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IDS Distinguished Speaker Series #4 - Professor Wolfgang Heidrich

Host: HKU Musketeers Foundation Institute of Data Science
Co-Host: Department of Computer Science & Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, HKU

Title: Learned Imaging Systems
Speaker: Professor Wolfgang Heidrich, Professor of Computer Science and Electrical & Computer Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) Visual Computing Center
Moderator: Dr Evan Peng, Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, HKU
Date: Nov 9, 2023
Time: 10:30am – 11:30am
Venue: CPD-LG.18, Centennial Campus / Zoom

Mode: Hybrid. Seats for on-site participants are limited. A confirmation email will be sent to participants who have successfully registered.

Abstract

Computational imaging systems are based on the joint design of optics and associated image reconstruction algorithms. Of particular interest in recent years has been the development of end-to-end learned “Deep Optics” systems that use differentiable optical simulation in combination with backpropagation to simultaneously learn optical design and deep network post-processing for applications such as hyperspectral imaging, HDR, or extended depth of field. In this talk I will in particular focus on new developments that expand the design space of such systems from simple DOE optics to compound refractive optics and mixtures of different types of optical components.

Speaker

Professor Wolfgang Heidrich
Professor of Computer Science and Elecrical & Computer Engineering @ King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) Visual Computing Center
Prof. Wolfgang Heidrich is a Professor of Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering in the KAUST Visual Computing Center, for which he also served as director from 2014 to 2021. Prof. Heidrich joined King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in 2014, after 13 years as a faculty member at the University of British Columbia. He received his PhD in from the University of Erlangen in 1999, and then worked as a Research Associate in the Computer Graphics Group of the Max-Planck-Institute for Computer Science in Saarbrucken, Germany, before joining UBC in 2000. Prof. Heidrich’s research interests lie at the intersection of imaging, optics, computer vision, computer graphics, and inverse problems. His more recent interest is in computational imaging, focusing on hardware-software co-design of the next generation of imaging systems, with applications such as High-Dynamic Range imaging, compact computational cameras, hyperspectral cameras, to name just a few. Prof. Heidrich’s work on High Dynamic Range Displays served as the basis for the technology behind Brightside Technologies, which was acquired by Dolby in 2007.
Prof. Heidrich is a Fellow of the IEEE, AAIA, and Eurographics, and the recipient of a Humboldt Research Award as well as the ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award.

Moderator

Dr Evan Peng
Assistant Professor @ Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, HKU

Dr Evan Peng is an Assistant Professor at The University of Hong Kong. Before this, he was a Postdoctoral Research Scholar in the Computational Imaging Laboratory, Stanford University, and received a PhD in Computer Science from Imager Lab, the University of British Columbia. During the PhD, he was a Visiting Student Researcher at Visual Computing Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology. He received both his MSc and BS in Optical Science and Engineering from Zhejiang University.

His research interest lies in the interdisciplinary field of Optics, Graphics, Vision, and Artificial Intelligence, particularly with the focus of : Computational Optics, Photography, Sensing, and Display; Holographic Imaging/Display & VR/AR/MR; Low-level Computer Vision; Inverse Rendering; Human-centered Visual & Sensory Systems.

For information, please contact:
Email: datascience@hku.hk