Caroline Pantofaru

5.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
37 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Caroline Pantofaru is a scholar working on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Artificial Intelligence and Aerospace Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Caroline Pantofaru has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 9 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 7 papers in Aerospace Engineering. Recurrent topics in Caroline Pantofaru's work include Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques (9 papers), Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization (7 papers) and Video Surveillance and Tracking Methods (6 papers). Caroline Pantofaru is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques (9 papers), Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization (7 papers) and Video Surveillance and Tracking Methods (6 papers). Caroline Pantofaru collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Germany. Caroline Pantofaru's co-authors include Martial Hebert, Leila Takayama, Ranjith Unnikrishnan, Wongun Choi, Silvio Savarese, R. Unnikrishnan, Yu-Wei Chao, Radu Bogdan Rusu, Stefan M. Holzer and Lorenz Mösenlechner and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, International Journal of Computer Vision and Autonomous Robots.

In The Last Decade

Caroline Pantofaru

37 papers receiving 2.1k citations

Hit Papers

Toward Objective Evaluation of Image Segmentation Algorithms 2007 2026 2013 2019 2007 100 200 300 400 500
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Toward Objective Evaluation of Image Segmentation Algorithms
    2007 545 citations Ranjith Unnikrishnan, Caroline Pantofaru et al. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Caroline Pantofaru United States 19 1.4k 466 392 306 269 37 2.2k
Panos Trahanias Greece 26 1.4k 1.0× 409 0.9× 161 0.4× 284 0.9× 435 1.6× 127 2.5k
Gernot A. Fink Germany 29 1.8k 1.3× 1.1k 2.4× 218 0.6× 198 0.6× 259 1.0× 174 2.9k
Luigi Cinque Italy 26 1.3k 0.9× 571 1.2× 127 0.3× 89 0.3× 176 0.7× 159 2.3k
Liyuan Li Singapore 21 1.1k 0.8× 224 0.5× 150 0.4× 75 0.2× 196 0.7× 99 1.9k
F. Sandoval Spain 24 768 0.5× 456 1.0× 93 0.2× 346 1.1× 88 0.3× 187 2.1k
Guillem Alenyà Spain 27 987 0.7× 467 1.0× 220 0.6× 845 2.8× 79 0.3× 115 2.6k
Justus Piater Austria 26 1.2k 0.9× 971 2.1× 188 0.5× 1.0k 3.4× 176 0.7× 162 2.6k
Douglas Chai Australia 20 1.7k 1.2× 243 0.5× 84 0.2× 237 0.8× 190 0.7× 87 2.7k
Y. Shirai Japan 26 1.4k 1.0× 206 0.4× 102 0.3× 370 1.2× 231 0.9× 130 2.2k
Javier Ruiz‐del‐Solar Chile 27 1.1k 0.8× 440 0.9× 74 0.2× 368 1.2× 144 0.5× 143 2.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Caroline Pantofaru

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Fields of papers citing papers by Caroline Pantofaru

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Caroline Pantofaru

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Caroline Pantofaru. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Caroline Pantofaru based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Caroline Pantofaru. Caroline Pantofaru is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Roth, Joseph, Sourish Chaudhuri, Ondřej Klejch, et al.. (2019). Supplementary Material: AVA-ActiveSpeaker: An Audio-Visual Dataset for Active Speaker Detection. 3718–3722. 8 indexed citations
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Pantofaru, Caroline & Martial Hebert. (2018). A Comparison of Image Segmentation Algorithms. Evidence-Based Nursing. 9(3). 96–96. 24 indexed citations
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Chaudhuri, Sourish, Joseph Roth, Daniel P. W. Ellis, et al.. (2018). AVA-Speech: A Densely Labeled Dataset of Speech Activity in Movies. 1239–1243. 19 indexed citations
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Bettadapura, Vinay, Caroline Pantofaru, & Irfan Essa. (2016). Leveraging Contextual Cues for Generating Basketball Highlights. 908–917. 32 indexed citations
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Cagniart, Cédric, et al.. (2013). An adaptable system for RGB-D based human body detection and pose estimation. Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation. 25(1). 39–52. 92 indexed citations
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Choi, Wongun, Yu-Wei Chao, Caroline Pantofaru, & Silvio Savarese. (2013). A Discriminative Model for Learning Semantic and Geometric Interactions in Indoor Scenes ∗. 1 indexed citations
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Pantofaru, Caroline, et al.. (2013). Programming robots at the museum. 305–308. 4 indexed citations
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Ciocarlie, Matei, Kaijen Hsiao, Charles C. Kemp, et al.. (2013). Robots for humanity: using assistive robotics to empower people with disabilities. IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine. 20(1). 30–39. 114 indexed citations
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Pantofaru, Caroline, et al.. (2012). Wisdom of the crowd : papers from the AAAI Spring Symposium. 2 indexed citations
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Choi, Wongun, Caroline Pantofaru, & Silvio Savarese. (2012). A General Framework for Tracking Multiple People from a Moving Camera. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. 35(7). 1577–1591. 122 indexed citations
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Takayama, Leila, et al.. (2012). Making technology homey. 511–520. 56 indexed citations
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Pantofaru, Caroline, et al.. (2012). Exploring the role of robots in home organization. 327–334. 28 indexed citations
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Ciocarlie, Matei, et al.. (2011). A Side of Data With My Robot. IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine. 18(2). 44–57. 12 indexed citations
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Pantofaru, Caroline, et al.. (2011). Using depth information to improve face detection. 119–120. 24 indexed citations
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Goodfellow, Ian, Nate Koenig, Marius Muja, et al.. (2010). Help me help you: interfaces for personal robots. 187–188. 10 indexed citations
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Hebert, Martial & Caroline Pantofaru. (2008). Studies in using image segmentation to improve object recognition. 3 indexed citations
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Unnikrishnan, Ranjith, Caroline Pantofaru, & Martial Hebert. (2007). Toward Objective Evaluation of Image Segmentation Algorithms. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. 29(6). 929–944. 545 indexed citations breakdown →
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Pantofaru, Caroline, Gyuri Dorkó, C. Schmid, & Martial Hebert. (2006). Combining Regions and Patches for Object Class Localization. HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe). 23–23. 18 indexed citations
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Pantofaru, Caroline, R. Unnikrishnan, & Martial Hebert. (2004). Toward generating labeled maps from color and range data for robot navigation. Figshare. 2. 1314–1321. 11 indexed citations
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Herpers, Rainer, et al.. (2002). Fast hand gesture recognition for real-time teleconferencing applications. 133–140. 23 indexed citations

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