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Digital Camera Signal Processing — History, Recent Advances, Challenges, and Opportunities
August 20 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Farhan Baqai
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. More details can be found on his LinkedIn page: https://www.linkedin.com/in/farhanbaqai/.