Scholar
Marc Pollefeys
Google Scholar ID: YYH0BjEAAAAJ
Professor of Computer Science, ETH Zurich, and Director Spatial AI Lab, Microsoft
Citations & Impact
Citations
39,121
H-index
95
i10-index
395
Publications
20
Co-authors
177
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Elected IEEE Fellow in 2012
- Pioneered the first automatic photo-to-3D-model pipeline in computer vision
- High-impact research widely covered by BBC, Chronicle of Higher Education, and other media
- Led the 'Reconstructing Rome' project: reconstructed large-scale 3D model from 3 million images on a single PC in one day
- Mentored numerous PhD graduates now working at Google Zurich, DSO Singapore, or in startups
Research Experience
- Former professor at UNC Chapel Hill
- Currently Full Professor at ETH Zurich, leading the Computer Vision and Geometry Lab (CVG)
- Led groundbreaking projects including real-time 3D scanning on mobile devices, city-scale 3D reconstruction from vehicle-mounted cameras, camera-based self-driving cars, and the first fully autonomous vision-based drone
- Collaborated with Google on Project Tango
- Supervises postdoctoral researchers, senior scientists, and PhD students
Background
- Full Professor of Computer Science at ETH Zurich
- Director of the Microsoft Mixed Reality and AI Lab in Zurich, leading a team to develop advanced perception capabilities for HoloLens and Mixed Reality
- Research spans 3D computer vision, robotics, graphics, and machine learning
- Best known for developing the first software pipeline to automatically turn photographs into 3D models
- Recent academic focus: combining 3D reconstruction with semantic scene understanding
