Computer vision & multimodal· 2013
DeCAF: A Deep Convolutional Activation Feature for Generic Visual Recognition
On the reading lists
- #400 in the Top 500 (2026 edition)
- #63 in Computer vision & multimodal (2026 edition)
Why it matters
Demonstrated pretrained neural activations as reusable features across diverse vision tasks.
Condensed from the expert lists' notes.
The record
- First released
- 2013 (from arXiv 1310.1531)
- Published
- 2014
- Citations
- 4,019 citations, as counted by OpenAlex (CC0)
- Awards
- ICML Test of Time
- Named by
- the chatgpt list only
- Score
- 0.382 · computed rank 400 · consensus 0.25, must-read 0, citations percentile 0.306 (2010s · vision), awards 1, existing lists 0.5. Method
Data sources
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