Danfei Xu

7.6k total citations · 3 hit papers
30 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Danfei Xu is a scholar working on Control and Systems Engineering, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Danfei Xu has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Control and Systems Engineering, 15 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and 11 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Danfei Xu's work include Robot Manipulation and Learning (12 papers), Multimodal Machine Learning Applications (7 papers) and Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization (7 papers). Danfei Xu is often cited by papers focused on Robot Manipulation and Learning (12 papers), Multimodal Machine Learning Applications (7 papers) and Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization (7 papers). Danfei Xu collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and China. Danfei Xu's co-authors include Dragomir Anguelov, Ashesh Jain, Li Fei-Fei, Silvio Savarese, Yuke Zhu, Roberto Martín-Martín, Chen Wang, Cewu Lu, Animesh Garg and Gerald E. Loeb and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics and Autonomous Robots.

In The Last Decade

Danfei Xu

27 papers receiving 2.3k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

DenseFusion: 6D Object Pose Estimation by Iterative Dense Fusion

2019 670 citations Danfei Xu, Yuke Zhu et al. profile →
PointFusion: Deep Sensor Fusion for 3D Bounding Box Estimation

2018 542 citations Danfei Xu et al. profile →
ProgPrompt: Generating Situated Robot Task Plans using Large Language Models

2023 272 citations Ishika Singh, Valts Blukis et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Danfei Xu United States	18	1.3k	1.1k	785	486	340	30	2.4k
Roberto Martín-Martín United States	21	1.0k 0.8×	992 0.9×	627 0.8×	296 0.6×	260 0.8×	48	1.8k
Kostas E. Bekris United States	34	2.0k 1.6×	1.2k 1.1×	1.2k 1.5×	652 1.3×	409 1.2×	123	3.9k
Jeannette Bohg United States	25	843 0.6×	1.2k 1.0×	334 0.4×	526 1.1×	542 1.6×	83	2.1k
Arsalan Mousavian United States	13	1.1k 0.9×	488 0.4×	638 0.8×	329 0.7×	119 0.3×	20	1.7k
Dmitry Berenson United States	26	1.6k 1.2×	2.3k 2.0×	621 0.8×	570 1.2×	972 2.9×	82	3.4k
Alberto Rodríguez United States	26	831 0.6×	1.8k 1.6×	444 0.6×	337 0.7×	1.2k 3.4×	71	2.9k
Andy Zeng United States	18	1.9k 1.4×	991 0.9×	1.0k 1.3×	799 1.6×	348 1.0×	28	3.4k
Ankur Handa United Kingdom	18	1.5k 1.1×	462 0.4×	1.1k 1.4×	233 0.5×	162 0.5×	31	2.3k
Brett Browning United States	18	879 0.7×	1.5k 1.3×	488 0.6×	1.3k 2.6×	395 1.2×	53	2.8k
Kai O. Arras Germany	31	2.5k 1.9×	583 0.5×	1.2k 1.5×	836 1.7×	265 0.8×	90	3.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Danfei Xu

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Fields of papers citing papers by Danfei Xu

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Danfei Xu

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Danfei Xu. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Danfei Xu based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Danfei Xu. Danfei Xu is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Liu, Fobang, Yujun Cai, Sehoon Ha, et al.. (2025). Opt2Skill: Imitating Dynamically-Feasible Whole-Body Trajectories for Versatile Humanoid Loco-Manipulation. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 10(11). 12261–12268.

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Patel, Dhruv, et al.. (2025). EgoMimic: Scaling Imitation Learning via Egocentric Video. 13226–13233. 1 indexed citations

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Aponte, Eduardo A., et al.. (2025). SAMCell: Generalized label-free biological cell segmentation with segment anything. PLoS ONE. 20(9). e0319532–e0319532.

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Xu, Danfei, et al.. (2024). Legibility Diffuser: Offline Imitation for Intent Expressive Motion. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 9(11). 10161–10168.

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Ding, Yan, et al.. (2024). A Survey of Optimization-Based Task and Motion Planning: From Classical to Learning Approaches. IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics. 30(4). 2799–2825. 7 indexed citations

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Dellaert, Frank, et al.. (2024). Neural Visibility Field for Uncertainty-Driven Active Mapping. 18122–18132. 1 indexed citations

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Singh, Ishika, Valts Blukis, Arsalan Mousavian, et al.. (2023). ProgPrompt: program generation for situated robot task planning using large language models. Autonomous Robots. 47(8). 999–1012. 36 indexed citations

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Xu, Danfei, Yuxiao Chen, Boris Ivanovic, & Marco Pavone. (2023). BITS: Bi-level Imitation for Traffic Simulation. 2929–2936. 25 indexed citations

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Singh, Ishika, Valts Blukis, Arsalan Mousavian, et al.. (2023). ProgPrompt: Generating Situated Robot Task Plans using Large Language Models. 11523–11530. 272 indexed citations breakdown →

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Zhong, Ziyuan, Davis Rempe, Danfei Xu, et al.. (2023). Guided Conditional Diffusion for Controllable Traffic Simulation. 3560–3566. 48 indexed citations

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Xu, Danfei, et al.. (2022). Generalizable Task Planning Through Representation Pretraining. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 7(3). 8299–8306. 14 indexed citations

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Wang, Chen, Roberto Martín-Martín, Danfei Xu, et al.. (2020). 6-PACK: Category-level 6D Pose Tracker with Anchor-Based Keypoints. 10059–10066. 96 indexed citations

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Mandlekar, Ajay, Danfei Xu, Roberto Martín-Martín, Silvio Savarese, & Li Fei-Fei. (2020). GTI: Learning to Generalize across Long-Horizon Tasks from Human Demonstrations. 54 indexed citations

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Xu, Danfei, Roberto Martín-Martín, De-An Huang, et al.. (2019). Regression Planning Networks. arXiv (Cornell University). 32. 1319–1329. 3 indexed citations

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Xu, Danfei, Suraj Nair, Yuke Zhu, et al.. (2018). Neural Task Programming: Learning to Generalize Across Hierarchical Tasks. 3795–3802. 89 indexed citations

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Li, Yinxiao, Yonghao Yue, Danfei Xu, et al.. (2018). Model-Driven Feedforward Prediction for Manipulation of Deformable Objects. IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering. 15(4). 1621–1638. 25 indexed citations

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Li, Yinxiao, et al.. (2016). Multi-sensor surface analysis for robotic ironing. 5670–5676. 22 indexed citations

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Li, Yinxiao, Yonghao Yue, Danfei Xu, Eitan Grinspun, & Peter K. Allen. (2015). Folding deformable objects using predictive simulation and trajectory optimization. 6000–6006. 77 indexed citations

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Xu, Danfei, Hernán Badino, & Daniel Huber. (2014). Topometric localization on a road network. 3448–3455. 16 indexed citations

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Xu, Danfei, Gerald E. Loeb, & Jeremy A. Fishel. (2013). Tactile identification of objects using Bayesian exploration. 3056–3061. 129 indexed citations

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