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Steven L. Waslander

Steven L. Waslander

D-Index & Metrics

Engineering and Technology

D-Index
41
Citations
11870
World Ranking
6800
National Ranking
278

Steven L. Waslander publication distribution in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Engineering and Technology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Steven L. Waslander sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 804+

This scientist: 244 publications — 63rd percentile

63% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 804 publications or more.

Steven L. Waslander D-index placement in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Engineering and Technology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Steven L. Waslander sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 107+

This scientist: 41 D-Index — 31st percentile

31% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 107 D-Index or more.

Overview

Steven L. Waslander is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada, contributing extensively to research in computer science and engineering. Their work spans multiple subfields, including computer vision and pattern recognition, artificial intelligence, aerospace engineering, automotive engineering, and control and systems engineering.

The research topics explored by Waslander cover a wide range of areas such as robotics and sensor-based localization, advanced neural network applications, advanced vision and imaging, anomaly detection techniques and applications, autonomous vehicle technology and safety, video surveillance and tracking methods, and domain adaptation and few-shot learning.

Waslander has authored multiple papers published in notable venues. Some of the recent papers include:

  • "A Review and Comparative Study on Probabilistic Object Detection in Autonomous Driving," 2021, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
  • "An end-to-end shape modeling framework for vectorized building outline generation from aerial images," 2020, ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
  • "Dense Voxel Fusion for 3D Object Detection," 2023, 2023 IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV)
  • "ROBI: A Multi-View Dataset for Reflective Objects in Robotic Bin-Picking," 2021, 2021 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
  • "Learned Camera Gain and Exposure Control for Improved Visual Feature Detection and Matching," 2021, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

Their frequent coauthors comprise individuals who have collaborated on multiple occasions, reflecting ongoing research partnerships. These coauthors include:

  • Ali Harakeh
  • Jordan S. K. Hu
  • Letian Wang
  • Anas Mahmoud
  • Jun Yang

Waslander's publications have appeared in diverse venues, with a focus on journals and conferences in robotics, automation, and sensor systems. The most common venues where their work has been published are:

  • arXiv (Cornell University), with 51 publications
  • IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, with 3 publications
  • IEEE Access, with 2 publications
  • IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, with 1 publication
  • ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, with 1 publication

In terms of their disciplinary focus, the primary fields of study are computer science and engineering, underpinning their diverse research contributions across theoretical and applied domains.

Best Publications

  • Joint 3D Proposal Generation and Object Detection from View Aggregation

    Jason Ku;Melissa Mozifian;Jungwook Lee;Ali Harakeh

  • Quadrotor Helicopter Flight Dynamics and Control: Theory and Experiment

    Gabriel M. Homann;Haomiao Huang;Steven L. Waslander;Claire J. Tomlin

  • Aerodynamics and control of autonomous quadrotor helicopters in aggressive maneuvering

    Haomiao Huang;Gabriel M. Hoffmann;Steven L. Waslander;Claire J. Tomlin

  • The Stanford testbed of autonomous rotorcraft for multi agent control (STARMAC)

    G. Hoffmann;D.G. Rajnarayan;S.L. Waslander;D. Dostal

  • Internet of Drones

    Mirmojtaba Gharibi;Raouf Boutaba;Steven L. Waslander

  • Quadrotor Helicopter Trajectory Tracking Control

    Gabriel Hoffmann;Steven Waslander;Claire Tomlin

  • Multi-agent quadrotor testbed control design: integral sliding mode vs. reinforcement learning

    S.L. Waslander;G.M. Hoffmann;Jung Soon Jang;C.J. Tomlin

  • Precision flight control for a multi-vehicle quadrotor helicopter testbed

    Gabriel M. Hoffmann;Haomiao Huang;Steven L. Waslander;Claire J. Tomlin

  • Planning Paths for Package Delivery in Heterogeneous Multirobot Teams

    Neil Mathew;Stephen L. Smith;Steven L. Waslander

  • Monocular 3D Object Detection Leveraging Accurate Proposals and Shape Reconstruction

    Jason Ku;Alex D. Pon;Steven L. Waslander

  • Categorical Depth Distribution Network for Monocular 3D Object Detection

    Cody Reading;Ali Harakeh;Julia Chae;Steven L. Waslander

  • In Defense of Classical Image Processing: Fast Depth Completion on the CPU

    Jason Ku;Ali Harakeh;Steven L. Waslander

  • A Review and Comparative Study on Probabilistic Object Detection in Autonomous Driving

    Di Feng;Ali Harakeh;Steven L. Waslander;Klaus Dietmayer

  • Wind Disturbance Estimation and Rejection for Quadrotor Position Control

    Steven L. Waslander;Carlos Wang

  • Multirobot Rendezvous Planning for Recharging in Persistent Tasks

    Neil Mathew;Stephen L. Smith;Steven L. Waslander

  • De-noising of Lidar Point Clouds Corrupted by Snowfall

    Nicholas Charron;Stephen Phillips;Steven L. Waslander

  • Canadian Adverse Driving Conditions dataset

    Matthew Pitropov;Danson Evan Garcia;Jason Rebello;Michael Smart

  • Hybrid Trajectory Planning for Autonomous Driving in Highly Constrained Environments

    Yu Zhang;Huiyan Chen;Steven L. Waslander;Jianwei Gong

  • TEMPORARY REMOVAL: Aerial imagery for roof segmentation: A large-scale dataset towards automatic mapping of buildings

    Qi Chen;Qi Chen;Lei Wang;Yifan Wu;Guangming Wu

  • Joint 3D Proposal Generation and Object Detection from View Aggregation

    Jason Ku;Melissa Mozifian;Jungwook Lee;Ali Harakeh

  • Coordinated landing of a quadrotor on a skid-steered ground vehicle in the presence of time delays

    John M. Daly;Yan Ma;Steven L. Waslander

  • Tunnel-MILP: Path Planning with Sequential Convex Polytopes

    Michael Vitus;Vijay Pradeep;Gabriel Hoffmann;Steven Waslander

  • BayesOD: A Bayesian Approach for Uncertainty Estimation in Deep Object Detectors

    Ali Harakeh;Michael Smart;Steven L. Waslander

Frequent Co-Authors

Claire J. Tomlin
Claire J. Tomlin University of California, Berkeley
Krzysztof Czarnecki
Krzysztof Czarnecki University of Waterloo
Raouf Boutaba
Raouf Boutaba University of Waterloo
Stephen L. Smith
Stephen L. Smith University of Guelph
David A. Clausi
David A. Clausi University of Waterloo
Robin Cohen
Robin Cohen University of Waterloo
Timothy D. Barfoot
Timothy D. Barfoot University of Toronto
Amir Khajepour
Amir Khajepour University of Waterloo
Chelsea Finn
Chelsea Finn Stanford University
Hani E. Naguib
Hani E. Naguib University of Toronto

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