Gordon Wetzstein - Stanford University (original) (raw)

Short Biography: Gordon Wetzstein is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and, by courtesy, of Computer Science at Stanford University. He is the director of the Stanford Computational Imaging Lab and a faculty director of the Stanford Center for Image Systems Engineering. At the intersection of computer graphics and vision, artificial intelligence, computational optics, and applied vision science, Prof. Wetzstein's research has a wide range of applications in next-generation imaging, wearable computing, and neural rendering systems. Prof. Wetzstein is a Fellow of Optica and the IEEE, and the recipient of several awards, including an IEEE VGTC Virtual Reality Technical Achievement Award, an NSF CAREER Award, an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, an ACM SIGGRAPH Significant New Researcher Award, a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), an SPIE Early Career Achievement Award, an Electronic Imaging Scientist of the Year Award, an Alain Fournier Ph.D. Dissertation Award as well as many Best Paper and Demo Awards.

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Education and Experience

since 09/21 Associate Professor, Stanford University, Electrical Engineering and, by courtesy, Computer Science, Stanford CA, USA.
11/23 - 09/24 Co-founder, Apparate AI (acquired by Luma Labs)
01/20 - 06/24 Co-founder & Chief Scientist, Zinn Labs (acquired by Sesame AI)
11/17 - 05/22 Co-founder, Raxium, Inc. (acquired by Google)
09/14 - 09/21 Assistant Professor, Stanford University, Electrical Engineering and, by courtesy, Computer Science, Stanford CA, USA.
10/11 - 08/14 Postdoctoral Associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Media Lab, Cambridge MA, USA.Funded by an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship (PDF) and the DARPA SCENICC program.
09/06 - 09/11 Doctor of Philosophy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.Alain Fournier Ph.D. Dissertation Award.
10/00 - 06/06 Diplom, Bauhaus-University Weimar, Germany (summa cum laude)

Best Paper and Demo Awards

2024 Best Paper Award, GazeFusion: Saliency-guided Image Generation, ACM Symposium on Applied Perception (SAP) 2024
2023 Best Paper Honorable Mention, Towards Attention-aware Foveated Rendering, ACM SIGGRAPH 2023
2023 Frontiers of Science Award, Neural holography with camera-in-the-loop training, International Congress of Basic Science 2023
2022 Best Journal Paper, Video See-Through Mixed Reality with Focus Cues, IEEE VR 2022
2022 Best Journal Paper, ScanGAN360: A Generative Model of Realistic Scanpaths for 360° Images, IEEE VR 2022
2022 Best Demo Award, Modulo Camera on a Focal Plane Sensor Processor, IEEE International Conference on Computational Photography (ICCP) 2022
2019 Outstanding New Directions Award (Honorable Mention), Scene Representation Networks: Continuous 3D-Structure-Aware Neural Scene Representations, NeurIPS 2019
2018 Best Student Paper (Emil Wolf Student Paper Prize), Optical Convolutional Neural Networks with Optimized Phase Masks for Image Classification, OSA Frontiers in Optics Conference 2018
2018 Best Demo Award (DCEXPO Special Price), Autofocals: gaze-contingent eyeglasses for presbyopes, SIGGRAPH Emerging Technologies 2018
2016 Best Paper (Honorable Mention), Convolutional Sparse Coding for High Dynamic Range Imaging, Eurographics 2016
2016 Best Demo Award, Computational Light Field and Monovision Near-eye Displays, IEEE International Conference on Computational Photography (ICCP) 2016
2016 Conference Best Paper for Industry Award, Depth Augmented Stereo Panorama for Cinematic Virtual Reality with Focus Cues, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) 2016
2014 Best Paper Award at the IEEE International Conference on Computational Photography (ICCP) for the paper "A Switchable Light Field Camera Architecture with Angle Sensitive Pixels and Dictionary-based Sparse Coding"
2013 Best Poster Award at the Computation for Design and Optimization (CDO) Symposium for the Poster "Compressive Cameras and Displays"
2011 Best Paper Award at the IEEE International Conference on Computational Photography (ICCP) for the paper "Hand-Held Schlieren Photography with Light Field Probes"

Awards and Fellowships

2025 Fellow of the IEEE
2024 IEEE VGTC Virtual Reality Technical Achievement Award
2024 IEEE VGTC Virtual Reality Academy
2024 Society of Information Displays (SID) - Otto Schade Prize
2023 Fellow of Optica (formerly OSA)
2023 IEEE Signal Processing Society Distinguished Lecturer
2023 IS&T Raymond C. Bowman Award
2020 SPIE Early Career Achievement Award
2019 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)
2018 ACM SIGGRAPH Significant New Researcher Award
2018 Sloan Fellowship
2018 Qualcomm Faculty Award
2017 Scientist of the Year Award, IS&T Electronic Imaging
2016 NSF CAREER Award
2016 Okawa Research Grant
2015 Google Faculty Research Award
2014 Terman Faculty Fellowship
2012 - 2014 Postdoctoral Fellowship, National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
2012 Alain Fournier Ph.D. Dissertation Annual Award (Best Canadian Computer Graphics PhD Thesis in 2011), Awarded at Graphics Interface Conference 2012
2009 - 2011 Theodore E Arnold Fellowship, University of British Columbia
2008 - 2009 Walter C Koerner Fellowship, University of British Columbia
2005 Laval Virtual Award for "Smart Projector", Category Projection Systems, Laval Virtual International Conference on Virtual Reality, 2005

Students supervised

Postdocs Gun-Yeal Lee, Stanford University (EE), Postdoc: 2022-
Sara Fridovich-Keil, Stanford University (EE), Postdoc: 2023-
Guandao Yang, Stanford University (CS/EE), Postdoc: 2023-, *co-advised with Leo Guibas
Yinghao Xu, Stanford University (CS/EE), Postdoc: 2024-
Suyeon Choi, Stanford University (EE), 2020-2024, Meta Research PhD Fellowship; Postdoc 2024-
Tong Wu, Stanford University (CS/EE), Postdoc: 2025-
PhD Manu Gopakumar, Stanford University (EE), 2020-, Stanford SGF
Qingqing Zhao, Stanford University (EE), 2020-
Axel Levy, Stanford University (EE), 2020-, *co-advised with Mike Dunne at SLAC
Haley So, Stanford University (EE), 2021-, NSF GRFP
Eric Ryan Chan, Stanford University (CS), 2021-, NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship
Boyang Deng, Stanford University (CS), 2022-, Meta Research PhD Fellowship, *co-advised with Leo Guibas
Brian Chao, Stanford University (EE), 2022-, Stanford SGF
Ryan Po, Stanford University (EE), 2022-, Stanford SGF
Jay Shenoy, Stanford University (CS), 2022-, NSF GFRP
Zhengfei Kuang, Stanford University (CS), 2022-
Yang Zhen, Stanford University (CS), 2022-, *co-advised with Leo Guibas
Shengqu Cai, Stanford University (CS), 2023-
Hansheng Chen, Stanford University (CS), 2023-, *co-advised with Leo Guibas
Jackie Yang, Stanford University (EE), 2024-, Stanford SGF
Jasmine Chen, Stanford University (EE), 2024-, Stanford SGF
MSc George Nakayama, Stanford University (CS), 2024-
Sonia Kim, Stanford University (EE), 2024-
Visitors Jan Ackermann, ETH, Visiting Student 2024-2025
Qihang Zhang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Visiting Student 2025
Ryota Koiso, KDDI Research, Visiting Scholar 2025-
Han-Sol Lee, Samsung Electronics, Visiting Scholar 2025-
Yuri An, Samsung Display, Visiting Scholar 2025-
Alumni Postdocs Yifan Wang, Stanford University (EE), Postdoc: 2022-2024, now Research Scientist at Adobe Research
Rameen Abdal, Stanford University (EE), Postdoc: 2023-2024, now Research Scientist at Snap Research
Jeong Joon "JJ" Park, Stanford University (CS/EE), Postdoc: 2021-2023, now Assistant Professor (CS) at The University of Michigan
Yifan "Evan" Peng, Stanford University (EE), Postdoc: 2018-2022, now Assistant Professor (EE) at The University of Hong Kong
Julien Martel, Stanford University, Postdoc 2019-2022, now at Perceptive Sensing
Petr Kellnhofer, Stanford University, Visiting Scholar 2019-2021, now Assistant Professor (CS) at TU Delft
Joshua Rapp, Stanford University, Postdoc 2020-2021, now Research Scientist at MERL
Chris Metzler, Stanford University, Postdoc 2018-2020, now Assistant Professor (CS) at University of Maryland
Matthew O'Toole, Stanford University, Postdoc 2016-2018, now Assistant Professor (CS) at CMU
Felix Heide, Stanford University, Visiting Student 2014-2016, Postdoc 2016-2018, now Assistant Professor (CS) at Princeton
Donald Dansereau, Stanford University, Postdoc 2016-2018, now Assistant Professor (ME) at University of Sydney
Michael Broxton, Stanford University, Postdoc 2017-2018, now Research Scientist at Google
Alumni PhD Students Connor Lin, Stanford University (CS), 2020-2024, Stanford SGF, *co-advised with Leo Guibas, now CTO at Apparate AI
Cindy Nguyen, Stanford University (EE), 2019-2024, NSF GRFP, now at Netflix
Brooke Krajancich, Stanford University (EE), 2018-2023, Knight-Hennessy Scholar, now at Apple
Alex W. Bergman, Stanford University (EE), 2018-2023, Stanford SGF, now CTO at Hedra
David Lindell, Stanford University (EE), PhD: 2016-2020 (Stanford SGF), Postdoc: 2021-2022, now Assistant Professor (CS) at the University of Toronto
Mark Nishimura, Stanford University (EE), 2018-2022, now at Stanford
Hayato Ikoma, Stanford University (EE), 2016-2021, now at 10x Genomix
Isaac Kauvar, Stanford University, PhD student (EE) 2014-2020, *co-advised with Karl Deisseroth, NSF GRFP, now Postdoc at Stanford
Robert Konrad, Stanford University, PhD student (EE) 2015-2020, now CEO at Zinn Labs
Nitish Padmanaban, Stanford University, PhD student (EE) 2016-2020, NSF GRFP, now at Zinn Labs
Vincent Sitzmann, Stanford University, PhD student (EE) 2017-2020, Stanford SGF, now Assistant Professor (EECS) at MIT
Julie Chang, Stanford University, PhD student (BioE), 2015-2019, NSF GRFP, now at Apple
Samuel Yang, Stanford University, PhD student (EE) 2014-2016, *co-advised with Karl Deisseroth, NDSEG GF, now at Google
Alumni MSc Students Rose Rustowicz, Stanford University, MSc student (EE) 2017-2018
Keenan Molner, Stanford University, MSc student (EE) 2016-2017, now at Apple
Shikhar Shrestha, Stanford University, MSc student (ME) 2014-2016, now CEO at Ambient.ai
Liang Shi, Stanford University, MSc student (EE) 2014-2016, now PhD at MIT
Alumni BSc Students Anastasios Nikolas Angelopoulos, Stanford University, Undergrad (EE), 2018-2019, now PhD at UC Berkeley
Amit Pal Kohli, Stanford University, Undergrad (EE), 2019-2020, now PhD at UC Berkeley
Alumni Visitors Sooyong Lee, Samsung Electronics, Visiting Scholar, 2024-2025
Dusic Yoo, Samsung Electronics, Visiting Scholar, 2024-2025
Yongsub Shim, Samsung Display, Visiting Scholar, 2024-2025
Timur Levent Kesdogan, ETH, Visiting Student 2024
Ruizhi Shao, Tsinghua University, Visiting Student 2024
Seung-Woo Nam, SNU, Visiting Student 2024
Zifan Shi, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), Visiting Student 2023-2024
Tong Wu, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), Visiting Student 2023-2024
Ji Won Jung, Samsung Display, Visiting Scholar 2023-2024
Zilu Li, Cornell University, Visiting Student 2023
Jonghyun Kim, Nvidia Research, Visiting Scholar 2020-2023
Min Jung Son, Samsung SAIT, Visiting Scholar, 2022-2023
Kil Woo Chung, Samsung Electronics, Visiting Scholar, 2019-2020
Ana Serrano, University of Zaragoza, Visiting Student 2016, 2017, now Assistant Professor at Defense University Center Zaragoza, Spain
Xuemei Hu, Tsinghua University, Visiting Student 2015-2016, now Associate Professor at Nanjing University, China
Masao Sambongi, Olympus Corporation, Visiting Scholar, 2015-2017
Fu-Chung Huang, UC Berkeley, Visiting Student 2014-2015, now at Apple
Alumni High School Students Jesse Ryan Shue, Milton Academy, Milton MA, Summer of 2022
Anthony Parra, Downtown College Prep Alum Rock High School, San Jose CA, Summer of 2019
Jason Corona, South San Francisco High School CA, Summer of 2019
Andrea Horvath, Aragon House High School CA, Summers of 2016 and 2017
Passa Pungchai, Mountain House High School CA, Summer of 2015

