Simon Alexanderson

630 total citations · 1 hit paper
27 papers, 390 citations indexed

About

Simon Alexanderson is a scholar working on Control and Systems Engineering, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Simon Alexanderson has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 390 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Control and Systems Engineering, 11 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and 9 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Simon Alexanderson's work include Human Motion and Animation (11 papers), Speech and dialogue systems (8 papers) and Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (6 papers). Simon Alexanderson is often cited by papers focused on Human Motion and Animation (11 papers), Speech and dialogue systems (8 papers) and Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (6 papers). Simon Alexanderson collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, Ireland and Switzerland. Simon Alexanderson's co-authors include Jonas Beskow, Gustav Eje Henter, Taras Kucherenko, David House, Carol O’Sullivan, Pierre-Yves Oudeyer, André Holzapfel, Emma Frid, Roberto Bresin and André Pereira and has published in prestigious journals such as ACM Transactions on Graphics, Computer Graphics Forum and Language Resources and Evaluation.

In The Last Decade

Simon Alexanderson

27 papers receiving 366 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. Listen, Denoise, Action! Audio-Driven Motion Synthesis with Diffusion Models
    2023 84 citations Simon Alexanderson, Jonas Beskow 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 Career Trend Papers Cites
Simon Alexanderson Sweden 11 220 209 114 81 65 27 390
Ylva Ferstl Ireland 12 180 0.8× 147 0.7× 164 1.4× 109 1.3× 122 1.9× 18 401
Sylvie Gibet France 10 165 0.8× 141 0.7× 180 1.6× 54 0.7× 41 0.6× 33 368
Yosuke Matsusaka Japan 10 105 0.5× 118 0.6× 80 0.7× 142 1.8× 190 2.9× 29 365
Frédéric Elisei France 11 143 0.7× 78 0.4× 75 0.7× 143 1.8× 131 2.0× 29 449
Taras Kucherenko Sweden 7 136 0.6× 128 0.6× 96 0.8× 85 1.0× 65 1.0× 15 252
Sascha Fagel Germany 6 73 0.3× 54 0.3× 55 0.5× 83 1.0× 94 1.4× 30 305
Chaoran Liu Japan 11 81 0.4× 57 0.3× 63 0.6× 131 1.6× 142 2.2× 39 320
Yuyu Xu United States 6 136 0.6× 124 0.6× 59 0.5× 75 0.9× 53 0.8× 15 256
Barry-John Theobald United Kingdom 14 261 1.2× 45 0.2× 47 0.4× 87 1.1× 57 0.9× 40 494
Katerina El Raheb Greece 9 159 0.7× 150 0.7× 83 0.7× 28 0.3× 24 0.4× 28 295

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Fields of papers citing papers by Simon Alexanderson

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Simon Alexanderson

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

All Works

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Alexanderson, Simon, et al.. (2023). Diffusion-Based Co-Speech Gesture Generation Using Joint Text and Audio Representation. arXiv (Cornell University). 755–762. 12 indexed citations
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Wang, Siyang, et al.. (2023). Learning to generate pointing gestures in situated embodied conversational agents. Frontiers in Robotics and AI. 10. 1110534–1110534. 5 indexed citations
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Wang, Siyang, et al.. (2023). Diff-TTSG: Denoising probabilistic integrated speech and gesture synthesis. 150–156. 9 indexed citations
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Alexanderson, Simon, et al.. (2023). Listen, Denoise, Action! Audio-Driven Motion Synthesis with Diffusion Models. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 42(4). 1–20. 84 indexed citations breakdown →
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Henter, Gustav Eje, et al.. (2021). Transflower. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 40(6). 1–14. 46 indexed citations
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Pereira, André, et al.. (2021). Using Virtual Reality to Support Acting in Motion Capture with Differently Scaled Characters. 402–410. 18 indexed citations
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Alexanderson, Simon, Gustav Eje Henter, Taras Kucherenko, & Jonas Beskow. (2020). Style‐Controllable Speech‐Driven Gesture Synthesis Using Normalising Flows. Computer Graphics Forum. 39(2). 487–496. 97 indexed citations
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Kontogiorgos, Dimosthenis, Simon Alexanderson, Patrik Jonell, et al.. (2018). A Multimodal Corpus for Mutual Gaze and Joint Attention in Multiparty Situated Interaction. Language Resources and Evaluation. 119–127. 6 indexed citations
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Alexanderson, Simon, et al.. (2018). Using Constrained Optimization for Real-Time Synchronization of Verbal and Nonverbal Robot Behavior. 3. 1955–1961. 2 indexed citations
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Frid, Emma, Roberto Bresin, & Simon Alexanderson. (2018). Perception Of Mechanical Sounds Inherent To Expressive Gestures Of A Nao Robot - Implications For Movement Sonification Of Humanoids. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 18 indexed citations
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Friberg, Anders, et al.. (2017). Computer Analysis of Sentiment Interpretation in Musical Conducting. KTH Publication Database DiVA (KTH Royal Institute of Technology). 400–405. 1 indexed citations
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Alexanderson, Simon, Carol O’Sullivan, Michael Neff, & Jonas Beskow. (2017). Mimebot—Investigating the Expressibility of Non-Verbal Communication Across Agent Embodiments. ACM Transactions on Applied Perception. 14(4). 1–13. 6 indexed citations
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Alexanderson, Simon, Carol O’Sullivan, & Jonas Beskow. (2017). Real-time labeling of non-rigid motion capture marker sets. Computers & Graphics. 69. 59–67. 15 indexed citations
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House, David, et al.. (2016). Prosody and hand gesture at turn boundaries in Swedish. 831–835. 12 indexed citations
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Alexanderson, Simon, David House, & Jonas Beskow. (2016). Automatic annotation of gestural units in spontaneous face-to-face interaction. 15–19. 4 indexed citations
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Alexanderson, Simon, Carol O’Sullivan, & Jonas Beskow. (2016). Robust online motion capture labeling of finger markers. 7–13. 11 indexed citations
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House, David, Simon Alexanderson, & Jonas Beskow. (2015). On the temporal domain of co-speech gestures: syllable, phrase or talk spurt?. 63–68. 1 indexed citations
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Alexanderson, Simon & Jonas Beskow. (2015). Towards Fully Automated Motion Capture of Signs -- Development and Evaluation of a Key Word Signing Avatar. ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing. 7(2). 1–17. 8 indexed citations
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Alexanderson, Simon, David House, & Jonas Beskow. (2013). Aspects of co-occurring syllables and head nods in spontaneous dialogue. 169–172. 10 indexed citations

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