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The CS expert database: 1,777,551 experts · 2,837,695 papers in CCF A–C and ICORE A*–C venues · 10 venue-derived domains · snapshot 2026-09-22.
Experts by research domain — the database's own venue-derived domains; a paper can belong to several; active = at least one paper since 2021
Artificial intelligence and machine learning
419,855 active · 726,626 total · 856,312 papers
NeurIPS · AAAI · ESWA · CVPR · ICML · EAAI
Graphics, computer vision, multimedia, augmented reality and games
220,290 active · 419,218 total · 473,177 papers
AAAI · ICASSP · MTA · CVPR · INTERSPEECH · ICCV
Applied, interdisciplinary, general and emerging computing
306,612 active · 637,688 total · 436,260 papers
TGARS · IGARSS · TITS · TII · CogSci · Bioinformatics
Systems, architecture and hardware
148,087 active · 345,638 total · 325,499 papers
IROS · ICRA · VTC · ISCAS · TJSC · IECON
Computer networks
105,468 active · 214,616 total · 249,845 papers
IOT · ICC · GLOBECOM · TWC · TCOM · TMC
Databases, data management, data science and information retrieval
134,049 active · 269,256 total · 249,104 papers
IEEE BigData · CIKM · SIGKDD · TKDE · AEI · SIGIR
Theory of computation
38,447 active · 105,648 total · 202,645 papers
TIT · TCS · DAM · SODA · STOC · ICALP
Human-computer interaction and ubiquitous computing
114,847 active · 268,055 total · 198,672 papers
CHI · SMC · TSMC · SIGCSE · PACMHCI · IJHCI
Software engineering, systems software and programming languages
76,605 active · 178,952 total · 173,661 papers
DATE · COMPSAC · CoDIT · PACM PL · TSC · JSS
Security and privacy
57,527 active · 109,981 total · 102,399 papers
TIFS · TDSC · USENIX Security · TrustCom · CCS · JISA
Experts by expertise
The expertise taxonomy: 90,661 topics extracted from 634,694 papers of 537,692 experts, organised under the ten CCF categories and 168 areas. Pick a category, then narrow down to a topic; every level lists its experts by weight.
Artificial intelligence
231,922 experts · 238,182 papers
33 areas · 23,066 topics
Theoretical computer science
84,688 experts · 103,442 papers
15 areas · 12,358 topics
Computer architecture, parallel and distributed computing, and storage systems
119,266 experts · 88,175 papers
18 areas · 10,819 topics
Computer graphics and multimedia
99,217 experts · 74,150 papers
13 areas · 7,821 topics
Computer networks
79,947 experts · 72,281 papers
18 areas · 9,664 topics
Databases, data mining, and information retrieval
83,822 experts · 68,869 papers
17 areas · 7,059 topics
Network and information security
67,706 experts · 53,290 papers
15 areas · 5,550 topics
Interdisciplinary, comprehensive, and emerging computing
111,858 experts · 46,353 papers
9 areas · 5,108 topics
Human-computer interaction and pervasive computing
77,670 experts · 43,820 papers
16 areas · 4,757 topics
Software engineering, system software, and programming languages
53,122 experts · 40,802 papers
14 areas · 4,459 topics
Sub-topics
255 · with their number of papers; shaded topics divide further
3d reconstruction 2,326depth estimation 1,7813d scene understanding 1,109structure from motion 1,0423d object detection 944pose estimation 812camera pose estimation 671point cloud processing 648novel view synthesis 577neural radiance field 573camera calibration 515object pose estimation 508stereo vision 5053d shape reconstruction 410motion estimation 404point cloud registration 400feature matching 3803d scene reconstruction 3743d human pose estimation 345visual localization 311implicit neural representation 292human mesh recovery 279point cloud analysis 2683d face reconstruction 248multi-view geometry 2363d human reconstruction 2213d object recognition 217surface normal estimation 217shape from shading 177point cloud segmentation 1733d shape representation 1683d shape analysis 166scene flow estimation 161shape matching 159photometric stereo 154point cloud 128object representation 119robust estimation 119event-based vision 117geometric deep learning 108local feature descriptor 107correspondence estimation 98image registration 92neural rendering 923d motion analysis 75multimodal perception 67outlier rejection 663d face modeling 623d shape modeling 61motion capture 57omnidirectional vision 56hand-object interaction 54inverse rendering 53brain decoding 52range sensing 473d generation 41range image processing 39object matching 38remote sensing 38aerial image analysis 31egocentric vision 31depth perception 24physical simulation 24depth and reconstruction 23geometric reasoning 233d content