Peyman Milanfar — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Elected IEEE Fellow in 2010 for contributions to inverse problems and super-resolution in imaging.
Distinguished Scientist at Google since 2014, leading the Computational Imaging team.
Founder of MotionDSP, which was acquired by Cubic Inc.
Developed core imaging technologies for Google Pixel phones, including Super Res Zoom, RAISR, Unblur, and Zoom Enhance.
Pioneered research in adaptive kernel regression, Neural Image quality Assessment (NIMA), Regularization by Denoising (RED), and Inversion by Direct Iteration (InDI).
Holds more than two dozen patents in imaging, video, and computer vision.
Earned his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from MIT in 1993.

Biography

Peyman Milanfar is a Distinguished Scientist at Google, where he leads the Computational Imaging team. Since 2014, his team has developed several core imaging technologies used in Google products. These include the zoom pipeline for Pixel phones, featuring the multi-frame super-resolution (Super Res Zoom) pipeline, and state-of-the-art digital upscaling algorithms like RAISR.