Topic · Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

Video Surveillance and Tracking Methods

Video Surveillance and Tracking Methods is a research topic within Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Science Explorer counts 47k research works in it since 1958. 9.7% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on visual object tracking and person re-identification, covering topics such as background subtraction, convolutional neural networks, real-time tracking, deep learning, foreground segmentation, multiple object tracking, and motion detection.

Visual Tracking
Object Tracking
Person Re-identification
Background Subtraction
Convolutional Neural Networks
Real-time Tracking
Deep Learning
Foreground Segmentation
Multiple Object Tracking
Motion Detection

Research works: 47k
In the world top 10%: 4.5k
Top-10% rate: 9.7%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25: +29%
Largest producer: China

Video Surveillance and Tracking Methods

Which countries lead Video Surveillance and Tracking Methods research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (7.8k and 2k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

1 China 7.8k works
2 India 2k works
3 United States 883 works
4 South Korea 454 works
5 Japan 357 works
6 United Kingdom 268 works
7 Germany 241 works
8 Taiwan 207 works
9 ?? 206 works
10 Canada 197 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.

China7,817 · 61.7%India2,029 · 16.0%United States883 · 7.0%South Korea454 · 3.6%6 others listed1,476 · 11.7%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Video Surveillance and Tracking Methods research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Video Surveillance and Tracking Methods research, followed by Beijing Institute of Technology and Beihang University.

By volume, 2022-now

1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 257 works
2 Beijing Institute of TechnologyChina 116 works
3 Beihang UniversityChina 109 works
4 SRM Institute of Science and TechnologyIndia 108 works
5 Xidian UniversityChina 108 works
6 Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina 100 works
7 National University of Defense TechnologyChina 97 works
8 University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaChina 96 works
9 Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 94 works
10 Tsinghua UniversityChina 92 works

Who are the leading researchers in Video Surveillance and Tracking Methods?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Video Surveillance and Tracking Methods include Kaiming He, Yoshua Bengio and Shaoqing Ren.

1 Kaiming He Israel 562k citations
2 Yoshua Bengio Canada 476k citations
3 Shaoqing Ren China 356k citations
4 Ross Girshick Israel 356k citations
5 Xiangyu Zhang 327k citations
6 Jian Sun 281k citations
7 Xiaogang Wang China 260k citations
8 Yann LeCun United States 256k citations
9 Andrew Zisserman United Kingdom 255k citations
10 Li Fei-Fei United States 225k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Video Surveillance and Tracking Methods?

The most cited paper in Video Surveillance and Tracking Methods is "Faster R-CNN: Towards Real-Time Object Detection with Region Proposal Networks" (Shaoqing Ren, Kaiming He, Ross Girshick et al., 2016), with 55,999 citations. Next come "Histograms of Oriented Gradients for Human Detection" (32,222) and "Fast R-CNN" (28,569).

Most cited papers
#	Paper	Released	Citations
1	Faster R-CNN: Towards Real-Time Object Detection with Region Proposal Networks Shaoqing Ren, Kaiming He, Ross Girshick et al. · IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	6 Jun 2016	55,999
2	Histograms of Oriented Gradients for Human Detection Navneet Dalal, Bill Triggs Conference paperOpen access	27 Jul 2005	32,222
3	Fast R-CNN Ross Girshick Conference paper	Dec 2015	28,569
4	Focal Loss for Dense Object Detection Tsung-Yi Lin, Priya Goyal, Ross Girshick et al. Conference paper	Oct 2017	27,432
5	The Cityscapes Dataset for Semantic Urban Scene Understanding Marius Cordts, Mohamed Omran, Sebastian Ramos et al. Conference paper	Jun 2016	12,301

All 98 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Video Surveillance and Tracking Methods research done?

The largest centres of Video Surveillance and Tracking Methods research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Xi'an (China), Nanjing (China) and Shanghai (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Srivilliputhur and Vijayawada.

Largest cities, 2022-now

1 BeijingChina 1.4k works
2 Xi'anChina 520 works
3 NanjingChina 471 works
4 ShanghaiChina 463 works
5 WuhanChina 394 works
6 ChennaiIndia 281 works
7 GuangzhouChina 272 works
8 ChengduChina 255 works
9 ChangshaChina 235 works
10 HangzhouChina 235 works

Where it is the local speciality

SrivilliputhurIN · 20.7 works9.0×
VijayawadaIN · 56.4 works8.3×

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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Video Surveillance and Tracking Methods than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Video Surveillance and Tracking Methods?

Among universities, judged by research, Air University, Nanyang Technological University and Xidian University score highest, combining citation excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Citation excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged

40%

Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share

10%

Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale

30%

Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%

10%

Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad

10%

Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.

