Andrews Sobral

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
4 papers, 656 citations indexed

About

Andrews Sobral is a scholar working on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Computational Mechanics and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Andrews Sobral has authored 4 papers receiving a total of 656 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 4 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 1 paper in Computational Mechanics and 1 paper in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Andrews Sobral's work include Video Surveillance and Tracking Methods (4 papers), Advanced Vision and Imaging (2 papers) and Human Pose and Action Recognition (2 papers). Andrews Sobral is often cited by papers focused on Video Surveillance and Tracking Methods (4 papers), Advanced Vision and Imaging (2 papers) and Human Pose and Action Recognition (2 papers). Andrews Sobral collaborates with scholars based in France, China and Spain. Andrews Sobral's co-authors include Antoine Vacavant, El-Hadi Zahzah, Thierry Bouwmans, Jordi Gonzàlez, Wenjuan Gong, Xuena Zhang, Changhe Tu, Leizer Schnitman and Luciano Oliveira and has published in prestigious journals such as Sensors, Pattern Recognition Letters and Computer Vision and Image Understanding.

In The Last Decade

Andrews Sobral

4 papers receiving 625 citations

Hit Papers

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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 comprehensive review of background subtraction algorithms evaluated with synthetic and real videos

2014 459 citations Andrews Sobral, Antoine Vacavant Computer Vision and Image Understanding profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Andrews Sobral France	4	546	101	64	54	54	4	656
Yiming Cui United States	14	547 1.0×	143 1.4×	109 1.7×	65 1.2×	58 1.1×	21	727
Hanxi Li China	13	567 1.0×	139 1.4×	77 1.2×	65 1.2×	78 1.4×	41	711
Huijun Di China	13	523 1.0×	147 1.5×	85 1.3×	125 2.3×	32 0.6×	41	630
Jun-Wei Hsieh Taiwan	14	640 1.2×	133 1.3×	83 1.3×	154 2.9×	51 0.9×	53	779
Abrar Ahmed Pakistan	7	422 0.8×	106 1.0×	27 0.4×	50 0.9×	18 0.3×	9	537
Bertrand Vachon France	8	577 1.1×	105 1.0×	66 1.0×	64 1.2×	62 1.1×	17	697
Anton Konushin Russia	13	446 0.8×	77 0.8×	98 1.5×	54 1.0×	29 0.5×	63	640
Mohammadreza Babaee Germany	9	528 1.0×	124 1.2×	36 0.6×	60 1.1×	26 0.5×	18	637
Jiarui Xu China	6	579 1.1×	219 2.2×	51 0.8×	25 0.5×	20 0.4×	11	704
Horst Possegger Austria	12	600 1.1×	190 1.9×	127 2.0×	29 0.5×	61 1.1×	38	714

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Andrews Sobral

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Andrews Sobral. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Andrews Sobral 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 Andrews Sobral. Andrews Sobral is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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4 of 4 papers shown

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Sobral, Andrews & El-Hadi Zahzah. (2016). Matrix and tensor completion algorithms for background model initialization: A comparative evaluation. Pattern Recognition Letters. 96. 22–33. 44 indexed citations

2.

Gong, Wenjuan, Xuena Zhang, Jordi Gonzàlez, et al.. (2016). Human Pose Estimation from Monocular Images: A Comprehensive Survey. Sensors. 16(12). 1966–1966. 111 indexed citations

3.

Sobral, Andrews & Antoine Vacavant. (2014). A comprehensive review of background subtraction algorithms evaluated with synthetic and real videos. Computer Vision and Image Understanding. 122. 4–21. 459 indexed citations breakdown →

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Sobral, Andrews, et al.. (2013). Highway Traffic Congestion Classification using Holistic Properties. 42 indexed citations

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