Computational photography and low-level computer vision are research areas with significant impact on both academia and industry. This talk reviews trends in computational photography and imaging. We will cover neural image signal processors (ISPs), advances in image restoration and enhancement, and image domain mapping problems. Our focus will be on challenges, findings, quality of the results, complexity and readiness of the solutions for real-world applications.
Bio
Radu Timofte is a Full Professor (W3) for AI and Computer Vision at the University of Wurzburg. Previously, he worked at ETH Zurich as a postdoc (2013-2016) and lecturer and research group leader (2016-2022). He earned his PhD degree from KU Leuven, in 2013. He serves(d) as an associate editor for top journals: CVIU, IEEE TPAMI, Elsevier Neurocomputing and SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences. He regularly serves(d) as an (Senior) Area Chair/SPC for top vision and machine learning venues: ICCV, ECCV, CVPR, IJCAI, NeurIPS, AAAI, ICLR, ICML. Radu Timofte is part of the organizing teams of ICIP'26 (Tampere) and ECCV'28 (Bucharest). He and his team received multiple awards, including a 2022 Alexander von Humboldt Professorship Award and a 2021 Romanian Academy Award. He is co-founder of Merantix, co-organizer of NTIRE, CLIC, AIM, MAI, and AIS events, member of IEEE, CVF, and an ELLIS Fellow. His current research interests include augmented perception, mobile AI, multimodal learning, and image/video manipulation.