2026 Paolo Favaro: 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	52	5049	4910	106	106	149	11775

Overview

Paolo Favaro is affiliated with the University of Bern in Switzerland and has concentrated their research primarily in the field of Computer Science. Their work spans several subfields, including Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Artificial Intelligence, Biophysics, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Physiology.

Their publication record includes a notable presence in venues such as:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Lecture notes in computer science
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
2021 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)

Favaro's research topics cover a range of advanced and specialized areas, including:

Advanced Vision and Imaging
Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning
Generative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis
Human Pose and Action Recognition
Obstructive Sleep Apnea Research
Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques
EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces

Their recent papers illustrate a focus on machine learning applications to imaging and sleep research, including:

DeepSleepNet-Lite: A Simplified Automatic Sleep Stage Scoring Model with Uncertainty Estimates, 2021, arXiv (Cornell University)
ISD: Self-Supervised Learning by Iterative Similarity Distillation, 2021, 2021 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
Learning to Reconstruct Confocal Microscopy Stacks From Single Light Field Images, 2021, IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging
U-Sleep's resilience to AASM guidelines, 2023, npj Digital Medicine
Semi-supervised Vision Transformers at Scale, 2022, arXiv (Cornell University)

Favaro has collaborated frequently with a number of researchers. Frequent coauthors include:

Aram Davtyan
Sepehr Sameni
Josué Page Vizcaíno
Abdelhak Lemkhenter
Luigi Fiorillo

Best Publications

Unsupervised Learning of Visual Representations by Solving Jigsaw Puzzles

Mehdi Noroozi;Paolo Favaro

2803
Citations
Low rank subspace clustering (LRSC)

René Vidal;Paolo Favaro

514
Citations
Structure from motion causally integrated over time

A. Chiuso;P. Favaro;Hailin Jin;S. Soatto

459
Citations
The Light Field Camera: Extended Depth of Field, Aliasing, and Superresolution

T. E. Bishop;P. Favaro

455
Citations
A geometric approach to shape from defocus

P. Favaro;S. Soatto

397
Citations
Representation Learning by Learning to Count

Mehdi Noroozi;Hamed Pirsiavash;Paolo Favaro

394
Citations
A closed form solution to robust subspace estimation and clustering

Paolo Favaro;Rene Vidal;Avinash Ravichandran

358
Citations
Total Variation Blind Deconvolution: The Devil Is in the Details

Daniele Perrone;Paolo Favaro

332
Citations
Light field superresolution

Tom E. Bishop;Sara Zanetti;Paolo Favaro

308
Citations
Boosting Self-Supervised Learning via Knowledge Transfer

Mehdi Noroozi;Ananth Vinjimoor;Paolo Favaro;Hamed Pirsiavash

295
Citations
Automated sleep scoring: A review of the latest approaches.

Luigi Fiorillo;Alessandro Puiatti;Michela Papandrea;Pietro-Luca Ratti

270
Citations
Real-time feature tracking and outlier rejection with changes in illumination

Hailin Jin;P. Favaro;S. Soatto

266
Citations
Shape from Defocus via Diffusion

P. Favaro;S. Soatto;M. Burger;S.J. Osher

222
Citations
Faceshop: deep sketch-based face image editing

Tiziano Portenier;Qiyang Hu;Attila Szabó;Siavash Arjomand Bigdeli

170
Citations
Motion Deblurring in the Wild

Mehdi Noroozi;Paramanand Chandramouli;Paolo Favaro

145
Citations
Full-resolution depth map estimation from an aliased plenoptic light field

Tom E. Bishop;Paolo Favaro

145
Citations
Observing Shape from Defocused Images

Paolo Favaro;Andrea Mennucci;Stefano Soatto

135
Citations
Self-Supervised Feature Learning by Learning to Spot Artifacts

Simon Jenni;Paolo Favaro

133
Citations
Learning to Extract a Video Sequence from a Single Motion-Blurred Image

Meiguang Jin;Givi Meishvili;Paolo Favaro

132
Citations
A semi-direct approach to structure from motion

Hailin Jin;Paolo Favaro;Stefano Soatto

126
Citations
Deep Mean-Shift Priors for Image Restoration

Siavash Arjomand Bigdeli;Matthias Zwicker;Paolo Favaro;Meiguang Jin

94
Citations
Dynamic Texture Segmentation

Gianfranco Doretto;Daniel Cremers;Paolo Favaro;Stefano Soatto

64
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Stefano Soatto University of California, Los Angeles

Matthias Zwicker University of Maryland, College Park

Hailin Jin Adobe Systems (United States)

Hamed Pirsiavash University of California, Davis

René Vidal University of Pennsylvania

Roberto Cipolla University of Cambridge

Andrea Vedaldi University of Oxford

Alessandro Chiuso University of Padua

Andrea L. Bertozzi University of California, Los Angeles

Paulo Oliveira University of Lisbon

External Links

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