2026 Paolo Cignoni: 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	57	3761	3656	75	73	234	17686

Research.com Recognitions

2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Italy Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Computer Science in Italy Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Italy Leader Award

Overview

Paolo Cignoni is affiliated with the National Research Council (CNR) in Italy. Their research spans multiple fields of study, primarily within engineering and computer science, with a particular focus on several subfields including computer vision and pattern recognition, computer graphics and computer-aided design, civil and structural engineering, computational mechanics, and geology.

Their work covers a variety of main topics, reflecting a multidisciplinary approach that includes:

3D surveying and cultural heritage
Computer graphics and visualization techniques
3D shape modeling and analysis
Structural analysis and optimization
Computational geometry and mesh generation
Coral and marine ecosystems studies
Innovations in concrete and construction materials

Paolo Cignoni's publication record includes contributions in frequent venues such as:

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
ACM Transactions on Graphics
Computer Graphics Forum
Computers & Graphics
Remote Sensing

Selected recent publications include:

"TagLab: AI-assisted annotation for the fast and accurate semantic segmentation of coral reef orthoimages" (2021) in Journal of Field Robotics
"Reliable feature-line driven quad-remeshing" (2021) in ACM Transactions on Graphics
"LoopyCuts" (2020) in ACM Transactions on Graphics
"Needs and Gaps in Optical Underwater Technologies and Methods for the Investigation of Marine Animal Forest 3D-Structural Complexity" (2021) in Frontiers in Marine Science
"Quantifying the Loss of Coral from a Bleaching Event Using Underwater Photogrammetry and AI-Assisted Image Segmentation" (2023) in Remote Sensing

Frequent collaboration partners in their research include:

Luigi Malomo
Francesco Laccone
Massimiliano Corsini
Marco Callieri
Nico Pietroni

Best Publications

MeshLab: an Open-Source Mesh Processing Tool

Paolo Cignoni;Marco Callieri;Massimiliano Corsini;Matteo Dellepiane

3009
Citations
Metro: measuring error on simplified surfaces

Paolo Cignoni;Claudio Rocchini;Roberto Scopigno

2157
Citations
A comparison of mesh simplification algorithms

Paolo Cignoni;Claudio Montani;Roberto Scopigno

815
Citations
Ambient Occlusion and Edge Cueing for Enhancing Real Time Molecular Visualization

M. Tarini;P. Cignoni;C. Montani

543
Citations
A low cost 3D scanner based on structured light

C. Rocchini;P. Cignoni;C. Montani;P. Pingi

463
Citations
MeshLab: an Open-Source 3D Mesh Processing System.

Paolo Cignoni;Massimiliano Corsini;Guido Ranzuglia

410
Citations
DeWall: A fast divide and conquer Delaunay triangulation algorithm in Ed

Paolo Cignoni;Claudio Montani;Roberto Scopigno

379
Citations
Efficient and Flexible Sampling with Blue Noise Properties of Triangular Meshes

M. Corsini;P. Cignoni;R. Scopigno

367
Citations
PolyCube-Maps

Marco Tarini;Kai Hormann;Paolo Cignoni;Claudio Montani

348
Citations
BDAM — Batched Dynamic Adaptive Meshes for High Performance Terrain Visualization

Paolo Cignoni;Fabio Ganovelli;Enrico Gobbetti;Fabio Marton

335
Citations
Multiresolution Decimation based on Global Error

Andrea Ciampalini;Paolo Cignoni;Claudio Montani;Roberto Scopigno

320
Citations
Elastic textures for additive fabrication

Julian Panetta;Qingnan Zhou;Luigi Malomo;Nico Pietroni

317
Citations
Speeding up isosurface extraction using interval trees

P. Cignoni;P. Marino;C. Montani;E. Puppo

299
Citations
External memory management and simplification of huge meshes

P. Cignoni;C. Montani;C. Rocchini;R. Scopigno

268
Citations
Adaptive tetrapuzzles: efficient out-of-core construction and visualization of gigantic multiresolution polygonal models

Paolo Cignoni;Fabio Ganovelli;Enrico Gobbetti;Fabio Marton

264
Citations
Planet-sized batched dynamic adaptive meshes (P-BDAM)

P. Cignoni;F. Ganovelli;E. Gobbetti;F. Marton

234
Citations
Representation and Visualization of Terrain Surfaces at Variable Resolution

Paolo Cignoni;Enrico Puppo;Roberto Scopigno

212
Citations
Multiple textures stitching and blending on 3D objects

C. Rocchini;P. Cignoni;C. Montani;R. Scopigno

205
Citations
Protected interactive 3D graphics via remote rendering

David Koller;Michael Turitzin;Marc Levoy;Marco Tarini

200
Citations
Technical Section: Masked photo blending: Mapping dense photographic data set on high-resolution sampled 3D models

M. Callieri;P. Cignoni;M. Corsini;R. Scopigno

193
Citations
Multiresolution modeling and visualization of volume data based on simplicial complexes

Paolo Cignoni;Leila De Floriani;Claudio Montani;Enrico Puppo

189
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Roberto Scopigno Institute of Information Science and Technologies

Claudio Montani Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - CNR

Enrico Puppo University of Genoa

Enrico Gobbetti Center for Advanced Studies Research and Development in Sardinia

Leila De Floriani University of Maryland, College Park

Daniele Panozzo New York University

Bernd Bickel ETH Zurich

Valerio Pascucci University of Utah

Raffaele Perego Institute of Information Science and Technologies

Michael Goesele Technical University of Darmstadt

External Links

Personal website of Paolo Cignoni Google Scholar page

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