Papers on “semantic segmentation”
Research on “semantic segmentation” in the 480 tracked journals: papers per year and category, the journals, institutions and countries publishing it, the keywords studied with it and its most-cited papers. It is not among the most frequent keywords of the last 30 days, so this page has no list of its latest papers. Also as Markdown.
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Key findings#
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “semantic segmentation” appeared in 974 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (958), operations research (5) and information systems (4).
- 195 of them were published in 2025, against 14 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Chinese Academy of Sciences (48), University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (28) and Zhejiang University (26).
- The journals publishing most of them were Expert Systems with Applications (110), Pattern Recognition (101) and IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (98).
- 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 per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI | 14 | 16 | 28 | 56 | 86 | 122 | 138 | 149 | 191 | 158 |
| Operations Research | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Information Systems | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Economics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Marketing | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Statistics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| All categories | 14 | 16 | 28 | 57 | 87 | 124 | 139 | 152 | 195 | 162 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Expert Systems with Applications | 110 |
| 2 | Pattern Recognition | 101 |
| 3 | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 98 |
| 4 | International Journal of Computer Vision | 64 |
| 5 | Knowledge-Based Systems | 42 |
| 6 | Neural Networks | 41 |
| 7 | Information Fusion | 39 |
| 8 | Neural Computing and Applications | 36 |
| 9 | IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems | 35 |
| 10 | Applied Intelligence | 34 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chinese Academy of Sciences | 48 |
| 2 | University of Chinese Academy of Sciences | 28 |
| 3 | Zhejiang University | 26 |
| 4 | Peking University | 23 |
| 5 | Wuhan University | 23 |
| 6 | Shanghai Jiao Tong University | 22 |
| 7 | Tsinghua University | 22 |
| 8 | Northwestern Polytechnical University | 20 |
| 9 | Xidian University | 20 |
| 10 | Institute of Automation | 17 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 498 |
| 2 | United States | 52 |
| 3 | Australia | 46 |
| 4 | United Kingdom | 43 |
| 5 | Hong Kong | 34 |
| 6 | Singapore | 27 |
| 7 | Germany | 24 |
| 8 | India | 19 |
| 9 | South Korea | 19 |
| 10 | Italy | 17 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | object detection | 141 |
| 2 | image classification | 78 |
| 3 | instance segmentation | 44 |
| 4 | vision transformer | 40 |
| 5 | autonomous driving | 35 |
| 6 | knowledge distillation | 29 |
| 7 | domain generalization | 27 |
| 8 | infrared and visible image fusion | 27 |
| 9 | pseudo-labeling | 26 |
Most-cited papers#
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “semantic segmentation”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/semantic-segmentation
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