Yulun Tian

733 total citations · 1 hit paper
11 papers, 366 citations indexed

About

Yulun Tian is a scholar working on Aerospace Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. According to data from OpenAlex, Yulun Tian has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 366 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Aerospace Engineering, 6 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 5 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Recurrent topics in Yulun Tian's work include Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization (10 papers), Indoor and Outdoor Localization Technologies (5 papers) and Advanced Vision and Imaging (2 papers). Yulun Tian is often cited by papers focused on Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization (10 papers), Indoor and Outdoor Localization Technologies (5 papers) and Advanced Vision and Imaging (2 papers). Yulun Tian collaborates with scholars based in United States. Yulun Tian's co-authors include Jonathan P. How, Yun Chang, Luca Carlone, Carlos Nieto-Granda, Kasra Khosoussi, David M. Rosen, Kyel Ok, Loc Tran, Nicholas Roy and Katherine Liu and has published in prestigious journals such as The International Journal of Robotics Research, IEEE Transactions on Robotics and IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters.

In The Last Decade

Yulun Tian

10 papers receiving 356 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Kimera-Multi: Robust, Distributed, Dense Metric-Semantic SLAM for Multi-Robot Systems

2022 150 citations Yulun Tian, Yun Chang et al. IEEE Transactions on Robotics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yulun Tian United States	8	275	185	85	74	71	11	366
Patrik Schmuck Switzerland	7	415 1.5×	297 1.6×	141 1.7×	56 0.8×	62 0.9×	7	469
Miguel Juliá Spain	7	302 1.1×	294 1.6×	47 0.6×	67 0.9×	99 1.4×	19	393
Rafael Valencia Spain	9	267 1.0×	231 1.2×	68 0.8×	30 0.4×	42 0.6×	14	332
Rénald Vincent France	5	272 1.0×	195 1.1×	102 1.2×	62 0.8×	20 0.3×	9	327
Luigi D’Alfonso Italy	11	159 0.6×	106 0.6×	61 0.7×	40 0.5×	131 1.8×	55	350
Vojtěch Spurný Czechia	13	355 1.3×	376 2.0×	39 0.5×	50 0.7×	131 1.8×	24	547
Viktor Walter Czechia	11	302 1.1×	216 1.2×	65 0.8×	34 0.5×	167 2.4×	17	422
Mingxing Wen Singapore	12	281 1.0×	208 1.1×	82 1.0×	21 0.3×	24 0.3×	39	363
Emil Fresk Sweden	10	268 1.0×	192 1.0×	35 0.4×	32 0.4×	71 1.0×	21	466
Yang Lyu China	11	342 1.2×	210 1.1×	108 1.3×	27 0.4×	101 1.4×	43	481

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yulun Tian

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yulun Tian

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

All Works

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11 of 11 papers shown

1.

Tian, Yulun, et al.. (2025). ROMAN: Open-Set Object Map Alignment for Robust View-Invariant Global Localization.

2.

Tian, Yulun, et al.. (2023). Resilient and Distributed Multi-Robot Visual SLAM: Datasets, Experiments, and Lessons Learned. 11027–11034. 18 indexed citations

3.

Tian, Yulun & Jonathan P. How. (2023). Spectral Sparsification for Communication-Efficient Collaborative Rotation and Translation Estimation. IEEE Transactions on Robotics. 40. 257–276. 7 indexed citations

4.

Tian, Yulun, et al.. (2022). Kimera-Multi: Robust, Distributed, Dense Metric-Semantic SLAM for Multi-Robot Systems. IEEE Transactions on Robotics. 38(4). 2022–2038. 150 indexed citations breakdown →

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Tian, Yulun, et al.. (2022). Distributed Riemannian Optimization with Lazy Communication for Collaborative Geometric Estimation. 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). 31. 4391–4398. 8 indexed citations

6.

Tian, Yulun, Kasra Khosoussi, David M. Rosen, & Jonathan P. How. (2021). Distributed Certifiably Correct Pose-Graph Optimization. IEEE Transactions on Robotics. 37(6). 2137–2156. 50 indexed citations

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Tian, Yulun, Katherine Liu, Kyel Ok, et al.. (2020). Search and rescue under the forest canopy using multiple UAVs. The International Journal of Robotics Research. 39(10-11). 1201–1221. 75 indexed citations

8.

Tian, Yulun, Alec Koppel, Amrit Singh Bedi, & Jonathan P. How. (2020). Asynchronous and Parallel Distributed Pose Graph Optimization. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 5(4). 5819–5826. 27 indexed citations

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Tian, Yulun, Kasra Khosoussi, & Jonathan P. How. (2020). A resource-aware approach to collaborative loop-closure detection with provable performance guarantees. The International Journal of Robotics Research. 40(10-11). 1212–1233. 16 indexed citations

10.

Tian, Yulun, et al.. (2018). Near-Optimal Budgeted Data Exchange for Distributed Loop Closure Detection. 13 indexed citations

11.

Jin, Ming, et al.. (2017). Indoor environmental quality monitoring by autonomous mobile sensing. 1–4. 2 indexed citations

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