2026 Gian Luca Foresti: 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	55	4334	4212	91	89	434	11610

Research.com Recognitions

2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Italy Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Computer Science in Italy Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Italy Leader Award
2010 - Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) For contributions to image processing and pattern recognition in video surveillance systems

Overview

Gian Luca Foresti is affiliated with the University of Udine in Italy and has a substantial body of work focused on computer science and engineering. Their research contributions span multiple subfields, notably computer vision and pattern recognition, artificial intelligence, aerospace engineering, signal processing, and computer networks and communications.

Foresti's work addresses a variety of technical domains with an emphasis on image and video analysis. Main topics of their research include:

Video Surveillance and Tracking Methods
Anomaly Detection Techniques and Applications
Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques
Handwritten Text Recognition Techniques
COVID-19 diagnosis using AI
Advanced Neural Network Applications
Human Pose and Action Recognition

Foresti has published extensively, with notable papers including:

VT-ADL: A Vision Transformer Network for Image Anomaly Detection and Localization (2021), published in Institutional Research Information System (University of Udine)
Few-Shot Object Detection: A Survey (2022), published in ACM Computing Surveys
MS-Faster R-CNN: Multi-Stream Backbone for Improved Faster R-CNN Object Detection and Aerial Tracking from UAV Images (2021), published in Remote Sensing
Deep generative adversarial residual convolutional networks for real-world super-resolution (2020), published in Institutional Research Information System (University of Udine)
Deep Pyramidal Pooling With Attention for Person Re-Identification (2020), published in IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Foresti include:

Luigi Cinque
Danilo Avola
Alessio Fagioli
Claudio Piciarelli
Daniele Pannone

Foresti has contributed articles to various scientific venues, with multiple publications appearing in:

International Journal of Neural Systems
arXiv (Cornell University)
Multimedia Tools and Applications
IEEE Access
Pattern Recognition Letters

The scientist's research interests integrate the development of advanced methodologies and systems for image processing, focusing on practical applications such as surveillance, medical diagnosis, and aerial tracking.

In 2010, Foresti was recognized as a Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) for contributions to image processing and pattern recognition in video surveillance systems.

Best Publications

Trajectory-Based Anomalous Event Detection

C. Piciarelli;C. Micheloni;G.L. Foresti

646
Citations
Ambient Intelligence: A New Multidisciplinary Paradigm

P. Remagnino;G.L. Foresti

331
Citations
On-line trajectory clustering for anomalous events detection

C. Piciarelli;G. L. Foresti

326
Citations
VT-ADL: A Vision Transformer Network for Image Anomaly Detection and Localization

Pankaj Mishra;Riccardo Verk;Daniele Fornasier;Claudio Piciarelli

321
Citations
Wide-Slice Residual Networks for Food Recognition

Niki Martinel;Gian Luca Foresti;Christian Micheloni

255
Citations
The Eighth Visual Object Tracking VOT2020 Challenge Results

Matej Kristan;Aleš Leonardis;Jiří Matas;Michael Felsberg

239
Citations
Object recognition and tracking for remote video surveillance

G.L. Foresti

235
Citations
Active video-based surveillance system: the low-level image and video processing techniques needed for implementation

G.L. Foresti;C. Micheloni;L. Snidaro;P. Remagnino

205
Citations
A real-time system for video surveillance of unattended outdoor environments

G.L. Foresti

184
Citations
Special issue on video communications, processing, and understanding for third generation surveillance systems

Carlo S. Regazzoni;Visvanathan Ramesh;Gian Luca Foresti

182
Citations
A distributed probabilistic system for adaptive regulation of image processing parameters

V. Morino;G.L. Foresti;C.S. Regazzoni

179
Citations
Exploiting Recurrent Neural Networks and Leap Motion Controller for the Recognition of Sign Language and Semaphoric Hand Gestures

Danilo Avola;Marco Bernardi;Luigi Cinque;Gian Luca Foresti

176
Citations
Visual inspection of sea bottom structures by an autonomous underwater vehicle

G.L. Foresti

160
Citations
Multimedia Video-Based Surveillance Systems: Requirements, Issues and Solutions

Gian Luca Foresti;Petri Mahonen;Carlo S. Regazzoni

155
Citations
Exploiting Recurrent Neural Networks and Leap Motion Controller for Sign Language and Semaphoric Gesture Recognition.

Danilo Avola;Marco Bernardi;Luigi Cinque;Gian Luca Foresti

151
Citations
Biometric Liveness Detection: Challenges and Research Opportunities

Zahid Akhtar;Christian Micheloni;Gian Luca Foresti

138
Citations
Trajectory clustering and its applications for video surveillance

C. Piciarelli;G.L. Foresti;L. Snidaro

134
Citations
Kernelized Saliency-Based Person Re-Identification Through Multiple Metric Learning

Niki Martinel;Christian Micheloni;Gian Luca Foresti

122
Citations
Vehicle recognition and tracking from road image sequences

G.L. Foresti;V. Murino;C. Regazzoni

119
Citations
Video Analysis in Pan-Tilt-Zoom Camera Networks

C Micheloni;B Rinner;G L Foresti

119
Citations
Distributed architectures and logical-task decomposition in multimedia surveillance systems

L. Marcenaro;F. Oberti;G.L. Foresti;C.S. Regazzoni

115
Citations
Saliency Weighted Features for Person Re-identification

Niki Martinel;Christian Micheloni;Gian Luca Foresti

82
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Christian Micheloni University of Udine

Carlo S. Regazzoni University of Genoa

Paolo Remagnino Durham University

Vittorio Murino University of Verona

Pramod K. Varshney Syracuse University

Alberto Del Bimbo University of Florence

Tim Ellis Kingston University

Andrea Prati University of Parma

Fabio Roli University of Genoa

Mohan M. Trivedi University of California, San Diego

External Links

Personal website of Gian Luca Foresti Google Scholar page

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