John J. Leonard

26.5k total citations · 10 hit papers
230 papers, 16.7k citations indexed

About

John J. Leonard is a scholar working on Aerospace Engineering, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and Ocean Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, John J. Leonard has authored 230 papers receiving a total of 16.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 149 papers in Aerospace Engineering, 100 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and 81 papers in Ocean Engineering. Recurrent topics in John J. Leonard's work include Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization (146 papers), Underwater Vehicles and Communication Systems (76 papers) and Robotic Path Planning Algorithms (52 papers). John J. Leonard is often cited by papers focused on Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization (146 papers), Underwater Vehicles and Communication Systems (76 papers) and Robotic Path Planning Algorithms (52 papers). John J. Leonard collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Ireland. John J. Leonard's co-authors include Hugh Durrant‐Whyte, Michael Kaess, Paul Newman, Seth Teller, José Neira, Hordur Johannsson, Luca Carlone, Maurice Fallon, César Cadena and Yasir Latif and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence and Biochemistry.

In The Last Decade

John J. Leonard

225 papers receiving 15.7k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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 →
iSAM2: Incremental smoothing and mapping using the Bayes tree

2011 894 citations Michael Kaess, Hordur Johannsson et al. profile →
Mobile robot localization by tracking geometric beacons

1991 878 citations John J. Leonard et al. profile →
Robust distributed network localization with noisy range measurements

2004 721 citations John J. Leonard, Daniela Rus et al. profile →
Visual Place Recognition: A Survey

2015 692 citations John J. Leonard et al. IEEE Transactions on Robotics profile →
Directed Sonar Sensing for Mobile Robot Navigation

1992 590 citations John J. Leonard et al. profile →
Simultaneous map building and localization for an autonomous mobile robot

2002 536 citations John J. Leonard et al. profile →
Robust Mapping and Localization in Indoor Environments Using Sonar Data

2002 393 citations José Neira, John J. Leonard et al. profile →
Kintinuous: Spatially Extended KinectFusion

2012 376 citations Thomas J. Whelan, Michael Kaess et al. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) profile →
NeRF-SLAM: Real-Time Dense Monocular SLAM with Neural Radiance Fields

2023 158 citations John J. Leonard, Luca Carlone et al. profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of John J. Leonard

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Estimation of the spatial variability of the New England Mud Patch geoacoustic properties using a distributed array of hydrophones and deep learning 2024 ·The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America ·(unknown), Peter H. Dahl, David R. Dall’Osto, David P. Knobles, Preston S. Wilson, John J. Leonard, Julien Bonnel	3
2	Certifiably Correct Range-Aided SLAM 2024 ·IEEE Transactions on Robotics ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Jonathan P. How, David M. Rosen, John J. Leonard	6
3	Nested Sampling for Non-Gaussian Inference in SLAM Factor Graphs 2022 ·IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters ·Qiangqiang Huang, (unknown), John J. Leonard	5
4	Discrete-Continuous Smoothing and Mapping 2022 ·IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters ·Kevin Doherty, (unknown), (unknown), John J. Leonard	9
5	Spectral Measurement Sparsification for Pose-Graph SLAM 2022 ·2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) ·Kevin Doherty, David M. Rosen, John J. Leonard	15
6	Performance Guarantees for Spectral Initialization in Rotation Averaging and Pose-Graph SLAM 2022 ·2022 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) ·Kevin J. Doherty, David M. Rosen, John J. Leonard	8
7	CARPAL: Confidence-Aware Intent Recognition for Parallel Autonomy 2021 ·IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters ·Xin Huang, Stephen G. McGill, Jonathan DeCastro, Luke Fletcher, John J. Leonard, Brian Williams, Guy Rosman	5
8	NF-iSAM: Incremental Smoothing and Mapping via Normalizing Flows 2021 ·Qiangqiang Huang, (unknown), Dehann Fourie, Kasra Khosoussi, Jonathan P. How, John J. Leonard	7
9	DiversityGAN: Diversity-Aware Vehicle Motion Prediction via Latent Semantic Sampling 2020 ·IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters ·Xin Huang, Stephen G. McGill, Jonathan DeCastro, Luke Fletcher, John J. Leonard, Brian Williams, Guy Rosman	49
10	Multimodal Semantic SLAM with Probabilistic Data Association 2019 ·Kevin Doherty, Dehann Fourie, John J. Leonard	51
11	Probabilistic Risk Metrics for Navigating Occluded Intersections 2019 ·IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters ·Stephen G. McGill, Guy Rosman, (unknown), Alyssa Pierson, Igor Gilitschenski, Brandon Araki, Luke Fletcher, Sertaç Karaman, Daniela Rus, John J. Leonard	24
12	A nonparametric belief solution to the Bayes tree 2016 ·DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) ·Dehann Fourie, Michael Kaess, John J. Leonard	4
13	Towards lifelong feature-based mapping in semi-static environments 2016 ·DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) ·David M. Rosen, (unknown), John J. Leonard	3
14	Simultaneous Localization And Mapping: Present, Future, and the Robust-Perception Age. 2016 ·arXiv (Cornell University) ·César Cadena, Luca Carlone, Henry Carrillo, Yasir Latif, Davide Scaramuzza, José Neira, Ian Reid, John J. Leonard	51
15	Robust real-time visual odometry for dense RGB-D mapping 2013 ·Maynooth University ePrints and eTheses Archive (Maynooth University) ·Thomas J. Whelan, Hordur Johannsson, Michael Kaess, John J. Leonard, John McDonald	18
16	Concurrent filtering and smoothing 2012 ·DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) ·Michael Kaess, S. R. Williams, Vadim Indelman, Richard Roberts, John J. Leonard, Frank Dellaert	18
17	iSAM2: Incremental smoothing and mapping with fluid relinearization and incremental variable reordering 2011 ·Michael Kaess, Hordur Johannsson, Richard Roberts, Viorela Ila, John J. Leonard, Frank Dellaert	166
18	Mapping Complex Marine Environments with Autonomous Surface Craft. 2010 ·DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) ·(unknown), Maurice Fallon, John J. Leonard	21
19	Minimizing Trilateration Errors in the Presence of Uncertain Landmark Positions 2007 ·Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) ·Alexander Bähr, John J. Leonard	16
20	Heterogeneous catalyst for alcohol oxycarbonylation to dialkyl oxalates 1987 ·Preprints - American Chemical Society. Division of Petroleum Chemistry ·Anne M. Gaffney, John J. Leonard, John A. Sofranko, (unknown)	0

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