Papers
215
Total Citations
4,300
H-Index
32
About
Markus Vincze is a prominent robotics researcher whose work spans assistive robotics, robot perception, and long-term autonomous systems. Based at the intersection of computer vision and human-robot interaction, he has made foundational contributions to enabling robots to operate meaningfully in real-world, everyday environments. Vincze is perhaps best known for leading the Hobbit project, a care robot designed to support independent living for older adults — a landmark achievement that earned 350 citations and culminated in rigorous field trials across 16 private households. His involvement in the STRANDS Project (196 citations) further cemented his reputation for advancing long-term robot autonomy in unstructured settings. On the perception side, his research on stereo matching algorithms, RGB-D object segmentation, large-scale 3D object recognition via the 3DNet framework, and depth camera evaluation has provided the robotics community with essential tools for robust scene understanding. Vincze has also explored the social dimensions of robotics, including multimodal emotion recognition in human-robot interaction (180 citations), and has contributed thoughtfully to educational robotics by helping formalize its definition. With a body of work totaling well over 1,500 citations across these diverse domains, Vincze stands as a versatile and deeply impactful figure in modern robotics research.
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Key Achievements
Top Papers
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- 2The STRANDS Project: Long-Term Autonomy in Everyday Environments196 citations · 2017
- 3A fast stereo matching algorithm suitable for embedded real-time systems195 citations · 2010
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- 5Segmentation of unknown objects in indoor environments156 citations · 2012
- 63DNet: Large-scale object class recognition from CAD models141 citations · 2012
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- 9Towards a Formal Definition of Educational Robotics73 citations · 2018
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