Xander Twombly

1.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
4 papers, 652 citations indexed

About

Xander Twombly is a scholar working on Control and Systems Engineering, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and Human-Computer Interaction. According to data from OpenAlex, Xander Twombly has authored 4 papers receiving a total of 652 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 3 papers in Control and Systems Engineering, 3 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and 3 papers in Human-Computer Interaction. Recurrent topics in Xander Twombly's work include Hand Gesture Recognition Systems (3 papers), Robot Manipulation and Learning (2 papers) and Human Pose and Action Recognition (2 papers). Xander Twombly is often cited by papers focused on Hand Gesture Recognition Systems (3 papers), Robot Manipulation and Learning (2 papers) and Human Pose and Action Recognition (2 papers). Xander Twombly collaborates with scholars based in United States and United Kingdom. Xander Twombly's co-authors include George Bebis, Ali Erol, Mircea Nicolescu, Richard D. Boyle, Monica Nicolescu, Richard Boyle and Li Chen and has published in prestigious journals such as Computer Vision and Image Understanding and Machine Vision and Applications.

In The Last Decade

Xander Twombly

4 papers receiving 623 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.

Vision-based hand pose estimation: A review

2007 569 citations Ali Erol, George Bebis et al. 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
Xander Twombly United States	4	565	393	263	106	87	4	652
Fabio Dominio Italy	8	511 0.9×	385 1.0×	161 0.6×	86 0.8×	151 1.7×	9	696
David J. Sturman United States	7	547 1.0×	298 0.8×	297 1.1×	205 1.9×	85 1.0×	9	748
Giulio Marin Italy	7	436 0.8×	349 0.9×	144 0.5×	75 0.7×	140 1.6×	11	645
Chuck Blanchard	5	412 0.7×	227 0.6×	116 0.4×	171 1.6×	63 0.7×	6	574
Dimitrios Tzionas Germany	11	459 0.8×	1.1k 2.8×	549 2.1×	39 0.4×	137 1.6×	21	1.3k
Young Harvill	5	404 0.7×	213 0.5×	116 0.4×	149 1.4×	62 0.7×	5	547
J.H. Kim South Korea	5	394 0.7×	440 1.1×	113 0.4×	58 0.5×	122 1.4×	8	612
Munir Oudah Australia	5	328 0.6×	143 0.4×	107 0.4×	55 0.5×	88 1.0×	6	413
Eyal Krupka Israel	8	259 0.5×	264 0.7×	121 0.5×	63 0.6×	31 0.4×	12	400
Alon Vinnikov Israel	5	259 0.5×	230 0.6×	118 0.4×	66 0.6×	32 0.4×	7	347

Countries citing papers authored by Xander Twombly

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Fields of papers citing papers by Xander Twombly

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xander Twombly

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Xander Twombly. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Xander Twombly 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 Xander Twombly. Xander Twombly 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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Erol, Ali, et al.. (2008). Global hand pose estimation by multiple camera ellipse tracking. Machine Vision and Applications. 21(1). 1–15. 16 indexed citations

2.

Erol, Ali, George Bebis, Mircea Nicolescu, Richard D. Boyle, & Xander Twombly. (2007). Vision-based hand pose estimation: A review. Computer Vision and Image Understanding. 108(1-2). 52–73. 569 indexed citations breakdown →

3.

Erol, Ali, et al.. (2006). A Review on Vision-Based Full DOF Hand Motion Estimation. 3. 75–75. 61 indexed citations

4.

Chen, Li, et al.. (2002). A fuzzy search method for rough sets in data mining. 2. 980–985. 6 indexed citations

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