Computer vision – ETO Research Almanac

ETO Research Almanac

Between 2016 and 2021, researchers published roughly

430,000

English-language articles on computer vision

The global computer vision literature grew

90%

between 2016 and 2021

Articles on computer vision made up

29%

of all articles on artificial intelligence

Authors from private companies contributed to

of computer vision articles

What counts as "computer vision" research?•How precise are these numbers?•What are the other caveats?

Data last updated May 17, 2023

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434,125

computer vision articles were released between 2016 and 2021 (estd.)

90%

growth in research between 2016 and 2021

29%

of all artificial intelligence articles focused on computer vision

Citation impact

citations for the average computer vision article

citations for the average artificial intelligence article

Countries

16%

of computer vision articles have American authors

37%

have Chinese authors

16%

have European authors

Country	Articles (2016-2021)	Growth (2016-2021)	Global share	Citations per article
China	161,452	123%	37%	18.8
United States	69,691	87%	16%	40.5
India	43,104	107%	10%	10

Top-cited articles

ImageNet classification with deep convolutional neural networks
2017: Communications of The ACM. 56213 citations
Densely Connected Convolutional Networks
2016: arXiv: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. 29575 citations
You Only Look Once: Unified, Real-Time Object Detection
2016: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. 27951 citations
Rethinking the Inception Architecture for Computer Vision
2016: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. 21351 citations
Squeeze-and-Excitation Networks
2017: arXiv: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. 20154 citations
Focal Loss for Dense Object Detection
2017: arXiv: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. 17820 citations
Feature Pyramid Networks for Object Detection
2016: arXiv: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. 16470 citations
DeepLab: Semantic Image Segmentation with Deep Convolutional Nets, Atrous Convolution, and Fully Connected CRFs
2016: arXiv: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. 15896 citations
Unpaired Image-to-Image Translation using Cycle-Consistent Adversarial Networks
2017: arXiv: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. 14302 citations
YOLO9000: Better, Faster, Stronger
2016: arXiv: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. 14014 citations

Research organizations

Top producers of computer vision research (by article count)

#1 Chinese Academy of Sciences (China)
#2 University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (China)
#3 Tsinghua University (China)

Organization	Articles (2016-2021)	Citations per article	Country
Chinese Academy of Sciences	9,531	40.3	China
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences	5,173	37	China
Tsinghua University	4,158	50.9	China

Patents and industry

of computer vision articles are cited in patents

of artificial intelligence articles are cited in patents

of computer vision articles had authors from private companies (vs 4% of artificial intelligence articles in general)