Oscar Pizarro
About
Oscar Pizarro trained as an oceanographic engineer in the MIT/WHOI Joint Program, specializing in underwater imaging from robotic platforms. He co-founded the world’s first benthic monitoring program using autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs), Australia's Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS) AUV Facility, which has collected millions of seafloor images and revisited sites around Australia for over a decade. He is interested in scalable autonomous systems for large scale observation of the marine environment and novel optical underwater imaging techniques.
Research
Autonomous systems for environmental mapping and monitoring. Underwater imaging.
Publications
2025
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Wen, Ziting;
Pizarro, Oscar;
Williams, Stefan.
(2025)
Active self-semi-supervised learning for few labeled samples.
Neurocomputing
Academic article
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Marais, Wilhelm J.;
Pizarro, Oscar;
Williams, Stefan B..
(2025)
Maximising the wrench capability of mobile manipulators with experiments on a UVMS.
Frontiers in Robotics and AI
Academic article
2023
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Løvås, Håvard Snefjellå;
Larsen, Martin Kvisvik;
Pizarro, Oscar Rodrigo;
Sørensen, Asgeir Johan.
(2023)
Semi-analytical model for deep-water hyperspectral imaging.
Applied Optics
Academic article
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Larsen, Martin Kvisvik;
Pizarro, Oscar Rodrigo;
Ludvigsen, Martin.
(2023)
Geometric Registration of Benthic Imagery for Learning Appearance-Based Place Recognition over Multiple Sessions.
IEEE conference proceedings
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
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Waldum, Ambjørn Grimsrud;
Pizarro, Oscar Rodrigo;
Ludvigsen, Martin.
(2023)
Sonar Object Detection from Synthetic Sonar Data Generated by a Sonar Simulator and an Adversarial Neural Network.
IEEE conference proceedings
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
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Chow, Cher F. Y.;
Bolton, Caitlin;
Boutros, Nader;
Brambilla, Viviana;
Fontoura, Luisa;
Hoey, Andrew S..
(2023)
Coral settlement and recruitment are negatively related to reef fish trait diversity.
Coral reefs
Academic article
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Madin, Joshua S.;
Asbury, Mollie;
Schiettekatte, Nina;
Dornelas, Maria;
Pizarro, Oscar Rodrigo;
Reichert, Jessica.
(2023)
A word on habitat complexity.
Ecology Letters
Academic article
2022
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Anyosa, Susan;
Eidsvik, Jo;
Pizarro, Oscar.
(2022)
Adaptive spatial designs minimizing the integrated Bernoulli variance in spatial logistic regression models - with an application to benthic habitat mapping.
Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Academic article
Journal publications
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Wen, Ziting;
Pizarro, Oscar;
Williams, Stefan.
(2025)
Active self-semi-supervised learning for few labeled samples.
Neurocomputing
Academic article
-
Marais, Wilhelm J.;
Pizarro, Oscar;
Williams, Stefan B..
(2025)
Maximising the wrench capability of mobile manipulators with experiments on a UVMS.
Frontiers in Robotics and AI
Academic article
-
Løvås, Håvard Snefjellå;
Larsen, Martin Kvisvik;
Pizarro, Oscar Rodrigo;
Sørensen, Asgeir Johan.
(2023)
Semi-analytical model for deep-water hyperspectral imaging.
Applied Optics
Academic article
-
Chow, Cher F. Y.;
Bolton, Caitlin;
Boutros, Nader;
Brambilla, Viviana;
Fontoura, Luisa;
Hoey, Andrew S..
(2023)
Coral settlement and recruitment are negatively related to reef fish trait diversity.
Coral reefs
Academic article
-
Madin, Joshua S.;
Asbury, Mollie;
Schiettekatte, Nina;
Dornelas, Maria;
Pizarro, Oscar Rodrigo;
Reichert, Jessica.
(2023)
A word on habitat complexity.
Ecology Letters
Academic article
-
Anyosa, Susan;
Eidsvik, Jo;
Pizarro, Oscar.
(2022)
Adaptive spatial designs minimizing the integrated Bernoulli variance in spatial logistic regression models - with an application to benthic habitat mapping.
Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Academic article
Part of book/report
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Larsen, Martin Kvisvik;
Pizarro, Oscar Rodrigo;
Ludvigsen, Martin.
(2023)
Geometric Registration of Benthic Imagery for Learning Appearance-Based Place Recognition over Multiple Sessions.
IEEE conference proceedings
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
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Waldum, Ambjørn Grimsrud;
Pizarro, Oscar Rodrigo;
Ludvigsen, Martin.
(2023)
Sonar Object Detection from Synthetic Sonar Data Generated by a Sonar Simulator and an Adversarial Neural Network.
IEEE conference proceedings
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Teaching
Courses
Outreach
2024
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Popular scientific lecturePizarro, Oscar Rodrigo. (2024) Safeguarding the ocean – recent developments for safe and intelligent marine robotics. Institutt for marin teknikk Havteknisk dag , Trondheim 2024-04-17 - 2024-04-17
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InterviewOftedahl, Live; Ludvigsen, Martin; Pettersen, Kristin Ytterstad; Ødegård, Øyvind; Pizarro, Oscar Rodrigo. (2024) NTNUs laboratorie for undervannsrobotikk feirer 15 år. NTNU Nyheter NTNU Nyheter [Internet] 2024-01-30