Niclas Zeller
Professor of Signal Processing and Mobile Robotics
Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences
About Me
In 2013, I received Master’s degrees in Electrical Engineering from Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences and in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) (formerly Ryerson). Afterwards, I was working towards my doctoral degree at Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences in collaboration with the Technical University of Munich (TUM). In 2018, I defended my thesis with the title “Direct Plenoptic Odometry – Robust Tracking and Mapping with a Light Field Camera”. Between 2018 and 2019, I was working at Visteon in Karlsruhe. In 2019, I joined the startup Artisense in Munich co-founded by Prof. Daniel Cremers (TUM). Since September 2021, I am a professor at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences.
Interests
- 3D Computer Vision
- Autonomous Driving
- Mobile Robotics
- Digital Signal Processing
News
[09/2026] Aymeric Fleith’s paper PRISM-VO on light field camera based SLAM has been accepted as oral presentation at ECCV 2026 in Malmo.
[09/2026] We are organizing the 2nd workshop on Visual Localization and Mapping (ViLMa) at ECCV in Malmo.
[06/2026] I’m among the outstanding reviewers at CVPR 2026.
[03/2026] Xuqin Wangs’s work GeodesicNVS on geodesic flow matching for novel view synthesis has been accepted at CVPR 2026 in Denver.
[10/2025] We are organizing a workshop on Multi-modal Localization and Mapping (MuLMa) at ICCV in Honolulu. The workshop will take place on October 19, 2025.
Research
Map-based Localization
Localization within a pre-build map based on camera images
Dense 3D Reconstruction
Dense 3D reconstruction and scene understanding from cameras
Light Field Processing
Depth estimation, localization and 3D mapping using 4D light field cameras
Experience
Contact
- niclas.zeller@h-ka.de
- Moltkestr. 30
76133 Karlsruhe
Germany - Building M, Room 205