Wolfgang Heidrich is a German-Canadian computer scientist and Professor at the
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), for which he served as the director of Visual Computing Center[1] from 2014 to 2021. He was previously a professor at the
University of British Columbia (UBC), where he was a
Dolby Research Chair[2] (2008-2013). His research has combined methods from computer graphics, optics, machine vision, imaging, inverse methods, and perception to develop new
Computational Imaging and Display technologies. His more recent interest focuses on hardware-software co-design of the next generation of imaging systems, with applications such as high dynamic range (HDR) imaging,[3][4][5] compact computational cameras,[6][7] hyper-spectral cameras,[8][9] wavefront sensors,[10][11] to name just a few.
Heidrich is best known for his work in developing the
high dynamic range (HDR) imaging and displays, which served as the basis for the technology behind
Brightside Technologies,[12] which was acquired by
Dolby in 2007, and then later on (as part of the
Dolby vision) turned into one of the core technical solutions for commercial displays.[13][14]
In 2010, Heidrich, along with Erik Reinhard,
Paul Debevec, Sumanta Pattanaik, Greg Ward, and Karol Myszkowsk, published the book High Dynamic Range Imaging: Acquisition, Display, and Image-Based Lighting,[15] that later on became an essential resource for people working with images.[16]
Heidrich was presented AAIA[17] Fellow,
IEEE Fellow, and Eurographics [18] Fellow in 2022, 2021, and 2013, respectively. He is the recipient of the
ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award[19] (2023), the
Humboldt Research Award[20] (2014), the Charles A. McDowell Award for Excellence in Research[21] (2011), an NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement[22] (2010), and the
Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies Early Career Scholar Award (2002).
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