Nancy S. Pollard

6.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
109 papers, 4.8k citations indexed

About

Nancy S. Pollard is a scholar working on Control and Systems Engineering, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Nancy S. Pollard has authored 109 papers receiving a total of 4.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 88 papers in Control and Systems Engineering, 62 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and 28 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Nancy S. Pollard's work include Robot Manipulation and Learning (55 papers), Human Motion and Animation (37 papers) and Human Pose and Action Recognition (32 papers). Nancy S. Pollard is often cited by papers focused on Robot Manipulation and Learning (55 papers), Human Motion and Animation (37 papers) and Human Pose and Action Recognition (32 papers). Nancy S. Pollard collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and Germany. Nancy S. Pollard's co-authors include Jessica K. Hodgins, Paul S. A. Reitsma, James McCann, Jinxiang Chai, Jehee Lee, Alla Safonova, Anthony C. Fang, Lillian Chang, Siddhartha S Srinivasa and Christos Faloutsos and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Biomechanics, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering and ACM Transactions on Graphics.

In The Last Decade

Nancy S. Pollard

105 papers receiving 4.5k 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.

Interactive control of avatars animated with human motion data

2002 593 citations Jessica K. Hodgins, Nancy S. Pollard et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nancy S. Pollard United States	37	3.7k	3.0k	979	518	485	109	4.8k
Taku Komura United Kingdom	38	2.8k 0.7×	3.4k 1.1×	832 0.8×	423 0.8×	546 1.1×	197	5.1k
Carme Torras Spain	32	1.9k 0.5×	1.6k 0.5×	916 0.9×	868 1.7×	250 0.5×	248	4.5k
Peter K. Allen United States	42	3.5k 0.9×	2.5k 0.9×	2.4k 2.5×	578 1.1×	498 1.0×	129	6.5k
Ronan Boulic Switzerland	29	1.6k 0.4×	1.6k 0.5×	482 0.5×	168 0.3×	731 1.5×	156	3.1k
Maren Bennewitz Germany	30	1.5k 0.4×	3.7k 1.2×	954 1.0×	896 1.7×	278 0.6×	142	5.7k
Kikuo Fujimura United States	29	1.1k 0.3×	1.8k 0.6×	973 1.0×	438 0.8×	479 1.0×	143	3.6k
Jean‐Paul Laumond France	34	2.9k 0.8×	3.3k 1.1×	1.3k 1.4×	360 0.7×	98 0.2×	115	4.7k
Francesc Moreno-Noguer Spain	34	894 0.2×	5.4k 1.8×	448 0.5×	456 0.9×	387 0.8×	147	6.8k
Jehee Lee South Korea	31	3.3k 0.9×	3.2k 1.1×	404 0.4×	333 0.6×	205 0.4×	84	3.9k
Toby Sharp United Kingdom	16	794 0.2×	4.5k 1.5×	996 1.0×	775 1.5×	1.8k 3.6×	21	5.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Nancy S. Pollard

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nancy S. Pollard

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Hodgins, Jessica K., et al.. (2025). Kinematic Motion Retargeting for Contact-Rich Anthropomorphic Manipulations. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 44(2). 1–20. 3 indexed citations

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Mahler, Moshe, et al.. (2023). Contact Edit: Artist Tools for Intuitive Modeling of Hand-Object Interactions. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 42(4). 1–20. 3 indexed citations

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King, Jonathan P., et al.. (2021). Characterizing Continuous Manipulation Families for Dexterous Soft Robot Hands. Frontiers in Robotics and AI. 8. 645290–645290. 4 indexed citations

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Klingensmith, Matthew, et al.. (2018). Closed-loop Servoing using Real-time Markerless Arm Tracking. Figshare. 4 indexed citations

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McCann, James, et al.. (2018). Mid-level Smoke Control for 2D Animation. Figshare. 25–32.

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Chang, Kai-Hung, et al.. (2018). Control of Tendon-Driven Soft Foam Robot Hands. 1–7. 28 indexed citations

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Javdani, Shervin, Matthew Klingensmith, J. Andrew Bagnell, Nancy S. Pollard, & Siddhartha S Srinivasa. (2013). Efficient touch based localization through submodularity. 1828–1835. 41 indexed citations

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Pollard, Nancy S., et al.. (2012). Smoke sheets for graph-structured vortex filaments. 77–86. 8 indexed citations

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Gatesy, Stephen M. & Nancy S. Pollard. (2011). Apples, oranges, and angles: Comparative kinematic analysis of disparate limbs. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 282(1). 7–13. 20 indexed citations

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Pollard, Nancy S. & Lillian Chang. (2010). Pre-grasp interaction as a manipulation strategy for movable objects. 55(5). 641–8. 1 indexed citations

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Li, Lei, James McCann, Nancy S. Pollard, & Christos Faloutsos. (2010). BoLeRO: a principled technique for including bone length constraints in motion capture occlusion filling. 179–188. 32 indexed citations

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Chang, Lillian, Roberta L. Klatzky, & Nancy S. Pollard. (2010). Selection Criteria for Preparatory Object Rotation in Manual Lifting Actions. Journal of Motor Behavior. 42(1). 11–27. 13 indexed citations

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McCann, James & Nancy S. Pollard. (2009). Local layering. 1–7. 9 indexed citations

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Chang, Lillian & Nancy S. Pollard. (2008). Method for Determining Kinematic Parameters of theIn VivoThumb Carpometacarpal Joint. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering. 55(7). 1897–1906. 48 indexed citations

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Chang, Lillian & Nancy S. Pollard. (2007). Robust estimation of dominant axis of rotation. Journal of Biomechanics. 40(12). 2707–2715. 30 indexed citations

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Chang, Lillian, Nancy S. Pollard, Tom M. Mitchell, & Eric P. Xing. (2007). Feature selection for grasp recognition from optical markers. 2944–2950. 39 indexed citations

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McCann, James & Nancy S. Pollard. (2007). Responsive characters from motion fragments. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 26(99). 6–6. 8 indexed citations

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McCann, James, Nancy S. Pollard, & Siddhartha S Srinivasa. (2006). Physics-based motion retiming. 205–214. 24 indexed citations

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Barbič, Jernej, Alla Safonova, Jia-Yu Pan, et al.. (2004). Segmenting motion capture data into distinct behaviors. Graphics Interface. 185–194. 275 indexed citations

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Pollard, Nancy S.. (2004). Closure and Quality Equivalence for Efficient Synthesis of Grasps from Examples. The International Journal of Robotics Research. 23(6). 595–613. 97 indexed citations

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