Papers
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Total Citations
859
H-Index
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About
Renato Martins is a researcher whose work spans nanophotonics, LiDAR technology, robotic perception, and computer vision, with particular emphasis on bridging cutting-edge photonic engineering and autonomous systems. He has made significant contributions to the development of metasurface-enhanced and bio-inspired LiDAR systems, pioneering approaches that dramatically expand the field of view and imaging capabilities of 3D sensors for autonomous driving and robotics. His 2021 review on nanophotonics for LiDAR has become a landmark reference in the field, accumulating nearly 500 citations, while his subsequent work on metasurface-enhanced LiDAR has drawn over 130 citations, reflecting the community's strong interest in this emerging direction. Beyond photonics, Martins has advanced semantic mapping and scene understanding for mobile robots, proposing learning-based frameworks that fuse visual and depth data to enrich environmental representations for navigation. His work on semantic segmentation evaluation metrics has also been widely recognized, with over 90 citations. More recently, he has explored polarimetric imaging as a practical tool for robotic vision. Across these diverse but complementary domains, Martins consistently pursues solutions that make autonomous systems perceive and understand the world more reliably and efficiently.
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Top Papers
- 1Nanophotonics for light detection and ranging technology498 citations · 2021
- 2Metasurface-enhanced light detection and ranging technology138 citations · 2022
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- 7Bio-inspired flat optics for directional 3D light detection and ranging13 citations · 2024
- 8A Practical Calibration Method for RGB Micro-Grid Polarimetric Cameras12 citations · 2022
- 9A compact spherical RGBD keyframe-based representation7 citations · 2015
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