Jan Stria

Czech Technical University in Prague, Institute of Informatics of the Slovak Academy of Sciences

Papers

Total Citations

254

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About

Jan Stria is a leading researcher in the intersection of computer vision and robotic manipulation, with a primary focus on the autonomous handling of deformable objects—specifically, garments. His work tackles one of robotics' grand challenges: enabling machines to perceive, grasp, and manipulate non-rigid materials like clothing. Stria’s most impactful contribution is the development of a complete pipeline for autonomous clothes folding, detailed in his 2016 paper (125 citations), which integrates vision, planning, and dual-arm control to transform a pile of laundry into neatly folded items. He has also pioneered methods for garment perception, including real-time segmentation and classification of hanging garments using learned features from 3D point clouds (22 citations), and model-free approaches to unfolding folded layers (7 citations). His research is notable for moving beyond simple grasping to address the complex perception and planning required for tasks like isolating a single garment from a pile or detecting folded layers. With a publication record spanning from 2014 to 2018, Stria’s work has laid critical groundwork for robotic laundry and textile handling, directly influencing the development of more autonomous and capable service robots.