CV

Assistant Professor of Computer Vision and Machine Learning

Imperial College London

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Stanford University

PhD

Technical University of Munich

Computer Science

MSc

Technical University of Munich

Computational Science and Engineering

Future Leaders Fellow

UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)

With a £1.55 million award, Dr Tolga Birdal aims to develop a new set of Artificial Intelligence algorithms that will advance machine learning across a wide spectrum of applications. These will ultimately be used in applications such as self-driving cars, life sciences, 3D imaging, CAD modelling, and medical imaging.

Young Professional Award

European Machine Vision Association (EMVA)

Birdal's work proposes reconstruction-via-detection framework, a new and effective approach to 3D digitisation from a limited number of unordered and unstructured 3D point clouds. The new method sets itself apart from other 3D systems due to its ability to integrate the CAD model – available in a wide range of industrial applications – directly into the reconstruction pipeline.