Andreas Ess

17.5k total citations · 3 hit papers
19 papers, 11.7k citations indexed

About

Andreas Ess is a scholar working on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Aerospace Engineering and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Andreas Ess has authored 19 papers receiving a total of 11.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 8 papers in Aerospace Engineering and 4 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Andreas Ess's work include Advanced Vision and Imaging (13 papers), Video Surveillance and Tracking Methods (12 papers) and Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization (8 papers). Andreas Ess is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Vision and Imaging (13 papers), Video Surveillance and Tracking Methods (12 papers) and Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization (8 papers). Andreas Ess collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Belgium and Germany. Andreas Ess's co-authors include Luc Van Gool, Herbert Bay, Tinne Tuytelaars, Konrad Schindler, Bastian Leibe, Konrad Schindler, Helmut Gräbner, Alexander Neubeck, Marko Tanasković and Stefano Pellegrini and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, The International Journal of Robotics Research and ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing.

In The Last Decade

Andreas Ess

19 papers receiving 11.1k citations

Hit Papers

Speeded-Up Robust Features (SURF) 2008 2026 2014 2020 2008 2009 2008 2.5k 5.0k 7.5k
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Speeded-Up Robust Features (SURF)
    2008 9.3k citations Herbert Bay, Andreas Ess et al. Computer Vision and Image Understanding profile →
  2. You'll never walk alone: Modeling social behavior for multi-target tracking
    2009 979 citations Andreas Ess, Konrad Schindler et al. Lirias (KU Leuven) profile →
  3. A mobile vision system for robust multi-person tracking
    2008 478 citations Andreas Ess, Bastian Leibe et al. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Andreas Ess Switzerland 13 9.6k 4.4k 1.4k 1.1k 834 19 11.7k
Bastian Leibe Germany 52 10.5k 1.1× 3.2k 0.7× 2.1k 1.5× 1.1k 1.1× 732 0.9× 157 12.2k
Roberto Cipolla United Kingdom 57 13.6k 1.4× 4.0k 0.9× 2.6k 1.9× 1.4k 1.3× 603 0.7× 322 17.1k
Gary Bradski United States 28 8.9k 0.9× 5.7k 1.3× 1.1k 0.8× 779 0.7× 277 0.3× 47 13.1k
Long Quan China 53 6.6k 0.7× 2.6k 0.6× 571 0.4× 1.2k 1.1× 488 0.6× 359 10.5k
Pedro F. Felzenszwalb United States 25 15.5k 1.6× 2.3k 0.5× 3.0k 2.2× 2.0k 1.8× 680 0.8× 39 17.9k
Ming Liu China 49 4.3k 0.4× 3.0k 0.7× 1.8k 1.3× 411 0.4× 814 1.0× 452 9.0k
Hong-Yuan Mark Liao Taiwan 26 8.8k 0.9× 1.9k 0.4× 1.6k 1.1× 1.6k 1.5× 548 0.7× 135 13.8k
Ruigang Yang United States 53 8.7k 0.9× 2.1k 0.5× 684 0.5× 1.7k 1.5× 815 1.0× 225 10.8k
Joseph Redmon United States 3 9.4k 1.0× 2.1k 0.5× 2.1k 1.6× 1.7k 1.5× 800 1.0× 3 13.6k
Philip H. S. Torr United Kingdom 57 17.1k 1.8× 3.5k 0.8× 4.0k 2.9× 2.0k 1.9× 857 1.0× 183 21.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Andreas Ess

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Fields of papers citing papers by Andreas Ess

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Andreas Ess

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Andreas Ess. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Andreas Ess based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Andreas Ess. Andreas Ess is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

19 of 19 papers shown
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Pellegrini, Stefano, Andreas Ess, Marko Tanasković, & Luc Van Gool. (2010). Wrong turn - No dead end: A stochastic pedestrian motion model. Lirias (KU Leuven). 15–22. 17 indexed citations
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Schindler, Konrad, Andreas Ess, Bastian Leibe, & Luc Van Gool. (2010). Automatic detection and tracking of pedestrians from a moving stereo rig. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. 65(6). 523–537. 34 indexed citations
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Ess, Andreas, Konrad Schindler, Bastian Leibe, & Luc Van Gool. (2010). Object Detection and Tracking for Autonomous Navigation in Dynamic Environments. The International Journal of Robotics Research. 29(14). 1707–1725. 123 indexed citations
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Ess, Andreas, et al.. (2009). You'll never walk alone: Modeling social behavior for multi-target tracking. Lirias (KU Leuven). 261–268. 979 indexed citations breakdown →
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Ess, Andreas, Bastian Leibe, Konrad Schindler, & Luc Van Gool. (2009). Robust Multiperson Tracking from a Mobile Platform. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. 31(10). 1831–1846. 185 indexed citations
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Ess, Andreas, Bastian Leibe, Konrad Schindler, & Luc Van Gool. (2009). Moving obstacle detection in highly dynamic scenes. Lirias (KU Leuven). 56–63. 86 indexed citations
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Ess, Andreas, et al.. (2009). Improved Multi-Person Tracking with Active Occlusion Handling. RWTH Publications (RWTH Aachen). 22 indexed citations
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Ess, Andreas, et al.. (2009). AWEAR 2.0 system: Omni-directional audio-visual data acquisition and processing. 2009 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops. 2 indexed citations
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Havlena, Michal, Andreas Ess, Akihiko Torii, et al.. (2009). AWEAR 2.0 system: Omni-directional audio-visual data acquisition and processing. 2009 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops. 49–56. 4 indexed citations
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Ess, Andreas, et al.. (2009). Segmentation-Based Urban Traffic Scene Understanding. Lirias (KU Leuven). 84.1–84.11. 85 indexed citations
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Bay, Herbert, Andreas Ess, Tinne Tuytelaars, & Luc Van Gool. (2008). Speeded-Up Robust Features (SURF). Computer Vision and Image Understanding. 110(3). 346–359. 9289 indexed citations breakdown →
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Ess, Andreas, Bastian Leibe, Konrad Schindler, & Luc Van Gool. (2008). A mobile vision system for robust multi-person tracking. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 1–8. 478 indexed citations breakdown →
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Ess, Andreas, Konrad Schindler, Bastian Leibe, & Luc J. Van Gool. (2008). Robust Multi-Person Tracking from Moving Platforms. RWTH Publications (RWTH Aachen). 0. 1 indexed citations
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Bay, Herbert, Andreas Ess, Tinne Tuytelaars, & Luc Van Gool. (2008). Speeded-UpRobustFeatures(SURF). 11 indexed citations
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Ess, Andreas, Konrad Schindler, Bastian Leibe, & Luc Van Gool. (2008). Robust Multi-Person Tracking from Moving Platforms. DROPS (Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz Center for Informatics). 7 indexed citations
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Ess, Andreas, Bastian Leibe, & Luc Van Gool. (2007). Depth and Appearance for Mobile Scene Analysis. 1–8. 374 indexed citations
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Ess, Andreas, Alexander Neubeck, & Luc Van Gool. (2007). Generalised Linear Pose Estimation. 22.1–22.10. 7 indexed citations
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Bay, Herbert, Andreas Ess, Alexander Neubeck, & Luc Van Gool. (2006). 3D from Line Segments in Two Poorly-Textured, Uncalibrated Images. 496–503. 13 indexed citations
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Ünal, Gözde, Greg Slabaugh, Andreas Ess, et al.. (2006). Semi-Automatic Lymph Node Segmentation in LN-MRI. City Research Online (City University London). 77–80. 13 indexed citations

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