---
title: "PASCAL VOC: papers using this data, journals and trends"
description: "From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 235 archived papers mentioned PASCAL VOC in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Jun 2024 (13)."
url: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/pascal-voc
markdown_url: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/pascal-voc.md
license: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)
share_text: "From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 235 archived papers mentioned PASCAL VOC in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Jun 2024 (13). (as of 2026-11-04)"
data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json
updated: 2026-11-04T18:03:26+09:00
window: 2026-10-06 to 2026-11-04
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---

# PASCAL VOC

[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: PASCAL VOC, VOC2007, VOC2012, VOC 2007, VOC 2012

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, 235 archived papers mentioned PASCAL VOC in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Jun 2024 (13).
- PASCAL VOC was mentioned in 3 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-06 to 2026-11-04), ranking #106 of the 255 datasets mentioned.
- By journal category: AI (3).
- Most of them appeared in International Journal of Computer Vision (1), Information Processing & Management (1) and Pattern Recognition (1).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), PASCAL VOC was mentioned in 331 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (328), operations research (2) and economics (1).
- 68 of them were published in 2025, against 10 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Chinese Academy of Sciences (19), University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (18) and Harbin Institute of Technology (11).
- The journals publishing most of them were IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (71), International Journal of Computer Vision (38) and Pattern Recognition (28).
- The most-cited of them is “DeepLab: Semantic Image Segmentation with Deep Convolutional Nets, Atrous Convolution, and Fully Connected CRFs” (IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2017), with 22,385 citations.
- Papers use PASCAL VOC most often with MS COCO (185), ImageNet (158) and CIFAR-10 / CIFAR-100 (59); it has 37 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 |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
|  | 107 | 75 | 53 | 235 |

## 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) | 10 | 11 | 11 | 8 | 15 | 20 | 33 | 107 | 65 | 48 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| All categories | 10 | 11 | 11 | 8 | 15 | 20 | 33 | 107 | 68 | 48 |

## 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) | 71 |
| 2 | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | 38 |
| 3 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 28 |
| 4 | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 22 |
| 5 | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.md) | 15 |
| 6 | [Neural Computing and Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-computing-and-applications.md) | 14 |
| 7 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 11 |
| 8 | [Machine Learning](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/machine-learning.md) | 10 |
| 9 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 10 |
| 10 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 6 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 19 |
| 2 | [University of Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 18 |
| 3 | [Harbin Institute of Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/harbin-institute-of-technology.md) | 11 |
| 4 | [Nanyang Technological University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/nanyang-technological-university.md) | 11 |
| 5 | [Tencent (China)](https://scholar4ai.com/companies/tencent-china.md) | 9 |
| 6 | [Shanghai Jiao Tong University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/shanghai-jiao-tong-university.md) | 8 |
| 7 | [Sun Yat-sen University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/sun-yat-sen-university.md) | 8 |
| 8 | [Beihang University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/beihang-university.md) | 7 |
| 9 | [Hong Kong University of Science and Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/hong-kong-university-of-science-and-technology.md) | 7 |
| 10 | [Institute of Automation](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/institute-of-automation.md) | 7 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China | 152 |
| 2 | United States | 37 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 30 |
| 4 | Hong Kong | 27 |
| 5 | Australia | 25 |
| 6 | Singapore | 15 |
| 7 | Germany | 12 |
| 8 | South Korea | 10 |
| 9 | India | 9 |
| 10 | United Arab Emirates | 8 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [object detection](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/object-detection.md) | 45 |
| 2 | [semantic segmentation](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/semantic-segmentation.md) | 26 |
| 3 | [image classification](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/image-classification.md) | 25 |
| 4 | [pseudo-labeling](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/pseudo-labeling.md) | 17 |
| 5 | weakly supervised semantic segmentation | 17 |
| 6 | [knowledge distillation](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/knowledge-distillation.md) | 15 |
| 7 | [vision transformer](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/vision-transformer.md) | 15 |
| 8 | Pascal VOC 2012 | 13 |
| 9 | CLIP | 12 |
| 10 | few-shot object detection | 12 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 22,385 | 195.9 | [DeepLab: Semantic Image Segmentation with Deep Convolutional Nets, Atrous Convolution, and Fully Connected CRFs](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2017.2699184) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2017-04-27 | Liang-Chieh Chen, George Papandreou, Iasonas Kokkinos et al. |
| 2 | 1,187 | 37.8 | [A review of convolutional neural networks in computer vision](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-024-10721-6) | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.md) | 2024-03-23 | Xia Zhao, Limin Wang, Yufei Zhang et al. |
| 3 | 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. |
| 4 | 579 | 20.2 | [A Survey on Self-Supervised Learning: Algorithms, Applications, and Future Trends](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2024.3415112) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2024-06-17 | Jie Gui, Tuo Chen, Jing Zhang et al. |
| 5 | 512 | 19.3 | [A Survey on Deep Neural Network Pruning: Taxonomy, Comparison, Analysis, and Recommendations](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2024.3447085) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2024-08-21 | Hongrong Cheng, Miao Zhang, Qinfeng Shi |

