Felix Heide

Felix Heide

Biography

I'm a new professor at Princeton, where I lead the Princeton Computational Imaging Lab, and I am co-founder and CTO at Algolux, where I lead research and development of the full autonomous driving stack. My group at Princeton explores imaging and computer vision approaches that allow computers to see and understand what seems invisible today — enabling super-human capabilities for the cameras in our vehicles, personal devices, microscopes, telescopes, and the instrumentation we use for fundamental research in physics. This includes today's capture and vision challenges, including harsh environmental conditions, e.g. imaging under ultra-low or high illumination or computer vision through dense fog, rain, and snow, imaging at ultra-fast or slow time scales, freezing light in motion, imaging at extreme scene scales, from super-resolution microscopy to kilometer-scale depth sensing, and imaging via proxies using nearby object surfaces as sensors instead. Researching vision systems end-to-end, my work lies at the intersection of optics, machine learning, optimization, computer graphics, and computer vision. I received my Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia, and I was a postdoc at Stanford University. My doctoral dissertation won the Alain Fournier Ph.D. Dissertation Award and the SIGGRAPH outstanding doctoral dissertation award.

Publications

List of recent publications:


 
Praneeth Chakravarthula, Jipeng Sun, Xiao Li, Chenyang Lei, Gene Chou, Mario Bijelic, Johannes Froech, Arka Majumdar, Felix Heide
SIGGRAPH Asia 2023

 
Hannah Dröge, Zorah Lähner, Yuval Bahat, Onofre Martorell, Felix Heide, Michael Möller
NeurIPS 2023

 
Andrea Ramazzina, Mario Bijelic, Stefanie Walz, Alessandro Sanvito, Dominik Scheuble, Felix Heide
ICCV 2023

 
Gene Chou, Yuval Bahat, Felix Heide
ICCV 2023

 
Zhaoxuan Zhang, Bo Dong, Tong Li, Felix Heide, Pieter Peers, Baocai Yin, Xin Yang
ICCV 2023

 
Yu Qiao, Bo Dong, Ao Jin, Yu Fu, Seung-Hwan Baek, Felix Heide, Pieter Peers, Xiaopeng Wei, Xin Yang
ICCV 2023

 
Yidan Zheng, Qiang Fu, Hadi Amata, Praneeth Chakravarthula, Felix Heide, Wolfgang Heidrich
Optics Express 2023

 
Zeqiang Lai, Kaixuan Wei, Ying Fu, Philipp Härtel, Felix Heide
SIGGRAPH 2023

 
Haiwei Zhang, Jiqing Zhang, Bo Dong, Pieter Peers, Wenwei Wu, Xiaopeng Wei, Felix Heide, Xin Yang
SIGGRAPH 2023

 
Florian Schiffers, Praneeth Chakravarthula, Nathan Matsuda, Grace Kuo, Ethan Tseng, Douglas Lanman, Felix Heide, Oliver Cossairt
ICCP 2023

 
Stefanie Walz, Mario Bijelic, Andrea Ramazzina, Fahim Mannan, Felix Heide
CVPR 2023

 
Ilya Chugunov, Yuxuan Zhang, Felix Heide
CVPR 2023

 
Félix Goudreault, Dominik Scheuble, Mario Bijelic, Nicolas Robidoux, Felix Heide
CVPR 2023

 
Praneeth Chakravarthula, Jim Aldon D'Souza, Ethan Tseng, Joe Bartusek, Felix Heide
CVPR 2023

 
Geoffroi Côté, Fahim Mannan, Simon Thibault, Jean-François Lalonde, Felix Heide
CVPR 2023

 
Linwei Chen, Ying Fu, Kaixuan Wei, Dezhi Zheng, Felix Heide
IJCV 2023

 
Praneeth Chakravarthula, Seung-Hwan Baek, Florian Schiffers, Ethan Tseng, Grace Kuo, Andrew Maimone, Nathan Matsuda, Oliver Cossairt, Douglas Lanman, Felix Heide
SIGGRAPH Asia 2022

 
Ethan Tseng, Yuxuan Zhang, Lars Jebe, Cecilia Zhang, Zhihao Xia, Yifei Fan, Felix Heide, Jiawen Chen
SIGGRAPH Asia 2022