generation 22depth image analysis 20human body modeling 20occlusion detection 17spatial understanding 16geometric estimation 15low-level vision 15object modeling 15projective geometry 14motion perception 13view transformation 13analysis-by-synthesis 12geometric constraints 12image-based rendering 12shape and motion recovery 123d object dataset 11depth and range sensing 11feature detection and matching 11jigsaw puzzle solving 11light field 11multi-view aggregation 11multimodal scene understanding 11image mosaicing 10monocular vision 10nearest neighbor search 10photometric analysis 10viewpoint invariance 103d localization 93d shape acquisition 8object alignment 8surface inspection 8geometric prior 7medical image reconstruction 6invariant feature extraction 53d scene modeling 4biological vision modeling 4embodied vision 43d object annotation 33d scene editing 3geometric optimization 3mid-level vision 3
Show 149 smaller topics (under 10 papers each)
human rendering 9monocular video 9rolling shutter correction 9spatio-temporal alignment 9volumetric image analysis 9canonicalization 8elevation map 8physical property estimation 8pose disentanglement 8relighting 8shape prediction 8surface tracking 8view-invariant recognition 8human motion representation 7medical imaging 7shape detection 7tensor voting 7vision-based measurement 7approximate nearest neighbor 6cross-modal data augmentation 6higher-order statistics 6human pose reconstruction 6model-based object localization 6moving camera 6multi-view supervision 6photorealistic rendering 6spatial-temporal fusion 63d interpretation 5affine invariance 5ambiguity analysis 5attention matching 5globally optimal estimation 5model matching 5model verification 5molecular structure 5motion prior learning 5object landmark detection 5range data 5scale selection 5scene editing 5spatial consistency 5view generalization 5view representation learning 5viewpoint robustness 5visual inspection 53d annotation 43d facial prior 4alignment-based recognition 4articulated model fitting 4bird's-eye-view transformation 4camera geometry and pose estimation 4differential geometry 4feature search strategy 4human digitization 4image-to-LiDAR distillation 4indexing 4inverse depth parametrization 4map generation 4molecular structure prediction 4motion editing 4neighborhood consensus 4neural field training 4neuromorphic vision 4phase unwrapping 4physical law discovery 4pose embedding 4pose representation 4quadratic assignment 4reference frames 4rigid body motion 4shape perception 4spatial audio 4structure estimation 4surface curvature 4thermal imaging 4transparent object perception 4UV mapping 4visual structure representation 43d bounding box regression 33d domain generalization 33d facial animation 33d human pose 33d model construction 3anthropometric measurement 3attribute alignment 3biomechanical constraints 3brightness constraint 3camera synchronization 3cascade cost volume 3coarse-to-fine refinement 3color image analysis 3contextual object localization 3contrast maximization 3depth computation 3depth information 3depth regularization 3differential constraints 3diffusion tensor imaging 3direct alignment 3direct image alignment 3dynamic vision 3environmental understanding 3feature description and matching 3feature lifting 3first-person view 3fisheye camera 3generalized hough transform 3geo-referencing 3geometric feature embedding 3geometric structure preservation 3ground reaction force estimation 3human-object contact detection 3hyperspectral imaging 3information gain maximization 3interpretation tree search 3jacobian estimation 3joint shape and pose optimization 3joint state estimation 3keypoint refinement 3local reference frame 3matching constraints 3multi-person interaction 3multi-sensor planning 3object-centric reasoning 3obstacle recognition 3optical navigation 3pairwise constraints 3photogrammetry 3photorealistic simulation 3physical parameter estimation 3physical plausibility 3physically based rendering 3planar object recognition 3pose prior learning 3quaternion representation 3real-time rendering 3remote sensing imagery 3runtime optimization 3silhouette consistency 3similarity search 3spatial correspondence 3spatiotemporal memory 3stereo video dataset 3structural regularity 3surface integration 3underwater vision 3unsupervised 3d learning 3virtual world simulation 3visibility analysis 3
Experts on 3D vision
37,968 · by weight: papers on the topic counted with recency (1 for a paper about it, 0.3 as context, halved every five years), summed over the area's topics