About me

I am a Director of Research at Google Zurich (Switzerland), where I lead an applied research team in Computer Vision and Machine Learning across US, Switzerland and Germany. I am also affiliated to the Faculty of Computer Science at TU Munich (Germany) as lecturer (Privatdozent).

An up-to-date list of publications is available at my Google Scholar. My research activity is focused on different aspects of computer vision and machine learning, with a focus on 3D computer vision (e.g. scene understanding, 3D object recognition, 3D reconstruction, SLAM). The fields of application of my research are mainly in robotics, augmented reality, autonomous driving and healthcare. I am currently particularly excited about unsupervised learning for visual data, Large Multimodal Models, (Neural) Radiance Fields and scene graphs for scene understanding.

News

Recent publications

  • 12 papers accepted at ECCV 2024 in Milan
  • 2 papers accepted at NeurIPS 2024
  • 7 papers accepted at CVPR 2024 in Seattle
  • 6 papers accepted at ICCV 2023 in Paris
  • 5 papers accepted at CVPR 2023 in Vancouver
  • Jul 2023: Our next Zurich Computer Vision Meetup will be on July 13 at Meta Zurich on “Building a digital world”
  • Jul 2022: 5 papers accepted at ECCV 2022
  • Mar 2022: 6 papers accepted at CVPR 2022

Recent Conference organization / Editorial Board roles

  • In 2025, I will serve as Area Chair for CVPR25, 3DV25 and Ass. Editor for ICRA25
  • I was one of the Outstanding AC awardees from ECCV24
  • In 2024, I am serving as Area Chair for CVPR24 and NeurIPS24; Senior AC for ECCV24; and Ass. Editor for ICRA24
  • I am co-organizing 3DV 2024 as a Program Chair, to be held in beautiful Davos (Switzerland)
  • In 2023, I am an Area Chair for CVPR23 and NeurIPS23
  • Starting in 2023, I will serve as Associate Editor for the International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR)

Recent Invited Talks

In 2024 I’ve had the pleasure to be invited to speak at the following events: