Felix Heide, Ph.D.

Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer

Felix earned his Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia, studying computational imaging with Professor Wolfgang Heidrich, and concluded his postdoc research at Stanford University, working with Gordon Wetzstein. Additionally, Felix is a professor at Princeton University.

Most of his research work lies at the intersection of Computer Vision, Optimization, Machine Learning, Optics, and Physics.

Felix is the recipient of the AutoSens 2020 Young Engineer of the Year Award, Sensors Expo 2018 Rising Star award, ACM SIGGRAPH 2017 Doctoral Dissertation Award, and the Alain Fournier 2016 Award for Best Doctoral Dissertation in Computer Graphics.

Publications

Differentiable Compound Optics and Processing Pipeline Optimization for End-to-end Camera Design
08-09-2021 SIGGRAPH
Low-Cost SPAD Sensing for Non-Line-Of-Sight Tracking, Material Classification and Depth Imaging
08-09-2021 SIGGRAPH
Dirty Pixels: Towards End-to-End Image Processing and Perception
08-09-2021 SIGGRAPH
Thallo – Scheduling for High-Performance Large-scale Non-linear Least-Squares Solvers (SIGGRAPH 2021)
08-09-2021 SIGGRAPH
ZeroScatter: Domain Transfer for Long Distance Imaging and Vision through Scattering Media (CVPR 2021)
07-06-2021 CVPR
Neural Auto Exposure for High-Dynamic Range Object Detection (CVPR 2021)
07-06-2021 CVPR
Seeing Around Street Corners: Non-Line-of-Sight Detection (NLOS) and Tracking In-the-Wild Using Doppler Radar (CVPR 2020)
07-06-2021 CVPR
Seeing Through Fog Without Seeing Fog: Deep Multimodal Sensor Fusion in Unseen Adverse Weather (CVPR 2020)
07-06-2021 CVPR
Gated2Depth: Real-time Dense Lidar from Gated Images (ICCV 2019)
07-05-2021 ICCV

Meet our team

Sophie Laval

Head of Talent

Allan Benchetrit, MBA

President & CEO

Matthias Schulze

VP Europe & Asia

Paul Boucher, Ph.D.

VP Engineering & Technical Operations

Domenic Durante, CPA, CA

Chief Financial Officer

Dave Tokic

VP Marketing & Strategic Partnerships