Papers
28
Total Citations
3,111
H-Index
14
About
Friedrich Fraundorfer is a distinguished computer vision and robotics researcher whose work has fundamentally shaped how autonomous systems perceive and navigate their environments. His research spans visual odometry, simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), micro aerial vehicles (MAVs), and vision-based navigation in GPS-denied environments. Fraundorfer is perhaps best known for his landmark two-part tutorial on visual odometry, co-authored with Davide Scaramuzza, which has collectively amassed over 2,000 citations and remains an essential reference for researchers and engineers working on autonomous navigation. These works systematically codified the field's core algorithms — from ego-motion estimation to feature matching, robust optimization, and bundle adjustment — making them accessible to a global research community. Beyond foundational tutorials, Fraundorfer has made significant practical contributions to autonomous micro flying robots, demonstrating vision-controlled MAVs capable of mapping and navigating complex indoor and outdoor environments without GPS — work cited nearly 300 times. His contributions extend to topological mapping, swarm robotics through the EU-funded SFly project, robust pose-graph SLAM, and open-source frameworks like PIXHAWK. Across his career, Fraundorfer has consistently bridged theoretical rigor with real-world robotic applications, influencing both academic research and practical autonomous systems development worldwide.
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Key Achievements
Top Papers
- 1Visual Odometry [Tutorial]1,485 citations · 2011
- 2Visual Odometry : Part II: Matching, Robustness, Optimization, and Applications606 citations · 2012
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- 4Topological mapping, localization and navigation using image collections200 citations · 2007
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- 6Robust pose-graph loop-closures with expectation-maximization84 citations · 2013
- 7A benchmarking tool for MAV visual pose estimation44 citations · 2010
- 8RESLAM: A real-time robust edge-based SLAM system44 citations · 2019
- 9SFly: Swarm of micro flying robots36 citations · 2012
- 10THE PIXHAWK OPEN-SOURCE COMPUTER VISION FRAMEWORK FOR MAVS30 citations · 2012