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Davide Scaramuzza

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Davide Scaramuzza
Born (1980-04-02) 2 April 1980 (age 44)
Terni, Umbria, Italy
NationalityItalian
Alma materUniversity of Perugia
Known forvisual odometry, Simultaneous localization and mapping, event cameras, Unmanned aerial vehicle
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsMobile Robotics, Drones, Computer vision
InstitutionsEPFL Lausanne
ETH Zurich
Stanford University
University of Zurich
Academic advisorsRoland Siegwart
WebsiteDavide Scaramuzza

Davide Scaramuzza (born 2 April 1980) is an Italian professor of robotics at the University of Zurich, specialising in micro air vehicles.

Education

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Scaramuzza earned his master's degree from the University of Perugia in 2004 and a Ph.D. in robotic perception from ETH Zurich in 2008, where he worked with Roland Siegwart. He completed further postdoctoral research at the University of Pennsylvania under roboticists, Vijay Kumar, and Kostas Daniilidis.[6]

Career

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In 2012, Scaramuzza became a professor at the University of Zurich, where he founded the "Robotics and Perception Group".[6]

Scaramuzza's research focuses on the autonomous navigation of micro air vehicles (or miniature drones) via onboard cameras and computation, and on drone racing, as well as on event cameras.[6]

In 2015, Scaramuzza cofounded Zurich-Eye,[7] which later became Facebook Zurich,[8][9][10] which uses Zurich Eye's technology in Oculus Quest.[11]

Scaramuzza's research has appeared in The New York Times,[12] BBC News,[13][14][15] la Repubblica,[16] and Neue Zürcher Zeitung,[17] MIT Technology Review,[18] Wired,[19][20] and IEEE Spectrum.[21][22][23]

Awards

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Publications

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  • Siegwart, Roland; Reza Nourbakhsh, Illah; Scaramuzza, David (2011). Introduction to Autonomous Mobile Robots. MIT Press. ASIN B00E12AF1C.

References

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  1. ^ a b "Nearly 12 Million Euros for Outstanding UZH Research". University of Zurich. 10 December 2019. Archived from the original on 2 January 2020. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
  2. ^ a b "IEEE RAS Early Career Award". IEEE Robotics and Automation Society. Archived from the original on 7 November 2022. Retrieved 2 January 2020. 2014 Davide Scaramuzza: "For his major contributions to robot vision and visually-guided micro aerial vehicles"
  3. ^ a b "Google Faculty Research Award 2014" (PDF). Google. February 2014. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
  4. ^ a b "EuroScience EYRA 2012 laureate". EuroScience. 13 July 2012. Archived from the original on 2 January 2020. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
  5. ^ a b "Group of Prof. Davide Scaramuzza at University of Zurich wins 2017 Misha Mahowald Prize for Neuromorphic Engineering". mahowaldprize.org. 3 May 2017. Archived from the original on 2 January 2020. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
  6. ^ a b c "Davide Scaramuzza". University of Zurich. Retrieved 2 May 2020.
  7. ^ "Zurich Eye: Visual navigation for robots". WyssZurich. September 2015.
  8. ^ "Report: Oculus Acquires Computer Vision Company Zurich Eye". uploadVR. November 2016.
  9. ^ "Report: Facebook baut in der Schweiz aus". uploadVR. November 2016.
  10. ^ "Report: Facebook intensifying work in Zurich". uploadVR. November 2016.
  11. ^ "Report: From the lab to the living room: The story behind Facebook's Oculus Insight technology and a new era of consumer VR". uploadVR. August 2019.
  12. ^ Jake Swearingen (March 2019). "A.I. Is Flying Drones (Very, Very Slowly)". New York Times. Retrieved 3 January 2020.
  13. ^ "Drones are able to change shape while flying". BBC News. August 2019. Retrieved 13 August 2019.
  14. ^ "Tech gives drone the ability to avoid mid-air crashes". BBC News. May 2019. Retrieved 30 May 2019.
  15. ^ "Drone under control". BBC News. April 2019. Retrieved 21 April 2015.
  16. ^ Rosita Rijtano (14 December 2018). "Droni con 'ali pieghevoli' per passare ovunque. "I soccorsi anche dove è impossibile"" [Drones with 'folding wings' to go anywhere. "Rescue even where it is impossible"]. la Repubblica. Retrieved 3 January 2020.
  17. ^ Gian Andrea Mart (27 December 2019). "[TRANSLATED] The University of Zurich is at the forefront of research on autonomously flying drones worldwide". Neue Zürcher Zeitung. Retrieved 3 January 2020.
  18. ^ "Watch This Robotic Quadcopter Fly Aggressively Through Narrow Gaps". MIT Technology Review. December 2016. Retrieved 9 December 2016.
  19. ^ "Drones Just Learned to Fly Solo, Which Means Pro Racers May Soon Meet Their Match". Wired. June 2018. Retrieved 27 June 2018.
  20. ^ "This drone uses AI to find its way through a forest". Wired. February 2016. Retrieved 11 February 2016.
  21. ^ "To Fly Solo, Racing Drones Have a Need for AI Speed Training". IEEE Spectrum. June 2019. Retrieved 4 June 2019.
  22. ^ "Event Camera Helps Drone Dodge Thrown Objects". IEEE Spectrum. May 2019. Retrieved 13 May 2019.
  23. ^ "Foldable Drone Changes Its Shape in Mid-Air". IEEE Spectrum. December 2018. Retrieved 13 December 2018.
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