Jürgen Sturm

6.8k total citations · 5 hit papers
38 papers, 4.2k citations indexed

About

Jürgen Sturm is a scholar working on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Aerospace Engineering and Control and Systems Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Jürgen Sturm has authored 38 papers receiving a total of 4.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 20 papers in Aerospace Engineering and 7 papers in Control and Systems Engineering. Recurrent topics in Jürgen Sturm's work include Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization (20 papers), Advanced Vision and Imaging (16 papers) and Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques (9 papers). Jürgen Sturm is often cited by papers focused on Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization (20 papers), Advanced Vision and Imaging (16 papers) and Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques (9 papers). Jürgen Sturm collaborates with scholars based in Germany, France and United States. Jürgen Sturm's co-authors include Daniel Cremers, Christian Kerl, Wolfram Burgard, Jakob Engel, Felix Endres, Jürgen Hess, Frank Steinbrücker, Nikolas Engelhard, M. Daune and Sachin Chitta and has published in prestigious journals such as The Journal of Physical Chemistry, Polymer and Biopolymers.

In The Last Decade

Jürgen Sturm

37 papers receiving 4.1k citations

Hit Papers

Dense visual SLAM for RGB-D cameras 2012 2026 2016 2021 2013 2013 2012 2013 2013 100 200 300 400 500
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. Dense visual SLAM for RGB-D cameras
    2013 598 citations Christian Kerl, Jürgen Sturm et al. profile →
  2. 3-D Mapping With an RGB-D Camera
    2013 587 citations Felix Endres, Jürgen Hess et al. IEEE Transactions on Robotics profile →
  3. An evaluation of the RGB-D SLAM system
    2012 516 citations Felix Endres, Jürgen Hess et al. profile →
  4. Robust odometry estimation for RGB-D cameras
    2013 395 citations Christian Kerl, Jürgen Sturm et al. profile →
  5. Semi-dense Visual Odometry for a Monocular Camera
    2013 362 citations Jakob Engel, Jürgen Sturm 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
Jürgen Sturm Germany 22 3.2k 2.9k 1.2k 534 493 38 4.2k
Joachim Hertzberg Germany 30 2.4k 0.8× 2.0k 0.7× 876 0.7× 529 1.0× 389 0.8× 145 3.7k
Éric Marchand France 34 2.3k 0.7× 3.2k 1.1× 373 0.3× 316 0.6× 745 1.5× 163 4.2k
Kari Pulli United States 30 901 0.3× 2.7k 0.9× 308 0.3× 313 0.6× 386 0.8× 95 3.7k
Fei Qiao China 22 882 0.3× 955 0.3× 229 0.2× 1.0k 1.9× 111 0.2× 134 2.4k
Holger Rapp Germany 6 1.1k 0.3× 775 0.3× 304 0.3× 478 0.9× 230 0.5× 8 1.8k
Se‐Young Oh South Korea 22 1.5k 0.5× 900 0.3× 105 0.1× 598 1.1× 442 0.9× 129 2.8k
Christoph Rhemann United Kingdom 27 600 0.2× 3.5k 1.2× 214 0.2× 95 0.2× 192 0.4× 42 3.9k
Yebin Liu China 46 385 0.1× 4.7k 1.6× 215 0.2× 141 0.3× 615 1.2× 171 5.7k
Cornelia Fermüller United States 31 591 0.2× 2.0k 0.7× 72 0.1× 567 1.1× 433 0.9× 144 3.1k
Qi Wei China 17 742 0.2× 783 0.3× 179 0.1× 737 1.4× 99 0.2× 135 1.8k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Jürgen Sturm

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jürgen Sturm

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Kohlbrecher, Stefan, et al.. (2019). Large Scale 2D Laser SLAM using Truncated Signed Distance Functions. TUbilio (Technical University of Darmstadt). 222–228. 9 indexed citations
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Wald, Johanna, Keisuke Tateno, Jürgen Sturm, Nassir Navab, & Federico Tombari. (2018). Real-Time Fully Incremental Scene Understanding on Mobile Platforms. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 3(4). 3402–3409. 14 indexed citations
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Sturm, Jürgen, et al.. (2017). De-noising, stabilizing and completing 3D reconstructions on-the-go using plane priors. 3976–3983. 17 indexed citations
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Tuyls, Karl, et al.. (2015). 2D-SDF-SLAM: A signed distance function based SLAM frontend for laser scanners. 18 indexed citations
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Engel, Jakob, Jürgen Sturm, & Daniel Cremers. (2014). Scale-aware navigation of a low-cost quadrocopter with a monocular camera. Robotics and Autonomous Systems. 62(11). 1646–1656. 152 indexed citations
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Sturm, Jürgen & Wolfram Burgard. (2013). Learning probabilistic models for mobile manipulation robots. International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 3131–3135. 5 indexed citations
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Naseer, Tayyab, Jürgen Sturm, & Daniel Cremers. (2013). FollowMe: Person following and gesture recognition with a quadrocopter. 624–630. 71 indexed citations
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Sturm, Jürgen. (2013). Approaches to Probabilistic Model Learning for Mobile Manipulation Robots. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research). 8 indexed citations
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Kerl, Christian, Jürgen Sturm, & Daniel Cremers. (2013). Robust odometry estimation for RGB-D cameras. 3748–3754. 395 indexed citations breakdown →
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Endres, Felix, Jürgen Hess, Nikolas Engelhard, et al.. (2012). An evaluation of the RGB-D SLAM system. 1691–1696. 516 indexed citations breakdown →
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Zhang, Licong, Jürgen Sturm, Daniel Cremers, & Dongheui Lee. (2012). Real-time human motion tracking using multiple depth cameras. 2389–2395. 70 indexed citations
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Steinbrücker, Frank, Jürgen Sturm, & Daniel Cremers. (2011). Real-time visual odometry from dense RGB-D images. 719–722. 234 indexed citations
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Chitta, Sachin, et al.. (2011). Tactile Sensing for Mobile Manipulation. IEEE Transactions on Robotics. 27(3). 558–568. 91 indexed citations
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Sturm, Jürgen, Kurt Konolige, Cyrill Stachniss, & Wolfram Burgard. (2010). Vision-based detection for learning articulation models of cabinet doors and drawers in household environments. 362–368. 23 indexed citations
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Sturm, Jürgen, et al.. (2009). Towards Understanding Articulated Objects.
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Schneider, A., Jürgen Sturm, Cyrill Stachniss, et al.. (2009). Object identification with tactile sensors using bag-of-features. 243–248. 165 indexed citations
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Sturm, Jürgen, Christian Plagemann, & Wolfram Burgard. (2009). Body schema learning for robotic manipulators from visual self-perception. Journal of Physiology-Paris. 103(3-5). 220–231. 41 indexed citations
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Stoylov, Stoyl P., et al.. (1996). Electric birefringence of polytetrafluoroethylene particles in agarose gels. Biophysical Chemistry. 58(1-2). 157–164. 4 indexed citations
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Malliaris, Angelos, Julien Lang, Jürgen Sturm, R. Zana, & Charles Sadron. (1987). Intermicellar migration of reactants: effect of additions of alcohols, oils, and electrolytes. The Journal of Physical Chemistry. 91(6). 1475–1481. 40 indexed citations
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Dayantis, Jean & Jürgen Sturm. (1985). Monte-Carlo calculations on statistical chains enclosed inside a sphere. Polymer. 26(11). 1631–1637. 17 indexed citations

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