 
Qiang Zhang, Seung-Hwan Baek, Szymon Rusinkiewicz, Felix Heide
SIGGRAPH Asia 2022

 
Simeon Geiger, André Liemert, Dominik Reitzle, Mario Bijelic, Andrea Ramazzina, Werner Ritter, Felix Heide, and Alwin Kienle
Optics Express 2022

 
Gene Chou, Ilya Chugunov, Felix Heide
NeurIPS 2022

 
Jianchuan Ding, Bo Dong, Felix Heide, Yufei Ding, Yunduo Zhou, Baocai Yin, Xin Yang
NeurIPS 2022

 
Yuxuan Zhang, Bo Dong, Felix Heide
ECCV 2022

 
Seung-Hwan Baek, Noah Walsh, Ilya Chugunov, Zheng Shi, Felix Heide
SIGGRAPH 2022

 
Zheng Shi, Yuval Bahat, Seung-Hwan Baek, Qiang Fu, Hadi Amata, Xiao Li, Praneeth Chakravarthula, Wolfgang Heidrich, Felix Heide
SIGGRAPH 2022

 
Praneeth Chakravarthula, Ethan Tseng, Henry Fuchs, Felix Heide
SIGGRAPH 2022

 
Jingang Zhang, Runmu Su, Qiang Fu, Wenqi Ren, Felix Heide, Yunfeng Nie
Nature Scientific Reports

 
Amanpreet Walia, Stefanie Walz, Mario Bijelic, Fahim Mannan, Frank Julca-Aguilar, Michael Langer, Werner Ritter, Felix Heide
CVPR 2022 (Oral)

 
Ilya Chugunov, Yuxuan Zhang, Zhihao Xia, Cecilia Zhang, Jiawen Chen, Felix Heide
CVPR 2022 (Oral)

 
Seung-Hwan Baek and Felix Heide
CVPR 2022

 
Martin Hahner, Christos Sakaridis, Mario Bijelic, Felix Heide, Fisher Yu, Dengxin Dai, Lux Van Gool
CVPR 2022 (Oral)

 
Julian Ost, Issam Laradji, Alejandro Newell, Yuval Bahat, Felix Heide
CVPR 2022

 
Haiyang Mei, Bo Dong, Wen Dong, Jiaxi Yang, Seung-Hwan Baek, Felix Heide, Pieter Peers, Xiaopeng Wei, and Xin Yang
CVPR 2022

 
Jiqing Zhang, Bo Dong, Haiwei Zhang, Jianchuan Ding, Felix Heide, Baocai Yin, and Xin Yang
CVPR 2022

 
Ethan Tseng, Shane Colburn, James Whitehead, Luocheng Huang, Seung-Hwan Baek, Arka Majumdar, Felix Heide,
Nature Communications

 
Roger Girgis, Florian Golemo, Felipe Codevilla, Martin Weiss, Jim Aldon D'Souza, Samira Ebrahimi Kahou, Felix Heide, Christopher Pal
ICLR 2022 (Spotlight Paper)

 
Frank Julca-Aguilar, Jason Taylor, Mario Bijelic, Fahim Mannan, Ethan Tseng, Felix Heide
ICCV 2021

 
Seung-Hwan Baek and Felix Heide
SIGGRAPH Asia 2021

 
Ethan Tseng, Ali Mosleh, Fahim Mannan, Karl St. Arnaud, Avinash Sharma, Yifan Peng, Alexander Braun, Derek Nowrouzezahrai, Jean-François Lalonde, Felix Heide
SIGGRAPH 2021

 
Clara Callenberg, Zheng Shi, Felix Heide, Matthias B. Hullin
SIGGRAPH 2021

 
Steven Diamond, Vincent Sitzmann, Frank Julca-Aguilar, Stephen Boyd, Gordon Wetzstein, Felix Heide
SIGGRAPH 2021

 
Michael Mara, Felix Heide, Michael Zollhöfer, Matthias Nießner, Pat Hanrahan
SIGGRAPH 2021

 
Seung-Hwan Baek, Felix Heide
CVPR 2021 (Oral)

 
Julian Ost, Fahim Mannan, Nils Thuerey, Julian Knodt, Felix Heide
CVPR 2021 (Oral)

 
Ilya Chugunov, Seung-Hwan Baek, Qiang Fu, Wolfgang Heidrich, Felix Heide
CVPR 2021

