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

[09/2026] Aymeric Fleith’s paper PRISM-VO on light field camera based SLAM has been accepted as oral presentation at ECCV 2026 in Malmo.

[09/2026] We are organizing the 2nd workshop on Visual Localization and Mapping (ViLMa) at ECCV in Malmo.

[03/2026] Xuqin Wangs’s work GeodesicNVS on geodesic flow matching for novel view synthesis has been accepted at CVPR 2026 in Denver.

[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.

NEWS ARCHIVE

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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