Johannes L. Schönberger
Also known as Johannes L. Schonberger
Johannes L. Schönberger is a computer vision researcher known for COLMAP, a pipeline for structure-from-motion and multi-view stereo. He co-authored Structure-from-Motion Revisited with Jan-Michael Frahm in 2016, and he received an ETH Medal for his PhD thesis in 2019. The PAMI Mark Everingham Prize honored his work on COLMAP in 2020, and the ECVA Young Researcher Award followed in 2023. As of October 2026, he is an engineer and researcher in Meta's Reality AI Research team in Zurich, after six years as a principal scientist at Microsoft.
Timeline
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2015
An honorable mention at DAGM
In 2015 his work receives an honorable mention for best paper at DAGM.
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2016
Structure-from-Motion Revisited at CVPR
In 2016 he co-authors Structure-from-Motion Revisited with Jan-Michael Frahm for CVPR, the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition conference.
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2019
An ETH Medal for a thesis
In 2019 he receives an ETH Medal for his PhD thesis.
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2019
A Microsoft lab in Zurich
In 2019 he speaks at the launch of Microsoft's Mixed Reality and AI Zurich lab. Before Meta, he spends six years as a principal scientist at Microsoft.
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2020
The Everingham Prize for COLMAP
In 2020 the PAMI Mark Everingham Prize honors his work on COLMAP, a general-purpose structure-from-motion and multi-view stereo pipeline.
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2023
An ECVA Young Researcher Award
In 2023 he receives the ECVA Young Researcher Award.
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2024
Global structure-from-motion revisited
In 2024 he co-authors Global Structure-from-Motion Revisited at ECCV with Linfei Pan, Daniel Barath and Marc Pollefeys.
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As of October 2026
A role at Meta in Zurich
He is an engineer and researcher in Meta's Reality AI Research team in Zurich.
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