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Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Tianwei Yin
Zhejiang University
2
Jiaming Sun
Jilin University
3
Xiyang Dai
Microsoft (United States)
4
Yunhao Du
Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
5
Zihan Zhu
Fudan University
6
Jinkun Cao
Carnegie Mellon University
7
Xinge Zhu
Huawei Technologies (China)
8
Jiarong Lin
University of Hong Kong
9
Ignacio Vizzo
University of Bonn
10
Jiaming Zhang
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Rising Stars Papers

1
NICER-SLAM: Neural Implicit Scene Encoding for RGB SLAM
Unknown Journal|2024
121 cit.
2
Vision-Centric BEV Perception: A Survey
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence|2024
85 cit.
3
One-Step Diffusion with Distribution Matching Distillation
Unknown Journal|2024
79 cit.
4
Interconnected Pd Nanowire Networks Stereoassembled on Biomass-Derived Porous Carbon Skeletons as Bifunctional Electrocatalysts for Efficient Methanol and Formic Acid Oxidation
ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering|2024
14 cit.
5
OctreeOcc: Efficient and Multi-Granularity Occupancy Prediction Using Octree Queries
Unknown Journal|2024
12 cit.
6
Unreliability Tracing of Power Systems for Identifying the Most Critical Risk Factors Considering Mixed Uncertainties in Wind Power Output
Protection and Control of Modern Power Systems|2024
10 cit.
7
From Slow Bidirectional to Fast Autoregressive Video Diffusion Models
Unknown Journal|2025
8 cit.
8
Computational and statistical thresholds in multi-layer stochastic block models
The Annals of Statistics|2024
6 cit.
9
Multi-Object Tracking by Hierarchical Visual Representations
Unknown Journal|2024
4 cit.
10
CooHOI: Learning Cooperative Human-Object Interaction with Manipulated Object Dynamics
Unknown Journal|2024
3 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Tian Xia
The University of Sydney
2
Stefan Leutenegger
ETH Zurich
3
Philipp Krähenbühl
Stanford University
4
Daniel Andor
Google (United States)
5
Torsten Sattler
Université Paris Sciences et Lettres
6
Osama Arouk
EURECOM
7
Tiange Huang
Jiangsu University of Science and Technology
8
Ashesh Jain
Cornell University
9
Matthias NieBner
Technical University of Munich
10
César Cadena
ETH Zurich

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
UAV-YOLOv8: A Small-Object-Detection Model Based on Improved YOLOv8 for UAV Aerial Photography Scenarios
Sensors|2023
856 cit.
2
Dense Depth Priors for Neural Radiance Fields from Sparse Input Views
2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)|2022
325 cit.
3
Cross-view Transformers for real-time Map-view Semantic Segmentation
2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)|2022
285 cit.
4
Global Tracking Transformers
2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)|2022
187 cit.
5
Simple Multi-dataset Detection
2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)|2022
86 cit.
6
Panoptic Multi-TSDFs: a Flexible Representation for Online Multi-resolution Volumetric Mapping and Long-term Dynamic Scene Consistency
2022 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)|2022
69 cit.
7
maplab 2.0 – A Modular and Multi-Modal Mapping Framework
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters|2022
58 cit.
8
ROCA: Robust CAD Model Retrieval and Alignment from a Single Image
2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)|2022
44 cit.
9
Tetra-NeRF: Representing Neural Radiance Fields Using Tetrahedra
Unknown Journal|2023
44 cit.
10
FaceTalk: Audio-Driven Motion Diffusion for Neural Parametric Head Models
Unknown Journal|2024
39 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Roland Siegwart
ETH Zurich
2
Luc Van Gool
Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski"
3
Alan Yuille
Johns Hopkins University
4
Wolfram Burgard
University of Freiburg
5
Sebastian Thrun
Stanford University
6
Demetri Terzopoulos
University of Toronto
7
Raquel Urtasun
Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago
8
Daniel Cremers
Technical University of Munich
9
Antonio Torralba
Citigroup
10
Davide Scaramuzza
Zurich Insurance Group (Switzerland)

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
DeepLab: Semantic Image Segmentation with Deep Convolutional Nets, Atrous Convolution, and Fully Connected CRFs
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence|2017
22.1k cit.
2
Snakes: Active contour models
International Journal of Computer Vision|1988
17k cit.
3
Dermatologist-level classification of skin cancer with deep neural networks
Nature|2017
13.8k cit.
4
Speeded-Up Robust Features (SURF)
Computer Vision and Image Understanding|2008
13.4k cit.
5
Learning Deep Features for Discriminative Localization
Unknown Journal|2016
10.8k cit.
6
Vision meets robotics: The KITTI dataset
The International Journal of Robotics Research|2013
9.7k cit.
7
Probabilistic robotics
Communications of the ACM|2002
8k cit.
8
Modeling the Shape of the Scene: A Holistic Representation of the Spatial Envelope
International Journal of Computer Vision|2001
6.4k cit.
9
Places: A 10 Million Image Database for Scene Recognition
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence|2017
4k cit.
10
A benchmark for the evaluation of RGB-D SLAM systems
Unknown Journal|2012
3.9k cit.

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