Felix Heide

Felix Heide

Biography

I'm a professor of Computer Science at Princeton, where I lead the Princeton Computational Imaging Lab, and I am the Head of AI at Torc Robotics which builds full autonomy stacks for self-driving trucks. I previously founded the startup Algolux which was acquired by Torc and Daimler Trucks. My group at Princeton explores imaging and computer vision approaches that allow computers to see and understand what seems invisible today — enabling super-human capabilities for the cameras in our vehicles, personal devices, microscopes, telescopes, and the instrumentation we use for fundamental research in physics. This includes today's capture and vision challenges, including harsh environmental conditions, e.g., imaging under ultra-low or high illumination or computer vision through dense fog, rain, and snow, imaging at ultra-fast or slow time scales, freezing light in motion, imaging at extreme scene scales, from super-resolution microscopy to kilometer-scale depth sensing, and imaging via proxies using nearby object surfaces as sensors instead. Researching vision systems end-to-end, my work lies at the intersection of optics, machine learning, optimization, computer graphics, and computer vision. I received my Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia, and I was a postdoc at Stanford University. My doctoral dissertation won the Alain Fournier Ph.D. Dissertation Award and the SIGGRAPH outstanding doctoral dissertation award. I was recently named SIGGRAPH Significant New Researcher, Sloan Research Fellow and Packard Fellow.

Publications

List of recent publications:


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Julian Ost, Andrea Ramazzina, Amogh Joshi, Maximilian Bömer, Mario Bijelic, Felix Heide
AAAI 2026

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Filippo Ghilotti, Samuel Brucker, Nahku Saidy, Matteo Matteucci, Mario Bijelic, Felix Heide
3DV 2026

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Topi Miekkala, Samuel Brucker, Stefanie Walz, Filippo Ghilotti, Andrea Ramazzina, Dominik Scheuble, Pasi Pyykönen, Mario Bijelic, Felix Heide
3DV 2026

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Amir Reza Vazifeh, Congli Wang, Amogh Joshi, Ilya Chugunov, Jipeng Sun, Jiwoon Yeom, Jason W. Fleischer, José S. Pulido, Felix Heide
Optics Express 2026

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Jan Philipp Schneider, Pratik Singh Bisht, Ilya Chugunov, Andreas Kolb, Michael Moeller, Felix Heide
NeurIPS 2025 (Spotlight)

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Cheng Zheng, William Koch, Baiang Li, Felix Heide
NeurIPS 2025

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Stefanie Walz, Andrea Ramazzina, Dominik Scheuble, Samuel Brucker, Alexander Zuber, Werner Ritter, Mario Bijelic, Felix Heide
IROS 2025

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Dominik Scheuble, Andrea Ramazzina, Hanno Holzhüter, Stefano Gasperini, Steven Peters, Federico Tombari, Mario Bijelic, Felix Heide
SIGGRAPH Asia 2025

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Victor Chu, Oscar Pueyo-Ciutad, Ethan Tseng, Florian Schiffers, Grace Kuo, Nathan Matsuda, Albert Redo-Sanchez, Oliver Cossairt, Douglas Lanman, Felix Heide
SIGGRAPH Asia 2025

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Kaixuan Wei, Hector A. Jimenez-Romero, Hadi Amata, Jipeng Sun, Qiang Fu, Felix Heide, Wolfgang Heidrich
SIGGRAPH Asia 2025

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Julian Ost, Tanushree Banerjee, Mario Bijelic, Felix Heide
Nature Machine Intelligence

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Dominik Scheuble, Hanno Holzhüter, Steven Peters, Mario Bijelic, Felix Heide
ICCV 2025 (Highlight)

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Edoardo Palladin, Samuel Brucker, Filippo Ghilotti, Praveen Narayanan, Mario Bijelic, Felix Heide
ICCV 2025

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Jipeng Sun, Kaixuan Wei, Thomas Eboli, Congli Wang, Cheng Zheng, Zhihao Zhou, Arka Majumdar, Wolfgang Heidrich, Felix Heide
SIGGRAPH 2025

