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Markus Ulrich is a prominent researcher specializing in computer vision, 3D object recognition, pose estimation, and robot calibration — fields at the intersection of industrial automation and machine vision. His most celebrated contribution is the creation of the MVTec Industrial 3D Object Detection Dataset (ITODD), introduced in 2017 and now cited over 159 times, which has become a foundational benchmark for realistic industrial 3D object detection research. His earlier work on combining scale-space and similarity-based aspect graphs for fast 3D object recognition (2011, 139 citations) demonstrated his ability to develop efficient, texture-independent recognition systems driven purely by CAD geometry — a practically significant advance for industrial settings. Ulrich has also made substantial contributions to robot calibration, particularly for SCARA robots, developing hand-eye calibration methods using dual quaternions and uncertainty-aware frameworks that explicitly model robot inaccuracies in a statistically rigorous manner. His more recent investigations explore deep learning for 6D pose estimation with uncertainty quantification and vision-guided robot calibration using photogrammetric approaches. Across his career, Ulrich has consistently bridged theoretical rigor with real-world industrial applicability, making his work highly relevant to researchers and practitioners advancing intelligent automation systems.