---
title: "KITTI: papers using this data, journals and trends"
description: "From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 316 archived papers mentioned KITTI in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Jan 2025 (14)."
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markdown_url: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/kitti.md
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share_text: "From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 316 archived papers mentioned KITTI in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Jan 2025 (14). (as of 2026-11-04)"
data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json
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---

# KITTI

[Browse dataset profiles](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/directory/page/4.md)

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

- data category: Object detection and segmentation benchmarks
- 0 papers in the last 7 days
- Names searched for: KITTI

Most-used data: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/datasets.md · All Object detection and segmentation benchmarks datasets: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/object-detection-and-segmentation-benchmarks.md



## Key findings

- From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 316 archived papers mentioned KITTI in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Jan 2025 (14).
- KITTI was mentioned in 7 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-06 to 2026-11-04), ranking #48 of the 255 datasets mentioned.
- By journal category: AI (7).
- Most of them appeared in Pattern Recognition (3), International Journal of Computer Vision (1) and Artificial Intelligence Review (1).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), KITTI was mentioned in 453 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (445), economics (4) and operations research (3).
- 109 of them were published in 2025, against 7 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Chinese Academy of Sciences (21), Zhejiang University (17) and Shanghai Jiao Tong University (15).
- The journals publishing most of them were IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (76), International Journal of Computer Vision (51) and Pattern Recognition (29).
- The most-cited of them is “Cascade R-CNN: High Quality Object Detection and Instance Segmentation” (IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2019), with 1,961 citations.
- Papers use KITTI most often with nuScenes / Waymo Open / Argoverse (117), ImageNet (72) and Cityscapes (62); it has 33 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 |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
|  | 106 | 119 | 91 | 316 |

## Papers per year

*Papers per publication year and category*

| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 7 | 5 | 17 | 17 | 25 | 32 | 54 | 107 | 107 | 74 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| All categories | 7 | 5 | 17 | 17 | 25 | 32 | 54 | 109 | 109 | 78 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 76 |
| 2 | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | 51 |
| 3 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 29 |
| 4 | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.md) | 24 |
| 5 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 24 |
| 6 | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 23 |
| 7 | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 17 |
| 8 | [Applied Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/applied-intelligence.md) | 13 |
| 9 | [Neural Computing and Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-computing-and-applications.md) | 13 |
| 10 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 10 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 21 |
| 2 | [Zhejiang University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/zhejiang-university.md) | 17 |
| 3 | [Shanghai Jiao Tong University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/shanghai-jiao-tong-university.md) | 15 |
| 4 | [Chinese University of Hong Kong](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-university-of-hong-kong.md) | 14 |
| 5 | [Nanyang Technological University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/nanyang-technological-university.md) | 13 |
| 6 | Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory | 12 |
| 7 | [Tsinghua University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/tsinghua-university.md) | 11 |
| 8 | [Beihang University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/beihang-university.md) | 9 |
| 9 | [Institute of Automation](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/institute-of-automation.md) | 9 |
| 10 | [University of Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 9 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China | 216 |
| 2 | United States | 39 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 30 |
| 4 | Hong Kong | 29 |
| 5 | Germany | 25 |
| 6 | Australia | 21 |
| 7 | Singapore | 19 |
| 8 | Italy | 15 |
| 9 | Canada | 9 |
| 10 | Spain | 9 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [autonomous driving](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/autonomous-driving.md) | 66 |
| 2 | KITTI dataset | 49 |
| 3 | 3D object detection | 46 |
| 4 | KITTI | 45 |
| 5 | point clouds | 32 |
| 6 | LiDAR point cloud | 23 |
| 7 | LiDAR | 22 |
| 8 | monocular depth estimation | 22 |
| 9 | [autonomous vehicles](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/autonomous-vehicles.md) | 20 |
| 10 | [semantic segmentation](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/semantic-segmentation.md) | 19 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,961 | 23.6 | [Cascade R-CNN: High Quality Object Detection and Instance Segmentation](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2019.2956516) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2019-11-28 | Zhaowei Cai, Nuno M. Vasconcelos |
| 2 | 998 | 30.9 | [Vision-Language Models for Vision Tasks: A Survey](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2024.3369699) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2024-02-26 | Jingyi Zhang, Jiaxing Huang, Sheng Jin et al. |
| 3 | 922 | 11.2 | [From Points to Parts: 3D Object Detection from Point Cloud with Part-aware and Part-aggregation Network](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2020.2977026) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2020-01-01 | Shaoshuai Shi, Zhe Wang, Jianping Shi et al. |
| 4 | 743 | 14.0 | [KITTI-360: A Novel Dataset and Benchmarks for Urban Scene Understanding in 2D and 3D](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2022.3179507) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2022-06-01 | Yiyi Liao, Jun Xie, Andreas Geiger |
| 5 | 614 | 7.0 | [The ApolloScape Open Dataset for Autonomous Driving and Its Application](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2019.2926463) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2019-07-07 | Xinyu Huang, Peng Wang, Xinjing Cheng et al. |