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Luke Rowe, Roger Girgis, Anthony Gosselin, Liam Paull, Christopher Pal, Felix Heide
CVPR 2025

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Juhyung Choi, Jinnyeong Kim, Jinwoo Lee, Samuel Brucker, Mario Bijelic, Felix Heide, Seung-Hwan Baek
CVPR 2025

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Kaixuan Wei, Xiao Li, Johannes Froech, Praneeth Chakravarthula, James Whitehead, Ethan Tseng, Arka Majumdar, Felix Heide
Science Advances

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Johannes Froech, Praneeth Chakravarthula, Jipeng Sun, Ethan Tseng, Shane Colburn, Alan Zhan, Forrest Miller, Anna Wirth-Singh, Quentin Tanguy, Zheyi Han, Karl Boehringer, Felix Heide, Arka Majumdar
Nature Communications

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Johannes Froech, Shane Colburn, David J. Brady, Felix Heide, Ashok Veeraraghavan, Arka Majumdar
Optica 2025

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Paul Schmitt, Heinz Bodo Seifert, Mario Bijelic, Krzysztof Pennar, Jerry Lopez, Felix Heide
SAE 2025

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Letian Yu, Jiaxi Yang, Bo Dong, Qirui Bao, Yuanbo Wang, Felix Heide, Xiaopeng Wei, Xin Yang
AAAI 2025

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Luke Rowe, Roger Girgis, Anthony Gosselin, Bruno Carrez, Florian Golemo, Felix Heide, Liam Paull, Christopher Pal
CoRL 2024

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Ilya Chugunov, Amogh Joshi, Kiran Murthy, Francois Bleibel, Felix Heide
SIGGRAPH Asia 2024

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Zheng Shi, Xiong Dun, Haoyu Wei, Shiyu Dong, Zhanshan Wang, Xinbin Cheng, Felix Heide, Yifan Peng
SIGGRAPH Asia 2024

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Edoardo Palladin, Roland Dietze, Praveen Narayanan, Mario Bijelic, Felix Heide
ECCV 2024

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David Borts, Erich Liang, Tim Brödermann, Andrea Ramazzina, Stefanie Walz, Edoardo Palladin, Jipeng Sun, David Bruggemann, Christos Sakaridis, Luc Van Gool, Mario Bijelic, Felix Heide
SIGGRAPH 2024

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Zheng Shi, Ilya Chugunov, Mario Bijelic, Geoffroi Côté, Jiwoon Yeom, Qiang Fu, Hadi Amata, Wolfgang Heidrich, Felix Heide
SIGGRAPH 2024

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Cindy Pan, Noah Walsh, Yuxuan Zhang, Zheng Shi, Felix Heide
Optics Express 2024

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Ilya Chugunov, David Shustin, Ruyu Yan, Chenyang Lei, Felix Heide
CVPR 2024

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Andrea Ramazzina, Stefanie Walz, Pragyan Dahal, Mario Bijelic, Felix Heide
CVPR 2024

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Anush Kumar, Fahim Mannan, Omid Hosseini Jafari, Shile Li, Felix Heide
CVPR 2024

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Samuel Brucker, Stefanie Walz, Mario Bijelic, Felix Heide
CVPR 2024 (Highlight)

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Dominik Scheuble, Chenyang Lei, Seung-Hwan Baek, Mario Bijelic, Felix Heide
CVPR 2024

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Emmanuel Onzon, Maximilian Bömer, Fahim Mannan, Felix Heide
CVPR 2024

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Suhyun Shin, Seokjun Choi, Felix Heide, Seung-Hwan Baek
CVPR 2024

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Yujin Jeon, Eunsue Choi, Youngchan Kim, Khalid Omer, Felix Heide, Seung-Hwan Baek
CVPR 2024 (Highlight)

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Kei Ikemura, Yiming Huang, Felix Heide, Zhaoxiang Zhang, Qifeng Chen, Chenyang Lei
CVPR 2024

