Organizers

Eric Brachmann received the diploma degree at the TU Dresden, Germany in 2012. Subsequently, he joined the Computer Graphics Lab and the Computer Vision Lab of the TU Dresden as a research associate to pursue a PhD under the supervision of Prof. Stefan Gumhold and Prof. Carsten Rother. In 2017 he joined the Visual Learning Lab of Prof. Carsten Rother at the University Heidelberg. Currently, he sits as a guest researcher in the group of Florian Jug at the Center for Systems Biology Dresden.

After frequently failing to localize himself using a map (see left), Eric started a PhD on the topic of camera localization in indoor and outdoor scenes, and 6D pose estimation of rigid object instances. He is an expert in object and scene coordinate regression via machine learning, which is a core element in state-of-the-art learning- based localization techniques. He publishes his work at the leading computer vision conferences (ECCV, ICCV, CVPR). Eric is interested in constrained machine learning, self-supervised learning, and, in particular, the combination of machine learning and projective geometry.

Torsten Sattler received a Diploma and PhD in Computer Science from RWTH Aachen University, Germany, in 2008 and 2013, respectively. Since December 2013, he is a post-doctoral research in the Computer Vision and Geometry (CVG) Group of Prof. Marc Pollefeys at ETH Zurich, working on 3D Vision for mobile devices, e.g., Google Tango, and autonomous vehicles. He is currently Prof. Pollefeys’ deputy and tasked with leading the day-to-day operation of CVG while Prof. Pollefeys is on a sabbatical at Microsoft (USA). His research interests include (mobile, real-time) visual localization, place recognition, Structure-from-Motion, and feature detection and description. Recently, Torsten started working on long-term localization and learning-based localization. His current work focuses on making algorithms for localization and mapping “smarter” by incorporating higher-level scene understanding.

Torsten regularly serves as a reviewer for ICCV, ECCV, CVPR, PAMI, etc. He has organized tutorials and workshops for CVPR (2014, 2015, 2017, 2018) and ICCV (2017) and is an area chair for CVPR 2018, 3D 2018, and GCPR 2018.