2026 Marcelo Bertalmío: 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	37	10441	10148	167	165	193	16232

Overview

Marcelo Bertalmío is affiliated with the Spanish National Research Council in Spain. Their research primarily spans the fields of Computer Science and Neuroscience, with a significant focus on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition as well as Cognitive Neuroscience. Their work intersects several scientific subfields including Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, and Biophysics.

Their research contributions cover a variety of main topics, such as:

Visual perception and processing mechanisms
Neural dynamics and brain function
Image Enhancement Techniques
Color Science and Applications
Advanced Vision and Imaging
Image and Video Quality Assessment
Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research

Bertalmío has published frequently in specific academic venues, notably:

Journal of Vision
Scientific Reports
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
arXiv (Cornell University)
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Marcelo Bertalmío include:

"Color illusions also deceive CNNs for low-level vision tasks: Analysis and implications," 2020, published in Vision Research
"Evidence for the intrinsically nonlinear nature of receptive fields in vision," 2020, published in Scientific Reports
"Visual illusions via neural dynamics: Wilson-Cowan-type models and the efficient representation principle," 2020, published in arXiv (Cornell University)
"Contrast sensitivity functions in autoencoders," 2022, published in Journal of Vision
"Color Matching Images With Unknown Non-Linear Encodings," 2020, published in IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Key frequent collaborators include:

Javier Vázquez-Corral
Trevor Canham
Jesús Malo
Dario Prandi
Raúl Luna

Best Publications

Image inpainting

Marcelo Bertalmio;Guillermo Sapiro;Vincent Caselles;Coloma Ballester

5494
Citations
Simultaneous structure and texture image inpainting

M. Bertalmio;L. Vese;G. Sapiro;S. Osher

2115
Citations
Navier-stokes, fluid dynamics, and image and video inpainting

M. Bertalmio;A.L. Bertozzi;G. Sapiro

1532
Citations
Filling-in by joint interpolation of vector fields and gray levels

C. Ballester;M. Bertalmio;V. Caselles;G. Sapiro

1255
Citations
Variational problems and partial differential equations on implicit surfaces

Marcelo Bertalmío;Li-Tien Cheng;Stanley Osher;Guillermo Sapiro

491
Citations
Structure and texture filling-in of missing image blocks in wireless transmission and compression applications

S.D. Rane;G. Sapiro;M. Bertalmio

359
Citations
Video Inpainting Under Constrained Camera Motion

K.A. Patwardhan;G. Sapiro;M. Bertalmio

352
Citations
A Comprehensive Framework for Image Inpainting

Aurélie Bugeau;Marcelo Bertalmío;Vicent Caselles;Guillermo Sapiro

329
Citations
Morphing active contours

M. Bertalmio;G. Sapiro;G. Randall

252
Citations
Video inpainting of occluding and occluded objects

K.A. Patwardhan;G. Sapiro;M. Bertalmio

237
Citations
Issues About Retinex Theory and Contrast Enhancement

Marcelo Bertalmío;Vicent Caselles;Edoardo Provenzi

224
Citations
Perceptual Color Correction Through Variational Techniques

M. Bertalmio;V. Caselles;E. Provenzi;A. Rizzi

216
Citations
Inpainting surface holes

J. Verdera;V. Caselles;M. Bertalmio;G. Sapiro

181
Citations
A Perceptually Inspired Variational Framework for Color Enhancement

R. Palma-Amestoy;E. Provenzi;M. Bertalmio;V. Caselles

166
Citations
FLUID DYNAMICS, AND IMAGE AND VIDEO INPAINTING

M Bertalmio;A L Bertozzi

145
Citations
Fusion-Based Variational Image Dehazing

Adrian Galdran;Javier Vazquez-Corral;David Pardo;Marcelo Bertalmio

134
Citations
An Analysis of Visual Adaptation and Contrast Perception for Tone Mapping

S. Ferradans;M. Bertalmio;E. Provenzi;V. Caselles

134
Citations
Strong-continuation, contrast-invariant inpainting with a third-order optimal PDE

M. Bertalmio

124
Citations
A variational model for filling-in gray level and color images

C. Ballester;V. Caselles;J. Verdera;M. Bertalmio

122
Citations
On the Duality Between Retinex and Image Dehazing

Adrian Galdran;Alessandro Bria;Aitor Alvarez-Gila;Javier Vazquez-Corral

121
Citations
Variational Problems and Partial Differential Equations on Implicit Surfaces: Bye Bye Triangulated Surfaces?

Marcelo Bertalmío;Facundo Mémoli;Li-Tien Cheng;Guillermo Sapiro

71
Citations
Morphing active contours: a geometric approach to topology-independent image segmentation and tracking

M. Bertalmio;G. Sapiro;G. Randall

36
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Guillermo Sapiro Princeton University

Vicent Caselles University of Valencia

Stanley Osher University of California, Los Angeles

Luminita A. Vese University of California, Los Angeles

Andrea L. Bertozzi University of California, Los Angeles

Graham D. Finlayson University of East Anglia

Alessandro Rizzi University of Milan

Seungyong Lee Pohang University of Science and Technology

External Links

Personal website of Marcelo Bertalmío Google Scholar page

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