PeopleofSuperintelligence

Researcher

Tomas Pajdla

Also known as Tomáš Pajdla

Tomas Pajdla is a computer vision researcher at Czech Technical University in Prague, where his work centers on 3D reconstruction and the geometry of cameras. He co-authored NetVLAD, a CNN architecture for weakly supervised place recognition that was presented at CVPR 2016. Papers he co-authored also won an ICCV 2019 Best Student Paper Award and a Marr Prize honorable mention at ICCV 2021. In 2022 a paper he co-authored, Learning to Solve Hard Minimal Problems, won the CVPR Best Paper Award. He heads the Department of Robotics and Machine Perception at the Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics.

Now at
Czech Technical University in Prague and Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics
Works
396
Citations
21,989
h-index
58

Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 15 October 2026.

Timeline

  1. By 2015

    Degrees from Czech Technical University

    He earns MSc and PhD degrees from the Czech Technical University in Prague. By 2015 his work centers on the geometry and algebra of computer vision, with emphasis on nonclassical cameras and 3D reconstruction.

  2. 2016

    NetVLAD for place recognition

    He helps write NetVLAD, a CNN architecture for weakly supervised place recognition, which appears at CVPR 2016.

  3. 2019

    A best student paper at ICCV

    PLMP, a paper he co-authors, wins the Best Student Paper Award at ICCV 2019 in Seoul.

  4. 2020

    Program chair for ACCV 2020

    He takes on the program chair role for ACCV 2020 in November 2020.

  5. 2021

    A Marr Prize honorable mention

    A paper he co-authored, Viewing Graph Solvability via Cycle Consistency, receives a Marr Prize Best Paper honorable mention at ICCV 2021 in Montreal.

  6. 2022

    A CVPR 2022 best paper

    A paper he co-authored, Learning to Solve Hard Minimal Problems, wins the CVPR 2022 Best Paper Award. Its learning strategy selects a starting problem-solution pair that can be numerically continued.

  7. 2023

    A Marr Prize nomination

    A paper he co-authored, Viewing Graph Solvability in Practice, is one of 17 papers nominated for the Marr Prize out of 2161 papers presented at ICCV 2023.

  8. Since 2026

    Head of the robotics department

    He is appointed head of the Department of Robotics and Machine Perception at the Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics in 2026.

Sources and credits

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  1. IAPR MVA2015 | IAPR Invited Talks mva-org.jp. Checked 14 October 2026.
  2. Tomas Pajdla people.ciirc.cvut.cz. Checked 14 October 2026.
  3. NetVLAD: CNN Architecture for Weakly Supervised Place Recognition openaccess.thecvf.com. Checked 14 October 2026.
  4. PLMP - Point-Line Minimal Problems in Complete Multi-View Visibility openaccess.thecvf.com. Checked 14 October 2026.
  5. The best student paper at ICCV 2019 goes to CIIRC aktualne.cvut.cz. Checked 14 October 2026.
  6. Marr Prize Best Paper Honorable Mention award at ICCV 2021 for a paper co-authored by Tomas Pajdla - Ellis Unit Prague ellis.ciirc.cvut.cz. Checked 14 October 2026.
  7. CVPR 2022 Paper Awards cvpr2022.thecvf.com. Checked 14 October 2026.
  8. Learning To Solve Hard Minimal Problems openaccess.thecvf.com. Checked 14 October 2026.
  9. Another success of Tomas Pajdla at ICCV 2023 in Paris ciirc.cvut.cz. Checked 14 October 2026.
  10. CIIRC staff meeting: a successful 2025, a challenging 2026 and a clear direction for the future ciirc.cvut.cz. Checked 14 October 2026.