Dieter Fox
University of Washington professor known for probabilistic robotics, including Monte Carlo localization and the textbook Probabilistic Robotics.
University of Washington · United States
- Rank
- #19
- Score
- 61.1
- Citations
- 45,177
- h-index
- 105
- Robotics papers 2023–2025
- 16
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About
Dieter Fox co-authored the textbook Probabilistic Robotics and helped develop Monte Carlo localization, a standard way for mobile robots to estimate where they are. His later work includes PoseCNN for estimating object poses for manipulation.
Representative work
Selected highly cited papers, linked to their publisher or arXiv versions:
- PoseCNN: A Convolutional Neural Network for 6D Object Pose Estimation in Cluttered Scenes (2018)
- Robust Monte Carlo localization for mobile robots (2001)
- A large-scale hierarchical multi-view RGB-D object dataset (2011)
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Who is Dieter Fox?
Dieter Fox is a University of Washington professor known for probabilistic robotics, including Monte Carlo localization and the textbook Probabilistic Robotics.