SCIEN Seminars
Upcoming Talks
Prof. Björn Ommer (University of Munich)
January 10, 2024 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmDr. Ayush Tewari (MIT)
January 17, 2024 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmProf. Philip Gentet (Kwangwoon University)
January 31, 2024 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmProf. Kayvon Fatahalian (Stanford)
February 7, 2024 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmDr. Michael Zollhoefer (Meta)
February 14, 2024 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmProf. Misha Sra (UC Santa Barbara):
February 21, 2024 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmDr Tamay Aykut (Sureel.ai)
February 28, 2024 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Archived Talks
Video recordings of past SCIEN talks are available at talks.stanford.edu. (For access to video recordings, contact helenlin@stanford.edu or joyce_farrell@stanford.edu.)
Axel Levy (Stanford): Computational Methods for Image-Based 3D Reconstruction: from Inverse Rendering to Structural Biology
November 29 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmMagnus Wrenninge (Aurora): “How high fidelity simulation can show that driverless trucks are ready for the road”
November 15 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmProf. Enkelejda Kasneci (Technische Universität München): “Towards new ways of learning with Generative AI”
November 8 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 amCynthia Liu (Adobe): “A sneak peek into the development of Adobe Firefly”
November 1 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmDr. Changwon Jang (Meta): “Waveguides + Holography for AR and VR”
October 25 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmDr. Sergey Tulyakov (SNAP): “Volumetric Generation and Animation with a Flavour of Efficiency”
October 18 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmProfessor C. Karen Liu (Stanford University): “Building Large Models for Human Motion”
October 11 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmNikhil Balram (CEO at Mojo Vision): “Micro-LED: The Next Big Disruption of the Display Industry”
October 4 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmKfir Aberman (Snap): “Beyond Imagination: Personalizing Text-to-Image Generative Models”
September 27 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmProfessor Kaan Akşit (Univ College, London): “Could Holographic Displays be the key to achieving Realism?”
June 28 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmProfessor Peter Wonka (KAUST): “Data Structures for Generative Modeling of 3D Shapes”
June 14 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmProfessor Jung-Hoon Park ( UNIST, Korea): “Shaping Light for Bio-Imaging”
May 31 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmFrancois Chaubard (CEO at Focal Systems): “Lesson in Productizing Deep Learning Computer Vision: Automating Brick & Mortar Retail with State of the Art Computer Vision”
May 24 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmDr. Christoph Leuze (Stanford): “Headset design choices for augmented reality applications in industry and medicine.”
May 17 @ 4:30 pmProfessor Rajesh Menon (University of Utah): “Non-anthropocentric Imaging with & without optics”
May 10 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmProfessor Na Ji (University of California at Berkeley): “Imaging the brain at high spatiotemporal resolution”
May 3 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmProfessor Ioannis Gkioulekas (Carnegie Mellon University): “Interferometric computational imaging”
April 26 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmProfessor Yuhao Zhu (Univ of Rochester): “Understanding, Modeling, and Improving Energy Efficiency of Computational Image Sensors”
April 19 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmProfessor Ellen Zhong (Princeton University): “Neural fields for structural biology”
April 12 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmProfessor Changhuei Yang (California Institute of Technology): “Computation in microscopy: How computers are changing the way we build and use microscopes”
April 5 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pmProfessor Tali Treibitz (Univ of Haifa): “Towards visual autonomy underwater”
March 15 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmDr. Yichang Shih (Google): “Mobile Computational Photography with Ultrawide and Telephoto Lens”
March 1 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmProf. Andrea Tagliasacchi (Simon Fraser University): “Towards mass-adoption of Neural Radiance Fields”
February 22 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmProf. Tali Dekel (Weizmann Institute and Google): “Strong Interpretable Priors are All We Need”
February 15 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmDr. Ben Poole (Google): “2D priors for 3D generation”
February 8 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmProf. Zeev Zalevsky (Bar-Ilan University): “Remote Photonic Medicine”
February 1 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmDr. Dan McGrath: “Insider’s View on Pixel Design”
January 25 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmProfessor Lei Li (Rice University): “New Generation Photoacoustic Imaging: From benchtop wholebody imagers to wearable sensors”
January 18 @ 4:30 am - 5:30 pmDr. Jeong Joon (JJ) Park (Stanford): “Learning to Re-create Reality in 3D”
January 11 @ 4:30 pm - 5:00 pmProfessor Emily Cooper (UC Berkeley): Taking a binocular view of augmented reality system design
