Papers
16
Total Citations
1,762
H-Index
12
About
Pascal Fua is a prominent computer vision researcher whose work spans 3D object tracking, deformable shape reconstruction, robotic perception, and medical image analysis. Based at EPFL, he has made foundational contributions to some of the field's most challenging problems, consistently bridging theoretical rigor with practical application. Fua's most celebrated contribution is his comprehensive survey on monocular model-based 3D tracking of rigid objects (2005), which has accumulated over 500 citations and remains an essential reference for researchers in augmented reality, robotics, and human-computer interaction. His early work on articulated soft objects — combining implicit surfaces with robotics-inspired articulated frameworks for human body modeling — laid important groundwork for video-based motion capture, earning over 270 combined citations across two landmark papers. Beyond rigid and articulated structures, Fua has pushed boundaries in non-rigid 3D reconstruction, view-based robotic mapping, and specialized domains such as retinal microsurgery tracking, demonstrating the real-world clinical relevance of his methods. His 2023 state-of-the-art survey on dense monocular non-rigid reconstruction reflects his continued leadership in an evolving field. With a career spanning nearly three decades and hundreds of highly cited publications, Pascal Fua stands as one of computer vision's most versatile and enduring contributors.
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Top Papers
- 1Monocular Model-Based 3D Tracking of Rigid Objects: A Survey531 citations · 2005
- 2Monocular Model-Based 3D Tracking of Rigid Objects: A Survey469 citations · 2005
- 3View-based Maps224 citations · 2010
- 4Articulated soft objects for multiview shape and motion capture156 citations · 2003
- 5Articulated soft objects for video-based body modeling118 citations · 2002
- 6Data-Driven Visual Tracking in Retinal Microsurgery72 citations · 2012
- 7Motion Prediction Using Temporal Inception Module41 citations · 2021
- 8State of the Art in Dense Monocular Non‐Rigid 3D Reconstruction36 citations · 2023
- 9View-based maps33 citations · 2009
- 10From Ziplock Snakes to Velcro™ Surfaces25 citations · 1995