Mihai Zanfir

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
12 papers, 740 citations indexed

About

Mihai Zanfir is a scholar working on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Control and Systems Engineering and Computational Mechanics. According to data from OpenAlex, Mihai Zanfir has authored 12 papers receiving a total of 740 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 3 papers in Control and Systems Engineering and 3 papers in Computational Mechanics. Recurrent topics in Mihai Zanfir's work include Human Pose and Action Recognition (7 papers), Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques (3 papers) and Advanced Vision and Imaging (3 papers). Mihai Zanfir is often cited by papers focused on Human Pose and Action Recognition (7 papers), Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques (3 papers) and Advanced Vision and Imaging (3 papers). Mihai Zanfir collaborates with scholars based in Romania, Czechia and Sweden. Mihai Zanfir's co-authors include Cristian Sminchisescu, Marius Leordeanu, Vlad Olaru, Thiemo Alldieck, Elisabeta Marinoiu, Andrei Zanfir, Eduard Gabriel Băzăvan and Enric Corona and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) and Lund University Publications (Lund University).

In The Last Decade

Mihai Zanfir

11 papers receiving 716 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.

  1. The Moving Pose: An Efficient 3D Kinematics Descriptor for Low-Latency Action Recognition and Detection
    2013 290 citations Mihai Zanfir, Marius Leordeanu et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Mihai Zanfir Romania 9 649 174 165 156 138 12 740
Lin Gui China 3 461 0.7× 74 0.4× 90 0.5× 54 0.3× 86 0.6× 4 530
Ikhsanul Habibie Indonesia 9 449 0.7× 50 0.3× 143 0.9× 77 0.5× 68 0.5× 15 545
Hee-Deok Yang South Korea 12 246 0.4× 143 0.8× 290 1.8× 44 0.3× 51 0.4× 30 543
Nikolaos Sarafianos United States 9 228 0.4× 47 0.3× 62 0.4× 27 0.2× 56 0.4× 18 300
Dan Mikami Japan 12 211 0.3× 42 0.2× 81 0.5× 102 0.7× 20 0.1× 58 453
Yen-Chen Lin United States 6 441 0.7× 38 0.2× 101 0.6× 44 0.3× 62 0.4× 9 557
Irene Albrecht Germany 9 268 0.4× 51 0.3× 151 0.9× 65 0.4× 45 0.3× 13 475
Liliana Lo Presti Italy 9 474 0.7× 153 0.9× 119 0.7× 171 1.1× 9 0.1× 29 611
Pei-Ying Chiang Taiwan 9 255 0.4× 35 0.2× 91 0.6× 34 0.2× 48 0.3× 25 411
Robert Wang United States 9 305 0.5× 42 0.2× 216 1.3× 47 0.3× 22 0.2× 16 445

Countries citing papers authored by Mihai Zanfir

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Fields of papers citing papers by Mihai Zanfir

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mihai Zanfir

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

All Works

12 of 12 papers shown
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Zanfir, Mihai, et al.. (2025). Reconstructing Three-Dimensional Models of Interacting Humans. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. 47(12). 10870–10881.
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Zanfir, Mihai, Thiemo Alldieck, & Cristian Sminchisescu. (2024). PhoMoH: Implicit Photorealistic 3D Models of Human Heads. 1229–1239. 1 indexed citations
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Corona, Enric, Mihai Zanfir, Thiemo Alldieck, et al.. (2023). Structured 3D Features for Reconstructing Controllable Avatars. 16954–16964. 15 indexed citations
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Alldieck, Thiemo, Mihai Zanfir, & Cristian Sminchisescu. (2022). Photorealistic Monocular 3D Reconstruction of Humans Wearing Clothing. 2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). 1496–1505. 82 indexed citations
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Zanfir, Mihai, et al.. (2021). REMIPS: Physically Consistent 3D Reconstruction of Multiple Interacting People under Weak Supervision. Neural Information Processing Systems. 34. 8 indexed citations
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Zanfir, Mihai, et al.. (2021). AIFit: Automatic 3D Human-Interpretable Feedback Models for Fitness Training. 9914–9923. 44 indexed citations
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Zanfir, Mihai, et al.. (2020). Three-Dimensional Reconstruction of Human Interactions. Lund University Publications (Lund University). 7212–7221. 47 indexed citations
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Zanfir, Andrei, et al.. (2018). Deep network for the integrated 3D sensing of multiple people in natural images. Lund University Publications (Lund University). 31. 8410–8419. 59 indexed citations
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Zanfir, Mihai, et al.. (2018). Human Appearance Transfer. 5391–5399. 46 indexed citations
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Marinoiu, Elisabeta, Mihai Zanfir, Vlad Olaru, & Cristian Sminchisescu. (2018). 3D Human Sensing, Action and Emotion Recognition in Robot Assisted Therapy of Children with Autism. Lund University Publications (Lund University). 2158–2167. 66 indexed citations
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Zanfir, Mihai, et al.. (2017). Deep Multitask Architecture for Integrated 2D and 3D Human Sensing. 4714–4723. 82 indexed citations
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Zanfir, Mihai, Marius Leordeanu, & Cristian Sminchisescu. (2013). The Moving Pose: An Efficient 3D Kinematics Descriptor for Low-Latency Action Recognition and Detection. 2752–2759. 290 indexed citations breakdown →

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