Research team

Senior researchers

Levente Hajder

Team Leader, Associate Professor

Office: LD-2.704

Levente Hajder is a research fellow and associate professor at the Department of Algorithms and Their Applications, Faculty of Informatics, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE). He received a Ph.D. degree in computer engineering from Budapest University of Technology and Economics in 2008. He worked for the Institute for Computer Science and Control in Hungary from 2000 to 2018. He is now the head of the Geometric Computer Vision Group at ELTE. He has published more than 50 conference and journal papers. His main research interests are 3D computer vision, point cloud processing, and multimodal sensor calibration.

Iván Eichhardt

Associate Professor

E–mail: eiiraai@inf.elte.hu

Office: LD-2.704

Iván Eichhardt is an associate professor at the Department of Algorithms and Their Applications, Faculty of Informatics, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE). He received his Ph.D. degree in computer science from ELTE in 2020, titled Affine Correspondences and Challenges in Multi-Sensor Systems. He worked for the Institute for Computer Science and Control (SZTAKI) in Hungary from 2012 to 2020. His main research interests are computer vision and image processing, including structure-from-motion and various reconstruction techniques, and the processing and fusion of sensor data.

Lajos Lóczi

Associate Professor

E–mail: lloczi@inf.elte.hu

Office: LD-2.210

Lajos Lóczi, Ph.D., is an associate professor at the Department of Numerical Analysis, Faculty of Informatics, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE). His expertise includes symbolic computations and the numerical analysis of ordinary and partial differential equations with emphasis on discretization methods that preserve certain qualitative properties.

Péter Kozma

Assistant Professor

E–mail: kozmapeter@inf.elte.hu

He holds an MSc in Physics and a PhD in Nanotechnology, with research experience at prestigious institutions like the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the Fraunhofer Institute for Biomedical Engineering, and the Japanese National Institute for Materials Science.

After a decade in research, he transitioned to engineering, working at Robert Bosch Ltd. and later leading teams in self-driving vehicle development at Aimotive. Currently, he is a Product Manager for ground truth data generation at Continental Autonomous Mobility and assistant professor at ELTE’s Faculty of Informatics.

Tekla Tóth

Assistant Lecturer

E–mail: teklatoth@inf.elte.hu

Office: LD-2.708

Tekla Tóth is a Ph.D. candidate at the Doctoral School of Informatics, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE). She received her BSc degree in Engineering Information Technology from the Faculty of Information Technology, University of Pannonia in 2016 and her MSc degree in Computer Science from ELTE in 2018. She worked for the Institute for Computer Science and Control (SZTAKI) in Hungary from 2016 to 2018. She was Research Engineer Intern at Facebook Reality Labs in 2020. Her main research interest is computer vision, sensor calibration, object detection, and 3D data analysis. She likes to put theory into practice and formalize observations into elegant geometric properties.

Ph.D. Students

Tamás Tófalvi

First-year Ph.D. Student

E–mail: z2rciu@inf.elte.hu

Office: LD-2.704

Tamás Tófalvi is a Ph.D. student at the Doctoral School of Informatics, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE). He received his MSc degree in computer science for Autonomous Systems from ELTE in 2022. His main research interest is computer vision, including sensor calibration and radar data analysis.

Zsombor Páncsics

First-year Ph.D. Student

E–mail: zg0pnh@inf.elte.hu

Office: LD-2.704

Zsombor Páncsics is a Ph.D. student at the Doctoral School of Informatics, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE).

Engineers

Bandó Kovács

E–mail: kovbando@inf.elte.hu

Office: LD-2.604

Bandó Kovács is an engineer at the Faculty of Informatics, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), since 2020. He received a BSc in electrical engineering at the Kandó Kálmán Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Óbuda University. Most of his knowledge is related to IT/networking, but he is interested in mechanical engineering and programming. His work at ELTE focuses mainly on giving researchers the data they need. He helps plan the measurements, makes measuring rigs, installs the sensor setups, and maintains the low-level data-collecting software that handles raw data. He chose his current work because it has some creative challenges and coincides with his interests in the border of hardware and software development.

Master Students

Gergő Nagy

M.Sc. Student

Gergő Nagy is currently a MSc student in the EIT Digital Master School program’s Data Science specialization (ELTE + KTH universities). He finished my Bsc degree in Computer Science at the Faculty of Informatics of ELTE in the Neumann Talent Development Group. His main interests include Computer Vision and Computer Graphics.

Máté Bálint Poór

M.Sc. Student

E–mail: gwwclc@inf.elte.hu

Máté Bálint Poór is an MSc student at the Faculty of Informatics, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), and he is a member of the Neumann Talent Development Group. His main research interests are computer vision and machine learning. He is currently working on his thesis, the topic of which is object detection using images and 3D point clouds.

Muhammad Rafi Faisal

M.Sc. Student

Muhammad Rafi Faisal is currently pursuing an MSc in Computer Science at ELTE, specializing in AUS Systems. He earned his BS in Electronic Engineering with distinction from BUITEMS, Pakistan, in 2021 and contributed as a research student at the Control Automation and Robotic Lab. Following his bachelor’s degree, he worked as a Research Assistant at the Robot Design and Development Lab, CEME, NUST, in Pakistan. His research interests include 3D Computer Vision, Point Cloud Processing, and Mobile Robots.

Dheeraj Kumar

M.Sc. Student

Dheeraj Kumar is an EIT Digital MSc (Aalto- ELTE University) student in Autonomous Systems at Aalto University, with a strong focus on machine vision, deep learning, and autonomous systems. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Delhi. His technical expertise includes Python, C++, PyTorch, TensorFlow, and ROS2, which He applies to the development of complex visual perception and robotics systems.
He has experience in developing visual odometry systems utilizing stereo image processing, feature matching, and depth estimation with the KITTI dataset. His area of interest is computer vision and 3D point clouds processing.

Alumni

Hanif Mustafa Budiyanto

M.Sc. Student

E–mail: sq0z2b@inf.elte.hu

Hanif Mustafa Budiyanto is an M.Sc. student majoring in Computer Science for Autonomous System at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE). He received his B.Sc. degree in Electronics and Instrumentation from Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM) Indonesia in 2021. During his bachelor years, he was part of the UAV research group working primarily on visual servoing for multirotor. Therefore, his research interest lies in the intersection of 3D computer vision and robotics.