David Stavens

5.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
9 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

David Stavens is a scholar working on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Aerospace Engineering and Automotive Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, David Stavens has authored 9 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 6 papers in Aerospace Engineering and 5 papers in Automotive Engineering. Recurrent topics in David Stavens's work include Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization (6 papers), Autonomous Vehicle Technology and Safety (5 papers) and Indoor and Outdoor Localization Technologies (2 papers). David Stavens is often cited by papers focused on Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization (6 papers), Autonomous Vehicle Technology and Safety (5 papers) and Indoor and Outdoor Localization Technologies (2 papers). David Stavens collaborates with scholars based in United States and Germany. David Stavens's co-authors include Sebastian Thrun, Hendrik Dahlkamp, Jesse Levinson, David Held, J. Zico Kolter, Oliver Pink, Michael Sokolsky, Alex Teichman, Jan Becker and Moritz Werling and has published in prestigious journals such as International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence and National Conference on Artificial Intelligence.

In The Last Decade

David Stavens

9 papers receiving 1.4k 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.

Towards fully autonomous driving: Systems and algorithms

2011 901 citations Jesse Levinson, Jan Becker et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
David Stavens United States	8	686	529	441	386	227	9	1.5k
Dirk Langer United States	11	674 1.0×	569 1.1×	365 0.8×	223 0.6×	221 1.0×	23	1.4k
Denis F. Wolf Brazil	20	811 1.2×	610 1.2×	434 1.0×	182 0.5×	192 0.8×	101	1.6k
Seiichi Mita Japan	21	1.1k 1.5×	668 1.3×	416 0.9×	206 0.5×	180 0.8×	124	1.7k
Oliver Pink Germany	8	680 1.0×	670 1.3×	458 1.0×	240 0.6×	212 0.9×	10	1.5k
Diange Yang China	20	472 0.7×	725 1.4×	366 0.8×	296 0.8×	193 0.9×	76	1.6k
W.S. Wijesoma Singapore	16	518 0.8×	285 0.5×	432 1.0×	226 0.6×	269 1.2×	67	1.2k
Philippe Bonnifait France	22	484 0.7×	613 1.2×	668 1.5×	418 1.1×	492 2.2×	90	1.7k
Pietro Cerri Italy	21	881 1.3×	703 1.3×	297 0.7×	257 0.7×	166 0.7×	32	1.4k
Chieh‐Chih Wang Taiwan	17	957 1.4×	291 0.6×	1.0k 2.3×	409 1.1×	339 1.5×	64	1.6k
Alex Teichman United States	10	639 0.9×	481 0.9×	316 0.7×	190 0.5×	229 1.0×	11	1.3k

Countries citing papers authored by David Stavens

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Fields of papers citing papers by David Stavens

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David Stavens

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

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9 of 9 papers shown

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Levinson, Jesse, Jan Becker, Jennifer Dolson, et al.. (2011). Towards fully autonomous driving: Systems and algorithms. 163–168. 901 indexed citations breakdown →

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Huang, Joseph, David L. Millman, Morgan Quigley, et al.. (2011). Efficient, generalized indoor WiFi GraphSLAM. 1038–1043. 176 indexed citations

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Guðmundsson, Ólafur, Brett Miller, Jessica Yuan, et al.. (2010). Assisted Highway Lane Changing with RASCL. National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 3 indexed citations

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Stavens, David, et al.. (2010). Sub-meter indoor localization in unmodified environments with inexpensive sensors. 2039–2046. 43 indexed citations

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Stavens, David & Sebastian Thrun. (2010). Unsupervised learning of invariant features using video. 1649–1656. 31 indexed citations

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Stavens, David, Gabriel Hoffmann, & Sebastian Thrun. (2007). Online speed adaptation using supervised learning for high-speed, off-road autonomous driving. International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 2218–2224. 19 indexed citations

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Montemerlo, Michael, et al.. (2006). Winning the DARPA grand challenge with an AI robot. National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 982–987. 57 indexed citations

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Lieb, David, et al.. (2006). Learning Activity-Based Ground Models from a Moving Helicopter Platform. 4067. 3948–3953. 8 indexed citations

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Dahlkamp, Hendrik, Adrian Kaehler, David Stavens, Sebastian Thrun, & Gary Bradski. (2006). Self-supervised Monocular Road Detection in Desert Terrain. 246 indexed citations

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