Papers
25
Total Citations
1,194
H-Index
16
About
Rainer Stiefelhagen is a prominent researcher in human-robot interaction, computer vision, and multimodal perception, whose work has significantly advanced how robots understand and communicate with humans. Based at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), he has dedicated much of his career to developing the perceptual and cognitive building blocks that enable natural, intuitive interaction between humans and humanoid robotic systems. Stiefelhagen's most influential contributions lie in the visual recognition of pointing gestures and multimodal dialogue processing, with his 2006 paper on gesture recognition for human-robot interaction amassing over 237 citations. His early work on identifying conversational addressees through combined head pose and speech analysis (120 citations) laid important groundwork for socially aware robots. Together, his papers on the Karlsruhe humanoid robot platform demonstrate a sustained effort to integrate speech, gesture, and visual perception into cohesive, deployable systems, collectively attracting hundreds of citations. More recently, he has expanded into panoramic semantic segmentation for autonomous systems and activity recognition datasets, reflecting a broadening research vision. His contributions span foundational algorithms, cognitive architectures, and real-world evaluation frameworks, making him a highly regarded figure in intelligent robotics and human-centered computing.
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Key Achievements
Top Papers
- 1Visual recognition of pointing gestures for human–robot interaction237 citations · 2006
- 2Natural human-robot interaction using speech, head pose and gestures182 citations · 2005
- 3Enabling Multimodal Human–Robot Interaction for the Karlsruhe Humanoid Robot135 citations · 2007
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- 6A cognitive architecture for a humanoid robot: a first approach63 citations · 2006
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- 9Multimodal saliency-based attention for object-based scene analysis34 citations · 2011
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