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The CS expert database: 1,777,551 experts · 2,837,695 papers in CCF A–C and ICORE A*–C venues · 10 venue-derived domains · snapshot 2026-09-22.
Experts by research domain — the database's own venue-derived domains; a paper can belong to several; active = at least one paper since 2021
Artificial intelligence and machine learning
419,855 active · 726,626 total · 856,312 papers
NeurIPS · AAAI · ESWA · CVPR · ICML · EAAI
Graphics, computer vision, multimedia, augmented reality and games
220,290 active · 419,218 total · 473,177 papers
AAAI · ICASSP · MTA · CVPR · INTERSPEECH · ICCV
Applied, interdisciplinary, general and emerging computing
306,612 active · 637,688 total · 436,260 papers
TGARS · IGARSS · TITS · TII · CogSci · Bioinformatics
Systems, architecture and hardware
148,087 active · 345,638 total · 325,499 papers
IROS · ICRA · VTC · ISCAS · TJSC · IECON
Computer networks
105,468 active · 214,616 total · 249,845 papers
IOT · ICC · GLOBECOM · TWC · TCOM · TMC
Databases, data management, data science and information retrieval
134,049 active · 269,256 total · 249,104 papers
IEEE BigData · CIKM · SIGKDD · TKDE · AEI · SIGIR
Theory of computation
38,447 active · 105,648 total · 202,645 papers
TIT · TCS · DAM · SODA · STOC · ICALP
Human-computer interaction and ubiquitous computing
114,847 active · 268,055 total · 198,672 papers
CHI · SMC · TSMC · SIGCSE · PACMHCI · IJHCI
Software engineering, systems software and programming languages
76,605 active · 178,952 total · 173,661 papers
DATE · COMPSAC · CoDIT · PACM PL · TSC · JSS
Security and privacy
57,527 active · 109,981 total · 102,399 papers
TIFS · TDSC · USENIX Security · TrustCom · CCS · JISA
Experts by expertise
The expertise taxonomy: 90,661 topics extracted from 634,694 papers of 537,692 experts, organised under the ten CCF categories and 168 areas. Pick a category, then narrow down to a topic; every level lists its experts by weight.
Artificial intelligence
231,922 experts · 238,182 papers
33 areas · 23,066 topics
Theoretical computer science
84,688 experts · 103,442 papers
15 areas · 12,358 topics
Computer architecture, parallel and distributed computing, and storage systems
119,266 experts · 88,175 papers
18 areas · 10,819 topics
Computer graphics and multimedia
99,217 experts · 74,150 papers
13 areas · 7,821 topics
Computer networks
79,947 experts · 72,281 papers
18 areas · 9,664 topics
Databases, data mining, and information retrieval
83,822 experts · 68,869 papers
17 areas · 7,059 topics
Network and information security
67,706 experts · 53,290 papers
15 areas · 5,550 topics
Interdisciplinary, comprehensive, and emerging computing
111,858 experts · 46,353 papers
9 areas · 5,108 topics
Human-computer interaction and pervasive computing
77,670 experts · 43,820 papers
16 areas · 4,757 topics
Software engineering, system software, and programming languages
53,122 experts · 40,802 papers
14 areas · 4,459 topics
Artificial intelligence›Computer vision›Segmentation and scene understanding
area
10,129 papers · 19,953 experts
Sub-topics
82 · with their number of papers; shaded topics divide further
semantic segmentation 2,721image segmentation 753instance segmentation 686medical image segmentation 539scene understanding 481referring image segmentation 195panoptic segmentation 194scene graph generation 194object segmentation 1893d semantic segmentation 149video segmentation 142saliency detection 140interactive segmentation 138human parsing 108camouflaged object detection 107dense prediction 101scene parsing 94perceptual grouping 85part segmentation 79edge detection 75prompt-based segmentation 753d segmentation 70change detection 61scene graph 56boundary detection 51context modeling 513d point cloud segmentation 43audio-visual segmentation 39pseudo-label learning 38multimodal segmentation 31part parsing 30shape prior 27biomedical image segmentation 23shadow detection 23mirror detection 18object skeleton detection 17segmentation network design 17building extraction 14foundation model segmentation 14glass surface detection 13category discovery 12object detection and segmentation 12land cover classification 11open-world segmentation 11part discovery 10annotation-efficient segmentation 9image decomposition 5interactive annotation 3region analysis 3
Show 33 smaller topics (under 10 papers each)
event-based segmentation 7segmentation-based text detection 7training-free segmentation 7holistic scene understanding 6scene graph prediction 6discontinuity detection 5manipulation localization 5object extraction 5semantic decomposition 5semantic layout synthesis 5semantic line detection 5skeletonization 5topological correctness 5visual reference segmentation 5crack detection 4foundation model prompting 4mask classification 4personalized segmentation 4attention-based clustering 3data augmentation for segmentation 3hierarchical semantic learning 3image and video segmentation 3level-set method 3memory-based matching 3multisensory perception 3mutual exclusivity 3perceptual completion 3region partitioning 3saliency network 3saliency propagation 3scene priors 3vegetation detection 3weakly supervised object segmentation 3
Experts on Segmentation and scene understanding
19,953 · by weight: papers on the topic counted with recency (1 for a paper about it, 0.3 as context, halved every five years), summed over the area's topics