Seminar Invitation: Ilya Chugunov (Adobe NextCam)

[Dekel Galor]

Hi Everyone,

UCB's Photobears is excited to invite you to an upcoming seminar featuring Dr. Ilya Chugunov, a Research Scientist working with the Nextcam team at Adobe on computational photography applications. 

[Add to Google Calendar]

Time: Monday November 17th, 12-1pm

Location: TBA (likely Soda 510)

Please [RSVP] by November 11th. Lunch will be provided.

Title: Neural Field Representations of Mobile Computational Photography

Abstract: Over the past two decades, mobile imaging has experienced a profound transformation, with cell phones rapidly eclipsing all other forms of digital photography in popularity. Today’s cell phones are equipped with a diverse range of imaging technologies – laser depth ranging, multifocal camera arrays, and split-pixel sensors alongside non-visual sensors such as gyroscopes, accelerometers, and magnetometers. This, combined with on-board integrated chips for image and signal processing, makes the cell phone a versatile pocket-sized computational imaging platform.

Parallel to this, we have seen in recent years how neural fields – small neural networks trained to map continuous spatial input coordinates to output signals – enable the reconstruction of complex scenes without explicit data representations such as pixel arrays or point clouds. In this thesis, I demonstrate how carefully designed neural field models can compactly represent complex geometry and lighting effects. Enabling applications such as depth estimation, layer separation, and image stitching directly from collected in-the-wild mobile photography data. These methods outperform state-of-the-art approaches without relying on complex pre-processing steps, labeled ground truth data, or machine learning priors. Instead, they leverage well constructed, self-regularized models that tackle challenging inverse problems through stochastic gradient descent, fitting directly to raw measurements from a smartphone.

Bio: Ilya is a Research Scientist working with the Nextcam team at Adobe on computational photography applications. He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University, where he was part of the Princeton Computational Imaging Lab advised by Professor Felix Heide, and was supported by an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Ilya earned his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from UC Berkeley.

We hope to see you there!

Best,

Dekel

Photobears is the optics student chapter for Optica (formerly OSA), IEEE Photonics Society, and SPIE organizations. We hold regular meetings as well as networking events and outreach activities that are open to anyone interested in or participating in optics related work/research across campus.

Website: photobears.berkeley.edu

Email: officers@photobears.berkeley.edu

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[Dekel Galor]

Hi Everyone,

Reminder that this is happening on Monday @ Soda 510!

Best,

Dekel

[Dekel Galor]

Hey just highlighting that we set up zoom https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/9789694657

apologies for late notice.

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Zoom link for today: https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/9789694657

On Sat, Nov 15, 2025 at 1:39 PM Dekel Galor <comp-i...@lists.eecs.berkeley.edu> wrote:

Hi Everyone,

Reminder that this is happening on Monday @ Soda 510!

Best,

Dekel

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Date: Wed, Oct 29, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Subject: Seminar Invitation: Ilya Chugunov (Adobe NextCam)
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Hi Everyone,

UCB's Photobears is excited to invite you to an upcoming seminar featuring Dr. Ilya Chugunov, a Research Scientist working with the Nextcam team at Adobe on computational photography applications. 

[Add to Google Calendar]

Time: Monday November 17th, 12-1pm

Location: TBA (likely Soda 510)

Please [RSVP] by November 11th. Lunch will be provided.

Title: Neural Field Representations of Mobile Computational Photography

Abstract: Over the past two decades, mobile imaging has experienced a profound transformation, with cell phones rapidly eclipsing all other forms of digital photography in popularity. Today’s cell phones are equipped with a diverse range of imaging technologies – laser depth ranging, multifocal camera arrays, and split-pixel sensors alongside non-visual sensors such as gyroscopes, accelerometers, and magnetometers. This, combined with on-board integrated chips for image and signal processing, makes the cell phone a versatile pocket-sized computational imaging platform.

Parallel to this, we have seen in recent years how neural fields – small neural networks trained to map continuous spatial input coordinates to output signals – enable the reconstruction of complex scenes without explicit data representations such as pixel arrays or point clouds. In this thesis, I demonstrate how carefully designed neural field models can compactly represent complex geometry and lighting effects. Enabling applications such as depth estimation, layer separation, and image stitching directly from collected in-the-wild mobile photography data. These methods outperform state-of-the-art approaches without relying on complex pre-processing steps, labeled ground truth data, or machine learning priors. Instead, they leverage well constructed, self-regularized models that tackle challenging inverse problems through stochastic gradient descent, fitting directly to raw measurements from a smartphone.

Bio: Ilya is a Research Scientist working with the Nextcam team at Adobe on computational photography applications. He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University, where he was part of the Princeton Computational Imaging Lab advised by Professor Felix Heide, and was supported by an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Ilya earned his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from UC Berkeley.

We hope to see you there!

Best,

Dekel

Photobears is the optics student chapter for Optica (formerly OSA), IEEE Photonics Society, and SPIE organizations. We hold regular meetings as well as networking events and outreach activities that are open to anyone interested in or participating in optics related work/research across campus.

Website: photobears.berkeley.edu

Email: officers@photobears.berkeley.edu

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[Dekel Galor]

Recording is now available https://drive.google.com/file/d/1d6ZtXfq22kh41kgBx9-vBjSq_opqqU2b/view?usp=sharing

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