PD Dr. Ing. Habil. Federico Tombari

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 the US, Switzerland, and Germany. I am also affiliated with the Faculty of Computer Science at TUM as a lecturer(PrivatDozent) at the CAMP Chair.

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). 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.

News

Recent Publications

• Jul 2024: 12 papers accepted at ECCV 2024 in Milan.
• Jun 2024: 2 papers accepted at NeurIPS 2024 in Vancouver.
• May 2024: 7 papers accepted at CVPR 2024 in Seattle.
• Oct 2023: 6 papers accepted at ICCV 2023 in Paris.
• Jun 2023: 5 papers accepted at CVPR 2023 in Vancouver.
• Jul 2022: 5 papers accepted at ECCV 2022.
• Mar 2022: 6 papers accepted at CVPR 2022.
• Aug 2021: 3 papers accepted at ICCV 2021.
• Apr 2021: 4 papers accepted at CVPR 2021.
• Mar 2021: 5 papers accepted at ICRA 2021.
• Jul 2020: 5 papers accepted at ECCV 2020, 3 of which orals (2% acceptance rate).
• Jun 2020: 3 papers accepted at IROS 2020 (1 with RAL).
• Feb 2020: 2 papers accepted at CVPR 2020.
• Aug 2019: 5 papers accepted at ICCV 2019, 2 of which orals (4.3% acceptance rate).

Recent Conference Organization / Editorial Board Roles and Awards

• 2025: I will serve as Area Chair for CVPR 2025, 3DV 2025, and Associate Editor for ICRA 2025.
• 2024: I was one of the Outstanding AC awardees from ECCV 2024.
• 2024: I am serving as Area Chair for CVPR 2024 and NeurIPS 2024; Senior AC for ECCV 2024; and Associate Editor for ICRA 2024.
• 2024: I am co-organizing 3DV 2024 as a Program Chair, to be held in Davos, Switzerland.
• 2023: I was an Area Chair for CVPR 2023 and NeurIPS 2023.
• 2023: I joined as Associate Editor for the International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR).
• 2022: I was Area Chair for ECCV 2022.
• 2021: I was awarded a NeurIPS 2021 Outstanding Reviewer award.
• 2021: I was awarded an ICCV 2021 Outstanding Reviewer award.
• 2021: I was awarded a CVPR 2021 Outstanding Reviewer award.
• 2021: I was Area Chair at 3DV 2021.
• 2021: I was an Associate Editor for ICRA 2022.

Recent Invited Talks

In 2024, I’ve had the pleasure of being invited to speak at the following events:

• Nov 2024: Keynote Talk at BMVC 2024, Glasgow, UK.
• Oct 2024: Invited talk + panel at AI+X Summit, organized by the ETH AI Center, Zurich.
• Sep 2024: Invited talk at the ECCV 2024 Workshop on “Cooperative Intelligence for Embodied AI.”
• Jul 2024: Invited Talk at Munich AI Day, organized by the Munich Center for Machine Learning (MCML), Munich.
• Jul 2024: Invited talk + panel at the RSS 2024 Workshop on “Semantics for Robotics.”
• Jun 2024: Invited Talk at Google ‘Research @MUC’ event, Munich.
• Jun 2024: Invited Talk at three CVPR 2024 Workshops:
  • “Scannet++”
  • “Computer Vision for Mixed Reality” (CV4XR)
  • “Generative Models for Computer Vision”

Student Projects

We seek motivated students with a strong background in Computer Vision and Deep Learning!

If you are interested in a Master's Thesis or Guided Research project in Computer Vision, please have a look at our intranet  where we post available projects.

If you cannot find anything suitable on the intranet, feel free to send an email with your latest CV and Examination Report to me, Stefano Gasperini, or Nikolas Brasch, as we may find a project for you.