About me

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.