Dr Tobias Fischer


Personal details

Positions

Senior Lecturer
Faculty of Engineering,
School of Electrical Engineering & Robotics

Keywords

Robotics, Computer Vision, Computational Cognition, Place Recognition, Gaze Estimation, Event Cameras, Spiking Neural Networks

Research field

Artificial intelligence, Computer vision and multimedia computation

Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2020

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy (Imperial College, London)
  • M.Sc. (University of Edinburgh)
  • B.Sc. (Other)

Professional memberships and associations


  • Fellow, Higher Education Academy (FHEA)
  • Chartered Engineer (CEng)
  • Senior Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (SMIEEE)
  • Member, Institution of Engineering and Technology (MIET)
  • Member, British Machine Vision Association (BMVA)
  • Member, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society

Teaching

Dr Fischer's teaching profile accounts for over 400 hours of teaching in a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate courses. Dr Fischer is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy which demonstrates his overall commitment to professionalism in learning and teaching.

Teaching Overview:

  • Unit Coordinator and Lecturer, EGB339 Introduction to Robotics, 2023 & 2024 (QUT)
  • Lecturer, EGB439 Advanced Robotics, 2023 (QUT)
  • Assessor, EGH400-1, Winter 2021 (QUT)
  • Assessor, EGH408, Spring 2020 (QUT)
  • Guest Lecturer, EGH444, Spring 2020 (QUT)
  • Guest Lecturer, Human-Centered Robotics, Autumn 2019 (Imperial College London)
  • Assessor, Mobile Healthcare and Machine Learning, Spring 2019 (Imperial College London)
  • Assessor, Human-Centered Robotics, Autumn 2018 (Imperial College London)
  • Tutor, Object-Oriented Programming, Spring 2014 (University of Edinburgh)
  • Tutor, Processing Formal and Natural Languages, Autumn 2013 (University of Edinburgh)
  • Tutor, Software Engineering, Autumn 2013 (University of Edinburgh)
  • Tutor, Algorithms and Programming, Autumn 2011 (Ilmenau University of Technology)
  • Tutor, Algorithms and Programming, Autumn 2010 (Ilmenau University of Technology)

Publications

Research outputs by year

  • Chapter in Book / Report / Conference Proceeding
  • Contribution to a Journal
  • Thesis
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5 new publications in 2016
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1 new publication in 2017
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8 new publications in 2018
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2 new publications in 2019
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4 new publications in 2020
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5 new publications in 2021
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6 new publications in 2022
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6 new publications in 2023
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7 new publications in 2024
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3 new publications in 2025
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2025

  • Hussaini, S., Milford, M. & Fischer, T. (2025). Applications of Spiking Neural Networks in Visual Place Recognition. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 41, 518–537. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/254549
  • Joseph, T., Fischer, T. & Milford, M. (2025). Matched Filtering Based LiDAR Place Recognition for Urban and Natural Environments. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 10(3), 2566–2573. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/255916
  • Yik, J., Van den Berghe, K., den Blanken, D., Bouhadjar, Y., Fabre, M., Hueber, P., Ke, W., Khoei, M. A., Kleyko, D., Pacik-Nelson, N., Pierro, A., Stratmann, P., Sun, P. S. V., Tang, G., Wang, S., Zhou, B., Ahmed, S. H., Vathakkattil Joseph, G., Leto, B., Micheli, A., Mishra, A. K., Lenz, G., Sun, T., Ahmed, Z., Akl, M., Anderson, B., Andreou, A. G., Bartolozzi, C., Basu, A., Bogdan, P., Bohte, S., Buckley, S., Cauwenberghs, G., Chicca, E., Corradi, F., de Croon, G., Danielescu, A., Daram, A., Davies, M., Demirag, Y., Eshraghian, J., Fischer, T., Forest, J., Fra, V., Furber, S., Furlong, P. M., Gilpin, W., Gilra, A., Gonzalez, H. A., Indiveri, G., Joshi, S., Karia, V., Khacef, L., Knight, J. C., Kriener, L., Kubendran, R., Kudithipudi, D., Liu, S. C., Liu, Y. H., Ma, H., Manohar, R., Margarit-Taulé, J. M., Mayr, C., Michmizos, K., Muir, D. R., Neftci, E., Nowotny, T., Ottati, F., Ozcelikkale, A., Panda, P., Park, J., Payvand, M., Pehle, C., Petrovici, M. A., Posch, C., Renner, A., Sandamirskaya, Y., Schaefer, C. J. S., van Schaik, A., Schemmel, J., Schmidgall, S., Schuman, C., Seo, J. S., Sheik, S., Shrestha, S. B., Sifalakis, M., Sironi, A., Stewart, K., Stewart, M., Stewart, T. C., Timcheck, J., Tömen, N., Urgese, G., Verhelst, M., Vineyard, C. M., Vogginger, B., Yousefzadeh, A., Zohora, F. T., Frenkel, C. & Reddi, V. J. (2025). The neurobench framework for benchmarking neuromorphic computing algorithms and systems. Nature Communications, Article 1545, 16(1). https://eprints.qut.edu.au/256166

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2023

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Awards

Selected research projects

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