Topic in Computer Vision

Computational imaging & photography

65 labs at 25 universities work on computational imaging & photography (part of Computer Vision). Most at Tsinghua, Peking and CMU. 50 published in 2026.

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65 labs at 25 universities work on computational imaging & photography. Most at 10, 6, 4. 50 of them published in 2026, mostly at CVPR, NeurIPS and ECCV. Earliest deadline: , Dec 1.

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CNPekingSchool of Computer ScienceJan 15

Boxin ShiAssociate Professor with Tenure

Leads the Camera Intelligence Lab, researching computational photography, neuromorphic vision sensors and computer vision.

Computational imaging & photography
Accelerators, chips & architecture

2026240FPS stereo vision from monocular mixed spikesCVPR
2026340 FPS reflection-free video from spikes modulated by a rapidly rotating polarizerECCV

125 T1 · 138 papers · 26 members · 21 alumni

SGNTUCollege of Computing and Data Science

Chen Change LoyProfessor

Works on computer vision and deep learning, focusing on image and video restoration and enhancement, creative content generation and representation learning.

Video understanding
Computational imaging & photography
Generative & foundation models

20264RC: 4D Reconstruction via Conditional Querying Anytime and AnywhereICML
2026AITTI: Learning Adaptive Inclusive Token for Text-to-Image GenerationIJCV

117 T1 · 130 papers · 12 members · 36 alumni

CNTsinghuaDepartment of AutomationFeb 28

Xiangyang JiProfessor

Works on machine learning and visual information acquisition and processing, including video coding and computational imaging.

Computational imaging & photography
Video understanding

2026Adaptive Nonlinear Compression for Large Foundation ModelsICLR
2026Bridging Cognitive Gap: Hierarchical Description Learning for Artistic Image Aesthetics AssessmentAAAI

114 T1 · 159 papers · Group size not listed

CNPekingSchool of Computer ScienceJan 15

Tiejun HuangProfessor

Leads research on visual information processing and neuromorphic vision, including the spike camera and spiking neural networks.

Computational imaging & photography
Accelerators, chips & architecture

20263D Gaussian Splatting from Unposed Spike StreamCVPR
2026Can Protective Watermarking Safeguard the Copyright of 3D Gaussian Splatting?AAAI

107 T1 · 155 papers · Group size not listed

CNSJTUSchool of Computer ScienceMay 31

Yulun ZhangTenured Track Associate Professor

Works on image and video restoration, including super-resolution.

Video understanding
Computational imaging & photography

2026Accelerating Rectified Flow Models via Trajectory-Aware CachingNeurIPS
2026AdaSVD: Adaptive Singular Value Decomposition for Large Language ModelsCVPR

106 T1 · 117 papers · 15 members · 1 alumnus

SGNTUSchool of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Bihan WenAssociate Professor

Works on machine learning and computational imaging, including sparse and low-rank modelling and image restoration for radar, hyperspectral and MRI data.

Computational imaging & photography

2026Conformal Prediction for Multi-Source Detection on a NetworkAAAI
2026Failsafe: Reasoning and recovery from failures in vision-language-action modelsIROS

48 T1 · 127 papers · 11 members · 10 alumni

CNTsinghuaTsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate SchoolFeb 28

Haoqian WangProfessor

Works on computational photography and AI, including automatic structuring of lecture videos.

Video understanding
Computational imaging & photography

2026DiRIC: Diffusion Prior Refinement for Efficient Low-Rate Image CompressionTPAMI
2026DreamSwapV: Mask-guided Subject Swapping for Any Customized Video EditingICLR

44 T1 · 80 papers · Group size not listed

USUIUCSiebel School of Computing and Data ScienceDec 1

James M. RehgProfessor

Studies computer vision and machine learning, including egocentric video understanding and behavioral imaging for health.

