Sebastian Scherer
Research Professor
Studies autonomous aerial and ground robots, including SLAM, perception and navigation in degraded environments.
Sebastian Scherer's lab at CMU works on robot perception & SLAM, autonomous vehicles & drones and embodied & active vision. 83 papers since 2023, 52 at top venues, mostly ICRA and IROS. 21 PhD students and 21 master's students. 75 alumni, most often to Meta and Apple. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 22/ year
- at T1 venues
- 63%
- PhD students
- 21
- MS students
- 21
- alumni listed
- 75
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 14 papers2026 · T1 10 · collecting
- 20 papers2025 · T1 15
- 22 papers2024 · T1 12
- 27 papers2023 · T1 15
T1 venuesOtherVenues: ICRA, IROS, RA-L, CVPR, RSS
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Robot perception & SLAM15 papers
- Autonomous vehicles & drones7 papers
- Embodied & active vision2 papers
- ground2 papers
- ground robots0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
202614 papers
- Proceedings of the Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL)AM-Bench: A Modular Simulation Suite and Benchmark for Aerial Manipulation Policy Learning (opens in a new tab)
- CVPR (T1)Any4D: Unified Feed-Forward Metric 4D Reconstruction (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)AnyThermal: Towards Learning Universal Representations for Thermal Perception
- CVPR (T1)Co-Me: Confidence-Guided Token Merging for Visual Geometric Transformers (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE AccessGAR-Tracker: Target-Visible Trajectory Planning for a Ground Assistant Robot (opens in a new tab)
- T-RO (T1)IA-TIGRIS: An Incremental and Adaptive Sampling-Based Planner for Online Informative Path Planning (opens in a new tab)
- RSS (T1)KinDER: A Physical Reasoning Benchmark for Robot Learning and Planning (opens in a new tab)
- 3DVMapAnything: Universal Feed-Forward Metric 3D Reconstruction (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) FindingsRADSeg: Unleashing Parameter and Compute Efficient Zero-Shot Open-Vocabulary Segmentation Using Agglomerative Models (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)RAVEN: Resilient Aerial Navigation via Open-Set Semantic Memory and Behavior Adaptation (opens in a new tab)
- RSS (T1)SuperMap: A Spatio-Temporal SLAM System for Visual-Language Navigation (opens in a new tab)
- RSS (T1)TravSUITE: Traversability via Self-Supervised, Uncertainty-Aware IRL and Terrain Estimation (opens in a new tab)
202520 papers
- RA-LAirIO: Learning Inertial Odometry with Enhanced IMU Feature Observability (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)BETTY Dataset: A Multi-modal Dataset for Full-stack Autonomy (opens in a new tab)
- RSS (T1)Bilevel Learning for Bilevel Planning (opens in a new tab)
- RSS (T1)Demonstrating ViSafe: Vision-enabled Safety for High-speed Detect and Avoid (opens in a new tab)
- RSS (T1)Flying Hand: End-Effector-Centric Framework for Versatile Aerial Manipulation Teleoperation and Policy Learning (opens in a new tab)
- RA-LHierarchical Planning for Long-Horizon Multi-Target Tracking Under Target Motion Uncertainty (opens in a new tab)
- Journal of TerramechanicsInteraction-aware control for robotic vegetation override in off-road environments (opens in a new tab)
- IROS (T1)Learning Generalizable Feature Fields for Mobile Manipulation (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)MAC-VO: Metrics-aware Covariance for Learning-based Stereo Visual Odometry (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)MapEx: Indoor Structure Exploration with Probabilistic Information Gain from Global Map Predictions (opens in a new tab)
- ICARMapExRL: Human-Inspired Indoor Exploration with Predicted Environment Context and Reinforcement Learning (opens in a new tab)
- IROS (T1)PIPE Planner: Pathwise Information Gain with Map Predictions for Indoor Robot Exploration (opens in a new tab)
202422 papers
- AIAA SCITECH ForumA Unified MPC Strategy for a Tilt-rotor VTOL UAV Towards Seamless Mode Transitioning
- ICRA (T1)Aerial interaction with tactile sensing (opens in a new tab)
- IROS (T1)AirShot: Efficient Few-Shot Detection for Autonomous Exploration (opens in a new tab)
- AIAA AVIATION FORUM AND ASCENDAmeliaTF: A Large Model and Dataset for Airport Surface Movement Forecasting (opens in a new tab)
- Field RoboticsFast and Modular Autonomy Software for Autonomous Racing Vehicles (opens in a new tab)
- RA-LFlying Calligrapher: Contact-Aware Motion and Force Planning and Control for Aerial Manipulation (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)Geometry-Informed Distance Candidate Selection for Adaptive Lightweight Omnidirectional Stereo Vision with Fisheye Images (opens in a new tab)
- Proc. of the IEEE/RSJ Intl. Conf. on Intell. Robots and Syst.Greedy Perspectives: Multi-Drone View Planning for Collaborative Perception in Cluttered Environments (opens in a new tab)
- ROMANHow is the Pilot Doing: VTOL Pilot Workload Estimation by Multimodal Machine Learning on Psycho-physiological Signals (opens in a new tab)
- RA-LI2D-Loc++: Camera Pose Tracking in LiDAR Maps With Multi-View Motion Flows (opens in a new tab)
- CASEInformative Sensor Planning for a Single-Axis Gimbaled Camera on a Fixed-Wing UAV (opens in a new tab)
- IROS (T1)Learning-on-the-Drive: Self-supervised Adaptation of Visual Offroad Traversability Models (opens in a new tab)
202327 papers
- IROS (T1)360FusionNeRF: Panoramic neural radiance fields with joint guidance (opens in a new tab)
- The International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Workshop on The Role of Robotics Simulators for Unmanned Aerial VehiclesA Simulator for Fully-Actuated UAVs (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)AirTrack: Onboard Deep Learning Framework for Long-Range Aircraft Detection and Tracking (opens in a new tab)
- RA-LAnyLoc: Towards universal visual place recognition (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Sensors JournalAttention-Enhanced Cross-modal Localization Between Spherical Images and Point Clouds (opens in a new tab)
- T-RO (T1)AutoMerge: A framework for map assembling and smoothing in city-scale environments (opens in a new tab)
- T-RO (T1)BioSLAM: A Bioinspired Lifelong Memory System for General Place Recognition (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)DytanVO: Joint refinement of visual odometry and motion segmentation in dynamic environments (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) Workshop on Multi-Agent LearningEnhancing Multi-Drone Coordination for Filming Group Behaviours in Dynamic Environments (opens in a new tab)
- Field RoboticsExploring the Most Sectors at the DARPA Subterranean Challenge Finals (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)Follow the rules: Online signal temporal logic tree search for guided imitation learning in stochastic domains (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)How does it feel? self-supervised costmap learning for off-road vehicle traversability (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went75 listed, 46% to industry
Industry 6Academia 7
Most often to
- Meta
- Apple
- Gather AI
Also to
- City University of Hong Kong
- Colorado School of Mines
- Kyung Hee University
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