2026 Maja Pantic: 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	106	274	266	15	15	499	51197

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
2020 - IAPR Maria Petrou Prize For contributions to artificial intelligence (AI), particularly in computer vision and machine learning applied to automatic analysis of human faces, machine understanding of human behaviour, and multimodal recognition of human emotions.
2012 - IEEE Fellow For contribution to automatic human behavior understanding and affective computing

Overview

Maja Pantic is affiliated with Imperial College London in the United Kingdom. Their research work is primarily situated within the broad domain of Computer Science, with a significant focus on several subfields including Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Signal Processing, Artificial Intelligence, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and Cognitive Neuroscience.

The scientist's scholarly output covers diverse topics such as Speech and Audio Processing, Face recognition and analysis, Music and Audio Processing, Speech Recognition and Synthesis, Generative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis, Emotion and Mood Recognition, and Face and Expression Recognition.

Among the recent papers authored or coauthored by Maja Pantic are:

Estimation of continuous valence and arousal levels from faces in naturalistic conditions, 2021, Nature Machine Intelligence
Visual speech recognition for multiple languages in the wild, 2022, Nature Machine Intelligence
Leveraging Real Talking Faces via Self-Supervision for Robust Forgery Detection, 2022, 2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
4DME: A Spontaneous 4D Micro-Expression Dataset With Multimodalities, 2022, IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing
Mitigating Demographic Bias in Facial Datasets with Style-Based Multi-attribute Transfer, 2021, International Journal of Computer Vision

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Maja Pantic include:

Stavros Petridis
Pingchuan Ma
Rodrigo Mira
Jie Shen

The scientist's publications have appeared in several venues, including arXiv (Cornell University), Image and Vision Computing, Nature Machine Intelligence, the 2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), and IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing.

Maja Pantic has been recognized with the IAPR Maria Petrou Prize in 2020 for contributions to artificial intelligence, particularly in computer vision, machine learning applied to automatic analysis of human faces, machine understanding of human behaviour, and multimodal recognition of human emotions. In 2012, they were named an IEEE Fellow for contributions to automatic human behavior understanding and affective computing.

Best Publications

A Survey of Affect Recognition Methods: Audio, Visual, and Spontaneous Expressions

Zhihong Zeng;M. Pantic;G.I. Roisman;T.S. Huang

3605
Citations
Automatic analysis of facial expressions: the state of the art

M. Pantic;L.J.M. Rothkrantz

2492
Citations
A Multimodal Database for Affect Recognition and Implicit Tagging

M. Soleymani;J. Lichtenauer;T. Pun;M. Pantic

1739
Citations
Web-based database for facial expression analysis

M. Pantic;M. Valstar;R. Rademaker;L. Maat

1340
Citations
300 Faces in-the-Wild Challenge: The First Facial Landmark Localization Challenge

Christos Sagonas;Georgios Tzimiropoulos;Stefanos Zafeiriou;Maja Pantic

1269
Citations
Toward an affect-sensitive multimodal human-computer interaction

M. Pantic;L.J.M. Rothkrantz

1101
Citations
300 Faces In-The-Wild Challenge

Christos Sagonas;Epameinondas Antonakos;Georgios Tzimiropoulos;Stefanos Zafeiriou

877
Citations
Human computing and machine understanding of human behavior: a survey

Maja Pantic;Alex Pentland;Anton Nijholt;Thomas S. Huang

843
Citations
Multimodal Emotion Recognition in Response to Videos

M. Soleymani;M. Pantic;T. Pun

842
Citations
The SEMAINE Database: Annotated Multimodal Records of Emotionally Colored Conversations between a Person and a Limited Agent

G. McKeown;M. Valstar;R. Cowie;M. Pantic

797
Citations
Social Signal Processing

Alessandro Vinciarelli;Maja Pantic;Hervé Bourlard

783
Citations
Dynamics of facial expression: recognition of facial actions and their temporal segments from face profile image sequences

M. Pantic;I. Patras

747
Citations
Robust Discriminative Response Map Fitting with Constrained Local Models

Akshay Asthana;Stefanos Zafeiriou;Shiyang Cheng;Maja Pantic

737
Citations
AVEC 2016: Depression, Mood, and Emotion Recognition Workshop and Challenge

Michel Valstar;Jonathan Gratch;Björn Schuller;Fabien Ringeval

657
Citations
AVEC 2013: the continuous audio/visual emotion and depression recognition challenge

Michel Valstar;Björn Schuller;Kirsty Smith;Florian Eyben

614
Citations
Expert system for automatic analysis of facial expressions

Maja Pantic;Léon J. M. Rothkrantz

601
Citations
Analysis of EEG Signals and Facial Expressions for Continuous Emotion Detection

Mohammad Soleymani;Sadjad Asghari-Esfeden;Yun Fu;Maja Pantic

599
Citations
Facial action recognition for facial expression analysis from static face images

M. Pantic;L.J.M. Rothkrantz

596
Citations
A survey of multimodal sentiment analysis

Mohammad Soleymani;David García;Brendan Jou;Björn W. Schuller;Björn W. Schuller;Björn W. Schuller

590
Citations
Continuous Prediction of Spontaneous Affect from Multiple Cues and Modalities in Valence-Arousal Space

M. A. Nicolaou;H. Gunes;M. Pantic

586
Citations
Incremental Face Alignment in the Wild

Akshay Asthana;Stefanos Zafeiriou;Shiyang Cheng;Maja Pantic

559
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Stefanos Zafeiriou Imperial College London

Michel Valstar University of Nottingham

Björn Schuller Imperial College London

Georgios Tzimiropoulos Queen Mary University of London

Roddy Cowie Queen's University Belfast

Ioannis Patras Queen Mary University of London

Anton Nijholt University of Twente

Jeffrey F. Cohn University of Pittsburgh

Hatice Gunes University of Cambridge

Fabien Ringeval Grenoble Alpes University

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