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Pradeep SenProfessor UCSB MIRAGE Lab Director of UCSB Gaucho Game Lab Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9560 psen at ece ucsb edu |
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Ph.D., Stanford University, 2006 |
office: Harold Frank Hall 5117 | telephone: 805-893-4265 | fax: 805-893-3262 | email: psen at ece ucsb edu | availability: my calendar is here |
Welcome to my homepage! I run the UCSB MIRAGE Lab to research in computer graphics, imaging, visualization, and computer vision. I'm also the Director of the new UCSB Gaucho Game Lab, the video game development program at UC Santa Barbara. I graduated with a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Graphics Lab at Stanford University, where my adviser was Pat Hanrahan.
Pradeep Sen is a Professor in the UCSB MIRAGE Lab in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He attended Purdue University from 1992 - 1996, where he graduated with a B.S. in Computer and Electrical Engineering. He then attended Stanford University where he received his M.S. in Electrical Engineering in 1998 in the area of electron-beam lithography. In 2000, he joined the Stanford Graphics Lab where he did research on real-time rendering and computational photography. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in June 2006, advised by Dr. Pat Hanrahan. His research interests include algorithms for image synthesis, computational image processing, and computational photography, and he is a co-author of over 50 technical publications, including more than ten SIGGRAPH/SIGGRAPH Asia/ToG publications. Dr. Sen has been awarded more than $2.2 million in research funding, including an NSF CAREER award in 2009.
Pradeep Sen was born in a small petroleum town in Northern Mexico and moved to Mexico City (Mexico D.F.) with his family when he was a young boy. He was raised in Mexico City until his family immigrated to the United States and settled in South Bend, IN. A proud Mexican-American, Dr. Sen is passionate about DEI and is involved in various activities on campus. He currently lives in Goleta, CA with his wife and two children.
My research interests are in the area of rendering/image synthesis and computational image processing. I study novel rendering algorithms to accelerate global illumination, as well as image-based techniques for capturing light transport. I am also interested in real-time rendering and graphics hardware. On the computational image processing side, I am interested in novel imaging architectures as well as new ways to combine processing and acquisition to capture new kinds of imagery.
At UCSB, I have the pleasure of working with many great graduate students:
Over the years, I have had the pleasure of working with some truly remarkable students. Here is a list of students who have graduated under my supervision:
Former Ph.D. Students (main advisor):
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Dr. Soheil Darabi, Ph.D. August 2012 (currently Senior Computer Scientist at Adobe) |
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Dr. Nima Khademi Kalantari, Ph.D. December 2015 (currently Assistant Professor, Dept. of Computer Science, Texas A&M) |
Former Ph.D. Students advised (thesis committee):
Current grants:
Here are some of the courses I have taught, along with their semester/quarter (sorted in descending order by the number of times taught):
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Scalable Laplacian Eigenfluids Qiaodong Cui, Pradeep Sen, Theodore Kim ACM Transactions on Graphics, Vol. 37, No. 4, July 2018, (Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH 2018) [pre-print] [project page] |
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Computational Zoom: A Framework for Post-Capture Image Composition Abhishek Badki, Orazio Gallo, Jan Kautz, Pradeep Sen ACM Transactions on Graphics, Vol. 36, No. 4, July 2017, (Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH 2017) [pre-print] [project page] |
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Kernel-Predicting Convolutional Networks for Denoising Monte Carlo Renderings Steve Bako*, Thijs Vogels*, Brian McWilliams, Mark Meyer, Jan Novak, Alex Harvill, Pradeep Sen, Tony DeRose, and Fabrice Rousselle (* joint first authors) ACM Transactions on Graphics, Vol. 36, No. 4, July 2017, (Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH 2017) [pre-print] [lo-res pdf] [project page] |
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A Machine Learning Approach for Filtering Monte Carlo Noise Nima Khademi Kalantari, Steve Bako, and Pradeep Sen ACM Transactions on Graphics, Vol. 34, No. 4, July 2015, (Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH 2015) [pre-print] [lo-res pdf] [project page] |
