Pedro Proença (English pronunciation: Peh-dru Pru-ensuh) is a roboticist, computer vision wizard and surfer from Portugal. As a NASA-JPL engineer, he developed perception and state estimation software for Moon rovers and future Mars Helicopter. Most notably, he lead the development of the traversability mapping module for the CADRE Flight mission and its testing from simulation to autonomous driving on flight modules.
His PhD was on Probabilistic Visual Odometry using RGB-D and Geometric primitives. Most of his research is in modelling uncertainty and using multiple view geometry, deep learning and computer graphics to solve robotics and computer vision problems. However, He is generally interested in all aspects of robot autonomy.
PhD in Computer Vision, 2018
University of Surrey
MSc in Telecommunications and Computer Science, 2013
ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa
BSc in Telecommunications and Computer Science, 2011
ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa
Photorealistic rendering and deep learning for spacecraft pose estimation
Visual Odometry for Man-made Environments
Trash Annotations in Context Dataset
Object Tracking and 3D Localization for UAV Target Following