Kiriakos N. Kutulakos
Professor
Studies physics-based computer vision, computational photography and light transport.
Kiriakos N. Kutulakos's lab at Toronto works on computational imaging & photography and rendering & appearance. 45 papers since 2023, 23 at top venues, mostly CVPR and ICLR. 21 PhD students. 25 alumni. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 12/ year
- at T1 venues
- 51%
- PhD students
- 21
- MS students
- 0
- alumni listed
- 25
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 11 papers2026 · T1 6 · collecting
- 17 papers2025 · T1 9
- 10 papers2024 · T1 7
- 7 papers2023 · T1 1
T1 venuesOtherVenues: CVPR, ICLR, NeurIPS, SIGGRAPH Asia, WACV
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Rendering & appearance5 papers
- Computational imaging & photography3 papers
- light3 papers
- studies physics-based0 papers
- light transport0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
202611 papers
- CVPR (T1)BHCast: Unlocking Black Hole Plasma Dynamics from a Single Blurry Image with Long-Term Forecasting (opens in a new tab)
- CVPR 2026HighlightDark3r: Learning Structure from Motion in the Dark (opens in a new tab)
- CVPR (T1)Dynamic Black-hole Emission Tomography with Physics-informed Neural Fields (opens in a new tab)
- CVPR 2026HighlightEfficient and Training-Free Single-Image Diffusion Models (opens in a new tab)
- CVPR 2026HighlightInter-Photon-Limited Videography
- CVPR (T1)Lumosaic: Hyperspectral Video via Active Illumination and Coded-Exposure Pixels
- ICLR (T1)Lyra: Generative 3D Scene Reconstruction via Video Diffusion Model Self-Distillation (opens in a new tab)
- OpticaPolarimetric Full-Wavefield Coherent Lidar
- CVPR (T1)Skullptor: High Fidelity 3D Head Reconstruction in Seconds with Multi-View Normal Prediction (opens in a new tab)
- CVPR (T1)Velox: Learning Representations of 4D Geometry and Appearance (opens in a new tab)
- 3DVVibES: Induced Vibration for Persistent Event-Based Sensing (opens in a new tab)
202517 papers
- Scientific Reports3D Volumetric Tomography of Clouds Using Machine Learning for Climate Analysis (opens in a new tab)
- CVPR (T1)AC3D: Analyzing and Improving 3D Camera Control in Video Diffusion Transformers (opens in a new tab)
- CVPR 2025OralCAP4D: Creating Animatable 4D Portrait Avatars with Morphable Multi-View Diffusion Models (opens in a new tab)
- The Astrophysical Journal LettersEffective Resistivity in Relativistic Reconnection: A Prescription Based on Fully Kinetic Simulations (opens in a new tab)
- AAAI (T1)Efficient Neural Network Encoding for 3D Color Lookup Tables
- IEEE Trans. Computational ImagingExoplanet Imaging via Differentiable Rendering (opens in a new tab)
- TOG (T1)Generating the Past, Present and Future from a Motion-Blurred Image (opens in a new tab)
- WACVGStex: Per-primitive texturing of 2D Gaussian splatting for decoupled appearance and geometry modeling (opens in a new tab)
- TPAMI (T1)Learning Lens Blur Fields (opens in a new tab)
- SIGGRAPH Asia (T1)MVP4D: Multi-View Portrait Video Diffusion for Animatable 4D Avatars (opens in a new tab)
- CVPR 2025Best Student PaperNeural Inverse Rendering from Propagating Light (opens in a new tab)
- CVPR 2025OralOpportunistic Single-Photon Time of Flight (opens in a new tab)
202410 papers
- CVPR (T1)4D-fy: Text-to-4D Generation Using Hybrid Score Distillation Sampling (opens in a new tab)
- IMWUTChromaFlash: Snapshot Hyperspectral Imaging Using Rolling Shutter Cameras
- SIGGRAPH Asia (T1)Coherent Optical Modems for Full-Wavefield Lidar (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS (T1)CryoSPIN: Improving Ab-Initio Cryo-EM Reconstruction with Semi-Amortized Pose Inference (opens in a new tab)
- ECCV 2024OralFlying With Photons: Rendering Novel Views of Propagating Light (opens in a new tab)
- Nature AstronomyOrbital Polarimetric Tomography of a Flare Near the Sagittarius A* Supermassive Black Hole (opens in a new tab)
- CVPR (T1)SCE-MAE: Selective Correspondence Enhancement with Masked Autoencoder for Self-Supervised Landmark Estimation
- CVPR (T1)Single View Refractive Index Tomography with Neural Fields (opens in a new tab)
- ECCV (T1)TC4D: Trajectory-Conditioned Text-to-4D Generation (opens in a new tab)
- CVPR (T1)TurboSL: Dense, Accurate and Fast 3D by Neural Inverse Structured Light (opens in a new tab)
20237 papers
- ISSCCDual-Port CMOS Image Sensor with Regression-Based HDR Flux-to-Digital Conversion and 80 ns Rapid-Update Pixel-Wise Exposure Coding
- RA-LMoSS: Monocular Shape Sensing for Continuum Robots (opens in a new tab)
- ICCV 2023Marr Prize · Best PaperPassive Ultra-Wideband Single-Photon Imaging (opens in a new tab)
- Atmospheric Measurement TechniquesRetrieving 3D Distributions of Atmospheric Particles using Atmospheric Tomography with 3D Radiative Transfer — Part 1: Model Description and Jacobian Calculation (opens in a new tab)
- Atmospheric Measurement TechniquesRetrieving 3D Distributions of Atmospheric Particles using Atmospheric Tomography with 3D Radiative Transfer — Part 2: Local Optimization (opens in a new tab)
- CVPR (T1)SparsePose: Sparse-View Camera Pose Regression and Refinement (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS 2023SpotlightTransient Neural Radiance Fields for Lidar View Synthesis and 3D Reconstruction (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went25 listed
Apply to TorontoFall 2027
Computer Science MSc/PhD
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- English
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- Fee
- CAD 135
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