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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. 19.7% 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
fractional, since 1958
In the world top 10%
9.3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
19.7%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+68%
the tick is no change

Which countries lead Video Surveillance and Tracking Methods research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (7.2k and 1.9k works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 China 7.2k works
  2. 2 India 1.9k works
  3. 3 United States 837 works
  4. 4 South Korea 437 works
  5. 5 Japan 343 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 253 works
  7. 7 Germany 228 works
  8. 8 ?? 201 works
  9. 9 Taiwan 199 works
  10. 10 Canada 190 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.

China: 61.0%India: 16.3%United States: 7.1%South Korea: 3.7%6 others listed: 11.9%61%largest
China7,220 · 61.0%India1,933 · 16.3%United States837 · 7.1%South Korea437 · 3.7%6 others listed1,415 · 11.9%

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

Which institutions lead Video Surveillance and Tracking Methods research?

By volume in 2022–2025, Beijing Institute of Technology publishes the most Video Surveillance and Tracking Methods research, followed by Xidian University and Beihang University.

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

The most-cited researchers publishing on Video Surveillance and Tracking Methods include Andrew Zisserman, Piotr Dollár and Dragomir Anguelov.

  1. 1 Andrew Zisserman United Kingdom 25k citations
  2. 2 Piotr Dollár Israel 20k citations
  3. 3 Dragomir Anguelov United States 18k citations
  4. 4 Serge Belongie United States 14k citations
  5. 5 Xiaogang Wang Russia 13k citations
  6. 6 Jitendra Malik United States 12k citations
  7. 7 Pietro Perona United States 11k citations
  8. 8 Deva Ramanan United States 11k citations
  9. 9 Sebastian Thrun United States 10k citations
  10. 10 Wei Liu China 9.7k citations

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

Where is Video Surveillance and Tracking Methods research done?

The largest centres of Video Surveillance and Tracking Methods research in 2022–2025 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 Vijayawada.

Largest cities, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Beijing China 1.3k works
  2. 2 Xi'an China 480 works
  3. 3 Nanjing China 443 works
  4. 4 Shanghai China 442 works
  5. 5 Wuhan China 373 works
  6. 6 Chennai India 268 works
  7. 7 Guangzhou China 257 works
  8. 8 Chengdu China 241 works
  9. 9 Changsha China 221 works
  10. 10 Hangzhou China 220 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. VijayawadaIN · 54.4 works8.4×
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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, Xidian University and Anhui 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.

0%25%50%75%mean 29.03%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →Air University: 19, 61.9%Xidian University: 99, 30.6%Anhui University: 51, 23.8%National University of Defense Technology: 90, 24.0%Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology: 42, 22.4%Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications: 71, 17.3%Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence: 9, 34.7%Nanjing University of Science and Technology: 84, 17.5%Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications: 46, 17.0%Sejong University: 16, 41.1%Air UniversityXidian UniversityNational University …Anhui University
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One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1 Air UniversityPakistan 73.061.9%22.9×19
2 Xidian UniversityChina 68.930.6%9.6×99 +106.6%
3 Anhui UniversityChina 61.623.8%8.0×51 +247.9%
4 National University of Defense TechnologyChina 60.324.0%8.2×90 +111.4%
5 Nanjing University of Information Science and TechnologyChina 59.122.4%7.3×42 +221.2%
6 Beijing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChina 59.017.3%8.2×71 +158.9%
7 Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial IntelligenceUnited Arab Emirates 58.534.7%15.5×9
8 Nanjing University of Science and TechnologyChina 57.817.5%7.2×84 +156.9%
9 Nanjing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChina 56.817.0%7.7×46 +364.3%
10 Sejong UniversitySouth Korea 56.141.1%6.2×16 +130.9%

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 Video Surveillance and Tracking Methods research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 68% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2023. The fastest-growing topics are Video Surveillance and Tracking Methods.

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The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

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.