Torsten Sattler
Senior Researcher at Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics
Prague, Prague, Czechia
Summary
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Top SchoolTorsten Sattler is a senior researcher and head of the Spatial Intelligence group at CIIRC, Czech Technical University in Prague, with over a decade of experience in 3D computer vision, SLAM, and visual localization. He builds bridges between machine learning and geometric methods like Structure-from-Motion, bringing novel scene understanding into practical localization pipelines. Previously an associate professor at Chalmers and a senior researcher at ETH Zürich, he holds a PhD from RWTH Aachen and a strong track record in academic leadership and team-building. An active open-source contributor, he has made substantive backend contributions to the widely used COLMAP project—improving model alignment, export workflows, and core triangulation—which underscores his blend of theoretical depth and hands-on systems engineering. Colleagues know him for pursuing robust, reproducible approaches that make advanced research usable in real-world mapping and robotics applications.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma (MSc. equivalent), Computer Science, Diploma (MSc. equivalent), Computer Science at RWTH Aachen University
Github Skills (9)
computer-vision10
structure-from-motion10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
python10
data-structure9
algorithm9
data-structures9
algorithms9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
colmap/colmap
Oct 2016 - Jun 2021
COLMAP - Structure-from-Motion and Multi-View Stereo
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 8 PRs, 904 comments in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Torsten primarily contributed to the core functionality of the COLMAP project, focusing on adding features and improving existing capabilities. This involved implementing model alignment to camera positions, improving the export functionality to VisualSfM with binary descriptors, and adding a standalone image undistorter. The user also fixed a crash related to a script and made refinements in the point triangulator to include refining intrinsics.
structure-from-motionreconstructionhomographymulti-viewstereo
tsattler/geometric_burstiness
Mar 2016 - Jul 2018
Contributions:26 commits, 24 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
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