Matias Turkulainen
matiasturkulainen@gmail.com
maturk.github.io
Profile
First year Ph.D. student at Aalto University focusing on 3D reconstruction in challenging, real-world environments.
Education
- Aalto University
- Espoo, Finland
- Ph.D. Student, Department of Computer Science
2024-2028
Advisors: Prof. Juho Kannala and Prof. Arno Solin.
- ETH Zurich
- Zurich, Switzerland
- M.Sc. Robotics, Systems and Control
2021 - Nov, 2024
Focus on computer vision and machine learning. Semester project @ ASL and MSc thesis @ CVG.
- University of Glasgow
- Glasgow, Scotland
- BEng (Hons) in Mechanical Engineering with Aeronautics
2017-2021
Grade: 1st class honours. Cumulative GPA: 20.5/22.
Experience
- Research Assistant
- Aalto University
Dec 2023 - May 2024
Project related to 3D Gaussian splatting. Core developer for v0.1.0 of the open-source project gsplat.
- Research Intern
- VTT, Technical Research Centre of Finland
April 2023 - Nov 2023
Hyperspectral radiance fields for material classification in 3D. Contributing to Nerfstudio and BARF-nerfstudio.
- Research Assistant
- Computer Vision and Learning Group (VLG), ETH Zurich
Feb 2022 - July 2022
Human pose estimation from images. Publication: EgoBody. Guided by Ph.D student Siwei Zhang (D-INFK, ETH Zurich).
- Drone Systems Trainee
- Nokia
Jun 2020 - Aug 2021
R&D intern at Nokia working with LTE connected drones at Nokia Drone Networks.
Publications
- DN-Splatter: Depth and Normal Priors for Gaussian Splatting and Meshing,
Matias Turkulainen, Xuqian Ren, Iaroslav Melekhov, Otto Seiskari, Esa Rahtu, Juho Kannala.
Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2025.
- AGS-Mesh: Adaptive Gaussian Splatting and Meshing with Geometric Priors for Indoor Room Reconstruction Using Smartphones,
Xuqian Ren, Matias Turkulainen, Jiepeng Wang, Otto Seiskari, Iaroslav Melekhov, Juho Kannala, Esa Rahtu.
International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV), 2025.
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DeSplat: Decomposed Gaussian Splatting for Distractor-Free Rendering,
Yihao Wang, Marcus Klasson, Matias Turkulainen, Shuzhe Wang, Juho Kannala, Arno Solin.
In review. ArXiv preprint ArXiV:2411.19756, 2025.
- Gaussian Splatting on the Move: Blur and Rolling Shutter Compensation for Natural Camera Motion,
O. Seiskari, J. Ylilammi, V. Kaatrasalo, P. Rantalankila, M. Turkulainen, J. Kannala, E. Rahtu, A. Solin.
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024.
- gsplat: An Open-Source Library for Gaussian Splatting,
V. Ye, R. Li, J. Kerr, M. Turkulainen, B. Yi, Z. Pan, O. Seiskari, J. Ye, J. Hu, M. Tancik, A. Kanazawa.
In review. ArXiv preprint ArXiv:2409.06765, 2024.
Links
- GitHub
- Scholar
- LinkedIn
Matias Turkulainen — matiasturkulainen@gmail.com — (+358)
40-7772948