2026 Pietro Perona: 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	113	195	190	112	109	408	151271

Research.com Recognitions

2023 - Research.com Computer Science in United States Leader Award
2021 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to visual recognition algorithms and datasets

Overview

Pietro Perona is affiliated with the California Institute of Technology in the United States and works primarily in the field of Computer Science. Their research focuses on several subfields, including Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Neuroscience, Ecology, and Cell Biology.

The main topics of Pietro Perona's work include:

Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning
Multimodal Machine Learning Applications
Face Recognition and Analysis
Human Pose and Action Recognition
Face and Expression Recognition
Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques
Zebrafish Biomedical Research Applications

Frequent coauthors in Pietro Perona's publications are:

Elijah Cole
Oisin Mac Aodha
Neehar Kondapaneni
Grant Van Horn
Markus Marks

Regarding publication venues, Pietro Perona has contributed extensively to:

arXiv (Cornell University)
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
eLife
2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
International Journal of Computer Vision

Selected recent papers include:

"Caltech-UCSD Birds-200-2011 Dataset" (2024) published in The Caltech Institute Archives (California Institute of Technology)
"RU-AI: A Large Multimodal Dataset for Machine Generated Content Detection" (2024) published by Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (Schloss Dagstuhl)
"Mice in a labyrinth show rapid learning, sudden insight, and efficient exploration" (2021) published in eLife
"Towards Weakly-Supervised Text Spotting using a Multi-Task Transformer" (2022) presented at the 2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
"Computer Vision in the Operating Room: Opportunities and Caveats" (2020) published in IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics

Pietro Perona was named an IEEE Fellow in 2021 for contributions to visual recognition algorithms and datasets.

Best Publications

Microsoft COCO: Common Objects in Context

Tsung-Yi Lin;Michael Maire;Serge J. Belongie;James Hays

43612
Citations
Scale-space and edge detection using anisotropic diffusion

P. Perona;J. Malik

17621
Citations
A Bayesian hierarchical model for learning natural scene categories

L. Fei-Fei;P. Perona

5060
Citations
Learning Generative Visual Models from Few Training Examples: An Incremental Bayesian Approach Tested on 101 Object Categories

Li Fei-Fei;R. Fergus;P. Perona

4995
Citations
Learning generative visual models from few training examples: An incremental Bayesian approach tested on 101 object categories

Li Fei-Fei;Rob Fergus;Pietro Perona

4512
Citations
Graph-Based Visual Saliency

Jonathan Harel;Christof Koch;Pietro Perona

4190
Citations
Pedestrian Detection: An Evaluation of the State of the Art

P. Dollar;C. Wojek;B. Schiele;P. Perona

4048
Citations
The Caltech-UCSD Birds-200-2011 Dataset

Catherine Wah;Steve Branson;Peter Welinder;Pietro Perona

3748
Citations
One-shot learning of object categories

Li Fei-Fei;R. Fergus;P. Perona

3171
Citations
Object class recognition by unsupervised scale-invariant learning

R. Fergus;P. Perona;A. Zisserman

3086
Citations
Microsoft COCO: Common Objects in Context

Tsung-Yi Lin;Michael Maire;Serge Belongie;Lubomir Bourdev

2979
Citations
Caltech-256 Object Category Dataset

Gregory Griffin;Alex Holub;Pietro Perona

2684
Citations
Fast Feature Pyramids for Object Detection

Piotr Dollar;Ron Appel;Serge Belongie;Pietro Perona

2414
Citations
Self-Tuning Spectral Clustering

Lihi Zelnik-manor;Pietro Perona

2143
Citations
Pedestrian detection: A benchmark

Piotr Dollar;Christian Wojek;Bernt Schiele;Pietro Perona

1748
Citations
Integral Channel Features

Piotr Dollár;Zhuowen Tu;Pietro Perona;Serge J. Belongie

1655
Citations
Preattentive texture discrimination with early vision mechanisms

Jitendra Malik;Pietro Perona

1378
Citations
The iNaturalist Species Classification and Detection Dataset

Grant Van Horn;Oisin Mac Aodha;Yang Song;Yin Cui

1288
Citations
The Multidimensional Wisdom of Crowds

Peter Welinder;Steve Branson;Pietro Perona;Serge J. Belongie

1029
Citations
Rapid natural scene categorization in the near absence of attention

Fei Fei Li;Rufin VanRullen;Christof Koch;Pietro Perona

1007
Citations
Caltech-UCSD Birds 200

Peter Welinder;Steve Branson;Takeshi Mita;Catherine Wah

989
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Serge Belongie University of Copenhagen

Stefano Soatto University of California, Los Angeles

David J. Anderson California Institute of Technology

Christof Koch Allen Institute for Brain Science

Piotr Dollar Facebook (United States)

Andrew Zisserman University of Oxford

Michael C. Burl Jet Propulsion Lab

Rob Fergus New York University

Jitendra Malik University of California, Berkeley

Max Welling University of Amsterdam

External Links

Wikipedia of Pietro Perona Personal website of Pietro Perona Google Scholar page

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