Talks

Plenaries and Keynotes

Invited Talks

  • On Image and Video Hallucinations, EURASIP JIVP Webinar, on-line. (December 2024)
  • Le future de l’IA, AI Center Artificial Intelligence Day, EPFL. (November 2024)
  • Computational Photography and Generative AI, Guest Lecture in the EDOC “The Practice of Ethics in Engineering Research and Practice” course, EPFL. (November 2024).
  • Perspektive EPFL: Kollaboration im KI-Zeitalter, Fachbereichsseminar SRG Operationen, Nottwil, Switzerland. (September 2024)
  • Diffusion in Style, Institute for Mathematical and Statistical Innovation (IMSI), Workshop on Computational Imaging, Chicago, USA (on-line). (August 2024)
  • KI in der Schweiz, Swiss Marketing Association gfm, Bad Ragaz, Switzerland (September 2024).
  • On Image and Video Hallucinations, Ellis Distinguished Lecture Series, Stuttgart, Germany. (July 2024)
  • DeepFakes Facts and Fiction, C4DT Networking Event, Grandvaux, Switzerland. (June 2024)
  • L’IA et les DeepFakes: faits et fiction, Colloque Intelligence artificielle et créativité, Coalition suisse pour la diversité Culturelle, Suisseculture et la Commission fédérale du cinéma, Bern, Switzerland. (May 2024)
  • AI, ML, Largo and DeepFakes for Audiovisual Content, Historical Institute, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland. (May 2024)
  • DeepFakes, Séminaire sur les applications de l’intelligence artificielle au cinéma, Fonction Cinema, Genève, Switzerland. (April 2024)
  • DeepFakes: faits et fiction, Journée cadre du Département fédéral de l’économie, de la formation et de la recherche (DEFR), Bern, Switzerland. (April 2024).
  • L’IA et les DeepFakes, Médias francophones publics, Lausanne, Switzerland. (March 2024)
  • DeepFakes: Facts and Fiction, EuroTech Universities Annual Event, Bruxelles, Belgium. (March 2024)
  • Opponency revisited, Women in IC, EPFL. (November 2023)
  • Diffusion in Style, Computer Science Seminar Series, Clemson University, USA (on-line). (November 2023)
  • DeepFakes, Law School Doctoral School, University of Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland. (November 2023)
  • DeepFakes, SRG Zentralschweiz, Lucerne, Switzerland. (October 2023)
  • Diffusion in Style, Huawei Mobile Imaging Workshop, Cannes, France. (October 2023)
  • L’intelligence artificielle: développements technologiques, Office fédéral de la Culture, Bern, Switzerland. (September 2023).
  • L’intelligence artificielle: quel nouveau défi pour les médias ?, SSR Suisse Romande, Section Vaud et Genève, EPFL. (September 2023)
  • The Swiss Science Council – from cacophony to consensus, Signal Processing and Friends, EPFL. (August 2023)
  • Swiss Science Council, Science and Policy: How to bridge the gap?, ETHZ-EPFL Science and Policy Summer School, Beatenberg, Switzerland. (July 2023)
  • Intelligenza artifiziala – Künstliche Intelligenz, SRG SSR Svizra Rumantscha, Vella, Switzerland. (June 2023)
  • DeepFakes, Fratel, EPFL. (May 2023)
  • Deep Fakes, Annual Congress of the Swiss Association of Communication and Media Research, HSLU, Lucerne, Switzerland. (April 2023)
  • DeepFakes, SRG SSR National Delegate Assembly, Bern, Switzerland. (November 2022)
  • DeepFakes, IC School’s 20th Anniversary Celebration and Alumni Reunion, EPFL. (November 2022)
  • Uncovering local semantics in CNNs and GAN’s, Advanced Imaging & Artificial Intelligence Workshop (AIIF), Seoul, Korea (on-line). (November 2022)
  • Visual Computing: Facts, Fakes, and Fiction, CUDAN Lab Seminar Series, Tallinn University, Estland, (on-line). (April 2022)
  • Saving Film, Cinémathèque suisse, Penthaz, Switzerland. (March 2022)
  • Visual Computing: facts, fakes, and fiction, Geneva International Film Festival (GIFF), Geneva, Switzerland. (November 2021)
  • Superpixels, Supervoxels, and Adaptels (with RK Achanta), Berkeley Institute for Data Science BIDS ImageXD 2021: Image Analysis Across Domains Workshop, Berkeley, USA, (on-line). (May 2021)