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Ethan Tseng, Grace Kuo, Seung-Hwan Baek, Nathan Matsuda, Andrew Maimone, Florian Schiffers,
Praneeth Chakravarthula, Qiang Fu, Wolfgang Heidrich, Douglas Lanman, Felix Heide
Nature Communications

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Arseniy I. Kuznetsov, Mark L. Brongersma, Felix Heide, et al.
ACS Photonics 2024 (Cover Article and Editors Choice)

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Praneeth Chakravarthula, Jipeng Sun, Xiao Li, Chenyang Lei, Gene Chou, Mario Bijelic, Johannes Froech, Arka Majumdar, Felix Heide
SIGGRAPH Asia 2023

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Hannah Dröge, Zorah Lähner, Yuval Bahat, Onofre Martorell, Felix Heide, Michael Möller
NeurIPS 2023

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Andrea Ramazzina, Mario Bijelic, Stefanie Walz, Alessandro Sanvito, Dominik Scheuble, Felix Heide
ICCV 2023

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Gene Chou, Yuval Bahat, Felix Heide
ICCV 2023

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Zhaoxuan Zhang, Bo Dong, Tong Li, Felix Heide, Pieter Peers, Baocai Yin, Xin Yang
ICCV 2023

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Yu Qiao, Bo Dong, Ao Jin, Yu Fu, Seung-Hwan Baek, Felix Heide, Pieter Peers, Xiaopeng Wei, Xin Yang
ICCV 2023

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Yidan Zheng, Qiang Fu, Hadi Amata, Praneeth Chakravarthula, Felix Heide, Wolfgang Heidrich
Optics Express 2023

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Zeqiang Lai, Kaixuan Wei, Ying Fu, Philipp Härtel, Felix Heide
SIGGRAPH 2023

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Haiwei Zhang, Jiqing Zhang, Bo Dong, Pieter Peers, Wenwei Wu, Xiaopeng Wei, Felix Heide, Xin Yang
SIGGRAPH 2023

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Florian Schiffers, Praneeth Chakravarthula, Nathan Matsuda, Grace Kuo, Ethan Tseng, Douglas Lanman, Felix Heide, Oliver Cossairt
ICCP 2023

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Stefanie Walz, Mario Bijelic, Andrea Ramazzina, Fahim Mannan, Felix Heide
CVPR 2023

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Ilya Chugunov, Yuxuan Zhang, Felix Heide
CVPR 2023

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Félix Goudreault, Dominik Scheuble, Mario Bijelic, Nicolas Robidoux, Felix Heide
CVPR 2023

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Praneeth Chakravarthula, Jim Aldon D'Souza, Ethan Tseng, Joe Bartusek, Felix Heide
CVPR 2023

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Geoffroi Côté, Fahim Mannan, Simon Thibault, Jean-François Lalonde, Felix Heide
CVPR 2023

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Linwei Chen, Ying Fu, Kaixuan Wei, Dezhi Zheng, Felix Heide
IJCV 2023

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Praneeth Chakravarthula, Seung-Hwan Baek, Florian Schiffers, Ethan Tseng, Grace Kuo, Andrew Maimone, Nathan Matsuda, Oliver Cossairt, Douglas Lanman, Felix Heide
SIGGRAPH Asia 2022

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Ethan Tseng, Yuxuan Zhang, Lars Jebe, Cecilia Zhang, Zhihao Xia, Yifei Fan, Felix Heide, Jiawen Chen
SIGGRAPH Asia 2022

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Qiang Zhang, Seung-Hwan Baek, Szymon Rusinkiewicz, Felix Heide
SIGGRAPH Asia 2022

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Simon Geiger, André Liemert, Dominik Reitzle, Mario Bijelic, Andrea Ramazzina, Werner Ritter, Felix Heide, and Alwin Kienle
Optics Express 2022

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Gene Chou, Ilya Chugunov, Felix Heide
NeurIPS 2022

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Jianchuan Ding, Bo Dong, Felix Heide, Yufei Ding, Yunduo Zhou, Baocai Yin, Xin Yang
NeurIPS 2022

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Yuxuan Zhang, Bo Dong, Felix Heide
ECCV 2022