Video understanding
Computational imaging & photography
Data management & big data

2026Decoding Children's Gait BehaviorECCV
2026DiffVax: Optimization-Free Image Immunization Against Diffusion-Based EditingICLR

44 T1 · 63 papers · 16 members · 12 alumni

DETUMTUM School of Engineering and Design

Benjamin BusamProfessor

Researches 3D computer vision and spatial AI, including 3D reconstruction from images and sensors and photorealistic digital twins.

3D vision & neural rendering
Computational imaging & photography

2026ConceptPose: Training-Free Zero-Shot Object Pose Estimation using Concept VectorsCVPR
2026DeWorldSG: Depth-Aware 3D Semantic Scene Graph Generation via World-Model PriorsECCV

39 T1 · 61 papers · 11 members

USMichiganElectrical and Computer EngineeringDec 15

Qing QuAssistant Professor, EECS – Electrical and Computer Engineering

Studies high-dimensional data analysis and nonconvex optimization for machine learning, including the theory of deep and diffusion models and computational…

Learning theory & optimization
Generative & foundation models
Computational imaging & photography

2026AlphaFlow: Understanding and Improving MeanFlow ModelsICLR
2026Generalization of Diffusion Models Arises with a Balanced Representation SpaceICLR

31 T1 · 41 papers · Group size not listed

CATorontoComputer ScienceDec 1

David B. LindellAssistant Professor

Studies computational imaging, 3D computer vision and time-of-flight imaging with physics-based machine learning.

Computational imaging & photography
3D vision & neural rendering

2026Dark3r: Learning Structure from Motion in the DarkCVPR
2026Efficient and Training-Free Single-Image Diffusion ModelsCVPR

28 T1 · 36 papers · 14 members · 40 alumni

CATorontoComputer ScienceDec 1

Kiriakos N. KutulakosProfessor

Studies physics-based computer vision, computational photography and light transport.

Computational imaging & photography
Rendering & appearance

2026BHCast: Unlocking Black Hole Plasma Dynamics from a Single Blurry Image with Long-Term ForecastingCVPR
2026Dynamic Black-hole Emission Tomography with Physics-informed Neural FieldsCVPR

23 T1 · 45 papers · 21 members · 25 alumni

CNTsinghuaDepartment of AutomationFeb 28

Jinli SuoAssociate Professor

Works on computational photography and imaging, computer vision, and AI for science.

Computational imaging & photography

2026COGS: A Causal Representation Learning Framework for Out-of-Distribution Generalization in Time SeriesAAAI
2026Reconstructing Dense Depth of Dark Scenes with Sparse LiDAR, Noisy Events, and Blurry RGBECCV

21 T1 · 31 papers · Group size not listed

CNTsinghuaDepartment of AutomationFeb 28

Qionghai DaiProfessor

Works on computational imaging and intelligence, including light-field imaging and brain-inspired optoelectronic computing.

Computational imaging & photography

2026Creating Multimodal Interactive Digital Twin Characters From Videos: A Dataset and BaselineTPAMI
2026A multi-modal foundation model for brain disease diagnosis and medical imagingPatterns

21 T1 · 40 papers · Group size not listed

USUMDComputer Science

Christopher MetzlerAssociate Professor

Develops computational imaging and sensing systems that combine optics with deep learning, such as imaging through scattering media.

Computational imaging & photography

2026Guidestar-Free Adaptive Optics with Asymmetric AperturesTOG
2026High-speed Imaging through Turbulence with Event-based Light FieldsECCV

20 T1 · 35 papers · 21 members · 8 alumni

CNTsinghuaDepartment of Electronic EngineeringFeb 28

Lu FangProfessor

Works on computational imaging and vision, gigapixel and light-field imaging, and photonic AI chips.

Computational imaging & photography

2026A skin-conformal rigid-in-soft array-based imaging systemNature Communications
2026Sub-second volumetric 3D printing by synthesis of holographic light fieldsNature

20 T1 · 37 papers · 15 members · 31 alumni

USUCLAElectrical and Computer EngineeringDec 15

Achuta KadambiAssociate Professor

Leads the Visual Machines Group on computer vision, computational imaging and spatial intelligence.

