2026 Paolo Bestagini: 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	35	11749	11414	396	392	210	4872

Overview

Paolo Bestagini is affiliated with the Polytechnic University of Milan in Italy and has a substantial body of research primarily within the domain of computer science. Their work spans several subfields, including computer vision and pattern recognition, signal processing, artificial intelligence, geophysics, and biomedical engineering.

Their main topics of research include digital media forensic detection, speech and audio processing, music and audio processing, speech recognition and synthesis, generative adversarial networks and image synthesis, advanced steganography and watermarking techniques, and seismic waves and analysis.

Key recent papers authored by Paolo Bestagini include:

Video face manipulation detection through ensemble of CNNs (2020) published in Virtual Community of Pathological Anatomy (University of Castilla La Mancha)
Synthetic speech detection through short-term and long-term prediction traces (2021) published in EURASIP Journal on Information Security
Training Strategies and Data Augmentations in CNN-based DeepFake Video Detection (2020) published in Virtual Community of Pathological Anatomy (University of Castilla La Mancha)
Deep Prior-Based Unsupervised Reconstruction of Irregularly Sampled Seismic Data (2020) published in IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters
Facing Device Attribution Problem for Stabilized Video Sequences (2020) published in Virtual Community of Pathological Anatomy (University of Castilla La Mancha)

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Paolo Bestagini include:

Stefano Tubaro
Sara Mandelli
Davide Salvi
Edward J. Delp
Edoardo Daniele Cannas

Paolo Bestagini has published extensively at the following venues:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Virtual Community of Pathological Anatomy (University of Castilla La Mancha)
IEEE Access
Journal of Imaging
ICASSP 2022 - 2022 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)

Their research output consists of a significant number of publications focused on the intersection of signal processing, machine learning, and multimedia forensics. The contributions span practical applications such as video face manipulation detection and synthetic speech detection as well as theoretical approaches for data reconstruction in geophysics.

Best Publications

An overview on video forensics

P. Bestagini;K. M. Fontani;S. Milani;M. Barni

340
Citations
First Steps Toward Camera Model Identification with Convolutional Neural Networks

Luca Bondi;Luca Baroffio;David Guera;Paolo Bestagini

319
Citations
Video Face Manipulation Detection Through Ensemble of CNNs

Nicolo Bonettini;Edoardo Daniele Cannas;Sara Mandelli;Luca Bondi

258
Citations
Aligned and non-aligned double JPEG detection using convolutional neural networks

Mauro Barni;Luca Bondi;Nicolò Bonettini;Paolo Bestagini

243
Citations
Tampering Detection and Localization Through Clustering of Camera-Based CNN Features

Luca Bondi;Silvia Lameri;David Guera;Paolo Bestagini

235
Citations
Local tampering detection in video sequences

Paolo Bestagini;Simone Milani;Marco Tagliasacchi;Stefano Tubaro

177
Citations
Landmine detection from GPR data using convolutional neural networks

Silvia Lameri;Federico Lombardi;Paolo Bestagini;Maurizio Lualdi

140
Citations
A machine learning approach to facies classification using well logs

Paolo Bestagini;Vincenzo Lipari;Stefano Tubaro

120
Citations
First Steps Toward Camera Model Identification with Convolutional Neural Networks

Luca Bondi;Luca Baroffio;David Güera;Paolo Bestagini

100
Citations
Seismic data interpolation through convolutional autoencoder

Sara Mandelli;Federico Borra;Vincenzo Lipari;Paolo Bestagini

95
Citations
Interpolation and Denoising of Seismic Data using Convolutional Neural Networks.

Sara Mandelli;Vincenzo Lipari;Paolo Bestagini;Stefano Tubaro

82
Citations
Video codec identification

P. Bestagini;A. Allam;S. Milani;M. Tagliasacchi

74
Citations
Synthetic speech detection through short-term and long-term prediction traces

Clara Borrelli;Paolo Bestagini;Fabio Antonacci;Augusto Sarti

73
Citations
Satellite image forgery detection and localization using GAN and One-Class classifier

Sri Kalyan Yarlagadda;David Güera;Paolo Bestagini;Fengqing Maggie Zhu

72
Citations
Deepfake Speech Detection Through Emotion Recognition: A Semantic Approach

Unknown

71
Citations
Multiple compression detection for video sequences

S. Milani;P. Bestagini;M. Tagliasacchi;S. Tubaro

67
Citations
Training Strategies and Data Augmentations in CNN-based DeepFake Video Detection

Luca Bondi;Edoardo Daniele Cannas;Paolo Bestagini;Stefano Tubaro

65
Citations
A Preliminary Study on Convolutional Neural Networks for Camera Model Identification

Luca Bondi;David Güera;Luca Baroffio;Paolo Bestagini

64
Citations
Do Deepfakes Feel Emotions? A Semantic Approach to Detecting Deepfakes Via Emotional Inconsistencies

Brian Hosler;Davide Salvi;Anthony Murray;Fabio Antonacci

61
Citations
A Counter-Forensic Method for CNN-Based Camera Model Identification

David Guera;Yu Wang;Luca Bondi;Paolo Bestagini

60
Citations
Data-Driven Feature Characterization Techniques for Laser Printer Attribution

Anselmo Ferreira;Luca Bondi;Luca Baroffio;Paolo Bestagini

59
Citations
Facing Device Attribution Problem for Stabilized Video Sequences

Sara Mandelli;Paolo Bestagini;Luisa Verdoliva;Stefano Tubaro

56
Citations
A Geometrical–Statistical Approach to Outlier Removal for TDOA Measurements

Marco Compagnoni;Alessia Pini;Antonio Canclini;Paolo Bestagini

55
Citations
Camera identification with deep convolutional networks

Luca Baroffio;Luca Bondi;Paolo Bestagini;Stefano Tubaro

22
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Stefano Tubaro Polytechnic University of Milan

Augusto Sarti Polytechnic University of Milan

Marco Tagliasacchi Google (Switzerland)

Edward J. Delp Purdue University West Lafayette

Anderson Rocha State University of Campinas

Luisa Verdoliva University of Naples Federico II

Alessandro Piva University of Florence

Andrea Melloni Polytechnic University of Milan

Mauro Barni University of Siena

Davide Cozzolino University of Naples Federico II

External Links

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