  • Visual Computing: facts, fakes, and fiction, Lions Club Solothurn, (on-line). (March 2021)
  • Deep learning and image restoration: A match made in heaven or hell? Electronic Imaging (EI) Computational Imaging XIX, (on-line). (January 2021)
  • Opponency revisited, EPFL Institute of Mechanical Engineering (IGM) Colloquium, (on-line). (October 2020)
  • Editing in Style: Uncovering the Local Semantics of GANs, German Conference on Computer Vision DAGM GCPR 2020, (on-line). (September 2020)
  • Towards Augmented Vision using Invisible Radiation, Vision for all Seasons Workshop (V4AS), CVPR 2020, (on-line). (June 2020)
  • Imaging and Machine Learning: facts, fakes, and fiction, European Broadcasting Union (EBU) AI in Production and Distribution Workshop, Manchester, UK. (November 2019)
  • Sculpture Paintings, Symposium in memory of Pr. Francis Schmitt, Paris, France. (October 2019)
  • Photography and Machine Learning, Arles Photography Festival, Arles, France. (July 2019)
  • RGB+ Improving Color Imaging with Extra Information, Xerox Parc, Palo Alto, USA (February 2019).
  • Vision, Imaging, and Machine Learning: Fact and Fancy, Workshop and Lecture Series on the Law & Economics of Innovation, ETH Zürich, Switzerland (October 2018).
  • Digital Photography: How do we quantify Beauty, Innovation Forum Lausanne and Club Photo EPFL, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland. (October 2018).
  • Deep Learning, Extracting Syntax and Semantics from Images and Videos (with F. Kaplan), Searching Through Seeing: Optimizing Computer Vision Technology for the Arts Symposium, Frick Collections, New York, NY, USA (April 2018).
  • Wenn Computer Bildlegenden Schreiben, Abendvortrag im Rahmen der Wechselausstellung “Netzwerk Schweizer Pressefotografie,” Stadtmuseum Aarau, Switzerland (February 2018).
  • Deep Learning in Visual Computing, 1st Sino-Swiss Artificial Intelligence Conference (Sino-Swiss AI 2017), December 2017.
  • Mining the Flux: Digital Image Classification and Image Retrieval, Photography and Information Technology Workshop, University of Lausanne, Switzerland, November 2017.
  • Opponent Colors Revisted, Colour Day, University of Lausanne, Switzerland, October 2017.
  • Near-Infrared for Image Enhancement and Restoration, NITRE Workshop at CVPR 2017, Honolulu, HI, USA, July 2017.
  • Color and Spectral Information in Modern Computer Vision, ECCV 2016 / ACM Multimedia Joint Invited Tutorial Day, Amsterdam, NL, October 2016.
  • Semantic-Improved Color Imaging Applications: It Is All About Context, FWS2015 – Farbworkshop, Universität Koblenz – Landau, Germany, September 2015.
  • Introducing Digital Humanities in an Engineering School: New Data, New Approaches, IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging: Human Vision and Electronic Imaging XX (HVEI XX), San Francisco, CA, USA, February 2015.
  • Opponent Colors Revisited, Computational Photography and Intelligent Cameras Workshop, Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM), UCLA, CA, USA, February 2015.
  • Introducing Digital Humanities in an Engineering School: New Data, New Approaches, IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging 2015, San Francisco, CA, USA, February 2015.
  • Sematic-Improved Color Imaging Applications: It Is All About Context, FWS 2015 – Workshop Farbbildverarbeitung, Koblenz, Germany, October 2015.
  • Computational Aesthetics, All About Imaging: Transactions, University of Westminster, London, England, May 2014.
  • IVRL Research, Philips Research, Eindhowen, The Netherlands, May 2014.
  • CIE Colorimetry, University of Geneva, Dental School, Genevy, Switzerland, March 2014.
  • Opponent Color Revisited, IIT Kanpur, Computer Science Department, Kanpur, India, March 2014.
  • The Use of Photographs in the Humanities, International College on New Approaches to the Digital Humanities, Ca’Foscari University, Venice, Italy, October 2013.