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Seung-Hwan Baek, Noah Walsh, Ilya Chugunov, Zheng Shi, Felix Heide
SIGGRAPH 2022

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Zheng Shi, Yuval Bahat, Seung-Hwan Baek, Qiang Fu, Hadi Amata, Xiao Li, Praneeth Chakravarthula, Wolfgang Heidrich, Felix Heide
SIGGRAPH 2022

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Praneeth Chakravarthula, Ethan Tseng, Henry Fuchs, Felix Heide
SIGGRAPH 2022

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Jingang Zhang, Runmu Su, Qiang Fu, Wenqi Ren, Felix Heide, Yunfeng Nie
Nature Scientific Reports

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Amanpreet Walia, Stefanie Walz, Mario Bijelic, Fahim Mannan, Frank Julca-Aguilar, Michael Langer, Werner Ritter, Felix Heide
CVPR 2022 (Oral)

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Ilya Chugunov, Yuxuan Zhang, Zhihao Xia, Cecilia Zhang, Jiawen Chen, Felix Heide
CVPR 2022 (Oral)

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Seung-Hwan Baek and Felix Heide
CVPR 2022

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Martin Hahner, Christos Sakaridis, Mario Bijelic, Felix Heide, Fisher Yu, Dengxin Dai, Lux Van Gool
CVPR 2022 (Oral)

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Julian Ost, Issam Laradji, Alejandro Newell, Yuval Bahat, Felix Heide
CVPR 2022

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Haiyang Mei, Bo Dong, Wen Dong, Jiaxi Yang, Seung-Hwan Baek, Felix Heide, Pieter Peers, Xiaopeng Wei, and Xin Yang
CVPR 2022

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Jiqing Zhang, Bo Dong, Haiwei Zhang, Jianchuan Ding, Felix Heide, Baocai Yin, and Xin Yang
CVPR 2022

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Ethan Tseng, Shane Colburn, James Whitehead, Luocheng Huang, Seung-Hwan Baek, Arka Majumdar, Felix Heide,
Nature Communications

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Roger Girgis, Florian Golemo, Felipe Codevilla, Martin Weiss, Jim Aldon D'Souza, Samira Ebrahimi Kahou, Felix Heide, Christopher Pal
ICLR 2022 (Spotlight Paper)

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Frank Julca-Aguilar, Jason Taylor, Mario Bijelic, Fahim Mannan, Ethan Tseng, Felix Heide
ICCV 2021

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Seung-Hwan Baek and Felix Heide
SIGGRAPH Asia 2021

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Ethan Tseng, Ali Mosleh, Fahim Mannan, Karl St. Arnaud, Avinash Sharma, Yifan Peng, Alexander Braun, Derek Nowrouzezahrai, Jean-François Lalonde, Felix Heide
SIGGRAPH 2021

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Clara Callenberg, Zheng Shi, Felix Heide, Matthias B. Hullin
SIGGRAPH 2021

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Steven Diamond, Vincent Sitzmann, Frank Julca-Aguilar, Stephen Boyd, Gordon Wetzstein, Felix Heide
SIGGRAPH 2021

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Michael Mara, Felix Heide, Michael Zollhöfer, Matthias Nießner, Pat Hanrahan
SIGGRAPH 2021

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Seung-Hwan Baek, Felix Heide
CVPR 2021 (Oral)

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Julian Ost, Fahim Mannan, Nils Thuerey, Julian Knodt, Felix Heide
CVPR 2021 (Oral)

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Ilya Chugunov, Seung-Hwan Baek, Qiang Fu, Wolfgang Heidrich, Felix Heide
CVPR 2021

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Emmanuel Onzon, Fahim Mannan, Felix Heide
CVPR 2021

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Buu Phan, Fahim Mannan, Felix Heide
CVPR 2021

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Nicolas Robidoux, Luis Eduardo Garcia Capel, Dong-eun Seo, Avinash Sharma, Federico Ariza, Felix Heide
CVPR 2021

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Zheng Shi, Ethan Tseng, Mario Bijelic, Werner Ritter, Felix Heide
CVPR 2021