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Patch-Based High Dynamic Range Video Nima Khademi Kalantari, Eli Shechtman, Connelly Barnes, Soheil Darabi, Dan B Goldman, and Pradeep Sen ACM Transactions on Graphics, Vol. 32, No. 6, November 2013, (Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2013) [pdf] [lo-res pdf] [bibtex] [project page] |
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Robust Patch-Based HDR Reconstruction of Dynamic Scenes Pradeep Sen, Nima Khademi Kalantari, Maziar Yaesoubi, Soheil Darabi, Dan B Goldman, and Eli Shechtman ACM Transactions on Graphics, Vol. 31, No. 6, November 2012, (Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2012) [pdf] [lo-res pdf] [bibtex] [project page] |
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Image Melding: Combining Inconsistent Images using Patch-Based Synthesis Soheil Darabi, Eli Shechtman, Connelly Barnes, Dan B Goldman, and Pradeep Sen ACM Transactions on Graphics, Vol. 31, No. 4, July 2012, (Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH 2012) [pdf] [bibtex] [project page] |
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On Filtering the Noise from the Random Parameters in Monte Carlo Rendering Pradeep Sen and Soheil Darabi ACM Transactions on Graphics, Vol. 31, No. 3, May 2012,(presented at ACM SIGGRAPH 2012) [pre-print] [lo-res pdf] [bibtex] [video] [tech report] [project page] |
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A Versatile HDR Video Production System Michael D. Tocci, Chris Kiser, Nora Tocci, Pradeep Sen ACM Transactions on Graphics, Vol. 30, No. 4, July 2011, (Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH 2011) [pdf] [bibtex] [video] [project page] |
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Dual Photography Pradeep Sen, Billy Chen, Gaurav Garg, Stephen Marschner, Mark Horowitz, Marc Levoy, Hendrik Lensch ACM Transactions on Graphics, Vol. 24, No. 3, July 2005, (Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH 2005) [pdf] [bibtex] |
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Shadow Silhouette Maps Pradeep Sen, Mike Cammarano, Pat Hanrahan ACM Transactions on Graphics, Vol. 22, No. 3, July 2003, (Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH 2003) [pdf] [bibtex] |
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A Framework for Developing and Benchmarking Sampling and Denoising Algorithms for Monte Carlo Rendering Jonas Deyson dos Santos, Pradeep Sen, Manuel Oliveira The Visual Computer, Vol. 34, No. 6-8, June 2018, [pre-print] [project page] |
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User-Perspective AR Magic Lens from Gradient-Based IBR and Semi-Dense Stereo Domagoj Baričević, Tobias Höllerer, Pradeep Sen, Matthew Turk IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 23, No. 7, July 2017, [pre-print] |
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A Phase-Based Approach for Animating Images using Video Examples Ekta Prashnani, Maneli Noorkami, Daniel Vaquero, Pradeep Sen Computer Graphics Forum, Vol. 36, No. 6, Sept. 2017, [pre-print] [video] |
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Practical High Dynamic Range Imaging for Everyday Scenes: Photographing the world as we see it with our own eyes Pradeep Sen and Cecilia Aguerrebere IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Vol. 33, No. 5, Sept. 2016, [pre-print] |
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A Surface Approximation Method for Image and Video Correspondences Jingwei Huang, Bin Wang, Wenping Wang, Pradeep Sen IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Vol. 24, No. 12, Dec. 2015, [pre-print] [bibtex] |
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Recent Advances in Adaptive Sampling and Reconstruction for Monte Carlo Rendering Matthias Zwicker, Wojciech Jarosz, Jaako Lehtinen, Bochang Moon, Ravi Ramamoorthi, Fabrice Rousselle, Pradeep Sen, Cyril Soler, and Sung-Eui Yoon Computer Graphics Forum, Vol. 34, No. 2, May 2015, (State of the Art Report - Proceedings of Eurographics 2015) [pre-print] |
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Dynamic Infrared Imaging for Skin Cancer Screening Sebastian Godoy, D. Ramirez, S. Myers, G. von Winckel, S. Krishna, M. Berwick, R. Padilla, Pradeep Sen, Sanjay Krishna Infrared Physics & Technology, Vol. 70, No. 12, May 2015, [pre-print] |
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Removing the Noise in Monte Carlo Rendering with General Image Denoising Algorithms Nima Khademi Kalantari and Pradeep Sen Computer Graphics Forum, Vol. 32, No. 2, May 2013, (Proceedings of Eurographics 2013) [pre-print] [bibtex] [project page] |
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Fast Generation of Approximate Blue Noise Point Sets Nima Khademi Kalantari and Pradeep Sen Computer Graphics Forum, Vol. 31, No. 4, June 2012, (Proceedings of the Eurographics Symposium on Rendering (EGSR) 2012) [pdf] [bibtex] |
