Everything about Visual Objects

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Visual ObjectsA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Hyper-YOLO: When Visual Object Detection Meets Hypergraph ComputationInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: The visualization toolkitThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: The Pascal Visual Object Classes (VOC) ChallengeCited 17,329 times
5. Go sideways: Clipper (programming language)A closely related topic
6. Go sideways: XBaseA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• The Pascal Visual Object Classes (VOC) Challenge

  Mark Everingham, Luc Van Gool, Christopher K. I. Williams · 2009 · International Journal of Computer Vision · 17,329 citations

• The Pascal Visual Object Classes Challenge: A Retrospective

  Mark Everingham, S. M. Ali Eslami, Luc Van Gool · 2014 · International Journal of Computer Vision · 5,466 citations

• Visual objects in context

  Moshe Bar · 2004 · Nature Reviews Neuroscience · 1,359 citations

• Humans Prefer Curved Visual Objects

  Moshe Bar, Maital Neta · 2006 · Psychological Science · 537 citations

• Features and Objects in Visual Processing

  Anne Treisman · 1986 · Scientific American · 496 citations

• Visual indexes, preconceptual objects, and situated vision

  Zenon W Pylyshyn · 2001 · Cognition · 335 citations

• Does visual attention select objects or locations?

  Shaun P. Vecera, Martha J. Farah · 1994 · Journal of Experimental Psychology: General · 308 citations

• Auditory and visual objects

  Michael Kubovy, David Van Valkenburg · 2001 · Cognition · 258 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Hyper-YOLO: When Visual Object Detection Meets Hypergraph Computation

  Yifan Feng, Jiangang Huang, Shaoyi Du · 2025 · IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 441 citations

• Segmenting Objects From Relational Visual Data

  Xiankai Lu, Wenguan Wang, Jianbing Shen · 2022 · IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 130 citations

• Texture-like representation of objects in human visual cortex

  Akshay V. Jagadeesh, Justin L. Gardner · 2022 · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 75 citations

• Coordinated multiplexing of information about separate objects in visual cortex

  Na Young Jun, Douglas A Ruff, Lily E Kramer · 2022 · eLife · 38 citations

• Fault-Tolerant and Adaptive Visual Servoing for Capturing Moving Objects

  Farhad Aghili · 2022 · IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics · 31 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• The visualization toolkitWill Schroeder, William Schroeder · 1996
• Visual Basic 2005Harvey M. Deitel, Paul J. Deitel · 2005
• 📕Professionell PräsentierenBerndt Feuerbacher · 2009
• Agile Software Development, Principles, Patterns, and PracticesRobert C. Martin · 2002
• Visual object-oriented programmingMargaret Burnett, Adele Goldberg · 1994
• Agile Principles, Patterns, and Practices in C#Robert C. Martin, Micah Martin · 2006
• Rapid application development with Visual Basic 6David McMahon · 1999
• Children's object lesson sermonsJim Morentz · 1984

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