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Wenzheng Chen, Fangyin Wei, Kyros Kutulakos, Szymon Rusinkiewicz, Felix Heide
SIGGRAPH Asia 2020

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Praneeth Chakravarthula, Ethan Tseng, Tarun Srivastava, Henry Fuchs, Felix Heide
SIGGRAPH Asia 2020

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Qilin Sun, Ethan Tseng, Qiang Fu, Wolfgang Heidrich, Felix Heide
CVPR 2020 (Oral)

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Ali Mosleh, Avinash Sharma, Emmanuel Onzon, Fahim Mannan, Nicolas Robidoux, Felix Heide
CVPR 2020 (Oral)

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Nicolas Scheiner, Florian Kraus, Fangyin Wei, Buu Phan, Fahim Mannan, Nils Appenrodt, Werner Ritter, Jürgen Dickmann, Klaus Dietmayer, Bernhard Sick, Felix Heide
CVPR 2020

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Mario Bijelic, Tobias Gruber, Fahim Mannan, Florian Kraus, Werner Ritter, Klaus Dietmayer, Felix Heide
CVPR 2020

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Andreas Meuleman, Seung-Hwan Baek, Felix Heide, Min H. Kim
CVPR 2020 (Oral)
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Tejas Borkar, Felix Heide, Lina Karam
CVPR 2020

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Christopher A. Metzler, Felix Heide, Prasana Rangarajan, Muralidhar Madabhushi Balaji, Aparna Viswanath, Ashok Veeraraghavan, Richard G. Baraniuk
Optica 2020

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Yifan Peng, Qilin Sun, Xiong Dun, Gordon Wetzstein, Wolfgang Heidrich, Felix Heide
SIGGRAPH Asia 2019

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Praneeth Chakravarthula, Yifan Peng, Joel Kollin, Henry Fuchs, Felix Heide
SIGGRAPH Asia 2019

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Tobias Gruber, Frank Julca-Aguilar, Mario Bijelic, Felix Heide
ICCV 2019 (Oral)

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Tobias Gruber, Mario Bijelic, Felix Heide, Werner Ritter, Klaus Dietmayer
3DV 2019

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Ethan Tseng, Felix Yu, Yuting Yang, Fahim Mannan, Karl St. Arnaud, Derek Nowrouzezahrai, Jean-François Lalonde, Felix Heide
SIGGRAPH 2019

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Felix Heide, Matthew O'Toole, Kai Zang, David Lindell, Steven Diamond, Gordon Wetzstein
ACM TOG, presented at SIGGRAPH 2019

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Wenzheng Chen, Simon Daneau, Fahim Mannan, Felix Heide
CVPR 2019 (Oral)

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Vincent Sitzmann, Justus Thies, Felix Heide, Matthias Nießner, Gordon Wetzstein, Michael Zollhöfer
CVPR 2019 (Oral)

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Felix Heide, Steven Diamond, David B. Lindell, Gordon Wetzstein
Nature Scientific Reports

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Felix Heide
IEEE Dissertation Hightlights

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Lei Xiao, Felix Heide, Wolfgang Heidrich, Bernhard Schölkopf, Michael Hirsch
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP) 2018

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Vincent Sitzmann, Steven Diamond, Yifan Peng, Xiong Dun, Stephen Boyd, Wolfgang Heidrich Felix Heide, Gordon Wetzstein
Siggraph 2018

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Shuochen Su, Felix Heide, Gordon Wetzstein, Wolfgang Heidrich
CVPR 2018

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Yifan Peng, Xiong Dun, Qilin Sun, Felix Heide, Wolfgang Heidrich
ICCP 2018

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Clara Callenberg, Felix Heide, Gordon Wetzstein, Matthias B. Hullin
Siggraph Asia 2017

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Mostafa Mahmoud, Bojian Zheng, Alberto Delmás Lascorz, Felix Heide, Jonathan Assouline, Paul Boucher, Emmanuel Onzon, Andreas Moshovos
MICRO-50 2017

