Michael Neff

Michael Neff

University of California, Davis

H-index: 28

North America-United States

About Michael Neff

Michael Neff, With an exceptional h-index of 28 and a recent h-index of 21 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at University of California, Davis, specializes in the field of character animation, nonverbal communication, virtual reality.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

The Impact of Avatar Stylization on Trust

Understanding the Impact of Visual and Kinematic Information on the Perception of Physicality Errors

AdaptNet: Policy adaptation for physics-based character control

A Comprehensive Review of Data‐Driven Co‐Speech Gesture Generation

A motion matching-based framework for controllable gesture synthesis from speech

The perceptual consistency and association of the LMA effort elements

Tunable tension for gesture animation

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Michael Neff Information

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Citations(all)

2803

Citations(since 2020)

1377

Cited By

1832

hIndex(all)

28

hIndex(since 2020)

21

i10Index(all)

57

i10Index(since 2020)

35

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University of California, Davis

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Michael Neff Skills & Research Interests

character animation

nonverbal communication

virtual reality

Top articles of Michael Neff

Title

Journal

Author(s)

Publication Date

The Impact of Avatar Stylization on Trust

Ryan Canales

Doug Roble

Michael Neff

2024/3/16

Understanding the Impact of Visual and Kinematic Information on the Perception of Physicality Errors

ACM Transactions on Applied Perception

Goksu Yamac

Carol O’Sullivan

Michael Neff

2024

AdaptNet: Policy adaptation for physics-based character control

ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)

Pei Xu

Kaixiang Xie

Sheldon Andrews

Paul G Kry

Michael Neff

...

2023/12/4

A Comprehensive Review of Data‐Driven Co‐Speech Gesture Generation

Simbarashe Nyatsanga

Taras Kucherenko

Chaitanya Ahuja

Gustav Eje Henter

Michael Neff

2023/5

A motion matching-based framework for controllable gesture synthesis from speech

Ikhsanul Habibie

Mohamed Elgharib

Kripasindhu Sarkar

Ahsan Abdullah

Simbarashe Nyatsanga

...

2022/7/27

The perceptual consistency and association of the LMA effort elements

ACM Transactions on Applied Perception (TAP)

Hye Ji Kim

Michael Neff

Sung-Hee Lee

2022/1/6

Tunable tension for gesture animation

Michael Neff

2022/9/6

Issue Information

Fifty Years Ago

When Newport Remembered Rochambeau

John R Wadleigh

Howard S Browne

2017

Speech2properties2gestures: Gesture-property prediction as a tool for generating representational gestures from speech

Taras Kucherenko

Rajmund Nagy

Patrik Jonell

Michael Neff

Hedvig Kjellström

...

2021/9/14

Proceedings of the ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation

Tamar Shinar

Etienne Vouga

Michael Neff

Rahul Narain

Bo Zhu

...

2021/9/6

Multimodal analysis of the predictability of hand-gesture properties

arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.05762

Taras Kucherenko

Rajmund Nagy

Michael Neff

Hedvig Kjellström

Gustav Eje Henter

2021/8/12

Videoconference and embodied VR: Communication patterns across task and medium

Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction

Ahsan Abdullah

Jan Kolkmeier

Vivian Lo

Michael Neff

2021/10/18

ExpressGesture: Expressive gesture generation from speech through database matching

Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds

Ylva Ferstl

Michael Neff

Rachel McDonnell

2021/6

Evaluating study design and strategies for mitigating the impact of hand tracking loss

Ylva Ferstl

Rachel McDonnell

Michael Neff

2021/9/16

It's A Match! Gesture Generation Using Expressive Parameter Matching

arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.03130

Ylva Ferstl

Michael Neff

Rachel McDonnell

2021/3/4

Speech2Properties2Gestures

Proceedings of the 21th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents

Taras Kucherenko

Rajmund Nagy

Patrik Jonell

Michael Neff

Hedvig Kjellström

...

2021/9/14

Virtual hands in VR: Motion capture, synthesis, and perception

Sophie Jörg

Yuting Ye

Franziska Mueller

Michael Neff

Victor Zordan

2020/11/17

Understanding the predictability of gesture parameters from speech and their perceptual importance

Ylva Ferstl

Michael Neff

Rachel McDonnell

2020/10/20

Adversarial gesture generation with realistic gesture phasing

Computers & Graphics

Ylva Ferstl

Michael Neff

Rachel McDonnell

2020/6/1

Neural processing and production of gesture in children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder

Frontiers in psychology

Emily Fourie

Eleanor R Palser

Jennifer J Pokorny

Michael Neff

Susan M Rivera

2020/1/22

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Co-Authors

H-index: 78
Marilyn Walker

Marilyn Walker

University of California, Santa Cruz

H-index: 36
Eugene Fiume

Eugene Fiume

Simon Fraser University

H-index: 35
Jean E. Fox Tree

Jean E. Fox Tree

University of California, Santa Cruz

H-index: 35
Dor ABRAHAMSON

Dor ABRAHAMSON

University of California, Berkeley

H-index: 33
Rachel McDonnell

Rachel McDonnell

Trinity College

H-index: 28
Gustav Eje Henter

Gustav Eje Henter

Kungliga Tekniska högskolan

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