Publications

2025 R. Shao, Y. Xu, Y. Shen, C. Yang, Y. Zheng, C. Chen, Y. Liu, G. Wetzstein, "Interspatial Attention for Efficient 4D Human Video Generation", ACM SIGGRAPH 2025
S. Choi*, B. Chao*, J. Yang, M. Gopakumar, G. Wetzstein, "Gaussian Wave Splatting for Computer-Generated Holography", ACM SIGGRAPH 2025
L. Zhu, S. Cai, S. Huang, G. Wetzstein, N. Khosravan, I. Armeni, "ReStyle3D: Scene-Level Appearance Transfer with Semantic Correspondences", ACM SIGGRAPH 2025
S. Yang, J. Tan, M. Zhang, T. Wu, G. Wetzstein, Z. Liu, D. Lin "LayerPano3D: Layered 3D Panorama for Hyper-Immersive Scene Generation", ACM SIGGRAPH 2025
S. Zhang, J. Wang, Y. Xu, N. Xue, C. Rupprecht, X. Zhou, Y. Shen, G. Wetzstein, "FLARE: Feed-forward Geometry, Appearance and Camera Estimation from Uncalibrated Sparse Views", CVPR 2025
K. Nakayama*, J. Ackermann*, T. Kesdogan*, Y. Zheng, M. Korosteleva, O. Sorkine-hornung, L. Guibas, G. Yang, G. Wetzstein, "AIpparel: A Multimodal Foundation Model for Digital Garments", CVPR 2025 (Highlight)
S. Cai, E. Chan, Y. Zhang, L. Guibas, J. Wu, G. Wetzstein, "Diffusion Self-Distillation for Zero-Shot Customized Image Generation", CVPR 2025
B. Chao, H. Tseng, L. Porzi, C. Gao, T. Li, Q. Li, A. Saraf, J. Huang, J. Kopf, G. Wetzstein, C. Kim, "Textured Gaussians for Enhanced 3D Scene Appearance Modeling", CVPR 2025
Q. Zhao, Y. Lu, M. Kim, Z. Fu, Z. Zhang, Y. Wu, M. Li, Q. Ma, S. Han, C. Finn, A. Handa, M. Liu, D. Xiang, G. Wetzstein, T. Lin, "CoT-VLA: Visual Chain-of-Thought Reasoning for Vision-Language-Action Models", CVPR 2025
Z. Kuang, T. Zhang, K. Zhang, H. Tan, S. Bi, Y. Hu, Z. Xu, M. Hasan, G. Wetzstein, F. Luan "Buffer Anytime: Zero-Shot Video Depth and Normal from Single-View Priors", CVPR 2025
Y. Zheng, M. Chai, D. Vicini, Y. Zhou, Y. Xu, L. Guibas, G. Wetzstein, T. Beeler "GroomLight: Hybrid Inverse Rendering for Relightable Human Hair Appearance Modeling", CVPR 2025
C. Chen, J. Zhang, S. Lakshmikanth, Y. Fang, R. Shao, G. Wetzstein, L. Fei-Fei, E. Adeli "The Language of Motion: Unifying Verbal and Non-verbal Language of 3D Human Motion", CVPR 2025
D. Chang, H. Xu, Y. Xie, Y. Gao, Z. Kuang, S. Cai, C. Zhang, G. Song, C. Wang, Y. Shi, Z. Chen, S. Zhou, L. Luo, G. Wetzstein, M. Soleymani, "X-Dyna: Expressive Dynamic Human Image Animation", CVPR 2025 (Highlight)
H. He, Y. Xu, Y. Guo, G. Wetzstein, B. Dai, H. Li, C. Yang "CameraCtrl: Enabling Camera Control for Video Diffusion Models", ICLR 2025
Q. Zhang, Y. Xu, C. Wang, H. Lee, G. Wetzstein, B. Zhou, C. Yang "3DitScene: Editing Any Scene via Language-guided Disentangled Gaussian Splatting", ICLR 2025
H. Chen, K. Zhang, H. Tan, Z. Xu, F. Luan, L. Guibas, G. Wetzstein, S. Bi "Gaussian Mixture Flow Matching Models", ICML 2025
I. Sivgin, S. Fridovich-Keil, G. Wetzstein, M. Pilanci "Geometric Algebra Planes: Convex Implicit Neural Volumes", ICML 2025
M. Guo, J. Xu, Y. Zhang, J. Song, H. Peng, Y. Deng, X. Dong, K. Nakayama, Z. Geng, C. Wang, B. Ni, G. Yang, Y. Rao, H. Peng, H. Hu, G. Wetzstein, S. Hu "R-Bench: Graduate-level Multi-disciplinary Benchmarks for LLM & MLLM Complex Reasoning Evaluation", ICML 2025
2024 M. Gopakumar*, G.-Y. Lee*, S. Choi, B. Chao, Y. Peng, J. Kim, G. Wetzstein "Full-colour 3D holographic augmented-reality displays with metasurface waveguides", Nature, 2024
R. Po, W. Yifan, V. Golyanik, K. Aberman, J. Barron, A. Bermano, E. Chan, T. Dekel, A. Holynski, A. Kanazawa, K. Liu, L. Liu, B. Mildenhall, M. Niessner, B. Ommer, C. Theobalt, P. Wonka, G. Wetzstein "State of the Art on Diffusion Models for Visual Computing", Eurographics State-of-the-Art Report, 2024
B. Deng, R. Tucker, Z. Li, L. Guibas, N. Snavely, G. Wetzstein "Streetscapes: Large-scale Consistent Street View Generation Using Autoregressive Video Diffusion", ACM SIGGRAPH 2024
Z. Li, G. Yang, Q. Zhao, X. Deng, L. Guibas, B. Hariharan, G. Wetzstein "Neural Control Variates via Automatic Differentiation", ACM SIGGRAPH 2024
D. Kim, S. Nam, S. Choi, J. Seo, G. Wetzstein, Y. Jeong "Holographic parallax improves 3D perceptual realism", ACM SIGGRAPH 2024
B. Chao, M. Gopakumar, S. Choi, J. Kim, L. Shi, G. Wetzstein "Large Etendue 3D Holographic Display with Content-adaptive Dynamic Fourier Modulation", ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2024
C. Stearns, A. Harley, M. Uy, F. Dubost, F. Tombari, G. Wetzstein, L. Guibas "Dynamic Gaussian Marbles for Novel View Synthesis of Casual Monocular Videos", ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2024
J. Je, J. Liu, G. Yang, B. Deng, S. Cai, G. Wetzstein, O. Litany, L. Guibas "Robust Symmetry Detection via Riemannian Langevin Dynamics", ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2024
S. Cai, D. Ceylan, M. Gadelha, C. Huang, T. Wang, G. Wetzstein "Generative Rendering: Controllable 4D-Guided Video Generation with 2D Diffusion Models", CVPR 2024
T. Wu, G. Yang, Z. Li, K. Zhang, Z. Liu, L. Guibas, D. Lin, G. Wetzstein "GPT-4V(ision) is a Human-Aligned Evaluator for Text-to-3D Generation", CVPR 2024
R. Po, G. Yang, K. Aberman, G. Wetzstein "Orthogonal Adaptation for Modular Customization of Diffusion Models", CVPR 2024
R. Abdal, W. Yifan, Z. Shi, Y. Xu, R. Po, Z. Kuang, Q. Chen, D. Yeung, G. Wetzstein "Gaussian Shell Maps for Efficient 3D Human Generation", CVPR 2024
S. Bahmani, I. Skorokhodov, V. Rong, G. Wetzstein, L. Guibas, P. Wonka, S. Tulyakov, JJ Park, A. Tagliasacchi, D. Lindell "4D-fy: Text-to-4D Generation Using Hybrid Score Distillation Sampling", CVPR 2024
H. So, L. Bose, P. Dudek, G. Wetzstein "PixelRNN: In-pixel Recurrent Neural Networks for End-to-end-optimized Perception with Neural Sensors", CVPR 2024
Y. Xu, H. Tan, F. Luan, S. Bi, P. Wang, J. Li, Z. Shi, K. Sunkavalli, G. Wetzstein, Z. Xu, K. Zhang "DMV3D: Denoising Multi-View Diffusion using 3D Large Reconstruction Model", ICLR 2024 (spotlight)
Y. Xu*, Z. Shi*, W. Yifan, H. Chen, C. Yang, S. Peng, Y. Shen, G. Wetzstein "GRM: Large Gaussian Reconstruction Model for Efficient 3D Reconstruction and Generation", ECCV 2024
Y. Zheng*, Q. Zhao*, G. Yang, W. Yifan, D. Xiang, F. Dubost, D. Lagun, T. Beeler, F. Tombari, L. Guibas, G. Wetzstein, PhysAvatar: Learning the Physics of Dressed 3D Avatars from Visual Observations, ECCV 2024
A. Malik, N. Juravsky, R. Po, G. Wetzstein, K. Kutulakos, D. Lindell, Flying with Photons: Rendering Novel Views of Propagating Light, ECCV 2024
J. Tung*, G. Chou*, R. Cai, G. Yang, K. Zhang, G. Wetzstein, B. Hariharan, N. Snavely, MegaScenes: Scene-Level View Synthesis at Scale, ECCV 2024
S. Bahmani*, X. Liu*, Y. Wang*, I. Skorokhodov, V. Rong, Z. Liu, X. Liu, JJ Park, S. Tulyakov, G. Wetzstein, A. Tagliasacchi, D. B. Lindell, TC4D: Trajectory-Conditioned Text-to-4D Generation, ECCV 2024
Q. Bai, Z. Shi, Y. Xu, H. Ouyang, Q. Wang, C. Yang, X. Wang, G. Wetzstein, Y. Shen, Q. Chen, Real-time 3D-aware Portrait Editing from a Single Image, ECCV 2024
Z. Kuang*, S. Cai*, H. He, Y. Xu, H. Li, L. Guibas, G. Wetzstein, Collaborative Video Diffusion: Consistent Multi-video Generation with Camera Control, NeurIPS 2024
Y. Fang*, Z. Sun*, T. Wu, J. Wang, Z. Liu, G. Wetzstein, D. Lin, Make-it-Real: Unleashing Large Multimodal Model for Painting 3D Objects with Realistic Materials, NeurIPS 2024
A. Levy, R. Raghu, D. Shustin, A. Peng, H. Li, O. Biggs Clarke, G. Wetzstein, E. Zhong, Mixture of neural fields for heterogeneous reconstruction in cryo-EM, NeurIPS 2024
A. Dravid, Y. Gandelsman, K. Wang, R. Abdal, G. Wetzstein, A. Efros, K. Aberman, Interpreting the Weight Space of Customized Diffusion Models, NeurIPS 2024
T. Wu, Y. Xu, R. Po, M. Zhang, G. Yang, J. Wang, Z. Liu, D. Lin, G. Wetzstein, FiVA: Fine-grained Visual Attribute Dataset for Text-to-Image Diffusion Models, NeurIPS 2024 (Datasets and Benchmarks Track)
Z. Fu, Q. Zhao, Q. Wu, G. Wetzstein, C. Finn, HumanPlus: Humanoid Shadowing and Imitation from Humans, Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) 2024
M. Xu, Z. Xu, Y. Xu, C. Chi, G. Wetzstein, M. Veloso, S. Song, Flow as the Cross-domain Manipulation Interface, Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) 2024
Y. Zhang, N. Wu, C. Lin, G. Wetzstein, Q. Sun "GazeFusion: Saliency-guided Image Generation", ACM Transactions on Applied Perception (ACM Symposium on Applied Perception, journal track) 2024, Best Paper Award!
R. Po, G. Wetzstein "Compositional 3D Scene Generation using Locally Conditioned Diffusion", 3DV 2024
B. Deng, Y. Wang, G. Wetzstein "LumiGAN: Unconditional Generation of Relightable 3D Human Faces", 3DV 2024
Y. Xu, W. Yifan, A.W. Bergman, M. Chai, B. Zhou, G. Wetzstein "Efficient 3D Articulated Human Generation with Layered Surface Volumes", 3DV 2024
W. Chen, W. Yifan, S. Kuo, G. Wetzstein "DehazeNeRF: Multiple Image Haze Removal and 3D Shape Reconstruction using Neural Radiance Fields", 3DV 2024
A. Levy, M. Matthews, M. Sela, G. Wetzstein, D. Lagun "MELON: NeRF with Unposed Images Using Equivalence Class Estimation", 3DV 2024
