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title: "Pattern Recognition: 188 recent papers (last 30 days)"
description: "Pattern Recognition published 188 papers in the last 30 days (2026-09-27 to 2026-10-26), ranking #2 of 239 journals."
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# Pattern Recognition

- 9 papers in the last 7 days
- category: AI
- publisher: Elsevier BV
- ISSN 0031-3203

Back to the ranking: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journals.md

## Key findings

- Pattern Recognition published 188 papers in the last 30 days (2026-09-27 to 2026-10-26), ranking #2 of 239 journals.
- Leading institutions: University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (8), Chinese Academy of Sciences (7) and National University of Defense Technology (7).
- Countries: China (143), United Kingdom (10) and Australia (7).
- From Apr 2024 to Sep 2026, Pattern Recognition published 4,154 papers (138 a month on average, by publication date in OpenAlex).
- Its most frequent keywords over that period were “contrastive learning” (167), “multimodal fusion” (130) and “diffusion models” (118).
- Its most-cited paper of the period is “LLDiffusion: Learning degradation representations in diffusion models for low-light image enhancement” (2025-04-11), with 149 citations.

## The last 30 months

*Papers by publication date, Apr 2024 to Sep 2026*

| Apr 24–Sep 24 | Oct 24–Sep 25 | Oct 25–Sep 26 | 30 months |
|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| 547 | 1,310 | 2,297 | 4,154 |

*Most frequent keywords, Apr 2024 to Sep 2026*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [contrastive learning](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/contrastive-learning.md) | 167 |
| 2 | [multimodal fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/multimodal-fusion.md) | 130 |
| 3 | diffusion models | 118 |
| 4 | [graph neural networks](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/graph-neural-networks.md) | 118 |
| 5 | pseudo-labeling | 116 |
| 6 | self-supervised learning | 114 |
| 7 | computational efficiency | 107 |
| 8 | vision-language models | 104 |
| 9 | [knowledge distillation](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/knowledge-distillation.md) | 103 |
| 10 | attention mechanism | 89 |

*Most-cited papers published Apr 2024 to Sep 2026*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 149 | 8.1 | [LLDiffusion: Learning degradation representations in diffusion models for low-light image enhancement](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2025.111628) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 2025-04-11 | Tao Wang, Kaihao Zhang, Yong Zhang et al. |
| 2 | 122 | 14.1 | [RFAConv: Receptive-field attention convolution for improving convolutional neural networks](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.113208) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 2026-02-05 | Xin Zhang, Chen Liu, Tingting Song et al. |
| 3 | 92 | 5.6 | [On the design fundamentals of diffusion models: A survey](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2025.111934) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 2025-06-14 | Ziyi Chang, George Alex Koulieris, Hyung Jin Chang et al. |
| 4 | 80 | 4.0 | [DiffFace: Diffusion-based face swapping with facial guidance](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2025.111451) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 2025-02-21 | KiHong Kim, Yunho Kim, Seokju Cho et al. |
| 5 | 73 | 4.0 | [Crack segmentation network via difference convolution-based encoder and hybrid CNN-Mamba multi-scale attention](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2025.111723) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 2025-04-25 | Jianming Zhang, Shigen Zhang, Dianwen Li et al. |

*Papers, newest first. Newest 50 of 188 papers; all of them are in /data/papers.json.*