  • RGB++: How Side Information Improves Computational Photography and Computer Vision, Qualcomm Augmented Reality Lecture Series, TU Vienna, April 2013.
  • Opponent Colors Revisited, Computer and Information Science Department, University of Konstanz, Germany, January 2013.
  • Le Numérique au Service du Patrimoine, 4e Rencontres des Patrimoines, Université de Lausanne, Switzerland, November 2012.
  • The Opportunities and Challenges of 4-Channel (RGB+NIR) Image Acquisition on a Single Sensor, CMOS Emerging Technologies (CMOSET), Vancouver, Canada, July 2012.
  • Improving the Visible with the Invisible: Incorporating near-infrared cues in computational photography and computer vision tasks, Qualcomm, San Jose, February 2012.
  • Sabbatical talks on Computational Photography, Opponent Color Encoding, and Image Quality topics at Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago, the bimagicLab at Carnegie Mellon University, the EE Department at University of Washington, the Graphics, Vision, and Interaction Groups at Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, the Camera Culture Group in the MIT Media Lab, as well as Qualcomm Research in San Diego, HP Labs in Palo Alto, and Xerox Research Center in Webster, NY (February – June 2011).
  • The Future of Photography, 10th Anniversary of Image Engineering Gmbh, Cologne, Germany (Jan 2011).
  • Computational Photography, Doctoral School Seminar S2I, La Rochelle, France (Oct. 2010).
  • The Future of Photography, DGPh Science and Technology Symposium, Photokina, Cologne, Germany (Sept 2010).
  • Computational Photography, Know Thy Neighbor seminar series of IC at EPFL (May 2010).
  • Computational Photography and Near-Infrared: Exploiting Near-Infrared to Advance Computational Photography and Computer Vision, 48th SID International Symposium, Seminar and Exhibition (SID 2010), Seattle, WA, USA (May 2010).
  • Color in Image Collections and Archives, First Int. Workshop on Standards and Technologies in Multimedia Archives and Records (STAR), Lausanne, Switzerland (April 2010).
  • Computational Photography and Near-Infrared: Improving the Visible with the Invisible, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, CA, USA, Logitech, Freemont, CA, USA, Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, USA, and University of Washington, Seattle, USA (Jan, Feb 2010).
  • Towards a comprehensive Color Image Quality Metric, IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging: Human Vision and Electronic Imaging XV, San Jose, CA, USA (January 2010).
  • Computational Photography and Near-Infrared: Improving the Visible with the Invisible, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Testing and Research (EMPA), Duebendorf, ZH, Switzerland (January 2010).
  • Computational Photography and Near-Infrared: Improving the Visible with the Invisible, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore (Nov 2009).
  • Color Image Rendering and Segmentation based on Human Vision Models, Nokia/Universities Image Content and Quality Course, Helsinki, Finland (Nov 09).
  • Die Zukunft der Fotografie, Bild-Code-Speicher Workshop, Basel, Switzerland (Aug 09).
  • Material Classification using Visible and Near-Infrared Images, Multimedia, Mathematics and Machine Learning II Workshop, Banff International Research Station, Banff, Canada (July 09).
  • The impact of patent thickets on the protection of image-recording devices, European Patent Forum, Prague, Czech Republic (April 09).
  • Retinal Modeling in Color Imaging, Ecole d’Hiver sur l’Image Numérique Couleur Toulon, organized by Le Groupe Français pour l’Image Numérique Couleur (GFINC), Toulon, France (Jan 09).
  • Retinal Modeling in Digital Photography, University of Poitier, Poitier, France (Nov 2008).
  • Conservation of Ancient Photographs and Preservation of Digital Archives, A World of Colors: From Gabriel Lippmann to Nanophotonics, Paris, France (Oct 08).
  • Retinal Modeling in Digital Photography, University of Washington, Seattle, USA (Jan 2008).
  • Models of Color Vision for Image Processing, First CREATE Conference: Collaborate – Innovate – Create, Bristol, UK (Sept 07).
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Tutorials

  • Color Image Workflows and Architecture, IEEE Tencon 2009, Singapore (Nov 09).
  • Retinal Modeling in Color Imaging, IS&T/SID 16th Color Imaging Conference, Portland, OR, USA (Nov 2008).
  • Color Image Workflows and Architecture for Archiving Applications, IS&T Archiving Conferences, (2004-2009).