Niclas Zeller

Niclas Zeller

Professor für Signalverarbeitung und mobile Robotik

Hochschule Karlsruhe

Über mich

2013 habe ich ein Studium im Fach „Elektrotechnik“ an der Hochschule Karlsruhe, sowie eines im Fach „Electrical and Computer Engineering“ an der Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) (früher Ryerson), jeweils mit dem Master of Engineering, abgeschlossen. Anschließend arbeitete ich als wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter an der Hochschule Karlsruhe und habe 2018 an der Technischen Universität München (TUM) promoviert. Der Titel meiner Dissertation lautet: „Direct Plenoptic Odometry – Robust Tracking and Mapping with a Light Field Camera“. Zwischen 2018 und 2019 arbeitete ich bei Visteon in Karlsruhe. Im Jahr 2019 schloss ich mich dem, von Prof. Daniel Cremers (TUM) mitgegründeten, Start-up-Unternehmen Artisense in München an. Seit September 2021 bin ich Professor an der Fakultät für Elektro- und Informationstechnik der Hochschule Karlsruhe.

Interessen

  • 3D Computer Vision
  • Autonomes Fahren
  • Mobile Robotik
  • Digitale Signalverarbeitung

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.

[06/2026] I’m among the outstanding reviewers at CVPR 2026.

[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.

Forschung

Map-based Localization

Map-based Localization

Localization within a pre-build map based on camera images

Dense 3D Reconstruction

Dense 3D Reconstruction

Dense 3D reconstruction and scene understanding from cameras

Light Field Processing

Light Field Processing

Depth estimation, localization and 3D mapping using 4D light field cameras

Ausgewählte Publikationen

PRISM-VO: Scale-Aware Visual Odometry Using Photometric Plenoptic Bundle Adjustment
PRISM-VO: Scale-Aware Visual Odometry Using Photometric Plenoptic Bundle Adjustment
Aymeric Fleith, Julian Zirbel, Daniel Cremers, Niclas Zeller
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV); 2026
Oral Presentation
Single-Frame Radar Object Detection and Segmentation Using a CNN–Swin Hybrid Architecture
Single-Frame Radar Object Detection and Segmentation Using a CNN–Swin Hybrid Architecture
Iqbal Banwait, Niclas Zeller, Javad Alirezaie
European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO); 2026
MambaPanoptic: A Vision Mamba-based Structured State Space Framework for Panoptic Segmentation
MambaPanoptic: A Vision Mamba-based Structured State Space Framework for Panoptic Segmentation
Qing Cheng*, Damiano Bertolini*, Wei Zhang, Dong Wang, Niclas Zeller, Daniel Cremers
ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences (Proc. XXV ISPRS Congress); 2026
* Equal contribution
GeodesicNVS: Probability Density Geodesic Flow Matching for Novel View Synthesis
GeodesicNVS: Probability Density Geodesic Flow Matching for Novel View Synthesis
Xuqin Wang, Tao Wu, Yanfeng Zhang, Lu Liu, Mingwei Sun, Yongliang Wang, Niclas Zeller, Daniel Cremers
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR); 2026
A Digital RFSoC SDR Architecture for GPS-like High-Accuracy Time-of-Flight Measurements
A Digital RFSoC SDR Architecture for GPS-like High-Accuracy Time-of-Flight Measurements
Tristan Itschner, Simon Huh, Niclas Zeller
IEEE Radar Conference (RadarConf); 2026
HI-SLAM2: Geometry-Aware Gaussian SLAM for Fast Monocular Scene Reconstruction
HI-SLAM2: Geometry-Aware Gaussian SLAM for Fast Monocular Scene Reconstruction
Wei Zhang, Qing Cheng, David Skuddis, Niclas Zeller, Daniel Cremers, Norbert Haala
IEEE Transactions on Robotics; 2025
LADB: Latent Aligned Diffusion Bridges for Semi-Supervised Domain Translation
LADB: Latent Aligned Diffusion Bridges for Semi-Supervised Domain Translation
Xuqin Wang, Tao Wu, Yanfeng Zhang, Lu Liu, Dong Wang, Mingwei Sun, Yongliang Wang, Niclas Zeller, Daniel Cremers
DAGM German Conference on Pattern Recognition (GCPR); 2025
VoxNeRF: Bridging Voxel Representation and Neural Radiance Fields for Enhanced Indoor View Synthesis
VoxNeRF: Bridging Voxel Representation and Neural Radiance Fields for Enhanced Indoor View Synthesis
Sen Wang, Qing Cheng, Stefano Gasperini, Wei Zhang, Shun-Cheng Wu, Niclas Zeller, Daniel Cremers, Nassir Navab
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters; 2025

Werdegang

Professor
09/2021 – Aktuell Karlsruhe
Senior Computer Vision and AI Engineer
05/2019 – 08/2021 München
ADAS Perception Engineer
05/2018 – 04/2019 Karlsruhe
Lehrbeauftragter
05/2018 – 04/2019 Karlsruhe
Dr.-Ing. in Photogrammetrie / Computer Vision
04/2013 – 10/2018 München / Karlsruhe
M.Eng. in Electrical and Computer Engineering
09/2012 – 03/2013 Toronto
M.Eng. in Elektrotechnik
04/2011 – 03/2013 Karlsruhe
B.Eng. in Kommunikations- und Informationstechnik
09/2007 – 03/2011 Karlsruhe

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