Hey, I’m Marcin and I’m leading Product at Sevensense by ABB, an ABB Robotics unit providing Visual AI capabilities to various kinds of robots.
Previously, I co-founded and acted as a Chief Product Officer at Sevensense Robotics (https://www.sevensense.ai/), where we were building the robotic eyes and the brains. During that time, my work focused on building a bridge between the cutting-edge Visual AI technology and the market and translating the tech into a viable product. It was a truly exciting journey to start with a research-stage technology and some business concepts and finish with hundreds of AI-equipped robots in the field! In Decemeber 2023, Sevensense was acquired by ABB.
In 2019, I finished my PhD at Autonomous Systems Lab of ETH Zurich with Prof. Roland Siegwart. My thesis “Lifelong Mapping and Robust Place Recognition Using Cameras” summarizes well the interests and the major publications. During my PhD I also stayed for one year at Google Zurich, working on Project Tango and the Visual Positioning System which is now a part of Google Maps.
Before my doctoral studies, I finished Master’s studies in Systems and Control at the Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering of ETH Zurich (graduated with an ETH Medaille) and Bachelor’s studies at Wrocław University of Science and Technology and Wroclaw University of Economics.
Many of my hobbies are also close to technology, be it audio component design, repairing and maintains old two-stroke Vespas, my Saab C900 or maintaining and extending a handful of vintage black&white Macintoshes (Plus, SE, few SE/30, Classic II, 3x Portable).
My research revolved around Visual SLAM, place recognition, computer vision, state estimation, lifelong mapping and map maintenance and packing all of that on computationally constrained devices.
Probably my most influential publications were maplab (github repo), an open framework for visual-inertial mapping (shared 1st authorship with Thomas Schneider and Marius Fehr; 2.5k+ stars) and HF-Net (github repo) published with Paul-Edouard Sarlin as the first author at CVPR 2019 (4k+ stars).
Refer to Google Scholar for more info about my publications
For so long I felt that I have gained a lot from open-source projects or DIY guides of various communities which motivated me to put down some notes and projects below so that others can hopefully profit from my hobby work too.
MacTwister MacCon/Dayna/Etherport RJ45 breakout
Macintosh Classic II / Performa 200 FPU card
DIY Macintosh 128K/512K/Plus mouse from an E-Waste container