SINCE 2019
QBOID
Chief Technology Officer
- Thin, fast depth cameras
- Contactless object dimensioning
- Phone-speed computer vision
- Medical imaging to warehouse floor
CTO, Qboid · Computer Vision · University of Padova
Francesco Peruch
Palo Alto, California
He makes computer vision measure the physical world, fast enough to run on a phone.
Francesco Peruch is CTO of Qboid, where he owns the depth-camera station (US 12,620,113) that detects a parcel, segments it, and computes its dimensions on its own. He came up through Aquifi, co-inventing the thin structured-light optics that Google, Apple and Meta later cited 80 times, after a Padova PhD in computer vision for medical imaging. His signature is older than any of it: MEDS, a skin-lesion segmenter he built to run in a fraction of a second and validated against expert dermatologists.
- 80Patents citing his depth sensor
- 85MEDS citations (Padova IRIS)
- 15 mDepth-camera sensing range
- 1stInventor on Qboid's granted patent
HAPPENING NOW
STANDING TODAY
HOW THEY THINK4 BELIEFS
Four convictions carry from a skin-lesion segmenter to a parcel-dimensioning station.
THE IMPACT
Seven patents and two papers, joined by one idea — measure the physical world.
EVERYTHING ELSE · 4 WORKS
THE TIMELINE
One instinct — measure the physical world, simply and fast — carried from a skin-lesion segmenter to a parcel-dimensioning company.
The whole record, newest first – tap any moment and Aster tells the story.
2019-PRESENT
The measurement idea becomes his own product
As CTO of Qboid since 2019, Francesco owns the depth-camera dimensioning station he had been building toward for a decade. Its granted patent, US 12,620,113, detects a parcel on a working surface, segments it by depth, computes its dimensions, and quietly self-recalibrates between scans — the measurement instinct from his medical-imaging doctorate, now a shipping product he directs.
2014-2019
From depth cameras to measuring the objects they see
At Aquifi, Francesco rose from software engineer to Principal Software Architect for Computer Vision, working both sides of the sensor. He co-invented the thin structured-light optics — a 2.33 mm dual-function-DOE illuminator (US 9,503,708) and the single-DOE despeckling projector (US 9,826,216) later cited 80 times — then turned the depth cameras toward measurement: volumetric sizing, timing-constrained factory scanning, and perspective-corrected label reading.
“1% to 5% (or more) of the optical energy... is concentrated in the zero-order spot, and the zero-order spot may be 100 to 500 times brighter than any other portion of the pattern.”
2004-2014
A phone-speed segmenter, measured against dermatologists
A continuous bachelor-through-doctorate run in Information Engineering at the University of Padova, framed by a PhD in computer vision for medical imaging. There Francesco first-authored MEDS (IEEE TBME, 2014), a melanocytic-lesion segmenter that runs in a fraction of a second on a cell phone and tracks expert dermatologists more closely than a moderately-experienced one does — the instinct behind everything that followed.
“very experienced dermatologists disagree with its segmentations less than they disagree with the segmentations of state-of-the-art techniques, and in fact less than they disagree with the segmentations of dermatologists of moderate experience.”