 
Emmanuel Onzon, Fahim Mannan, Felix Heide
CVPR 2021

 
Buu Phan, Fahim Mannan, Felix Heide
CVPR 2021

 
Nicolas Robidoux, Luis Eduardo Garcia Capel, Dong-eun Seo, Avinash Sharma, Federico Ariza, Felix Heide
CVPR 2021

 
Zheng Shi, Ethan Tseng, Mario Bijelic, Werner Ritter, Felix Heide
CVPR 2021

 
Wenzheng Chen, Fangyin Wei, Kyros Kutulakos, Szymon Rusinkiewicz, Felix Heide
SIGGRAPH Asia 2020

 
Praneeth Chakravarthula, Ethan Tseng, Tarun Srivastava, Henry Fuchs, Felix Heide
SIGGRAPH Asia 2020

 
Qilin Sun, Ethan Tseng, Qiang Fu, Wolfgang Heidrich, Felix Heide
CVPR 2020 (Oral)

 
Ali Mosleh, Avinash Sharma, Emmanuel Onzon, Fahim Mannan, Nicolas Robidoux, Felix Heide
CVPR 2020 (Oral)

 
Nicolas Scheiner, Florian Kraus, Fangyin Wei, Buu Phan, Fahim Mannan, Nils Appenrodt, Werner Ritter, Jürgen Dickmann, Klaus Dietmayer, Bernhard Sick, Felix Heide
CVPR 2020

 
Mario Bijelic, Tobias Gruber, Fahim Mannan, Florian Kraus, Werner Ritter, Klaus Dietmayer, Felix Heide
CVPR 2020

 
Andreas Meuleman, Seung-Hwan Baek, Felix Heide, Min H. Kim
CVPR 2020 (Oral)
 
Tejas Borkar, Felix Heide, Lina Karam
CVPR 2020

 
Christopher A. Metzler, Felix Heide, Prasana Rangarajan, Muralidhar Madabhushi Balaji, Aparna Viswanath, Ashok Veeraraghavan, Richard G. Baraniuk
Optica 2020

 
Yifan Peng, Qilin Sun, Xiong Dun, Gordon Wetzstein, Wolfgang Heidrich, Felix Heide
SIGGRAPH Asia 2019

 
Praneeth Chakravarthula, Yifan Peng, Joel Kollin, Henry Fuchs, Felix Heide
SIGGRAPH Asia 2019

 
Tobias Gruber, Frank Julca-Aguilar, Mario Bijelic, Felix Heide
ICCV 2019 (Oral)

 
Tobias Gruber, Mario Bijelic, Felix Heide, Werner Ritter, Klaus Dietmayer
3DV 2019

 
Ethan Tseng, Felix Yu, Yuting Yang, Fahim Mannan, Karl St. Arnaud, Derek Nowrouzezahrai, Jean-François Lalonde, Felix Heide
SIGGRAPH 2019

 
Felix Heide, Matthew O'Toole, Kai Zang, David Lindell, Steven Diamond, Gordon Wetzstein
ACM TOG, presented at SIGGRAPH 2019

 
Wenzheng Chen, Simon Daneau, Fahim Mannan, Felix Heide
CVPR 2019 (Oral)

 
Vincent Sitzmann, Justus Thies, Felix Heide, Matthias Nießner, Gordon Wetzstein, Michael Zollhöfer
CVPR 2019 (Oral)

 
Felix Heide, Steven Diamond, David B. Lindell, Gordon Wetzstein
Nature Scientific Reports

 
Felix Heide
IEEE Dissertation Hightlights

 
Lei Xiao, Felix Heide, Wolfgang Heidrich, Bernhard Schölkopf, Michael Hirsch
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP) 2018

 
Vincent Sitzmann, Steven Diamond, Yifan Peng, Xiong Dun, Stephen Boyd, Wolfgang Heidrich Felix Heide, Gordon Wetzstein
Siggraph 2018

 
Shuochen Su, Felix Heide, Gordon Wetzstein, Wolfgang Heidrich
CVPR 2018

 
Yifan Peng, Xiong Dun, Qilin Sun, Felix Heide, Wolfgang Heidrich
ICCP 2018

 
Clara Callenberg, Felix Heide, Gordon Wetzstein, Matthias B. Hullin
Siggraph Asia 2017

