Bingbing Liu

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Bingbing Liu is a robotics and computer vision researcher whose work spans autonomous systems, 3D scene understanding, and mobile robotics perception. His research career traces a compelling arc from foundational robotics problems — including SLAM, robot-sensor calibration, and bipedal locomotion — toward cutting-edge deep learning approaches for autonomous driving and robotic perception. Liu's most impactful contribution is the (AF)²-S3Net framework, a neural network for sparse semantic segmentation of LiDAR point clouds that has garnered over 244 citations, reflecting its significance to the autonomous driving community. This work, alongside TORNADO-Net — a multi-view semantic segmentation architecture incorporating diamond inception modules — demonstrates his sustained focus on solving real-world scene understanding challenges. His earlier foundational work on noise-tolerant robot-sensor calibration (39 citations) and dimensionality reduction for SLAM problems laid important groundwork for robust robotic systems. Liu has also contributed to practical robotic challenges such as automated door opening for mobile manipulators and push recovery for bipedal robots, showcasing impressive breadth. His sustained productivity across perception, localization, and deep learning makes him a valuable contributor to the robotics and autonomous systems research community.

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Top Papers

1. 1
   (AF)²-S3Net: Attentive Feature Fusion with Adaptive Feature Selection for Sparse Semantic Segmentation Network

   244 citations · 2021
2. 2
   A Noise-Tolerant Algorithm for Robot-Sensor Calibration Using a Planar Disk of Arbitrary 3-D Orientation

   39 citations · 2016
3. 3
   (AF)2-S3Net: Attentive Feature Fusion with Adaptive Feature Selection for Sparse Semantic Segmentation Network

   28 citations · 2021
4. 4
   Dimensionality reduction for point feature SLAM problems with spherical covariance matrices

   16 citations · 2014
5. 5
   TORNADO-Net: mulTiview tOtal vaRiatioN semAntic segmentation with Diamond inceptiOn module

   15 citations · 2020
6. 6
   Automated door opening scheme for non-holonomic mobile manipulator

   13 citations · 2013
7. 7
   Mobile Robot SLAM Algorithm Based on Improved Firefly Particle Filter

   12 citations · 2019
8. 8
   PUSH RECOVERY THROUGH WALKING PHASE MODIFICATION FOR BIPEDAL LOCOMOTION

   9 citations · 2013
9. 9
   On creating low dimensional 3D feature descriptors with PCA

   9 citations · 2017
10. 10
    Range error detection caused by occlusion in non-coaxial LADARs for scene interpretation

    5 citations · 2005

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