Niclas Zeller

Niclas Zeller

Professor of Signal Processing and Mobile Robotics

Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences

About Me

In 2013, I received Master's degrees in Electrical Engineering from Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences and in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) (formerly Ryerson). Afterwards, I was working towards my doctoral degree at Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences in collaboration with the Technical University of Munich (TUM). In 2018, I defended my thesis with the title “Direct Plenoptic Odometry – Robust Tracking and Mapping with a Light Field Camera”. Between 2018 and 2019, I was working at Visteon in Karlsruhe. In 2019, I joined the startup Artisense in Munich co-founded by Prof. Daniel Cremers (TUM). Since September 2021, I am a professor at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences.
Interests
  • 3D Computer Vision
  • Autonomous Driving
  • Mobile Robotics
  • Digital Signal Processing

News

[10/2025] We are organizing a workshop on Multi-modal Localization and Mapping (MuLMa) at ICCV in Honolulu. The workshop will take place on October 19, 2025.

[09/2025] Iqbal Banwait’s paper “CNN-Swin Backbones in Radar Object Detection for Autonomous Vehicles using Raw ADC Signals” has received the best short paper award at the 21st International Conference on Intelligent Environments.

[08/2024] Aymeric Fleith’s work LiFCal on light field camera online calibration has been accepted at GCPR 2024.

[03/2024] We are organizing the workshop ViLMa - Visual Localization and Mapping at CVPR in Seattle. The workshop will take place on June 17, 2024.

[03/2023] Linus Härenstam-Nielsen’s paper Semidefinite Relaxations for Robust Multiview Triangulation, co-authored by Daniel Cremers and myself, has been accepted at CVPR 2023.

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Research

Map-based Localization

Map-based Localization

Localization within a pre-build map based on camera images

Dense Monocular SLAM

Dense Monocular SLAM

Tracking and dense 3D mapping based on a monocular camera

Large-scale Reconstruction

Large-scale Reconstruction

Camera based large-scale dense 3D reconstruction

Light Field SLAM

Light Field SLAM

Localization and 3D mapping using micro lens array based light field cameras

Teaching

<center>Digital Electronics (English)</center>

Digital Electronics (English)

<center>Digitaltechnik</center>

Digitaltechnik

<center>Nachrichtentechnik</center>

Nachrichtentechnik

<center>Digitale Signalverarbeitung</center>

Digitale Signalverarbeitung

<center>Parameterschätzung</center>

Parameterschätzung

<center>3D Vision</center>

3D Vision

<center>Student Projects & Theses</center>

Student Projects & Theses

Experience

 
 
 
 
 
Professor
Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences
09/2021 – Present Karlsruhe
 
 
 
 
 
Lecturer
TU München – Chair of Computer Vision & AI
09/2020 – 03/2021 Munich
 
 
 
 
 
Senior Computer Vision and AI Engineer
Artisense
05/2019 – 08/2021 Munich
 
 
 
 
 
ADAS Perception Engineer
Visteon
05/2018 – 04/2019 Karlsruhe
 
 
 
 
 
Lecturer
Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences
05/2018 – 04/2019 Karlsruhe
 
 
 
 
 
Dr.-Ing. in Photogrammetry / Computer Vision
TU München / Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences
04/2013 – 10/2018 Munich / Karlsruhe
 
 
 
 
 
M.Eng. in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Ryerson University
09/2012 – 03/2013 Toronto
 
 
 
 
 
M.Eng. in Electrical Engineering
Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences
04/2011 – 03/2013 Karlsruhe
 
 
 
 
 
B.Eng. in Communications Engineering and Information Technology
Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences
09/2007 – 03/2011 Karlsruhe

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