Stan Birchfield

Stan Birchfield

Principal Research Scientist and Senior Research Manager at NVIDIA

Exploring the intersection of computer vision and robotics

I lead a small group of amazing researchers in computer vision and robotics at NVIDIA, and I teach a class at the University of Washington. Previously, I was at Microsoft and Clemson University. I received my Ph.D. from Stanford University.

Publications

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FoundationStereo: Zero-Shot Stereo Matching (2025)

B. Wen, M. Trepte, J. Aribido, J. Kautz, O. Gallo, S. Birchfield

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Nashville, Tennessee 2025

News: #1 on Middlebury Stereo Evaluation - Version 3 (2025/02/03 – )

News: #1 on ETH3D Low-Res Two-View Benchmark (2024/11/15 – )

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RoboSpatial: Teaching Spatial Understanding to 2D and 3D Vision-Language Models for Robotics (2025)

C. H. Song, V. Blukis, J. Tremblay, S. Tyree, Y. Su, S. Birchfield

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Nashville, Tennessee 2025

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SPOT: SE(3) Pose Trajectory Diffusion for Object-Centric Manipulation (2025)

C.-C. Hsu, B. Wen, J. Xu, Y. Narang, X. Wang, Y. Zhu, J. Biswas, S. Birchfield

International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Atlanta, May 2025

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FoundationPose: Unified 6D Pose Estimation and Tracking of Novel Objects (2024)

B. Wen, W. Yang, J. Kautz, S. Birchfield

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Seattle, June 2024

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News: #1 on BOP leaderboard for unseen 6D pose estimation (2023/11/19 – 2024/09/03)

Award: BOP Challenge 2024 "Early Bird" Award

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Neural Implicit Representation for Building Digital Twins of Unknown Articulated Objects (2024)

Y. Weng, B. Wen, J. Tremblay, V. Blukis, D. Fox, L. Guibas, S. Birchfield

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Seattle, June 2024

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NeRFDeformer: NeRF Transformation from a Single View via 3D Scene Flows (2024)

Z. Tang, Z. Ren, X. Zhao, B. Wen, J. Tremblay, S. Birchfield, A. Schwing

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Seattle, June 2024

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Book

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I am the author of Image Processing and Analysis, an introductory textbook about the mathematical and algorithmic foundations of image processing and computer vision.

Teaching