Papers
34
Total Citations
463
H-Index
12
About
Hichem Sahli is a multidisciplinary robotics and computer vision researcher whose work spans social human-robot interaction, autonomous mobile systems, and intelligent sensing. His most influential contribution lies in the domain of child-robot interaction, where his 2015 paper on long-term social engagement through multi-activity switching has garnered over 100 citations, demonstrating his significant impact on how robots can support learning and therapeutic outcomes for young users. Sahli has also made notable strides in autonomous systems, developing dynamic models for underwater vehicles, terrain traversability analysis using 3D sensing, and multi-sensor localization frameworks combining visual SLAM with GPS correction for outdoor mobile robots. His early work on CoRoBa, a multi-robot control and simulation framework, provided foundational infrastructure for distributed robotics research, while his contributions to foreground detection in moving camera sequences reflect deep expertise in probabilistic computer vision. More recently, his exploration of forward-looking MIMO-SAR imaging for autonomous robots signals a forward-thinking integration of radar sensing into mobile platforms. Across these areas, Sahli has consistently bridged theoretical rigor with practical robotic applications, establishing himself as a versatile and enduring contributor to intelligent autonomous systems research.
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- 3CoRoBa, a Multi Mobile Robot Control and Simulation Framework28 citations · 2006
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- 5MRF-Based Foreground Detection in Image Sequences from a Moving Camera23 citations · 2006
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- 8Active stereo vision-based mobile robot navigation for person tracking17 citations · 2006
- 9An Event-Based Conversational System for the Nao Robot16 citations · 2011
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