Gordon Wetzstein
Most Recent Affiliation(s):
- Stanford University, Bauhaus-University Weimar, MIT Media Lab, Research Scientist
Other Affiliation(s):
- MIT Media Lab
Bio:
SIGGRAPH 2020
Gordon Wetzstein is an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and, by courtesy, of Computer Science at Stanford University. His research has widespread applications in next- generation imaging, display, wearable computing, and microscopy systems. Prior to joining Stanford, he was a Research Scientist in the Camera Culture Group at MIT. He received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UBC. He is the recipient of an NSF CAREER Award, an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, an ACM SIGGRAPH Significant New Researcher Award, a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, an SPIE Early Career Achievement Award, and several other awards.
SIGGRAPH 2014
Gordon is a Research Scientist in the Camera Culture Group at the MIT Media Lab. His research focuses on computational imaging and display systems as well as computational light transport. His research has been funded by DARPA, NSF, Samsung, and other grants from industry sponsors and research councils. In 2006, Gordon graduated with Honors from the Bauhaus in Weimar, Germany, and he received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of British Columbia in 2011. His doctoral dissertation focuses on computational light modulation for image acquisition and display and won the Alain Fournier Ph.D. Dissertation Annual Award. He organized the IEEE 2012 and 2013 International Workshops on Computational Cameras and Displays, founded displayblocks.org as a forum for sharing computational display design instructions with the DIY community, and presented a number of courses on Computational Displays and Computational Photography at ACM SIGGRAPH. Gordon won the best paper award for ”Hand-Held Schlieren Photography with Light Field Probes” at ICCP 2011 and a Laval Virtual Award in 2005.
SIGGRAPH 2012
Gordon Wetzstein is a Postdoctoral Associate at the MIT Media Lab. His research interests include light field and high dynamic range displays, projector-camera systems, computational optics, computational photography, computer vision, computer graphics, and augmented reality. Gordon received a Diploma in Media System Science with Honors from the Bauhaus-University Weimar in 2006 and a Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of British Columbia in 2011. His doctoral dissertation focuses on computational light modulation for image acquisition and dis- play. He is co-chairing the first workshop on Computational Cameras and Displays at CVPR 2012, is serving in the general submissions committee at SIGGRAPH 2012, has served on the program committees of IEEE ProCams 2007 and IEEE ISMAR 2010, won a Laval Virtual Award in 2005 for his work on projector-camera systems, and a best paper award for “Hand- Held Schlieren Photography with Light Field Probes” at the International Conference on Computational Photography in 2011, introducing light field probes as computational displays for computer vision and fluid mechanics applications.
Learning Organizing Committee Chair:
Course Organizer:
- SIGGRAPH 2012, "Computational Displays"
- SIGGRAPH 2017, "Build Your Own VR Display: An Introduction to VR Display Systems for Hobbyists and Educators"
Award(s):
Experience(s):

Type: [E-Tech]
Autofocals: Gaze-Contingent Eyeglasses for Presbyopes
Organizer(s): [Padmanaban] [Konrad] [Wetzstein]
Entry No.: [03]
[SIGGRAPH 2018]

Type: [E-Tech]
Real-time Non-line-of-sight Imaging
Organizer(s): [O’Toole] [Lindell] [Wetzstein]
Entry No.: [15]
[SIGGRAPH 2018]

Type: [E-Tech]
Computational Focus-Tunable Near-eye Displays
Organizer(s): [Konrad] [Padmanaban] [Cooper] [Wetzstein]
Entry No.: [03]
[SIGGRAPH 2016]

Type: [E-Tech]
Doppler Time-of-Flight Imaging
Organizer(s): [Heide] [Wetzstein] [Hullin] [Heidrich]
Entry No.: [09]
[SIGGRAPH 2015]

Type: [E-Tech]
The Light Field Stereoscope
Organizer(s): [Huang] [Luebke] [Wetzstein]
Entry No.: [24]
[SIGGRAPH 2015]

Type: [E-Tech]
A Compressive Light Field Projection System
Organizer(s): [Hirsch] [Wetzstein] [Raskar]
Entry No.: [02]
[SIGGRAPH 2014]
Learning Presentation(s):
Type: []
Accommodation and comfort in head-mounted displays Presenter(s): [Wetzstein] [Bui] [Banks] [Drettakis]

Type: [Courses]
Advances in Neural Rendering Organizer(s): [Tewari]
Presenter(s): [Sitzmann] [Fried] [Thies] [Xu] [Tretschk] [Mildenhall] [Pandey] [Orts-Escolano] [Fanello] [Guo] [Wetzstein] [Zhu] [Theobalt] [Agrawala] [Zollhöfer]
Entry No.: [01]
[SIGGRAPH 2021]