| Date | Title | Journal | Authors | Affiliations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-23 | [Towards minute-level pedestrian trajectory prediction in crowded traffic scenarios](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115198) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | Yonghao Dong, Sanping Zhou, Gang Hua et al. | Xi'an Jiaotong University; Amazon (United States) |
| 2026-10-23 | [HDHKT: Heterogeneous graph and difficulty-aware hypergraph fusion for knowledge tracing](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115226) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | Hao Wang, Xianglian Peng, Weigang Lu et al. | Ocean University of China; Qingdao University; Qingdao University of Science and Technology; … |
| 2026-10-23 | [Multi-scale wavelet convolutional sampling and cross-stage feature enhancement reconstruction for image compressed sensing](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115195) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | Le Qin, Zenan Xiong, Jingyao Gong et al. | Nanchang Normal University; Jiangxi Normal University; Jiangsu University; … |
| 2026-10-23 | [MET-FR: Mamba-enhanced Transformer with feature rectification for hyperspectral and LiDAR data fusion and classification](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115204) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | Yining Feng, Wei Cheng, Zhenhua Mu et al. | Dalian University; Liaoning Normal University |
| 2026-10-21 | [CIDNet: Collaborative uncertainty-aware learning of invariance and discrimination for cross-view geo-localization](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115160) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | Jianghua Li, Yixin He, Yabo Hui et al. | Xi'an University of Technology |
| 2026-10-21 | [Quantum heterogeneous graph attention network](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115127) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | Wenjie Liu, Bohan Du, Qingshan Wu | Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology |
| 2026-10-21 | [VOGUE: Sequence-adaptive online graph tracking with virtual long-term memory](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115166) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | Yuhao Wei, Shoudong Han, Wenbo Zheng et al. | Huazhong University of Science and Technology |
| 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. |  |
| 2026-10-20 | [Boosting the understanding ability of diffusion model with masked image modeling](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115123) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | Jianning Pei, Yingchao Feng, Hanbo Bi et al. | Chinese Academy of Sciences; Aerospace Information Research Institute; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences |
| 2026-10-19 | [Nothing beyond randomness is required for forward-forward learning](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115214) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | Yue Zhou, Xiaofang Hu, Shukai Duan |  |
| 2026-10-19 | [KeyMorph: Learning parameter-efficient network activation for deep steganography](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115155) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | Fanye Kong, Yu Zheng, Lei Chen et al. | Tsinghua University |
| 2026-10-19 | [Universal Incremental Learning: Mitigating Confusion from inter- and intra-task distribution randomness](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115152) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | Yi Zhou, Jinsong Shi, Sheng Luo et al. |  |
| 2026-10-19 | [Removal notice to “Optimized gated spatiotemporal graph attention network based diagnosis of facial expression through video games” \[Pattern Recognition 175 (2026) 112991\]](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.114903) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | Dr. Purushottama Rao K, S Uma, Vijayaraj N et al. |  |
| 2026-10-19 | [Collaborative unsupervised low-light image enhancement with lookup tables and targeted denoising](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115134) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | Jin Cui, Linwei Fan, Huiyu Li et al. | Shandong University of Finance and Economics; Shandong University |
| 2026-10-18 | [Mitigating hallucinations in Multimodal Large Language Models via Token-Aware Visual Enhancement](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115143) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | Wenwang Huang, Keyu Chen, Junjie Wang et al. | Harbin Institute of Technology |
| 2026-10-17 | [Implicit cross-domain synergy: Towards haze removal via integrating spectral priors with State Space Models](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115142) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | Weichao Yi, Chao Lu, Wenze Shi et al. | Nanchang Hangkong University; Beijing Institute of Technology; Monash University Malaysia; … |
| 2026-10-17 | [FS-MLGB: Multi-level granular-ball representation using label distribution for multi-label feature selection](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115150) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | Yuxin Zhao, Pengfei Zhang, Maolin Xiao et al. | Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine; Sichuan University; Guangzhou University; … |
| 2026-10-17 | [Noise-resilient video crowd counting via binarized motion-guided multi-path spatio-temporal modeling](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115161) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | Miaogen Ling, Jixuan Chen, Shuyang Ye et al. | Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology; Southeast University |
| 2026-10-17 | [Synergizing frequency-domain modulation and hierarchical feature refinement for small object detection in UAV imagery](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115151) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | Zhipeng Zhang, Yangjie Wei | Northeastern University |
| 2026-10-17 | [Spatial–frequency collaborative learning for infrared image super-resolution](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115132) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | Yang Wang, Xiangyue Zheng, Shuanglin Wu et al. | National University of Defense Technology; Institute of Optics and Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences |
| 2026-10-17 | [Multi-view collaborative consistency for light field depth estimation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115139) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | Yi Pan, Mengkai Yan, Daoheng Li et al. | Nanjing University of Science and Technology; Hohai University |
| 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 |
| 2026-10-16 | [DGKT: Dual Graph Kernel Transformer for graph classification](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115145) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | Lixiang Xu, Weixin Yu, Zezhou Wang et al. | Hefei University; Hefei Institute of Technology; Beijing Normal University; … |
| 2026-10-16 | [Semi-supervised multi-view classification: A convex formulation and its multi-kernel extension](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115094) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | Jingyu Wang, Yidi Wang, Feiping Nie et al. | Northwestern Polytechnical University; China Telecom (China); China Telecom |
| 2026-10-14 | [VLKD-YOLO: A semantic-aware visual-language distillation framework for lightweight underwater object detection](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115082) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | Chuanyi Zhang, Ruiyang Wang, Xinlei Zhang et al. | Hohai University |
| 2026-10-14 | [TDCount: Thermal-only crowd counting for privacy-conscious deployment](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115129) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | Yifei Qian, Zhongliang Guo, Yan Lin et al. | University of Nottingham; University of Aberdeen; Newcastle University; … |
