2026 Renato Pajarola: 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	42	8393	8156	157	156	176	7394

Research.com Recognitions

2016 - ACM Senior Member

Overview

Renato Pajarola is affiliated with the University of Zurich in Switzerland and has a research portfolio spanning computer science and engineering. Their work focuses significantly on computer vision and pattern recognition, geology, environmental engineering, computational mechanics, and computer graphics with computer-aided design.

The scientist's research topics cover several areas:

3D surveying and cultural heritage
Remote sensing and LiDAR applications
3D shape modeling and analysis
Computer graphics and visualization techniques
Advanced vision and imaging
Tensor decomposition and applications
Robotics and sensor-based localization

Renato Pajarola has published extensively, with 19 publications in computer science and 12 in engineering fields. Their frequent publication venues include:

Computer Graphics Forum
The Visual Computer
Eurographics
Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich)
Electronic Imaging

Among recent papers, notable titles include:

State-of-the-art in Automatic 3D Reconstruction of Structured Indoor Environments, 2020, Computer Graphics Forum
PGCNet: patch graph convolutional network for point cloud segmentation of indoor scenes, 2020, The Visual Computer
Walk2Map: Extracting Floor Plans from Indoor Walk Trajectories, 2021, Computer Graphics Forum
SenVis: Interactive Tensor-based Sensitivity Visualization, 2021, Computer Graphics Forum
VisGuided: A Community-driven Approach for Education in Visualization, 2021, Eurographics

Collaboration has been a part of their work, with frequent co-authors including:

Alexandra Diehl
Claudio Mura
Lizeth Joseline Fuentes Perez
Rafael Ballester-Ripoll
Konrad Schindler

Renato Pajarola was awarded the ACM Senior Member distinction in 2016, recognizing their standing in the computing community.

Best Publications

Predictive-corrective incompressible SPH

B. Solenthaler;R. Pajarola

561
Citations
Large scale terrain visualization using the restricted quadtree triangulation

Renato Pajarola

537
Citations
Compressed progressive meshes

R. Pajarola;J. Rossignac

528
Citations
A unified particle model for fluid–solid interactions

Barbara Solenthaler;Jürg Schläfli;Renato Pajarola

358
Citations
Survey of semi-regular multiresolution models for interactive terrain rendering

Renato Pajarola;Enrico Gobbetti

283
Citations
Equalizer: A Scalable Parallel Rendering Framework

S. Eilemann;M. Makhinya;R. Pajarola

256
Citations
Interactive SPH simulation and rendering on the GPU

Prashant Goswami;Philipp Schlegel;Barbara Solenthaler;Renato Pajarola

226
Citations
Automatic Room Detection and Reconstruction in Cluttered Indoor Environments with Complex Room Layouts

Claudio Mura;Oliver Mattausch;Alberto Jaspe Villanueva;Enrico Gobbetti

194
Citations
Out-Of-Core Algorithms for Scientific Visualization and Computer Graphics

Yuh-Min Chiang;Jihad El-sana;Peter Lindstrom;Renato Pajarola

173
Citations
Topology preserving and controlled topology simplifying multiresolution isosurface extraction

Thomas Gerstner;Renato Pajarola

159
Citations
Point-based rendering techniques

Miguel Sainz;Renato Pajarola

157
Citations
TTHRESH: Tensor Compression for Multidimensional Visual Data

Rafael Ballester-Ripoll;Peter Lindstrom;Renato Pajarola

156
Citations
Density contrast SPH interfaces

B. Solenthaler;R. Pajarola

155
Citations
A unified particle model for fluid–solid interactions: Research Articles

Barbara Solenthaler;Jürg Schläfli;Renato Pajarola

145
Citations
Overview of Quadtree-based Terrain Triangulation and Visualization

Renato Pajarola

143
Citations
QuadTIN: quadtree based triangulated irregular networks

Renato Pajarola;Marc Antonijuan;Roberto Lario

132
Citations
Object detection and classification from large-scale cluttered indoor scans

Oliver Mattausch;Daniele Panozzo;Claudio Mura;Olga Sorkine-Hornung

125
Citations
Continuous projection for fast L1 reconstruction

Reinhold Preiner;Oliver Mattausch;Murat Arikan;Renato Pajarola

124
Citations
FastMesh: efficient view-dependent meshing

R. Pajarola

111
Citations
Adaptive sampling and rendering of fluids on the GPU

Yanci Zhang;Barbara Solenthaler;Renato Pajarola

108
Citations
State-of-the-art in Automatic 3D Reconstruction of Structured Indoor Environments

Giovanni Pintore;Claudio Mura;Fabio Ganovelli;Lizeth Joseline Fuentes-Perez

107
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Enrico Gobbetti Center for Advanced Studies Research and Development in Sardinia

Peter Widmayer ETH Zurich

Jarek Rossignac Georgia Institute of Technology

David H. Laidlaw Brown University

Peter Lindstrom Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Hans-Christian Hege Zuse Institute Berlin

Cláudio T. Silva New York University

Mario Botsch TU Dortmund University

Michael Wimmer TU Wien

Philipp Slusallek Saarland University

External Links

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