December 7, 2022 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmDr. Thomas Müller (NVIDIA): “Neural Networks in High Performance Graphics”
November 30, 2022 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmDr. Tara Akhavan (IRYStec): “Perceptual Displays Today & Tomorrow – Productization and Evaluation”
November 16, 2022 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmDr. Luca Fascione (NVIDIA): “Flavors of color”
November 9, 2022 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmProfessor Hakan Urey (Koç University): “Computational Holographic Displays and AR Applications”
November 2, 2022 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmDr. Thomas Goossens (Stanford): “Camera simulation in a world of trade secrets”
October 26, 2022 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmProfessor Yi Xue (UC Davis): “3D fluorescence and phase microscopy with scattering samples”
October 19, 2022 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmProfessor Qi Sun (NYU): “Co-Optimizing Human-System Performance in XR”
October 12, 2022 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmDr. Orly Liba (Google): “Creative Camera: Advancing Computational Photography at Google”
October 5, 2022 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmProfessor Federico Capasso (Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Science): “Flat Optics Unifies Semiconductor and Optical Technology: From Metalenses to Cameras and Smart Sensors”
June 8, 2022 @ 4:30 pmDr. Marc Droske (Weta Digital): “Singularities in light transport simulation for VFX and the limits of brute force”
June 1, 2022 @ 4:30 pmProfessor Susana Marcos (University of Rochester, New York):Ophthalmic imaging: from Optical bench to the eye care clinic
May 25, 2022 @ 4:30 pmProfessor Chrysanthe Preza (University of Memphis):”Engineering microscopes using computational imaging”
May 18, 2022 @ 4:30 pmProfessor Guillermo Sapiro (Duke University): “Computational Behavioral Coding for Developmental Disorders”
May 11, 2022 @ 4:30 pmProfessor Liang Gao (UCLA): “Ultrafast light field tomography”
May 4, 2022 @ 4:30 pmHao Li (Pinscreen, UC Berkeley): “AI Synthesis for the Metaverse: From avatars to 3D scenes “
April 20, 2022 @ 4:30 pmMatthew Tancik (UC Berkeley): “3D Asset Generation using Neural Radiance Fields”
April 13, 2022 @ 4:30 pmProfessor Michael Brown (York University, Canada): “Rethinking the Camera Pipeline to Improve Photographic and Scientific Applications”
April 6, 2022 @ 4:30 pmDr. Marc Levoy (Stanford, Adobe): “Computational photography at the point of capture on mobile cameras”
March 30, 2022 @ 4:30 pmDr. Boyd Fowler (Omnivision): “Highlights of the 2021 International Image Sensor Workshop”
March 16, 2022 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmDr. Yifan Wang (Stanford): “Neuralize” geometry processing pipeline
March 9, 2022 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmDr. Bernard Kress (Google): “Novel XR hardware requirements providing Metaverse level consumer and enterprise experiences”
March 2, 2022 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmDr. Sara Nagelberg and Dr. João Fayad (Owl Labs): “Cameras for Hybrid Work”
February 23, 2022 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmProf. Mark Brongersma (Stanford): “Flat Optics for Dynamic Wavefront Manipulation and Mixed Reality Eyewear”
February 16, 2022 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmProf. Jelena Notaros (MIT): ” Silicon Photonics for LiDAR, Augmented Reality, and Beyond”
February 9, 2022 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmProf. Kwaben Boahen (Stanford): “Event-based Vision Sensors: Challenges and Opportunities”
February 2, 2022 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmKevin Chavez (Dexterity.ai): “Dexterity.ai: Robotics for the future of logistics”
January 19, 2022 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmDr. Jason Lawrence (Google): “Project Starline: A high-fidelity telepresence system”
January 12, 2022 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmProfessor Christian Theobalt (MPI Informatik) : “Neural Methods for Reconstruction and Rendering of Real World Scenes”
November 17, 2021 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 amProfessor Wenzel Jakob (EPFL): “Differentiable Simulation of Light”
November 10, 2021 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 amProf. Jannick Rolland (University of Rochester): Freeform Optics for Imaging and Metaform Optics in Near-Eye Displays
November 3, 2021 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmProfessor Holly Rushmeier (Yale): “Design Tools for Material Appearance”
October 27, 2021 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmProfessor Michelle Digman (UC Irvine)
October 20, 2021 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmAgastya Kalra (Akasha): “Polarized Computational Imaging and Beyond”
October 13, 2021 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmDr. Ruth Rosenholtz (MIT): “Human vision at a glance”
October 6, 2021 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmLee Redden (Blue River Technology, John Deere): “Entrepreneurship, AI, and Agriculture: How ML is Changing Industries”
September 29, 2021 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmDr. Ofer David (BrightWay Vision): “Recent developments in GatedVision Imaging — seeing the unseen”
September 22, 2021 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 amLiang Shi (MIT): Learning-based 3D Computer-Generated Holography
June 2, 2021 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmDr. Matt Pharr (NVIDIA): ” Real-Time Ray Tracing and the Reinvention of the Graphics Pipeline”
