AICZECHIA seminar: Recent Developments in Visual Localization

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Date(s) - 17.01.
17:00 - 18:00

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It is my pleasure to invite you to the first AICZECHIA seminar, which will be held online on Monday 17.1. 2022 at 17:00. The first speaker will be Torsten Sattler who has recently joined CIIRC CTU as a senior researcher and is building his own research group with a focus on spatial intelligence.

The talk will be held online (Zoom link below) and the planned format is a 30 min talk followed by a 30 min open discussion session. The talk is open to the public.

Zoom link: https://cesnet.zoom.us/j/98825681829

Title:
Recent Developments in Visual Localization

Abstract:
Visual Localization is the problem of estimating from which position and orientation a given image was taken. Solving the localization problem is an important part of many advanced AI applications, including self-driving cars and other autonomous robots as well as augmented and virtual reality systems. In this talk, we will give an introduction to the problem and current state-of-the-art solutions, as well as advanced applications such as performance capture of human motion in large-scale scenes.

Bio:
Torsten Sattler is a senior researcher at the Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics (CIIRC) at the Czech Technical University in Prague (CTU), where he is heading the Spatial Intelligence group. His work is in the intersection of 3D computer vision and machine learning, with the goal of making 3D computer vision algorithms such as
3D reconstruction and visual localization more robust and reliable through scene understanding while using 3D computer vision methods to train machine learning models.

Before joining CIIRC in July 2020, Torsten was an associated professor (tenured) in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Chalmers University of Technology. He joined Chalmers in January 2019 after 5 years, first as a PostDoc and then as a senior researcher, in Marc Pollefey’s Computer Vision and Geometry Group in the Department of Computer Science at ETH Zurich. Between July 2016 and June 2018, Torsten was Marc’s deputy, tasked with the day-to-day operation of the group, during his sabbatical. Torsten obtained a PhD from RWTH Aachen University under the supervision of Leif Kobbelt and Bastian Leibe.

Torsten is an ELLIS scholar and will be a program chair for ECCV 2024.
He is also a co-organizer of the 3DGV Seminar series.