Mateusz Wąsala

Mateusz Wąsala

Mateusz Wąsala, MSc
Research & Teaching Assistant
PhD Student
wasala@agh.edu.pl

I am interested in embedded vision systems, in particular SLAM algorithms for ambient map generation and positioning of unmanned aerial vehicles. I also design and build equipment for these vehicles.

Computer Vision Event Cameras Hardware Acceleration Perception System Real-Time Processing SLAM SoC FPGA UAVs Visual Odometry

Experience 2

  1. Research & Teaching Assistant

    2021 – Present
    AGH University of Krakow

    I am conducting research on leveraging SoC computing platforms for autonomous visual perception in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), with a particular focus on visual odometry and SLAM. My work involves classical algorithms, artificial intelligence methods, hybrid approaches, and event-based cameras. Additionally, I am responsible for conducting laboratory sessions with students on advanced vision systems and perception systems for mobile robotics.

  2. Software Engineer

    June 2014 – October 2019
    BlueCloud Sp. z o.o.

    I worked as a Software Engineer developing software applications, websites, and scripts using PHP, HTML, JavaScript, and CSS.

Education 3

  1. PhD candidate

    2019 – Present
    AGH Doctoral School, AGH University of Kraków

    Automation, Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Space Technologies

  2. Master of Science

    2018 – 2019
    AGH University of Krakow

    Automatic Control and Robotics - Inteligent Control Systems - Vision Systems

  3. Bachelor of Engineering

    2014 – 2018
    AGH University of Krakow

    Automatic Control and Robotics

Awards 4

  1. Obtaining NCN PRELUDIUM Grant

    28 November 2025
    Polish National Science Centre

    Project titled EEVONN - Embedded Event-Based Visual Odometry Using Neural Networks

  2. 4th Place - UAV Competition, IEEE ICUAS 2024

    2024
    International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS)

    Fourth place in the finals of the international UAV Competition, after placing 6th of 23 teams in the simulation phase. The task was autonomous fruit counting with a UAV equipped with an RGB camera and a depth sensor.

  3. 2nd Place - Multi-Robot Systems Summer School 2024 Challenge

    2024
    Multi-Robot Systems Group, Czech Technical University in Prague (IEEE RAS Summer School on Multi-Robot Systems)

    Second place in the international competition held as part of the IEEE RAS Summer School on Multi-Robot Systems in Prague, with the final round carried out in outdoor experiments with real multi-UAV systems.

  4. AMD Open Hardware Design Competition 2023 - Finalist in PhD category

    28 August 2023
    Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)

    Project titled Detection-segmentation solution for controlling an autonomous vehicle in traffic on a city model on a Kria KV260 platform

Academic service 2

  1. Web Co-Chair

    2026
    DSD 2026 – Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design, Kraków
  2. TPC member

    2026–2027
    DASIP – Workshop on Design and Architectures for Signal and Image Processing

Publications

Year
Type
Project

2026

  1. Automation
    Vision-based automatic fruit counting with UAV
    In Automation 2025: recent advances in automation, robotics and measurement techniques, Sep 2026

2025

  1. SPA
    Embedded perception and control system for an autonomous surface vehicle using visual-LiDAR fusion and SLAM
    Olivier Lichota, Mateusz Wasala, Hubert Szolc, and Tomasz Kryjak
    In SPA 2025 : Signal Processing - algorithms, architectures, arrangements, and applications : Poznan, 17th–19th September 2025 : conference proceedings, Sep 2025
  2. DSD
    Hardware-aware feature extraction quantisation for real-time visual odometry on FPGA platforms
    Mateusz Wasala, Mateusz Smolarczyk, Michal Danilowicz, and Tomasz Kryjak
    In DSD 2025 : 28th euromicro conference on Digital System Design : 10–12 September 2025, Salerno, Italy, Sep 2025

2023

  1. MMAR
    Detection-segmentation convolutional neural network for autonomous vehicle perception
    Maciej Baczmanski, Robert Synoczek, Mateusz Wasala, and Tomasz Kryjak
    In MMAR 2023 : 27th international conference on Methods and Models in Automation and Robotics : 22–25 August 2023, Międzyzdroje, Poland : on line proceedings : technical papers, Sep 2023
  2. ARC
    Implementation of a perception system for autonomous vehicles using a detection-segmentation network in SoC FPGA
    Maciej Baczmanski, Mateusz Wasala, and Tomasz Kryjak
    In Applied Reconfigurable Computing : architectures, tools, and applications : 19th international symposium, ARC 2023 : Cottbus, Germany, September 27-29, 2023 : proceedings, Sep 2023

2022

  1. Electronics
    An efficient real-time FPGA-based ORB feature extraction for an UHD video stream for embedded visual SLAM
    Electronics, Sep 2022
  2. JSPS
    Automotive perception system evaluation with reference data from a UAV’s camera using ArUco markers and DCNN
    Journal of Signal Processing Systems for Signal, Image, and Video Technology, Sep 2022
  3. Electronics Sonata
    Real-time CLAHE algorithm implementation in SoC FPGA device for 4K UHD video stream
    Electronics, Sep 2022
  4. MECO Sonata
    Real-time HOG+SVM based object detection using SoC FPGA for a UHD video stream
    In 11th Mediterranean Conference on Embedded Computing (MECO) : 7–10 June 2022, Budva, Montenegro, Sep 2022
  5. Book chapter Preludium
    Systemy wizyjne w zastosowaniach przemyslowych
    Marek Gorgon, Maciej Aleksandrowicz, Krzysztof Blachut, Andrzej Brodzicki, Zbigniew Bublinski, and 20 more authors
    In Nauka – technika – technologia : seria wydawnicza AGH, Sep 2022

2021

  1. DASIP
    Automotive perception system evaluation with reference data obtained by a UAV
    In DASIP 2021 : workshop on Design and Architectures for Signal and Image Processing - 14th edition : January 18–20 2021, Budapest, Hungary : proceedings, Sep 2021

2020

  1. ICCVG
    A vision based hardware-software real-time control system for the autonomous landing of an UAV
    In Computer Vision and Graphics : International Conference : ICCVG 2020 : Warsaw, Poland, September 14–16, 2020 : proceedings, Sep 2020
  2. ICCVG
    Optimisation of a Siamese neural network for real-time energy efficient object tracking
    In Computer Vision and Graphics : International Conference : ICCVG 2020 : Warsaw, Poland, September 14–16, 2020 : proceedings, Sep 2020