Rafal Mantiuk
Professor of Graphics and Displays
Works on perceptual computer graphics and displays, including HDR imaging, visual quality metrics and models of human vision for rendering.
Rafal Mantiuk's lab at Cambridge works on rendering & appearance. 43 papers since 2023, 16 at top venues, mostly SIGGRAPH and SIGGRAPH Asia. 21 alumni. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 11/ year
- at T1 venues
- 37%
- PhD students
- 0
- MS students
- 0
- alumni listed
- 21
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 9 papers2026 · T1 5 · collecting
- 10 papers2025 · T1 5
- 18 papers2024 · T1 4
- 6 papers2023 · T1 2
T1 venuesOtherVenues: SIGGRAPH, SIGGRAPH Asia, CGF, CVPR, ECCV
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- metrics4 papers
- perceptual4 papers
- displays3 papers
- Rendering & appearance2 papers
- visual quality0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
20269 papers
- Human Vision and Electronic ImagingA perceptual uniformity error metric for standard and high dynamic range colour spaces
- SIGGRAPH (T1)Adapting Quality Metrics to Tone Mapping
- TOG (T1)AROMA: Augmented Reality Optimized Tone Mapping
- QoMEXEvaluating quality metrics through the lenses of psychophysical measurements of low-level vision
- London Imaging MeetingFilter Wheel Design for Optimal Color Reconstruction
- SIGGRAPH (T1)Quantifying reality of ultra-realistic 3-D displays - the effect of resolution and contrast
- SIGGRAPH (T1)Streaming of rendered content with adaptive frame rate and resolution
- Journal of Vision, 26, articleThe spatial area of the normalization pool in early visual processing
- NeurIPS (T1)X2HDR: HDR Image Generation in a Perceptually Uniform Space
202510 papers
- London Imaging Meeting, 3128, articleA neural quality metric for BRDF models
- SIGGRAPH Asia (T1)CameraVDP: Perceptual display assessment with uncertainty estimation via camera and visual difference prediction
- ICME Generalizable HDR & SDR Video Quality Measurement Grand ChallengeColorVideoVDP-ML: Visual Difference Predictor with a neural regressor for image and video quality prediction
- CVPR (T1)Do computer vision foundation models learn the low-level characteristics of the human visual system?
- ICCV (T1)FaceCraft4D: Animated 3D Facial Avatar Generation from a Single Image
- London Imaging Meeting, 3128, articleJoint estimation of spectral illuminant and reflectance from an RGB image
- CGFPerceived quality of BRDF models
- Nature Communications (T1)Resolution limit of the eye - how many pixels can we see?
- SIGGRAPH Asia (T1)Supra-threshold Contrast Perception in Augmented Reality
- New Trends in Image Restoration and EnhancementTraining Neural Networks on RAW and HDR Images for Restoration Tasks
202418 papers
- ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. of SIGGRAPH Asia ), 43(6), articleAR-DAVID: Augmented Reality Display Artifact Video Dataset
- Journal of Vision, 24, articlecastleCSF — A Contrast Sensitivity Function of Color, Area, Spatio-Temporal frequency, Luminance and Eccentricity
- Color Imaging XXIX: Displaying, Processing, Hardcopy, and ApplicationsColor calibration methods for OLED displays
- CGFColor-accurate camera capture with multispectral illumination and multiple exposures
- ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. of SIGGRAPH ), 43(4), articleColorVideoVDP: A visual difference predictor for image, video and display distortions
- SIGGRAPH Asia (T1)elaTCSF: A Temporal Contrast Sensitivity Function for Flicker Detection and Modeling Variable Refresh Rate Flicker
- IEEE AccessG-SemTMO: Tone Mapping with a Trainable Semantic Graph
- ECCV (T1)Hypernetworks for Generalizable BRDF Representation
- Human Vision and Electronic ImagingImage quality assessment across viewing distances: A comparison study of CSF-based and rescaling-based metrics
- Journal of Vision, 24, articleImpact of focus cue presentation on perceived realism of 3-D scene structure: implications for scene perception and for display technology
- CIC32Modelling contrast matching across luminance levels
- CESCGMultiresolution Mesh Rendering Engine - Practicalities and Performance
20236 papers
- IEEE MMSPComparison of metrics for predicting image and video quality at varying viewing distances
- Human Vision and Electronic ImagingCritical Flicker Frequency (CFF) at high luminance levels
- Human Vision and Electronic ImagingModeling contrast sensitivity of discs
- SIGGRAPH (T1)Neural partitioning pyramids for denoising Monte Carlo renderings
- IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging, 9, articleRobust estimation of exposure ratios in multi-exposure image stacks
- SIGGRAPH Asia (T1)The effect of display capabilities on the gloss consistency between real and virtual objects
Where alumni went21 listed
Apply to CambridgeMichaelmas 2027
PhD in Computer Science
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