Show HN: CVPR 2020 unofficial statistics, with better search functionality

CVPR 2020 statistics (unofficial) + better search functionality<p>tldr; I have created a dataset about CVPR 2020 papers consisting of the title, author(s), affiliated institution(s) and the abstract of each paper and put it behind Elastic Search to make it more accessible. Happy searching!<p>Initially, I wanted to find out which research institution is in involved in what papers. To my surprise this information wasn&#x27;t readily available. I had to go through each of the 1500 papers to extract the information. I used a script to get the title, author(s) and the abstract of each paper and worked with a freelancer (100$&#x2F;~30h) to get the institution of every author. Then I used local sensitive hashing to clean institution names and put the whole dataset behind Elastic Search. A simple idea turned out to be a good learning project since it was my first time working with a freelancer and also my first time using Elastic Search.<p>Quick summary about CVPR 2020 statistics: Google is still the number one in terms of number of publications. China is gaining momentum quicker than I expected.

Wow, I&#x27;d noticed the increase in Chinese sounding author names during the past few years but had no idea China was such a major player.

Glad to see TUM being represented in this with a couple of papers as well...

Great project! Obviously a stretch, but would be curious to see a breakdown by workshop, general conference, orals, etc. The umber of publications is not the same as their quality.<p>Also, do you disambiguate corporate affiliations in academia? E.g. many papers will be +1&#x27;s for a university and a corporate research group (Stanford + Google)

Thanks for the great work!<p>Btw If I may ask, when you compiled the Institutions, did you apply some disambiguation? For example consider that UCLA === University of California, Los Angeles

This is the traffic I got following the HN post:<p>- total number of search requests: 3500<p>- ~20 search requests&#x2F;min (at the moment)<p>I never had that much traffic with a private project. Thanks for your interest!

Great initiative! How long did it take you to parse through all the papers etc and build this tool?