Zuria BAUER
zbauer@ethz.ch
zuriabauer.com
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Experience
Jan 2024 -
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Postdoctoral Researcher at the Computer Vision and Geometry Group (CVG),ETH Zürich.
Working on monocular depth estimation, 3D scene reconstruction, NeRFs, scene understanding and robotics.
Advisor:
Prof. Dr. Marc Pollefeys.
Jan 2023 -
Dec 2023
Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher at the Computer Vision and Geometry Group (CVG)
,ETH Zürich.
Aliated with the University of Alicante (Spain), and funded by the Margarita Salas fellowship program for young
PhDs nanced by the Ministry of Universities within the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan of Spain through
the European Recovery Facility ”Next Generation” of the European Union.
Advisors:
Prof. Dr. Marc Pollefeys and
Prof. Dr. Miguel Cazorla.
Feb 2022 -
Dec 2022
Postdoctoral Researcher,University of Alicante.
National Project -
A2HUMPA: Learning and analysis of human behavior for monitoring, personalized care and early
detection of ailments.
Advisor:
Prof. Dr. Miguel Cazorla.
Current Topic:
“Elderly patients’ supervision using Action
Recognition methods.”
Sept 2020 -
Dec 2020
Research Stay at the Computer Vision and Geometry Group (CVG),ETH Zürich.
Monocular Depth Prediction using Novel View Synthesis for renement.
Advisor:
Prof. Dr. Martin R. Oswald and Prof.
Dr. Marc Pollefeys.
Virtual Collaboration:
January to October 2021.
Publication:
“NVS-MonoDepth: Improving
Monocular Depth Prediction with Novel View Synthesis at International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV) 2021.”
May 2018 -
May 2019
Research Assistant,University of Alicante.
Working on the eld of monocular depth prediction using deep learning algorithms.
Advisor:
Prof. Dr. Miguel Cazorla.
July 2015 -
Sept 2015
Internship at BASF Coating GmbH,Münster, Germany.
Working at the Automotive OEM Coatings Solutions Europe group, in the eld of ”Process Technology Application”.
Advisor: Dr. Daniel Briesenick.
Feb 2014 -
June 2014
Research intern,University of Alicante.
Usage of a Photoreaction for Degradation of Phenol in Wastewater. Advisor: Prof. Dr. Andrés Fullana.
Feb 2015 Teaching Assistant at CAChemE,University of Alicante, Python for Scientists and Engineers workshop.
Selected Publications
Sep 2024 International Conference,European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV).
Lukas Bösiger and Mihai Dusmanu and Marc Pollefeys and
Zuria Bauer ”MaRINeR: Enhancing Novel Views by
Matching Rendered Images with Nearby References”. Webpage PDF File
Sep 2024 International Conference
,European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) - Workshop on Synthetic Data
for Computer Vision.
Casimir Feldmann and Niall Siegenheim and Nikolas Hars and Lovro Rabuzin and Mert Ertugrul and Luca Wolfart
and Marc Pollefeys and
Zuria Bauer
and Martin R. Oswald
”NeRFmentation: NeRF-based Augmentation for
Monocular Depth Estimation”. Teaser PDF File
May 2024 International Conference,IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2024).
Oliver Lemke and
Zuria Bauer
and René Zurbrügg and Marc Pollefeys and Francis Engelmann and Hermann
Blum
”Spot-Compose: A Framework for Open-Vocabulary Object Retrieval and Drawer Manipulation in Point
Clouds”. Webpage PDF File
December
2021
International Conference,International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV).
Zuria Bauer
and Zuoyue Li and Sergio Orts-Escolano and Miguel Cazorla and Marc Pollefeys and Martin R. Oswald,
”NVS-MonoDepth: Improving Monocular Depth Prediction with Novel View Synthesis”. PDF File
September
2020
Journal,Pattern Recognition Letters.
Zuria Bauer
and Alejandro Dominguez and Edmanuel Cruz and Francisco Gomez-Donoso and Sergio Orts-Escolano and
Miguel Cazorla,
”Enhancing Perception for the Visually Impaired with Deep Learning Techniques and Low-cost
Wearable Sensors”. PDF File
August
2019
Journal,Scientic Data - Nature.
Zuria Bauer
and Francisco Gomez-Donoso and Edmanuel Cruz and Sergio Orts-Escolano and Miguel Cazorla,
“UASOL:
A Large-scale High-resolution Stereo Dataset”. PDF File
Education
2017–2021 PhD. Department of Computer Science and Articial Intelligence ,University of Alicante.
