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Tomas Hodan
Research Scientist at Meta
About me
I am a Staff Research Scientist at Meta Reality Labs in Zurich. My research is focused on 3D computer vision, mostly on the detection, pose estimation, tracking, and reconstruction of objects and hands, which are important topics for AR/VR and robotics applications. Prior to joining Meta in 2020, I received my PhD under the supervision of Prof. Jiri Matas at the Czech Technical University in Prague. During my PhD, I visited Microsoft Research in Redmond and Google in Munich as an intern. Prior to that, I obtained my Bachelor’s and Master’s (with honours) degree in computer science from the Brno University of Technology. I am co-organizing the BOP benchmark and R6D workshops, and serve as a reviewer/area chair at academic conferences. I received the Rector’s Prize for an outstanding PhD thesis and the Dean’s Prize for an excellent Master’s thesis.
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Publications
See my Google Scholar profile for a full list.
Prithviraj Banerjee, Sindi Shkodrani, Pierre Moulon, Shreyas Hampali, Shangchen Han, Fan Zhang, Linguang Zhang, Jade Fountain, Edward Miller, Selen Basol, Richard Newcombe, Robert Wang, Jakob Julian Engel, Tomas Hodan
Accepted as highlight
CVPR 2025, Nashville
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Van Nguyen Nguyen, Christian Forster, Sindi Shkodrani, Vincent Lepetit, Bugra Tekin, Cem Keskin, Tomas Hodan
CVPR Workshops (CV4MR) 2025, Nashville
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Van Nguyen Nguyen, Stephen Tyree, Andrew Guo, Médéric Fourmy, Anas Gouda, Taeyeop Lee, Sungphill Moon, Hyeontae Son, Lukas Ranftl, Jonathan Tremblay, Eric Brachmann, Bertram Drost, Vincent Lepetit, Carsten Rother, Stan Birchfield, Jiri Matas, Yann Labbé, Martin Sundermeyer, Tomas Hodan
CV4MR Best Paper Award
CVPR Workshops (CV4MR) 2025, Nashville
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Sammy Christen, Shreyas Hampali, Fadime Sener, Edoardo Remelli, Tomas Hodan, Eric Sauser, Shugao Ma, Bugra Tekin
SIGGRAPH Asia 2024, Tokyo
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Evin Pınar Örnek, Yann Labbé, Bugra Tekin, Lingni Ma, Cem Keskin, Christian Forster, Tomas Hodan
ECCV 2024, Milan
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Tomas Hodan, Martin Sundermeyer, Yann Labbé, Van Nguyen Nguyen, Gu Wang, Eric Brachmann, Bertram Drost, Vincent Lepetit, Carsten Rother, Jiri Matas
CVPR Workshops (CV4MR) 2024, Seattle
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Van Nguyen Nguyen, Thibault Groueix, Georgy Ponimatkin, Vincent Lepetit, Tomas Hodan
ICCV Workshops (R6D) 2023, Paris
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Shreyas Hampali, Tomas Hodan, Luan Tran, Lingni Ma, Cem Keskin, Vincent Lepetit
CVPR 2023, Vancouver
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Takehiko Ohkawa, Kun He, Fadime Sener, Tomas Hodan, Luan Tran, Cem Keskin
EgoVis 2023/2024 Distinguished Paper Award
CVPR 2023, Vancouver
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Martin Sundermeyer, Tomas Hodan, Yann Labbé, Gu Wang, Eric Brachmann, Bertram Drost, Carsten Rother, Jiri Matas
CVPR Workshops (CV4MR) 2023, Vancouver
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Shangchen Han, Po-chen Wu, Yubo Zhang, Beibei Liu, Linguang Zhang, Zheng Wang, Weiguang Si, Peizhao Zhang, Yujun Cai, Tomas Hodan, Randi Cabezas, Luan Tran, Muzaffer Akbay, Tsz-Ho Yu, Cem Keskin, Robert Wang