Type: [Courses]
Deep Optics: Joint Design of Optics and Image Recovery Algorithms for Domain Specific Cameras Organizer(s): [Peng]
Presenter(s): [Veeraraghavan] [Heidrich] [Wetzstein]
Entry No.: [18]
[SIGGRAPH 2020]

Type: [Technical Papers]
Gaze-Contingent Ocular Parallax Rendering for Virtual Reality Presenter(s): [Konrad] [Angelopoulos] [Wetzstein]
[SIGGRAPH 2020]

Type: [Talks (Sketches)]
Autofocals: evaluating gaze-contingent eyeglasses for presbyopes Presenter(s): [Padmanaban] [Konrad] [Wetzstein]
Entry No.: [55]
[SIGGRAPH 2019]

Type: [Talks (Sketches)]
Gaze-Contingent Ocular Parallax Rendering for Virtual Reality Presenter(s): [Konrad] [Angelopoulos] [Wetzstein]
Entry No.: [56]
[SIGGRAPH 2019]

Type: [Technical Papers]
Wave-based non-line-of-sight imaging using fast f-k migration Presenter(s): [Lindell] [Wetzstein] [O’Toole]
[SIGGRAPH 2019]

Type: [Talks (Sketches)]
Confocal Non-Line-of-Sight Imaging Presenter(s): [O'Toole] [Lindell] [Wetzstein]
Entry No.: [01]
[SIGGRAPH 2018]

Type: [Technical Papers]
End-to-end optimization of optics and image processing for achromatic extended depth of field and super-resolution imaging Presenter(s): [Sitzmann] [Diamond] [Peng] [Dun] [Boyd] [Heidrich] [Heide] [Wetzstein]
Entry No.: [114]
[SIGGRAPH 2018]

Type: [Technical Papers]
Single-photon 3D imaging with deep sensor fusion Presenter(s): [Lindell] [O’Toole] [Wetzstein]
Entry No.: [113]
[SIGGRAPH 2018]

Type: [Technical Papers]
Accommodation-invariant computational near-eye displays Presenter(s): [Konrad] [Padmanaban] [Molner] [Cooper] [Wetzstein]
[SIGGRAPH 2017]

Type: [Courses]
Applications of Visual Perception to Virtual Reality Rendering Organizer(s): [Patney]
Presenter(s): [Kim] [Zannoli] [Koulieris] [Wetzstein] [Steinicke]
Entry No.: [01]
[SIGGRAPH 2017]
Type: [Technical Papers]
Movie editing and cognitive event segmentation in virtual reality video Presenter(s): [Serrano] [Sitzmann] [Ruiz-Borau] [Wetzstein] [Gutierrez] [Masia]
[SIGGRAPH 2017]

Type: [Talks (Sketches)]
Optimizing VR for all users through adaptive focus displays Presenter(s): [Padmanaban] [Konrad] [Cooper] [Wetzstein]
Entry No.: [77]
[SIGGRAPH 2017]

Type: [Technical Papers]
A compressive light field projection system Presenter(s): [Hirsch] [Wetzstein] [Raskar]
[SIGGRAPH 2014]

Type: [Courses]
Computational Cameras and Displays Organizer(s): [O’Toole]
Presenter(s): [O’Toole] [Wetzstein]
Entry No.: [09]
[SIGGRAPH 2014]

Type: [Technical Papers]
Eyeglasses-free display: towards correcting visual aberrations with computational light field displays Presenter(s): [Huang] [Wetzstein] [Barsky] [Raskar]
[SIGGRAPH 2014]

Type: [Technical Papers]
Focus 3D: Compressive Accommodation Display Presenter(s): [Maimone] [Wetzstein] [Hirsch] [Lanman] [Raskar] [Fuchs]
[SIGGRAPH 2014]
Learning Moderator Presentation(s):

Type: [Technical Papers]
Compressive epsilon photography for post-capture control in digital imaging Presenter(s): [Ito] [Tambe] [Mitra] [Sankaranarayanan] [Veeraraghavan]
[SIGGRAPH 2014]

Type: [Technical Papers]
Learning to be a depth camera for close-range human capture and interaction Presenter(s): [Fanello] [Keskin] [Izadi] [Kohli] [Shotton] [Criminisi] [Kim] [Sweeney] [Kang]
[SIGGRAPH 2014]

Type: [Technical Papers]
Pinlight displays: wide field of view augmented reality eyeglasses using defocused point light sources Presenter(s): [Maimone] [Lanman] [Rathinavel] [Keller] [Luebke] [Fuchs]
[SIGGRAPH 2014]
Role(s):
- Awardee
- Course Organizer
- Course Presenter
- Courses Organizing Committee Chair/Co-Chair
- Emerging Technologies Presenter
- Poster Presenter
- Talk (Sketch) Presenter
- Technical Paper Presenter