2026 Tamara L. Berg: 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	54	4433	4308	2073	1999	94	25925

Overview

Tamara L. Berg is affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Computer Science with a strong emphasis on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition.

Their work is distributed across several subfields, including Artificial Intelligence, Biophysics, Human-Computer Interaction, and Signal Processing. Tamara L. Berg's research topics focus on:

Multimodal Machine Learning Applications
Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques
Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning
Human Pose and Action Recognition
Video Analysis and Summarization
Generative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis
Image Retrieval and Classification Techniques

Among their recent publications are the following papers:

Less is More: ClipBERT for Video-and-Language Learning via Sparse Sampling, 2021, arXiv (Cornell University)
VALUE: A Multi-Task Benchmark for Video-and-Language Understanding Evaluation, 2021, arXiv (Cornell University)
CommerceMM, 2022, Proceedings of the 28th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
QVHighlights: Detecting Moments and Highlights in Videos via Natural Language Queries, 2021, arXiv (Cornell University)
TVR: A Large-Scale Dataset for Video-Subtitle Moment Retrieval, 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)

Tamara L. Berg has frequently published in venues such as:

arXiv (Cornell University)
UNC Libraries
Proceedings of the 28th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
2022 IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV)
Lecture notes in computer science

Their collaborative work includes frequent co-authors:

Mohit Bansal
Licheng Yu
Jie Lei
Animesh A. Sinha
Alexander C. Berg

Best Publications

Labeled Faces in the Wild: A Database forStudying Face Recognition in Unconstrained Environments

Gary B. Huang;Marwan Mattar;Tamara Berg;Eric Learned-Miller

5905
Citations
BabyTalk: Understanding and Generating Simple Image Descriptions

Girish Kulkarni;Visruth Premraj;Vicente Ordonez;Sagnik Dhar

1509
Citations
Shape matching and object recognition using low distortion correspondences

A.C. Berg;T.L. Berg;J. Malik

1177
Citations
Im2Text: Describing Images Using 1 Million Captioned Photographs

Vicente Ordonez;Girish Kulkarni;Tamara L. Berg

1071
Citations
ReferItGame: Referring to Objects in Photographs of Natural Scenes

Sahar Kazemzadeh;Vicente Ordonez;Mark Matten;Tamara Berg

1034
Citations
Modeling Context in Referring Expressions

Licheng Yu;Patrick Poirson;Shan Yang;Alexander C. Berg

958
Citations
MAttNet: Modular Attention Network for Referring Expression Comprehension

Licheng Yu;Zhe Lin;Xiaohui Shen;Jimei Yang

856
Citations
Baby talk: Understanding and generating simple image descriptions

Girish Kulkarni;Visruth Premraj;Sagnik Dhar;Siming Li

701
Citations
Who are you with and where are you going

Kota Yamaguchi;Alexander C. Berg;Luis E. Ortiz;Tamara L. Berg

701
Citations
High level describable attributes for predicting aesthetics and interestingness

Sagnik Dhar;Vicente Ordonez;Tamara L Berg

624
Citations
Two-person interaction detection using body-pose features and multiple instance learning

Kiwon Yun;Jean Honorio;Debaleena Chattopadhyay;Tamara L. Berg

600
Citations
Parsing clothing in fashion photographs

Kota Yamaguchi;M. Hadi Kiapour;Luis E. Ortiz;Tamara L. Berg

589
Citations
Automatic attribute discovery and characterization from noisy web data

Tamara L. Berg;Alexander C. Berg;Jonathan Shih

575
Citations
Less is More: CLIPBERT for Video-and-Language Learning via Sparse Sampling

Jie Lei;Linjie Li;Luowei Zhou;Zhe Gan

572
Citations
TVQA: Localized, Compositional Video Question Answering

Jie Lei;Licheng Yu;Mohit Bansal;Tamara L. Berg

541
Citations
Names and faces in the news

T.L. Berg;A.C. Berg;J. Edwards;M. Maire

538
Citations
Where to Buy It: Matching Street Clothing Photos in Online Shops

M. Hadi Kiapour;Xufeng Han;Svetlana Lazebnik;Alexander C. Berg

518
Citations
Midge: Generating Image Descriptions From Computer Vision Detections

Margaret Mitchell;Jesse Dodge;Amit Goyal;Kota Yamaguchi

485
Citations
Composing Simple Image Descriptions using Web-scale N-grams

Siming Li;Girish Kulkarni;Tamara L. Berg;Alexander C. Berg

432
Citations
Collective Generation of Natural Image Descriptions

Polina Kuznetsova;Vicente Ordonez;Alexander Berg;Tamara Berg

401
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Alexander C. Berg University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Mohit Bansal University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Yejin Choi Stanford University

David Forsyth University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Svetlana Lazebnik University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Hal Daumé University of Maryland, College Park

Dimitris Samaras Stony Brook University

Margaret Mitchell Hugging Face

Zhaowen Wang Adobe Systems (United States)

Gregory J. Zelinsky Stony Brook University

External Links

Personal website of Tamara L. Berg Google Scholar page

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