Wolfgang Heidrich Explained

Wolfgang Heidrich
Birth Date:November 3, 1968
Nationality:German, Canadian
Alma Mater:University of Erlangen–Nuremberg, University of Waterloo
Doctoral Advisor:Hans-Peter Seidel
Awards:ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award (2023), IEEE Fellow (2021), Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Humboldt Research Award (2014), Eurographics Fellow 2013, UBC Charles A. McDowell Award for Excellence in Research (2011), Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies Early Career Scholar (2002)
Field:Computational Imaging, Computer Graphics, Computer Vision, Image Processing, Inverse Problems
Work Institution:King Abdullah University of Science and TechnologyUniversity of British Columbia

Wolfgang Heidrich is a German-Canadian computer scientist and Professor at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), for which he served as the director of Visual Computing Center[1] from 2014 to 2021. He was previously a professor at the University of British Columbia (UBC), where he was a Dolby Research Chair[2] (2008-2013). His research has combined methods from computer graphics, optics, machine vision, imaging, inverse methods, and perception to develop new Computational Imaging and Display technologies. His more recent interest focuses on hardware-software co-design of the next generation of imaging systems, with applications such as high dynamic range (HDR) imaging,[3] [4] [5] compact computational cameras,[6] [7] hyper-spectral cameras,[8] [9] wavefront sensors,[10] [11] to name just a few.

Heidrich is best known for his work in developing the high dynamic range (HDR) imaging and displays, which served as the basis for the technology behind Brightside Technologies,[12] which was acquired by Dolby in 2007, and then later on (as part of the Dolby vision) turned into one of the core technical solutions for commercial displays.[13] [14]

In 2010, Heidrich, along with Erik Reinhard, Paul Debevec, Sumanta Pattanaik, Greg Ward, and Karol Myszkowsk, published the book High Dynamic Range Imaging: Acquisition, Display, and Image-Based Lighting,[15] that later on became an essential resource for people working with images.[16]

Heidrich was presented AAIA[17] Fellow, IEEE Fellow, and Eurographics [18] Fellow in 2022, 2021, and 2013, respectively. He is the recipient of the ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award[19] (2023), the Humboldt Research Award[20] (2014), the Charles A. McDowell Award for Excellence in Research[21] (2011), an NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement[22] (2010), and the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies Early Career Scholar Award (2002).

