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Sergio Escalera

Sergio Escalera

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Computer Science
Spain
2025

D-Index & Metrics

Computer Science

D-Index
68
Citations
15860
World Ranking
2113
National Ranking
25

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Spain Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Spain Leader Award

Overview

Sergio Escalera is an active researcher affiliated with the University of Barcelona in Spain. Their research is primarily situated within the field of Computer Science, with a strong focus on several interconnected subfields.

The main subfields of study for Sergio Escalera include:

  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Signal Processing
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging

The scientist's work spans various topics, notably:

  • Human Pose and Action Recognition
  • Hand Gesture Recognition Systems
  • Face Recognition and Analysis
  • Biometric Identification and Security
  • Anomaly Detection Techniques and Applications
  • Gait Recognition and Analysis
  • 3D Shape Modeling and Analysis

Sergio Escalera has contributed numerous publications to multiple venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Expert Systems with Applications
  • Multimedia Tools and Applications
  • IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
  • IEEE Transactions on Biometrics Behavior and Identity Science

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Escalera are:

  • "Sign Language Recognition: A Deep Survey" (2020), published in Expert Systems with Applications
  • "CASIA-SURF: A Large-Scale Multi-Modal Benchmark for Face Anti-Spoofing" (2020), published in IEEE Transactions on Biometrics Behavior and Identity Science
  • "Hand sign language recognition using multi-view hand skeleton" (2020), published in Expert Systems with Applications
  • "Video Transformers: A Survey" (2023), published in IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
  • "Contrastive Context-Aware Learning for 3D High-Fidelity Mask Face Presentation Attack Detection" (2022), published in IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security

The scientist frequently collaborates with a range of coauthors, among whom the most frequent are:

  • Meysam Madadi
  • Thomas B. Moeslund
  • Jun Wan
  • Guodong Guo
  • Hugo Jair Escalante

Sergio Escalera has also contributed to several books published by notable academic publishers. These include:

  • Two books published by Morgan & Claypool Publishers: "Multi-Modal Face Presentation Attack Detection" (2020) and "Advances in Face Presentation Attack Detection" (2023)
  • One book published by Springer Science+Business Media: "Image Analysis and Processing - ICIAP 2022" (2022)

Best Publications

  • Sign Language Recognition - A Deep Survey.

    Razieh Rastgoo;Kourosh Kiani;Sergio Escalera

  • Beyond one-hot encoding: Lower dimensional target embedding

    Pau Rodríguez;Miguel Ángel Bautista;Jordi Gonzàlez;Sergio Escalera;Sergio Escalera

  • RGB-D-based human motion recognition with deep learning: A survey

    Pichao Wang;Wanqing Li;Philip O Ogunbona;Jun Wan

  • Multi-Centre, Multi-Vendor and Multi-Disease Cardiac Segmentation: The M&Ms Challenge.

    Víctor M. Campello;Polyxeni Gkontra;Cristian Izquierdo;Carlos Martín-Isla

  • Bi-Directional ConvLSTM U-Net with Densley Connected Convolutions

    Reza Azad;Maryam Asadi-Aghbolaghi;Mahmood Fathy;Sergio Escalera

  • Survey on Emotional Body Gesture Recognition

    Fatemeh Noroozi;Ciprian Adrian Corneanu;Dorota Kaminska;Tomasz Sapinski

  • On the Decoding Process in Ternary Error-Correcting Output Codes

    S. Escalera;O. Pujol;P. Radeva

  • ChaLearn Looking at People RGB-D Isolated and Continuous Datasets for Gesture Recognition

    Jun Wan;Stan Z. Li;Yibing Zhao;Shuai Zhou

  • Chalearn looking at people challenge 2014: Dataset and results

    Sergio Escalera;Xavier Baró;Jordi Gonzàlez;Miguel Ángel Bautista

  • Traffic Sign Recognition Using Evolutionary Adaboost Detection and Forest-ECOC Classification

    X. Baro;S. Escalera;J. Vitria;O. Pujol

  • Audio-Visual Emotion Recognition in Video Clips

    Fatemeh Noroozi;Marina Marjanovic;Angelina Njegus;Sergio Escalera

  • ChaLearn LAP 2016: First Round Challenge on First Impressions - Dataset and Results

    Víctor Ponce-López;Víctor Ponce-López;Baiyu Chen;Marc Oliu;Ciprian A. Corneanu

  • Depth-Based 3D Hand Pose Estimation: From Current Achievements to Future Goals

    Shanxin Yuan;Guillermo Garcia-Hernando;Bjorn Stenger;Gyeongsik Moon

  • Multi-modal gesture recognition challenge 2013: dataset and results

    Sergio Escalera;Jordi Gonzàlez;Xavier Baró;Miguel Reyes

  • Featureweighting in dynamic timewarping for gesture recognition in depth data

    Miguel Reyes;Gabriel Dominguez;Sergio Escalera

  • A Dataset and Benchmark for Large-Scale Multi-Modal Face Anti-Spoofing

    Shifeng Zhang;Xiaobo Wang;Ajian Liu;Chenxu Zhao

  • A Survey on Deep Learning Based Approaches for Action and Gesture Recognition in Image Sequences

    Maryam Asadi-Aghbolaghi;Albert Clapes;Marco Bellantonio;Hugo Jair Escalante

  • ChaLearn Looking at People 2015: Apparent Age and Cultural Event Recognition Datasets and Results

    Sergio Escalera;Junior Fabian;Pablo Pardo;Xavier Baro

  • CASIA-SURF: A Large-Scale Multi-Modal Benchmark for Face Anti-Spoofing

    Shifeng Zhang;Ajian Liu;Jun Wan;Yanyan Liang

  • Gate-Shift Networks for Video Action Recognition

    Swathikiran Sudhakaran;Sergio Escalera;Oswald Lanz

  • 3D Hand Pose Estimation: From Current Achievements to Future Goals

    Shanxin Yuan;Guillermo Garcia-Hernando;Björn Stenger;Gyeongsik Moon

  • Survey on RGB, 3D, Thermal, and Multimodal Approaches for Facial Expression Recognition: History, Trends, and Affect-related Applications

    Ciprian Corneanu;Marc Oliu;Jeffrey F. Cohn;Sergio Escalera

Frequent Co-Authors

Petia Radeva
Petia Radeva University of Barcelona
Oriol Pujol
Oriol Pujol University of Barcelona
Isabelle Guyon
Isabelle Guyon University of Paris-Saclay
Hugo Jair Escalante
Hugo Jair Escalante National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics
Gholamreza Anbarjafari
Gholamreza Anbarjafari University of Tartu
Thomas B. Moeslund
Thomas B. Moeslund Aalborg University
Stan Z. Li
Stan Z. Li Westlake University
Marcel A. J. van Gerven
Marcel A. J. van Gerven Radboud University
Jüri Allik
Jüri Allik University of Tartu
Zhen Xu
Zhen Xu Zhejiang University

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