Rita Cucchiara

19.9k total citations · 5 hit papers
387 papers, 10.1k citations indexed

About

Rita Cucchiara is a scholar working on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Artificial Intelligence and Signal Processing. According to data from OpenAlex, Rita Cucchiara has authored 387 papers receiving a total of 10.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 327 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 68 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 38 papers in Signal Processing. Recurrent topics in Rita Cucchiara's work include Video Surveillance and Tracking Methods (132 papers), Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques (93 papers) and Human Pose and Action Recognition (78 papers). Rita Cucchiara is often cited by papers focused on Video Surveillance and Tracking Methods (132 papers), Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques (93 papers) and Human Pose and Action Recognition (78 papers). Rita Cucchiara collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United States and United Kingdom. Rita Cucchiara's co-authors include Andrea Prati, Costantino Grana, Simone Calderara, Massimo Piccardi, Roberto Vezzani, Lorenzo Baraldi, Marcella Cornia, Mubarak Shah, Afshin Dehghan and A.W.M. Smeulders and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence and IEEE Transactions on Image Processing.

In The Last Decade

Rita Cucchiara

371 papers receiving 9.5k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Visual Tracking: An Experimental Survey

2014 1.1k citations Rita Cucchiara, Simone Calderara et al. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence profile →
Detecting moving objects, ghosts, and shadows in video streams

2003 985 citations Rita Cucchiara, Costantino Grana et al. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence profile →
Detecting moving shadows: algorithms and evaluation

2003 552 citations Andrea Prati, Rita Cucchiara et al. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence profile →
Latent Space Autoregression for Novelty Detection

2019 305 citations Simone Calderara, Rita Cucchiara et al. IRIS UNIMORE (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia) profile →
From Show to Tell: A Survey on Deep Learning-Based Image Captioning

2022 198 citations Matteo Stefanini, Marcella Cornia 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						Papers	Cites
Rita Cucchiara Italy	42	7.9k	2.2k	857	814	774	387	10.1k
Weiming Hu China	51	8.8k 1.1×	3.0k 1.4×	575 0.7×	1.2k 1.5×	715 0.9×	306	11.5k
Rainer Stiefelhagen Germany	46	6.3k 0.8×	2.0k 0.9×	513 0.6×	781 1.0×	321 0.4×	309	8.9k
Stephen J. Maybank United Kingdom	47	9.2k 1.2×	3.9k 1.8×	778 0.9×	1.3k 1.6×	438 0.6×	161	12.8k
L.S. Davis United States	49	10.7k 1.4×	2.4k 1.1×	922 1.1×	1.3k 1.6×	520 0.7×	171	12.7k
Hong-Yuan Mark Liao Taiwan	26	8.8k 1.1×	1.6k 0.7×	801 0.9×	733 0.9×	565 0.7×	135	13.8k
Jenq–Neng Hwang United States	46	5.1k 0.6×	2.0k 0.9×	1.0k 1.2×	429 0.5×	181 0.2×	395	8.5k
Gang Hua United States	52	8.0k 1.0×	2.4k 1.1×	344 0.4×	521 0.6×	315 0.4×	251	10.0k
Andrea Cavallaro United Kingdom	40	4.7k 0.6×	1.5k 0.7×	672 0.8×	562 0.7×	211 0.3×	268	6.9k
Joseph Redmon United States	3	9.4k 1.2×	2.1k 1.0×	907 1.1×	837 1.0×	527 0.7×	3	13.6k
Ali Farhadi United States	29	12.8k 1.6×	4.8k 2.2×	983 1.1×	715 0.9×	552 0.7×	98	17.8k

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Cornia, Marcella, et al.. (2025). Positive-Augmented Contrastive Learning for Vision-and-Language Evaluation and Training. International Journal of Computer Vision. 133(11). 7647–7671.

Baraldi, Lorenzo, et al.. (2024). The Revolution of Multimodal Large Language Models: A Survey. 13590–13618. 17 indexed citations

Cornia, Marcella, et al.. (2024). Multiclass Unlearning for Image Classification via Weight Filtering. IEEE Intelligent Systems. 39(6). 40–47. 4 indexed citations

Cuculo, Vittorio, et al.. (2024). Unveiling the Truth: Exploring Human Gaze Patterns in Fake Images. IEEE Signal Processing Letters. 31. 820–824. 6 indexed citations

Cornia, Marcella, et al.. (2024). Towards Retrieval-Augmented Architectures for Image Captioning. ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications. 20(8). 1–22. 7 indexed citations

Cascianelli, Silvia, et al.. (2024). VATr++: Choose Your Words Wisely for Handwritten Text Generation. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. 47(2). 934–948. 2 indexed citations

Cucchiara, Rita, et al.. (2024). Video Surveillance and Privacy: A Solvable Paradox?. Computer. 57(3). 91–100. 1 indexed citations

Pini, Stefano, et al.. (2023). Depth-based 3D human pose refinement: Evaluating the refinet framework. Pattern Recognition Letters. 171. 185–191. 4 indexed citations

Baldrati, Alberto, et al.. (2023). LaDI-VTON: Latent Diffusion Textual-Inversion Enhanced Virtual Try-On. IRIS UNIMORE (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia). 8580–8589. 32 indexed citations

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Stefanini, Matteo, et al.. (2023). Predicting gene and protein expression levels from DNA and protein sequences with Perceiver. Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine. 234. 107504–107504. 6 indexed citations

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Cornia, Marcella, et al.. (2023). Fashion-Oriented Image Captioning with External Knowledge Retrieval and Fully Attentive Gates. Sensors. 23(3). 1286–1286. 10 indexed citations

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Coscia, Pasquale, et al.. (2022). Goal-driven Self-Attentive Recurrent Networks for Trajectory Prediction. 2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW). 2517–2526. 41 indexed citations

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Cornia, Marcella, et al.. (2022). The Unreasonable Effectiveness of CLIP Features for Image Captioning: An Experimental Analysis. 2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW). 4661–4669. 52 indexed citations

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Cucchiara, Rita, et al.. (2022). Fine-grained Human Analysis under Occlusions and Perspective Constraints in Multimedia Surveillance. ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications. 18(1s). 1–23. 6 indexed citations

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Holzinger, Andreas, Matthias Dehmer, Frank Emmert‐Streib, et al.. (2021). Information fusion as an integrative cross-cutting enabler to achieve robust, explainable, and trustworthy medical artificial intelligence. Information Fusion. 79. 263–278. 145 indexed citations

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Pini, Stefano, et al.. (2020). Multimodal Hand Gesture Classification for the Human–Car Interaction. Informatics. 7(3). 31–31. 22 indexed citations

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Borghi, Guido, Stefano Pini, Roberto Vezzani, & Rita Cucchiara. (2019). Driver Face Verification with Depth Maps. Sensors. 19(15). 3361–3361. 11 indexed citations

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Grana, Costantino, Giuseppe Serra, Marco Manfredi, et al.. (2013). UNIMORE at ImageCLEF 2013: Scalable Concept Image Annotation. Institutional Research Information System (University of Udine). 6 indexed citations

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Aggarwal, J.K., Rita Cucchiara, & Andrea Prati. (2006). Proceedings of the 4th ACM international workshop on Video surveillance and sensor networks. 2 indexed citations

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Cucchiara, Rita, et al.. (2002). A Framework for Semantic Video Transcoding. AirIuav (Università Iuav di Venezia). 2 indexed citations

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