Q. Zhao, P. Li, Y. Wang, O. Sorkine-Hornung, G. Wetzstein "Pose-to-Motion: Cross-Domain Motion Retargeting with Pose Prior", Computer Graphics Forum (SCA) 2024
C. Nguyen, E. Chan, A. Bergman, G. Wetzstein "Diffusion in the Dark: A Diffusion Model for Low-Light Text Recognition", WACV 2024
2023 B. Krajancich, P. Kellnhofer, G. Wetzstein "Towards Attention-aware Foveated Rendering", ACM SIGGRAPH 2023. Best Paper Honorable Mention Award!
C. Lin, K. Nagano, J. Kautz, E. Chan, U. Iqbal, L. Guibas, G. Wetzstein, S. Khamis "Single-Shot Implicit Morphable Faces with Consistent Texture Parameterization", ACM SIGGRAPH 2023
R. Shue*, E. Chan*, Z. Ankner*, R. Po*, J. Wu, G. Wetzstein "3D Neural Field Generation using Triplane Diffusion", CVPR 2023
M. Son, J.J. Park, L. Guibas, G. Wetzstein "SinGRAF: Learning a 3D Generative Radiance Field for a Single Scene", CVPR 2023
Y. Zheng, W. Yifan, G. Wetzstein, M. J. Black, O. Hilliges "PointAvatar: Deformable Point-based Head Avatars from Videos", CVPR 2023
Z. Kuang, F. Luan, S. Bi, Z. Shu, G. Wetzstein, K. Sunkavalli "PaletteNeRF: Palette-based Appearance Editing of Neural Radiance Fields", CVPR 2023
Z. Wang, S. Zhou, J.J. Park, D. Paschalidou, S. You, G. Wetzstein, L. Guibas, A. Kadambi "ALTO: Alternating Latent Topologies for Implicit 3D Reconstruction", CVPR 2023
E. Chan*, K. Nagano*, M. Chan*, A. Bergman*, JJ Park*, A. Levy, M. Aittala, S. de Mello, T. Karras, G. Wetzstein "GeNVS: Generative Novel View Synthesis with 3D-Aware Diffusion Models", ICCV 2023
S. Cai, E. Chan, S. Peng, M. Shahbazi, A. Obukhov, L. Van Gool, G. Wetzstein "DiffDreamer: Consistent Perpetual View Generation with Conditional Diffusion Models", ICCV 2023
S. Bahmani, JJ Park, D. Paschalidou, X. Yan, G. Wetzstein, L. Guibas, A. Tagliasacchi "CC3D: Layout-Conditioned Generation of Compositional 3D Scenes", ICCV 2023
Y. Zheng, A. Harley, B. Shen, G. Wetzstein, L. Guibas "PointOdyssey: A Large-Scale Synthetic Dataset for Long-Term Pixel Tracking", ICCV 2023
R. Po, Z. Dong, A. Bergman, G. Wetzstein "Instant Continual Learning of Neural Radiance Fields", ICCV Workshops 2023
B. Chao, M. Gopakumar, S. Choi, G. Wetzstein "High-brightness holographic projection", Optics Letters 2023
C. Ebner, P. Mohr, T. Langlotz, Y. Peng, D. Schmalstieg, G. Wetzstein, D. Kalkofen "Off-Axis Layered Displays: Hybrid Direct-View/Near-Eye Mixed Reality with Focus Cues", IEEE TVCG (Proc. VR) 2023
T. Wu*, T. Maruyama*, Q. Zhao*, G. Wetzstein, J. Leskovec "Learning Controllable Adaptive Simulation for Multi-resolution Physics", ICLR 2023
A.W. Bergman, W. Yifan, G. Wetzstein "Articulated 3D Head Avatar Generation using Text-to-Image Diffusion Models", arxiv
2022 E.R. Chan*, C.Z. Lin*, M.A. Chan*, K. Nagano*, B. Pan, S. De Mello, O. Gallo, L. Guibas, J. Tremblay, S. Khamis, T. Karras, G. Wetzstein "Efficient Geometry-aware 3D Generative Adversarial Networks", CVPR 2022 (oral)
D. B. Lindell, D. Van Veen, J. J. Park, G. Wetzstein "BACON: Band-limited Coordinate Networks for Multiscale Scene Representation", CVPR 2022 (oral)
S. Choi*, M. Gopakumar*, Y. Peng, J. Kim, G. Wetzstein "Time-multiplexed Neural Holography: A flexible framework for holographic near-eye displays with fast heavily-quantized spatial light modulators", SIGGRAPH 2022
J. Kim, M. Gopakumar, S. Choi, Y. Peng, W. Lopes, G. Wetzstein "Holographic Glasses for Virtual Reality", SIGGRAPH 2022
C. Ebner, S. Mori, P. Mohr, Y. Peng, D. Schmalstieg, G. Wetzstein, D. Kalkofen "Video See-Through Mixed Reality with Focus Cues", IEEE TVCG (Proc. VR) 2022. Best Paper Award!
D. Martin, A. Serrano, A. Bergman, G. Wetzstein, B. Masia "ScanGAN360: A Generative Model of Realistic Scanpaths for 360° Images", IEEE TVCG (Proc. VR) 2022. Best Paper Award!
A.W. Bergman*, P. Kellnhofer*, W. Yifan*, E.R. Chan*, D.B. Lindell, G. Wetzstein, Generative Neural Articulated Radiance Fields, NeurIPS 2022
C. Lin, N. Mitra, L. Guibas, P. Guerrero, NeuForm: Adaptive Overfitting for Neural Shape Editing, NeurIPS 2022
A. Levy, G. Wetzstein, J. Martel, F. Poitevin, E. Zhong, Amortized Inference for Heterogeneous Reconstruction in Cryo-EM, NeurIPS 2022
A. Levy, F. Poitevin, J. Martel, Y. Nashed, A. Peck, N. Miolane, D. Ratner, M. Dunne, G. Wetzstein, CryoAI: Amortized Inference of Poses for Ab Initio Reconstruction of 3D Molecular Volumes from Real Cryo-EM Images, ECCV 2022
Y. Nashed, A. Peck, J. Martel, A. Levy, B. Koo, G. Wetzstein, N. Miolane, D. Ratner, F. Poitevin, Heterogeneous reconstruction of deformable atomic models in Cryo-EM, NeurIPS 2022 Workshop on Machine Learning for Structural Biology (MLSB)
A. Tewari et al. "Advances in Neural Rendering", Eurographics State-of-the-Art Report 2022
S. Malpica, B. Masia, L. Herman, G. Wetzstein, D. Eagleman, D. Gutierrez, Z. Bylinskii, Q. Sun "Larger visual changes compress time: The inverted effect of asemantic visual features on interval time perception", PLOS ONE 2022.
L. Hsiao, B. Krajancich, P. Levis, G. Wetzstein, K. Winstein "Towards Retina-Quality VR Video Streaming: 15ms Could Save You 80% of Your Bandwidth", SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review (SIGCOMM CCR) 2022
Q. Zhao, D. Lindell, G. Wetzstein "Learning to Solve PDE-constrained Inverse Problems with Graph Networks", ICML 2022
C. Nguyen, J. Martel, G. Wetzstein "Learning Spatially Varying Pixel Exposures for Motion Deblurring", ICCP 2022
H. So, J. Martel, G. Wetzstein "MantissaCam: Learning Snapshot High-dynamic-range Imaging with Perceptually-based In-pixel Irradiance Encoding", ICCP 2022
C.Z. Lin*, D.B. Lindell*, E.R. Chan, G. Wetzstein "3D GAN Inversion for Controllable Portrait Image Animation", ECCV Workshop on Learning to Generate 3D Shapes and Scenes 2022
S. Bahmani, JJ Park, D. Paschalidou, H. Tang, G. Wetzstein, L. Guibas, L. van Gool, R. Timofte, 3D-Aware Video Generation, arXiv 2022
2021 Y. Peng*, S. Choi*, J. Kim, G. Wetzstein "Speckle-free holography with partially coherent light sources and camera-in-the-loop calibration", Science Advances 2021
S. Choi*, M. Gopakumar*, Y. Peng, J. Kim, G. Wetzstein "Neural 3D Holography: Learning Accurate Wave Propagation Models for 3D Holographic Virtual and Augmented Reality Displays", ACM Transactions on Graphics, ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2021
S. Choi, J. Kim, Y. Peng, G. Wetzstein "Optimizing image quality for holographic near-eye displays with Michelson Holography", OSA Optica, 2021
S. M. Gopakumar, J. Kim, S. Choi, Y. Peng, G. Wetzstein "Unfiltered holography: optimizing high diffraction orders without optical filtering for compact holographic displays", Optics Letters 2021
B. Javidi et al. "Roadmap on digital holography", Optics Express (invited paper) 2021
B. Krajancich, P. Kellnhofer, G. Wetzstein "A Perceptual Model for Eccentricity-dependent Spatio-temporal Flicker Fusion and its Applications to Foveated Graphics", ACM SIGGRAPH 2021
J. Martel, D. Lindell, C. Lin, E. Chan, M. Monteiro, G. Wetzstein "ACORN: Adaptive Coordinate Networks for Neural Scene Representation", ACM SIGGRAPH 2021
S. Diamond*, V. Sitzmann*, F. Julca*, S. Boyd, G. Wetzstein, F. Heide "Dirty Pixels: Optimizing Image Classification Architectures for Raw Sensor Data", ACM Transactions on Graphics (presented at SIGGRAPH), 2021
E. Chan*, M. Monteiro*, P. Kellnhofer, J. Wu, G. Wetzstein "pi-GAN: Periodic Implicit Generative Adversarial Networks for 3D-Aware Image Synthesis", CVPR 2021 (oral)
P. Kellnhofer, L. Jebe, A. Jones, R. Spicer, K. Pulli, G. Wetzstein "Neural Lumigraph Rendering", CVPR 2021 (oral)
D. Lindell, J. Martel, G. Wetzstein "AutoInt: Automatic Integration for Fast Neural Volume Rendering", CVPR 2021
A. W. Bergman, P. Kellnhofer, G. Wetzstein "Fast Training of Neural Lumigraph Representations using Meta Learning", NeurIPS 2021
S. Baek, H. Ikoma, D. Jeon, Y. Li, W. Heidrich, G. Wetzstein, M. Kim "Single-shot Hyperspectral-Depth Imaging with Learned Diffractive Optics", ICCV 2021
E. Vargas, J. Martel, G. Wetzstein, H. Arguello "Time-Multiplexed Coded Aperture Imaging: Learned Coded Aperture and Pixel Exposures for Compressive Imaging Systems", ICCV 2021
O. Cakmakci, Y. Qin, P. Bosel, G. Wetzstein "Holographic pancake optics for thin and lightweight optical see-through augmented reality", Optics Express 2021
H. Ikoma, T. Kudo, Y. Peng, M. Broxton, G. Wetzstein "Deep learning multi-shot 3D localization microscopy using hybrid optical-electronic computing", Optics Letters 2021
H. Arguello, S. Pinilla, Y. Peng, H. Ikoma, J. Bacca, G. Wetzstein "Shift-variant color-coded diffractive spectral imaging system", Optica 2021
H. Ikoma, C. Nguyen, C. Metzler, Y. Peng, G. Wetzstein "Depth from Defocus with Learned Optics for Imaging and Occlusion-aware Depth Estimation", IEEE ICCP 2021
A. Angelopoulos*, J.N.P. Martel*, A. Kohli, J. Conradt, G. Wetzstein "Event Based, Near Eye Gaze Tracking Beyond 10,000 Hz", IEEE TVCG (Proc. VR), 2021
