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# Eric Kolve

Eric Kolve has 2 papers in our library, in 2016–2017; often with [Aniruddha Kembhavi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aniruddha-kembhavi/), [Abhinav Gupta](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abhinav-gupta/), [Ali Farhadi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ali-farhadi/).

2 papers in our library · 2016–2017

[OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5035312572) · [**h-index 11**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5035312572) · [19 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5035312572) · [2,773 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5035312572&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

[📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eric-kolve/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 401 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eric-kolve/cited-by/) · [3 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #3625](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/37/#star-3625)

The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart.

Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Eric+Kolve) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Eric+Kolve) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Eric+Kolve) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Eric+Kolve)

## Affiliations

[🔬**Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence** Seattle · United States 2016–2022 · 14 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/allen-institute-for-artificial-intelligence/) · [🎓**University of Washington** Seattle · United States 2016–2021 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-washington/) · [🎓**Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology** Gwangju · South Korea 2021 · 2 papers](https://ror.org/024kbgz78) · [🎓**University of Pennsylvania** Philadelphia · United States 2021 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-pennsylvania/)

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine.

## Fields, topics and concepts

Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

📚 Shelves 7 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) · [Engineering · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/engineering/) · [Arts and Humanities · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Control and Systems Engineering · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/engineering/control-and-systems-engineering/) · [Language and Linguistics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/)

## Works by year

### 2010s

[**2017** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eric-kolve/year/2017/) · [**2016** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eric-kolve/year/2016/)

## Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

1. **[AI2-THOR: An Interactive 3D Environment for Visual AI](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kolve-2017-ai2-thor-interactive-3d-environment/)** *(2017 · 421 citations)* AI2-THOR, developed mainly at the Allen Institute for AI, is a simulation platform for embodied and visual AI.
2. **[A Diagram Is Worth A Dozen Images](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kembhavi-2016-diagram-worth-dozen-images/)** *(2016 · 231 citations)* The paper addresses how to get machines to understand diagrams. Diagrams, such as school science illustrations, show processes, cycles and dependencies that photographs cannot easily capture, but computer vision had paid them little attention. The authors split the problem into two tasks. The first is syntactic…

## All works

5 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 2 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them.

1. [**AI2-THOR: An Interactive 3D Environment for Visual AI arXiv:1712.05474**Eric Kolve, Roozbeh Mottaghi, Winson Han, et al.*2017 · 421 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kolve-2017-ai2-thor-interactive-3d-environment/)
2. **[RoboTHOR: An Open Simulation-to-Real Embodied AI Platform ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/cvpr42600.2020.00323) IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · no summary yet**Matt Deitke et al.*2020 · 231 citations*
3. [**A Diagram Is Worth A Dozen Images arXiv:1603.07396**Aniruddha Kembhavi, Mike Salvato, Eric Kolve, et al.*2016 · 231 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kembhavi-2016-diagram-worth-dozen-images/)
4. **[Visual Semantic Planning Using Deep Successor Representations ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/iccv.2017.60) IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) · no summary yet**Yuke Zhu et al.*2017 · 143 citations*
5. **[Iconary: A Pictionary-Based Game for Testing Multimodal Communication with Drawings and Text ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.emnlp-main.141/) Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · no summary yet**Christopher Clark et al.*2021 · 10 citations*

## Co-authors here

8 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first.

- [Aniruddha Kembhavi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aniruddha-kembhavi/) ×2
- [Abhinav Gupta](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abhinav-gupta/)
- [Ali Farhadi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ali-farhadi/)
- [Hannaneh Hajishirzi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hannaneh-hajishirzi/)
- [Matt Deitke](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/matt-deitke/)
- [Minjoon Seo](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/minjoon-seo/)
- [Roozbeh Mottaghi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/roozbeh-mottaghi/)
- [Yuke Zhu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yuke-zhu/)

## Venues

Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page.

- IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings
- IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
- Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

## Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 401 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [104 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eric-kolve/cited-by/).

Updated 2 November 2026
