Niko Sünderhauf
Professor, Deputy Director, Computer Scientist
– creating robots that see and understand the world –
I am a Professor at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Brisbane and Deputy Director of the QUT Centre for Robotics, where I lead the Visual Understanding and Learning Program.
I am also Deputy Director (Research) for the ARC Research Hub in Intelligent Robotic Systems for Real-Time Asset Management (2022-2027) and was Chief Investigator of the Australian Centre for Robotic Vision 2017-2020.
I conduct research in robotic vision and robot learning, at the intersection of robotics, computer vision, and machine learning. My research interests focus on robotic learning for manipulation, interaction and navigation, scene understanding, and the reliability of deep learning for open-set and open-world conditions.
news
Oct 17, 2024 | Very happy that our paper Physically Embodied Gaussian Splatting: A Visually Learnt and Physically Grounded 3D Representation for Robotics got accepted as an Oral Presentation at CoRL 2024! Jad Abou-Chakra and Krishan Rana will be at the conference to present. |
Apr 11, 2024 | If you want to start your PhD with me in 2025, apply now for a scholarship! I have PhD topics available in Robotic Learning, combining Imitation Learning with Large Language and Vision-Language Models and innovative ways to represent the environment. These projects will build on our recent successful work such as SayPlan or ParticleNeRF. Read here for more information. |
Jan 5, 2024 | Our ParticleNeRF paper won a Best Paper Honourable Mention Award at WACV 2024! This work, led by Jad Abou-Chakra explores a new formulation for NeRFs that can dynamically adapt online to changing scenes. |
Nov 5, 2023 | We present two papers at CoRL this year. We have an oral presentation for SayPlan in the main conference, and a workshop paper on Physically Embodied Gaussian Splatting. |
Nov 1, 2023 | I am proud to start my new role as Deputy Director in our Centre for Robotics, after being part of the Executive Committee since 2020. |