C. Metzler, D. Lindell, G. Wetzstein "Keyhole Imaging: Non-Line-of-Sight Imaging and Tracking of Moving Objects Along a Single Optical Path", IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging, 2021
C. Metzler, G. Wetzstein "D-VDAMP: Denoising-based Approximate Message Passing for Compressive MRI", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2021
R. Kitichotkul, C. Metzler, F. Ong, G. Wetzstein "SUREmap: Predicting Uncertainty in CNN-based Image Reconstructions using Stein's Unbiased Risk Estimate", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2021
C. Metzler, G. Wetzstein "Deep S3PR: Simultaneous Source Separation and Phase Retrieval using Deep Generative Models", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2021
2020 G. Wetzstein, A. Ozcan, S. Gigan, S. Fan, D. Englund, M. Soljacic, C. Denz, D.A.B. Miller, D. Psaltis "Inference in artificial intelligence with deep optics and photonics", Nature (review paper), 2020
D. Lindell, G. Wetzstein "Three-dimensional imaging through scattering media based on confocal diffuse tomography", Nature Communications, 2020
D. Faccio, A. Velten, G. Wetzstein "Non-line-of-sight Imaging", Nature Reviews Physics (review paper), 2020
G. Wetzstein, I. Kauvar "Optically sensing neural activity without imaging", Nature Photonics, News & Views (commentary paper), 2020
V. Sitzmann*, J. Martel*, A. Bergman, D. Lindell, G. Wetzstein "Implicit Neural Representations with Periodic Activation Functions", NeurIPS 2020 (oral, acceptance rate: 1%)
V. Sitzmann*, E. Chan*, R. Tucker, N. Snavely, G. Wetzstein "MetaSDF: Meta-Learning Signed Distance Functions", NeurIPS 2020
Y. Peng, S. Choi, N. Padmanaban, G. Wetzstein "Neural Holography with Camera-in-the-loop Training", ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Asia), 2020
B. Krajancich, P. Kellnhofer, G. Wetzstein "Optimizing Depth Perception in Virtual and Augmented Reality through Gaze-contingent Stereo Rendering", ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Asia), 2020
R. Konrad, A. Agelopolous, G. Wetzstein "Gaze-contingent Ocular Parallax Rendering for Virtual Reality", ACM Transactions on Graphics (presented at SIGGRAPH), 2020
Q. Zheng, V. Babaei, G. Wetzstein, H.-P. Seidel, M. Zwicker, G. Singh, "Neural Light Field 3D Printing", ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Asia), 2020
I. Kauvar, T. Machado, E. Yuen, J. Kochalka, M. Choi, W. Allen, G. Wetzstein, K. Deisseroth "Cortical Observation by Synchronous Multifocal Optical Sampling Reveals Widespread Population Encoding of Actions", Neuron, 2020
S. Young, D. Lindell, B. Girod, D. Taubman, G. Wetzstein "Non-line-of-sight Surface Reconstruction Using the Directional Light-cone Transform", CVPR 2020 (oral)
C. Metzler, Hayato Ikoma, Y. Peng, G. Wetzstein "Deep Optics for Single-shot High-dynamic-range Imaging", CVPR 2020 (oral)
M. Nishimura, D.B. Lindell, C. Metzler, G. Wetzstein "Disambiguating Monocular Depth Estimation with a Single Transient", ECCV 2020
B. Krajancich*, N. Padmanaban*, G. Wetzstein "Factored Occlusion: Single Spatial Light Modulator Occlusion-capable Optical See-through Augmented Reality Display", IEEE TVCG (Proc. VR), 2020
J. Martel, L. Muller, S. Carey, P. Dudek, G. Wetzstein "Neural Sensors: Optimizing Pixel Exposures for HDR Imaging and Video Compressive Sensing with Programmable Sensors", IEEE TPAMI (Proc. ICCP) 2020
A. Bergman, D. Lindell, G. Wetzstein "Deep Adaptive LiDAR: End-to-end Optimization of Sampling and Depth Completion at Low Sampling Rates", IEEE ICCP 2020
C. Chang, K. Bang, G. Wetzstein, B. Lee, L. Gao, "Toward the next-generation VR/AR optics: a review of holographic near-eye displays from a human-centric perspective", Optica 2020
A. Tewari et al. "State of the Art on Neural Rendering", Eurographics State of the Art Report, 2020
A. Kohli, V. Sitzmann, G. Wetzstein "Semantic Implicit Neural Scene Representations with Semi-supervised Training", International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV), 2020
X. Dun, H. Ikoma, G. Wetzstein, Z. Wang, X. Cheng, Y. Peng "Learned rotationally symmetric diffractive achromat for full-spectrum computational imaging", OSA Optica 2020
B. Javidi et al. "Roadmap on 3D integral imaging: sensing, processing, and display", Optics Express 2021
Z. Sun, D. Lindell, O. Solgaard, G. Wetzstein "SPADnet: deep RGB-SPAD sensor fusion assisted by monocular depth estimation", OSA Optics Express 2020
G. Wetzstein, A. Patney, Q. Sun "State of the Art in Perceptual VR Displays", Real VR-Immersive Digital Reality (book chapter), 2020
C. Richardt, J. Tompkin, G. Wetzstein "Capture, Reconstruction, and Representation of the Visual Real World for Virtual Reality", Real VR-Immersive Digital Reality (book chapter), 2020
G. Wetzstein "Augmented and Virtual Reality", Nano-Chips 2030 (book chapter), 2020
2019 N. Padmanaban, R. Konrad, G. Wetzstein "Autofocals: Evaluating Gaze-Contingent Eyeglasses for Presbyopes", Science Advances, 2019
V. Sitzmann, M. Zollhoefer, G. Wetzstein "Scene Representation Networks: Continuous 3D-structure-aware Neural Scene Representations", NeurIPS 2019 (oral, acceptance rate: 0.5%; Outstanding New Directions Award!)
D. Lindell, G. Wetzstein, M. O'Toole "Wave-based Non-line-of-sight Imaging using Fast fk-Migration", ACM SIGGRAPH, 2019
F. Heide, M. O'Toole, K. Zang, D. Lindell, S. Diamond, G. Wetzstein "Non-line-of-sight Imaging with Partial Occluders and Surface Normals", ACM Transactions on Graphics (presented at SIGGRAPH), 2019
N. Padmanaban, Y. Peng, G. Wetzstein "Holographic Near-Eye Displays Based on Overlap-Add Stereograms", ACM SIGGRAPH Asia, 2019
Y. Peng, Q. Sun, X. Dun, G. Wetzstein, W. Heidrich, F. Heide "Learned Large Field-of-View Imaging With Thin-Plate Optics", ACM SIGGRAPH Asia, 2019
D. Lindell, G. Wetzstein, V. Koltun "Acoustic Non-line-of-sight Imaging", CVPR 2019 (oral)
V. Sitzmann, J. Thies, F. Heide, M. Niessner, G. Wetzstein, M. Zollhoefer "Deep Voxels: Learning Persistent 3D Feature Embeddings", CVPR 2019 (oral)
D. Dansereau, B. Girod, G. Wetzstein "LiFF: Light Field Features in Scale and Depth", CVPR 2019
J. Chang, G. Wetzstein "Deep Optics for Monocular Depth Estimation and 3D Object Detection", ICCV 2019
A. Holsteen, D. Lin, I. Kauvar, G. Wetzstein, M.L. Brongersma "A light-field metasurface for high-resolution single-particle tracking", Nano Letters 2019
K. Rathinavel, G. Wetzstein, H. Fuchs "Varifocal Occlusion-Capable Optical See-through Augmented Reality Display based on Focus-tunable Optics", IEEE TVCG (Proc. ISMAR), 2019
G. Schuster, D. Dansereau, G. Wetzstein, J. Ford "Panoramic single-aperture multi-sensor light field camera", Optics Express, 2019
2018 M. O'Toole, D. Lindell, G. Wetzstein "Confocal Non-line-of-sight Imaging based on the Light-cone Transform", Nature, 2018
J. Chang, V. Sitzmann, X. Dun, W. Heidrich, G. Wetzstein "Hybrid optical-electronic convolutional neural networks with optimized diffractive optics for image classification", Scientific Reports, 2018
F. Heide, S. Diamond, D. B. Lindell, G. Wetzstein "Sub-picosecond photon-efficient 3D imaging using single-photon sensors", Scientific Reports, 2018
H. Ikoma, M. Broxton, T. Kudo, G. Wetzstein "A convex 3D deconvolution algorithm for low photon count fluorescence imaging", Scientific Reports, 2018
D. Lindell, M. O'Toole, G. Wetzstein "Single-Photon 3D Imaging with Deep Sensor Fusion", ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH), 2018
V. Sitzmann*, S. Diamond*, Y. Peng*, X. Dun, S. Boyd, W. Heidrich, F. Heide, G. Wetzstein "End-to-end Optimization of Optics and Image Processing for Achromatic Extended Depth of Field and Super-resolution Imaging", ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH), 2018 (*joint first authorship)
S. Su, F. Heide, G. Wetzstein, W. Heidrich "Deep End-to-End Time-of-Flight Imaging", IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2018
S. Li, F. Cropp, K. Kabra, T.J. Lane, G. Wetzstein, P. Musumeci, D. Ratner "Electron Ghost Imaging", Physical review letters 121 (11), 2018
V. Sitzmann, A. Serrano, A. Pavel, M. Agrawala, D. Gutierrez, B. Masia, G. Wetzstein "Saliency in VR: How do people explore virtual environments?", IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (IEEE Virtual Reality), 2018
N. Padmanaban, T. Ruban, V. Sitzmann, A. Norcia, G. Wetzstein "Towards a Machine-learning Approach for Sickness Prediction in Virtual Environments", IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (IEEE Virtual Reality), 2018
X. Hu, F. Heide, Q. Dai, G. Wetzstein "Convolutional Sparse Coding for RGB+NIR Imaging", IEEE Transactions on Image Processing 27 (4), 2018
J. Chang, G. Wetzstein "Single-shot speckle correlation fluorescence microscopy in thick scattering tissue with image reconstruction priors", Journal of biophotonics 11 (3), 2018
S. Hamann, L. Shi, O. Solgaard, G. Wetzstein "Time-multiplexed light field synthesis via factored Wigner distribution function", Optics letters 43 (3), 2018
