---
title: "Open Images: papers using this data, journals and trends"
description: "From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 45 archived papers mentioned Open Images in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Aug 2024 (5)."
url: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/open-images
markdown_url: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/open-images.md
license: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)
share_text: "From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 45 archived papers mentioned Open Images in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Aug 2024 (5). (as of 2026-11-05)"
data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json
updated: 2026-11-05T06:02:37+09:00
window: 2026-10-07 to 2026-11-05
source: OpenAlex (CC0)
---

# Open Images

[Browse dataset profiles](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/directory/page/5.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: Open Images dataset, OpenImages, Open Images V4, Open Images V6

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, 45 archived papers mentioned Open Images in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Aug 2024 (5).
- No paper of the tracked journals mentioned Open Images in the last 30 days (2026-10-07 to 2026-11-05).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), Open Images was mentioned in 50 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (50).
- 12 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 (6), Nanyang Technological University (5) and Institute of Automation (4).
- The journals publishing most of them were IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (21), International Journal of Computer Vision (12) and Pattern Recognition (3).
- The most-cited of them is “The Open Images Dataset V4” (International Journal of Computer Vision, 2020), with 368 citations.
- Papers use Open Images most often with MS COCO (30), ImageNet (29) and PASCAL VOC (12); it has 15 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 |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
|  | 22 | 9 | 14 | 45 |

## 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) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 20 | 12 | 9 |
| All categories | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 20 | 12 | 9 |

## 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) | 21 |
| 2 | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | 12 |
| 3 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 3 |
| 4 | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.md) | 3 |
| 5 | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 2 |
| 6 | [Journal Of Big Data](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-big-data.md) | 2 |
| 7 | [Machine Learning](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/machine-learning.md) | 1 |
| 8 | [Neural Computing and Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-computing-and-applications.md) | 1 |
| 9 | [AI & Society](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ai-society.md) | 1 |
| 10 | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 1 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 6 |
| 2 | [Nanyang Technological University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/nanyang-technological-university.md) | 5 |
| 3 | [Institute of Automation](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/institute-of-automation.md) | 4 |
| 4 | [Amazon (United States)](https://scholar4ai.com/companies/amazon-united-states.md) | 3 |
| 5 | Leibniz University Hannover | 3 |
| 6 | [National University of Defense Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/national-university-of-defense-technology.md) | 3 |
| 7 | [Australian National University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/australian-national-university.md) | 2 |
| 8 | [ByteDance (China)](https://scholar4ai.com/companies/bytedance-china.md) | 2 |
| 9 | [Chinese University of Hong Kong](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-university-of-hong-kong.md) | 2 |
| 10 | [Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-university-of-hong-kong-shenzhen.md) | 2 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China | 21 |
| 2 | United States | 9 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 7 |
| 4 | Hong Kong | 6 |
| 5 | Australia | 5 |
| 6 | Germany | 5 |
| 7 | Singapore | 5 |
| 8 | Canada | 3 |
| 9 | Spain | 3 |
| 10 | Finland | 2 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | scene graph generation | 8 |
| 2 | [image classification](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/image-classification.md) | 5 |
| 3 | Visual Genome | 4 |
| 4 | [object detection](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/object-detection.md) | 4 |
| 5 | out-of-distribution detection | 4 |
| 6 | benchmark dataset | 3 |
| 7 | [data augmentation](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/data-augmentation.md) | 3 |
| 8 | evaluation metrics | 3 |
| 9 | instance segmentation | 3 |
| 10 | visual grounding | 3 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 368 | 4.6 | [The Open Images Dataset V4](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11263-020-01316-z) | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | 2020-03-13 | Alina Kuznetsova, Hassan Rom, Neil Alldrin et al. |
| 2 | 244 | 5.7 | [RelTR: Relation Transformer for Scene Graph Generation](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2023.3268066) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2023-04-19 | Yuren Cong, Michael Ying Yang, Bodo Rosenhahn B |
| 3 | 168 | 7.1 | [BiFPN-YOLO: One-stage object detection integrating Bi-Directional Feature Pyramid Networks](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2024.111209) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 2024-11-18 | John Doherty, Bryan Gardiner, Emmett Kerr et al. |
| 4 | 114 | 4.3 | [Contextual Object Detection with Multimodal Large Language Models](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11263-024-02214-4) | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | 2024-08-20 | Yuhang Zang, Wei Li, Jun Han et al. |
| 5 | 105 | 4.5 | [LVLM-EHub: A Comprehensive Evaluation Benchmark for Large Vision-Language Models](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2024.3507000) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2024-11-27 | Peng Xu, Wenqi Shao, Kaipeng Zhang et al. |

## Used together with

Papers use Open Images most often with MS COCO (30), ImageNet (29) and PASCAL VOC (12); it has 15 partners in the code and data network, in the group around ImageNet, CIFAR-10 / CIFAR-100, MNIST / Fashion-MNIST.

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

| Used with | Type | Papers using both | Lift |
|---|---|---:|---:|
| [MS COCO](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/ms-coco.md) | Dataset | 30 | 30.9 |
| [ImageNet](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/imagenet.md) | Dataset | 29 | 11.8 |
| [PASCAL VOC](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/pascal-voc.md) | Dataset | 12 | 34.5 |
| [CIFAR-10 / CIFAR-100](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/cifar-10-cifar-100.md) | Dataset | 10 | 6.9 |
| [YouTube / TikTok](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/youtube-tiktok.md) | Dataset | 8 | 4.2 |
| [Fine-grained benchmarks (CUB-200, Stanford Cars, Oxford Flowers)](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/fine-grained-benchmarks-cub-200-stanford-cars-oxford-flowers.md) | Dataset | 7 | 29.2 |
| [ADE20K](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/ade20k.md) | Dataset | 5 | 33.9 |
| [Cityscapes](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/cityscapes.md) | Dataset | 5 | 16.1 |
| [Wikipedia](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/wikipedia.md) | Dataset | 5 | 4.7 |
| [KITTI](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/kitti.md) | Dataset | 4 | 8.4 |
| [nuScenes / Waymo Open / Argoverse](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/nuscenes-waymo-open-argoverse.md) | Dataset | 4 | 12.9 |
| [SVHN](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/svhn.md) | Dataset | 4 | 18.3 |

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

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Open Images. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/open-images

```bibtex
@misc{scholar4ai-datasets-open-images,
  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {Open Images},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/open-images}},
  urldate = {2026-11-05},
  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/).