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Compressive Rendering of Multidimensional Scenes Pradeep Sen, Soheil Darabi, Lei Xiao to appear in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, "Video Processing and Computational Video," Eds: D. Cremers, M. Magnor, M. Oswald, L. Zelnik-Manor. Springer. [pdf] [bibtex] |
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Efficient Computation of Blue Noise Point Sets through Importance Sampling Nima Khademi Kalantari and Pradeep Sen Computer Graphics Forum, Vol. 30, No. 4, June 2011, (Proceedings of the Eurographics Symposium on Rendering (EGSR) 2011) [pdf] [bibtex] |
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Compressive Rendering: A Rendering Application of Compressed Sensing Pradeep Sen and Soheil Darabi IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 17, No. 4, April 2011, [pdf] [bibtex] |
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Compressive Estimation for Signal Integration in Rendering Pradeep Sen and Soheil Darabi Computer Graphics Forum, Vol. 29, No. 4, June 2010, (Proceedings of the Eurographics Symposium on Rendering (EGSR) 2010) [pdf] [bibtex] [video] |
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Compressive Dual Photography Pradeep Sen and Soheil Darabi Computer Graphics Forum, Vol. 28, No. 2, March 2009, (Proceedings of Eurographics 2009) [pdf] [bibtex] |
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iStar: A Raster Representation for Scalable Image and Volume Data Joe Kniss, Warrent Hunt, Kristin Potter, Pradeep Sen IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 13, No. 6, Nov/Dec 2007, (Proceedings of IEEE Vis 2007) [pdf] [bibtex] |
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PieAPP: Perceptual Image-Error Assessment through Pairwise Preference Ekta Prashnani*, Herbert Cai*, Yasamin Mostofi, Pradeep Sen (* joint first authors) Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Salt Lake City, Utah, June 2018 [pre-print] [project page] |
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Overview of State-of-the-Art Algorithms for Stack-Based High-Dynamic Range (HDR) Imaging Pradeep Sen Proceedings of IS&T Electronic Imaging Symposium: Photography, Mobile, and Immersive Imaging, Burlingame, California, January 2018 [pre-print] Invited Paper |
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PanoTrace: Interactive 3D Modeling of Surround-View Panoramic Images in Virtual Reality Ehsan Sayyad, Pradeep Sen, Tobias Höllerer Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST), Gothenburg, Sweden, Nov. 2017 [pdf] |
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GraphMatch: Efficient Large-Scale Graph Construction for Structure from Motion Qiaodong Cui, Victor Fragoso, Chris Sweeney, Pradeep Sen Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on 3D Vision (3DV), Quingdao, China, Oct. 2017 [pdf] Oral |
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ANSAC: Adaptive Non-Minimal Sample and Consensus Victor Fragoso, Chris Sweeney,Pradeep Sen, Matthew Turk British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), London, England, Sept. 2017 [pdf] |
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Removing Shadows from Images of Documents Steve Bako, Soheil Darabi, Eli Shechtman, Jue Wang, Kalyan Sunkavalli, Pradeep Sen Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV), Taipei, Taiwan, Nov. 2016 [pdf] |
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Compressing Fluid Subspaces Aaron Demby Jones, Pradeep Sen, Theodore Kim Proceedings of Eurographics/ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA), Zurich, Switzerland, July 2016 [pdf] [paper page] Best Paper Award |
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Decoupled Coverage Anti-Aliasing Yuxiang Wang, Chris Wyman, Yong He, Pradeep Sen Proceedings of High performance Graphics (HPG), Los Angeles, California, July 2015 [pdf] Best Paper Finalist |
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Robust Radiometric Calibration for Dynamic Scenes in the Wild Abhishek Badki, Nimka Khademi Kalantari, Pradeep Sen Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Photography (ICCP), Houston, Texas, April 2015 [pdf] [paper page] |
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User-Perspective Augmented Reality Magic Lens from Gradients Domagoj Baričević, Tobias Höllerer, Pradeep Sen, Matthew Turk Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST), Edinburgh, Scotland, Nov. 2014 [pdf] |
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Improving Patch-Based Synthesis by Learning Patch Masks Nimka Khademi Kalantari, Eli Shechtman, Soheil Darabi, Dan Goldman, Pradeep Sen Proceedings of International Conference on Computational Photography (ICCP), Santa Clara, California, May 2014 [pdf] [supp. mat.] [paper page] |
