2026 Anna Rohrbach: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Rising Stars	37	749	747	23	23	63	8150
Computer Science	31	13379	12976	641	626	92	7245

Research.com Recognitions

2025 - Research.com Rising Stars Award

Overview

Anna Rohrbach is affiliated with the Technical University of Darmstadt in Germany. Their research focuses primarily on computer science, with extensive work in computer vision and pattern recognition, artificial intelligence, sociology and political science, computer graphics and computer-aided design, and infectious diseases.

The scientist's published work addresses a variety of topics including:

Multimodal Machine Learning Applications
Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning
Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques
Human Pose and Action Recognition
Video Analysis and Summarization
Generative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis
Advanced Neural Network Applications

Anna Rohrbach has contributed to numerous research publications, with frequent appearances in the following venues:

arXiv (Cornell University)
2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
2023 IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV)
Applied AI Letters
Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies

The scientist has published notable papers including:

"More Control for Free! Image Synthesis with Semantic Diffusion Guidance," 2023, 2023 IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV)
"How Much Can CLIP Benefit Vision-and-Language Tasks?" 2021, arXiv (Cornell University)
"DETReg: Unsupervised Pretraining with Region Priors for Object Detection," 2022, 2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
"ReCLIP: A Strong Zero-Shot Baseline for Referring Expression Comprehension," 2022, Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
"Object-Region Video Transformers," 2022, 2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)

Frequent coauthors in their research collaborations include:

Trevor Darrell
Amir Bar
Roei Herzig
Amir Globerson
Gal Chechik

Best Publications

Multimodal Compact Bilinear Pooling for Visual Question Answering and Visual Grounding

Akira Fukui;Dong Huk Park;Daylen Yang;Anna Rohrbach

1645
Citations
Grounding of Textual Phrases in Images by Reconstruction

Anna Rohrbach;Marcus Rohrbach;Marcus Rohrbach;Ronghang Hu;Trevor Darrell

599
Citations
A dataset for Movie Description

Anna Rohrbach;Marcus Rohrbach;Niket Tandon;Bernt Schiele

515
Citations
Multimodal Explanations: Justifying Decisions and Pointing to the Evidence

Dong Huk Park;Lisa Anne Hendricks;Zeynep Akata;Anna Rohrbach

403
Citations
Women Also Snowboard: Overcoming Bias in Captioning Models

Lisa Anne Hendricks;Kaylee Burns;Kate Saenko;Trevor Darrell

392
Citations
Multimodal Compact Bilinear Pooling for Visual Question Answering and Visual Grounding

Akira Fukui;Dong Huk Park;Daylen Yang;Anna Rohrbach

391
Citations
Speaker-Follower Models for Vision-and-Language Navigation

Daniel Fried;Ronghang Hu;Volkan Cirik;Anna Rohrbach

341
Citations
Movie Description

Anna Rohrbach;Atousa Torabi;Marcus Rohrbach;Niket Tandon

318
Citations
Textual Explanations for Self-Driving Vehicles

Jinkyu Kim;Anna Rohrbach;Trevor Darrell;John F. Canny

301
Citations
More Control for Free! Image Synthesis with Semantic Diffusion Guidance

Unknown

285
Citations
Object Hallucination in Image Captioning

Anna Rohrbach;Lisa Anne Hendricks;Kaylee Burns;Trevor Darrell

251
Citations
Coherent Multi-sentence Video Description with Variable Level of Detail

Anna Rohrbach;Marcus Rohrbach;Marcus Rohrbach;Wei Qiu;Wei Qiu;Annemarie Friedrich

246
Citations
Women also Snowboard: Overcoming Bias in Captioning Models

Kaylee Burns;Lisa Anne Hendricks;Kate Saenko;Trevor Darrell

196
Citations
Language-Conditioned Graph Networks for Relational Reasoning

Ronghang Hu;Anna Rohrbach;Trevor Darrell;Kate Saenko

173
Citations
Speaker-Follower Models for Vision-and-Language Navigation

Daniel Fried;Ronghang Hu;Volkan Cirik;Anna Rohrbach

165
Citations
The Long-Short Story of Movie Description

Anna Rohrbach;Marcus Rohrbach;Bernt Schiele

158
Citations
Recognizing Fine-Grained and Composite Activities Using Hand-Centric Features and Script Data

Marcus Rohrbach;Anna Rohrbach;Michaela Regneri;Sikandar Amin

155
Citations
How Much Can CLIP Benefit Vision-and-Language Tasks?

Sheng Shen;Liunian Harold Li;Hao Tan;Mohit Bansal

152
Citations
Robust Change Captioning

Dong Huk Park;Trevor Darrell;Anna Rohrbach

142
Citations
DETReg: Unsupervised Pretraining with Region Priors for Object Detection

Amir Bar;Xin Wang;Vadim Kantorov;Colorado J. Reed

130
Citations
Video Object Segmentation with Language Referring Expressions

Anna Khoreva;Anna Rohrbach;Bernt Schiele

106
Citations
ReCLIP: A Strong Zero-Shot Baseline for Referring Expression Comprehension

Unknown

100
Citations
A Dataset and Exploration of Models for Understanding Video Data through Fill-in-the-Blank Question-Answering

Tegan Maharaj;Nicolas Ballas;Anna Rohrbach;Aaron Courville

92
Citations
K-LITE: Learning Transferable Visual Models with External Knowledge

Unknown

90
Citations
Multimodal Explanations: Justifying Decisions and Pointing to the Evidence

Dong Huk Park;Lisa Anne Hendricks;Zeynep Akata;Anna Rohrbach

89
Citations
Are You Looking? Grounding to Multiple Modalities in Vision-and-Language Navigation

Ronghang Hu;Daniel Fried;Anna Rohrbach;Dan Klein

85
Citations
Women also Snowboard: Overcoming Bias in Captioning Models (Extended Abstract)

Lisa Anne Hendricks;Kaylee Burns;Kate Saenko;Trevor Darrell

1
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Trevor Darrell University of California, Berkeley

Marcus Rohrbach Facebook (United States)

Bernt Schiele Max Planck Institute for Informatics

Kate Saenko Boston University

Zeynep Akata University of Tübingen

Gal Chechik Bar-Ilan University

Chris Pal Polytechnique Montréal

John Canny University of California, Berkeley

Amir Globerson Tel Aviv University

Daniel Klein University of California, Berkeley

External Links

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