Tolga Birdal
Regular biography
Tolga Birdal is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Imperial College London. His research interests include 3D computer vision, geometric machine learning, non-Euclidean geometry, and quantum computing. He is affiliated with the university and can be contacted via email at t.birdal@imperial.ac.uk. His professional profile is available at https://profiles.imperial.ac.uk/t.birdal.
Scholar-generated biography
Tolga Birdal is a researcher at Imperial College London specializing in 3D computer vision, machine learning, and geometry. His work focuses on developing robust methods for 3D point matching, local feature learning, and pose estimation. He has contributed to advancements in 3D object detection, 6D pose estimation, and deep learning for point cloud processing. His research includes unsupervised learning of rotation-invariant descriptors, topological deep learning, and equivariant neural networks for 3D data. Birdal's publications explore challenges such as ambiguity in object detection, uncertainty in pose estimation, and the use of persistent homology for generalization in neural networks.