Computer vision & multimodal· 2005
Histograms of Oriented Gradients for Human Detection
On the reading lists
- #104 in the Top 500 (2026 edition)
- #21 in Computer vision & multimodal (2026 edition)
Why it matters
Established gradient-orientation descriptors as powerful features for pedestrian and object detection.
Condensed from the expert lists' notes.
The record
- First released
- 2005 (from OpenAlex)
- Citations
- 36,274 citations, as counted by
Semantic Scholar (non-commercial licence) - Awards
- CVPR Longuet-Higgins Prize, CVPR Test of Time
- Named by
- both expert lists
- Score
- 0.655 · computed rank 104 · consensus 0.65, must-read 0, citations percentile 0.885 (2000s · vision), awards 1, existing lists 0. Method
Data sources
Catalogue data from OpenAlex (CC0), Crossref (CC0 metadata; no abstracts are shown), arXiv, and Papers With Code (CC BY-SA 4.0), and
Semantic Scholar (used under its non-commercial API licence). Each count names its source. See the method.