Cornelia Fermüller
Cornelia Fermüller is a Research Scientist at the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS) Computer Vision Laboratory, where she co-founded the Autonomy, Cognition and Robotics (ARC) Lab and co-leads the Perception and Robotics Group. She holds a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from the Technical University of Vienna and is known for her research in computer vision, robotics, and bio-inspired machine vision, including work on event-based sensors, robot learning of manipulation actions, and cognitive robotic systems that integrate perception with action and reasoning.
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