IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Aims & Scope

The IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence publishes articles on all traditional areas of computer vision and image understanding, all traditional areas of pattern analysis and recognition, and selected areas of machine intelligence, with a particular emphasis on machine learning for pattern analysis.

Areas such as techniques for visual search, document and handwriting analysis, medical image analysis, video and image sequence analysis, content-based retrieval of image and video, face and gesture recognition and relevant specialized hardware and/or software architectures are also covered.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	18.6

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	3.910

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	435

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Computer Science and Mathematics, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Faster R-CNN: Towards Real-Time Object Detection with Region Proposal Networks

  Citation: 28573

  Authors: Shaoqing, Kaiming, Ross, Jian

• A Computational Approach to Edge Detection

  Citation: 21652

  Authors: John

• DeepLab: Semantic Image Segmentation with Deep Convolutional Nets, Atrous Convolution, and Fully Connected CRFs

  Citation: 16152

  Authors: Liang-Chieh, George, Iasonas, Kevin, Alan L.

• A theory for multiresolution signal decomposition: the wavelet representation

  Citation: 15706

  Authors: S.G.

• SegNet: A Deep Convolutional Encoder-Decoder Architecture for Image Segmentation

  Citation: 14543

  Authors: Vijay, Alex, Roberto

• A method for registration of 3-D shapes

  Citation: 13399

  Authors: P.J., Neil D.

• Stochastic Relaxation, Gibbs Distributions, and the Bayesian Restoration of Images

  Citation: 12521

  Authors: Stuart, Donald

• Multiresolution gray-scale and rotation invariant texture classification with local binary patterns

  Citation: 12193

  Authors: T., M., T.

• A flexible new technique for camera calibration

  Citation: 11440

  Authors: Z.

• Normalized cuts and image segmentation

  Citation: 10214

  Authors: J.

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