2026 Nuno Vasconcelos: 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	86	755	730	401	387	285	37329

Research.com Recognitions

2017 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to computer vision, image processing, and multimedia
2005 - Hellman Fellow

Overview

Nuno Vasconcelos is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Computer Science, with extensive work in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, and Artificial Intelligence. Additional subfields include Computational Mechanics, Biomedical Engineering, and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging.

The scientist's research topics cover a variety of areas, including:

Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning
Advanced Neural Network Applications
Multimodal Machine Learning Applications
Anomaly Detection Techniques and Applications
Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques
Human Pose and Action Recognition
Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning

Vasconcelos has published numerous papers in leading venues. Some recent notable publications are:

"A fully integrated wearable ultrasound system to monitor deep tissues in moving subjects" (2023), published in Nature Biotechnology
"Class-Incremental Learning with Strong Pre-trained Models" (2022), presented at the 2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
"MicroNet: Improving Image Recognition with Extremely Low FLOPs" (2021), at the 2021 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
"GistNet: a Geometric Structure Transfer Network for Long-Tailed Recognition" (2021), also at ICCV 2021
"Contrastive Learning with Adversarial Examples" (2020), published on arXiv (Cornell University)

They frequently publish in venues such as:

arXiv (Cornell University)
2021 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
Brachytherapy
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

The scientist has collaborated extensively with several frequent coauthors, including:

Chih-Hui Ho
Yunsheng Li
Tz-Ying Wu
Jiteng Mu
Yinpeng Chen

Nuno Vasconcelos has received the IEEE Fellow recognition in 2017 for contributions to computer vision, image processing, and multimedia. They were also awarded the Hellman Fellowship in 2005.

Best Publications

Cascade R-CNN: Delving Into High Quality Object Detection

Zhaowei Cai;Nuno Vasconcelos

6534
Citations
A Unified Multi-scale Deep Convolutional Neural Network for Fast Object Detection

Zhaowei Cai;Quanfu Fan;Rogério Schmidt Feris;Nuno Vasconcelos

1764
Citations
Cascade R-CNN: High Quality Object Detection and Instance Segmentation

Zhaowei Cai;Nuno Vasconcelos

1739
Citations
Anomaly detection in crowded scenes

Vijay Mahadevan;Weixin Li;Viral Bhalodia;Nuno Vasconcelos

1728
Citations
A new approach to cross-modal multimedia retrieval

Nikhil Rasiwasia;Jose Costa Pereira;Emanuele Coviello;Gabriel Doyle

1494
Citations
Privacy preserving crowd monitoring: Counting people without people models or tracking

A.B. Chan;Z.-S.J. Liang;N. Vasconcelos

1418
Citations
Supervised Learning of Semantic Classes for Image Annotation and Retrieval

G. Carneiro;A.B. Chan;P.J. Moreno;N. Vasconcelos

1222
Citations
Anomaly Detection and Localization in Crowded Scenes

Weixin Li;Vijay Mahadevan;Nuno Vasconcelos

1128
Citations
Bidirectional Learning for Domain Adaptation of Semantic Segmentation

Yunsheng Li;Lu Yuan;Nuno Vasconcelos

653
Citations
A Kullback-Leibler Divergence Based Kernel for SVM Classification in Multimedia Applications

Pedro J. Moreno;Purdy P. Ho;Nuno Vasconcelos

558
Citations
Modeling, Clustering, and Segmenting Video with Mixtures of Dynamic Textures

A.B. Chan;N. Vasconcelos

551
Citations
Deep Learning with Low Precision by Half-Wave Gaussian Quantization

Zhaowei Cai;Xiaodong He;Jian Sun;Nuno Vasconcelos

524
Citations
Bayesian Poisson regression for crowd counting

Antoni B. Chan;Nuno Vasconcelos

509
Citations
Spatiotemporal Saliency in Dynamic Scenes

V. Mahadevan;N. Vasconcelos

504
Citations
Counting People With Low-Level Features and Bayesian Regression

A. B. Chan;N. Vasconcelos

485
Citations
On the Role of Correlation and Abstraction in Cross-Modal Multimedia Retrieval

Jose Costa Pereira;Emanuele Coviello;Gabriel Doyle;Nikhil Rasiwasia

479
Citations
Learning Complexity-Aware Cascades for Deep Pedestrian Detection

Zhaowei Cai;Mohammad Saberian;Nuno Vasconcelos

381
Citations
Discriminant Saliency, the Detection of Suspicious Coincidences, and Applications to Visual Recognition

Dashan Gao;Sunhyoung Han;N. Vasconcelos

365
Citations
On the plausibility of the discriminant center-surround hypothesis for visual saliency.

Dashan Gao;Vijay Mahadevan;Nuno Vasconcelos

354
Citations
RESOUND: Towards Action Recognition Without Representation Bias

Yingwei Li;Yi Li;Nuno Vasconcelos

347
Citations
Bridging the Gap: Query by Semantic Example

Nikhil Rasiwasia;P.J. Moreno;N. Vasconcelos

345
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew Lippman MIT

Antoni B. Chan City University of Hong Kong

Gustavo Carneiro University of Surrey

Pedro J. Moreno Google (United States)

Marc Niethammer University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Gert R. G. Lanckriet University of California, San Diego

Harpreet Sawhney Microsoft (United States)

Rogerio Feris IBM (United States)

Jacqueline Kerr University of California, San Diego

Pamela C. Cosman University of California, San Diego

External Links

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