Sandra Avila

3.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
62 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Sandra Avila is a scholar working on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Artificial Intelligence and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Sandra Avila has authored 62 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 27 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 6 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Sandra Avila's work include Video Analysis and Summarization (11 papers), Human Pose and Action Recognition (10 papers) and Multimodal Machine Learning Applications (8 papers). Sandra Avila is often cited by papers focused on Video Analysis and Summarization (11 papers), Human Pose and Action Recognition (10 papers) and Multimodal Machine Learning Applications (8 papers). Sandra Avila collaborates with scholars based in Brazil, United States and United Kingdom. Sandra Avila's co-authors include Arnaldo de Albuquerque Araújo, A. Lopes, Antonio da Luz, Eduardo Valle, Anderson Rocha, Thiago Teixeira Santos, Matthieu Cord, Mauricio Pérez, Ramon Pires and Nicolas Thome and has published in prestigious journals such as Scientific Reports, European Heart Journal and Neurocomputing.

In The Last Decade

Sandra Avila

54 papers receiving 1.7k citations

Hit Papers

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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. VSUMM: A mechanism designed to produce static video summaries and a novel evaluation method
    2010 453 citations Sandra Avila, Arnaldo de Albuquerque Araújo et al. profile →
  2. Grape detection, segmentation, and tracking using deep neural networks and three-dimensional association
    2020 247 citations Sandra Avila et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Sandra Avila Brazil 18 1.1k 479 330 259 187 62 1.8k
Eduardo Valle Brazil 16 787 0.7× 104 0.2× 339 1.0× 21 0.1× 280 1.5× 48 1.3k
Marriam Nawaz Pakistan 23 661 0.6× 68 0.1× 547 1.7× 385 1.5× 325 1.7× 49 1.8k
Momina Masood Pakistan 21 574 0.5× 63 0.1× 407 1.2× 364 1.4× 216 1.2× 31 1.4k
Arnaldo de Albuquerque Araújo Brazil 15 1.1k 1.0× 472 1.0× 308 0.9× 15 0.1× 90 0.5× 81 1.3k
Prabhu Jayagopal India 15 163 0.1× 37 0.1× 222 0.7× 85 0.3× 135 0.7× 83 826
Gaurav Gupta India 19 252 0.2× 109 0.2× 376 1.1× 121 0.5× 224 1.2× 88 1.4k
Muhammad Ali Qureshi Pakistan 18 522 0.5× 35 0.1× 92 0.3× 131 0.5× 23 0.1× 98 1.2k
Ester Zumpano Italy 19 130 0.1× 66 0.1× 558 1.7× 117 0.5× 187 1.0× 119 1.0k
Junaid Rashid Pakistan 15 194 0.2× 22 0.0× 347 1.1× 90 0.3× 166 0.9× 71 967
Roseline Oluwaseun Ogundokun Nigeria 16 131 0.1× 81 0.2× 315 1.0× 42 0.2× 163 0.9× 99 836

Countries citing papers authored by Sandra Avila

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sandra Avila

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sandra Avila

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

All Works

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Avila, Sandra, et al.. (2025). Measuring Distances in High Dimensional Spaces. Political Analysis. 33(3). 266–273.
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Macedo, João Paulo, et al.. (2025). Leveraging self-supervised learning for scene classification in child sexual abuse imagery. Forensic Science International Digital Investigation. 53. 301918–301918. 1 indexed citations
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Avila, Sandra, et al.. (2025). Artificial intelligence on inflammatory dermatoses: where are we and where are we going?. Anais Brasileiros de Dermatologia. 100(5). 501164–501164.
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Mirikharaji, Zahra, Kumar Abhishek, Alceu Bissoto, et al.. (2023). A survey on deep learning for skin lesion segmentation. Medical Image Analysis. 88. 102863–102863. 90 indexed citations
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Colombini, Esther Luna, et al.. (2022). #PraCegoVer: A Large Dataset for Image Captioning in Portuguese. Data. 7(2). 13–13. 5 indexed citations
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Avila, Sandra, et al.. (2022). Mitigando Vieses no Aprendizado de Máquina. LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas). 15(1). 2 indexed citations
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Tygel, Martin, et al.. (2019). Enriching synthetic data with real noise using Neural Style Transfer. 1–1. 1 indexed citations
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Avila, Sandra, et al.. (2019). Redes generativas adversariais para detecção de câncer de pele. 1–1. 1 indexed citations
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Avila, Sandra, et al.. (2019). Automatic detection of diffraction-apex using fully convolutional networks. 1–1. 2 indexed citations
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Ishikawa, Akari, Sandra Avila, & Mauricio Pérez. (2018). Pornographic cartoon video detection through deep neural networks. 1 indexed citations
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Caetano, Carlos, Sandra Avila, William Robson Schwartz, Silvio Jamil F. Guimarães, & Arnaldo de Albuquerque Araújo. (2016). A mid-level video representation based on binary descriptors: A case study for pornography detection. Neurocomputing. 213. 102–114. 41 indexed citations
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Moreira, Daniel, Sandra Avila, Mauricio Pérez, et al.. (2016). Pornography classification: The hidden clues in video space–time. Forensic Science International. 268. 46–61. 50 indexed citations
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Moreira, Daniel, Sandra Avila, Mauricio Pérez, et al.. (2015). RECOD at MediaEval 2015: Affective Impact of Movies Task. MediaEval. 3 indexed citations
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Avila, Sandra, Daniel Moreira, Mauricio Pérez, et al.. (2014). RECOD at MediaEval 2014: Violent Scenes Detection Task.. MediaEval. 9 indexed citations
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Caetano, Carlos, Sandra Avila, Silvio Jamil F. Guimarães, & Arnaldo de Albuquerque Araújo. (2014). Pornography detection using BossaNova video descriptor. 1681–1685. 20 indexed citations
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Avila, Sandra, Nicolas Thome, Matthieu Cord, Eduardo Valle, & Arnaldo de Albuquerque Araújo. (2012). BossaNova at ImageCLEF 2012 Flickr Photo Annotation Task. 5 indexed citations

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