Caifa Zhou

989 total citations · 1 hit paper
18 papers, 628 citations indexed

About

Caifa Zhou is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Aerospace Engineering and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Caifa Zhou has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 628 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 9 papers in Aerospace Engineering and 7 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Caifa Zhou's work include Indoor and Outdoor Localization Technologies (11 papers), 3D Surveying and Cultural Heritage (6 papers) and Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (6 papers). Caifa Zhou is often cited by papers focused on Indoor and Outdoor Localization Technologies (11 papers), 3D Surveying and Cultural Heritage (6 papers) and Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (6 papers). Caifa Zhou collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, China and United States. Caifa Zhou's co-authors include Andreas Wieser, Žan Gojčič, Jan Dirk Wegner, Leonidas Guibas, Tolga Birdal, Zhimin Zhou, Yongliang Wang, Lin Ma, Li Zhi and Danyang Qin and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, IEEE Access and IEEE Sensors Journal.

In The Last Decade

Caifa Zhou

18 papers receiving 614 citations

Hit Papers

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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. The Perfect Match: 3D Point Cloud Matching With Smoothed Densities
    2019 360 citations Žan Gojčič, Caifa Zhou et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Caifa Zhou Switzerland 9 375 330 274 217 166 18 628
Yanxin Ma China 11 220 0.6× 160 0.5× 139 0.5× 322 1.5× 115 0.7× 37 552
Louis Wiesmann Germany 14 459 1.2× 225 0.7× 94 0.3× 357 1.6× 241 1.5× 27 715
Xianghong Hua China 12 131 0.3× 151 0.5× 85 0.3× 88 0.4× 120 0.7× 33 386
Narunas Vaškevičius Germany 15 714 1.9× 353 1.1× 57 0.2× 553 2.5× 210 1.3× 44 909
Álvaro Parra Australia 9 285 0.8× 150 0.5× 68 0.2× 211 1.0× 124 0.7× 15 439
Tianwei Shen Hong Kong 11 505 1.3× 215 0.7× 116 0.4× 986 4.5× 97 0.6× 18 1.2k
John McCormac United Kingdom 3 540 1.4× 220 0.7× 79 0.3× 613 2.8× 82 0.5× 3 777
Ehsan Taghavi Canada 8 143 0.4× 155 0.5× 223 0.8× 231 1.1× 182 1.1× 10 492
Jann Poppinga Germany 11 541 1.4× 258 0.8× 29 0.1× 413 1.9× 163 1.0× 18 643
Yi-Ping Hung Taiwan 10 304 0.8× 138 0.4× 83 0.3× 439 2.0× 44 0.3× 29 595

Countries citing papers authored by Caifa Zhou

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Fields of papers citing papers by Caifa Zhou

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Caifa Zhou

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Caifa Zhou. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Caifa Zhou 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 Caifa Zhou. Caifa Zhou is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

18 of 18 papers shown
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Guan, Ran, et al.. (2022). GPSLAM. 19–25. 2 indexed citations
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Zhou, Caifa, et al.. (2022). RIO: Rotation-equivariance supervised learning of robust inertial odometry. 2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). 6604–6613. 14 indexed citations
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Zhou, Caifa, et al.. (2021). Mining Geometric Constraints From Crowd-Sourced Radio Signals and its Application to Indoor Positioning. IEEE Access. 9. 46686–46697. 4 indexed citations
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Wieser, Andreas, et al.. (2021). Machine learning and geodesy: A survey. Journal of Applied Geodesy. 15(2). 117–133. 5 indexed citations
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Gojčič, Žan, Caifa Zhou, Jan Dirk Wegner, Leonidas Guibas, & Tolga Birdal. (2020). Learning Multiview 3D Point Cloud Registration. 1756–1766. 119 indexed citations
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Gojčič, Žan, Caifa Zhou, & Andreas Wieser. (2020). F2S3: Robustified determination of 3D displacement vector fields using deep learning. Journal of Applied Geodesy. 14(2). 177–189. 21 indexed citations
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Gojčič, Žan, Caifa Zhou, & Andreas Wieser. (2019). Feature-based approaches for geomonitoring using terrestrial laser scanning point clouds. 43–44. 1 indexed citations
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Zhou, Caifa & Andreas Wieser. (2019). Modified Jaccard index analysis and adaptive feature selection for location fingerprinting with limited computational complexity. Journal of Location Based Services. 13(2). 128–157. 6 indexed citations
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Gojčič, Žan, Caifa Zhou, Jan Dirk Wegner, & Andreas Wieser. (2019). The Perfect Match: 3D Point Cloud Matching With Smoothed Densities. 5540–5549. 360 indexed citations breakdown →
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Zhou, Caifa, et al.. (2018). Trajectory Estimation and Crowdsourced Radio Map Establishment From Foot-Mounted IMUs, Wi-Fi Fingerprints, and GPS Positions. IEEE Sensors Journal. 19(3). 1104–1113. 27 indexed citations
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Gojčič, Žan, Caifa Zhou, & Andreas Wieser. (2018). LEARNED COMPACT LOCAL FEATURE DESCRIPTOR FOR TLS-BASED GEODETIC MONITORING OF NATURAL OUTDOOR SCENES. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. IV-2. 113–120. 13 indexed citations
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Gojčič, Žan, Caifa Zhou, & Andreas Wieser. (2018). Learned compact local feature descriptor for TLS-based geodetic monitoring of natural outdoor scenes. Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich). 113–120. 2 indexed citations
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Zhou, Caifa & Andreas Wieser. (2018). CDM: Compound Dissimilarity Measure and an Application to Fingerprinting-Based Positioning. 1–7. 4 indexed citations
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Zhou, Caifa, et al.. (2017). Pedestrian positioning using WiFi fingerprints and a foot-mounted inertial sensor. 91–99. 10 indexed citations
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Zhou, Caifa & Andreas Wieser. (2016). Application of backpropagation neural networks to both stages of fingerprinting based WIPS. 14 indexed citations
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Ma, Lin, Caifa Zhou, Danyang Qin, & Yubin Xu. (2013). Green wireless local area network received signal strength dimensionality reduction and indoor localization based on fingerprint algorithm. International Journal of Communication Systems. 27(12). 4527–4542. 5 indexed citations

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