Kaan Akşit
Associate Professor Immersive Reality Systems
Develops AI-assisted computational methods for displays, imaging and fabrication, including learned holographic displays for virtual and augmented reality; leads the Computational Light Laboratory.
Kaan Akşit's lab at UCL works on rendering & appearance and geometry processing & modeling. 15 papers since 2023, 3 at top venues, mostly ACM MM and SIGGRAPH Asia. 3 PhD students and 5 master's students. 42 alumni, most often to Freelance software developer and Hiya Inc.
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 4/ year
- at T1 venues
- 20%
- PhD students
- 3
- MS students
- 5
- alumni listed
- 42
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 8 papers2026 · T1 1 · collecting
- 2 papers2025 · T1 0
- 2 papers2024 · T1 0
- 3 papers2023 · T1 2
T1 venuesOtherVenues: ACM MM, SIGGRAPH Asia, TOG, VR
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- displays3 papers
- Rendering & appearance1 paper
- light1 paper
- Geometry processing & modeling0 papers
- ai-assisted0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
20268 papers
- SIGGRAPH Asia Technical Communications💓Heartian: Physiology-Aware Relightable Gaussian Head Avatar (opens in a new tab)
- Opt. ContinuumAll-optical selective target highlighting for augmented reality microscopy (opens in a new tab)
- Computer Vision -- ECCVComplex-Valued 2D Gaussian Representation for Computer-Generated Holography (opens in a new tab)
- TOG (T1)Complex-Valued Holographic Radiance Fields (opens in a new tab)
- SVCEditing Physiological Signals in Videos Using Latent Representations (opens in a new tab)
- SIGGRAPH Asia Technical CommunicationsGaussian Image Steganography via Parameter-Domain Keyed Embeddings (opens in a new tab)
- SIGGRAPH Asia Technical CommunicationsHologram Representation via Quadratic Phase Gaussian Splatting (opens in a new tab)
- SVCText-guided Fine-Grained Video Anomaly Understanding (opens in a new tab)
20252 papers
- SIGGRAPH Asia Technical CommunicationsLearned Display Radiance Fields with Lensless Cameras (opens in a new tab)
- ACM MMLearned Single-Pass Multitasking Perceptual Graphics for Immersive Displays (opens in a new tab)
20242 papers
- Light: Science \& ApplicationsAll-optical image denoising using a diffractive visual processor (opens in a new tab)
- SIGGRAPH Asia Technical CommunicationsFocal Surface Holographic Light Transport using Learned Spatially Adaptive Convolutions (opens in a new tab)
20233 papers
- Biomedical Optics ExpressChromaCorrect: Prescription Correction in Virtual Reality Headsets through Perceptual Guidance (opens in a new tab)
- VR (T1)HoloBeam: Paper-Thin Near-Eye Displays (opens in a new tab)
- SIGGRAPH Asia (T1)Multi-color Holograms Improve Brightnes in Holographic Displays (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went42 listed, 41% to industry
Industry 12Academia 17
Most often to
- Freelance software developer
- Hiya Inc
- Huawei
Also to
- UCL
- Imperial College London
- CUHK
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