Ioannis Pitas

25.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
656 papers, 16.3k citations indexed

About

Ioannis Pitas is a scholar working on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Artificial Intelligence and Signal Processing. According to data from OpenAlex, Ioannis Pitas has authored 656 papers receiving a total of 16.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 536 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 125 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 121 papers in Signal Processing. Recurrent topics in Ioannis Pitas's work include Face and Expression Recognition (149 papers), Video Surveillance and Tracking Methods (106 papers) and Face recognition and analysis (79 papers). Ioannis Pitas is often cited by papers focused on Face and Expression Recognition (149 papers), Video Surveillance and Tracking Methods (106 papers) and Face recognition and analysis (79 papers). Ioannis Pitas collaborates with scholars based in Greece, United Kingdom and Canada. Ioannis Pitas's co-authors include Anastasios Tefas, Nikos Nikolaidis, A.N. Venetsanopoulos, Alexandros Iosifidis, Constantine Kotropoulos, Irene Kotsia, K. Sobottka, Adrian G. Borş, G. Voyatzis and Ioan Buciu and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Proceedings of the IEEE and IEEE Transactions on Image Processing.

In The Last Decade

Ioannis Pitas

612 papers receiving 15.1k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Nonlinear Digital Filters

1990 810 citations Ioannis Pitas, A.N. Venetsanopoulos profile →
Signal Processing: Image Communication

2018 403 citations Alexandros Iosifidis, Anastasios Tefas et al. profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ioannis Pitas

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Ioannis Pitas. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Ioannis Pitas 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 Ioannis Pitas. Ioannis Pitas is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Spatio-temporal invariant descriptors for skeleton-based human action recognition 2025 ·Information Sciences ·Aouaidjia Kamel, Chongsheng Zhang, Ioannis Pitas	0
2	Gesture-Controlled Aerial Robot Formation for Human-Swarm Interaction in Safety Monitoring Applications 2025 ·IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters ·Vít Krátký, Giuseppe Silano, Matouš Vrba, (unknown), Ioannis Mademlis, Robert Pěnička, Ioannis Pitas, Martin Saska	0
3	These Maps Are Made by Propagation: Adapting Deep Stereo Networks to Road Scenarios With Decisive Disparity Diffusion 2025 ·IEEE Transactions on Image Processing ·(unknown), (unknown), Qijun Chen, Ioannis Pitas, Rui Fan	5
4	Fast multidimensional scaling on big geospatial data using neural networks 2023 ·Earth Science Informatics ·Ioannis Mademlis, (unknown), Ioannis Pitas	2
5	Vision-based drone control for autonomous UAV cinematography 2023 ·Multimedia Tools and Applications ·Ioannis Mademlis, (unknown), Anastasios Tefas, Ioannis Pitas	7
6	Fast Single-Person 2D Human Pose Estimation Using Multi-Task Convolutional Neural Networks 2023 ·Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) ·(unknown), Ioannis Mademlis, Ioannis Pitas	9
7	Autonomous UAV Safety by Visual Human Crowd Detection Using Multi-Task Deep Neural Networks 2021 ·Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) ·(unknown), Ioannis Mademlis, Ioannis Pitas	17
8	Introducing K-Anonymity Principles to Adversarial Attacks for Privacy Protection in Image Classification Problems 2021 ·Vasileios Mygdalis, Anastasios Tefas, Ioannis Pitas	2
9	Three-Filters-to-Normal: An Accurate and Ultrafast Surface Normal Estimator 2021 ·IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters ·Rui Fan, Hengli Wang, (unknown), Huaiyang Huang, Yuan Wang, Ming Liu, Ioannis Pitas	25
10	Rethinking Road Surface 3-D Reconstruction and Pothole Detection: From Perspective Transformation to Disparity Map Segmentation 2021 ·IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics ·Rui Fan, (unknown), Yuan Wang, Ming Liu, Ioannis Pitas	62
11	Positive and Negative Label Propagations 2016 ·IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology ·(unknown), Anastasios Tefas, Nikos Nikolaidis, Ioannis Pitas	22
12	2014 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Big Data (CIBD 2014) 2015 ·Bristol Research (University of Bristol) ·(unknown), Anastasios Tefas, (unknown), Ioannis Pitas	1
13	Supervised video summarization by content-based video segment selection 2014 ·Bristol Research (University of Bristol) ·Vasileios Mygdalis, Alexandros Iosifidis, Anastasios Tefas, Ioannis Pitas	1
14	Visual object tracking via Gabor-based salient features extraction 2012 ·European Signal Processing Conference ·(unknown), Anastasios Tefas, Ioannis Pitas	2
15	MUSCLE movie-database: a multimodal corpus with rich annotation for dialogue and saliency detection 2008 ·Language Resources and Evaluation ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Emmanouil Benetos, Margarita Kotti, (unknown), Constantine Kotropoulos, Nikos Nikolaidis, Petros Maragos, Ioannis Pitas	3
16	Nonlinear Model-Based Image/Video Processing and Analysis 2001 ·John Wiley & Sons, Inc. eBooks ·Constantine Kotropoulos, Ioannis Pitas	33
17	Digital Image Processing Algorithms and Applications 2000 ·John Wiley & Sons, Inc. eBooks ·Ioannis Pitas	377
18	Performance assessment of morphological dynamic link architecture under optimal and real operating conditions. 1999 ·(unknown), Anastasios Tefas, Ioannis Pitas, Carlos Fernández-Llatas, Fernando Fernández	1
19	Special issue on watermarking 1998 ·Signal Processing ·Benoı̂t Macq, Ioannis Pitas	17
20	Adaptive L-filters 1989 ·Ioannis Pitas, A.N. Venetsanopoulos	7

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