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Joo-Hwee Lim is a leading researcher in robotic perception and active vision, whose work bridges reinforcement learning, computer vision, and human-robot interaction. His core contributions center on developing intelligent systems that can actively perceive and interact with their environments—moving beyond passive observation to dynamic, goal-driven sensing. Lim’s highly cited work on self-supervised reinforcement learning for active object detection (19 citations) redefines how robots learn optimal viewpoints to identify objects, while his adaptive action prediction models (10 citations) dramatically improve the efficiency and robustness of multiview detection. He has also advanced 6D pose estimation through novel correlation fusion techniques (10 citations), enabling robots to grasp and manipulate objects even under heavy occlusion. In human-robot collaboration, Lim’s gesture-enhanced comprehension system (11 citations) demonstrates how pointing gestures can resolve ambiguous instructions, achieving superior multimodal understanding. His research on controllable video generation (14 citations) further extends his impact into generative AI. With over 100 publications and numerous citations, Lim’s work has fundamentally shaped modern active vision systems, making robots more perceptive, adaptive, and collaborative in real-world environments.