Doing Science.
In Computer Vision.
And Machine Learning.
Making the world a better place since 1986.

Heya! I'm currently based in Tokyo and working on production-level ML for safe cars at TRI-AD! Formerly, I've worked in the San Francisco Bay Area at the amazing Toyota Research Institute on everything vision-related for cars and robots. Before that, I did my Master's and PhD studies at TUM, funded by Toyota Europe. During my PhD time at CAMP I was supervised by Prof. Nassir Navab, PD Slobodan Ilic and Federico Tombari. Even before that, I did my Bachelor's at the University of Bonn, supervised by PD Volker Steinhage and Jens Behley.
Reviewer for CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, TPAMI, IJCV, ICML, ACCV, IROS, AAAI.

News

• Finally achieved my oral hat-trick at the Big 3 (CVPR, ICCV, ECCV) as (co-)first author! :)
• New work on 3D autolabeling with differentiable rendering is out. Accepted for oral presentation at CVPR 2020!
• New paper 'DeceptionNet: Network-Driven Domain Randomization' accepted to ICCV 2019!
• Our new ROI-10D paper is out on arXiv. Accepted to CVPR 2019!
• Our paper "Deep Model-Based 6D Pose Refinement in RGB" was selected as an oral presentation at ECCV'18 in Munich, Germany.
• The detection code for our ICCV'17 paper can be found here
• Our paper "SSD-6D: Making RGB-Based 3D Detection and 6D Pose Estimation Great Again" was selected as an oral presentation at ICCV'17 in Venice, Italy.
• Our ECCV'16 paper "Deep Learning of Local RGB-D Patches for 3D Object Detection and 6D Pose Estimation" was awarded 'Best Poster' as a co-submission to the 2nd 6D Pose Recovery Workshop .