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Researcher

Thomas Schöps

Thomas Schöps is a computer vision researcher whose work spans monocular SLAM, mobile 3D mapping and multi-view stereo. He coauthored LSD-SLAM in 2014 and received a Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship in 2015. At ETH Zurich, he developed tablet software that digitized the main building in 10 minutes, coauthored a multi-view stereo benchmark in 2017, and completed a computer vision PhD in 2020. He founded ScannedReality in 2022, where the team develops 3D reconstruction algorithms for ScannedReality Studio, a volumetric-video solution. LSD-SLAM received the 2024 Koenderink Prize; as of October 2026, he is managing director of ScannedReality GmbH.

Now at
ScannedReality GmbH
Works
22
Citations
5,741
h-index
10
Badges

Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 22 October 2026.

Timeline

  1. 2014

    LSD-SLAM at ECCV

    In 2014, he coauthors LSD-SLAM for ECCV, a direct monocular system that reconstructs the 3D environment in real time as a pose graph of keyframes with semi-dense depth maps.

  2. 2015

    Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship

    He receives the 2015 Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship through ETH Zurich's Department of Computer Science.

  3. 2016

    Mapping the ETH main building

    As a doctoral student at ETH Zurich's Institute for Visual Computing, he develops tablet software with Marc Pollefeys's group that digitizes the main building as a 3D model in 10 minutes.

  4. 2017

    A multi-view stereo benchmark

    He coauthors a 2017 CVPR paper that introduces a multi-view stereo benchmark using high-resolution DSLR images and synchronized stereo videos from indoor and outdoor scenes.

  5. 2020

    A computer vision PhD

    In 2020, he earns a computer vision PhD at ETH Zurich's Computer Vision and Geometry Group.

  6. 2022

    Founding ScannedReality

    He founds ScannedReality in 2022. The company develops 3D reconstruction algorithms and markets them through ScannedReality Studio, its volumetric-video solution.

  7. 2024

    Koenderink Prize for LSD-SLAM

    In 2024, ECCV gives the Koenderink Prize to LSD-SLAM and its authors, including Jakob Engel, Thomas Schöps and Daniel Cremers.

  8. As of October 2026

    Managing director at ScannedReality

    As of October 2026, he is managing director of ScannedReality GmbH.

Career

  1. Since 2022ScannedReality GmbHFounder, Managing Director

Education

  1. From 2016ETH ZurichPhD in computer vision

From the biography and OpenAlex affiliations (the years of papers that list the organization), so some years are approximate.

  1. The median h-index is 48 at universities and 14 at frontier AI labsIncludes ETH Zurich. The median h-index is 48 at universities and 14 at frontier AI labs. We compare publishing careers, recent citations, dual appointments and job moves across 2,420 university researchers and 308 frontier-lab researchers.
  2. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology trained or employed 44 of the 187 AI major-prize winners, more than any other universityIncludes ETH Zurich. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology trained or employed 44 of the 187 AI major-prize winners, more than any other university. We compare doctorate and 5+ year employment links, career timing and current workplaces for 187 major-prize and 1,111 best-paper winners.
  3. The company share of AI researchers’ top papers was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974Includes ETH Zurich. We estimate where the people shaping AI worked when their most-cited papers appeared: the company share was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974, and Google led all organizations in 2020–2024.
  4. Universities had a net outflow of 2,068 moves in AI careersIncludes ETH Zurich. Our estimates of career flows and median h-index across universities and companies in AI, including the role of joint appointments and earlier academic jobs.

Colleagues

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Sources and credits

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  1. LSD-SLAM: Large-Scale Direct Monocular SLAM mlanthology.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  2. Non-Faculty Awards – Department of Computer Science | ETH Zurich inf.ethz.ch. Checked 21 October 2026.
  3. 3D mapping of entire buildings with mobile devices | ETH Zurich ethz.ch. Checked 21 October 2026.
  4. A Multi-View Stereo Benchmark With High-Resolution Images and Multi-Camera Videos openaccess.thecvf.com. Checked 21 October 2026.
  5. Computer Vision and Geometry Group cvg.ethz.ch. Checked 21 October 2026.
  6. About - ScannedReality scanned-reality.com. Checked 21 October 2026.
  7. ECCV 2024 Awards eccv.ecva.net. Checked 21 October 2026.
  8. Impressum - ScannedReality scanned-reality.com. Checked 21 October 2026.