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Overview

Kostas Daniilidis is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Their research spans the fields of Computer Science and Engineering, with significant contributions to specialized subfields including Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Artificial Intelligence, Aerospace Engineering, Computational Mechanics, and Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

The scientist's work encompasses several main topics characterized by a focus on vision technologies, robotics, and computational methods. These topics include:

  • Advanced Vision and Imaging
  • Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization
  • Human Pose and Action Recognition
  • 3D Shape Modeling and Analysis
  • Advanced Memory and Neural Computing
  • Robotic Path Planning Algorithms
  • Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques

Kostas Daniilidis has published extensively, with frequent appearances in venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Field Robotics, the 2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), and the 2021 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). Notable recent papers include:

  • "Event-based Vision: A Survey" (2020), Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich)
  • "Planning to Explore via Self-Supervised World Models" (2020), arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "Uncertainty-driven Planner for Exploration and Navigation" (2022), 2022 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
  • "CaDeX: Learning Canonical Deformation Coordinate Space for Dynamic Surface Representation via Neural Homeomorphism" (2022), 2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
  • "Simple and Effective VAE Training with Calibrated Decoders" (2020), arXiv (Cornell University)

Their collaborative network includes frequent coauthors such as Karl Schmeckpeper, Jiahui Lei, Ziyun Wang, Yufu Wang, and Georgios Pavlakos. These partnerships highlight a sustained research activity with several contributors involved in diverse topics related to robotics, vision, and machine learning.

Best Publications

  • Event-based Vision: A Survey

    Guillermo Gallego;Tobi Delbruck;Garrick Michael Orchard;Chiara Bartolozzi

  • Model-based object tracking in monocular image sequences of road traffic scenes

    D. Koller;K. Daniilidis;H. H. Nagel

  • Coarse-to-Fine Volumetric Prediction for Single-Image 3D Human Pose

    Georgios Pavlakos;Xiaowei Zhou;Konstantinos G. Derpanis;Kostas Daniilidis

  • Learning to Reconstruct 3D Human Pose and Shape via Model-Fitting in the Loop

    Nikos Kolotouros;Georgios Pavlakos;Michael Black;Kostas Daniilidis

  • Learning to Estimate 3D Human Pose and Shape from a Single Color Image

    Georgios Pavlakos;Luyang Zhu;Xiaowei Zhou;Kostas Daniilidis

  • A Unifying Theory for Central Panoramic Systems and Practical Applications

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  • Catadioptric Projective Geometry

    Christopher Geyer;Kostas Daniilidis

  • Linear Pose Estimation from Points or Lines

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  • Convolutional Mesh Regression for Single-Image Human Shape Reconstruction

    Nikos Kolotouros;Georgios Pavlakos;Kostas Daniilidis

  • Unsupervised Event-Based Learning of Optical Flow, Depth, and Egomotion

    Alex Zihao Zhu;Liangzhe Yuan;Kenneth Chaney;Kostas Daniilidis

  • Probabilistic data association for semantic SLAM

    Sean L. Bowman;Nikolay Atanasov;Kostas Daniilidis;George J. Pappas

  • Sparseness Meets Deepness: 3D Human Pose Estimation from Monocular Video

    Xiaowei Zhou;Menglong Zhu;Spyridon Leonardos;Konstantinos G. Derpanis

  • Learning SO(3) Equivariant Representations with Spherical CNNs

    Carlos Esteves;Christine Allen-Blanchette;Ameesh Makadia;Kostas Daniilidis

  • The Multi Vehicle Stereo Event Camera Dataset: An Event Camera Dataset for 3D Perception

    Alex Zihao Zhu;Dinesh Thakur;Tolga Ozaslan;Bernd Pfrommer

  • Fully Automatic Registration of 3D Point Clouds

    A. Makadia;A.I. Patterson;K. Daniilidis

  • Ordinal Depth Supervision for 3D Human Pose Estimation

    Georgios Pavlakos;Xiaowei Zhou;Kostas Daniilidis

  • 6-DoF object pose from semantic keypoints

    Georgios Pavlakos;Xiaowei Zhou;Aaron Chan;Konstantinos G. Derpanis

  • EV-FlowNet: Self-Supervised Optical Flow Estimation for Event-based Cameras

    Alex Zihao Zhu;Liangzhe Yuan;Kenneth Chaney;Kostas Daniilidis

  • Monocular visual odometry in urban environments using an omnidirectional camera

    J.-P. Tardif;Y. Pavlidis;K. Daniilidis

  • Paracatadioptric camera calibration

    C. Geyer;K. Daniilidis

  • Initialization techniques for 3D SLAM: A survey on rotation estimation and its use in pose graph optimization

    Luca Carlone;Roberto Tron;Kostas Daniilidis;Frank Dellaert

  • Vision-Based, Distributed Control Laws for Motion Coordination of Nonholonomic Robots

    N. Moshtagh;N. Michael;A. Jadbabaie;K. Daniilidis

  • Single image 3D object detection and pose estimation for grasping

    Menglong Zhu;Konstantinos G. Derpanis;Yinfei Yang;Samarth Brahmbhatt

Frequent Co-Authors

George J. Pappas
George J. Pappas University of Pennsylvania
Giuseppe Loianno
Giuseppe Loianno New York University
Gerald Sommer
Gerald Sommer Kiel University
Volkan Isler
Volkan Isler University of Minnesota
Nikos Paragios
Nikos Paragios CentraleSupélec
Petros Maragos
Petros Maragos National Technical University of Athens
Sampath Kannan
Sampath Kannan University of Pennsylvania
Alexander Toshev
Alexander Toshev Apple (United States)
Peter Corke
Peter Corke Queensland University of Technology

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