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Minjie Lin is a researcher advancing the frontiers of autonomous driving and robotic manipulation. His work centers on robust localization, visual perception, and dexterous grasping in complex, real-world environments. Lin’s most impactful contribution is a coarse-to-fine semantic localization method that leverages HD maps for autonomous driving in structural scenes, a paper with 36 citations that addresses the critical challenge of preventing pose estimation failure. He has also pioneered a two-stream CNN approach for grasping novel objects in cluttered settings (24 citations), demonstrating a deep understanding of both perception and control. In robotics, Lin developed a sphere model approach for hand-eye calibration with depth cameras (21 citations), simplifying a traditionally complex calibration process. Further expanding the scope of visual odometry, he introduced PVO, a real-time, precise, and robust panoramic visual odometry algorithm. Through these innovations, Lin has made tangible contributions to the reliability and autonomy of robotic systems, establishing himself as a key figure in the integration of perception and action for intelligent machines.