Pablo Alcantarilla - Head Of Sensor Calibration And Fusion Wayve

Pablo Alcantarilla

Head Of Sensor Calibration And Fusion Wayve

London, England, Spain

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Pablo Alcantarilla is an executive technology leader specializing in real-time visual-inertial SLAM, sensor fusion, dense 3D reconstruction and applied deep learning, currently heading Sensor Calibration and Fusion at Wayve after serving as Principal Engineer. With a PhD focused on assistive SLAM for visually impaired users, he has 12+ years delivering research-driven robotics products across industry and academia, including roles at SLAMcore (CTO), iRobot and Toshiba Research Europe. He combines hands-on algorithm development—authoring the AKAZE/A-KAZE feature implementation used in automotive hardware—with strategic responsibilities like patent strategy and leading a successful $16M Series A. Pablo blends deep research publication and patent output with productization experience, notably contributing to iRobot’s Imprint Smart Mapping and Visconti automotive feature chips. Fluent across research and executive domains, he recently augmented his technical leadership with an Executive MBA to scale AI robotics teams and commercial impact.

12 years of coding experience

14 years of employment as a software developer

Executive MBA, Business Administration and Management, General, Executive MBA, Business Administration and Management, General at EAE Business School

PhD, Computer Vision and Robotics, PhD, Computer Vision and Robotics at Universidad de Alcalá

Certificate of Continuing Education, Sound Broadcast Engineering, Certificate of Continuing Education, Sound Broadcast Engineering at Glyndwr University

Master Courses, Biomedical Engineering, Master Courses, Biomedical Engineering at Linköping University

Spanish, English, French, Swedish, Japanese

Github Skills (18)

algorithm10

algorithms10

c-language10

robotics10

image-processing10

gtsam10

feature-detection10

computer-vision10

cprogramming-language10

data-conversion9

opencv9

data-structures8

geom8

3d8

data-structure8

Programming languages (2)

C++Python

Github contributions (5)

pablofdezalc/akaze

Nov 2013 - Dec 2015

Accelerated-KAZE Features

Role in this project:

Back-end Developer & Algorithm Engineer

Contributions:80 commits, 1 PR, 6 pushes in 2 years 1 month

Contributions summary:Pablo's primary contribution involved the initial implementation of the AKAZE library, including core algorithms for feature detection, description, and the creation of a nonlinear scale space. The commits focused on integrating the AKAZE algorithm, which included a C++ implementation. The work involved checking in the initial code and subsequent modifications to the library files, including optimization. The user also added tests to demonstrate the functionality.

acceleratedkaze

pablofdezalc/test_kaze_akaze_opencv

Jun 2014 - Mar 2017

Contributions:10 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 2 years 10 months

testingportsperformancekazeidea

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