2026 Justus Piater: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	36	11239	10919	97	94	249	5687

Overview

Justus Piater is a researcher affiliated with the University of Innsbruck in Austria. Their work spans multiple fields within computer science and engineering, with a focus on robotics and artificial intelligence.

Their main fields of study include:

Computer Science
Engineering

Within these fields, their subfields of expertise cover:

Artificial Intelligence
Control and Systems Engineering
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
Computer Science Applications

Justus Piater's research addresses a variety of topics, notably:

Robot Manipulation and Learning
Reinforcement Learning in Robotics
AI-based Problem Solving and Planning
Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning
Advanced Neural Network Applications
Human Pose and Action Recognition
Multimodal Machine Learning Applications

Their publication record includes journal articles and book chapters across several established venues and publishers. Frequent publication venues include:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Robotics and Autonomous Systems
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
Institutional Research Information System (Università degli Studi di Trento)
Frontiers in Robotics and AI

They have also contributed to edited books published by:

Springer Science+Business Media
Springer International Publishing

Some recent representative papers authored or co-authored by Justus Piater include:

"Continual learning from demonstration of robotics skills" (2023), published in Robotics and Autonomous Systems
"DeepSym: Deep Symbol Generation and Rule Learning for Planning from Unsupervised Robot Interaction" (2022), published in Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
"Skill Learning by Autonomous Robotic Playing Using Active Learning and Exploratory Behavior Composition" (2020), published in Frontiers in Robotics and AI
"Manipulation Planning Using Object-Centered Predicates and Hierarchical Decomposition of Contextual Actions" (2020), published in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
"Reconfigurable Behavior Trees: Towards an Executive Framework Meeting High-level Decision Making and Control Layer Features" (2020), published in Institutional Research Information System (Università degli Studi di Trento)

Their frequent co-authors include:

Matteo Saveriano
Jakob Hollenstein
Erwan Renaudo
Sayantan Auddy
Antonio Rodríguez-Sánchez

Best Publications

Deep Hierarchies in the Primate Visual Cortex: What Can We Learn for Computer Vision?

N. Kruger;P. Janssen;S. Kalkan;M. Lappe

442
Citations
Random subwindows for robust image classification

R. Maree;P. Geurts;J. Piater;L. Wehenkel

344
Citations
Object-action complexes: Grounded abstractions of sensory-motor processes

Norbert Krüger;Christopher W. Geib;Justus H. Piater;Ronald P. A. Petrick

211
Citations
Learning Grasp Affordance Densities

Renaud Detry;Dirk Kraft;Oliver Kroemer;Leon Bodenhagen

204
Citations
Affordances in Psychology, Neuroscience, and Robotics: A Survey

Lorenzo Jamone;Emre Ugur;Angelo Cangelosi;Luciano Fadiga

193
Citations
Combining active learning and reactive control for robot grasping

O. B. Kroemer;R. Detry;J. Piater;J. Peters

193
Citations
Developing haptic and visual perceptual categories for reaching and grasping with a humanoid robot

Jefferson A. Coelho;Justus H. Piater;Roderic A. Grupen

173
Citations
The State of the Art in Multiple Object Tracking Under Occlusion in Video Sequences

Pierre F. Gabriel;Jacques Verly;Justus Piater;Alain Genon

168
Citations
RWTH-PHOENIX-Weather: A Large Vocabulary Sign Language Recognition and Translation Corpus

Jens Forster;Christoph Schmidt;Thomas Hoyoux;Oscar Koller

143
Citations
Multi-camera people tracking by collaborative particle filters and principal axis-based integration

Wei Du;Justus Piater

135
Citations
Online Learning of Gaussian Mixture Models - a Two-Level Approach.

Arnaud Declercq;Justus H. Piater

115
Citations
A Simple Ontology of Manipulation Actions Based on Hand-Object Relations

F. Worgotter;E. E. Aksoy;N. Kruger;J. Piater

104
Citations
Bottom-up learning of object categories, action effects and logical rules: From continuous manipulative exploration to symbolic planning

Emre Ugur;Justus Piater

102
Citations
Computational models of affordance in robotics: a taxonomy and systematic classification:

Philipp Zech;Simon Haller;Safoura Rezapour Lakani;Barry Ridge

99
Citations
Symbol Emergence in Cognitive Developmental Systems: A Survey

Tadahiro Taniguchi;Justus Piater;Florentin Worgotter;Emre Ugur

94
Citations
Learning object-specific grasp affordance densities

R. Detry;E. Baseski;M. Popovic;Y. Touati

90
Citations
A Probabilistic Framework for 3D Visual Object Representation

R. Detry;N. Pugeault;J.H. Piater

88
Citations
Multi-Modal Tracking of Interacting Targets Using Gaussian Approximations

Justus H. Piater;James L. Crowley

87
Citations
Generalizing grasps across partly similar objects

Renaud Detry;Carl Henrik Ek;Marianna Madry;Justus Piater

78
Citations
Teaching a Robot the Semantics of Assembly Tasks

Thiusius Rajeeth Savarimuthu;Anders Glent Buch;Christian Schlette;Nils Wantia

56
Citations
Symbol Emergence in Cognitive Developmental Systems: a Survey

Tadahiro Taniguchi;Emre Ugur;Matej Hoffmann;Lorenzo Jamone

3
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Norbert Krüger University of Southern Denmark

Florentin Wörgötter University of Göttingen

Jan Peters Technical University of Darmstadt

Roderic A. Grupen University of Massachusetts Amherst

Tamim Asfour Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

James L. Crowley Grenoble Alpes University

Pierre Geurts University of Liège

Hermann Ney RWTH Aachen University

Louis Wehenkel University of Liège

Ales Ude Jožef Stefan Institute

External Links

Personal website of Justus Piater Google Scholar page

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