## Used together with

Papers use KITTI most often with nuScenes / Waymo Open / Argoverse (117), ImageNet (72) and Cityscapes (62); it has 33 partners in the code and data network, in the group around ImageNet, CIFAR-10 / CIFAR-100, MNIST / Fashion-MNIST.

*What papers use KITTI together with (at least 3 papers; lift 1 = chance)*

| Used with | Type | Papers using both | Lift |
|---|---|---:|---:|
| [nuScenes / Waymo Open / Argoverse](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/nuscenes-waymo-open-argoverse.md) | Dataset | 117 | 41.7 |
| [ImageNet](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/imagenet.md) | Dataset | 72 | 3.2 |
| [Cityscapes](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/cityscapes.md) | Dataset | 62 | 22.0 |
| [MS COCO](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/ms-coco.md) | Dataset | 50 | 5.7 |
| [CIFAR-10 / CIFAR-100](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/cifar-10-cifar-100.md) | Dataset | 20 | 1.5 |
| [PASCAL VOC](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/pascal-voc.md) | Dataset | 20 | 6.3 |
| [ADE20K](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/ade20k.md) | Dataset | 14 | 10.5 |
| [YouTube / TikTok](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/youtube-tiktok.md) | Dataset | 14 | 0.8 |
| [MNIST / Fashion-MNIST](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/mnist-fashion-mnist.md) | Dataset | 10 | 0.9 |
| [Kaggle](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/kaggle.md) | Dataset | 9 | 1.6 |
| [SVHN](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/svhn.md) | Dataset | 8 | 4.0 |
| [open-mmlab/OpenPCDet](https://scholar4ai.com/code/github-open-mmlab-openpcdet.md) | Code repository | 8 | 40.2 |

The whole network: https://scholar4ai.com/code/network.md

## Papers

*Papers mentioning KITTI in the last 30 days, newest first.*

| Date | Title | Journal | Authors | Affiliations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-27 | [StreamingVDE: A dual-timescale memory bank with decomposed spatio-temporal adaptation for online monocular video depth estimation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115191) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | Jing Xu, Hong Liu, Buyun Chen et al. | Peking University |
| 2026-10-25 | [$${\\text {VLScene}}^{++}$$: Enhancing 3D Semantic Scene Completion via VLM Discrepancy-Aware Semantic Distillation and Sparse–Dense Hybrid Awareness](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11263-026-03050-4) | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | Meng Wang, Yujie Xue, Jijiang Liu et al. | Hunan University |
| 2026-10-21 | [STATIC: Surface-normal-guided Two-branch Alignment and Temporal Integration for Consistent Video Depth Estimation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115159) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | Sunghun Yang, Minhyeok Lee, Suhwan Cho et al. | Yonsei University |
| 2026-10-17 | [Seeing ahead through a state-of-the-art review of visual perception and predictive intelligence for collaborative robots](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-026-11708-1) | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.md) | Mahmoud Salem, Markus Reischl, Veit Hagenmeyer et al. | Karlsruhe Institute of Technology; British University in Egypt; Gulf University for Science & Technology |
| 2026-10-17 | [MonoPRIO: Adaptive prior conditioning for unified monocular 3D object detection](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115138) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | Leon Davies, Qinggang Meng, Mohamad Saada et al. | Loughborough University; University of Southern Denmark |
| 2026-10-15 | [D2OM: Depth-aware dynamic matching for DETR-based monocular 3D detection](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2026.117140) | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | Chenfeng Wei, Si Zuo, Chang Li et al. |  |
| 2026-10-06 | [AURORA-KITTI: Any-weather depth completion and denoising](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2026.104830) | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | Yiting Wang, Tim Brödermann, Hamed Haghighi et al. | Queen Mary University of London; ETH Zurich; University of Warwick; … |

## Cite this page

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

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

License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).