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Lazaros Nalpantidis is Professor of Autonomous Systems and Head of the "Perception and Cognition for Autonomous Systems" Group at the Department of Electrical and Photonics Engineering, Technical University of Denmark (DTU). Earlier, Lazaros was Head of the "Automation and Control" Group and Head of Studies for the DTU's MSc programme in Autonomous Systems.
Before joining DTU, Lazaros was Associate Professor of Robotics at Aalborg University Copenhagen, Denmark, where he also served as Head of Section for Sustainable Production within the Department for Materials and Production. He has been a post-doctoral researcher at the Centre for Autonomous Systems (CAS), Computer Vision & Active Perception Lab. (CVAP) of the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden. His research is in the area of autonomous systems, robot perception and machine learning.
Keywords
- User defined:
- autonomous systems
- robot vision
- cognitive robotics
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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SDG 2 Zero Hunger -
SDG 7 Affordable and Clean Energy -
SDG 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth -
SDG 9 Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure -
SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities -
SDG 12 Responsible Consumption and Production -
SDG 14 Life Below Water -
SDG 15 Life on Land
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Context-aware computer vision for chemical reaction state detection
Ren, J., Mandal, A., El-khawaldeh, R., Leong, S. X., Hein, J., Aspuru-Guzik, A., Nalpantidis, L. & Darvish, K., 2026, (Accepted/In press) In: Digital Discovery. 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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A Risk-Informed Design Framework for Functional Safety System Design of Human–Robot Collaboration Applications
Wu, J., Ren, J., Ravn, O. & Nalpantidis, L., 2025, In: Safety. 11, 24, 31 p., 11010024 .Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Empowering Lab Education: Integrating a Vision-Based Monitoring System with Small-Scale Self-Driving Experiment Platforms
Ren, J., Fisker-Bodker, N., Guldenring, R., Chang, J. H., Vegge, T., Ravn, O. & Nalpantidis, L., 2025, Proceedings of the 2025 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration (SII). IEEE, p. 1155-1162 8 p. (IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration (SII) - Proceedings).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review
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Foundation vision models in agriculture: DINOv2, LoRA and knowledge distillation for disease and weed identification
Espejo-Garcia, B., Güldenring, R., Nalpantidis, L. & Fountas, S., 2025, In: Computers and Electronics in Agriculture. 239, 11 p., 110900.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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From Web Data to Real Fields: Low-Cost Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for Agricultural Robots
Tzouras, V., Nalpantidis, L. & Güldenring, R., 2025, Proceedings of 23rd Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis. Petersen, J. & Dahl, V. A. (eds.). Springer, p. 203-216 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 15725 LNCS).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review
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Multisensor 3D Reconstruction and Growth Modelling for Robotic Intercropping
Salazar Navalon, C. C. (PhD Student), Nalpantidis, L. (Main Supervisor) & Ravn, O. (Supervisor)
15/01/2026 → 14/01/2029
Project: PhD
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Representation Learning and Multimodal Perceptionfor Agricultural Robots
Tzouras, V. (PhD Student), Nalpantidis, L. (Main Supervisor) & Ravn, O. (Supervisor)
01/01/2026 → 31/12/2028
Project: PhD
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Sensor fusion models for embedded systems
Montello, F. (PhD Student), Nalpantidis, L. (Main Supervisor) & Ravn, O. (Supervisor)
01/03/2024 → 28/02/2027
Project: PhD
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Active Semantic Segmentation and Probabilistic Learning for Inspection of Confined Spaces using Aerial Robots
Syrrafos, D. (PhD Student), Boukas, E. (Main Supervisor) & Nalpantidis, L. (Supervisor)
01/02/2024 → 31/01/2027
Project: PhD
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Deep Learning Perception Fusing Classical and Novel Sensors
Øhrstrøm, C. K. (PhD Student), Nalpantidis, L. (Main Supervisor) & Ravn, O. (Supervisor)
01/02/2024 → 18/04/2027
Project: PhD
Datasets
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Self-collected sequences and metadata of ConRebSeg
Schmidt, P. (Creator), Andersen, R. E. (Contributor), Casas Lorenzo, J. (Contributor), Gascon Bononad, C. (Contributor) & Nalpantidis, L. (Supervisor), Technical University of Denmark, 22 Jul 2024
Dataset
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RumexLeaves: Dataset introduced by Paper "Zoom in on the Plant: Fine-Grained Analysis of Leaf, Stem, and Vein Instances"
Güldenring, R. (Creator) & Nalpantidis, L. (Creator), Technical University of Denmark, 2024
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Data for "RumexWeeds: A Grassland Dataset for Agricultural Robotics"
Güldenring, R. (Creator), Li, J. (Creator), van Evert, F. (Creator) & Nalpantidis, L. (Creator), Technical University of Denmark, 2023
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Prizes
Press/Media
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Væk med ukrudtet: Nu skal robotter vænne sig til udelivet
09/06/2021
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Droner kan skade naturen – men næppe i Danmark
05/03/2021
1 Media contribution
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