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Yonas Teodros Tefera

Post Doc
Advanced Robotics
Yonas Teodros Tefera
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About

I am a team lead and Postdoctoral researcher at the Vicarios Lab in Advanced Robotics Research Line. My interests include telepresence and telerobotics, dynamic 3D reconstruction, haptics, and immersive technologies such as Augmented, Virtual, and Mixed Reality (AR/VR/MR). I also focus on gaze-contingent rendering and point cloud compression, aiming to enhance how we interact with robotic systems and improve their responsiveness and functionality.

Key Responsibility:

  • Collaboration and Coordination: I coordinate novel research efforts with our PhD and Postdoctoral researchers.
  • Perception & Localization: Designing real-time dynamic dense 3D reconstruction and scene understanding system via RGB-D camera to create maps and locations in the world.
  • Visualization: Designing Immersive Telerobotics/ Telepresence visualization interfaces using 3D reconstructed scenes with modern virtual/Augmented reality (VR/AR) interfaces.
  • Compression: Design and integration of Point cloud compression (PCC) techniques: G-PCC, and V-PCC.
All Publications
2026
Nikhil Deshpande., Yonas teodros Tefera., Yaesol Kim.
Assistive Telerobotics and Intuitive Interaction
Assistive Robotics, Publisher: CRC Press
Book Chapter Book
2026
P Gao., YT Tefera., DG Caldwell., N Deshpande.
Incremental3D: Real-time Incremental 3D Scene Generation with Scene Graphs
Transactions on Machine Learning Research
Article Journal
2026
Olmo Franco., Gabriele Giurin., Yonas T. Tefera., Christian Di Natali., Luigi Monica., Darwin G. Caldwell., Jesus Ortiz.
Integrating Automatic Force Assistance Configuration with Mixed Reality for Active Exoskeletons
IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration, pp. 1054-1060
Article Conference
2025
Javed Ahmad., Penggang Gao., Donatien Delehelle., Mennuti Canio., Nikhil Deshpande., Jesús Ortiz., Darwin G Caldwell., Yonas Teodros Tefera.
From Fields to Splats: A Cross-Domain Survey of Real-Time Neural Scene Representations
arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.23555
Article E-print Archive
2025
Natnael Berhanu Takele., Donatien Delehelle., Kim Yaesol., Sara Anastasi., Nikhil Deshpande., Jesus Ortiz., Darwin G. Caldwell., Carmine Tommaso Recchiuto., Yonas Tefera.
MiXR-Intent: Intention Prediction for Immersive Remote Encountered-Type Haptics
2025 IEEE Conference on Telepresence
Article Conference