Michael Calonder, Computer Vision Lab, ETH Lausanne

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Michael Calonder

Computer Vision Group
Prof. Pascal Fua (Head)
EPFL, Switzerland
+41 (0)21 693 12 85
first name (dot) last name [at] epfl -dot- ch

Ultra-short CV

06/2006 -present: PhD Candidate, CVLab, EPF Lausanne

10/2000 - 02/2006: MSc in Mechanical Engineering, ETH Zurich

09/1996 - 09/1999: High School, Matura type C (math), KSBG St. Gallen

Scientific Interests

Current research: Computer Vision. Main focus: High-speed interest-point description and matching for real-time applications, like, e.g., simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM).
General: machine learning, numerics, operations research, and others.

Publications

Calonder M., Lepetit V., Konolige K., Mihelich P., Bowman J., Fua P.: Compact Signatures for High-Speed Interest Point Description and Matching. In: 12th International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Kyoto, Japan, Sept 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 to follow].
Calonder M., Lepetit V., Fua P.: Keypoint Signatures for Fast Learning and Recognition. In: 10th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Marseille, France. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Springer, Oct 2008 [pdf].
Ozuysal M., Calonder M., Lepetit V., Fua P.: Fast Keypoint Online Learning and Recognition. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), Jan 2009 [pdf].
Calonder M.: EKF SLAM vs. FastSLAM: A Comparison. Technical notes, Oct 2006 [pdf].
Calonder M., Bleuler S., Zitzler E.: Module identification from heterogeneous biological data using multi-objective evolutionary algorithms. In: Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN), Reykjavik, Iceland. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Springer, Oct 2006 [pdf].

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

Code

The C++ implementation of Signatures/C-Descriptors as set forth in the above ICCV'09 paper has been jointly developed with WillowGarage, Inc. and will soon be available as part of OpenCV.

Teaching

Théorie et Pratique de la Programmation (Java), EPF Lausanne, Spring 2008 and Spring 2009.
Numerische Mathematik, ETH Zurich, Spring 2005.
Technische Mechanik, ETH Zurich, Spring 2004.

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