Esa Rahtu

Esa Rahtu, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Computer Vision
Tampere University

Address: Room TF 313, Tietotalo, Korkeakoulunkatu 1
P.O. Box 553, FI-33101 Tampere, Finland
Email: firstname.lastname@tuni.fi

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About me

I am an Assistant Professor at Tampere University where I co-lead the Computer Vision Group. In addition, I am a Co-Founder and Technical Advisor of IndoorAtlas Ltd., where I have previously acted as a CTO for several years.

Previously, I have been an acting professor at the Machine Vision Group in the University of Oulu, visiting researcher with Visual Geometry Group at the University of Oxford (2009, 2011-2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2018), and vising PhD student (2004) with Computer Vision Group at the University of Freiburg.

Research

I have a broad interest in different computer vision, and machine learning problems. Typical application areas are, for example, instance detection and segmentation, audio-visual learning, 3D geometric vision, visual-inertial odometry, and machine learning based image generation and manipulation.

Students

Currently, I am supervising the following PhD students at Tampere University

In addition, I am currently co-advising the following students

Lam Huynh at the University of Oulu (with J. Heikkilä)
Phong Nguyen-Ha at the University of Oulu (with J. Heikkilä)

Alumni

I've been privileged to supervise the following brilliant people:

Former PhD Students

Aleksei Tiulpin (2020), with S. Saarakkala, now at Aalto University
Iaroslav Melekhov (2020), with J. Kannala, now at Aalto University.
Hamed R. Tavakoli (2014), with J. Heikkilä, now at Nokia Technologies.

Former Postdocs

Puneet Gupta, now Asst. Prof. at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Indore.
Hamed R. Tavakoli, now at Nokia Technologies.

Teaching

Upcoming courses:

Spring 2021: Computer Vision (Tampere University)

Previous courses:

Spring 2020: Computer Vision (Tampere University)
Spring 2019: Fundamentals of Robot vision (Tampere University)
Spring 2018: Fundamentals of Robot vision (Tampere University of Technology)
Spring 2017: Digital filters (University of Oulu)
Fall 2016: Signal processing systems (University of Oulu)
Spring 2016: Statistical signal processing (University of Oulu)
Spring 2016: Machine vision (University of Oulu)
Fall 2015: Digital video processing (University of Oulu)
Fall 2015: Computer Vision Methods for Medical and Biomedical Image Analysis (University of Oulu)
Spring 2015: Artificial intelligence (University of Oulu)
Fall 2014: Digital image processing (University of Oulu)
Fall 2014: Computer Vision Methods for Medical and Biomedical Image Analysis (University of Oulu)
Spring 2014:Artificial intelligence (University of Oulu)

Links to some of my collaborators

Publications and projects

A list publications can be found from here. For the latest works see also Google Scholar and arXiv.