## Used together with

Papers use PASCAL VOC most often with MS COCO (185), ImageNet (158) and CIFAR-10 / CIFAR-100 (59); it has 37 partners in the code and data network, in the group around ImageNet, CIFAR-10 / CIFAR-100, MNIST / Fashion-MNIST.

*What papers use PASCAL VOC 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 | 185 | 28.6 |
| [ImageNet](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/imagenet.md) | Dataset | 158 | 9.6 |
| [CIFAR-10 / CIFAR-100](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/cifar-10-cifar-100.md) | Dataset | 59 | 6.1 |
| [Cityscapes](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/cityscapes.md) | Dataset | 55 | 26.5 |
| [ADE20K](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/ade20k.md) | Dataset | 36 | 36.7 |
| [Fine-grained benchmarks (CUB-200, Stanford Cars, Oxford Flowers)](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/fine-grained-benchmarks-cub-200-stanford-cars-oxford-flowers.md) | Dataset | 30 | 18.8 |
| [Caltech-101 / 256](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/caltech-101-256.md) | Dataset | 29 | 28.1 |
| [MNIST / Fashion-MNIST](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/mnist-fashion-mnist.md) | Dataset | 23 | 3.0 |
| [KITTI](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/kitti.md) | Dataset | 20 | 6.3 |
| [Domain adaptation benchmarks (Office-31, Office-Home, VisDA…](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/domain-adaptation-benchmarks-office-31-office-home-visda-domainnet.md) | Dataset | 15 | 13.2 |
| [SVHN](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/svhn.md) | Dataset | 13 | 8.9 |
| [YouTube / TikTok](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/youtube-tiktok.md) | Dataset | 13 | 1.0 |

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

## Papers

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

| Date | Title | Journal | Authors | Affiliations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-17 | [CorrCLIPv2: Harnessing Unlabeled Images for Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11263-026-03027-3) | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | D H Zhang, Fagui Liu, Quan Tang et al. | South China University of Technology; Peng Cheng Laboratory |
| 2026-10-15 | [Frequency–spatial dual-domain imperceptible watermarking for robust image datasets copyright protection](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2026.105235) | [Information Processing & Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-processing-management.md) | Xiaojie Du, Yedi Chen, Kai Ma et al. | Guizhou Normal University |
| 2026-10-12 | [P2L-CA: An effective parameter tuning framework for rehearsal-free Multi-Label Class-Incremental Learning](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115121) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | Songlin Dong, Jiangyang Li, Chenhao Ding et al. | Shenzhen University of Advanced Technology; Xi'an Jiaotong University |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). PASCAL VOC. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/pascal-voc

```bibtex
@misc{scholar4ai-datasets-pascal-voc,
  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {PASCAL VOC},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/pascal-voc}},
  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/).