ADE20K

data category: Object detection and segmentation benchmarks · 0 papers in the last 7 days

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Images labelled with object boxes or pixel masks, including driving scenes.

Names searched for: ADE20K

Key findings#

From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 111 archived papers mentioned ADE20K in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Jun 2024 (9).
ADE20K was mentioned in 2 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-06 to 2026-11-04), ranking #133 of the 255 datasets mentioned.
By journal category: AI (2).
Most of them appeared in International Journal of Computer Vision (1) and Expert Systems with Applications (1).
From 2017 to 2026 (so far), ADE20K was mentioned in 141 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (139), information systems (1) and operations research (1).
34 of them were published in 2025, against 0 in 2017.
Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Chinese Academy of Sciences (17), University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (11) and Tsinghua University (9).
The journals publishing most of them were IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (42), International Journal of Computer Vision (29) and Artificial Intelligence Review (9).
The most-cited of them is “Semantic Understanding of Scenes Through the ADE20K Dataset” (International Journal of Computer Vision, 2018), with 1,830 citations.
Papers use ADE20K most often with ImageNet (75), MS COCO (70) and Cityscapes (58); it has 31 partners in the code and data network, in the group around ImageNet, CIFAR-10 / CIFAR-100, MNIST / Fashion-MNIST.

Mentions over 36 months#

Papers mentioning it by publication month, Nov 2023 to Oct 2026 (titles, abstracts and keywords; the full texts of earlier months are still being searched)
Trend	Nov 23–Oct 24	Nov 24–Oct 25	Nov 25–Oct 26	36 months
	48	39	24	111

Papers per year#

20172026 (so far)

Papers per publication year and category
Category	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025	2026 (so far)
AI	1	3	5	5	5	16	48	33	23
Information Systems	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
Operations Research	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
All categories	1	3	5	5	5	16	49	34	23

Where the papers come from#

Journals with the most papers, since 2023
#	Journal	Papers
1	IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	42
2	International Journal of Computer Vision	29
3	Artificial Intelligence Review	9
4	IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems	8
5	Pattern Recognition	7
6	Neural Networks	5
7	Expert Systems with Applications	5
8	Information Fusion	4
9	Knowledge-Based Systems	3
10	Image and Vision Computing	2

Institutions with the most papers, since 2023
#	Institution	Papers
1	Chinese Academy of Sciences	17
2	University of Chinese Academy of Sciences	11
3	Tsinghua University	9
4	Institute of Automation	8
5	Nanyang Technological University	7
6	Peking University	7
7	Nankai University	6
8	Sensetime (China)	6
9	Shandong University	6
10	Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory	6

Countries with the most papers, since 2023
#	Country	Papers
1	China	84
2	Hong Kong	20
3	United States	14
4	Australia	13
5	Singapore	12
6	South Korea	7
7	United Kingdom	6
8	Italy	6
9	United Arab Emirates	4
10	Canada	4

Keywords with the most papers, since 2023
#	Keyword	Papers
1	semantic segmentation	42
2	vision transformer	19
3	object detection	18
4	image classification	17
5	ADE20K	16
6	knowledge distillation	10
7	dense prediction	8
8	self-supervised learning	8
9	catastrophic forgetting	7
10	cityscape	7

Most-cited papers#

Most-cited papers since 2017
#	Citations	Per month	Title	Journal	Published	Authors
1	1,830	19.3	Semantic Understanding of Scenes Through the ADE20K Dataset	International Journal of Computer Vision	2018-12-07	Bolei Zhou, Hang Zhao, Xavier Puig et al.
2	998	30.9	Vision-Language Models for Vision Tasks: A Survey	IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	2024-02-26	Jingyi Zhang, Jiaxing Huang, Sheng Jin et al.
3	579	20.2	A Survey on Self-Supervised Learning: Algorithms, Applications, and Future Trends	IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	2024-06-17	Jie Gui, Tuo Chen, Jing Zhang et al.
4	524	6.9	CCNet: Criss-Cross Attention for Semantic Segmentation	IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	2020-07-03	Zilong Huang, Xinggang Wang, Yunchao Wei et al.
5	495	14.0	A comprehensive survey on applications of transformers for deep learning tasks	Expert Systems with Applications	2023-11-22	Saidul Islam, Hanae Elmekki, Ahmed Elsebai et al.

Archive counts by publication year: a paper counts when its title, abstract or keywords name the dataset, or when OpenAlex's full-text search finds it there (searched for the last 30 days' papers and, by a pass over the past years, for older ones). Names added to the list later are looked for in older papers as the archive is read again.

Used together with#

Papers use ADE20K most often with ImageNet (75), MS COCO (70) and Cityscapes (58); it has 31 partners in the code and data network, in the group around ImageNet, CIFAR-10 / CIFAR-100, MNIST / Fashion-MNIST. The whole network →

What papers use ADE20K together with (at least 3 papers; lift 1 = chance)
Used with	Type	Papers using both	Lift
ImageNet	Dataset	75	10.8
MS COCO	Dataset	70	25.6
Cityscapes	Dataset	58	66.0
PASCAL VOC	Dataset	36	36.7
CIFAR-10 / CIFAR-100	Dataset	22	5.4
YouTube / TikTok	Dataset	15	2.8
KITTI	Dataset	14	10.5
Fine-grained benchmarks (CUB-200, Stanford Cars, Oxford Flowers)	Dataset	11	16.3
Face recognition (LFW, CelebA, VGGFace2)	Dataset	8	9.2
MNIST / Fashion-MNIST	Dataset	8	2.5
Wikipedia	Dataset	8	2.7
Action recognition (Kinetics, UCF101, HMDB51)	Dataset	6	7.0

Papers mentioning ADE20K in the last 30 days, newest first.
Date	Title	Journal	Authors	Affiliations
2026-10-17	CorrCLIPv2: Harnessing Unlabeled Images for Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation	International Journal of Computer Vision	D H Zhang, Fagui Liu, Quan Tang et al.	South China University of Technology; Peng Cheng Laboratory
2026-10-16	NISNet: Efficient native dense prediction via symmetric boundary-preserving coupling–decoupling	Expert Systems with Applications	Fengjun WU, Kafeng Wang, Xinai Xu et al.	Nanchang Normal University; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Computer Network Information Center; …

Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). ADE20K. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/ade20k

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  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {ADE20K},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/ade20k}},
  urldate = {2026-11-04},
  note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}

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