Doctoral degree in Advanced Computing where topics related to the existing lines of research, such as
Articial Vision
,
Parallel Computing and Robotics are addressed.
Advisors:
Prof. Dr. Miguel Cazorla &Dr. Sergio Orts-Escolano
Thesis Defense: 16 September 2021.
2016–2017 M.Sc. Automation and Robotics ,University of Alicante.
The degree provides an introduction to Automation and Robotics Research, as well as other related elds, such as:
Articial vision, Robot control and programming, etc. Master End-Project Advisor: Prof. Dr. Fernando Torres
2010–2016 Bachelor in Chemical Engineering,University of Alicante.
Intensive undergraduate program in Chemical Engineering and Science with an European Accreditation of Engineering
Programs (EUR-ACE) certicate from the ENAEE-ANECA.
Bachelor End-Project Advisor:
Prof. Dr. Andrés Fullana
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Projects
PhD Thesis
,Monocular Depth Estimation: Datasets, Methods, and Applications, Defense: 16 September
2021, Advisors: Prof. Dr. Miguel Cazorla &Dr. Sergio Orts-Escolano ,PDF File .
Master End-Project
,Road and Obstacle detection for terrestrial autonomous vehicles using Go-Pro cameras,
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Fernando Torres Medina,PDF File .
Bachelor End-Project
,Design of a Photoreactor for degradation of Phenol in wastewater,
Advisor:
Prof.
Dr. Andrés Fullana ,PDF File .
Educational Tools,CAChemE Learn .Mathematical Optimization .Lightning Talks .
Other Publications
July 2018 International Conference,International joint conference on neural networks (IJCNN), Categorie: Core A.
Edmanuel Cruz and José Carlos Rangel and Francisco Gomez-Donoso and
Zuria Bauer
and Miguel Cazorla,
”Finding
the place: how to train and use convolutional neural networks for a dynamically learning robot”. PDF File
November
2018
International Conference,International Workshop of Physical Agents (WAF).
Zuria Bauer
and Felix Escalona and Edmanuel Cruz and Miguel Cazorla and Francisco Gomez-Donoso,
”Improving
3D estimation for the Pepper robot using monocular depth prediction”. PDF File
November
2018
International Conference,International Workshop of Physical Agents (WAF).
Edmanuel Cruz and
Zuria Bauer
and José Carlos Rangel and Miguel Cazorla and Francisco Gomez-Donoso,
”Semantic
localization of a robot in a real home”. PDF File
December
2018
Journal,Hindawi - Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience.
Edmanuel Cruz and Félix Escalona and
Zuria Bauer
and Miguel Cazorla and José García-Rodríguez and Ester Martinez-
Martin and José Carlos Rangel and Francisco Gomez-Donoso,
”Georey: An Automated Schedule System on a
Social Robot for the Intellectually Challenged”. PDF File
February
2019
Journal,Pattern Recognition Letters.
Jose Garcia-Rodriguez and Francisco Gomez-Donoso and ... and
Zuria Bauer
, et al,
”COMBAHO: A deep learning
system for integrating brain injury patients in society”. – Project Paper –PDF File
December
2019
Journal,IEEE Access.
Zuria Bauer
and Felix Escalona and Edmanuel Cruz and Miguel Cazorla and Francisco Gomez-Donoso,
“Rening the
Fusion of Pepper Robot and Estimated Depth Maps Method for Improved 3D Perception”. PDF File
Research Projects
Jan – Dec
2023
Postdoctoral Grant
,
Improving monocular depth estimation:
Project to improve monocular depth
estimation by infusing monocular cues.,
Founded:
Margarita Salas for young researchers. Campaign nanced
by the European Union Next Generation - Recovery Plan - Competent Ministry of the Spanish Government.,
Principal Researchers: Dr. Zuria Bauer.
2017 –2019 National Project
,
COMBAHO:
Come back home. System to improve the autonomy of individuals suering
from acquired brain damage in their integration into society /
RETOGAR:
Retorno al hogar. Sistema de
mejora de la autonomia de persones con daño cerebral adquirido y dependientes en su integración en la
sociedad,
Founded:
Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitivity,
Principal Researchers:
Prof. Dr. Jose
García-Rodríguez & Prof. Dr. Miguel Cazorla.
