Michael Calonder, Computer Vision Lab, ETH Lausanne

Dr. Michael Calonder

Computer Vision Group
Prof. Pascal Fua (Head)
EPFL, Switzerland
(+41 21 | 021) 693 12 85
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Ultra-short CV

2006 - 2010: PhD, EPFL Lausanne

2000 - 2006: MSc, ETH Zurich

1996 - 1999: High School, KSBG St. Gallen

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Scientific Interests

Current research: Fast interest point matching for real-time applications (such as Simultaneous Localization And Mapping, SLAM)
General: machine learning, software design, numerical math, operations research, and others.

Publications at EPFL

Calonder M.: Robust, High-speed Interest Point Matching For Real-Time Applications. PhD thesis, EPFL library, 2010 [pdf].
Calonder M., Lepetit V., Strecha C., Fua P.: BRIEF: Binary Robust Independent Elementary Features. 11th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Heraklion, Crete. LNCS Springer, September 2010 [pdf].
Konolige K., Bowman J., Chen JD, Mihelich P., Calonder M., Lepetit V., Fua P.: View-Based Maps. International Journal of Robotics Research (IJJR).
Calonder M., Lepetit V., Fua P.: Pareto-optimal Dictionaries for Signatures. 23rd Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), San Francisco, USA, June 2010 [pdf].
Calonder M., Lepetit V., Konolige K., Mihelich P., Bowman J., Fua P.: Compact Signatures for High-Speed Interest Point Description and Matching. 12th International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Kyoto, Japan, September 2009 [pdf].
Konolige K., Bowman J., Chen JD, Mihelich P., Calonder M., Lepetit V., Fua P.: View-Based Maps. Robotics: Science and Systems Conference (RSS), Seattle, USA, June 2009 [pdf].
Calonder M., Lepetit V., Fua P.: Keypoint Signatures for Fast Learning and Recognition. 10th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Marseille, France. LNCS Springer, October 2008 [pdf].
Ozuysal M., Calonder M., Lepetit V., Fua P.: Fast Keypoint Online Learning and Recognition. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), Vol. 32, Nr. 3, pp. 448-461, March 2010 [pdf].

Publications before EPFL

Calonder M., Bleuler S., Zitzler E.: Module identification from heterogeneous biological data using multi-objective evolutionary algorithms. Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN), Reykjavik, Iceland, October 2006 [pdf].

Calonder M., Zitzler E.: Multi-objective clustering of gene expression data with evolutionary algorithms. Master Thesis, Systems Optimization Group, ETH Zurich. ETH Library, March 2006 [pdf].

Technical Reports

Calonder, M.: EKF SLAM vs. FastSLAM: A Comparison. Technical Report CVLAB-REPORT-2010-001 [pdf].

Code

BRIEF v1.0
A C++ implementation of the Signature method (aka C-Descriptor) as described in the above ICCV'09 paper has been jointly developed with WillowGarage, Inc. and will soon be available as part of OpenCV.

Teaching

TA for Théorie et Pratique de la Programmation, EPF Lausanne, Spring 2008, 2009, 2010.

TA for Numerische Mathematik, ETH Zurich, Spring 2005.

TA for Technische Mechanik, ETH Zurich, Spring 2004.

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