Kevin Lai

2.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
14 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Kevin Lai is a scholar working on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Aerospace Engineering and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Kevin Lai has authored 14 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 8 papers in Aerospace Engineering and 3 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Kevin Lai's work include Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques (9 papers), Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization (8 papers) and Visual Attention and Saliency Detection (3 papers). Kevin Lai is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques (9 papers), Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization (8 papers) and Visual Attention and Saliency Detection (3 papers). Kevin Lai collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Taiwan. Kevin Lai's co-authors include Dieter Fox, Liefeng Bo, Xiaofeng Ren, David Meger, James J. Little, Per-Erik Forssén, David Lowe, W. G. Unruh, Scott and Tzyy‐Ping Jung and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, The International Journal of Robotics Research and Robotics and Autonomous Systems.

In The Last Decade

Kevin Lai

13 papers receiving 1.7k citations

Hit Papers

1 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.

A large-scale hierarchical multi-view RGB-D object dataset

2011 867 citations Kevin Lai, Liefeng Bo et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kevin Lai United States	10	1.5k	842	308	273	169	14	1.8k
Michael Krainin United States	10	1.0k 0.7×	884 1.0×	403 1.3×	92 0.3×	130 0.8×	15	1.5k
Jörg Stückler Germany	25	1.7k 1.2×	1.4k 1.7×	471 1.5×	136 0.5×	415 2.5×	65	2.4k
Matthias NieBner Germany	14	1.8k 1.2×	743 0.9×	562 1.8×	251 0.9×	117 0.7×	17	2.3k
Tian Fang China	18	1.6k 1.1×	707 0.8×	431 1.4×	137 0.5×	71 0.4×	71	2.0k
Hartmut Surmann Germany	23	1.3k 0.9×	1.4k 1.7×	464 1.5×	301 1.1×	275 1.6×	55	2.2k
Hans‐Joachim Wuensche Germany	20	908 0.6×	798 0.9×	212 0.7×	192 0.7×	193 1.1×	99	1.7k
Peter Rander United States	19	1.5k 1.0×	567 0.7×	142 0.5×	50 0.2×	150 0.9×	30	1.8k
Vibhav Vineet United Kingdom	16	2.0k 1.4×	554 0.7×	104 0.3×	261 1.0×	37 0.2×	45	2.3k
Tianfu Wu United States	21	982 0.7×	300 0.4×	171 0.6×	218 0.8×	55 0.3×	79	1.5k
Mathieu Aubry France	14	1.1k 0.8×	279 0.3×	184 0.6×	172 0.6×	299 1.8×	30	1.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Kevin Lai

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kevin Lai

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kevin Lai

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

All Works

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14 of 14 papers shown

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Vitale, Jonathan M., Kevin Lai, & Marcia C. Linn. (2014). Dynamic Visualization of Motion for Student-Generated Graphs.. ICLS. 1 indexed citations

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Lai, Kevin, Liefeng Bo, & Dieter Fox. (2014). Unsupervised feature learning for 3D scene labeling. 3050–3057. 195 indexed citations

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She, Hsiao‐Ching, et al.. (2014). Temporal Dynamics and Cortical Networks Engaged in Biological Concepts Encoding. 3(1). 21–35. 4 indexed citations

4.

Lai, Kevin, et al.. (2012). Encoding of Physics Concepts: Concreteness and Presentation Modality Reflected by Human Brain Dynamics. PLoS ONE. 7(7). e41784–e41784. 10 indexed citations

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Lai, Kevin, Liefeng Bo, Xiaofeng Ren, & Dieter Fox. (2012). Detection-based object labeling in 3D scenes. 1330–1337. 119 indexed citations

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Lai, Kevin, Liefeng Bo, Xiaofeng Ren, & Dieter Fox. (2011). A large-scale hierarchical multi-view RGB-D object dataset. 1817–1824. 867 indexed citations breakdown →

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Bo, Liefeng, Kevin Lai, Xiaofeng Ren, & Dieter Fox. (2011). Object recognition with hierarchical kernel descriptors. Journal of International Crisis and Risk Communication Research. 1729–1736. 126 indexed citations

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Lai, Kevin, Liefeng Bo, Xiaofeng Ren, & Dieter Fox. (2011). Sparse distance learning for object recognition combining RGB and depth information. 4007–4013. 129 indexed citations

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Lai, Kevin, Liefeng Bo, Xiaofeng Ren, & Dieter Fox. (2011). A Scalable Tree-Based Approach for Joint Object and Pose Recognition. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 25(1). 1474–1480. 65 indexed citations

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Lai, Kevin & Dieter Fox. (2010). Object Recognition in 3D Point Clouds Using Web Data and Domain Adaptation. The International Journal of Robotics Research. 29(8). 1019–1037. 115 indexed citations

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Meger, David, et al.. (2008). Curious George: An attentive semantic robot. Robotics and Autonomous Systems. 56(6). 503–511. 116 indexed citations

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Forssén, Per-Erik, et al.. (2008). Informed visual search: Combining attention and object recognition. 935–942. 44 indexed citations

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Meger, David, et al.. (2007). Curious George: The UBC Semantic Robot Vision System.

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Lai, Kevin, Scott, & W. G. Unruh. (2004). A Numerical Study of Boson Stars. 9 indexed citations

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