The ILIM Laboratory at
the Robotics Institute is dedicated to the study of light transport and
the development of novel illumination and imaging technologies. The
laboratory is part of the broader imaging, computer vision and computer graphics
groups at Carnegie Mellon. Our research is motivated by applications in
the areas of digital imaging, computer vision, computer graphics and
robotics. Please visit the official website for the lab for detailed
information about research
projects and publications.
The sponsors for these research projects include the Office of Naval
Research (ONR), Defense
Advanced Projects Research Agency (DARPA), National Science
Foundation (NSF),
NASA, Department of Energy, Department of
Agriculture, Department of Transportation, Army Research Laboratory,
the Okawa
Foundation, IARPA, Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton (SCR), Samsung
Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT),
Adobe,
Ford, General Motors, Tonbo Imaging, Intel Science and
Technology Center in Embedded Computing (ISTC-EC),
Chemimage, Google, Meta, Heinz Foundation, National Wine and Grape
Industry, Zillow Group, SpreeAI and Highmark Disruptive Health Technologies Institute (DHTI).
NSF CNS-2038612, "CPS: TTP Option: Medium: Discovering and Resolving Anomalies in Smart Cities", [2020-2023]
NSF IIS-1900821, "RI: Medium: To Sense or Not to Sense: Energy Efficient Adaptive Sensing for Autonomous Systems", [2019-2022]
NSF EXPEDITIONS, "Computational Photo-Scatterography: Unraveling Scattered Photons for Bio-Imaging", [2018-2023]
Zillow Gift, "Physically Based Indoor Scene Understanding", [2020]
DARPA REVEAL Phase II, "Active Illumination and Imaging across Millisecond to Picosecond Time Scales for General LOS/NLOS Scene Understanding",[2018-2019]
Adobe Research Gift, "Dynamic 3D Reconstruction", [2017-2018]
ONR DURIP, "Building Energy Efficient Computational Illumination and Imaging Devices", [2016-2017]
DARPA REVEAL Phase I, "Energy efficient Computational Light Transport Parsing",[2016-2017]
Heinz Endowments,"Plattform Pittsburgh: Visual Tomography of Air Quality", [2016-2017]
NASA ESI,"Autonomous Navigation for Exploration on Icy Moons", [2016-2017]
Chemimage, "Scene understanding on a Vehicle with SWIR Multispectral Sensing", [2016-2017]
DHTI,"Technologies for Skin Imaging", [2015-2016]
NSF CNS-1446601, "CPS: Synergy: TTP Option: Anytime Visual Scene Understanding for Heterogeneous and Distributed Cyber-Physical Systems", [2014-2018]
ONR N00014-14-1-0595, "Data-driven Event Browsing from Multiple Mobile Cameras", [2014-2017]
NSF IIS-1317749, "NRI: Small: Robotic Scouts: Augmenting Human Perception for Underground Rescue", [2013-2016]
US DOT RITA University Transportation Center Grant, "Smart Headlights" and "Sensing for Dense Platooning", [2013-2016]
Tonbo Imaging Gift, "Long Range Imaging through Turbulence", [2013]
Ford University Research Program Gift, "Programmable Headlights", [2013-2014]
Intel Science and Technology Center in Embedded Computing,
"Embedded System Design for Smart Automobile Headlights",
[2011-2014]
Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, "Fast, Mobile and
Detailed Light Field Capture and Scene Reconstruction", [2011-2012]
ONR N00014-11-1-0295, "Principled Combination of Physical and Data-driven Approaches for Scene Understanding"
[2011-2013]
NSF IIS-0964562 , "Collaborative Research: Recognition of Materials"
[2010-2014]
Okawa Foundation Research Grant, "Convergence of Illumination
and Imaging for Scene Understanding"
[2009-2010]
ONR N00014-08-1-0330, "Photometric Methods for Scene Understanding"
[2008-2010]
US-Israel Binational Science Foundation, "Sensing Fusion for
Underwater Scene Recovery"[2007-2010]
NSF CAREER IIS-0643628, "Making Computer Vision Successful in
Scattering
Media",
[2007-2011]
ONR N00014-07-1-0522,
"IEEE/ONR Workshop on Volumetric Scattering in Vision and Graphics",
[2007-2007]
NSF CCF-0541307, "Collaborative Research: Fast and Accurate
Volumetric Rendering of Scattering Phenomena in Computer Graphics",
[2006-2008]
ONR DURIP N00014-06-1-0762,
"Instrumentation in Support of Flexible Imaging Systems and Imaging
in Dispersive Media",
[2006-2007]
ONR N00014-05-1-0188,
"A Physical Approach to Optical Underwater Imaging",
[2005-2007]