2026 Josef Kittler: 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	107	261	253	14	14	1154	75819

Research.com Recognitions

2025 - Research.com Computer Science in United Kingdom Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Computer Science in United Kingdom Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Computer Science in United Kingdom Leader Award
2006 - IAPR King-Sun Fu Prize
2002 - Distinguished Fellow of the British Machine Vision Association (BMVA)
2000 - Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK)
1998 - Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) For contributions to computer vision and pattern recognition, and for outstanding leadership in IAPR

Overview

Josef Kittler is affiliated with the University of Surrey in the United Kingdom. Their research spans several fields within computer science and engineering, focusing predominantly on computer vision and pattern recognition.

Their recent publications include the following works:

"RFN-Nest: An end-to-end residual fusion network for infrared and visible images" (2021) published in Information Fusion
"MDLatLRR: A Novel Decomposition Method for Infrared and Visible Image Fusion" (2020) published in IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
"LRRNet: A Novel Representation Learning Guided Fusion Network for Infrared and Visible Images" (2023) published in IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
"AXM-Net: Implicit Cross-Modal Feature Alignment for Person Re-identification" (2022) published in Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
"Exploiting Deep Learning in Limited-Fronthaul Cell-Free Massive MIMO Uplink" (2020) published in IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Their frequent coauthors include:

Xiao-Jun Wu
Tianyang Xu
Zhenhua Feng
Muhammad Awais
Hui Li

The scientists have published extensively in these venues:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Pattern Recognition
Information Fusion
International Journal of Computer Vision
Neural Networks

Kittler's main fields of study are:

Computer Science
Engineering

Their research subfields include:

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Media Technology
Biomedical Engineering
Aerospace Engineering

Main topics covered in their work are:

Video Surveillance and Tracking Methods
Human Pose and Action Recognition
Face and Expression Recognition
Anomaly Detection Techniques and Applications
Advanced Image Fusion Techniques
Multimodal Machine Learning Applications
Remote-Sensing Image Classification

Josef Kittler has received multiple awards, including:

IAPR King-Sun Fu Prize (2006)
Distinguished Fellow of the British Machine Vision Association (BMVA) (2002)
Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK) (2000)
Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) (1998) for contributions to computer vision and pattern recognition and outstanding leadership in IAPR

Best Publications

On combining classifiers

J. Kittler;M. Hatef;R.P.W. Duin;J. Matas

7655
Citations
Pattern recognition : a statistical approach

Pierre A. Devijver;Josef Kittler

4457
Citations
Floating search methods in feature selection

P. Pudil;J. Novovičová;J. Kittler

4105
Citations
A survey of the Hough transform

J. Illingworth;J. Kittler

3352
Citations
Minimum error thresholding

J. Kittler;J. Illingworth

3120
Citations
XM2VTSDB: The Extended M2VTS Database

K. Messer;J. Matas;J. Kittler;Juergen Luettin

1912
Citations
Advances in Cryptology – CRYPTO 2004

Matt Franklin

1098
Citations
Comparative study of Hough transform methods for circle finding

H. K. Yuen;J. Princen;J. Illingworth;J. Kittler

1065
Citations
Multiple Classifier Systems

Nikunj C. Oza;Robi. Polikar;Josef. Kittler;Fabio. Roli

1062
Citations
Locally Optimized RANSAC

Ondřej Chum;Jiří Matas;Jiří Matas;Josef Kittler

1049
Citations
RFN-Nest: An end-to-end residual fusion network for infrared and visible images

Hui Li;Xiao-Jun Wu;Josef Kittler

946
Citations
The Adaptive Hough Transform

J. Illingworth;J. Kittler

944
Citations
Robust Detection of Lines Using the Progressive Probabilistic Hough Transform

J. Matas;C. Galambos;J. Kittler

851
Citations
Region growing: a new approach

S.A. Hojjatoleslami;J. Kittler

820
Citations
Discriminative Learning and Recognition of Image Set Classes Using Canonical Correlations

Tae-Kyun Kim;J. Kittler;R. Cipolla

754
Citations
Structural matching in computer vision using probabilistic relaxation

W.J. Christmas;J. Kittler;M. Petrou

743
Citations
The sixth visual object tracking VOT2018 challenge results

Matej Kristan;Aleš Leonardis;Jiří Matas;Michael Felsberg

690
Citations
The BANCA database and evaluation protocol

Enrique Bailly-Bailliére;Samy Bengio;Frédéric Bimbot;Miroslav Hamouz

622
Citations
Efficient and Robust Retrieval by Shape Content through Curvature Scale Space.

Farzin Mokhtarian;Sadegh Abbasi;Josef Kittler

622
Citations
MDLatLRR: A Novel Decomposition Method for Infrared and Visible Image Fusion

Hui Li;Xiao-Jun Wu;Josef Kittler

568
Citations
Combining classifiers

J. Kittler;M. Hater;R.P.W. Duin

274
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Maria Petrou Imperial College London

Jiri Matas Czech Technical University in Prague

Norman Poh University of Surrey

John Illingworth University of Surrey

Takeo Kanade Carnegie Mellon University

David Hutchison Lancaster University

Krystian Mikolajczyk Imperial College London

Majid Mirmehdi University of Bristol

Fabio Roli University of Genoa

Wenwu Wang University of Surrey

External Links

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