D. Lindell, M. O'Toole, G. Wetzstein "Towards Transient Imaging at Interactive Rates with Single-photon Detectors", IEEE International Conference on Computational Photography (ICCP), 2018
2017 N. Padmanaban, R. Konrad, T. Stramer, E. Cooper, G. Wetzstein "Optimizing virtual reality for all users through gaze-contingent and adaptive focus displays", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), February 2017
R. Konrad, N. Padmanaban, K. Molner, E. Cooper, G. Wetzstein "Accommodation-invariant Computational Near-eye Displays", ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH), 2017
A. Serrano, V. Sitzmann, J. Ruiz-Borau, G. Wetzstein, D. Gutierrez, B. Masia "Movie Editing and Cognitive Event Segmentation in Narrative Virtual Reality", ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH), 2017
R. Konrad, D. Dansereau, A. Masood, G. Wetzstein "SpinVR: Towards Live-Streaming 3D Virtual Reality Video", ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Asia), 2017
C. Callenberg, F. Heide, G. Wetzstein, M. Hullin "Snapshot Difference Imaging using Time-of-Flight Sensors", ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Asia), 2017
M. O'Toole, F. Heide, D. Lindell, S. Diamond, K. Zang, G. Wetzstein "Reconstructing Transient Images from Single-Photon Sensors", IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2017
D. Dansereau, G. Schuster, J. Ford, G. Wetzstein "A Wide-Field-of-View Monocentric Light Field Camera", IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2017
B. Choudhury, R. Swanson, F. Heide, G. Wetzstein, W. Heidrich "Consensus Convolutional Sparse Coding", International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2017
I. Kauvar, J. Chang, G. Wetzstein "Aperture interference and the volumetric resolution of light field fluorescence microscopy", IEEE International Conference on Computational Photography (ICCP), 2017
G. Schuster, I. Agurok, J. Ford, D. Dansereau, G. Wetzstein "Panoramic Monocentric Light Field Camera ", OSA Optical Design and Fabrication Congress (IODC), 2017
N. Padmanaban, R. Konrad, G. Wetzstein "Evaluation of Accommodation Response to Monovision for Virtual Reality", OSA Imaging and Applied Optics Congress, 2017
N. Padmanaban, R. Konrad, E. Cooper, G. Wetzstein "Gaze-contingent Adaptive Focus Near-eye Displays", Invited paper at SID Display Week, 2017
2016 F. Heide, S. Diamond, M. Niessner, J. Ragan-Kelly, W. Heidrich, G. Wetzstein "ProxImaL: Efficient Image Optimization using Proximal Algorithms", ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH), 2016
S. Shreshtha, F. Heide, W. Heidrich, G. Wetzstein "Computational Imaging with Multi-camera Time-of-Flight Systems", ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH), 2016
R. Konrad, E. Cooper, G. Wetzstein "Novel Optical Configurations for Virtual Reality: Evaluating User Preference and Performance with Focus-tunable and Monovision Near-eye Displays", ACM SIGCHI, 2016
J. Chang, I. Kauvar, X. Hu, G. Wetzstein "Variable Aperture Light Field Photography: Overcoming the Diffraction-limited Spatio-angular Resolution Tradeoff", IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2016
A. Serrano, F. Heide, D. Gutierrez, G. Wetzstein, B. Masia "Convolutional Sparse Coding for High Dynamic Range Imaging", Computer Graphics Forum (Eurographics), 2016. Best Paper Honorable Mention!
M. S. Banks, D. M. Hoffman, J. Kim, G. Wetzstein "3D Displays", Annual Review of Vision Science 2 (1)
D. Lin, A.L. Holsteen, E. Maguid, G. Wetzstein, P.G. Kik, E. Hasman, M. Brongersma "Photonic Multitasking Interleaved Si Nanoantenna Phased Array", Nano Letters 16 (12)
J. Thatte, J.B. Boin, H. Lakshman, G. Wetzstein, B. Girod "Depth Augmented Stereo Panorama for Cinematic Virtual Reality with Focus Cues", IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP). Conference Best Paper for Industry Award!
G. Wetzstein "Light Field, Focus-tunable, and Monovision Near-eye Displays", SID Symposium Digest of Technical Papers 47 (1), 358-360
M. H. Kamal, B. Heshmat, R. Raskar, P. Vandergheynst, G. Wetzstein "Tensor low-rank and sparse light field photography", Computer Vision and Image Understanding 145, 172-181
F.C. Huang, R. Konrad, G. Wetzstein "Application of light field displays to vision correction and accommodation support", SPIE Stereoscopic Displays and Applications (Electronic Imaging), 2016
2015 F.C. Huang, K. Chen, G. Wetzstein "The Light Field Stereoscope: Immersive Computer Graphics via Factored Near-Eye Light Field Display with Focus Cues", ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH), 2015
F. Heide, W. Heidrich, M. Hullin, G. Wetzstein "Doppler Time-of-Flight Imaging", ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH), 2015
I. Kauvar, S. Yang, L. Shi, I. McDowall, G. Wetzstein "Adaptive Color Display via Perceptually-driven Factored Spectral Projection", ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Asia), 2015
S. Yang, W. Allen, I. Kauvar, A. Andalman, N. Young, C. Kim, J. Marshel, G. Wetzstein, K. Deisseroth "Extended Field-of-View and Increased-Signal 3D Holographic Illumination with Time-division Multiplexing", Optics Express, 2015
R. Chen, A. Maimone, H. Fuchs, R. Raskar, G. Wetzstein "Wide Field of View Compressive Light Field Display using a Multilayer Architecture and Tracked Viewers", Journal of the Society for Information Display, 2015
F. Heide, W. Heidrich, G. Wetzstein "Fast and Flexible Convolutional Sparse Coding", IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR Oral), 2015
G. Wetzstein "On the Duality of Compressive Light Field Imaging and Display", Invited paper at SID Display Week, 2015
G. Wetzstein "Why People Should Care About Light Field Displays", Invited paper at SID Information Display, Vol. 31, No. 2, 2015
2014 R. Prevedel, Y-G Yoon, M. Hoffmann, N. Pak, G. Wetzstein, S. Kato, T. Schrödel, R. Raskar, M. Zimmer, E. Boyden, A. Vaziri "Simultaneous whole-animal 3D-imaging of neuronal activity using light-field microscopy", Nature Methods 2014. Cover feature of the Nature Methods July Issue!
F.C. Huang, G. Wetzstein, B. Barsky, R. Raskar "Eyeglasses-free Display: Towards Correcting Visual Aberrations with Computational Light Field Displays", ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH) 2014
M. Hirsch*, G. Wetzstein*, R. Raskar "A Compressive Light Field Projection System", (* joint first authors), ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH) 2014
G. Ye, S. Jolly, M. Bove, Q. Dai, R. Raskar, G. Wetzstein "Toward BxDF Display using Multilayer Diffraction", ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Asia) 2014
G. Wetzstein, W. Heidrich, R. Raskar "Computational Schlieren Photography with Light Field Probes", International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), Volume 110, Issue 2, Page 113-127
D. Wu, G. Wetzstein, C. Barsi, T. Willwacher, Q. Dai, R. Raskar "Ultra-fast Lensless Computational Imaging through 5D Frequency Analysis of Time-resolved Light Transport", International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), Volume 110, Issue 2 (2014), Page 128-140
C. Ma, X. Ling, J. Suo, Q. Dai, R. Raskar, G. Wetzstein "Transparent Object Reconstruction via Coded Transport of Intensity", IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR Oral) 2014
F. Heide, J. Gregson, G. Wetzstein, R. Raskar, W. Heidrich "Compressive multi-mode superresolution display", OSA Optics Express 2014
H. Ikoma, B. Heshmat, G. Wetzstein, R. Raskar "Attenuation-corrected fluorescence spectra unmixing for spectroscopy and microscopy", OSA Optics Express 2014.
M. Hirsch, S. Jayasuriya, S. Sivaranakrishnan, A. Wang, A. Molnar, R. Raskar, G. Wetzstein "A Switchable Light Field Camera Architecture with Angle Sensitive Pixels and Dictionary-based Sparse Coding", IEEE International Conference on Computational Photography (ICCP) 2014. Best Paper Award!
X. Ling, G. Wetzstein, Y. Liu, Q. Dai "Dual-coded Compressive Hyper-spectral Imaging", OSA Optics Letters (Journal), 39 (7)
A. Maimone, R. Chen, H. Fuchs, R. Raskar, G. Wetzstein "Wide-Field-of-View Compressive Light-Field Display Using a Multilayered Architecture and Viewer Tracking", Society for Information Displays SID Digest 2014
B. Barsky, FC. Huang, D. Lanman, G. Wetzstein, R. Ramesh "Vision Correcting Displays Based on Inverse Blurring and Aberration Compensation", ECCV 2014 Workshops, Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 8927, 2014
H. Ikoma, B. Heshmat, G. Wetzstein, R. Raskar "Nonlinear Fluorescence Spectra Unmixing", OSA Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) 2014
2013 K. Marwah, G. Wetzstein, Y. Bando, R. Raskar "Compressive Light Field Photography using Overcomplete Dictionaries and Optimized Projections", ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH) 2013
F. Heide, G. Wetzstein, R. Raskar, W. Heidrich "Adaptive Image Synthesis for Compressive Displays", ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH) 2013