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Efficient and Robust Radiance Transfer for Probeless Photorealistic Augmented Reality Lukas Gruber, Tobias Langlotz, Pradeep Sen, Tobias Höllerer, Dieter Shmalstieg Proceedings of IEEE VR 2014, Short Papers, Minneapolis, Minnesota, March 2014 [pdf] |
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EVSAC: Accelerating Hypotheses Generation by Modeling Matching Scores with Extreme Value Theory Victor Fragoso, Pradeep Sen, Sergio Rodriguez, and Matthew Turk Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Sydney, Australia, December 2013 [pdf] [bibtex] |
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Acceleration Methods for Radiance Transfer in Photorealistic Augmented Reality Lukas Gruber, Pradeep Sen, Tobias Höllerer, Dieter Schmalstieg Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR), Posters, Adelaide, Australia, October 2013 [pdf] |
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Compressed Sensing for Aperture Synthesis Imaging Stephan Wenger, Soheil Darabi, Pradeep Sen, Karl-Heinz Glaßmeier, and Marcus Magnor Proceedings of the International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Hong Kong, China, September 2010 [pdf] [bibtex] |
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Progress in Rendering and Modeling for Digital Planetariums Marcus Magnor, Pradeep Sen, Joe Kniss, Edward Angel, and Stephan Wenger Proceedings of Eurographics 2010, Area Papers, Norrköping, Sweden, May 2010 [pdf] [bibtex] |
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A Novel Framework for Imaging Using Compressed Sensing Pradeep Sen and Soheil Darabi Proceedings of the International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Cairo, Egypt, November 2009 [pdf] [bibtex] |
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Compressive Image Super-resolution Pradeep Sen and Soheil Darabi Proceedings of the Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove, California, November 2009 [pdf] [bibtex] |
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Compressive Cooperative Sensing and Mapping in Mobile Networks Yasamin Mostofi and Pradeep Sen Proceedings of the American Control Conference (ACC), St. Louis, Missouri, June 2009 [pdf] [bibtex] |
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Accelerating Active Contour Algorithms with the Gradient Diffusion Field Chris Kiser, Chris Musial, Pradeep Sen Proceedings of International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), Tampa, Florida, December 2008 [pdf] |
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Compressed Mapping of Communication Signal Strength Yasamin Mostofi and Pradeep Sen Proceedings of MILCOM, San Diego, California, November 2008 [pdf] [bibtex] |
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Video Carving Billy Chen, Pradeep Sen Proceedings of Eurographics 2008, Short Papers, Crete, Greece, April 2008 [pdf] |
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2½D Texture Mapping: real-time perceptual surface roughening Sylvia Pont, Pradeep Sen, Pat Hanrahan Proceedings of the 4th Symposium on Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualization, Tubingen, Germany, July 2007 [pdf] [bibtex] |
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Silhouette Maps for Improved Texture Magnification Pradeep Sen Proceedings of Eurographics Graphics Hardware, Grenoble, France, August 2004 [pdf] [bibtex] Best Paper Award |
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Efficient Partitioning of Fragment Shaders for Multipass Rendering on Programmable Graphics Hardware Eric Chan, Ren Ng, Pradeep Sen, Kekoa Proudfoot, and Pat Hanrahan Proceedings of Eurographics Graphics Hardware, Saarbrucken, Germany, September 2002 [pdf] [bibtex] Best Paper Award |
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Stack-Based Approaches to HDR Capture and Reconstruction Orazio Gallo, Pradeep Sen High Dynamic Range Video: Acquisition, Display, and Applications, Eds.: F. Dufaux, P. Le Callet, R. Mantiuk, M. Mrak, Chapter 3, pp. 85 - 119, Academic Press, 2016 [pdf] |
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Denoising Your Monte Carlo Renders: Recent Advances in Image-Space Adaptive Sampling and Reconstruction Pradeep Sen, Matthias Zwicker, Fabrice Rousselle, Sung-Eui Yoon, Nima Khademi Kalantari ACM SIGGRAPH 2015 Courses, Article No. 11, July 2015 [pdf] |
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On the Relationship Between Dual Photography and Classical Ghost Imaging Pradeep Sen arXiv:1309.3007, September 2013. [pdf] |
Here is a list of some of the traditional media coverage of both my research and educational programs.
Here is a list of some of the online media coverage of both my research and educational programs.