Thomas Pöllabauer

About Me

A computer vision enthusiast with a longstanding passion for computer science, nurtured since high school. Interests evolved from microcontrollers and embedded systems to computer graphics, and ultimately to computer vision and machine learning. Passionate about translating research from the lab into practical applications that improve the way we work and live. Over six years of experience at the intersection of research and industry contributing to and leading industry and applied research projects.

Experience

Research Scientist Computer Vision and Machine Learning
Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research IGD
(2020 - 2024)

• Design and Application of State-of-the-Art Computer Vision Algoritms in Object Detection and Localication, Segmentation, Classification

• Synthetic Data Generation for Machine Learning

• Automated Quality Control

• 3D Scene Reconstruction

Research Assistant
Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research IGD
(2018 - 2020)

• Continous Integration and Testing

• Optimization

Education

Doctor of Engineering in Computer Science and AI
Technical University of Darmstadt
(2023 - 2025)

Master of Science in Visual Computing
Technical University of Darmstadt
(2017 - 2020)

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
Technical University of Berlin
(2013 - 2017)

Skills

• Specialization
Machine Learning for Computer Vision Tasks such as 2D (object) detection, 3 and 6 degrees-of-freedom (object) pose estimation, classification, semantic segmentation, 3D scene reconstruction, zero- and few-shot methods, generative models (Autoencoders, GANs, Diffusion Models; Machine Learning under constraints such as limited data or limited computational resources.

• Technical
Python for Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence (PyTorch, TensorFlow, Keras, NumPy, Scikit‑learn, Pandas, etc.); C/C++; Java; HTML/CSS; JavaScript; SQL; Git; Continous Integration; Linux; Shell (Bash/Zsh); Docker; SLURM; LaTeX; Microsoft Office solutions.

• Non-Technical
English (professional proficiency); project management; team player; research design; scientific and technical writing; process documentation; presentation of project and research results at conferences, fairs, and similar venues; customer contact.

Links and Resources

Contact

To discuss opportunities, please contact me via the following email address. Thank you.

Email: contact (at) this domain

Website: thomaspoellabauer.com

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