José del R. Millán and Gerhard Tröster and has published in prestigious journals such as Sensors, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health and IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering.

In The Last Decade

Alois Ferscha

193 papers receiving 2.6k 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.

  1. Collecting complex activity datasets in highly rich networked sensor environments
    2010 524 citations Daniel Roggen, Alberto Calatroni et al. Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) profile →

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Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Alois Ferscha Austria 25 1.2k 791 452 443 409 204 2.8k
Juan Carlos Augusto United Kingdom 30 1.6k 1.3× 1.1k 1.4× 685 1.5× 274 0.6× 185 0.5× 174 3.3k
Vic Callaghan United Kingdom 25 1.1k 1.0× 576 0.7× 855 1.9× 437 1.0× 101 0.2× 165 3.3k
Jiadi Yu China 31 634 0.5× 713 0.9× 920 2.0× 251 0.6× 133 0.3× 186 3.2k
Yingzi Lin United States 29 307 0.3× 533 0.7× 390 0.9× 293 0.7× 104 0.3× 128 3.4k
Şahin Albayrak Germany 24 387 0.3× 875 1.1× 781 1.7× 208 0.5× 135 0.3× 272 2.9k
M. Shamim Hossain Saudi Arabia 35 836 0.7× 1.3k 1.6× 815 1.8× 194 0.4× 60 0.1× 100 3.4k
Xianzhi Wang Australia 27 657 0.6× 615 0.8× 1.3k 2.8× 66 0.1× 159 0.4× 161 3.0k
Xingshe Zhou China 31 860 0.7× 1.4k 1.7× 717 1.6× 160 0.4× 149 0.4× 244 4.3k
M. Anwar Hossain Saudi Arabia 23 1.0k 0.9× 820 1.0× 579 1.3× 220 0.5× 38 0.1× 114 2.6k
Wenbing Zhao United States 29 614 0.5× 1.2k 1.5× 690 1.5× 169 0.4× 58 0.1× 212 3.2k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alois Ferscha

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Alois Ferscha. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Alois Ferscha based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Alois Ferscha. Alois Ferscha is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Vazquez‐Pufleau, Miguel, et al.. (2025). Intention Prediction for Active Upper-Limb Exoskeletons in Industrial Applications: A Systematic Literature Review. Sensors. 25(17). 5225–5225. 1 indexed citations
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Ferscha, Alois, et al.. (2025). Motion Analysis in Alpine Skiing: Sensor Placement and Orientation-Invariant Sensing. Sensors. 25(8). 2582–2582.
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Ferscha, Alois, et al.. (2024). Robust Feature Representation Using Multi-Task Learning for Human Activity Recognition. Sensors. 24(2). 681–681. 7 indexed citations
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Ferscha, Alois, et al.. (2024). System Design for Sensing in Manufacturing to Apply AI through Hierarchical Abstraction Levels. Sensors. 24(14). 4508–4508. 2 indexed citations
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Ferscha, Alois, et al.. (2022). Alpine Skiing Activity Recognition Using Smartphone’s IMUs. Sensors. 22(15). 5922–5922. 10 indexed citations
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Mayer, Simon, et al.. (2017). Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on the Internet of Things (IOT 2017). 6 indexed citations
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Meersman, Robert, Hervé Panetto, Tharam S. Dillon, et al.. (2012). On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2012. Confederated International Conferences: CoopIS, DOA-SVI, and ODBASE 2012, Rome, Italy, September 10-14, 2012. Proceedings, Part I and Part II. HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe).
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Chavarriaga, Ricardo, Hesam Sagha, Hamidreza Bayati, et al.. (2010). Robust activity recognition for assistive technologies: Benchmarking machine learning techniques. Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). 3 indexed citations
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Lukowicz, Paul, Gerald Pirkl, David Bannach, et al.. (2010). Recording a Complex, Multi Modal Activity Data Set for Context Recognition. 1–166. 20 indexed citations
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Ferscha, Alois, et al.. (2009). Tokenized interaction architecture. 5(8). 3966–3977. 2 indexed citations
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Ferscha, Alois, et al.. (2009). Presence sensing billboards. 35(1). 3978–3992. 1 indexed citations
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Ferscha, Alois, et al.. (2009). En passant coupon collection. 3911–3925. 1 indexed citations
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Ferscha, Alois, et al.. (2008). Physical shortcuts for media remote controls. 9. 13 indexed citations
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Ferscha, Alois, et al.. (2008). Constructing Ambient Intelligence: AmI 2007 Workshops Darmstadt, Germany, November 7-10, 2007, Revised Papers. Springer eBooks. 4 indexed citations
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Riener, Andreas & Alois Ferscha. (2007). Driver Activity Recognition from Sitting Postures. Mensch & Computer Workshopband. 55–62. 11 indexed citations
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Ferscha, Alois & Friedemann Mattern. (2004). Pervasive computing : second International Conference, PERVASIVE 2004, Linz/Vienna, Austria, April 18-23, 2004 : proceedings. Digital Access to Libraries (Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), l'Université de Namur (UNamur) and the Université Saint-Louis (USL-B)). 5 indexed citations
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Ferscha, Alois, et al.. (2001). Context Sensing, Aggregation, Representation and Exploitation in Wireless Networks. Scalable Computing Practice and Experience. 6(2). 6 indexed citations
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Ferscha, Alois. (1995). Probabilistic adaptive direct optimism control in Time Warp. 25(1). 120–129. 70 indexed citations
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Ferscha, Alois. (1994). Concurrent execution of timed Petri nets. Winter Simulation Conference. 229–236. 13 indexed citations
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Ferrara, Paolo, Alois Ferscha, & Günter Haring. (1992). Collision avoiding six legged walking machine based on Kohonen feature maps. European Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 216–218. 1 indexed citations

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