2026 Rainer Stiefelhagen: 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	76	1350	1308	53	53	468	21560

Research.com Recognitions

2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Germany Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Computer Science in Germany Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Germany Leader Award

Overview

Rainer Stiefelhagen is affiliated with the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany. Their research primarily spans the field of Computer Science, with a significant focus on several specialized subfields including Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Artificial Intelligence, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Human-Computer Interaction.

The scientist's work covers a range of main topics within these areas, notably:

Advanced Neural Network Applications
Human Pose and Action Recognition
Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques
Multimodal Machine Learning Applications
Tactile and Sensory Interactions
Video Surveillance and Tracking Methods
Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization

Among Rainer Stiefelhagen's recent research publications are the following:

CMX: Cross-Modal Fusion for RGB-X Semantic Segmentation With Transformers, 2023, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
Bending Reality: Distortion-aware Transformers for Adapting to Panoramic Semantic Segmentation, 2022, 2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
Measuring and evaluating the compactness of superpixels, 2022, Fraunhofer-Publica (Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft)
Trans4Trans: Efficient Transformer for Transparent Object and Semantic Scene Segmentation in Real-World Navigation Assistance, 2022, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
Omnisupervised Omnidirectional Semantic Segmentation, 2020, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems

Rainer Stiefelhagen has published extensively in several venues, with notable frequent publication outlets including:

arXiv (Cornell University)
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
at - Automatisierungstechnik
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

The scientist has collaborated frequently with a number of coauthors over their career. Key frequent collaborators are:

Kailun Yang
Kunyu Peng
Alina Roitberg
Constantin Seibold
Jens Kleesiek

Best Publications

Evaluating multiple object tracking performance: the CLEAR MOT metrics

Keni Bernardin;Rainer Stiefelhagen

3091
Citations
MovieQA: Understanding Stories in Movies through Question-Answering

Makarand Tapaswi;Yukun Zhu;Rainer Stiefelhagen;Antonio Torralba

673
Citations
CMX: Cross-Modal Fusion for RGB-X Semantic Segmentation With Transformers

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565
Citations
A Pose-Sensitive Embedding for Person Re-identification with Expanded Cross Neighborhood Re-ranking

M. Saquib Sarfraz;Arne Schumann;Andreas Eberle;Rainer Stiefelhagen

499
Citations
Sensor fusion using Dempster-Shafer theory [for context-aware HCI]

Huadong Wu;M. Siegel;R. Stiefelhagen;Jie Yang

423
Citations
Visual recognition of pointing gestures for human-robot interaction

Kai Nickel;Rainer Stiefelhagen

351
Citations
Natural human-robot interaction using speech, head pose and gestures

R. Stiefelhagen;C. Fugen;R. Gieselmann;H. Holzapfel

295
Citations
Sensor Fusion Using Dempster-Shafer Theory

Huadong Wu;Mel Siegel;Rainer Stiefelhagen;Jie Yang

294
Citations
Pointing gesture recognition based on 3D-tracking of face, hands and head orientation

Kai Nickel;Rainer Stiefelhagen

259
Citations
Machine Learning for Multimodal Interaction

Andrei Popescu-Belis;Rainer Stiefelhagen

250
Citations
CNN-based sensor fusion techniques for multimodal human activity recognition

Sebastian Münzner;Philip Schmidt;Attila Reiss;Michael Hanselmann

246
Citations
Efficient Parameter-Free Clustering Using First Neighbor Relations

Saquib Sarfraz;Vivek Sharma;Rainer Stiefelhagen

238
Citations
The CLEAR 2006 evaluation

Rainer Stiefelhagen;Keni Bernardin;Rachel Bowers;John Garofolo

236
Citations
Modeling focus of attention for meeting indexing based on multiple cues

R. Stiefelhagen;Jie Yang;A. Waibel

221
Citations
Head orientation and gaze direction in meetings

Rainer Stiefelhagen;Jie Zhu

216
Citations
Tracking focus of attention in meetings

Rainer Stiefelhagen

216
Citations
Multimodal Technologies for Perception of Humans

Rainer Stiefelhagen;Rachel Bowers;Jonathan Fiscus

206
Citations
Person Re-identification by Deep Learning Attribute-Complementary Information

Arne Schumann;Rainer Stiefelhagen

204
Citations
Computers in the Human Interaction Loop

Alexander Waibel;Rainer Stiefelhagen

193
Citations
Improving foreground segmentations with probabilistic superpixel Markov random fields

Alexander Schick;Martin Bauml;Rainer Stiefelhagen

188
Citations
A Model-Based Gaze Tracking System

Rainer Stiefelhagen;Rainer Stiefelhagen;Jie Yang;Jie Yang;Alex Waibel;Alex Waibel

184
Citations
Head pose estimation using stereo vision for human-robot interaction

E. Seemann;K. Nickel;R. Stiefelhagen

179
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Hazim Kemal Ekenel Istanbul Technical University

Alex Waibel Carnegie Mellon University

Jie Yang Carnegie Mellon University

Luc Van Gool Institute for Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence and Technology (INSAIT)

John S. Garofolo National Institute of Standards and Technology

Tanja Schultz University of Bremen

Fabio Pianesi Fondazione Bruno Kessler

Uwe D. Hanebeck Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Gerasimos Potamianos University Of Thessaly

Raquel Urtasun University of Toronto

External Links

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