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    Computer vision & multimodal· 2009

    ImageNet: A Large-Scale Hierarchical Image Database

    Jia Deng (first author) · 2009

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    DOI 10.1109/cvpr.2009.5206848OpenAlex W2108598243

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    Why it matters

    Established large-scale visual recognition benchmarks that catalyzed the deep learning revolution.

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    The record

    First released
    2009 (from OpenAlex)
    Citations
    78,060 citations, as counted by Semantic Scholar logoSemantic Scholar (non-commercial licence)
    Awards
    CVPR Longuet-Higgins Prize
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    both expert lists
    Score
    0.873 · computed rank 10 · consensus 0.91, must-read 1, citations percentile 1 (2000s · vision), awards 1, existing lists 0. Method

    Editor's notes

    • Readability check: fail: A dataset description: essential history, but it teaches no method to a reader. (AI draft (Claude), not yet reviewed, 2026-10-29)

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