Friedrich Fraundorfer is Full Professor at the Institute of Visual Computing at Graz University of Technology (TUG).
Friedrich Fraundorfer is Full Professor at the Institute of Visual Computing at Graz University of Technology (TUG).
With his team he works in the research areas of 3D computer vision, robot vision and machine learning with a special focus on computer vision for robotics. He is the author of a well-received two-part tutorial about visual odometry in the IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine. His work on autonomous UAVs got nominated for the Best Paper Award at IEEE IROS 2012.
Friedrich Fraundorfer received the Ph.D. degree in computer science from TU Graz, Austria in 2006 working at the Institute of Computer Graphics and Vision headed by Franz Leberl and Horst Bischof. In 2006 he joined the group of David Nister (now VP at NVIDIA) at the University of Kentucky as a post-doc researcher. He collaborated with Henrik Stewenius (Google) and others on large scale image search and 3D computer vision. In 2007 he joined the group of Marc Pollefeys at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as a post-doc researcher to work on large scale 3D reconstructions collaborating with Jan-Michael Frahm, and Changchang Wu (Google). In 2007 the group moved to ETH Zurich, Switzerland, where he had a lecturer position at the Computer Vision and Geometry Lab headed by Marc Pollefeys. From 2012 to 2014 he acted as Deputy Director of the Chair of Remote Sensing Technology at the Faculty of Civil, Geo and Environmental Engineering at the Technische Universität München.