2020 –2023 National Project
,
A2HUMPA:
Analysis and learning of human behaviours for monitoring, personalised
assistance and early detection of medical conditions /
A2HUMPA:
Aprendizaje y anàlisis de comportamientos
humanos para monitorización, asistencia personalizada y detección temprana de dolencias,
Founded:
Spanish
Ministry of Economy and Competitivity,
Principal Researchers:
Prof. Dr. Miguel Cazorla & Prof. Dr. Jose
García-Rodríguez.
Events
2024 Local Chair International Conference on 3D Vision 2024
,Davos, 3DV provides a premier platform for
research results in the area of 3D research in computer vision and graphics, novel optical sensors, signal
processing, geometric modeling, representation and transmission, to visualization and interaction.
2023 Organizer of the Computer Science for Girls Workshop
,Zurich, A free one-day workshop for underrepre-
sented collectives in Computer Science. The idea is to encourage more women and underrepresented collectives
to become part of the exciting world of Computer Science..
2019 Co-Organizer of the PyConES
,Alicante, PyConES is one of the biggest conferences of the Python
community in Spain. It was held for the seventh time from the 04th to the 06th of October 2019.
2019 Organizer of the Django Girls Workshop
,Alicante, Django Girls is a non-prot organization and a
community that empowers and helps women to organize free, one-day programming workshops by providing
tools, resources, and support.
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2014 –2018 Speaker at Python events
,at EuroPython in Bilbao and PyConES in Zaragoza, Almeria and Malaga, In
respective order: ”How to improve your diet and save money with Python”
”How to improve your diet and
save money with Python”
, Workshop: ”Introduction to Python for beginners (Software Carpentry)”, Talk:
“From RGB images to depth maps through deep convolutional networks”, ”Scientic Python”.
2018 Poster Session at PUMPS+AI Summer School
,Barcelona, “UASOL: A Large-scale High-resolution Stereo
Dataset to Benchmark Depth Estimation from Monocular Videos”.
Authors: Zuria Bauer and Sergio Orts-Escolano and Miguel Cazorla.
Languages
English Full professional prociency
German Full professional prociency
Spanish Full professional prociency
Memberships / Reviewing Activities
Jul 2017 –
Ongoing
AERFAI
,Spanish Association of Shape Recognition and Image Analysis / Asociación Española de Re-
conocimiento de Formas y Análisis de Imágenes.
Oct 2014 –
Ongoing
CAChemE
,Non-prot association of chemical engineers (professionals, teachers and students) that aims to
stimulate the possibilities of software in process engineering and industrial organisation / Asociación sin ánimo
de lucro formada por ingenieros químicos (profesionales, docentes y estudiantes) que pretende estimular las
posibilidades de software en la ingeniería de procesos y organización industrial.
2015 –
Ongoing
Review Activities
,European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) (2024),Conference on Computer
Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) (2024), International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) (2023),
Scientifc Data (Nature Publishing Group)(2023), International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV) (2022),
IJCNN (2018 – 2022), Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience – HINDAWI (2021), IEEE Access (2020),
PyConES (2015 – 2021).
Certicates
2018 PyTorch Scholarship Challenge Nanodegree Program,Udacity, Nanodegree Program.
2018 Self-Driving Car Engineer Nanodegree - Part 1,Udacity, Nanodegree Program.
2018 PUMPS+AI Summer School
,Organized by: Barcelona Supercomputing Center, University of Illinois,
Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, HiPEAC and is part of 2018 PRACE Advanced Training Centre program,
Summer School.
2017 Machine Learning,Coursera, Stanford University - Andrew Ng.
2017 AERFAI Deep Learning Summer School,University of Alicante.
2017 EPS Workshop
,Scientic vision and applications for computers about graphical processors JGPU, University
of Alicante.
2016 CAChemE Workshop
,Optimization workshop (mathematical programming) with iPython y Pyomo, University
of Alicante.
2016 Honor Code Certicate,Introduction to Linux organized by ”The Linux Foundation”, Edx.
2016 Honor Code Certicate
,Introduction to Computer Science and Programming using Python by the MITx,
Edx.
2014 Aurova Workshop,Build Your Own Robot Workshop, University of Alicante.
2014 CAChemE Workshop,Python for Scientists and Engineers, University of Alicante.
2014 CAChemE Workshop,Matlab y Octave for Scientists and Engineers, University of Alicante.
Computer skills
Python
TensorFlow
PyTorch
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Matlab
Linux
Aspen Hysys
Autocad
Chemcad
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