A. Maimone, G. Wetzstein, D. Lanman, M. Hirsch, R. Raskar, H. Fuchs "Focus 3D: Compressive Accommodation Display", ACM Transactions on Graphics (Journal), 32 (5), 2013
G. Wetzstein, I. Ihrke, W. Heidrich "On Plenoptic Multiplexing and Reconstruction", International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), Volume 101, Issue 2, Pages 384-400
B. Masia, G. Wetzstein, P. Didyk, D. Gutierrez "A survey on computational displays: Pushing the boundaries of optics, computation, and perception", Computer & Graphics (Journal), 37 (8)
B. Masia, G.Wetzstein, C. Aliaga, R. Raskar, D. Gutierrez "Display Adaptive 3D Content Remapping", Computer & Graphics (Journal), Volume 37, Issue 8, Pages 983–996
C. Ma, J. Suo, Q. Dai, R. Raskar, G. Wetzstein "High-rank Coded Aperture Projection for Extended Depth of Field", IEEE International Conference on Computational Photography (ICCP) 2013
X. Lin, J. Suo, G. Wetzstein, Q. Dai, R. Raskar "Coded Focal Stack Photography", IEEE International Conference on Computational Photography (ICCP) 2013
A. Kadambi, H. Ikoma, X. Lin, G. Wetzstein, R. Raskar "Subsurface Enhancement through Sparse Representations of Multispectral Direct/Global Decomposition, OSA International Conference on Computational Optical Sensing and Imaging (COSI) 2013
Huang, F-C., Wetzstein, G., Barsky, B., Raskar, R. "Computational Light Field Display for Correcting Visual Aberrations", ACM SIGGRAPH 2013 Poster
2012 G. Wetzstein, D. Lanman, M. Hirsch, R. Raskar "Tensor Displays: Compressive Light Field Display using Multilayer Displays with Directional Backlighting", ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH) 2012. SIGGRAPH 2012 Paper Highlight, Emerging Technologies Highlight, and featured in New Scientist,The Boston Globe,engadget, slashdot, and many more!
G. Wetzstein, D. Lanman, M. Hirsch, W. Heidrich, R. Raskar "Compressive Light Field Displays", Computer Graphics & Applications, Volume 32, Number 5, 2012
D. Wu, G. Wetzstein, C. Barsi, T. Willwacher, M. O'Toole, N. Naik, Q. Dai, K. Kutulakos, R. Raskar " Frequency Analysis of Transient Light Transport with Applications in Bare Sensor Imaging", European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2012
G. Wetzstein, I. Ihrke, D. Lanman, W. Heidrich, K. Akeley, R. Raskar "Computational Plenoptic Imaging", ACM SIGGRAPH 2012 Course
G. Wetzstein, D. Lanman, D. Gutierrez, M. Hirsch "Computational Displays", ACM SIGGRAPH 2012 Course. SIGGRAPH 2012 Courses Highlight!
A. Arpa, G. Wetzstein, D. Lanman, R. Raskar "Single Lens Off-Chip Cellphone Microscopy", IEEE Int. Workshop on Projector-Camera Systems (PROCAMS) 2012. Best Paper Honorable Mention!
G. Wetzstein, D. Lanman, M. Hirsch, R. Raskar "Real-time Image Generation for Compressive Light Field Displays", OSA Int. Symposium on Display Holography 2012
D. Lanman, G. Wetzstein, M. Hirsch, W. Heidrich, R. Raskar "Beyond Parallax Barriers: Applying Formal Optimization Methods to Multi-Layer Automultiscopic Displays", SPIE Stereoscopic Displays and Applications XXIII 2012
E. Iffa, G. Wetzstein, W. Heidrich "Light Field Optical Flow for Refractive Surface Reconstruction" SPIE Applications of Digital Image Processing XXXV 2012
Lanman, D., Wetzstein, G., Hirsch, M., Raskar, R. "Depth of Field Analysis for Multilayer Automultiscopic Displays", OSA Int. Symposium on Display Holography 2012
Hirsch, M., Lanman, D., Wetzstein, G., Raskar, R. "Construction and Calibration of LCD-based Multi-Layer Light Field Displays", OSA Int. Symposium on Display Holography 2012
Marwah, K., Wetzstein, G., Veeraraghavan, A., Raskar, R. "Compressive Light Field Photography", ACM SIGGRAPH 2012 Talk
Lawson, E., Boggess, J., Khullar, S., Olwal, A., Wetzstein, G., Raskar, R. "Computational Retinal Imaging via Binocular Coupling and Indirect Illumination", ACM SIGGRAPH 2012 Talk
Masia, B., Wetzstein, G., Aliaga, C., Raskar, R., Gutierrez, D. "Perceptually-optimized Content Remapping for Computational 3D Displays", ACM SIGGRAPH 2012 Poster
2011 Wetzstein, G., Lanman, D., Heidrich, W., Raskar, R. "Layered 3D: Tomographic Image Synthesis for Attenuation-based Light Field and High Dynamic Range Displays", ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH) 2011. SIGGRAPH 2011 Paper Highlight, Proceedings Cover Feature, and featured in The Boston Globe!
Lanman, D., Wetzstein, G., Hirsch, M., Heidrich, W., Raskar, R. "Polarization Fields: Dynamic Light Field Display using Multi-Layer LCDs", ACM Transactions on Graphics (Siggraph Asia) 2011. Featured in The Boston Globe!
Wetzstein, G., Ihrke, I., Lanman, D., Heidrich, W. "Computational Plenoptic Imaging", Computer Graphics Forum (Journal), Volume 30, Issue 8, pp. 2397–2426, 2011
Wetzstein, G., Roodnick, D., Heidrich, W., Raskar, R. "Refractive Shape from Light Field Distortion", IEEE International Conference on Computational Vision (ICCV) 2011
Wetzstein, G., Raskar, R., Heidrich, W. "Hand-Held Schlieren Photography with Light Field Probes", IEEE International Conference on Computational Photography (ICCP) 2011, Best Paper Award!
Wetzstein, G., Ihrke, I., Lanman, D., Heidrich, W. "State of the Art in Computational Plenoptic Imaging", Eurographics (EG) STAR 2011
Wetzstein, G., Ihrke, I., Gokov, A., Heidrich, W. "Towards a Database of High-dimensional Plenoptic Images", IEEE International Conference on Computational Photography (ICCP Poster) 2011
2010 Ihrke, I., Wetzstein, G., Heidrich, W., "A Theory of Plenoptic Multiplexing", IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) with oral presentation, 2010
Wetzstein, G., Ihrke, I., Heidrich, W., "Sensor Saturation in Fourier Multiplexed Imaging", IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2010
Grosse, M., Wetzstein, G., Grundhoefer, A., Bimber, O., "Coded Aperture Projection", Transactions on Graphics (Journal) 29:3, 2010, Presented at ACM SIGGRAPH 2010
Wetzstein, G., Luebke, D., and Heidrich, W., "Optical Image Processing Using Light Modulation Displays", Computer Graphics Forum (Journal), Volume 29, Issue 6, pages 1934-1944, 2010
2009 Grosse, M., Wetzstein, G., Grundhoefer, A., Bimber, O., "Adaptive Coded Aperture Projection", ACM SIGGRAPH 2009 Talk
2008 Bimber, O., Iwai, D., Wetzstein, G., and Grundhoefer, A., "The Visual Computing of Projector-Camera Systems", In Computer Graphics Forum (Journal), Volume 27, Number 8, pp. 2219-2245, 2008
2007 Wetzstein, G. and Bimber, O., "Radiometric Compensation through Inverse Light Transport", In Proceedings of Pacific Graphics, pp. 391-399, 2007
Bimber, O., Iwai, D., Wetzstein, G., and Grundhoefer, A., "The Visual Computing of Projector-Camera Systems", Eurographics State of the Art Report, 2007
Wetzstein, G., Goellner, C.M., Beck, S., Feiszig, F., Derkau, S., Springer, J., Froehlich, B., "HECTOR - Scripting-Based VR System Design", ACM SIGGRAPH 2007 Poster, 2007. ACM SIGGRAPH Student Research Competition Semi-Finalist!
2006 Wetzstein, G. and Bimber, O., "Radiometric Compensation of Global Illumination Effects with Projector-Camera Systems", ACM SIGGRAPH 2006 Poster. ACM SIGGRAPH Student Research Competition Semi-Finalist!
Wuethrich, C. A., Augusto, J., Banisch, S., Wetzstein, G., Musialski, P., Hofmann, T. "Real Time Simulation of Elastic Latex Hand Puppets", International Conferences in Central Europe on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision (WSCG), 2006
2005 Bimber, O., Wetzstein, G., Emmerling, A., and Nitschke, C. "Enabling View-Dependent Stereoscopic Projection in Real Environments", ACM SIGGRAPH Emerging Technologies and International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR), 2005
Bimber, O., Wetzstein, G., Emmerling, A., and Nitschke, C. "Enabling View-Dependent Stereoscopic Projection in Real Environments", ACM SIGGRAPH Sketches and Applications, 2005.
Bimber, O., Zeidler, T., Grundhoefer, A., Wetzstein, G., Moehring, M., Knoedel, S., and Hahne, U. "Interacting with Augmented Holograms", In proceedings of SPIE Conference on Practical Holography XIX: Materials and Applications, 2005
Stephenson, P., Jungclaus, J., Branco, P., Horvatic, P., Wetzstein, G., Encarnacao, L. M. "The Interactive Aquarium : Game-Based Interfaces and Wireless Technologies for Future-Generation Edutainment", In TESI 2005 Conference Proceedings CD-ROM : Training, Education & Simulation International, 2005
2004 Wetzstein, G., Stephenson P. "Towards a Workflow and Interaction Framework for Virtual Aquaria", IEEE VR Workshop VR for Public Consumption, 2004
2003 Bimber, O., Grundhoefer, A., Wetzstein, G., and Knoedel S. "Consistent Illumination within Optical See-Through Augmented Environments", In proceedings of IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Augmented and Mixed Reality (ISMAR), pp. 198-207, 2003
Bimber, O., Grundhoefer, A., Wetzstein, G., and Knoedel S. "Consistent Illumination within Optical See-Through Augmented Environments", ACM SIGGRAPH 2003 Sketches and Applications

