President of the EPFL WISH Foundation, since 2014. Founding Member and Member of the Board since 2006.
Committee member of the GI-Dissertationspreis (Best CS thesis from DE, AU, and CH), since 2011.
Technology and Knowledge Transfer Activities
Largo, a spin-off company from IVRL, provides a distribution platform for short films (2017).
Darix, a spin-off company from IVRL, offers augmented vision solutions for critical applications (2017).
EyeEm acquired our spin-off sight.io that provided image rankings based on computational aesthetics (2014).
Croppola is an on-line tool to intelligently crop and recompose photos (2012).
IVRL participated with an interactive module at “The Digital Revolution” exhibit, shown at the Swiss Camera Museum in Vevey, April 23, 2010 – December 2016.
IVRL participated with several interactive modules, especially The Flux, at the We are all Photographers Now! exhibit shown at Lausanne’s photography museum, the Musée de l’Élysee, February 8th – May 20th, 2007 and the New York Photo Festival, May 13-17, 2009.
Honors and Awards
IEEE Fellow (2017) for contributions to computational imaging, color image processing, and color computer vision.
IS&T Fellow (2014) for outstanding contributions and research leadership in the fields of photography, image processing, and computer vision.