Marc Pollefeys

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Marc Pollefeys is Director of the Spatial AI Zurich Lab (opens in new tab) and leading a team of scientist and engineers to develop advanced spatial mapping and perception capabilities at Microsoft. He is also a Professor of Computer Science at ETH Zurich and Fellow of IEEE and ACM.  Pollefeys, was also involved with the Swiss Joint Research Center (opens in new tab), a collaborative research engagement between Microsoft Research and two universities ETH Zurich (opens in new tab) and EPFL (opens in new tab).

He is best known for his work in 3D computer vision, having been the first to develop a software pipeline to automatically turn photographs into 3D models, but also works on robotics, graphics and machine learning problems.  Other noteworthy projects he worked on with collaborators at UNC Chapel Hill and ETH Zurich are real-time 3D scanning with mobile devices, a real-time pipeline for 3D reconstruction of cities from vehicle mounted-cameras, camera-based self-driving cars and the first fully autonomous vision-based drone.  Most recently his academic research has focused on combining 3D reconstruction with semantic scene understanding.  He has published over 300 peer-reviewed publications and holds several patents.  His lab at ETH Zurich also developed the PixHawk auto-pilot which can be found in over half a million drones and he has co-founded several computer vision start-ups.