Lecture: Advances in AI-powered Photography and Imaging

Computational Photography and Low-level Computer Vision are research areas with significant impact on both academia and industry.
This talk is about recent advances 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.

About Prof. Dr. Timofte

Radu Timofte is a Full Professor (W3) and the head of the Computer Vision Laboratory (Chair for Computer Science IV) at the University of Wurzburg. Previously, he held a postdoc position from 2013 until 2016 and a lecturer and research group leader position from 2016 until 2022, both at ETH Zurich, working with Prof. Luc Van Gool. He obtained a PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from the KU Leuven, Belgium, in 2013. He serves(d) as an associate editor for top journals: Elsevier CVIU, IEEE Trans. PAMI , 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, AIS and PIRM events, member of IEEE, CVF, and an ELLIS Fellow. His current research interests include augmented perception, mobile AI, multimodal learning, image/video compression, restoration, manipulation, and enhancement. 

As of January 2026, he has published over 250 papers, receiving over 74,500 citations with an h-index of 112.