Computational imaging & photography

2026MoCA3D: Monocular 3D Bounding Box Prediction in the Image PlaneECCV
2026SpatialStack: Layered Geometry-Language Fusion for 3D VLM Spatial ReasoningCVPR

19 T1 · 23 papers · 4 members · 19 alumni

GBUCLDepartment of Computer Science

Daniel AlexanderProfessor of Imaging Science

Develops computational imaging and machine learning methods for microstructure imaging and for modelling the progression of neurodegenerative diseases.

Medical imaging & healthcare AI
Computational imaging & photography

2026A Stage-Aware Mixture of Experts Framework for Neurodegenerative Disease Progression ModellingAAAI
2026Bridging Single Distortion Artifacts and Multifactorial Clinical Quality: Few-Shot Biparametric MRI Quality Assessment via Distortion-Trained Prototypical NetworksMICCAI

19 T1 · 46 papers · Group size not listed

USCMURobotics InstituteDec 9

Ioannis GkioulekasAssociate Professor With Tenure

Studies computational imaging and physics-based rendering, including light transport and inverse rendering.

Computational imaging & photography
Embodied & active vision
Rendering & appearance

2026A second-order theory of texture for depth from focusECCV
2026Points as Tori: Fast Pointwise Signed Distance for Point CloudsTOG

19 T1 · 24 papers · 13 members · 49 alumni

SGNTUSchool of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Lin WangAssistant Professor

Works on neuro- and physics-inspired sensing and perception, multimodal sensor fusion and embodied spatial intelligence, leading the EmPACT Lab.

Vision-language & multimodal
Computational imaging & photography
Robot perception & SLAM

2026AdapToPASS: Ambiguity-aware Adaptive Spherical Transformer for Panoramic Semantic SegmentationNeurIPS
2026Ev-iCRF: Self-supervised Event-guided iCRF Estimation for HDR Image ReconstructionAAAI

19 T1 · 32 papers · 18 members · 6 alumni

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Boxin ShiAssociate Professor with Tenure

Chen Change LoyProfessor

Xiangyang JiProfessor

Tiejun HuangProfessor

Yulun ZhangTenured Track Associate Professor

Bihan WenAssociate Professor

Haoqian WangProfessor

James M. RehgProfessor

Benjamin BusamProfessor

Qing QuAssistant Professor, EECS – Electrical and Computer Engineering

David B. LindellAssistant Professor

Kiriakos N. KutulakosProfessor

Jinli SuoAssociate Professor

Qionghai DaiProfessor

Christopher MetzlerAssociate Professor

Lu FangProfessor

Achuta KadambiAssociate Professor

Daniel AlexanderProfessor of Imaging Science

Ioannis GkioulekasAssociate Professor With Tenure

Lin WangAssistant Professor

Where they areClick a university to narrow the list

Other topics in Computer Vision

I want to research computational imaging & photography in anywhere.

Boxin ShiAssociate Professor with Tenure

Chen Change LoyProfessor

Xiangyang JiProfessor

Tiejun HuangProfessor

Yulun ZhangTenured Track Associate Professor

Bihan WenAssociate Professor

Haoqian WangProfessor

James M. RehgProfessor

Benjamin BusamProfessor

Qing QuAssistant Professor, EECS – Electrical and Computer Engineering

David B. LindellAssistant Professor

Kiriakos N. KutulakosProfessor

Jinli SuoAssociate Professor

Qionghai DaiProfessor

Christopher MetzlerAssociate Professor

Lu FangProfessor

Achuta KadambiAssociate Professor

Daniel AlexanderProfessor of Imaging Science

Ioannis GkioulekasAssociate Professor With Tenure

Lin WangAssistant Professor