2026 Janne Heikkilä: 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	40	9045	8790	74	70	200	13808

Research.com Recognitions

2018 - Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) For contributions to 3D computer vision and image analysis

Overview

Janne Heikkilä is affiliated with the University of Oulu in Finland. Their research primarily spans the fields of Computer Science and Engineering, with a focus on subfields including Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Media Technology, Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design, Aerospace Engineering, and Artificial Intelligence.

The main topics of their work include:

Advanced Vision and Imaging
Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques
Optical measurement and interference techniques
Image Processing Techniques and Applications
Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques
Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization
Multimodal Machine Learning Applications

Heikkilä's publication record features numerous papers in prominent venues. Frequent publication venues include:

arXiv (Cornell University), with 25 publications
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, with 5 publications
Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision, with 3 publications
2021 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), with 2 publications
2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), with 2 publications

Notable recent papers by Heikkilä include:

"Unbiased Scene Graph Generation via Two-Stage Causal Modeling," 2023, published in IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
"Boosting Monocular Depth Estimation with Lightweight 3D Point Fusion," 2021, published in 2021 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
"Optimal Correction Cost for Object Detection Evaluation," 2022, published in 2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
"A Causal Adjustment Module for Debiasing Scene Graph Generation," 2025, published in IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
"RGBD-Net: Predicting Color and Depth Images for Novel Views Synthesis," 2021, published in 2021 International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV)

Heikkilä has collaborated frequently with other researchers in the field. Their frequent coauthors include:

Esa Rahtu, with 25 joint publications
Lam Huynh, with 13 joint publications
Phong Nguyen-Ha, with 13 joint publications
Jiřı́ Matas, with 12 joint publications
Snehal Bhayani, with 8 joint publications

Among their recognitions, Heikkilä was named a Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) in 2018 for contributions to 3D computer vision and image analysis.

Best Publications

A four-step camera calibration procedure with implicit image correction

J. Heikkila;O. Silven

3305
Citations
Blur Insensitive Texture Classification Using Local Phase Quantization

Ville Ojansivu;Janne Heikkilä

1335
Citations
Geometric camera calibration using circular control points

J. Heikkila

1280
Citations
Segmenting salient objects from images and videos

Esa Rahtu;Juho Kannala;Mikko Salo;Janne Heikkilä

637
Citations
A real-time system for monitoring of cyclists and pedestrians

Janne Heikkilä;Olli Silvén

517
Citations
International Conference on Pattern Recognition

Neslihan Bayramoglu;Juho Kannala;Janne Heikkilä

468
Citations
Deep learning for magnification independent breast cancer histopathology image classification

Neslihan Bayramoglu;Juho Kannala;Janne Heikkila

459
Citations
Recognition of blurred faces using Local Phase Quantization

T. Ahonen;E. Rahtu;V. Ojansivu;J. Heikkila

429
Citations
Fast and efficient saliency detection using sparse sampling and kernel density estimation

Hamed Rezazadegan Tavakoli;Esa Rahtu;Janne Heikkilä

239
Citations
Calibration procedure for short focal length off-the-shelf CCD cameras

J. Heikkila;O. Silven

217
Citations
A Texture-based Method for Detecting Moving Objects

Marko Heikkilä;Matti Pietikäinen;Janne Heikkilä

212
Citations
Accurate and practical calibration of a depth and color camera pair

C. Daniel Herrera;Juho Kannala;Janne Heikkilä

179
Citations
Rotation invariant local phase quantization for blur insensitive texture analysis

V. Ojansivu;E. Rahtu;J. Heikkila

166
Citations
Rethinking the Evaluation of Video Summaries

Mayu Otani;Yuta Nakashima;Esa Rahtu;Janne Heikkila

160
Citations
Human Activity Recognition Using Sequences of Postures

Vili Kellokumpu;Matti Pietikäinen;Janne Heikkilä

143
Citations
Affine invariant pattern recognition using multiscale autoconvolution

E. Rahtu;M. Salo;J. Heikkila

140
Citations
Face and Eye Detection for Person Authentication in Mobile Phones

A. Hadid;J.Y. Heikkila;O. Silven;M. Pietikainen

139
Citations
Video Summarization Using Deep Semantic Features

Mayu Otani;Yuta Nakashima;Esa Rahtu;Janne Heikkilä

136
Citations
Local phase quantization for blur-insensitive image analysis

Esa Rahtu;Janne Heikkilä;Ville Ojansivu;Timo Ahonen

135
Citations
Guiding Monocular Depth Estimation Using Depth-Attention Volume

Lam Huynh;Phong Nguyen-Ha;Jiri Matas;Esa Rahtu

125
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Juho Kannala Aalto University

Esa Rahtu Tampere University

Jiri Matas Czech Technical University in Prague

Simo Särkkä Aalto University

Matti Pietikäinen University of Oulu

Jan Flusser Institute of Information Theory and Automation

Naokazu Yokoya Nara Institute of Science and Technology

Nasir M. Rajpoot University of Warwick

Seppo Vainio University of Oulu

Vesa Kiviniemi Oulu University Hospital

External Links

Personal website of Janne Heikkilä Google Scholar page

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