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55
Citations
13265
World Ranking
4283
National Ranking
2018

Overview

Kikuo Fujimura is affiliated with Honda in the United States and has a research focus primarily within the fields of Engineering and Computer Science. Their scholarly contributions emphasize Control and Systems Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, and Automotive Engineering, with additional work in Agronomy and Crop Science and Signal Processing.

The scientist's research frequently addresses topics such as Autonomous Vehicle Technology and Safety, Reinforcement Learning in Robotics, Traffic control and management, and Real-time simulation and control systems. Other areas of interest include Robotics and Automated Systems, Data Management and Algorithms, and Web Data Mining and Analysis.

Publication venues for their work include a range of notable journals and conferences. Frequent publication outlets encompass arXiv (Cornell University), IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, IEEE Transactions on Robotics, and the Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence.

Frequent collaborators in their research include David Isele, Mykel J. Kochenderfer, Jiachen Li, Wen-Hua Chen, and Martin R. Adams.

Recent papers by Kikuo Fujimura include:

  • Lane-Change in Dense Traffic With Model Predictive Control and Neural Networks, 2022, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology
  • Interactive Autonomous Navigation With Internal State Inference and Interactivity Estimation, 2024, IEEE Transactions on Robotics
  • Recursive Reasoning Graph for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning, 2022, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  • Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Driving with Latent State Inference and Spatial-Temporal Relationships, 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles New Associate Editors, 2020, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles

Best Publications

  • The intelligent ASIMO: system overview and integration

    Y. Sakagami;R. Watanabe;C. Aoyama;S. Matsunaga

  • Sign based human-machine interaction

    Kikuo Fujimura;Xia Liu

  • Visual Tracking Using Depth Data

    H. Nanda;K. Fujimura

  • Pedestrian detection and tracking with night vision

    Fengliang Xu;Xia Liu;Kikuo Fujimura

  • Target orientation estimation using depth sensing

    Kikuo Fujimura;Youding Zhu

  • Pose estimation based on critical point analysis

    Kikuo Fujimura;Youding Zhu

  • Navigating Occluded Intersections with Autonomous Vehicles Using Deep Reinforcement Learning

    David Isele;Reza Rahimi;Akansel Cosgun;Kaushik Subramanian

  • A hierarchical strategy for path planning among moving obstacles (mobile robot)

    K. Fujimura;H. Samet

  • Hand gesture recognition using depth data

    Xia Liu;K. Fujimura

  • Development of a Controlled Vocabulary and Software Application to Analyze Fruit Shape Variation in Tomato and Other Plant Species

    Marin Talbot Brewer;Lixin Lang;Kikuo Fujimura;Nancy Dujmovic

  • GPS-based message broadcast for adaptive inter-vehicle communications

    Min-Te Sun;Wu-Chi Feng;Ten-Hwang Lai;K. Yamada

  • A hierarchical strategy for path planning among moving obstacles

    K. Fujimura;H. Samet

  • Computer system recognizing gesture, walking robot, and method

    Kikuo Fujimura;Nobuo Higaki;Yuichi Yoshida;雄一 吉田

  • Human pose estimation and tracking using label

    Kikuo Fujimura;Youding Zhu

  • GPS-based message broadcasting for inter-vehicle communication

    Min-Te Sun;Wu-Chi Feng;Ten-Hwang Lai;K. Yamada

  • Real-time eye detection and tracking under various light conditions

    Zhiwei Zhu;Kikuo Fujimura;Qiang Ji

  • Combining Kalman filtering and mean shift for real time eye tracking under active IR illumination

    Zhiwei Zhu;Qiang Ji;K. Fujimura;Kuangchih Lee

  • A system for automated seed vigour assessment

    Y. Sako;M. B. Mcdonald;K. Fujimura;A. F. Evans

  • Motion Planning in Dynamic Environments

    Kikuo Fujimura;Toshiyasu L. Kunii

  • Pedestrian detection and tracking with night vision

    Fengliang Xu;Kikuo Fujimura

Frequent Co-Authors

Mykel J. Kochenderfer
Mykel J. Kochenderfer Stanford University
Hanan Samet
Hanan Samet University of Maryland, College Park
Tosiyasu L. Kunii
Tosiyasu L. Kunii University of Tokyo
Scott J. Moura
Scott J. Moura University of California, Berkeley
Masayoshi Tomizuka
Masayoshi Tomizuka University of California, Berkeley
Michael Gienger
Michael Gienger Honda (Japan)
Zhiwei Zhu
Zhiwei Zhu SRI International
Qiang Ji
Qiang Ji Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Koji Yamada
Koji Yamada National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Maxim Likhachev
Maxim Likhachev Carnegie Mellon University

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