《IEEE模式分析和機器智能交易》發表了有關計算機視覺和圖像理解的所有傳統領域、模式分析和識別的所有傳統領域以及機器智能的選定領域的文章，特別強調用于模式分析的機器學習。還包括視覺搜索、文檔和手寫分析、醫學圖像分析、視頻和圖像序列分析、基于內容的圖像和視頻檢索、人臉和手勢識別以及相關的專用硬件和/或軟件架構等領域。

The IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence publishes articles on all traditional areas of computer vision and image understanding, all traditional areas of pattern analysis and recognition, and selected areas of machine intelligence, with a particular emphasis on machine learning for pattern analysis. Areas such as techniques for visual search, document and handwriting analysis, medical image analysis, video and image sequence analysis, content-based retrieval of image and video, face and gesture recognition and relevant specialized hardware and/or software architectures are also covered.