Viorela Ila

2.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
39 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Viorela Ila is a scholar working on Aerospace Engineering, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Viorela Ila has authored 39 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Aerospace Engineering, 23 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and 12 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Viorela Ila's work include Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization (28 papers), Advanced Vision and Imaging (15 papers) and Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques (11 papers). Viorela Ila is often cited by papers focused on Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization (28 papers), Advanced Vision and Imaging (15 papers) and Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques (11 papers). Viorela Ila collaborates with scholars based in Australia, Czechia and Spain. Viorela Ila's co-authors include Frank Dellaert, Richard Roberts, Michael Kaess, John J. Leonard, Hordur Johannsson, Juan Andrade‐Cetto, Josep M. Porta, Robert Mahony, Pavel Smrž and Jun Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Proceedings of the IEEE and The International Journal of Robotics Research.

In The Last Decade

Viorela Ila

36 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Hit Papers

iSAM2: Incremental smoothing and mapping using the Bayes ... 2011 2026 2016 2021 2011 250 500 750
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. iSAM2: Incremental smoothing and mapping using the Bayes tree
    2011 894 citations Michael Kaess, Hordur Johannsson et al. The International Journal of Robotics Research profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Viorela Ila Australia 14 1.4k 977 444 274 256 39 1.7k
Ananth Ranganathan United States 19 1.3k 0.9× 1.0k 1.1× 395 0.9× 204 0.7× 175 0.7× 32 1.7k
Gian Diego Tipaldi Germany 22 979 0.7× 980 1.0× 376 0.8× 196 0.7× 181 0.7× 41 1.6k
John Folkesson Sweden 21 1.0k 0.7× 875 0.9× 270 0.6× 299 1.1× 155 0.6× 80 1.6k
Daniel Andor United States 4 1.1k 0.7× 785 0.8× 348 0.8× 111 0.4× 301 1.2× 4 1.5k
Chieh‐Chih Wang Taiwan 17 1.0k 0.7× 957 1.0× 409 0.9× 109 0.4× 161 0.6× 64 1.6k
Yash Mulgaonkar United States 18 1.2k 0.9× 959 1.0× 280 0.6× 189 0.7× 234 0.9× 21 1.6k
Hordur Johannsson United States 14 2.1k 1.5× 1.4k 1.5× 534 1.2× 526 1.9× 562 2.2× 24 2.5k
Laurent Kneip China 25 1.7k 1.2× 1.6k 1.6× 419 0.9× 146 0.5× 372 1.5× 83 2.2k
Janosch Nikolic Switzerland 13 1.9k 1.4× 1.4k 1.5× 511 1.2× 162 0.6× 628 2.5× 19 2.2k
Abraham Bachrach United States 15 1.2k 0.9× 1.6k 1.6× 225 0.5× 190 0.7× 158 0.6× 17 2.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Viorela Ila

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Fields of papers citing papers by Viorela Ila

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Viorela Ila

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Ila, Viorela, et al.. (2024). The Importance of Coordinate Frames in Dynamic SLAM. 13755–13761. 2 indexed citations
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Yi, Bowen, et al.. (2024). PEBO-SLAM: Observer Design for Visual Inertial SLAM With Convergence Guarantees. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. 70(3). 1714–1729. 1 indexed citations
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Talbot, William Henry Fox, et al.. (2023). Principled ICP Covariance Modelling in Perceptually Degraded Environments for the EELS Mission Concept. 10763–10770. 5 indexed citations
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Zhang, Jun, et al.. (2020). Robust Ego and Object 6-DoF Motion Estimation and Tracking. 5017–5023. 18 indexed citations
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Ila, Viorela, et al.. (2019). A Perception Pipeline for Robotic Harvesting of Green Asparagus. IFAC-PapersOnLine. 52(30). 288–293. 13 indexed citations
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Ila, Viorela, et al.. (2017). Mission-time 3D reconstruction with quality estimation. OCEANS 2017 - Aberdeen. 1–9. 5 indexed citations
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Ila, Viorela, et al.. (2017). Exploring the effect of meta-structural information on the global consistency of SLAM. ANU Open Research (Australian National University). 1616–1623. 6 indexed citations
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Ila, Viorela, et al.. (2015). Fast sparse matrix multiplication on GPU. IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics. 33–40. 6 indexed citations
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Blat, Josep, Alun Evans, Hansung Kim, et al.. (2015). Big Data Analysis for Media Production. Proceedings of the IEEE. 104(11). 2085–2113. 6 indexed citations
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Ila, Viorela, et al.. (2015). Fast covariance recovery in incremental nonlinear least square solvers. ANU Open Research (Australian National University). 18 indexed citations
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Ila, Viorela, et al.. (2014). Fast radix sort for sparse linear algebra on GPU. 11. 2 indexed citations
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Ila, Viorela, et al.. (2013). Cache efficient implementation for block matrix operations. 4. 7 indexed citations
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Kaess, Michael, Hordur Johannsson, Richard Roberts, et al.. (2011). iSAM2: Incremental smoothing and mapping with fluid relinearization and incremental variable reordering. 3281–3288. 166 indexed citations
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Kaess, Michael, Hordur Johannsson, Richard Roberts, et al.. (2011). iSAM2: Incremental smoothing and mapping using the Bayes tree. The International Journal of Robotics Research. 31(2). 216–235. 894 indexed citations breakdown →
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Dellaert, Frank, Johan E. Carlson, Viorela Ila, Kai Ni, & C. Thorpe. (2010). Subgraph-preconditioned conjugate gradients for large scale SLAM. DIGITAL.CSIC (Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)). 2566–2571. 34 indexed citations
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Ila, Viorela, et al.. (2010). 3D reconstruction of underwater structures. DIGITAL.CSIC (Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)). 4418–4423. 79 indexed citations
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Ila, Viorela, Josep M. Porta, & Juan Andrade‐Cetto. (2009). Amortized Constant Time State Estimation in SLAM using a Mixed Kalman-Information Filter. QRU Quaderns de Recerca en Urbanisme. 211–216. 1 indexed citations
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Ila, Viorela, Juan Andrade‐Cetto, Rafael Valencia, & Alberto Sanfeliu. (2007). Vision-based loop closing for delayed state robot mapping. QRU Quaderns de Recerca en Urbanisme. 3951. 3892–3897. 16 indexed citations
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Ila, Viorela, Juan Andrade‐Cetto, & Alberto Sanfeliu. (2007). OUTDOOR DELAYED-STATE VISUALLY AUGMENTED ODOMETRY. IFAC Proceedings Volumes. 40(15). 548–553. 3 indexed citations

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