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Jürgen Sturm is a postdoctoral researcher in the Computer Vision group at the Technische Universität München. His major research interests lie in dense localization and 3D reconstruction for micro aerial vehicles. In 2011, he obtained his PhD from the Autonomous Intelligent Systems lab headed by Prof. Wolfram Burgard at the University of Freiburg. He won several awards including the ECCAI best dissertation award in 2011 and the TUM Teach Inf best lecture award for his course "Visual Navigation for Flying Robots" in 2012 and 2013.
2013- | Co-Founder and CEO of FabliTec, a university spin-off with the goal to bring 3D scanning technology to market. |
2011- | Postdoc at the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition group of Prof. Daniel Cremers at the Technische Universität München, Germany |
2010 | Internship at Willow Garage with Prof. Kurt Konolige in Menlo Park, California, USA |
2007-2011 | PhD at the Autonomous Intelligent Systems group of Prof. Wolfram Burgard at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany |
2003-2006 | MSc in Artificial Intelligence at the Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
2003-2004 | Erasmus student at Universitat de València, Spain |
2000-2003 | Kandidaats Artificial Intelligence (BSc equivalent) at the Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
Awards
11/2013 | TeachInf Best Lecture Award of the Faculty of Computer Science and Mathematics, Technische Universität München for our course "Visual Navigation for Flying Robots" (SS 2013) |
09/2013 | Best paper award for our paper Graph-based bundle adjustment for INS-camera calibration at the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle in Geomatics (UAV-g) conference |
05/2013 | Finalist for best vision paper at ICRA 2013 with our paper "Robust Odometry Estimation for RGB-D Cameras" |
11/2012 | TeachInf Best Lecture Award of the Faculty of Computer Science and Mathematics, Technische Universität München for our course "Visual Navigation for Flying Robots" (SS 2012) |
08/2012 | ECCAI Artificial Intelligence Dissertation Award (European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence) |
03/2012 | Finalist for the Georges Giralt PhD Award of the European Robotics Network (EURON) |
10/2011 | Wolfgang-Gentner-Award for an outstanding PhD thesis |
05/2011 | PhD defense with Summa Cum Laude |
12/2006 | Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Artificial Intelligence with distinction |
07/2004 | Kandidatsdiploma (B.Sc. equiv.) in Artificial Intelligence with distinction |
09/1999 | Second prize in the 17th Bundeswettbewerbs für Informatik (German national competition in computer science) |