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Oscar Pizarro

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Oscar Pizarro

Professor
Department of Marine Technology

oscar.pizarro@ntnu.no
2.267 Professor Mørchs hus Tyholt, Trondheim
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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.

Competencies

  • Marine robotics
  • habitat mapping
  • seafloor monitoring
  • underwater imaging

Research

Autonomous systems for environmental mapping and monitoring. Underwater imaging. 

Publications

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2025

  • 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

2023

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

2022

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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
  • 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

  • MR8500 - PhD topics in marine control and hybrid power systems

Outreach

2024

  • Popular scientific lecture
    Pizarro, 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
  • Interview
    Oftedahl, 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

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