Image and Visual Representation Lab

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The Image and Visual Representation Lab (IVRL) performs research that is primarily focused on the capture, analysis, and reproduction of color images. Aiming to improve everyone’s photographic experience, we develop algorithms and systems that help us understand, process, and measure images.

Our research areas are computational photography, color image processing, computer vision, and image quality.

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Talk by Zhuoqian Yang at University of St. Gallen

— Zhuoqian Yang gave an online talk at the AI:ML group led by Prof. Damian Borth at the University of St. Gallen on February 6th.

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Congratulations to Dr. Yufan Ren!

— Yufan Ren received his PhD degree after his thesis defense on 12.11.2025.

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Congratulations to Dr. Dongqing Wang!

— Dongqing Wang received her PhD degree after her thesis defense on 05.09.2025.

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Best Poster Award at BMVC 2025

— Our team received the Best Poster Award at BMVC 2025 for the paper "Volumetric Temporal Texture Synthesis for Smoke Stylization using Neural Cellular Automata". 

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Sabine Süsstrunk wins UK Royal Photographic Society Award

— IC Dean and Director of the Imaging and Visual Representation Laboratory has been recognized with the 2025 Royal Photographic Society Award for Imaging Science.

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Deepfake Booth at AI for Good and EHF 2025

— Dr. Quentin Bammey presented the Deepfake Booth at the AI for Good summit and the European Humanitarian Forum (EHF).

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Join us for a Reproducible Research Session at Gretsi 2025!

— Dr. Quentin Bammey will be present at Gretsi 2025 for a special session on reproducible research. 

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Congratulations to Dr. Ehsan Pajouheshgar!

— Ehsan Pajouheshgar received his PhD degree after his thesis defense on 01.07.2025.

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Sabine Süsstrunk appointed new IC School dean

— Head of the Images and Visual Representation Laboratory, Professor Süsstrunk will take the helm of the School of Computer and Communication Sciences in September.

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Staking out a path to trustworthy AI

— Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) suffers from several types of biases that reflect human failings. How can we avoid being tricked?

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