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Pedro Proença

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Pedro Proença

JPL Postdoctoral Fellow

Biography

Pedro F. Proença is a postdoctoral researcher that started at JPL in 2020. At JPL, he has developed perception and state estimation software for several projects, including: terrain mapping, landing site detection and map-based localization for the Mars Science Helicopter Advanced Navigation Task; hazard mapping for CADRE rovers; object tracking and 3d localization for UAVs equipped with a thermal camera; and proprioceptive state estimation for EELS.

Prior to JPL, he completed his PhD on Robust RGB-D Odometry under Depth Uncertainty for Structured Environments and worked on several projects using deep learning for computer vision.

Education

  • PhD in Computer Vision, University of Surrey, 2018
  • M.S in Telecommunications and Computer Science, ISCTE - University Institute of Lisbon, 2013
  • B.S in Telecommunications and Computer Science, ISCTE - University Institute of Lisbon, 2011

Research Interests

  • 3D Perception
  • Machine Learning
  • Object Detection
  • Object Tracking
  • Object Pose Estimation
  • Surface Mapping
  • State Estimation
  • Visual Odometry
  • Inertial Navigation Systems
  • Calibration

Awards

  • ICRA Outstanding Deployed Systems Paper Finalist, 2022
  • JPL Team award, Mars Science Helicopter, 2020
  • ESA Pose Estimation Challenge, 3rd Place, 2019