Most-cited Computer Science papers of 2016, with free PDFs

The 25 most-cited Computer Science research papers published in 2016, ranked by citations in OpenAlex, with their original abstracts and free PDFs where available.

1. Faster R-CNN: Towards Real-Time Object Detection with Region Proposal Networks
   Shaoqing Ren, Kaiming He et al. · 2016 · 55,735 citations
2. SSD: Single Shot MultiBox Detector
   Wei Liu, Dragomir Anguelov et al. · 2016 · 30,173 citations
3. Fully Convolutional Networks for Semantic Segmentation
   Evan Shelhamer, Jonathan Long et al. · 2016 · 11,201 citations
4. Edge Computing: Vision and Challenges
   Weisong Shi, Jie Cao et al. · 2016 · 8,648 citations
5. LSTM: A Search Space Odyssey
   Klaus Greff, Rupesh K. Srivastava et al. · 2016 · 7,005 citations · Free PDF
6. Deep Reinforcement Learning with Double Q-Learning
   Hado P. van Hasselt, Arthur Guez et al. · 2016 · 6,330 citations
7. A survey of transfer learning
   Karl R. Weiss, Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar et al. · 2016 · 6,275 citations · Free PDF
8. TensorFlow: a system for large-scale machine learning
   Martı́n Abadi, Paul Barham et al. · 2016 · 6,195 citations
9. Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Computer-Aided Detection: CNN Architectures, Dataset Characteristics and Transfer Learning
   Hoo-Chang Shin, Holger R. Roth et al. · 2016 · 5,820 citations · Free PDF
10. Least-Squares Means: The R Package lsmeans
    Russell V. Lenth · 2016 · 5,769 citations
11. Joint Face Detection and Alignment Using Multitask Cascaded Convolutional Networks
    Kaipeng Zhang, Zhanpeng Zhang et al. · 2016 · 5,295 citations · Free PDF
12. Blockchains and Smart Contracts for the Internet of Things
    Konstantinos Christidis, Michael Devetsikiotis · 2016 · 4,569 citations
13. Efficient multi-scale 3D CNN with fully connected CRF for accurate brain lesion segmentation
    Konstantinos Kamnitsas, Christian Ledig et al. · 2016 · 3,559 citations · Free PDF
14. DehazeNet: An End-to-End System for Single Image Haze Removal
    Bolun Cai, Xiangmin Xu et al. · 2016 · 3,391 citations · Free PDF
15. Convolutional Neural Networks for Medical Image Analysis: Full Training or Fine Tuning?
    Nima Tajbakhsh, Jae Y. Shin et al. · 2016 · 3,295 citations · Free PDF
16. An End-to-End Trainable Neural Network for Image-Based Sequence Recognition and Its Application to Scene Text Recognition
    Baoguang Shi, Xiang Bai et al. · 2016 · 3,245 citations
17. Eyeriss: An Energy-Efficient Reconfigurable Accelerator for Deep Convolutional Neural Networks
    Yu-Hsin Chen, Tushar Krishna et al. · 2016 · 3,245 citations
18. LIME: Low-Light Image Enhancement via Illumination Map Estimation
    Xiaojie Guo, Yu Li et al. · 2016 · 3,014 citations
19. mclust 5: Clustering, Classification and Density Estimation Using Gaussian Finite Mixture Models
    Luca Scrucca, Michael Fop et al. · 2016 · 2,929 citations
20. Deep Convolutional and LSTM Recurrent Neural Networks for Multimodal Wearable Activity Recognition
    Francisco Javier Ordóñez, Daniel Roggen · 2016 · 2,770 citations · Free PDF
21. Loss Functions for Image Restoration With Neural Networks
    Hang Zhao, Orazio Gallo et al. · 2016 · 2,700 citations
22. A Survey of Motion Planning and Control Techniques for Self-Driving Urban Vehicles
    Brian A. Paden, Michal Čáp et al. · 2016 · 2,633 citations
23. Building machines that learn and think like people
    Brenden M. Lake, Tomer David Ullman et al. · 2016 · 2,567 citations · Free PDF
24. A BOILED‐Egg To Predict Gastrointestinal Absorption and Brain Penetration of Small Molecules
    Antoine Daina, Vincent Zoete · 2016 · 2,562 citations
25. A Neural Algorithm of Artistic Style
    Leon A. Gatys, Alexander S. Ecker et al. · 2016 · 2,518 citations · Free PDF

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