Advanced Vision and Imaging
Advanced Vision and Imaging is a research topic within Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Science Explorer counts 67k research works in it since 1950. 21.7% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.
This cluster of papers focuses on various aspects of stereo vision, depth estimation, optical flow, and scene reconstruction. It covers topics such as multi-view stereo, unsupervised learning for depth estimation, monocular depth estimation using deep learning, visual servoing, and the use of light field cameras for scene reconstruction.
- Stereo Vision
- Depth Estimation
- Optical Flow
- Convolutional Networks
- Multi-View Stereo
- Unsupervised Learning
- Monocular Depth Estimation
- Visual Servoing
- Light Field
- Scene Reconstruction
- Research works
- 67k fractional, since 1950
- In the world top 10%
- 15k per year above
- Top-10% rate
- 21.7% share of its works in the world top 10%
- Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
- 0% the tick is no change
Which countries lead Advanced Vision and Imaging research?
By volume, China and the United States publish the most (5.3k and 1.1k works in 2022–2025).
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 China 5.3k works
- 2 United States 1.1k works
- 3 South Korea 505 works
- 4 Japan 455 works
- 5 India 380 works
- 6 Germany 353 works
- 7 United Kingdom 297 works
- 8 France 239 works
- 9 Hong Kong 186 works
- 10 Canada 185 works
How concentrated that is
The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.
Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.
Which institutions lead Advanced Vision and Imaging research?
By volume in 2022–2025, Tsinghua University publishes the most Advanced Vision and Imaging research, followed by Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Zhejiang University.
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 Tsinghua UniversityChina 142 works
- 2 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 129 works
- 3 Zhejiang UniversityChina 117 works
- 4 Beihang UniversityChina 101 works
- 5 Peking UniversityChina 98 works
- 6 Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 88 works
- 7 University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina 88 works
- 8 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 86 works
- 9 Wuhan UniversityChina 85 works
- 10 Beijing Institute of TechnologyChina 82 works
Who are the leading researchers in Advanced Vision and Imaging?
The most-cited researchers publishing on Advanced Vision and Imaging include Andrew Zisserman, Kaiming He and Li Fei-Fei.
- 1 Andrew Zisserman United Kingdom 25k citations
- 2 Kaiming He Israel 17k citations
- 3 Li Fei-Fei United States 17k citations
- 4 Serge Belongie United States 14k citations
- 5 Xiaogang Wang Russia 13k citations
- 6 Jitendra Malik United States 12k citations
- 7 Tsung-Yi Lin United States 11k citations
- 8 James Hays United States 11k citations
- 9 Pietro Perona United States 11k citations
- 10 C. Lawrence Zitnick United States 11k citations
Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.
Where is Advanced Vision and Imaging research done?
The largest centres of Advanced Vision and Imaging research in 2022–2025 are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Xi'an (China) and Nanjing (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in San Jose, Santa Clara and Shenzhen.
Largest cities, 2022–2025
Where it is the local speciality
- San JoseUS · 30.9 works9.1×
- Santa ClaraUS · 21.2 works7.8×
- ShenzhenCN · 239.8 works6.7×
Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Advanced Vision and Imaging than the world average.
Where is the best place to study Advanced Vision and Imaging?
Among universities, judged by research, ShanghaiTech University, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Nanyang Technological University score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.
One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.
| # | University | Score | Top 10% | Specialisation | Works | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ShanghaiTech UniversityChina | 67.3 | 37.3% | 10.0× | 19 | +887.8% |
| 2 | Hong Kong University of Science and TechnologyHong Kong | 66.2 | 42.3% | 9.2× | 37 | -2.1% |
| 3 | Nanyang Technological UniversitySingapore | 59.2 | 40.5% | 6.7× | 56 | -24.5% |
| 4 | University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina | 57.4 | 28.4% | 7.0× | 88 | +79.6% |
| 5 | Carnegie Mellon UniversityUnited States | 56.8 | 41.2% | 8.1× | 34 | +6.5% |
| 6 | Tsinghua UniversityChina | 55.7 | 29.1% | 6.9× | 142 | -10.1% |
| 7 | Chinese University of Hong Kong, ShenzhenChina | 55.7 | 25.1% | 8.7× | 17 | +134.6% |
| 8 | ETH ZurichSwitzerland | 55.5 | 52.8% | 4.6× | 32 | -14.7% |
| 9 | Korea Advanced Institute of Science and TechnologySouth Korea | 54.9 | 24.9% | 10.3× | 50 | -12.7% |
| 10 | Wuhan UniversityChina | 54.8 | 29.2% | 6.8× | 85 | +50.1% |
Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.
Is Advanced Vision and Imaging research growing?
Output in 2018–2022 was 0% lower than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2023. The fastest-growing topics are Advanced Vision and Imaging.
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Which topics inside it are moving
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