Lucas Kovar

3.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
17 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Lucas Kovar is a scholar working on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Control and Systems Engineering and Computational Mechanics. According to data from OpenAlex, Lucas Kovar has authored 17 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 16 papers in Control and Systems Engineering and 2 papers in Computational Mechanics. Recurrent topics in Lucas Kovar's work include Human Motion and Animation (16 papers), Video Analysis and Summarization (14 papers) and Human Pose and Action Recognition (14 papers). Lucas Kovar is often cited by papers focused on Human Motion and Animation (16 papers), Video Analysis and Summarization (14 papers) and Human Pose and Action Recognition (14 papers). Lucas Kovar collaborates with scholars based in United States. Lucas Kovar's co-authors include Michael Gleicher, Frédéric Pighin, L J Schreiner, Hyun Joon Shin and Mankyu Sung and has published in prestigious journals such as ACM Transactions on Graphics and Computer Graphics Forum.

In The Last Decade

Lucas Kovar

17 papers receiving 2.0k 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.

Motion graphs

2008 488 citations Lucas Kovar, Michael Gleicher et al. profile →
Motion graphs

2002 428 citations Lucas Kovar, Michael Gleicher et al. ACM Transactions on Graphics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Lucas Kovar United States	13	2.0k	2.0k	213	125	122	17	2.1k
Jun Saito United Kingdom	10	1.0k 0.5×	1.1k 0.6×	206 1.0×	127 1.0×	16 0.1×	19	1.4k
Sebastian Starke United Kingdom	13	669 0.3×	651 0.3×	103 0.5×	88 0.7×	10 0.1×	22	885
Jungdam Won South Korea	13	449 0.2×	430 0.2×	72 0.3×	81 0.6×	54 0.4×	27	604
Panna Felsen United States	4	341 0.2×	860 0.4×	120 0.6×	164 1.3×	7 0.1×	6	958
John Dingliana Ireland	14	199 0.1×	511 0.3×	174 0.8×	31 0.2×	62 0.5×	52	747
Frank Michel Germany	9	318 0.2×	760 0.4×	52 0.2×	38 0.3×	7 0.1×	15	965
Zhongang Cai Singapore	14	181 0.1×	524 0.3×	376 1.8×	107 0.9×	9 0.1×	25	854
Mustafa Mukadam United States	15	390 0.2×	458 0.2×	45 0.2×	194 1.6×	30 0.2×	30	753
Matthew Klingensmith United States	8	410 0.2×	573 0.3×	19 0.1×	145 1.2×	20 0.2×	9	791
Cédric Cagniart Germany	8	431 0.2×	773 0.4×	97 0.5×	52 0.4×	3 0.0×	12	1.0k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Lucas Kovar

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lucas Kovar

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

All Works

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17 of 17 papers shown

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Kovar, Lucas, Michael Gleicher, & Frédéric Pighin. (2008). Motion graphs. 1–10. 488 indexed citations breakdown →

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Gleicher, Michael, et al.. (2008). Snap-together motion. 1–9. 28 indexed citations

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Kovar, Lucas, et al.. (2006). Splicing Upper‐Body Actions with Locomotion. Computer Graphics Forum. 25(3). 459–466. 34 indexed citations

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Sung, Mankyu, Lucas Kovar, & Michael Gleicher. (2005). Fast and accurate goal-directed motion synthesis for crowds. 291–300. 72 indexed citations

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Shin, Hyun Joon, Lucas Kovar, & Michael Gleicher. (2004). Physical touch-up of human motions. 194–203. 29 indexed citations

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Kovar, Lucas & Michael Gleicher. (2004). Automated extraction and parameterization of motions in large data sets. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 23(3). 559–568. 333 indexed citations

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Kovar, Lucas & Michael Gleicher. (2004). Automated extraction and parameterization of motions in large data sets. 559–568. 38 indexed citations

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Kovar, Lucas & Michael Gleicher. (2004). Automated methods for data-driven synthesis of realistic and controllable human motion. 6 indexed citations

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Kovar, Lucas & Michael Gleicher. (2003). Flexible automatic motion blending with registration curves. 214–224. 150 indexed citations

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Gleicher, Michael, et al.. (2003). Snap-together motion. 702–702. 6 indexed citations

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Gleicher, Michael, et al.. (2003). Snap-together motion. 181–188. 54 indexed citations

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Gleicher, Michael, et al.. (2003). Snap-together motion. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 22(3). 702–702. 30 indexed citations

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Kovar, Lucas, Michael Gleicher, & Frédéric Pighin. (2002). Motion graphs. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 21(3). 473–482. 428 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kovar, Lucas, L J Schreiner, & Michael Gleicher. (2002). Footskate cleanup for motion capture editing. 97–104. 143 indexed citations

15.

Kovar, Lucas, L J Schreiner, & Michael Gleicher. (2002). Footskate cleanup for motion capture editing. 9 indexed citations

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Kovar, Lucas, Michael Gleicher, & Frédéric Pighin. (2002). Motion graphs. 473–482. 277 indexed citations

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Kovar, Lucas & Michael Gleicher. (2001). Simplicial families of drawings. 163–172. 9 indexed citations

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