Stefan Leutenegger
Associate Professor
Leads the Mobile Robotics Lab, working on spatial AI including visual-inertial SLAM, dense mapping and robot navigation and manipulation.
Stefan Leutenegger's lab at ETH Zurich works on robot perception & SLAM, manipulation & robot learning and embodied & active vision. 16 papers since 2023, 1 at top venues, mostly RA-L and T-RO. 10 PhD students. 10 alumni, most often to Amazon and Huawei.
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 4/ year
- at T1 venues
- 6%
- PhD students
- 10
- MS students
- 0
- alumni listed
- 10
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 4 papers2026 · T1 0 · collecting
- 9 papers2025 · T1 1
- 3 papers2024 · T1 0
- 0 papers2023 · T1 0
T1 venuesOtherVenues: RA-L, T-RO
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Robot perception & SLAM6 papers
- Manipulation & robot learning3 papers
- Embodied & active vision0 papers
- mobile robotics0 papers
- robot navigation0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
20264 papers
- RA-LAERO-VIS: Asynchronous Event-Based Real-Time Onboard Visual-Inertial SLAM (opens in a new tab)
- Recent Advances in Robotic Perception for ForestryDigiForest: Digital Analytics and Robotics for Sustainable Forestry (opens in a new tab)
- International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV ), Vancouver, CanadaGSFix3D: Diffusion-Guided Repair of Novel Views in Gaussian Splatting (opens in a new tab)
- RA-LSplatXtRact: Tractable Gaussian Splatting via Open World Region-of-Interest Extraction and Refinement (opens in a new tab)
20259 papers
- IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA ), Atlanta, GA, USAEfficient Submap-based Autonomous MAV Exploration using Visual-Inertial SLAM Configurable for LiDARs or Depth Cameras (opens in a new tab)
- RA-LFrontierNet: Learning Visual Cues to Explore (opens in a new tab)
- T-RO (T1)OKVIS2-X: Open Keyframe-based Visual-Inertial SLAM Configurable with Dense Depth or LiDAR, and GNSS (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS ), Hangzhou, ChinaREGRACE: A Robust and Efficient Graph-based Re-localization Algorithm using Consistency Evaluation (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS ), Hangzhou, ChinaScalable Outdoors Autonomous Drone Flight with Visual-Inertial SLAM and Dense Submaps Built without LiDAR (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA ), Atlanta, GA, USASOLVR: Submap Oriented LiDAR-Visual Re-Localisation (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV ), Honolulu, HI, USASuperEvent: Cross-Modal Learning of Event-based Keypoint Detection for SLAM (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA ), Atlanta, GA, USAUncertainty-Aware Visual-Inertial SLAM with Volumetric Occupancy Mapping (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR ), Nashville, TN, USAVidBot: Learning Generalizable 3D Actions from In-the-Wild 2D Human Videos for Zero-Shot Robotic Manipulation (opens in a new tab)
20243 papers
- Cement and Concrete ResearchAdvancing construction in existing contexts: Prospects and barriers of 3d printing with mobile robots for building maintenance and repair (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR ), Seattle, WA, USADynamic LiDAR Re-simulation using Compositional Neural Fields (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS ), Abu Dhabi, United Arab EmiratesIN-Sight: Interactive Navigation through Sight (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went10 listed, 40% to industry
Industry 2Academia 3
Most often to
- Amazon
- Huawei
Also to
- Bath University
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