Hello, I'm Samuel Cerezo

Electronic Engineer and researcher with international experience in Argentina, Spain, and Germany. Formerly in the oil industry, now completing a Ph.D. in Systems Engineering and Computer Science under Prof. Javier Civera’s supervision. Skilled in C++, Python, and MATLAB, with a strong focus on real-time systems, optimization, and modular design. Native speaker in Spanish, Fluent in English; conversational in Italian. Passionate about turning technology advances into robust, deployable solutions.


Publications

DefVINS: Visual-Inertial Odometry for Deformable Scenes

DefVINS: Visual-Inertial Odometry for Deformable Scenes

Samuel Cerezo, Javier Civera
Submitted to IEEE RA-L, 2026

A new deformable visual-inertial odometry framework that separates a rigid, IMU-anchored state from a non-rigid warp represented by an embedded deformation graph.

An Efficient Closed-Form Solution to Full Visual-Inertial State Initialization

An Efficient Closed-Form Solution to Full Visual-Inertial State Initialization

Samuel Cerezo, Seong Hun Lee, Javier Civera
Submitted to IEEE RA-L, 2025

A new analytical solution that is easy to implement and robust at initialization, thanks to the small-rotation and constant-velocity approximations, which simplify the problem while preserving the essential coupling between motion and inertial measurements.

GNSS-Inertial State Initialization Using Inter-Epoch Baseline Residuals

GNSS-Inertial State Initialization Using Inter-Epoch Baseline Residuals

Samuel Cerezo, Javier Civera
IEEE RA-L, 2025 New

A novel GNSS-inertial initialization strategy that delays the use of global GNSS measurements until sufficient information is available to accurately estimate the state of a sensorized device. A criterion based on the evolution of the Hessian matrix singular values is introduced.

SLAM&Render: A Benchmark for the Intersection Between Neural Rendering, Gaussian Splatting and SLAM

Submitted to IJRR, 2025

A novel dataset designed to benchmark methods in the intersection between SLAM and novel view rendering. It consists of 40 sequences with synchronized RGB, depth, IMU, robot kinematic data, and ground-truth pose streams.

Camera Motion Estimation from RGB-D-inertial Scene Flow

Camera Motion Estimation from RGB-D-inertial Scene Flow

Samuel Cerezo, Javier Civera
IEEE/CVF CVPR Workshop, 2024

Estimate the camera motion in a rigid 3D environment, along with the state of an IMU while offering the flexibility to operate as a multiframe optimization or to marginalize older data.

Master's Thesis

Compressive Sensing Mapping System for Spatial Characterization of Photovoltaic Devices

Compressive Sensing Mapping System for Spatial Characterization of Photovoltaic Devices

Argentine Conference on Electronics

Applying a new technique called compressive sensing in order to obtain the photocurrent map of photovoltaic devices without mechanical processes