#	University	Score	Top 10%	Specialisation	Works	Growth
1	Air UniversityPakistan	75.3	41.8%	25.3×	19	+92.6%
2	Nanyang Technological UniversitySingapore	65.7	24.6%	5.0×	52	+41.8%
3	Xidian UniversityChina	65.5	18.9%	11.2×	108	+39.6%
4	Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina	61.8	15.8%	6.6×	100	+23.2%
5	Wuhan UniversityChina	60.7	18.0%	4.7×	88	+37.1%
6	Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina	60.2	18.0%	4.4×	94	+31.4%
7	Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina	58.5	14.9%	3.1×	84	+46.1%
8	University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina	58.4	16.1%	5.0×	78	+16.3%
9	Beijing Institute of TechnologyChina	58.3	9.8%	7.4×	116	+35.3%
10	Nanjing University of Science and TechnologyChina	57.5	11.4%	8.2×	89	+44.6%
11	Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina	57.1	21.1%	2.6×	30	+52.2%
12	Anhui UniversityChina	56.6	16.3%	9.3×	56	+30.7%
13	Dalian University of TechnologyChina	56.5	14.1%	5.5×	68	+37.5%
14	Beihang UniversityChina	56.3	13.0%	7.5×	108	+4.5%
15	Zhejiang UniversityChina	56.1	16.5%	2.1×	75	+28.5%
16	Tsinghua UniversityChina	55.6	16.6%	3.0×	92	+4.0%
17	Xiamen UniversityChina	55.4	17.7%	4.2×	48	+51.3%
18	Nanjing University of Information Science and TechnologyChina	54.6	14.3%	8.7×	46	+75.5%
19	Southeast UniversityChina	54.0	10.6%	4.0×	79	+58.1%
20	Chongqing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChina	53.9	13.2%	15.4×	58	+91.0%
21	Tongji UniversityChina	53.8	13.3%	3.6×	72	+32.0%
22	Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial IntelligenceUnited Arab Emirates	53.8	20.8%	17.1×	9	+306.4%
23	Sejong UniversitySouth Korea	53.5	26.4%	6.8×	16	+6.9%
24	Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina	52.9	18.2%	2.7×	64	+14.5%
25	SRM Institute of Science and TechnologyIndia	52.8	3.3%	8.1×	108	+263.5%
26	Hong Kong University of Science and TechnologyChina	52.8	19.2%	3.1×	17	+25.3%
27	University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaChina	52.6	9.6%	6.5×	96	+4.3%
28	National University of Defense TechnologyChina	52.5	13.6%	9.5×	97	-1.3%
29	Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman UniversitySaudi Arabia	52.4	29.3%	3.6×	12	-
30	Nanjing University of Aeronautics and AstronauticsChina	52.2	10.8%	5.9×	69	+124.9%
31	China University of GeosciencesChina	51.0	26.3%	3.5×	21	+83.8%
32	Zhejiang University of Science and TechnologyChina	51.0	24.6%	8.6×	21	+196.8%
33	Shenzhen UniversityChina	50.3	10.2%	4.8×	47	+56.7%
34	University of MacauChina	50.1	21.1%	3.6×	15	+21.2%
35	Saveetha UniversityIndia	50.0	9.7%	4.3×	54	+2048.2%
36	Guangxi Normal UniversityChina	49.7	21.3%	8.3×	24	+277.3%
37	Vellore Institute of Technology UniversityIndia	49.4	8.7%	4.8×	62	+39.2%
38	Beijing Jiaotong UniversityChina	48.7	8.7%	8.1×	65	+11.8%
39	University of Hong KongChina	48.3	19.4%	1.6×	20	+99.6%
40	Fudan UniversityChina	48.1	15.2%	1.9×	40	+92.3%
41	Chinese University of Hong KongChina	47.6	27.1%	1.6×	15	-17.9%
42	Gachon UniversitySouth Korea	47.6	33.7%	3.0×	10	+105.5%
43	Xi’an University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChina	46.1	4.4%	21.5×	58	+196.4%
44	Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz UniversitySaudi Arabia	45.2	21.5%	3.6×	12	-
45	University of California, BerkeleyUnited States	44.1	27.5%	1.2×	15	-0.9%
46	ShanghaiTech UniversityChina	44.0	23.2%	3.5×	8	+35.1%
47	Macao Polytechnic UniversityChina	43.1	15.1%	10.1×	11	+147.5%
48	Civil Aviation Flight University of ChinaChina	42.4	22.2%	13.6×	12	+800.0%
49	City University of Hong KongChina	42.3	17.9%	2.4×	18	-18.9%
50	Kunsan National UniversitySouth Korea	41.7	23.3%	15.2×	8	+157.4%
51	Changchun University of Science and TechnologyChina	41.6	6.5%	11.3×	33	+231.3%
52	City University of MacauChina	40.0	13.0%	4.4×	9	+193.9%
53	ETH ZurichSwitzerland	39.7	28.2%	1.1×	10	-11.5%
54	Shanghai Institute of TechnologyChina	38.1	7.9%	10.2×	22	+139.4%
55	Macau University of Science and TechnologyChina	36.0	12.5%	2.9×	8	+74.9%
56	The University of SydneyAustralia	35.7	25.9%	0.8×	14	-32.3%
57	Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States	30.8	21.1%	0.4×	8	-1.8%

Universities only. The score blends citation excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Video Surveillance and Tracking Methods, country by country

Is Video Surveillance and Tracking Methods research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 29% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2023. The fastest-growing topics are Video Surveillance and Tracking Methods.

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Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Video Surveillance and Tracking Methods as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.067% in 2024.

Fractional works of Video Surveillance and Tracking Methods over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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Which countries lead Video Surveillance and Tracking Methods research?

By volume, 2022-now

How concentrated that is

Which institutions lead Video Surveillance and Tracking Methods research?

By volume, 2022-now

Who are the leading researchers in Video Surveillance and Tracking Methods?

What are the most cited papers in Video Surveillance and Tracking Methods?

Where is Video Surveillance and Tracking Methods research done?

Largest cities, 2022-now

Where it is the local speciality

Where is the best place to study Video Surveillance and Tracking Methods?

Is Video Surveillance and Tracking Methods research growing?

Its share of all research

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Which topics inside it are moving

Related research

Discussion