Between 2017 and 2022, researchers published roughly
425,000
English-language articles on computer vision
The global computer vision literature grew
128%
between 2017 and 2022
Articles on computer vision made up
32%
of all articles on artificial intelligence
Authors from private companies contributed to
6%
of computer vision articles
What counts as "computer vision" research?•How precise are these numbers?•What are the other caveats?
Data last updated October 15, 2024
- 427,214computer vision articles were released between 2017 and 2022 (estd.)
- 128%growth in research between 2017 and 2022
- 32%of all artificial intelligence articles focused on computer vision
- 23citations for the average computer vision article
- 20citations for the average artificial intelligence article
- 13%of computer vision articles have American authors
- 36%have Chinese authors
- 14%have European authors
Country | Articles (2017-2022) | Growth (2017-2022) | Global share | Citations per article |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| China | 153,325 | 131% | 36% | 23 |
| United States | 56,277 | 105% | 13% | 56.5 |
| India | 47,354 | 114% | 11% | 10.4 |
- Generative adversarial networks2020: International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Analysis (ICCPA 2021). 34,951 citations
- 2017: arXiv. 32,706 citations
- 2020: arXiv. 30,394 citations
- 2017: arXiv. 28,850 citations
- 2018: arXiv. 22,005 citations
- 2018: arXiv. 21,776 citations
- MobileNets: Efficient Convolutional Neural Networks for Mobile Vision Applications2017: arXiv. 20,596 citations
- 2021: arXiv. 19,618 citations
- 2018: arXiv. 19,286 citations
- 2019: arXiv. 18,806 citations
- #1 Chinese Academy of Sciences (China)
- #2 University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (China)
- #3 Tsinghua University (China)
Organization | Articles (2017-2022) | Citations per article | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chinese Academy of Sciences | 8,268 | 43.4 | China |
| University of Chinese Academy of Sciences | 4,915 | 45.5 | China |
| Tsinghua University | 4,001 | 60.4 | China |
- 9%of computer vision articles are cited in patents
- 6%of artificial intelligence articles are cited in patents
- 6%of computer vision articles had authors from private companies (vs 6% of artificial intelligence articles in general)
Top industry organizations by publication count
Company | Articles (2017-2022) | Citations per article | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1,873 | 277.1 | United States | |
| Microsoft | 1,547 | 137.5 | United States |
| Tencent | 1,458 | 83.2 | China |
The Research Almanac runs on bibliometric data from Clarivate Web of Science and other sources. For details on our sourcing, methodology, and limitations, see the tool documentation.