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Pietro Pala publication distribution in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Computer Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Pietro Pala sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 174 publications — 36th percentile

36% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 991 publications or more.

Pietro Pala D-index placement in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Computer Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Pietro Pala sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 131+

This scientist: 33 D-Index — 13th percentile

13% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 131 D-Index or more.

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

  • Semantics in visual information retrieval

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

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

    Maxime Devanne;Hazem Wannous;Stefano Berretti;Pietro Pala

  • Retrieval by shape similarity with perceptual distance and effective indexing

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

  • 3D Face Recognition Using Isogeodesic Stripes

    S Berretti;A Del Bimbo;P Pala

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

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

  • Content-based retrieval of 3D models

    Alberto Del Bimbo;Pietro Pala

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

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

  • Soccer highlights detection and recognition using HMMs

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

  • Visual querying by color perceptive regions

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

  • Image retrieval by color semantics

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

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

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

  • Content-based indexing and retrieval of TV news

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

  • Statistical models for automatic video annotation and retrieval

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

  • Space-Time Pose Representation for 3D Human Action Recognition

    Maxime Devanne;Hazem Wannous;Stefano Berretti;Pietro Pala

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

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

  • 3D Mesh decomposition using Reeb graphs

    Stefano Berretti;Alberto Del Bimbo;Pietro Pala

  • Image retrieval by shape and texture

    Pietro Pala;Simone Santini

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

    Stefano Berretti;Alberto Del Bimbo;Pietro Pala

  • Visual image retrieval by elastic deformation of object sketches

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

  • Superfaces: a super-resolution model for 3d faces

    Stefano Berretti;Alberto Del Bimbo;Pietro Pala

Frequent Co-Authors

Stefano Berretti
Stefano Berretti University of Florence
Alberto Del Bimbo
Alberto Del Bimbo University of Florence
Mohamed Daoudi
Mohamed Daoudi IMT Nord Europe
Marco Bertini
Marco Bertini University of Florence
Andrew D. Bagdanov
Andrew D. Bagdanov University of Florence
Fabio Crestani
Fabio Crestani Universita della Svizzera Italiana
Stefanos Zafeiriou
Stefanos Zafeiriou Imperial College London
Anuj Srivastava
Anuj Srivastava Florida State University
Jamie Callan
Jamie Callan Carnegie Mellon University
Xiaoming Liu
Xiaoming Liu University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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