SIGGRAPH Asia 2022, Daegu
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Lin Huang, Tomas Hodan, Lingni Ma, Linguang Zhang, Luan Tran, Christopher Twigg, Po-Chen Wu, Junsong Yuan, Cem Keskin, Robert Wang
ECCV 2022, Tel-Aviv
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Enric Corona, Tomas Hodan, Minh Vo, Francesc Moreno-Noguer, Chris Sweeney, Richard Newcombe, Lingni Ma
CVPR 2022, New Orleans
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Tomas Hodan, Martin Sundermeyer, Bertram Drost, Yann Labbé, Eric Brachmann, Frank Michel, Carsten Rother, Jiri Matas
ECCV Workshops (R6D) 2020, Glasgow
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Yash Patel, Tomas Hodan, Jiri Matas
ECCV 2020, Glasgow
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Maximilian Denninger, Martin Sundermeyer, Dominik Winkelbauer, Dmitry Olefir, Tomas Hodan, Youssef Zidan, Mohamad Elbadrawy, Markus Knauer, Harinandan Katam, Ahsan Lodhi
RSS Workshops 2020, Corvallis
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Tomas Hodan, Vibhav Vineet, Ran Gal, Emanuel Shalev, Jon Hanzelka, Treb Connell, Pedro Urbina, Sudipta N. Sinha, Brian Guenter
ICIP 2019, Taipei
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Tomas Hodan, Frank Michel, Eric Brachmann, Wadim Kehl, Anders Glent Buch, Dirk Kraft, Bertram Drost, Joel Vidal, Stephan Ihrke, Xenophon Zabulis, Caner Sahin, Fabian Manhardt, Federico Tombari, Tae-Kyun Kim, Jiri Matas, Carsten Rother
ECCV 2018, Munich
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Tomas Hodan, Jiri Matas, Stepan Obdrzalek
ECCV Workshops 2016, Amsterdam
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Tomas Hodan, Xenophon Zabulis, Manolis Lourakis, Stepan Obdrzalek, Jiri Matas
IROS 2015, Hamburg
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Tomas Hodan, Dima Damen, Walterio Mayol-Cuevas, Jiri Matas
ISMAR Workshops 2015, Fukuoka
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PhD thesis
Supervisor: Prof. Jiri Matas
Reviewers: Prof. Vincent Lepetit, Prof. Markus Vincze, Dr. Slobodan Ilic
Czech Technical University in Prague, 2021
Received the Rector's Prize for an outstanding PhD thesis
Thesis Defense Slides BibTeX
Activities
Co-organized BOP challenges on object pose estimation:
- BOP 2024 – New CAD-free tasks and BOP-H3 datasets (HOT3D, HOPEv2, HANDAL).
- BOP 2023 – New tasks on objects unseen during training.
- BOP 2022 – New 2D detection and segmentation tasks.
- BOP 2020 – Focus on synthesis of effective training data by developing BlenderProc4BOP.
- BOP 2019 – New 6D object localization task and evaluation methodology.
- SIXD 2017 – The first challenge on 6D object pose estimation.
Co-organized R6D workshops on object pose estimation:
- 9th R6D workshop (ECCV 2024, Milan)
- 8th R6D workshop (ICCV 2023, Paris)
- 7th R6D workshop (ECCV 2022, Tel-Aviv)
- 6th R6D workshop (ECCV 2020, Glasgow)
- 5th R6D workshop (ICCV 2019, Seoul)
- 4th R6D workshop (ECCV 2018, Munich) – summary
- 3rd R6D workshop (ICCV 2017, Venice)
- 2nd R6D workshop (ECCV 2016, Amsterdam)
- 1st R6D workshop (ICCV 2015, Santiago)
Other co-organized events:
- OpenCV Perception Challenge for Bin-Picking (CVPR 2025, Nashville)
- Workshop on Perception for Industrial Robotics Automation – PIRA (CVPR 2025, Nashville)