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Biswarup Choudhury*, Robin Swanson*, Felix Heide* , Gordon Wetzstein, Wolfgang Heidrich (* joint first authors)
ICCV 2017

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Matthew O'Toole, Felix Heide, David B. Lindell, Kai Zang, Steven Diamond, Gordon Wetzstein
CVPR 2017

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Xuemei Hu, Felix Heide, Qionghai Dai, Gordon Wetzstein
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP) 2017

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Felix Heide
Ph.D. dissertation, 2017
won the Alain Fournier Award
won the ACM SIGGRAPH outstanding doctoral dissertation award
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Felix Heide, Qiang Fu, Yifan Peng, Wolfgang Heidrich
Nature Scientific Reports

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Felix Heide, Steven Diamond, Jonathan Ragan-Kelley, Matthias Niessner, Wolfgang Heidrich, Gordon Wetzstein
SIGGRAPH 2016

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Shikhar Shrestha*, Felix Heide* , Wolfgang Heidrich, Gordon Wetzstein (* joint first authors)
SIGGRAPH 2016

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Yifan Peng, Qiang Fu, Felix Heide, Wolfgang Heidrich
SIGGRAPH 2016

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Shuochen Su. Felix Heide, Robin Swanson, Jonathan Klein, Clara Callenberg, Matthias Hullin, Wolfgang Heidrich
CVPR 2015

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Ana Serrano, Felix Heide, Diego Gutierrez, Gordon Wetzstein, Belen Masia
Computer Graphics Forum (presented at Eurographics 2016)

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Yifan Peng, Hadi Amata, Shuochen Su, Felix Heide, Wolfgang Heidrich
Optics Express, 2015

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Felix Heide, Wolfgang Heidrich, Matthias B. Hullin, Gordon Wetzstein
SIGGRAPH 2015

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Felix Heide, Wolfgang Heidrich, Gordon Wetzstein
CVPR 2015 (Oral)

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Lei Xiao, Felix Heide, Matthew O'Toole, Andreas Kolb, Matthias B. Hullin, Kiriakos N. Kutulakos, Wolfgang Heidrich
CVPR 2015

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Lei Xiao, James Gregson, Felix Heide, Wolfgang Heidrich
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 2015

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Felix Heide, Markus Steinberger, Yun-Ta Tsai, Mushfiqur Rouf, David Pająk, Dikpal Reddy,
Orazio Gallo, Jing Liu, Wolfgang Heidrich, Karen Egiazarian, Jan Kautz, Kari Pulli
SIGGRAPH Asia 2014

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Felix Heide, Lei Xiao, Andreas Kolb, Matthias B. Hullin, Wolfgang Heidrich
Optics Express, 2014

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Felix Heide, Douglas Lanman, Dikpal Reddy, Jan Kautz, Kari Pulli, David Luebke
SIGGRAPH 2014

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Matthew O'Toole, Felix Heide, Lei Xiao, Matthias B. Hullin, Wolfgang Heidrich, Kiriakos N. Kutulakos
SIGGRAPH 2014

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Felix Heide, Lei Xiao, Wolfgang Heidrich, Matthias B. Hullin
CVPR 2014 (Oral)

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Felix Heide, James Gregson, Gordon Wetzstein, Ramesh Raskar, Wolfgang Heidrich
Optics Express, 2014

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Felix Heide, Matthias B. Hullin, James Gregson, Wolfgang Heidrich
SIGGRAPH 2013

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Felix Heide, Gordon Wetzstein, Ramesh Raskar, Wolfgang Heidrich
SIGGRAPH 2013

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Felix Heide, Mushfiqur Rouf, Matthias B. Hullin, Bjorn Labitzke, Wolfgang Heidrich, Andreas Kolb.
ACM Transactions on Graphics 2013 (presented at SIGGRAPH 2013)

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James Gregson, Felix Heide, Matthias B. Hullin, Mushfiqur Rouf, Wolfgang Heidrich
CVPR 2013

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Bradley Atcheson, Felix Heide, Wolfgang Heidrich
VMV 2010