2026 Javier Civera: Engineering and Technology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Engineering and Technology	34	9122	8785	218	215	165	7408

Overview

Javier Civera is affiliated with the University of Zaragoza in Spain and has a research focus primarily in Computer Science and Engineering. Their work spans several subfields including Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Aerospace Engineering, Geology, Mechanical Engineering, and Artificial Intelligence.

Their main research topics involve Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization, Advanced Vision and Imaging, Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques, Robotic Path Planning Algorithms, 3D Surveying and Cultural Heritage, Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence, and Human Pose and Action Recognition.

Javier Civera has published extensively, contributing to notable venues such as arXiv (Cornell University) with 44 publications, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters with 12 publications, Journal of Field Robotics and International Journal of Computational Vision and Robotics with 2 publications each, and Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) with 2 publications.

The frequent coauthors collaborating with Javier Civera include Seong Hun Lee, Hriday Bavle, José Luis Sánchez-López, Holger Voos, and Muhammad Shaheer, reflecting an active network within their research community.

Recent papers by Javier Civera illustrate ongoing work in robotics and visual localization technologies:

Endo-Depth-and-Motion: Reconstruction and Tracking in Endoscopic Videos Using Depth Networks and Photometric Constraints, 2021, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
DOT: Dynamic Object Tracking for Visual SLAM, 2021, elib (German Aerospace Center)
Endomapper dataset of complete calibrated endoscopy procedures, 2023, Scientific Data
Situational Graphs for Robot Navigation in Structured Indoor Environments, 2022, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
S-Graphs+: Real-Time Localization and Mapping Leveraging Hierarchical Representations, 2023, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

Best Publications

Inverse Depth Parametrization for Monocular SLAM

J. Civera;A.J. Davison;J. Montiel

1023
Citations
DynaSLAM: Tracking, Mapping, and Inpainting in Dynamic Scenes

Berta Bescos;José M. Fácil;Javier Civera;José Neira

806
Citations
Unified Inverse Depth Parametrization for Monocular SLAM

J. M. M. Montiel;Javier Civera;Andrew J. Davison

580
Citations
Learning object class detectors from weakly annotated video

Alessandro Prest;Christian Leistner;Javier Civera;Cordelia Schmid

555
Citations
RoboEarth - A World Wide Web for Robots

Markus Waibel;Michael Beetz;Raffaello D'Andrea;Rob Janssen

540
Citations
RoboEarth

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419
Citations
Visual teach and repeat for long-range rover autonomy

Paul Furgale;Timothy D. Barfoot

313
Citations
C2TAM: A Cloud framework for cooperative tracking and mapping

L. Riazuelo;Javier Civera;J. M. M. Montiel

286
Citations
1-Point RANSAC for extended Kalman filtering: Application to real-time structure from motion and visual odometry: Civera et al.: 1-Point RANSAC for EK Filtering

Javier Civera;Oscar G. Grasa;Andrew J. Davison;J. M. M. Montiel

274
Citations
Towards semantic SLAM using a monocular camera

Javier Civera;Dorian Galvez-Lopez;L. Riazuelo;Juan D. Tardos

216
Citations
Impact of Landmark Parametrization on Monocular EKF-SLAM with Points and Lines

Joan Solà;Teresa Vidal-Calleja;Javier Civera;José María Montiel

210
Citations
1-point RANSAC for EKF-based Structure from Motion

Javier Civera;Oscar G. Grasa;Andrew J. Davison;J. M. M. Montiel

207
Citations
Mapillary Street-Level Sequences: A Dataset for Lifelong Place Recognition

Frederik Warburg;Soren Hauberg;Manuel Lopez-Antequera;Pau Gargallo

202
Citations
DPPTAM: Dense piecewise planar tracking and mapping from a monocular sequence

Alejo Concha;Javier Civera

166
Citations
S-PTAM

Taih Pire;Thomas Fischer;Gastn Castro;Pablo DeCristforis

166
Citations
Inverse Depth to Depth Conversion for Monocular SLAM

J. Civera;A.J. Davison;J.M.M. Montiel

152
Citations
Stereo parallel tracking and mapping for robot localization

Taihu Pire;Thomas Fischer;Javier Civera;Pablo De Cristoforis

150
Citations
Endo-Depth-and-Motion: Reconstruction and Tracking in Endoscopic Videos Using Depth Networks and Photometric Constraints

David Recasens;Jose Lamarca;Jose M. Facil;J. M. M. Montiel

143
Citations
Visual-inertial direct SLAM

Alejo Concha;Giuseppe Loianno;Vijay Kumar;Javier Civera

128
Citations
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2012 IEEE Conference on

A. Prest;C. Leistner;J. Civera;C. Schmid

119
Citations
EKF monocular SLAM with relocalization for laparoscopic sequences

Oscar G. Grasa;Javier Civera;J. M. M. Montiel

106
Citations
CAM-Convs: Camera-Aware Multi-Scale Convolutions for Single-View Depth

Jose M. Facil;Benjamin Ummenhofer;Huizhong Zhou;Luis Montesano

98
Citations
Corners for Layout: End-to-End Layout Recovery From 360 Images

Clara Fernandez-Labrador;Jose M. Facil;Alejandro Perez-Yus;Cedric Demonceaux

96
Citations
Using superpixels in monocular SLAM.

Alejo Concha;Javier Civera

92
Citations
Camera self-calibration for sequential Bayesian structure from motion

Javier Civera;Diana R. Bueno;Andrew J. Davison;J. M. M. Montiel

79
Citations
Single-View Place Recognition under Seasonal Changes

Daniel Olid;José M. Fácil;Javier Civera

76
Citations
DOT: Dynamic Object Tracking for Visual SLAM

Irene Ballester;Alejandro Fontan;Javier Civera;Klaus H. Strobl

68
Citations
Text Mining Biomedical Literature for Discovering Gene-to-Gene Relationships: A Comparative Study of Algorithms

Ying Liu;Shamkant B. Navathe;Jorge Civera;Venu Dasigi

61
Citations
Loosely-Coupled Semi-Direct Monocular SLAM

Seong Hun Lee;Javier Civera

58
Citations
Interacting multiple model monocular SLAM

J. Civera;A.J. Davison;J.M.M. Montiel

55
Citations
RGBDTAM: A cost-effective and accurate RGB-D tracking and mapping system

Alejo Concha;Javier Civera

32
Citations
Single-View and Multi-View Depth Fusion

José M. Fácil;Alejo Concha;Luis Montesano;Javier Civera

26
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

José María Martínez Montiel University of Zaragoza

Andrew J. Davison Imperial College London

Luis Montesano University of Zaragoza

Manuel Lopes Instituto Superior Técnico

Thomas Brox University of Freiburg

Lydia E. Kavraki Rice University

Jeannette Bohg Stanford University

José Neira University of Zaragoza

Cordelia Schmid French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation - INRIA

Raffaello D'Andrea ETH Zurich

External Links

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