Dr Miika Aittala
Postdoctoral Associate, MIT, United States

Host: Professor Jaakko Lehtinen
Time: 14:15 (coffee at 14:00)
Venue: T6, CS building

Graphics, Vision, Materials, and Optimization

Abstract:

In this talk, I will describe my work that started in photorealistic material appearance capture for realistic graphics applications, and has, since my thesis, expanded into broader problems combining graphics, vision, optimization, and machine learning. Additionally, I will briefly describe fresh results that set a dramatic new state of the art in image restoration from bursts of badly corrupted pictures.

Bio:

Dr. Miika Aittala is currently a Postdoctoral Associate with Professor Frédo Durand at MIT CSAIL. Prior to this, he completed his PhD thesis with Professors Jaakko Lehtinen and Lauri Savioja at Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland.

Dr. Aittala’s thesis, defended in October 2016, has received numerous awards: four Finnish awards from Aalto University, The Finnish Society for Computer Science, and Academic Engineers and Arhitects (TEK). On April 16 2018 he received the  Eurographics society’s prestigious doctoral thesis award in the annual EUROGRAPHICS conference in Amsterdam.