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 North America, Europe and Asia, part of Google XR. 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) and multimodal learning. 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.
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Recent publications
- 5 papers accepted at NeurIPS 2025 in San Diego (US)
- 6 papers accepted at ICCV 2025 in Honolulu (US)
- 10 papers accepted at CVPR 2025 in Nashville (US)
- 2 Spotlight papers accepted at ICLR 2025 in Singapore
- 12 papers accepted at ECCV 2024 in Milan (IT)
- 2 papers accepted at NeurIPS 2024 in Vancouver (CA)
- 7 papers accepted at CVPR 2024 in Seattle
- 6 papers accepted at ICCV 2023 in Paris
- 5 papers accepted at CVPR 2023 in Vancouver
Recent Conference organization / Editorial Board roles
- In 2026, I will serve as Area Chair for CVPR26 and Program Chair for ECCV26.
- In 2025, I will serve as Area Chair for CVPR25, ICCV25, NeurIPS25, 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:
- Nov 24: Keynote Talk at BMVC24 in Glasgow, UK
- Oct 24: Invited talk + panel at AI+X Summit organized by the ETH AI Center in Zurich
- Sep 24: Invited talk at the ECCV Workshop on “Cooperative Intelligence for Embodied AI”
- Jul 24: Invited Talk at the Munich AI Day, organized by the Munich Center for Machine Learning (MCML) in Munich
- Jul 24: Invited talk + panel at the RSS24 Workshop on “Semantics for Robotics”
- Jun 24: Invited Talk at Google “Research @MUC” event, Munich
- Jun 24: Invited Talk at 3 CVPR24 Workshops: “Scannet++”, “Computer Vision for Mixed Reality” (CV4XR), “Generative models for Computer Vision”