Demo Data from VLDB 2026 / recruitment
Reviewers in the wild
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
99 · with their number of papers; shaded topics divide further
image quality assessment 750image compression 640video compression 624transform coding 315rate-distortion optimization 264scalable video coding 154point cloud compression 150quality assessment 141rate control 80JPEG compression 71quantization 66entropy coding 65lossless compression 58predictive coding 54joint source-channel coding 48multiple description coding 48video transcoding 46multiview video coding 42video coding standards 34lossy compression 32error resilience 28variable-rate coding 28distributed video coding 27texture compression 26light field compression 25neural compression 24image quality 22scalable coding 22motion estimation and compensation 19neural video representation 17bandwidth compression 15bit-plane coding 15perceptual coding 15perceptual quality optimization 15rate-distortion analysis 14distributed source coding 13semantic compression 13document image compression 12shape coding 12visual masking 12tree coding 11block-based coding 10transform and subband coding 8region-based video coding 7complexity control for video encoding 63d scene compression 5adaptive coding 4image decoding 4layered representation 4rate-distortion 4coding for machines 3immersive video coding 3
Show 47 smaller topics (under 10 papers each)
bit rate reduction 9image encryption 8video encryption 8image prediction 7joint source-channel decoding 7chroma subsampling 6encryption-then-compression 6image tokenization 6pulse-code modulation 6edge encoding 5embedded bit stream 5model compression 5quantization noise 5selective encryption 5semantic coding 5compressed sensing coding 4distortion modeling 4error correction 4image and video coding standards 4reference frame generation 4transform design 43d video representation 3adaptive image representation 3channel coding 3codebook-based compression 3codec evaluation 3component color coding 3dequantization 3distortion analysis 3distortion estimation 3entropy estimation 3error protection 3graphics coding 3image decompression 3image transcoding 3motion vector reuse 3multiresolution transmission 3noise shaping 3priority encoding transmission 3pyramid data structure 3scalable video transmission 3sub-pixel interpolation 3symmetric extension 3temporal redundancy reduction 3transform and quantization 3visual communication coding 3VLSI implementation 3
Experts on Image and video coding
9,911 · 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