2026 Maria Petrou: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	47	6408	385	397	10659

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Computer Science

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Research.com Recognitions

2000 - Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) For contributions to image processing and for service to IAPR

Overview

Maria Petrou was affiliated with Imperial College London in the United Kingdom. Their research spanned multiple disciplines primarily within Arts and Humanities and Social Sciences, with notable contributions to the subfields of Linguistics and Language, Language and Linguistics, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Space and Planetary Science, and Artificial Intelligence.

Their scholarly output included works focused on linguistics, multilingual education, and advanced image processing techniques. Specific main topics addressed in their research comprised:

Multilingual Education and Policy
Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
Linguistic Variation and Morphology
Image Processing and 3D Reconstruction
Archaeological Research and Protection
Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
Cell Image Analysis Techniques

Maria Petrou authored and co-authored several academic papers, including:

"Where Are You From?" Language Attitudes and (Non)Accommodation During Native-Nonnative Speaker Interactions in Germany, 2023, Journal of Language and Social Psychology
Fusion of Geophysical Images in the Study of Archaeological Sites, 2020, Archaeological Prospection
Open-Source Tools for Assessing Cytoskeleton Properties in Pathological Conditions From Microscopy Images: An Application Note, 2025, Applied Research
Turkish Argot and Semantic Shift, 2020, Mediterranean Language Review
"Because I am a Foreigner": Nonaccommodative Adjustments of German Speaking Host Community Members through the Eyes of Non-Native Speakers - With a Focus on First Language Turkish Speakers, 2023, Mediterranean Language Review

Frequent co-authors who collaborated with Maria Petrou included Marko Dragojević, Alexandra Karamitrou, Gregory N. Tsokas, and Andreas Stylianou.

The scientist's publications appeared mainly in the following venues:

Mediterranean Language Review
Journal of Language and Social Psychology
Archaeological Prospection
Applied Research

Maria Petrou was recognized as a Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) in 2000 for contributions to image processing and service to the association.

Best Publications

Structural matching in computer vision using probabilistic relaxation

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

743
Citations
Image Processing: The Fundamentals

Maria Petrou;Panagiota Bosdogianni

658
Citations
Image processing : dealing with texture

Maria Petrou;Pedro García Sevilla

571
Citations
The 4-source photometric stereo technique for three-dimensional surfaces in the presence of highlights and shadows

S. Barsky;M. Petrou

402
Citations
Automatic watershed segmentation of randomly textured color images

L. Shafarenko;M. Petrou;J. Kittler

401
Citations
The Trace transform and its applications

A. Kadyrov;M. Petrou

354
Citations
Segmentation of color textures

M. Mirmehdi;M. Petrou

304
Citations
Optimal edge detectors for ramp edges

M. Petrou;J. Kittler

276
Citations
On the choice of the parameters for anisotropic diffusion in image processing

Chourmouzios Tsiotsios;Maria Petrou

269
Citations
Histogram-based segmentation in a perceptually uniform color space

L. Shafarenko;H. Petrou;J. Kittler

173
Citations
Affine invariant features from the trace transform

M. Petrou;A. Kadyrov

171
Citations
Application of a Bayesian network in a GIS based decision making system

Athena Stassopoulou;Maria Petrou;Josef Kittler

151
Citations
Mapping system for the integration and graphical display of pipeline information that enables automated pipeline surveillance

Andy J. Fraser;Brian Hewitt;Maria Petrou;Alan Tuck

140
Citations
Multidimensional co-occurrence matrices for object recognition and matching

Vassili Kovalev;Maria Petrou

137
Citations
Face verification competition on the XM2VTS database

Kieron Messer;Josef Kittler;Mohammad Sadeghi;Sebastien Marcel

133
Citations
Defect detection in random colour textures

Keng Yew Song;Josef Kittler;Maria Petrou

127
Citations
Color grading of randomly textured ceramic tiles using color histograms

C. Boukouvalas;J. Kittler;R. Marik;M. Petrou

103
Citations
Ceramic tile inspection for colour and structural defects

C. Boukouvalas;J. Kittler;R. Marik;M. Mirmehdi

102
Citations
Confidence in linear spectral unmixing of single pixels

M. Petrou;P.G. Foschi

98
Citations
Sparse representations for facial expressions recognition via l 1 optimization

Stefanos Zafeiriou;Maria Petrou

97
Citations
A Time-Efficient Method for Anomaly Detection in Hyperspectral Images

O. Duran;M. Petrou

94
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Josef Kittler University of Surrey

Majid Mirmehdi University of Bristol

Stefanos Zafeiriou Imperial College London

Peter Robinson University of Cambridge

Patrick Olivier Monash University

Stan Z. Li Westlake University

Xavier Lladó University of Girona

Richard Lucas Aberystwyth University

Jürgen R. Reichenbach Friedrich Schiller University Jena

Wuqiang Yang University of Manchester

External Links

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