About

Marc Pollefeys is a distinguished computer vision and robotics researcher whose work spans visual localization, autonomous navigation, dense 3D reconstruction, and multi-sensor fusion. He has made foundational contributions to enabling machines to understand and navigate their environments, with particular impact in structure-from-motion, SLAM, and camera pose estimation. His work on PX4, the open-source robotics middleware for embedded platforms, has become a cornerstone of the autonomous systems community, accumulating nearly 700 citations and powering countless real-world drone applications. His investigations into the limitations of CNN-based camera pose regression (401 citations) have shaped how researchers critically evaluate deep learning approaches to visual localization. Pollefeys has also advanced micro aerial vehicle autonomy, developing vision-controlled flying robots capable of GPS-denied navigation and mapping (297 citations), and contributed key tools including an open-source optical flow camera and the CamOdoCal multi-camera calibration system. His more recent research on LiDAR-inertial-camera fusion and the HoloLens 2 Research Mode platform reflects a sustained commitment to bridging computer vision with mixed reality and robotics. Collectively, his publications have garnered thousands of citations, cementing his reputation as a seminal figure in applied computer vision.

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H-Index
81
Papers
4,277
Total Citations
53
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🏆 Most Cited Paper
PX4: A node-based multithreaded open source robotics framework for deeply embedded platforms
697 citations · 2015
📈 Most Prolific Year: 2025 (10 Papers)
🤝 Key Collaborators: 192
🏛 Institutions: ETH Zurich, University of Minnesota System, Microsoft (Switzerland), Microsoft Research (United Kingdom), Microsoft (United States), KU Leuven

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