César Cadena

7.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
90 papers, 4.6k citations indexed

About

César Cadena is a scholar working on Aerospace Engineering, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, César Cadena has authored 90 papers receiving a total of 4.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 65 papers in Aerospace Engineering, 62 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and 13 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in César Cadena's work include Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization (65 papers), Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques (24 papers) and Advanced Neural Network Applications (20 papers). César Cadena is often cited by papers focused on Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization (65 papers), Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques (24 papers) and Advanced Neural Network Applications (20 papers). César Cadena collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Spain and United States. César Cadena's co-authors include José Neira, Yasir Latif, Ian Reid, John J. Leonard, Davide Scaramuzza, Henry Carrillo, Luca Carlone, Roland Siegwart, Juan Nieto and Marco Hutter and has published in prestigious journals such as Sensors, International Journal of Computer Vision and The International Journal of Robotics Research.

In The Last Decade

César Cadena

85 papers receiving 4.4k 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.

Past, present, and future of simultaneous localization and mapping: Toward the robust-perception age

2016 2.2k citations César Cadena, Luca Carlone et al. profile →
The current state and future outlook of rescue robotics

2019 228 citations César Cadena, Marco Hutter et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
César Cadena Switzerland	28	3.4k	3.0k	910	788	546	90	4.6k
Margarita Chli Switzerland	31	4.4k 1.3×	4.6k 1.6×	1.1k 1.2×	805 1.0×	437 0.8×	84	6.4k
Paul Furgale Switzerland	31	4.0k 1.2×	3.0k 1.0×	1.1k 1.2×	1.0k 1.3×	342 0.6×	56	4.7k
Edwin Olson United States	28	2.2k 0.7×	2.2k 0.7×	726 0.8×	479 0.6×	513 0.9×	72	4.2k
Brendan Englot United States	23	3.5k 1.0×	2.3k 0.8×	744 0.8×	1.2k 1.5×	399 0.7×	73	4.4k
Juan Nieto Switzerland	41	2.9k 0.8×	2.6k 0.9×	760 0.8×	449 0.6×	1.0k 1.9×	143	5.2k
Guoquan Huang United States	33	3.5k 1.0×	2.1k 0.7×	1.3k 1.5×	1.0k 1.3×	495 0.9×	131	4.0k
Timothy D. Barfoot Canada	33	2.7k 0.8×	1.9k 0.7×	699 0.8×	443 0.6×	707 1.3×	175	4.1k
J. M. M. Montiel Spain	28	3.5k 1.0×	3.0k 1.0×	914 1.0×	740 0.9×	361 0.7×	68	4.5k
T. Bailey Australia	12	4.2k 1.2×	2.7k 0.9×	1.8k 2.0×	730 0.9×	887 1.6×	20	5.3k
Friedrich Fraundorfer Austria	26	3.3k 1.0×	3.1k 1.1×	511 0.6×	754 1.0×	216 0.4×	125	4.4k

Countries citing papers authored by César Cadena

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Fields of papers citing papers by César Cadena

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of César Cadena

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20 of 20 papers shown

Leutenegger, Stefan, et al.. (2025). FrontierNet: Learning Visual Cues to Explore. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 10(7). 6576–6583.

Yang, Fan, Yuheng Qiu, César Cadena, et al.. (2025). TartanGround: A Large-Scale Dataset for Ground Robot Perception and Navigation. Open MIND. 20524–20531. 1 indexed citations

Talbot, William Henry Fox, Julian Nubert, César Cadena, et al.. (2025). Continuous-Time State Estimation Methods in Robotics: A Survey. IEEE Transactions on Robotics. 41. 4975–4999. 4 indexed citations

Zhang, Chong, et al.. (2024). Resilient Legged Local Navigation: Learning to Traverse with Compromised Perception End-to-End. 34–41. 6 indexed citations

Oleynikova, Helen, et al.. (2024). COIN-LIO: Complementary Intensity-Augmented LiDAR Inertial Odometry. 1730–1737. 12 indexed citations

Cadena, César, et al.. (2024). Enhancing Robotic Precision in Construction: A Modular Factor Graph-Based Framework to Deflection and Backlash Compensation Using High-Accuracy Accelerometers. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 10(1). 288–295.

Chebrolu, Nived, et al.. (2023). Fast Traversability Estimation for Wild Visual Navigation. 42 indexed citations

Cramariuc, Andrei, et al.. (2023). Path-Constrained State Estimation for Rail Vehicles. Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich). 4600–4607.

Reijgwart, Victor, César Cadena, Roland Siegwart, & Lionel Ott. (2023). Efficient volumetric mapping of multi-scale environments using wavelet-based compression. 8 indexed citations

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Schneider, Thomas, Mingyang Li, César Cadena, Juan Nieto, & Roland Siegwart. (2019). Observability-Aware Self-Calibration of Visual and Inertial Sensors for Ego-Motion Estimation. IEEE Sensors Journal. 19(10). 3846–3860. 42 indexed citations

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Wellhausen, Lorenz, Alexey Dosovitskiy, René Ranftl, et al.. (2019). Where Should I Walk? Predicting Terrain Properties From Images Via Self-Supervised Learning. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 4(2). 1509–1516. 144 indexed citations

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Tschopp, Florian, Thomas Schneider, Andrew W. Palmer, et al.. (2019). Experimental Comparison of Visual-Aided Odometry Methods for Rail Vehicles. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 4(2). 1815–1822. 31 indexed citations

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Bürki, Mathias, Marcin Dymczyk, Renaud Dubé, et al.. (2019). VIZARD: Reliable Visual Localization for Autonomous Vehicles in Urban Outdoor Environments. 1124–1130. 13 indexed citations

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Blum, Hermann, Paul-Edouard Sarlin, Juan Nieto, Roland Siegwart, & César Cadena. (2019). Fishyscapes: A Benchmark for Safe Semantic Segmentation in Autonomous Driving. 2403–2412. 60 indexed citations

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Dubé, Renaud, Hannes Sommer, Igor Gilitschenski, et al.. (2018). Incremental-Segment-Based Localization in 3-D Point Clouds. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 3(3). 1832–1839. 48 indexed citations

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Pfeiffer, Mark G., Matteo Turchetta, César Cadena, et al.. (2018). Reinforced Imitation: Sample Efficient Deep Reinforcement Learning for Mapless Navigation by Leveraging Prior Demonstrations. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 3(4). 4423–4430. 122 indexed citations

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Bürki, Mathias, Marcin Dymczyk, Igor Gilitschenski, et al.. (2018). Map Management for Efficient Long-Term Visual Localization in Outdoor Environments. 682–688. 24 indexed citations

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Wellhausen, Lorenz, Renaud Dubé, Abel Gawel, Roland Siegwart, & César Cadena. (2017). Reliable Real-time Change Detection and Mapping for 3D LiDARs. Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich). 81–87. 5 indexed citations

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Cadena, César, Luca Carlone, Henry Carrillo, et al.. (2016). Simultaneous Localization And Mapping: Present, Future, and the Robust-Perception Age.. arXiv (Cornell University). 51 indexed citations

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Dubé, Renaud, Abel Gawel, César Cadena, et al.. (2016). 3D Localization, Mapping and Path Planning for Search and Rescue Operations. Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich). 272–273. 6 indexed citations

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