Kevin Eckenhoff

1.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
20 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Kevin Eckenhoff is a scholar working on Aerospace Engineering, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Kevin Eckenhoff has authored 20 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Aerospace Engineering, 13 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and 12 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Kevin Eckenhoff's work include Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization (19 papers), Indoor and Outdoor Localization Technologies (12 papers) and Advanced Vision and Imaging (9 papers). Kevin Eckenhoff is often cited by papers focused on Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization (19 papers), Indoor and Outdoor Localization Technologies (12 papers) and Advanced Vision and Imaging (9 papers). Kevin Eckenhoff collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and China. Kevin Eckenhoff's co-authors include Guoquan Huang, Patrick Geneva, Yulin Yang, Woosik Lee, Liam Paull, Yong Liu, Xingxing Zuo, Yue Wang, Rong Xiong and James M. Maley and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Robotics and IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters.

In The Last Decade

Kevin Eckenhoff

20 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Hit Papers

OpenVINS: A Research Platform for Visual-Inertial Estimation 2020 2026 2022 2024 2020 100 200 300 400
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. OpenVINS: A Research Platform for Visual-Inertial Estimation
    2020 414 citations Patrick Geneva, Kevin Eckenhoff 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
Kevin Eckenhoff United States 15 1.0k 611 397 388 99 20 1.1k
Gabe Sibley United States 17 1.1k 1.1× 930 1.5× 228 0.6× 284 0.7× 77 0.8× 27 1.2k
Woosik Lee United States 9 725 0.7× 415 0.7× 274 0.7× 253 0.7× 62 0.6× 14 798
Patrick Geneva United States 20 1.5k 1.4× 864 1.4× 588 1.5× 499 1.3× 169 1.7× 36 1.6k
Xingxing Zuo China 17 856 0.8× 560 0.9× 374 0.9× 222 0.6× 155 1.6× 34 973
Haoyang Ye Hong Kong 10 802 0.8× 426 0.7× 382 1.0× 241 0.6× 264 2.7× 16 912
Thomas Schneider Switzerland 7 1.7k 1.6× 1.2k 2.0× 600 1.5× 485 1.3× 110 1.1× 11 1.8k
Young-Sik Shin South Korea 12 543 0.5× 448 0.7× 170 0.4× 169 0.4× 122 1.2× 32 763
Thien‐Minh Nguyen Singapore 18 605 0.6× 311 0.5× 135 0.3× 353 0.9× 88 0.9× 35 848
Dongjiao He Hong Kong 10 842 0.8× 492 0.8× 339 0.9× 167 0.4× 251 2.5× 14 1.1k
Faraz M. Mirzaei United States 9 639 0.6× 498 0.8× 137 0.3× 168 0.4× 65 0.7× 10 781

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kevin Eckenhoff

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kevin Eckenhoff

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Eckenhoff, Kevin, Patrick Geneva, & Guoquan Huang. (2021). MIMC-VINS: A Versatile and Resilient Multi-IMU Multi-Camera Visual-Inertial Navigation System. IEEE Transactions on Robotics. 37(5). 1360–1380. 66 indexed citations
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Geneva, Patrick, Kevin Eckenhoff, Woosik Lee, Yulin Yang, & Guoquan Huang. (2020). OpenVINS: A Research Platform for Visual-Inertial Estimation. 4666–4672. 414 indexed citations breakdown →
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Lee, Woosik, Kevin Eckenhoff, Yulin Yang, Patrick Geneva, & Guoquan Huang. (2020). Visual-Inertial-Wheel Odometry with Online Calibration. 4559–4566. 45 indexed citations
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Lee, Woosik, Kevin Eckenhoff, Patrick Geneva, & Guoquan Huang. (2020). Intermittent GPS-aided VIO: Online Initialization and Calibration. 5724–5731. 62 indexed citations
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Eckenhoff, Kevin, et al.. (2020). Motion Planning and Visual-Inertial Target Tracking for UAV-based Radiation Detection. pp. 1009–1014. 1 indexed citations
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Eckenhoff, Kevin, et al.. (2020). Schmidt-EKF-based Visual-Inertial Moving Object Tracking. 651–657. 12 indexed citations
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Eckenhoff, Kevin, Yulin Yang, Patrick Geneva, & Guoquan Huang. (2019). Tightly-Coupled Visual-Inertial Localization and 3-D Rigid-Body Target Tracking. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 4(2). 1541–1548. 40 indexed citations
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Yang, Yulin, Patrick Geneva, Kevin Eckenhoff, & Guoquan Huang. (2019). Degenerate Motion Analysis for Aided INS With Online Spatial and Temporal Sensor Calibration. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 4(2). 2070–2077. 68 indexed citations
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Yang, Yulin, Patrick Geneva, Kevin Eckenhoff, & Guoquan Huang. (2019). Visual-Inertial Odometry with Point and Line Features. 2447–2454. 44 indexed citations
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Yang, Yulin, Patrick Geneva, Xingxing Zuo, et al.. (2019). Tightly-Coupled Aided Inertial Navigation with Point and Plane Features. 6094–6100. 41 indexed citations
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Eckenhoff, Kevin, et al.. (2019). Multi-Camera Visual-Inertial Navigation with Online Intrinsic and Extrinsic Calibration. 3158–3164. 39 indexed citations
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Geneva, Patrick, Kevin Eckenhoff, & Guoquan Huang. (2019). A Linear-Complexity EKF for Visual-Inertial Navigation with Loop Closures. 3535–3541. 31 indexed citations
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Eckenhoff, Kevin, Patrick Geneva, & Guoquan Huang. (2019). Sensor-Failure-Resilient Multi-IMU Visual-Inertial Navigation. 3542–3548. 28 indexed citations
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Geneva, Patrick, Kevin Eckenhoff, & Guoquan Huang. (2018). Asynchronous Multi-Sensor Fusion for 3D Mapping and Localization. 1–6. 14 indexed citations
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Geneva, Patrick, Kevin Eckenhoff, Yulin Yang, & Guoquan Huang. (2018). LIPS: LiDAR-Inertial 3D Plane SLAM. 123–130. 155 indexed citations
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Maley, James M., Kevin Eckenhoff, & Guoquan Huang. (2017). Generalized Optimal-State-Constraint Extended Kalman Filter (OSC-EKF). 2 indexed citations
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Eckenhoff, Kevin, et al.. (2017). Gyro-aided camera-odometer online calibration and localization. 3579–3586. 8 indexed citations
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Eckenhoff, Kevin, Patrick Geneva, & Guoquan Huang. (2017). Direct visual-inertial navigation with analytical preintegration. 22 indexed citations
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Eckenhoff, Kevin, Liam Paull, & Guoquan Huang. (2016). Decoupled, consistent node removal and edge sparsification for graph-based SLAM. 3275–3282. 32 indexed citations
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Eckenhoff, Kevin & Guoquan Huang. (2015). State-transition and observability constrained EKF for multi-robot cooperative localization. 7404–7410. 5 indexed citations

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