Keynotes and Invited Talks

2024 Invited Talk, "Foundation Models for Solving Challenging Inverse Problems", Stanford Center for Decoding the Universe Workshop, 10/2024
Invited Talk, "Generating the Metaverse", Carnegie Mellon University, EE Department Seminar, 10/2024
Invited Talk, "Spatial Generative AI", University of Pennsylvania, CS Department Colloquium, 09/2024
Invited Talk, "Next-generation Computational Imaging and Display Systems Engineering based on End-to-end Optimization of Physical Structure and Signal Processing", Samsung Electronics, 09/2024
Invited Talk, "Spatial Generative AI", Stanford Center for Integrated Facility Engineering (CIFE) Workshop, 09/2024
Invited Talk, "Emerging Technologies for the Metaverse", Samsung Electronics TechCon, 08/2024
Invited Talk, "Spatial Generative AI", CVPR Workshop on AI for 3D Generation, 06/2024
Invited Talk, "Spatial Generative AI", CVPR Workshop on Neural Rendering Intelligence, 06/2024
Invited Talk, "GazeGPT: Augmenting Human Capabilities using Gaze-contingent Contextual AI for Smart Eyewear", Stanford System X Workshop on AI on the Edge, 06/2024
Invited Talk, "Beyond the Metaverse: Towards Human-centric XR", Seol National University (SNU) / Samsung Future Technology Colloquium, 04/2024
Invited Talk, "Beyond the Metaverse: Towards Human-centric XR", Seol National University (SNU) / Samsung Future Technology Colloquium, 04/2024
Keynote, "A Trip Down the Generative Graphics Pipeline", Electronic Imaging Congress, Computational Imaging Conference, 01/2024
2023 Invited Talk, "Neural Sensors: AI driven In-Pixel Compute for Compressed Readout Bandwidth", IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-aided Design, 11/2023
Invited Talk, "Beyond the Metaverse - Towards Human-centric XR", IEEE SPS Distinguished Lecture, IEEE SPS / Eurasip PhD school on Signal Processing, Cagliari, Italy, 09/2023
Invited Talk, "Next-generation Computational Imaging and Display Systems Engineering based on End-to-end Optimization of Physical Structure and Signal Processing", IEEE SPS Distinguished Lecture, IEEE Signal Processing and Computer Society, North Jersey Chapter, 09/2023
Invited Talk, "A Trip Down the Generative Graphics Pipeline", Bay Area Computer Vision Day, Stanford, 09/2023
Invited Talk, "A Trip Down the Generative Graphics Pipeline", Snap Research, 09/2023
Invited Talk, "A Trip Down the Generative Graphics Pipeline", CVPR Workshop on Generative Models for Computer Vision, 06/2023
Plenary Talk, "A Trip Down the Generative Graphics Pipeline", Eurographics, 05/2023
Distinguished Lecture, "Beyond the Metaverse - Towards Human-centric XR", University of Maryland, CS Department, 04/2023
Keynote, "Efficient Neural Scene Representation, Rendering, and Generation", China3DV Conference, 04/2023
Invited Talk, "Deep Optics: Learning Cameras, Displays, and Optical Computing Systems", SNUG conference, Santa Clara, 04/2023
Invited Talk, "Efficient Neural Scene Representation, Rendering, and Generation", IEEE SPS Distinguished Lecture, IEEE Signal Processing Society Chapter, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India. 02/2023
Invited Talk, "Deep Optics: Learning Cameras, Displays, and Optical Computing Systems", Wyant College of Optical Sciences Colloquium, University of Arizona, 02/2023
Invited Talk, "Efficient Neural Scene Representation, Rendering, and Generation", IEEE SPS Distinguished Lecture, IEEE Signal Processing Society Student Chapter, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, West Bengal, India. 02/2023
Invited Talk, "Efficient Neural Scene Representation, Rendering, and Generation", IEEE SPS Distinguished Lecture, IEEE Signal Processing Society Chapter, Uttar Pradesh, India. 02/2023
Invited Talk, "Deep Optics: Learning Cameras, Displays, and Optical Computing Systems", SPIE Photonics West, AI and Optical Data Sciences Conference, 02/2023
Invited Talk, "Efficient Neural Scene Representation, Rendering, and Generation", University of Utah, ECE Department Seminar, 01/2023
Keynote, "Deep Optics: Learning Cameras, Displays, and Optical Computing Systems", IS&T Electronic Imaging Congress, Computational Imaging Conference, 01/2023
2022 Invited Talk, "Efficient Neural Scene Representation, Rendering, and Generation", ECCV Workshop on Advances in Image Manipulation, 10/2022
Invited Talk, "Beyond the Metaverse - Towards Human-centric XR", Frontiers in Optics Conference (FiO), 07/2022
Keynote, "Efficient Neural Scene Representation, Rendering, and Generation", Generative AI for Metaverse Symposium at the World AI Conference, 09/2022
Invited Talk, "Efficient Neural Scene Representation, Rendering, and Generation", Google Computational Imaging Workshop, 08/2022
Keynote, "Beyond the Metaverse - Towards Human-centric XR", High-performance Graphics Conference (HPG), 07/2022
Keynote, "Efficient Neural Scene Representation, Rendering, and Generation", Eurographics Symposium on Rendering (EGSR), 07/2022
Invited Talk, "Beyond the Metaverse - Towards Human-centric XR", Applied Materials Seminar, 07/2022
Keynote, "Eye Tracking Revisited: Applications in Rendering, Displays, Wearable Computing Systems and Emerging Event-based Eye Tracking", CVPR International Workshop on Gaze Estimation and Prediction in the Wild, 06/2022
Invited Talk, "Beyond the Metaverse - Towards Human-centric XR", SID Pacific Northwest Chapter Seminar, 05/2022
Invited Talk, "Efficient Neural Scene Representation, Rendering, and Generation", TU Munich AI Lecture Series, 04/2022
Invited Talk, "Deep Optics: Learning Cameras, Displays, and Optical Computing Systems", Tongji University, Department Seminar, 04/2022
Invited Talk, (Some) Emerging Technologies in AR/VR and Wearable Computing, DARPA ISAT Metaverse Seminar, 02/2022
Invited Talk, "Advances in Holographic Near-eye Displays for AR/VR", Stanford eWear Symposium, 02/2022
2021 Invited Talk, "Deep Optics: Learning Cameras, Displays, and Optical Computing Systems", Google, Computational Photography Seminar, 11/2021
Invited Talk, "Deep Optics: Learning Cameras, Displays, and Optical Computing Systems", Optica Fronties in Optics, 11/2021
Invited Talk, "Deep Optics: Learning Cameras, Displays, and Optical Computing Systems", Washington University in St. Louis, ECE Department Seminar, 10/2021
Invited Talk, "Eye Tracking Revisited - Applications in Rendering, Displays, Wearable Computing Systems, and Emerging Event-based Eye Tracking", ICCV Workshop on Eye Tracking for AR/VR, 10/2021
Keynote, "Deep Optics: Learning Cameras, Displays, and Optical Computing Systems", MICCAI Workshop on Simulation and Synthesis in Medical Imaging (SASHIMI), 09/2021
Invited Talk, "Computational Imaging and Deep Optics", University College London, CS Department Seminar, 09/2021
Invited Talk, "Enabling Next-generation Holographic Displays with Artificial Intelligence", OSA Imaging and Applied Optics Congress, 07/2021
Invited Talk, "Neural Scene Representation and Rendering", CVPR Workshop on 3D Scene Understanding for Vision, Graphics, and Robotics, 06/2021
Keynote, "Deep Optics: Learning Cameras, Displays, and Optical Computing Systems", Photonics North Conference, 05/2021
Invited Talk, "Towards Neural Imaging & Signal Processing", UC Santa Cruz, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Seminar Series, 05/2021
Keynote, "Deep Optics: Learning Cameras, Displays, and Optical Computing Systems", GDR ISIS Workshop on Co-conception: capteurs hybrides et algorithmes pour des systemes innovants, 05/2021
Invited Talk, "Towards Neural Imaging & Signal Processing", IEEE Computational Imaging Webinar Series: SPACE, 03/2021
Invited Talk, "Towards Neural Imaging & Signal Processing", IBM, 03/2021
Invited Talk, "Towards Neural Imaging & Signal Processing", UC Riverside, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Seminar Series, 02/2021
2020 Invited Talk, "Computational Near-eye Displays and Eyeglasses", OSA Frontiers in Optics Conference (FiO), 09/2020
Invited Talk, "Computational Eyeglasses and Near-eye Displays with Focus Cues", Bay Area Vision Research Day Conference (BAVRD), 09/2020
Keynote, "Towards Neural Imaging and Display", Computational Visual Media Conference (CVM), 08/2020
Invited Talk, "Recent Advances in Light Field and Holographic Near-eye Displays", International Meeting on Information Displays (IMID), 08/2020
Keynote, "Recent Advances in Computational Imaging", CVPR Workshop on Computational Cameras and Displays (CCD), 06/2020
Invited Talk, "Holographic and Near-eye Light Field Displays", OSA Imaging and Applied Optics Congress, 06/2020
Invited Talk, "Computational Single-photon Imaging", Northwestern University, Computer Science Department, 06/2020
Invited Talk, "Efficient non-line-of-sight imaging with computational single-photon imaging", SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing, 04/2020
Invited Talk, "Computational Near-eye Displays with Focus Cues", University of North Carolina (UNC), Computer Science Department Seminar, 02/2020
Invited Talk, "Computational Single-photon Imaging", University of North Carolina (UNC), Applied Physical Sciences Department Seminar, 02/2020
Keynote, "Computational Imaging at Stanford", Google Computational Imaging Workshop, 02/2020
Invited Talk, "Computational Near-eye Displays and Electronic Eyewear with Focus Cues", SPIE AR/VR/MR Conference, 02/2020
Invited Talk, "Computational Near-eye Displays with Focus Cues", Society for Information Displays (SID) LA Symposium, 02/2020
2019 Invited Talk, "Computational Near-eye Displays and Electronic Eyewear with Focus Cues", Dagstuhl Seminar on Real VR - Importing the Real World into Immersive VR and Optimizing the Perceptual Experience of Head-mounted Displays, 07/2019
Invited Talk, "Computational Near-eye Displays and Electronic Eyewear with Focus Cues", IEEE Int. Conference on Computer Vision (CVPR) Workshop on Computer Vision for AR/VR, 06/2019
Invited Talk, "Computational Single-photon Imaging", Institute for Science and Technology (IST) Austria, 06/2019
Invited Talk, "Computational Single-photon Imaging", OSA Imaging and Applied Optics Congress, 06/2019
Invited Talk, "Computational Single-photon Imaging", Max Planck Institute for Informatics, 06/2019
Invited Talk, "AR/VR Displays with Focus Cues and Digital Eyeglasses", Augmented World Expo, 05/2019
Invited Talk, "Computational Single-photon Imaging", Army Research Office, 04/2019
Invited Talk, "The Future of Head Mounted Displays", IEEE VR Conference, 03/2019
2018 Invited Talks, "Computational Single-photon Imaging", Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Imaging Science 06/2018, Waymo 04/2018, International SPAD Sensor Workshop (ISSW) 02/2018, EPFL 02/2018, ETH 02/2018,
Invited Talk (department seminar), "Computational Near-eye Displays with Focus Cues", University of Washington 06/2018
Invited Talks, "Computational Near-eye Displays with Focus Cues", Symposium on Information Displays (SID) Display Week 05/2018, OSA Applied Optics and Imaging Conference 06/2018, Intel 10/2018
Invited Talk, "The Deep Computational Camera", Corning 09/2018
2017 Plenary Talk, "VR2.0: Making Virtual Reality Better Than Reality?", IS&T International Symposium on Electronic Imaging, 01/2017
Keynote, "Computational Near-eye Displays", Augmented Human Conference, 02/2017
Keynote, "Computational Near-eye Displays", Marvin Minsky Memorial Lecture on Imaging Science, MIT Media Lab, 05/2017
Invited Talk, "Computational Near-eye Displays", Rice University, 11/2017
2016 Keynote, "Computational Near-eye Displays", CVPR Int. Workshop on Computational Cameras and Displays, 06/2016
Invited Talk, "Engineering the Future of Computational Near-eye Displays", National Academy of Engineering, Frontiers of Engineering, 09/2016
Invited Talk, "Light Field, Focus-tunable, and Monovision Near-eye Displays", SID Display Week, 05/2016
Invited Talk, "Computational Imaging at the Diffraction Limit", King Abdulla University of Science and Technology (KAUST), 03/2016
Invited Talks, "Computational Near-eye Displays", Apple, Intel, Huawei, Meta, 01-03/2016
2015 Invited Talks, "Emerging Trends and Applications in Light Field Displays", Stanford SCIEN Workshop on Light Field Imaging, Google X, HP, IEEE Photonics Society (Bay Area), Stanford/Columbia Brown Institute, 01-05/2015
Invited Talk, "Computational Displays", King Abdulla University of Science and Technology (KAUST), 03/2015
Invited Talk, "Emerging Trends and Applications of Light Field Displays", OSA Fall Vision Meeting, 10/2015
Invited Talk, "Computational Light Field Near-eye Displays", SID Display Week, 05/2015
2014 Keynote, "Crafting Light by Hacking Pixels", European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Workshop on Light Fields (Zurich, Switzerland)
Keynote, "A New Area in Computational Displays", SPIE Stereoscopic Displays and Applications (San Francisco, USA)
Invited Talk, "Compressive Light Field Displays", OSA Computational Optical Sensing and Imaging (COSI) (Kohala Coast, USA), 06/2014
Invited Talks (department seminars), "Compressive Imaging and Display Systems", Stanford University 04/2014, Carnegie Mellon University 03/2014, UC San Diego 03/2014, Rochester Institute of Technology 03/2014, University of Waterloo 02/2014, University of Rochester 02/2014, Rutgers University 02/2014, Inria Sophia-Antipolis 01/2014
Invited Talk, "Open Hardware and Emerging Computational Imaging Systems", Photonik Kongress of the German Research Council, 01/2014
2013 Keynote, "Compressive Light Field Displays", CUSO Winter School on Computational Photography and Display (Lenk, Switzerland)
Invited Talks, "Compressive Cameras and Displays", NEC Corporation, Olympus, Fujitsu, Toshiba Corporation, Loftworks, Keio University, Kozo Keikaku Engineering, Denso IT (Tokyo and Yokohama, Japan), 06-07/2013
Invited Talk, "An Overview of Computational Imaging Research at MIT", US Patent and Trademark Office (Washington DC, USA)
Invited Talk, "Compressive Light Field Displays", International Conference on Computational Photography (Cambridge, USA)
2012 Invited Talks, "Compressive Light Field Displays", Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh), Microsoft Research Asia (Beijing, China), Tsinghua University (Beijing, China), HP Research Labs (USA), Telecom ParisTech (Paris, France), Max-Planck-Institut fuer Informatik (Saarbruecken, Germany), Eberhard Karls Universitaet (Tuebingen, Germany), Disney Research (Zuerich, Switzerland), 07-09/2012
Invited Talk, "Computational Multilayer Light Field Displays", University of Toronto 01/2012, Rochester Institute of Technology 01/2012
2010 Invited Talk, "Computational Light Modulation for Image Acquisition and Display", Max-Planck-Institut fuer Informatik (Saarbruecken, Germany)
2006 Invited Talk, "Reverse Radiosity: Compensating Indirect Scattering for Immersive and Semi-Immersive Projection Displays", University of Otago (Dunedin, New Zealand)
2005 Invited Talk, "Enabling View-Dependent Stereoscopic Projection in Real Environments", Hitlab (Christchurch, New Zealand)
Invited Talk, "Combining Holograms with interactive Computer Graphics", University of Otago (Dunedin, New Zealand)

