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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
Computer graphics and multimedia›Image and video processing›image restoration
topic
3,476 papers · 7,005 experts
Sub-topics
59 · with their number of papers; shaded topics divide further
image denoising 1,203image deblurring 667image inpainting 445image dehazing 284image deraining 193denoising 133reflection removal 113demosaicing 105shadow removal 91inverse problem 89compression artifact removal 51blind image restoration 39adverse weather image restoration 37artifact removal 37face restoration 29bayesian image restoration 25image recovery 24tensor completion 23transform-domain image restoration 20aberration correction 19degradation modeling 18document image restoration 18perception-distortion tradeoff 12degradation-aware restoration 10regularized image restoration 10ultra-high-definition image restoration 10variational image restoration 10image prior modeling 7multi-task image restoration 6multichannel image restoration 6unsupervised image restoration 6degradation removal 4deep image restoration 3multi-frame image restoration 3
Show 25 smaller topics (under 10 papers each)
descattering 7film restoration 7degradation-aware image fusion 6nonlinear image restoration 6old photo restoration 6compressed image restoration 5efficient image restoration 5iterative image restoration 5low-rank tensor recovery 5multi-scale image restoration 5texture restoration 5degraded image restoration 4matrix completion 4obstruction removal 4patch-based restoration 4scene recovery 4spatially-varying blur estimation 4tensor-based image restoration 4degradation estimation 3degradation-aware enhancement 3detail restoration 3interactive image restoration 3multi-modal image restoration 3physics-based image restoration 3space-variant restoration 3
Experts on image restoration
7,005 · by weight: papers on the topic counted with recency (1 for a paper about it, 0.3 as context, halved every five years)