2026 Daniel Gatica-Perez: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	73	1607	1560	39	39	350	18979

Daniel Gatica-Perez publication distribution in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Computer Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Daniel Gatica-Perez sits on this spectrum.

32 publications 991+

This scientist: 350 publications — 82nd percentile

82% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 991 publications or more.

Daniel Gatica-Perez D-index placement in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Computer Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Daniel Gatica-Perez sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 131+

This scientist: 73 D-Index — 89th percentile

89% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 131 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Switzerland Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Switzerland Leader Award

Overview

Daniel Gatica-Perez is affiliated with the Idiap Research Institute in Switzerland. Their research spans multiple fields and topics, mainly focusing on social sciences and computer science.

The main fields of study include:

Social Sciences
Computer Science

Within those fields, subfields of particular interest are:

Sociology and Political Science
Artificial Intelligence
Transportation
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
General Health Professions

Key research topics covered in their work are:

Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis
Context-Aware Activity Recognition Systems
Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
Innovative Human-Technology Interaction
Impact of Technology on Adolescents
Mobile Crowdsensing and Crowdsourcing
Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data

Frequent publication venues where Daniel Gatica-Perez's work appears include:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive Mobile Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies
Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
Digital Government Research and Practice
IEEE Access

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Daniel Gatica-Perez are:

You Are Known by How You Vlog: Personality Impressions and Nonverbal Behavior in YouTube, 2021, Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
Generative AI Literacy: Twelve Defining Competencies, 2024, Digital Government Research and Practice
Evaluation of 1-Year in-Home Monitoring Technology by Home-Dwelling Older Adults, Family Caregivers, and Nurses, 2020, Frontiers in Public Health
Generalization and Personalization of Mobile Sensing-Based Mood Inference Models, 2022, Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive Mobile Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies
Contactless Sleep Monitoring for Early Detection of Health Deteriorations in Community-Dwelling Older Adults: Exploratory Study, 2021, JMIR mhealth and uhealth

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Daniel Gatica-Perez include:

Lakmal Meegahapola
Salvador Ruíz-Correa
Alethia Hume
Luca Cernuzzi
Amalia de Götzen

Best Publications

StressSense: detecting stress in unconstrained acoustic environments using smartphones

Hong Lu;Denise Frauendorfer;Mashfiqui Rabbi;Marianne Schmid Mast

591
Citations
The Mobile Data Challenge: Big Data for Mobile Computing Research

J. K. Laurila;Daniel Gatica-Perez;I. Aad;Blom J.

589
Citations
Proceedings of the 21st ACM international conference on Multimedia

Alejandro (Alex) Jaimes;Nicu Sebe;Nozha Boujemaa;Daniel Gatica-Perez

564
Citations
Mining large-scale smartphone data for personality studies

Gokul Chittaranjan;Jan Blom;Daniel Gatica-Perez

491
Citations
Modeling scenes with local descriptors and latent aspects

P. Quelhas;F. Monay;J.-M. Odobez;D. Gatica-Perez

488
Citations
Automatic analysis of multimodal group actions in meetings

L. McCowan;D. Gatica-Perez;S. Bengio;G. Lathoud

464
Citations
Semi-supervised adapted HMMs for unusual event detection

Dong Zhang;D. Gatica-Perez;S. Bengio;I. McCowan

400
Citations
Automatic nonverbal analysis of social interaction in small groups

Daniel Gatica-Perez

394
Citations
Towards rich mobile phone datasets: Lausanne data collection campaign

N. Kiukkonen;Blom J.;O. Dousse;Daniel Gatica-Perez

384
Citations
On image auto-annotation with latent space models

Florent Monay;Daniel Gatica-Perez

376
Citations
PLSA-based image auto-annotation: constraining the latent space

Florent Monay;Daniel Gatica-Perez

333
Citations
Discovering routines from large-scale human locations using probabilistic topic models

Katayoun Farrahi;Daniel Gatica-Perez

331
Citations
Who's Who with Big-Five: Analyzing and Classifying Personality Traits with Smartphones

Gokul Chittaranjan;Jan Blom;Daniel Gatica-Perez

303
Citations
Using particles to track varying numbers of interacting people

K. Smith;D. Gatica-Perez;J.-M. Odobez

300
Citations
Modeling Dominance in Group Conversations Using Nonverbal Activity Cues

D.B. Jayagopi;H. Hung;Chuohao Yeo;D. Gatica-Perez

286
Citations
Smartphone usage in the wild: a large-scale analysis of applications and context

Trinh Minh Tri Do;Jan Blom;Daniel Gatica-Perez

277
Citations
A Thousand Words in a Scene

P. Quelhas;F. Monay;J.-M. Odobez;D. Gatica-Perez

272
Citations
Modeling Semantic Aspects for Cross-Media Image Indexing

F. Monay;D. Gatica-Perez

271
Citations
The YouTube Lens: Crowdsourced Personality Impressions and Audiovisual Analysis of Vlogs

J. Biel;D. Gatica-Perez

262
Citations
A Nonverbal Behavior Approach to Identify Emergent Leaders in Small Groups

D. Sanchez-Cortes;O. Aran;M. S. Mast;D. Gatica-Perez

236
Citations
Automatic Analysis of Multimodal Group Actions in Meetings

Iain A. McCowan;Daniel Gatica-Perez;Samy Bengio;Guillaume Lathoud

201
Citations
Learning Influence among Interacting Markov Chains

Dong Zhang;Daniel Gatica-perez;Samy Bengio;Deb Roy

60
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Jean-Marc Odobez Idiap Research Institute

Iain A. McCowan Queensland University of Technology

Samy Bengio Apple (United States)

Marianne Schmid Mast University of Lausanne

Hervé Bourlard Idiap Research Institute

Emmanuel Kuntsche La Trobe University

Nicu Sebe University of Trento

Ming-Ting Sun University of Washington

Tanzeem Choudhury Cornell University

Alexander C. Loui Rochester Institute of Technology

External Links

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