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Computer Science
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2023

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Discipline name D-index D-index (Discipline H-index) only includes papers and citation values for an examined discipline in contrast to General H-index which accounts for publications across all disciplines. Citations Publications World Ranking National Ranking
Computer Science D-index 152 Citations 122,976 410 World Ranking 14 National Ranking 7

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Awards & Achievements

2023 - Research.com Computer Science in United States Leader Award

2022 - Research.com Computer Science in United States Leader Award

2011 - AAAI Feigenbaum Prize "For their influential contributions to artificial intelligence via achievements in autonomous vehicle research, including experimental efforts and research leadership of teams addressing challenges with the fielding of robotic systems in the open world."

2011 - Max Planck Research Award Intelligent systems

2010 - IEEE ITS Outstanding Research Award

2007 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For contributions to probabilistic robotics, including mobile robot localization and mapping.

2007 - German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Informatics

2006 - Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) For significant contributions to the theory of probabilistic robot navigation and its successful real-world application.

Overview

What is he best known for?

The fields of study he is best known for:

  • Artificial intelligence
  • Machine learning
  • Computer vision

His primary scientific interests are in Artificial intelligence, Robot, Computer vision, Mobile robot and Probabilistic logic. His research investigates the connection between Artificial intelligence and topics such as Machine learning that intersect with problems in Expectation–maximization algorithm. Sebastian Thrun focuses mostly in the field of Robot, narrowing it down to topics relating to Human–computer interaction and, in certain cases, Software architecture, Human–robot interaction and Software.

His Computer vision study frequently links to adjacent areas such as Range. His studies in Mobile robot integrate themes in fields like Matching, Algorithm and Markov chain. His work carried out in the field of Probabilistic logic brings together such families of science as Monte Carlo method, Inertial measurement unit, Robustness and Robotic mapping.

His most cited work include:

  • Probabilistic Robotics (5011 citations)
  • Dermatologist-level classification of skin cancer with deep neural networks (4182 citations)
  • Text Classification from Labeled and Unlabeled Documents using EM (2460 citations)

What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?

Sebastian Thrun mainly focuses on Artificial intelligence, Computer vision, Robot, Mobile robot and Robotics. In Artificial intelligence, he works on issues like Human–computer interaction, which are connected to Software architecture. The study incorporates disciplines such as Simultaneous localization and mapping and Surface in addition to Computer vision.

His Robot research is multidisciplinary, relying on both Real-time computing and Task. His Mobile robot research includes elements of Motion planning and Markov chain. He interconnects Simulation and Mathematical optimization in the investigation of issues within Motion planning.

He most often published in these fields:

  • Artificial intelligence (69.07%)
  • Computer vision (37.92%)
  • Robot (33.63%)

What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2010-2020)?

  • Artificial intelligence (69.07%)
  • Computer vision (37.92%)
  • Algorithm (8.13%)

In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:

His primary areas of investigation include Artificial intelligence, Computer vision, Algorithm, Tracking and Probabilistic logic. His biological study spans a wide range of topics, including Machine learning and Pattern recognition. His Global Positioning System research extends to the thematically linked field of Computer vision.

Many of his research projects under Algorithm are closely connected to Gaussian process with Gaussian process, tying the diverse disciplines of science together. His Probabilistic logic study combines topics from a wide range of disciplines, such as Robotics and State. The Mobile robot study combines topics in areas such as Contextual image classification and Cognitive neuroscience of visual object recognition.

Between 2010 and 2020, his most popular works were:

  • Dermatologist-level classification of skin cancer with deep neural networks (4182 citations)
  • Learning to Track at 100 FPS with Deep Regression Networks (745 citations)
  • Towards fully autonomous driving: Systems and algorithms (678 citations)

In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • Artificial intelligence
  • Machine learning
  • Programming language

Sebastian Thrun mainly investigates Artificial intelligence, Computer vision, Object detection, Point cloud and Tracking. Sebastian Thrun frequently studies issues relating to Key and Artificial intelligence. His Computer vision study incorporates themes from Probabilistic logic and Baseline.

His research in Object detection intersects with topics in Lidar, Beam, Optics and Ranging. His Tracking study combines topics in areas such as Motion and Posterior probability. Sebastian Thrun works mostly in the field of Robot, limiting it down to topics relating to Flexibility and, in certain cases, Sensor fusion.

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Best Publications

Probabilistic Robotics

Sebastian Thrun.
(2005)

12231 Citations

Dermatologist-level classification of skin cancer with deep neural networks

Andre Esteva;Brett Kuprel;Roberto A. Novoa;Justin M. Ko.
Nature (2017)

8155 Citations

Text Classification from Labeled and Unlabeled Documents using EM

Kamal Nigam;Andrew Kachites McCallum;Sebastian Thrun;Tom Mitchell.
Machine Learning (2000)

4078 Citations

FastSLAM: a factored solution to the simultaneous localization and mapping problem

Michael Montemerlo;Sebastian Thrun;Daphne Koller;Ben Wegbreit.
national conference on artificial intelligence (2002)

3441 Citations

The dynamic window approach to collision avoidance

D. Fox;W. Burgard;S. Thrun.
IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine (1997)

3307 Citations

Stanley: The Robot that Won the DARPA Grand Challenge

Sebastian Thrun;Michael Montemerlo;Hendrik Dahlkamp;David Stavens.
Journal of Field Robotics (2006)

2762 Citations

Robust Monte Carlo localization for mobile robots

Sebastian Thrun;Dieter Fox;Wolfram Burgard;Frank Dallaert.
Artificial Intelligence (2001)

2558 Citations

Robotic mapping: a survey

Sebastian Thrun.
Exploring artificial intelligence in the new millennium (2003)

2376 Citations

Monte Carlo localization for mobile robots

F. Dellaert;D. Fox;W. Burgard;S. Thrun.
international conference on robotics and automation (1999)

2165 Citations

Probabilistic Robotics (Intelligent Robotics and Autonomous Agents)

Sebastian Thrun;Wolfram Burgard;Dieter Fox.
(2005)

1968 Citations

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