 
Mostafa Mahmoud, Bojian Zheng, Alberto Delmás Lascorz, Felix Heide, Jonathan Assouline, Paul Boucher, Emmanuel Onzon, Andreas Moshovos
MICRO-50 2017

 
Biswarup Choudhury*, Robin Swanson*, Felix Heide* , Gordon Wetzstein, Wolfgang Heidrich (* joint first authors)
ICCV 2017

 
Matthew O'Toole, Felix Heide, David B. Lindell, Kai Zang, Steven Diamond, Gordon Wetzstein
CVPR 2017

 
Xuemei Hu, Felix Heide, Qionghai Dai, Gordon Wetzstein
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP) 2017

 
Felix Heide
Ph.D. dissertation, 2017
won the Alain Fournier Award
won the ACM SIGGRAPH outstanding doctoral dissertation award
 
Felix Heide, Qiang Fu, Yifan Peng, Wolfgang Heidrich
Nature Scientific Reports

 
Felix Heide, Steven Diamond, Jonathan Ragan-Kelley, Matthias Niessner, Wolfgang Heidrich, Gordon Wetzstein
SIGGRAPH 2016

 
Shikhar Shrestha*, Felix Heide* , Wolfgang Heidrich, Gordon Wetzstein (* joint first authors)
SIGGRAPH 2016

 
Yifan Peng, Qiang Fu, Felix Heide, Wolfgang Heidrich
SIGGRAPH 2016

 
Shuochen Su. Felix Heide, Robin Swanson, Jonathan Klein, Clara Callenberg, Matthias Hullin, Wolfgang Heidrich
CVPR 2015

 
Ana Serrano, Felix Heide, Diego Gutierrez, Gordon Wetzstein, Belen Masia
Computer Graphics Forum (presented at Eurographics 2016)

 
Yifan Peng, Hadi Amata, Shuochen Su, Felix Heide, Wolfgang Heidrich
Optics Express, 2015

 
Felix Heide, Wolfgang Heidrich, Matthias B. Hullin, Gordon Wetzstein
SIGGRAPH 2015

 
Felix Heide, Wolfgang Heidrich, Gordon Wetzstein
CVPR 2015 (Oral)

 
Lei Xiao, Felix Heide, Matthew O'Toole, Andreas Kolb, Matthias B. Hullin, Kiriakos N. Kutulakos, Wolfgang Heidrich
CVPR 2015

 
Lei Xiao, James Gregson, Felix Heide, Wolfgang Heidrich
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 2015

 
Felix Heide, Markus Steinberger, Yun-Ta Tsai, Mushfiqur Rouf, David Pająk, Dikpal Reddy,
Orazio Gallo, Jing Liu, Wolfgang Heidrich, Karen Egiazarian, Jan Kautz, Kari Pulli
SIGGRAPH Asia 2014

 
Felix Heide, Lei Xiao, Andreas Kolb, Matthias B. Hullin, Wolfgang Heidrich
Optics Express, 2014

 
Felix Heide, Douglas Lanman, Dikpal Reddy, Jan Kautz, Kari Pulli, David Luebke
SIGGRAPH 2014

 
Matthew O'Toole, Felix Heide, Lei Xiao, Matthias B. Hullin, Wolfgang Heidrich, Kiriakos N. Kutulakos
SIGGRAPH 2014

 
Felix Heide, Lei Xiao, Wolfgang Heidrich, Matthias B. Hullin
CVPR 2014 (Oral)

 
Felix Heide, James Gregson, Gordon Wetzstein, Ramesh Raskar, Wolfgang Heidrich
Optics Express, 2014

 
Felix Heide, Matthias B. Hullin, James Gregson, Wolfgang Heidrich
SIGGRAPH 2013

 
Felix Heide, Gordon Wetzstein, Ramesh Raskar, Wolfgang Heidrich
SIGGRAPH 2013

 
Felix Heide, Mushfiqur Rouf, Matthias B. Hullin, Bjorn Labitzke, Wolfgang Heidrich, Andreas Kolb.
ACM Transactions on Graphics 2013 (presented at SIGGRAPH 2013)

 
James Gregson, Felix Heide, Matthias B. Hullin, Mushfiqur Rouf, Wolfgang Heidrich
CVPR 2013

 
Bradley Atcheson, Felix Heide, Wolfgang Heidrich
VMV 2010