Dr. Danda Pani Paudel

Dr. Danda Pani Paudel

Computer Vision|Robotics|Earth Observation

  • Board Member at NAAMII

  • Adjunct Research Scientist leading the PUSHVIC research group at NAAMII

  • Lecturer at ETH Zurich and Faculty at INSAIT Sofia

  • Specializes in spatial intelligence, with a focus on scene representation and understanding for physical AI.

Danda Pani Paudel is a leading researcher in computer vision, spatial AI, and 3D scene understanding, with more than 15 years of experience in geometric learning, multimodal AI, and real-world machine perception. His research focuses on enabling machines to understand and reason about the physical world through 3D/4D visual data, vision-language models, and spatial intelligence systems.

His research career spans leading AI institutions, including ETH Zurich and INSAIT, and he has authored more than 100 scientific publications in top-tier venues such as CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, and AAAI. His work has contributed to advances in 3D reconstruction, visual SLAM, scene understanding, embodied AI, and large-scale spatial reasoning systems.

Publications

2026
RobustFormer: Noise-Robust Pre-training for images and videos
Ashish Bastola, Nishant Luitel, Hao Wang, Danda Pani Paudel, Roshni Poudel, Abolfazl Razi
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2024
iHuman: Instant Animatable Digital Humans From Monocular Videos
Pramish Paudel, Anubhav Khanal, Ajad Chhatkuli, Danda Pani Paudel, Jyoti Tandukar
ECCV: European Conference on Computer Vision (2024): 18th European Conference on Computer Vision, Milan, Italy, (Sept 29 - October 4, 2024), Proceedings, Part I, (2024)
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Dr. Danda Pani Paudel