May 26, 2021 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmProfessor Michael Kudenov (NCSU): “Mantis shrimp–inspired organic photodetector for simultaneous hyperspectral and polarimetric imaging-enabling advanced single-pixel architectures’
May 19, 2021 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmProfessor Eero Simoncelli (NYU): “Photographic Image Priors in the Era of Machine Learning”
May 12, 2021 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmProfessor Angjoo Kanazawa (UC Berkeley): “Pushing the Boundaries of Novel View Synthesis”
May 5, 2021 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmDr. Julien Martel (Stanford): “Neural Representations: Coordinate Based Networks for Fitting Signals, Derivatives, and Integrals”
April 28, 2021 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmDr. Andrew (Beau) Watson (Apple): “The Chromatic Pyramid of Visibility”
April 21, 2021 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmProfessor Andreas Geiger ( University of Tübingen): “Neural Implicit Representations for 3D Vision”
April 14, 2021 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pmProfessor Steve Seitz (University of Washington and Google): ” Slow Glass”
April 7, 2021 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmProfessor Hany Farid (UC Berkeley): “Photographic Forensic Identification”
March 31, 2021 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmProfessor Lihong Wang (Caltech): “World’s Deepest-Penetration and Fastest Optical Cameras: Photoacoustic Tomography and Compressed Ultrafast Photography”
March 17, 2021 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmProfessor Ashok Veeraraghavan ( Rice University ): “Computational Imaging: Beyond the Limits Imposed by Lenses”
March 10, 2021 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmProfessor Rafael Piestun (University of Colorado, Boulder): “A look towards the future of computational optical microscopy”
March 3, 2021 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmHayk Martiros (Skydio) on “Rugged Visual Navigation and Real-Time 3D Reconstruction Onboard Drones”
February 24, 2021 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmProfessor Noah Snavely (Cornell University): “The Plenoptic Camera”
February 17, 2021 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmDr Yifan (Evan) Peng: “Neural Holography: Incorporating Optics and Artificial Intelligence for Next-generation Computer-generated Holographic Displays”
February 10, 2021 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmDr. Ulugbek Kamilov ( Washington University in St. Louis): “Computational Imaging: Reconciling Models and Learning”
February 3, 2021 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmDr. Anton Kaplanyan (Facebook): “Recent advances and current challenges of graphics for fully immersive augmented and virtual reality”
January 27, 2021 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmDr. Vincent Sitzmann (MIT): “Self-supervised Scene Representation Learning”
January 20, 2021 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmDr. Andrew Maimone (Facebook): “Holographic optics for AR/VR”
January 13, 2021 @ 4:30 pmDr. Mukul Sarkar (3rdiTech) on “Low Light High Dynamic Range CMOS Imaging Sensors”
December 9, 2020 @ 9:30 am - 10:30 amDr. Michael Broxton (Google) on ” Immersive Light Field Video with a Layered Mesh Representation”
November 18, 2020 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmDr. Sixian You (UC Berkeley) on “Label-free optical imaging of living biological systems”
November 11, 2020 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmProfessor David Williams (University of Rochester) on “Functional imaging and control of retinal ganglion cells in the living primate eye”
October 28, 2020 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmProf. Eric Fossum (Dartmouth), Prof. Stanley Chan (Purdue) and Dr. Jiaju Ma (Gigajot Technology) on “Quanta Image Sensors: Concept, Progress, and Commercialization”
October 21, 2020 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmProfessor Bill Freeman (MIT) on “The Moon Camera”
October 14, 2020 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmDr. Mohit Gupta (Univ. of Wisconsin) on “Computational Imaging, One Photon at a Time”
October 7, 2020 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmDr. Achin Bhowmik (Starkey Hearing Technologies) on “Transforming hearing aids into multisensory perceptual augmentation and health monitoring devices”
September 30, 2020 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmDr. Lars Omlor (Zeiss) on “Retinal topography using stripe illumination in a fundus camera”
September 23, 2020 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmProfessor Faccio (Univ. of Glasgow) on “Time of flight imaging with single photon detectors”
August 26, 2020 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 amProf. Shih-Chi Chen (CUHK) on “Breaking the Resolution & Speed Limit – Next Generation 3D Printing Technology based on Digital Holography and Temporal Focusing”
August 19, 2020 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmProfessor Jennifer Barton (Univ of Arizona) will talk about “Miniature Optical Endoscopes for Early-Stage Cancer Detection”
August 5, 2020 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmIntel scientists to talk about “ThinVR: A VR display approach providing wide FOV in a compact form factor”
July 15, 2020 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmProf. Quyen Nguyen (UCSD) on “Fluorescence Guided Precision Surgery TM – Illuminating Tumors and Nerves”
July 8, 2020 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
