John R. Birk

537 total citations
20 papers, 388 citations indexed

About

John R. Birk is a scholar working on Control and Systems Engineering, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, John R. Birk has authored 20 papers receiving a total of 388 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Control and Systems Engineering, 7 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and 7 papers in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. Recurrent topics in John R. Birk's work include Robot Manipulation and Learning (9 papers), Manufacturing Process and Optimization (5 papers) and Robotic Mechanisms and Dynamics (4 papers). John R. Birk is often cited by papers focused on Robot Manipulation and Learning (9 papers), Manufacturing Process and Optimization (5 papers) and Robotic Mechanisms and Dynamics (4 papers). John R. Birk collaborates with scholars based in United States and Portugal. John R. Birk's co-authors include Robert B. Kelley, Rajarshi Ray and Srinivas Parthasarathy and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control and Proceedings of the IEEE.

In The Last Decade

John R. Birk

20 papers receiving 354 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
John R. Birk United States	10	275	102	81	71	52	20	388
Robert B. Kelley United States	12	339 1.2×	142 1.4×	132 1.6×	71 1.0×	76 1.5×	40	480
Cregg Cowan United States	11	248 0.9×	161 1.6×	33 0.4×	29 0.4×	65 1.3×	20	423
Hyungsuck Cho South Korea	11	156 0.6×	69 0.7×	50 0.6×	58 0.8×	38 0.7×	56	370
Fred Rothganger United States	8	428 1.6×	263 2.6×	156 1.9×	40 0.6×	16 0.3×	18	548
Toru Kaneko Japan	12	272 1.0×	124 1.2×	36 0.4×	52 0.7×	17 0.3×	65	394
Jean-François Rivest Canada	6	273 1.0×	224 2.2×	33 0.4×	17 0.2×	54 1.0×	13	447
Rudi Penne Belgium	10	144 0.5×	46 0.5×	39 0.5×	29 0.4×	18 0.3×	51	360
Jinquan Li China	6	175 0.6×	35 0.3×	102 1.3×	45 0.6×	53 1.0×	15	363
Muriel Pressigout France	10	588 2.1×	268 2.6×	39 0.5×	97 1.4×	17 0.3×	18	655
P. Wunsch United States	6	223 0.8×	107 1.0×	33 0.4×	54 0.8×	7 0.1×	6	282

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20 of 20 papers shown

Birk, John R.. (2002). A corporate project management council. 180–181. 3 indexed citations

Birk, John R., et al.. (1984). Matched Filters for Bin Picking. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. PAMI-6(6). 686–697. 16 indexed citations

Kelley, Robert B., et al.. (1984). 4412293 Robot system which acquires cylindrical workpieces from bins. Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing. 1(1). iii–iii. 3 indexed citations

Ray, Rajarshi, John R. Birk, & Robert B. Kelley. (1983). Error Analysis of Surface Normals Determined by Radiometry. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. PAMI-5(6). 631–645. 27 indexed citations

Kelley, Robert B., et al.. (1983). Three vision algorithms for acquiring workpieces from bins. Proceedings of the IEEE. 71(7). 803–820. 22 indexed citations

Birk, John R., et al.. (1982). General Purpose Hands for Bin-Picking Robots. IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics. 12(6). 828–837. 27 indexed citations

Parthasarathy, Srinivas, et al.. (1982). <title>Laser Rangefinder For Robot Control And Inspection</title>. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 336. 2–11. 16 indexed citations

Kelley, Robert B., et al.. (1982). A Robot System Which Acquires Cylindrical Workpieces from Bins. IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics. 12(2). 204–213. 19 indexed citations

Birk, John R., et al.. (1981). An Orienting Robot for Feeding Workpieces Stored in Bins. IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics. 11(2). 151–160. 28 indexed citations

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Birk, John R., et al.. (1981). Camera models based on data from two calibration planes. Computer Graphics and Image Processing. 17(2). 173–180. 153 indexed citations

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Birk, John R., et al.. (1981). <title>Visual Control For Robot Handling Of Unoriented Parts</title>. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 281. 169–175. 1 indexed citations

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Birk, John R., et al.. (1980). Estimating workpiece pose using the feature points method. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. 25(6). 1027–1041. 23 indexed citations

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Birk, John R., et al.. (1979). Image Feature Extraction Using Diameter-Limited Gradient Direction Histograms. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. PAMI-1(2). 228–235. 14 indexed citations

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Birk, John R., et al.. (1978). Visually estimating workpiece pose in a robot hand using the feature points method. 1407–1412. 9 indexed citations

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Birk, John R., et al.. (1977). Workpiece orientation correction with a robot arm using visual information. International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 758–758. 2 indexed citations

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Birk, John R.. (1976). A Computation for Robots to Orient and Position Hand-Held Workpieces. IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics. SMC-6(10). 665–671. 6 indexed citations

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Birk, John R.. (1974). A Computer-Controlled Rotating-Belt Hand for Object Orientation. IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics. SMC-4(2). 186–191. 6 indexed citations

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Birk, John R., et al.. (1974). Pitching Workpieces to Minimize the Cycle Time of Industrial Robots. Industrial Robot the international journal of robotics research and application. 1(5). 217–222. 3 indexed citations

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Birk, John R.. (1972). Enhanced specificity of information in axons with negatively correlated adjacent interspike intervals. Kybernetik. 10(4). 201–203. 6 indexed citations

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Birk, John R.. (1970). A hypothetical synaptic-neural-behavioral model of operant learning. Kybernetik. 7(1). 13–22. 4 indexed citations

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