Papers
44
Total Citations
1,912
H-Index
19
About
Stan Birchfield is a prominent computer vision and robotics researcher whose work spans robot navigation, object pose estimation, and dexterous robotic manipulation. With roots stretching back to foundational robotics work — including the celebrated DERVISH robot that won the 1994 AAAI Robot Competition (248 citations) — Birchfield has consistently advanced the frontier of intelligent, vision-driven robotic systems. His most impactful recent contributions center on deep learning for robotics. His 2018 paper on Deep Object Pose Estimation (DOPE), which addresses the challenging "reality gap" in synthetic training data for robotic grasping, has accumulated 283 citations and become a landmark reference in the field. He co-created DexYCB (250 citations), a widely adopted benchmark for hand-object grasping, and DexPilot (197 citations), a low-cost vision-based teleoperation system for dexterous robotic hands. Earlier contributions on qualitative vision-based robot navigation introduced elegant teach-and-replay approaches requiring only a single camera. His work on robotic laundry manipulation and hierarchical planning for long-horizon tasks further demonstrates the remarkable breadth of his research. Across more than two decades, Birchfield's research has profoundly shaped how robots perceive, plan, and interact with the physical world.
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Top Papers
- 1Deep Object Pose Estimation for Semantic Robotic Grasping of Household\n Objects283 citations · 2018
- 2DexYCB: A Benchmark for Capturing Hand Grasping of Objects250 citations · 2021
- 3DERVISH An Office-Navigating Robot248 citations · 1995
- 4DexPilot: Vision-Based Teleoperation of Dexterous Robotic Hand-Arm System197 citations · 2020
- 5Qualitative Vision-Based Path Following102 citations · 2009
- 6Classification of clothing using interactive perception89 citations · 2011
- 7Qualitative vision-based mobile robot navigation89 citations · 2006
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- 9Model for unfolding laundry using interactive perception59 citations · 2011
- 10Model for unfolding laundry using interactive perception51 citations · 2011