Cornelius
von Einem
Co-Founder & CTO of sizelessYC S23
01Now
I am the co-founder and CTO of sizeless, where we are revolutionizing underground construction through automated CAD and BIM documentation.
Our technology turns a few minutes of smartphone video of an open trench into a centimeter-accurate 3D reconstruction, standards-compliant as-built CAD plans, and GIS-ready models — replacing manual surveying and hand sketches with a workflow that construction crews run themselves, without specialized hardware or a separate site visit.
02Experience
03Publications
Sight Guide demonstrates robotics-inspired vision assistance at the Cybathlon
C von Einem*, P Pfreundschuh*, G Cioffi*, A Wyss, H W van de Venn, C Cadena, L Hendry
Science Robotics 10(108), eaec3393LINK
Sight Guide: A Wearable Assistive Perception and Navigation System for the Vision Assistance Race in the Cybathlon 2024
C von Einem*, P Pfreundschuh*, G Cioffi*, A Wyss, H W van de Venn, C Cadena, A Darvishy
arXiv:2506.02676PDF
Advancing Railway Safety Through Long-Range Obstacle Detection
C von Einem
PhD Thesis, ETH Zurich · Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Roland SiegwartLINK
VIRUS-NeRF — Vision, InfraRed and UltraSonic based Neural Radiance Fields
C von Einem*, N Schmid*, C Cadena, R Siegwart, L Hruby, F Tschopp
IEEE/RSJ IROSPDF
Local and Global Information in Obstacle Detection on Railway Tracks
C von Einem*, M Brucker*, A Cramariuc*, R Siegwart, C Cadena
IEEE/RSJ IROSPDF
Path-Constrained State Estimation for Rail Vehicles
C von Einem*, A Cramariuc*, R Siegwart, C Cadena, F Tschopp
IEEE ITSCPDF
High-precision low-cost gimballing platform for long-range railway obstacle detection
C von Einem*, EH Assaf*, C Cadena, R Siegwart, F Tschopp
Sensors 22(2):474 · 10.3390/s22020474PDF
Hough2Map — Iterative Event-Based Hough Transform for High-Speed Railway Mapping
C von Einem*, F Tschopp*, A Cramariuc*, D Hug, A W Palmer, R Siegwart, M Chli, J Nieto
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters · 10.1109/LRA.2021.3061404PDF
* Equal contribution, shared first authorship.
04Background
Before founding sizeless, I completed my PhD at the Autonomous Systems Lab at ETH Zurich under the supervision of Prof. Roland Siegwart, where I focused on long-range obstacle detection for autonomous trains.
I hold a Master’s degree in Robotics, Systems, and Control from ETH Zurich (2020) and a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering (2017).
05Skills
- Python
- C++
- Robotics
- ROS
- Machine Learning
- Computer Vision
- SLAM
- MATLAB
- CAD
- PCB-Design
- Embedded Systems
- Linux
- LaTeX
- RPA
- VBA
- ReactJS