2026 Pietro Pala: 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	33	12568	12201	438	434	174	5439

Overview

Pietro Pala is affiliated with the University of Florence in Italy. Their research spans across the fields of Computer Science and Engineering, with a particular focus on several subfields including Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Artificial Intelligence, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Computational Mechanics, and Infectious Diseases.

Their work frequently addresses topics such as:

Advanced Neural Network Applications
Face recognition and analysis
Face and Expression Recognition
Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)
Human Pose and Action Recognition
Facial Nerve Paralysis Treatment and Research
Reinforcement Learning in Robotics

Pietro Pala has contributed to various scientific venues, with repeated publications in:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Pattern Recognition Letters
Florence Research (University of Florence)
Journal of Imaging
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Notable recent papers include:

Explaining autonomous driving by learning end-to-end visual attention, 2020, Florence Research (University of Florence)
Fall Detection of Elderly People Using the Manifold of Positive Semidefinite Matrices, 2021, Journal of Imaging
A Sparse and Locally Coherent Morphable Face Model for Dense Semantic Correspondence Across Heterogeneous 3D Faces, 2021, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Automatic Estimation of Self-Reported Pain by Trajectory Analysis in the Manifold of Fixed Rank Positive Semi-Definite Matrices, 2022, IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing
Antiretroviral Initiation at ≥800 CD4+ Cells/mm3 Associated With Lower Human Immunodeficiency Virus Reservoir Size, 2022, Clinical Infectious Diseases

Frequent collaborators in their research work include:

Alberto Del Bimbo
Federico Becattini
Stefano Berretti
Luca Cultrera
Gabriele Magrini

Best Publications

Visual image retrieval by elastic matching of user sketches

A. Del Bimbo;P. Pala

600
Citations
Semantics in visual information retrieval

C. Colombo;A. Del Bimbo;P. Pala

398
Citations
3-D Human Action Recognition by Shape Analysis of Motion Trajectories on Riemannian Manifold

Maxime Devanne;Hazem Wannous;Stefano Berretti;Pietro Pala

382
Citations
Retrieval by shape similarity with perceptual distance and effective indexing

S. Berretti;A. Del Bimbo;P. Pala

317
Citations
3D Face Recognition Using Isogeodesic Stripes

S Berretti;A Del Bimbo;P Pala

302
Citations
Recognizing Actions from Depth Cameras as Weakly Aligned Multi-part Bag-of-Poses

Lorenzo Seidenari;Vincenzo Varano;Stefano Berretti;Alberto Del Bimbo

289
Citations
Content-based retrieval of 3D models

Alberto Del Bimbo;Pietro Pala

204
Citations
A Set of Selected SIFT Features for 3D Facial Expression Recognition

Stefano Berretti;Alberto Del Bimbo;Pietro Pala;Boulbaba Ben Amor

183
Citations
Soccer highlights detection and recognition using HMMs

J. Assfalg;M. Bertini;A. Del Bimbo;W. Nunziati

177
Citations
Visual querying by color perceptive regions

A. Del Bimbo;M. Mugnaini;P. Pala;F. Turco

140
Citations
Image retrieval by color semantics

J. M. Corridoni;A. Del Bimbo;P. Pala

121
Citations
Content-Based Retrieval of 3-D Objects Using Spin Image Signatures

J. Assfalg;M. Bertini;A.D. Bimbo;P. Pala

116
Citations
Content-based indexing and retrieval of TV news

M. Bertini;A. Del Bimbo;P. Pala

113
Citations
Statistical models for automatic video annotation and retrieval

V. Lavrenko;S.L. Feng;R. Manmatha

113
Citations
Space-Time Pose Representation for 3D Human Action Recognition

Maxime Devanne;Hazem Wannous;Stefano Berretti;Pietro Pala

97
Citations
Matching 3D face scans using interest points and local histogram descriptors

Stefano Berretti;Naoufel Werghi;Alberto del Bimbo;Pietro Pala

93
Citations
3D Mesh decomposition using Reeb graphs

Stefano Berretti;Alberto Del Bimbo;Pietro Pala

78
Citations
Image retrieval by shape and texture

Pietro Pala;Simone Santini

70
Citations
Description and retrieval of 3D face models using iso-geodesic stripes

Stefano Berretti;Alberto Del Bimbo;Pietro Pala

68
Citations
Visual image retrieval by elastic deformation of object sketches

A. Del Bimbo;P. Pala;S. Santini

67
Citations
Superfaces: a super-resolution model for 3d faces

Stefano Berretti;Alberto Del Bimbo;Pietro Pala

66
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Stefano Berretti University of Florence

Alberto Del Bimbo University of Florence

Mohamed Daoudi IMT Nord Europe

Marco Bertini University of Florence

Andrew D. Bagdanov University of Florence

Fabio Crestani Universita della Svizzera Italiana

Stefanos Zafeiriou Imperial College London

Anuj Srivastava Florida State University

Jamie Callan Carnegie Mellon University

Xiaoming Liu University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

External Links

Personal website of Pietro Pala

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