Farhan

Title: "Digital Signal Processing - History, Recent Advances, Challenges, and Opportunities"

Abstract: "In a relatively short period of time, the digital camera has become ubiquitous in our daily lives. The pace at which innovations are being made in this area is remarkable. The exciting aspect is that there is much more to come. In this talk, we review the evolution of digital cameras from camera obscura to film to digital to mobile. Along the way, we identify events that precipitated the change to a digital photography ecosystem. We briefly discuss practices and assumptions that are prevalent in the scientific community and look at a few signal processing solutions that we have developed over the years for problems in digital photography. Using these examples we demonstrate the multidisciplinary nature of digital camera image processing. We present recent results to show the progress that has been achieved in computational photography on mobile cameras and conclude with challenges and opportunities."

Attendance at this seminar is open to all.

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Biography:

Biography:

Farhan Baqai earned a M.S. and a Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Purdue University. Before that, he received the Master of Engineering Science degree from the University of Melbourne, Australia and the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan. After his PhD, he worked on halftoning algorithms for inkJet printers at Xerox Corporation and on digital camera image processing at the Sony US Research Center. Currently he is a Senior Research Manager at Apple Inc. where he leads a research group focused on the development of state of the art algorithms for digital photography.

Dr. Baqai’s research and product contributions span digital camera image processing, machine learning, computer vision, stereoscopic image processing, statistical signal processing, digital printing, and radar imaging. He has been the driving force behind several key technologies for Apple and Sony. His algorithms have been implemented in hardware, firmware, and software. Dr. Baqai’s innovations have shipped in more than a billion devices which are being used to capture trillions of images every year.

Dr. Baqai is a Fellow of the IEEE. He is a Deputy Editor in Chief (2023-present) of IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. Dr. Baqai sits on the IEEE Fellow Committee (2024-present) and on IEEE SPS Image, Video, and Multidimensional Signal Processing Technical Committee (2020-present). He served as a Member of IEEE SPS Industry DSP Technology Standing Committee (2007-2014) and was Publicity Co-Chair of 2012 IEEE Conference on Image Processing. Dr. Baqai has authored several peer-reviewed journal articles, conference papers, book chapters, and holds 40 issued US patents with more than 10 US patents pending.

In 2020, the Purdue University Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering conferred on him its Outstanding Electrical and Computer Engineer (OECE) award.

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