| 2026-10-14 | [Self-promotion learning with label prediction and revision for SVM](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115128) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | Zhihui Lai, Yifei Song, Heng Kong et al. | Shenzhen University; Shenzhen Bao'an District People's Hospital; Shenzhen Institute of Information Technology; … |
| 2026-10-14 | [Mitigating domain shift in federated learning via intra- and inter-domain prototypes](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115131) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | Huy Q. Le, Ye Lin Tun, Yu Qiao et al. | Kyung Hee University; University of Da Nang; Viện Khoa học và Công nghệ số |
| 2026-10-14 | [FasterAD: Faster and more precise multi-class unsupervised anomaly detection and localization](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115101) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | Pengjie Tan, Zhen Chen, Wai Keung Wong | Hong Kong Polytechnic University |
| 2026-10-13 | [A3AD: Enhancing CLIP with Triple-Aware Learning for Zero-Shot Anomaly Detection](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115125) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | Aimin Feng, Junjie Zheng, Keyang Yu et al. | Nanjing University of Science and Technology; Nanjing University of the Arts; Nanjing University; … |
| 2026-10-13 | [3D HyFormer: A hybrid transformer with dense-sparse attention for point cloud semantic segmentation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115126) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 焦志强 Jiao Zhiqiang, 王康年 Wang Kangnian, Yanhan Zhang et al. | Tianjin University; Tiangong University |
| 2026-10-12 | [Gaussian Splatting for real-time scene reconstruction: Methods, systems, and trade-offs](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115120) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | Ashim Dahal, Rabab Abdelfattah, Nick Rahimi | University of Southern Mississippi |
| 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 |
| 2026-10-11 | [Graph-Guided Retrieval-Augmented Causal Discovery with LLM reasoning for nonlinear chemical processes](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115124) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | Xiaodong Qin, Junxiao Ren, Qiang Li et al. | Southwest University of Science and Technology; Huafon Group (China) |
| 2026-10-11 | [HGMamSurv: a hypergraph mamba network for cancer survival prediction on whole slide images](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115144) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | Saisai Ding, Yihan Deng, Jiawei Sun et al. | Chinese Academy of Sciences; Suzhou Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Technology |
| 2026-10-11 | [Causal graph representation learning for robust out-of-distribution crop pest recognition](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115078) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | LI Guangke, Yue Teng, Chenghui Lin et al. | Hefei University |
| 2026-10-10 | [CheXPO-v2: Preference optimization for chest X-ray VLMs with knowledge graph consistency](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115099) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | Yuxuan An, Xiao Liang, Di Wang et al. | Xidian University; Capital Medical University |
| 2026-10-10 | [Adaptive graph representation with dual-view consistency for incomplete multi-label learning](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115097) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | Ting Wang, Yitian Xu | China Agricultural University |
| 2026-10-10 | [HiT-GEN: A hierarchical text-guided network for domain-generalized hyperspectral image classification](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115119) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | Rong Liu, Jianan Wang, Ying Sun et al. | Sun Yat-sen University; Wuhan University; State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying Mapping and Remote Sensing |
| 2026-10-10 | [Variational graph-based semi-supervised learning](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115073) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | Sebastian Salwig, Till Kahlke, Jörg Lücke | Universität Innsbruck |
| 2026-10-10 | [Comprehensive review of GANs and diffusion models in multimodal 3D medical image conversion](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115079) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | Nan Jiang, 李皓塱, Xiao Teng et al. | Central South University; Hunan Children's Hospital; National University of Defense Technology; … |
| 2026-10-10 | [LDOFormer: Low-rank and Decorrelation-regularized Transformer for 3D human pose estimation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115065) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | Yu Zou, Zhigeng Pan, Xianxuan Lin et al. | Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology; Jiangsu Open University |
| 2026-10-10 | [TACoS: Weakly supervised learning of two-dimensional materials from scribble annotations to precise segmentation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115084) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | Jiabei Chen, Liping Zhang, Jiangbin Wu et al. | Chinese Academy of Sciences; Institute of Semiconductors; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences |
| 2026-10-10 | [Domain-Shared Learning and Gradual Alignment for Unsupervised Domain Adaptation Visible–Infrared person Re-Identification](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115109) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | Nianchang Huang, Yi Xu, Ruida Xi et al. |  |
| 2026-10-10 | [Progressive language-guided visual learning for multi-task visual grounding](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115117) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | Jingchao Wang, Hong Wang, Wenlong Zhang et al. | Xi'an Jiaotong University; Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory; East China Normal University; … |
| 2026-10-09 | [Decoupled reverse Kullback–Leibler: Rethinking knowledge distillation loss for bridging GNNs and MLPs](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115090) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | Shaokai Xu, Muyang Li, Qiyan Huang et al. | Qingdao University of Science and Technology; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences; Sino-Danish Centre for Education and Research |
| 2026-10-09 | [MaskCL: Mask-driven Cross-Modal Collaborative Learning for multimodal anomaly detection](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115106) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | Jianfeng Li, Wen Wang, Yuyao Liu et al. | Beijing Jiaotong University |
| 2026-10-09 | [Conditional Multimodal Alignment for few-shot class-incremental 3D point cloud classification](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115083) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | Lei Xia, Zecheng Sheng, Ling Fan et al. | Tongji University; The University of Sydney; Shanghai University |
| 2026-10-09 | [A multimodal diagnosis model combining multi-granularity contrastive learning and quality-aware adaptive fusion](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115118) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | Ruiquan Ge, Zhipeng Wang, Deqiang Xiao et al. | Hangzhou Dianzi University; Shenzhen Research Institute of Big Data; Beijing Institute of Technology; … |
| 2026-10-09 | [Graph-guided tensor shrinkage with adaptive representative graph fusion for multi-view clustering](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115115) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | Dali Wang, Wei Lan, Qingfeng Chen et al. | Guangxi University; Shenzhen University; Shenzhen Technology University; … |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Pattern Recognition. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 26, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition

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  title = {Pattern Recognition},
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  urldate = {2026-10-26},
  note = {Journal Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}
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