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Rita Cucchiara 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 Rita Cucchiara sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 596 publications — 96th percentile

96% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Rita Cucchiara 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 Rita Cucchiara sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 131+

This scientist: 72 D-Index — 89th percentile

89% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Italy Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Computer Science in Italy Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Italy Leader Award
  • 2018 - IAPR Maria Petrou Prize For pioneering contributions to tracking and reidentification, and as a role model for early career researchers.
  • 2006 - Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) For contributions to pattern recognition for video-surveillance.

Overview

Rita Cucchiara is affiliated with the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia in Italy. Their research spans primarily the field of Computer Science, with a focus on computer vision and pattern recognition. Among the subfields most represented in their work are Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Artificial Intelligence, Computational Mechanics, Aerospace Engineering, and Automotive Engineering.

Their research topics cover a variety of areas including Multimodal Machine Learning Applications, Human Pose and Action Recognition, Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques, Natural Language Processing Techniques, Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning, Generative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis, and Advanced Neural Network Applications.

Frequent coauthors of Rita Cucchiara include:

  • Lorenzo Baraldi
  • Marcella Cornia
  • Silvia Cascianelli
  • Simone Calderara
  • Roberto Vezzani

Their publications appear regularly in venues such as:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Computer Vision and Image Understanding
  • ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications
  • Computer
  • IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Selected recent papers demonstrate a strong focus on image captioning, neural networks, and medical artificial intelligence. These include:

  • From Show to Tell: A Survey on Deep Learning-Based Image Captioning, 2022, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
  • Working Memory Connections for LSTM, 2021, Neural Networks
  • Information fusion as an integrative cross-cutting enabler to achieve robust, explainable, and trustworthy medical artificial intelligence, 2021, Information Fusion
  • Dress Code: High-Resolution Multi-Category Virtual Try-On, 2022, 2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW)
  • The Unreasonable Effectiveness of CLIP Features for Image Captioning: An Experimental Analysis, 2022, 2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW)

Rita Cucchiara has contributed to books published by Springer Science+Business Media, specifically a series of volumes titled Pattern Recognition. ICPR International Workshops and Challenges, all published in 2021.

Awards received include the IAPR Maria Petrou Prize in 2018, awarded for contributions in tracking and reidentification and recognized as a role model for early career researchers. Additionally, they were named a Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) in 2006 for contributions to pattern recognition for video-surveillance.

Best Publications

  • Performance Measures and a Data Set for Multi-target, Multi-camera Tracking

    Ergys Ristani;Francesco Solera;Roger S. Zou;Rita Cucchiara

  • Detecting moving objects, ghosts, and shadows in video streams

    R. Cucchiara;C. Grana;M. Piccardi;A. Prati

  • Visual Tracking: An Experimental Survey

    Arnold W. M. Smeulders;Dung M. Chu;Rita Cucchiara;Simone Calderara

  • Detecting moving shadows: algorithms and evaluation

    A. Prati;I. Mikic;M.M. Trivedi;R. Cucchiara

  • Meshed-Memory Transformer for Image Captioning

    Marcella Cornia;Matteo Stefanini;Lorenzo Baraldi;Rita Cucchiara

  • Improving shadow suppression in moving object detection with HSV color information

    R. Cucchiara;C. Grana;M. Piccardi;A. Prati

  • Image analysis and rule-based reasoning for a traffic monitoring system

    R. Cucchiara;M. Piccardi;P. Mello

  • Predicting Human Eye Fixations via an LSTM-based Saliency Attentive Model.

    Marcella Cornia;Lorenzo Baraldi;Giuseppe Serra;Rita Cucchiara

  • Image analysis and rule-based reasoning for a traffic monitoring system

    R. Cucchiara;M. Piccardi;P. Mello

  • Latent Space Autoregression for Novelty Detection

    Davide Abati;Angelo Porrello;Simone Calderara;Rita Cucchiara

  • People reidentification in surveillance and forensics: A survey

    Roberto Vezzani;Davide Baltieri;Rita Cucchiara

  • A deep multi-level network for saliency prediction

    Marcella Cornia;Lorenzo Baraldi;Giuseppe Serra;Rita Cucchiara

  • 3DPeS: 3D people dataset for surveillance and forensics

    Davide Baltieri;Roberto Vezzani;Rita Cucchiara

  • From Show to Tell: A Survey on Deep Learning-based Image Captioning.

    Matteo Stefanini;Marcella Cornia;Lorenzo Baraldi;Silvia Cascianelli

  • An Indoor Location-Aware System for an IoT-Based Smart Museum

    Stefano Alletto;Rita Cucchiara;Giuseppe Del Fiore;Luca Mainetti

  • Probabilistic posture classification for Human-behavior analysis

    R. Cucchiara;C. Grana;A. Prati;R. Vezzani

  • Predicting Human Eye Fixations via an LSTM-based Saliency Attentive Model

    Marcella Cornia;Lorenzo Baraldi;Giuseppe Serra;Rita Cucchiara

  • A multi-camera vision system for fall detection and alarm generation

    Rita Cucchiara;Andrea Prati;Roberto Vezzani

  • Multimedia surveillance systems

    Rita Cucchiara

  • Predicting the Driver's Focus of Attention: The DR(eye)VE Project

    Andrea Palazzi;Davide Abati;Simone Calderara;Francesco Solera

  • Detecting objects, shadows and ghosts in video streams by exploiting color and motion information

    R. Cucchiara;C. Grana;M. Piccardi;A. Prati

  • Optimized Block-Based Connected Components Labeling With Decision Trees

    Costantino Grana;Daniele Borghesani;Rita Cucchiara

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrea Prati
Andrea Prati University of Parma
Costantino Grana
Costantino Grana University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Simone Calderara
Simone Calderara University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Roberto Vezzani
Roberto Vezzani University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Massimo Piccardi
Massimo Piccardi University of Technology Sydney
Giuseppe Serra
Giuseppe Serra University of Udine
Marco Bertini
Marco Bertini University of Florence
Alberto Del Bimbo
Alberto Del Bimbo University of Florence
Giovanni Pellacani
Giovanni Pellacani Sapienza University of Rome
Paola Mello
Paola Mello University of Bologna

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