Jason Rambach
Senior Researcher, Team Leader Spatial Sensing and Machine Perception
@ German Research Center for AI (DFKI)

Jason Rambach received his PhD in Computer Science in 2020 from the University of Kaiserslautern for his dissertation entitled “Learning Priors for Augmented Reality Tracking and Scene Understanding”. He has been at DFKI Augmented Vision in Kaiserslautern since 2015. Currently, he is a Senior Researcher and Deputy Director leading the team “Spatial Sensing and Machine Perception” working on Scene Perception and Reasoning using Machine Learning.
His research interests include Object Pose Estimation and Tracking, Semantic Scene Understanding, Anomaly Detection, Hybrid AI, Robotic Vision and Augmented Reality. He has over 50 publications in leading Computer Vision and Augmented Reality conferences, a best paper award from the IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR) 2017 and five awards at the BOP Object Pose Estimation challenge 2022 and 2023 at ECCV and ICCV. He is a reviewer for several scientific journals and conferences (CVPR, T-PAMI, ECCV, ICCV, ICRA, IROS, WACV, BMVC). Since 2022 he is coordinator of the EU Horizon Project HumanTech, applying AI in the construction industry for Scan2BIM, Wearables and Assistance Robots.
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Mar 22, 2025 | Organizing the SPADE Workshop at the Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV) 2025 |
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Feb 26, 2025 | Article on object pose estimation for symmetric objects published by IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP) Journal |
Oct 23, 2024 | Invited Talk at the NEM Summit 2024 on Building Virtual Worlds with 3D Sensing and AI |
Jun 18, 2024 | 3rd place at the Scan2BIM challenge of the CV4AEC Workshop at CVPR2024 |
Apr 02, 2024 | Organized the 2nd Workshop on AI and Robotics in Construction at the European Robotics Forum 2024 |
Mar 05, 2024 | Paper on object pose estimation accepted at CVPR 2024 (code available) |
Mar 04, 2024 | Best Industrial Paper award at ICPRAM 2024 |
Jan 03, 2024 | Paper on 3D semantic segmentation from single spherical images presented at WACV 2024 |
Nov 01, 2023 | 3 new research projects started. KIMBA, ReVise_UP, BERTHA |
Oct 19, 2023 | Invited Talk at IGIC 2023 on Meaningful AR/XR through AI Perception |
Oct 03, 2023 | Three awards at the Object Pose Estimation challenge (BOP 2023) at ICCV 2023 |
Sep 15, 2023 | Paper on Scan2CAD with retrieval and deformation accepted at ICCV2023 |
Sep 01, 2023 | Paper on hybrid 3D face tracking accepted at ICIP 2023 |
Aug 29, 2023 | Two papers on radar-camera fusion at GCPR 2023 and EUSIPCO 2023 |
Jun 20, 2023 | 3rd place at the Scan2BIM challenge of the CV4AEC Workshop at CVPR2023 |
May 14, 2023 | Hiring (Senior) Researchers for projects on automated waste sorting and recycling |
May 14, 2023 | Co-organizing the session on Human Factors in Construction Robotics at ARSO 2023 |
Mar 25, 2023 | Organized a Workshop on AI and Robotics in Construction at the European Robotics Forum 2023 |
Jan 20, 2023 | Paper on 3D Object detection accepted at the Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) journal |
Jan 10, 2023 | We released the “Rada” Radar Driver Activity Dataset |
Oct 27, 2022 | Two awards at the Object Pose Estimation challenge (BOP 2022) at ECCV 2022 |
Oct 01, 2022 | Editing a special issue of Sensors on 3D Sensing, Semantic Reconstruction and Modelling |
Jul 12, 2022 | Two papers presented at CVPR 2022 (1 main track + 1 workshop paper) |
Jul 05, 2022 | Keynote on Computer Vision at the French-German Research and Innovation event |
Jun 01, 2022 | For the next 3 years I will be coordinating the EU Horizon Project HumanTech for AI in the construction industry |
Dec 06, 2021 | Two papers accepted at BMVC 2021 |
Oct 21, 2021 | Paper on Radar-Camera fusion accepted at WACV 2022 |
Aug 31, 2021 | We released two Time-of-Flight datasets (in-car, smart building) at https://vizta-tof.kl.dfki.de/ |
Jun 16, 2021 | Paper on depth image vs. point cloud segmentation accepted at ICIP 2021 |
Mar 31, 2021 | Paper on plane segmentation accepted at ICRA 2021 |
Dec 16, 2020 | Paper on radar multipath detection at ICPR 2020 |
Jul 14, 2020 | Successfully defended my PhD Thesis “Learning priors for augmented reality tracking and scene understanding” |