Biography

Heidrich received his Diplom informatiker from University of Erlangen (1995), an M.Math in computer science from University of Waterloo (1996), and a PhD (with honours) in computer science from University of Erlangen (1999). Before joining UBC, he was a Research Associate at Max-Planck-Institute for Computer Science (1999-2000). Then, he became a faculty member at the University of British Columbia (UBC) computer science (2000-2018). Since 2014, he has been affiliated with King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) CS and ECE.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Visual Computing Center VCC Visual Computing Center . 2022-11-14 . cemse.kaust.edu.sa.
  2. Web site: 2008-10-20 . Dolby invests $1.15m in UBC's 'real-world' display technology research . 2022-11-14 . science.ubc.ca.
  3. Mantiuk . Rafał . Kim . Kil Joong . Rempel . Allan G. . Heidrich . Wolfgang . 2011-07-25 . HDR-VDP-2: a calibrated visual metric for visibility and quality predictions in all luminance conditions . ACM Transactions on Graphics . 30 . 4 . 40:1–40:14 . 10.1145/2010324.1964935 . 0730-0301.
  4. Book: Sun . Qilin . Tseng . Ethan . Fu . Qiang . Heidrich . Wolfgang . Heide . Felix . 2020 . Learning Rank-1 Diffractive Optics for Single-Shot High Dynamic Range Imaging . https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content_CVPR_2020/html/Sun_Learning_Rank-1_Diffractive_Optics_for_Single-Shot_High_Dynamic_Range_Imaging_CVPR_2020_paper.html . 1386–1396 . Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition .
  5. Book: Seetzen . Helge . Heidrich . Wolfgang . Stuerzlinger . Wolfgang . Ward . Greg . Whitehead . Lorne . Trentacoste . Matthew . Ghosh . Abhijeet . Vorozcovs . Andrejs . ACM SIGGRAPH 2004 Papers . High dynamic range display systems . 2004-08-01 . https://doi.org/10.1145/1186562.1015797 . SIGGRAPH '04 . New York, NY, USA . Association for Computing Machinery . 760–768 . 10.1145/1186562.1015797 . 978-1-4503-7823-9. 2027619 .
  6. Sitzmann . Vincent . Diamond . Steven . Peng . Yifan . Dun . Xiong . Boyd . Stephen . Heidrich . Wolfgang . Heide . Felix . Wetzstein . Gordon . 2018-07-30 . End-to-end optimization of optics and image processing for achromatic extended depth of field and super-resolution imaging . ACM Transactions on Graphics . 37 . 4 . 114:1–114:13 . 10.1145/3197517.3201333 . 10754/630336 . 21708018 . 0730-0301. free .
  7. Book: Peng . Yifan . Fu . Qiang . Heide . Felix . Heidrich . Wolfgang . SIGGRAPH ASIA 2016 Virtual Reality meets Physical Reality: Modelling and Simulating Virtual Humans and Environments . The diffractive achromat full spectrum computational imaging with diffractive optics . 2016-11-28 . https://doi.org/10.1145/2992138.2992145 . SA '16 . New York, NY, USA . Association for Computing Machinery . 1–2 . 10.1145/2992138.2992145 . 978-1-4503-4548-4. 2259460 .
  8. Book: Li . Yuqi . Fu . Qiang . Heidrich . Wolfgang . 2021 . Multispectral Illumination Estimation Using Deep Unrolling Network . https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/ICCV2021/html/Li_Multispectral_Illumination_Estimation_Using_Deep_Unrolling_Network_ICCV_2021_paper.html . en . 2672–2681 . Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision.
  9. Book: Baek . Seung-Hwan . Ikoma . Hayato . Jeon . Daniel S. . Li . Yuqi . Heidrich . Wolfgang . Wetzstein . Gordon . Kim . Min H. . 2021 . Single-Shot Hyperspectral-Depth Imaging With Learned Diffractive Optics . https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/ICCV2021/html/Baek_Single-Shot_Hyperspectral-Depth_Imaging_With_Learned_Diffractive_Optics_ICCV_2021_paper.html . en . 2651–2660. 2009.00463 . Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision .
  10. 10.1364/OE.25.013736 . Ultra-high resolution coded wavefront sensor . 2017 . Wang . Congli . Dun . Xiong . Fu . Qiang . Heidrich . Wolfgang . Optics Express . 25 . 12 . 13736–13746 . 28788916 . 2017OExpr..2513736W . 10754/626833 . free .
  11. Wang . Congli . Fu . Qiang . Dun . Xiong . Heidrich . Wolfgang . 2019-09-24 . Quantitative Phase and Intensity Microscopy Using Snapshot White Light Wavefront Sensing . Scientific Reports . 9 . 1 . 13795 . 10.1038/s41598-019-50264-3 . 31551461 . 6760235 . 2019NatSR...913795W . 2045-2322.
  12. Web site: 2007-01-22 . bit-tech.net BrightSide DR37-P HDR display . 2023-02-06 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070122160003/http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2005/10/03/brightside_hdr_edr/1.html . 2007-01-22 .
  13. Web site: SIM2 Solar Series infinite contrast HDR LCD ships in Q2 . 2023-02-06 . Engadget . en-US.
  14. Web site: Sony licenses Dolby's HDR tech to make brighter, better Bravia HDTVs in the future . 2022-11-14 . Engadget . en-US.
  15. Book: Reinhard . Erik . High Dynamic Range Imaging: Acquisition, Display, and Image-Based Lighting . Heidrich . Wolfgang . Debevec . Paul . Pattanaik . Sumanta . Ward . Greg . Myszkowski . Karol . 2010-05-28 . Morgan Kaufmann . 978-0-08-095711-1 . en.
  16. Book: Amazon.com . 978-0123749147 . Reinhard . Erik . Heidrich . Wolfgang . Debevec . Paul . Pattanaik . Sumanta . Ward . Greg . Myszkowski . Karol . 25 May 2010 . Elsevier Science .
  17. Web site: Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association . 2022-11-14 . www.aaia-ai.org.
  18. Web site: Eurographics . 2022-11-14 . en-US.
  19. Web site: Announcing ACM SIGGRAPH Award Winners . 11 June 2023. 2023-06-11. en.
  20. Web site: CS Professor Wolfgang Heidrich Receives 2014 Humboldt Research Award Computer Science at UBC . 2022-11-14 . www.cs.ubc.ca . en.
  21. Web site: Charles A. McDowell Award . 2022-11-14 . Research Prizes . en.
  22. Web site: Government of Canada . Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada . 2016-06-28 . NSERC – Discovery Grants – Discovery Accelerator Supplements program . 2022-11-14 . Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).

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