Teaching

2023/2024 "EE 367 / CS 448I: Computational Imaging and Display", Stanford University, 2024 winter quarter (Instructor)
"EE 267: Virtual Reality", Stanford University, 2024 spring quarter (Instructor)
"EE 292E: Seminar Series for Image Systems Engineering", Stanford University, 2023/2024 autumn, winter, and spring quarter (Co-instructor)
2021/2022 "EE 367 / CS 448I: Computational Imaging and Display", Stanford University, 2022 winter quarter (Instructor)
"EE 267: Virtual Reality", Stanford University, 2022 spring quarter (Instructor)
"EE 292E: Seminar Series for Image Systems Engineering", Stanford University, 2021/2022 autumn, winter, and spring quarter (Co-instructor)
2020/2021 "EE 367 / CS 448I: Computational Imaging and Display", Stanford University, 2021 winter quarter (Instructor)
"EE 267: Virtual Reality", Stanford University, 2021 spring quarter (Instructor)
"EE 292E: Seminar Series for Image Systems Engineering", Stanford University, 2020/2021 autumn, winter, and spring quarter (Co-instructor)
"Advances in Neural Rendering", ACM SIGGRAPH 2021 Course, (Co-instructor)
2019/2020 "EE 367 / CS 448I: Computational Imaging and Display", Stanford University, 2019/2020 winter quarter (Instructor)
"EE 267: Virtual Reality", Stanford University, 2019/2020 spring quarter (Instructor)
"EE 292E: Seminar Series for Image Systems Engineering", Stanford University, 2019/2020 autumn, winter, and spring quarter (Co-instructor)
"End-to-end Optimization of Optics and Imaging Processing for Domain-specific Cameras", ACM SIGGRAPH 2020 Course, (Co-instructor)
2018/2019 "EE 367 / CS 448I: Computational Imaging and Display", Stanford University, 2018/2019 winter quarter (Instructor)
"EE 267: Virtual Reality", Stanford University, 2018/2019 spring quarter (Instructor)
"EE 292E: Seminar Series for Image Systems Engineering", Stanford University, 2018/2019 autumn, winter, and spring quarter (Co-instructor)
Short Course on "Virtual Reality Technology", Society for Information Displays (SID) Display Week, 05/2019
Seminar on "Computational Displays with Focus Cues", Society for Information Displays (SID) Display Week, 05/2019
2017/2018 "EE 367 / CS 448I: Computational Imaging and Display", Stanford University, 2017/2018 winter quarter (Instructor)
"EE 267: Virtual Reality", Stanford University, 2017/2018 spring quarter (Instructor)
"EE 292E: Seminar Series for Image Systems Engineering", Stanford University, 2017/2018 autumn, winter, and spring quarter (Co-instructor)
2016/2017 "EE 368 / CS 232: Digital Image Processing", Stanford University, 2016/2017 autumn quarter (Instructor)
"EE 367 / CS 448I: Computational Imaging and Display", Stanford University, 2016/2017 winter quarter (Instructor)
"EE 267: Virtual Reality", Stanford University, 2016/2017 spring quarter (Instructor)
"Build Your Own VR Display", ACM SIGGRAPH Course, 2017 (Organizer and Co-instructor)
"Applications of Visual Perception to Virtual Reality Rendering", ACM SIGGRAPH Course, 2017 (Co-instructor)
2015/2016 "EE 368 / CS 232: Digital Image Processing", Stanford University, 2015/2016 autumn quarter (Instructor)
"Designing Civic Technologies with Virtual Reality", Stanford University d.school, 2015/2016 autumn quarter (Instructor)
"EE 367 / CS 448I: Computational Imaging and Display", Stanford University, 2015/2016 winter quarter (Instructor)
"EE 267: Virtual Reality", Stanford University, 2015/2016 spring quarter (Instructor)
2014/2015 "EE 367 / CS 448I: Computational Imaging and Display", Stanford University, 2014/2015 winter quarter (Instructor)
"EE 368 / CS 232: Digital Image Processing", Stanford University, 2014/2015 spring quarter (Instructor)
2014 "MAS.132/MAS.532: Mathematical Methods in Imaging", MIT Media Lab (Co-Instructor)
"Computational Cameras and Displays", ACM SIGGRAPH 2014 Course, with Matthew O'Toole.
2013 "Compressive Computational Photography and Display", Industry R&D Seminar, Tokyo, Japan (Instructor)
"MAS.132/MAS.532 Mathematical Methods in Imaging", MIT Media Lab (Co-Instructor)
"Computational Displays", Eurographics Tutorial (Organizer and Co-Instructor)
2012 "MAS.131/531 Computational Cameras and Photography", MIT Media Lab (Co-Instructor)
"MAS.132/532 Future of Imaging", MIT Media Lab (Co-Instructor)
"Computational Plenoptic Imaging", ACM SIGGRAPH 2012 Course (Organizer and Co-Instructor)
"Computational Displays", ACM SIGGRAPH 2012 Course (Organizer and Co-Instructor). SIGGRAPH 2012 Courses Highlight!
2011 "Computational Plenoptic Imaging", Eurographics 2011 State of the Art Report and Tutorial (Organizer and Co-Instructor)
2007 "The Visual Computing of Projector-Camera Systems". Eurographics 2007 State of the Art Report and Tutorial (Co-Instructor and Co-Author)
"CS314 Introduction to Computer Graphics", University of British Columbia (Teaching Assistant)
2006 "CS121 Models of Computation", University of British Columbia (Teaching Assistant)
2002 Computer Graphics Lab, Bauhaus-University Weimar (Teaching Assistant)

Service

Assoc. Editor IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2024-
ACM Transactions on Graphics, 2020-2024
OSA Optics Express, 2019-2022
Scientific Reports, Nature Publishing Group, 2015-2021
IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging, 2016-2020
Program Chair OSA Imaging and Applied Optics Congress, Computational Optical Sensing and Imaging Conference, Program Co-Chair 2021, Conference Co-Chair 2022
ICCV Workshop on Learning 3D Representations for Shape and Appearance, Conference Co-Chair 2021
ECCV Workshop on Learning 3D Representations for Shape and Appearance, Conference Co-Chair 2020
Banff International Research Station, Workshop on Computational Light Transport, Conference Co-Chair 2019
Pacific Graphics, Program Co-chair 2019
International Conference on Computational Photograpy (ICCP), Conference Co-Chair 2017
ACM SIGGRAPH, Courses Chair 2016
IEEE CVPR Workshop on Computational Cameras and Displays (CCD, merged with the PROCAM workshops) 2013
IEEE CVPR Workshop on Computational Cameras and Displays (CCD) 2012
Program Committee ACM SIGGRAPH, Technical Papers PC 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2023, 2024; CoI Coordinator 2019, 2020, 2021
ACM SIGGRAPH Asia, Technical Papers 2015, 2020, 2021
Int. Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Area Chair 2018, 2023, 2024, 2025
Int. Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Area Chair 2021, 2025
Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), Area Chair 2023, 2024
International Conference on Computational Photograpy (ICCP) 2013 - present
IEEE CVPR Workshop on Computational Cameras and Displays (CCD) 2012 - present
OSA Computational Optical Sensing and Imaging (COSI) 2015 - present
IEEE Virtual Reality Conference 2024, 2025
ECCV Advances in Image Manipulation Workshop 2022
ACM SIGGRAPH General Submissions (Courses, Panels, Talks, Posters, E-Tech, Studio) 2012, 2015, 2016
ACM SIGGRAPH Asia, Emerging Technologies 2013 - 2014
ACM SIGGRAPH Asia, Workshops 2014
Eurographics, Technical Papers 2015
Eurographics, Short Papers 2014
Eurographics Symposium on Rendering 2014
Pacific Graphics 2014
ACM SIBGRAPI 2014
International Conference on Computer-Aided Design and Computer Graphics (CAD/Graphics) 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019
ACCV International Workshop on Computational Photography and Low-Level Vision 2012
IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR) 2010
IEEE International Workshop on Projector-Camera Systems (PROCAMS) 2007
Fellow Optica (formerly OSA)
Senior Member IEEE
Member ACM, SPIE, OSA, IEEE Special Interest Group on Computational Imaging

Public Demonstrations

2023 S. Nam, D. Kim, S. Choi, J. Lee, S. Lee, M. Gopakumar, B. Chao, G. Wetzstein, Y. Jeong, "Holographic Parallax: 3D Holographic Near-eye Displays with Parallax Cues", ACM SIGGRAPH 2024 Emerging Technologies
2023 B. Chao, M. Gopakumar, S. Choi, G.Y. Lee, J. Kim, G. Wetzstein, "Neural Holographic Near-eye Displays for Virtual Reality", ACM SIGGRAPH 2023 Emerging Technologies
2022 H. So, J. Martel, P. Dudek, G. Wetzstein "Modulo Camera on a Focal Plane Sensor Processor", Int. Conference on Computational Photography (ICCP) 2022. Best Demo Award!
2020 Y. Peng, S. Choi, N. Padmanaban, J. Kim, G. Wetzstein "Neural Holography", ACM SIGGRAPH 2020 Emerging Technologies
2018 N. Padmanaban, R. Konrad, G. Wetzstein "Autofocals: gaze-contingent eyeglasses for presbyopes", ACM SIGGRAPH 2018 Emerging Technologies
M. O'Toole, D. Lindell, G. Wetzstein "Real-time non-line-of-sight imaging", ACM SIGGRAPH 2018 Emerging Technologies
M. O'Toole, D. Lindell, G. Wetzstein "Confocal Non-line-of-sight Imaging", CVPR 2018 Demos
2016 R. Konrad, N. Padmanaban, E. Cooper, G. Wetzstein "Computational Focus-tunable Near-eye Displays", ACM SIGGRAPH 2016 Emerging Technologies
R. Konrad, F. Huang, G. Wetzstein "Light Field and Focus-tunable Near-eye Displays", Int. Conference on Computational Photography (ICCP) 2016. Best Demo Award!
2015 F. Heide, M. Hulling, W. Heinrich, G. Wetzstein "Doppler Time-of-Flight Imaging", ACM SIGGRAPH 2015 Emerging Technologies
F. Huang, D. Luebke, G. Wetzstein "The Light Field Stereoscope", ACM SIGGRAPH 2015 Emerging Technologies
2014 M. Hirsch, G. Wetzstein, R. Raskar "A Compressive Light Field Projection System", ACM SIGGRAPH 2014 Emerging Technologies
2013 M. Hirsch, D. Lanman, G. Wetzstein, R. Raskar "Tensor Displays", Int. Conference on Computational Photography (ICCP) 2013
2012 M. Hirsch, D. Lanman, G. Wetzstein, R. Raskar "Tensor Displays", ACM SIGGRAPH 2012 Emerging Technologies
2005 O. Bimber, G. Wetzstein, A. Emerging, C. Nitschke "View-dependent Stereoscopic Projection onto Everyday Surfaces", ACM SIGGRAPH 2005 Emerging Technologies

Patents

2017 M.A. Klug, R. Konrad, G. Wetzstein, B.T. Schowengerdt, M.B. Vaughn "System and method for presenting image content on multiple depth planes by providing multiple intra-pupil parallax views", US Patent Application 15/789,895
2017 G. Wetzstein, R. Konrad "Accommodation-invariant Computational Near-eye Display", US Patent Application
2016 D. Lin, M. Brongersma, P. Kik, G. Wetzstein "Light-field Imaging Using a Gradient Metasurface Optical Element", US Patent Application
2015 I. Kauvar, S. Yang, G. Wetzstein "A Factored Spectral Projection System", US Patent Application
2015 F. Heide, W. Heidrich, M. Hullin, G. Wetzstein "Doppler Time-of-Flight Imaging", US Patent Application
2014 F.C. Huang, G. Wetzstein, B. Barsky, R. Raskar "Vision-correcting Display", US Patent Application
2014 G. Wetzstein, D. Lanman, M. Hirsch, R. Raskar "Tensor Displays", US Patent (US 8,848,006 B2)
2013 K. Marwah, G. Wetzstein, R. Raskar "Compressive Light Field Photography", US Patent Application
2013 F. Heide, G. Wetzstein, J. Gregson, R. Raskar, W. Heidrich "Compressive Superresolution Display", US Patent Application
2013 M. Hirsch, G. Wetzstein, V. Lee, R. Raskar "A Compressive Light Field Projection System", US Patent Application
2011 D. Lanman, G. Wetzstein, M. Hirsch, W. Heidrich, R. Raskar "Polarization Fields", US Patent 2014/8,651,678 B2
2010 G. Wetzstein, I. Ihrke, W. Heidrich "Multiplexed Imaging", US Patent 2011/0267482 A1 (licensed by Dolby Laboratories)
2010 Grosse, M., Wetzstein, G., Bimber, O., Grundhofer A. "Coded Aperture Projection", US Patent Application
2005 Bimber, O., Emmerling, A., Wetzstein, G., and Nitschke, C., and Klemmer, T. "Verfahren und Vorrichtung zur Darstellung eines digitalen Bildes auf einer geometrisch und photometrisch nicht-trivialen Oberflaehe", German Patent Application