Yasushi Makihara
Papers
7
Total Citations
165
H-Index
5
About
Yasushi Makihara is a pioneering researcher in service robotics and computer vision, with a career spanning interactive object recognition, human-robot interaction, and biometrics. His early work laid the foundation for robots that autonomously locate and retrieve user-specified objects through intuitive dialog and sensor-based manipulation, as demonstrated in his highly cited 2003 paper “Object recognition supported by user interaction for service robots” (111 citations). This system, which automatically registers object models and uses user feedback to resolve recognition ambiguities, was a key contribution to making service robots practical in domestic settings. Makihara also advanced the field with the development of a personal service robot featuring user-friendly interfaces (2006, 18 citations) and a robot that uses occasional dialog to recognize objects and manipulate them with force and tactile sensors (2002, 15 citations). More recently, he has expanded into gait recognition from fisheye images (2023, 5 citations), addressing the need for wider field-of-view surveillance, and has explored pneumatic artificial muscles for compressive loading (2023, 4 citations), contributing to soft robotics. His work has been instrumental in bridging the gap between autonomous perception and real-world robotic assistance.
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Key Achievements
Top Papers
- 1Object recognition supported by user interaction for service robots111 citations · 2003
- 2Development of a Personal Service Robot with User-Friendly Interfaces18 citations · 2006
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- 4Object Recognition under Various Lighting Conditions10 citations · 2003
- 5Gait Recognition from Fisheye Images5 citations · 2023
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- 7Development of a Personal Service Robot2 citations · 2002