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Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771

ENGINEERING COLLOQUIUM

Monday, November 21, 2016 / 3:30 PM, Building 3 Auditorium

Ren Ng

"LYTRO, the Light Field Camera"

ABSTRACT -- Computational imaging is pushing sophisticated computational thinking deeper into the imaging pipeline. For example, light field cameras record higher-dimensional data than conventional cameras. The additional information is the 2D angular distribution of light at every pixel location. Processing the higher dimensional data enables new functionality, such as depth inference, and changing the focus or depth-of-field of images after the shot. This talk will review the theory and intuition of light field camera design, and describe how this different approach to imaging transforms the design considerations and opportunities for core subsystems: optics, sensors and processors.

SPEAKER -- Ren Ng is a faculty member in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests are in imaging, graphics and applied mathematics, focusing on the theory and engineering of computational imaging systems. In 2006, Ren founded Lytro, Inc., and led the company as CEO through 70 employees and shipping the first light field camera to consumers around the world. Ren completed his Ph.D. in computer science at Stanford University, and received the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award and Stanford's Arthur Samuel Award. He is a recipient of the Visual Innovation Award from IEEE ICIP, HIPA Photographic Research Award, PMDA Technical Achievement Award, R.I.T.'s Imaging Hall of Fame, the Selwyn Award from the Royal Photographic Society, MIT Tech Review's TR35 and Entrepreneur of the Year, Fast Company's 100 Most Creative People in Business, and Silicon Valley Journal's 40 under 40.


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