Pradeep Sen


Professor
UCSB MIRAGE Lab
Director of UCSB Gaucho Game Lab
Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9560
psen at ece ucsb edu

Ph.D., Stanford University, 2006
M.S., Stanford University, 1998
B.S., Purdue University, 1996

office: Harold Frank Hall 5117 telephone: 805-893-4265 fax: 805-893-3262 email: psen at ece ucsb edu availability: my calendar is here


Welcome to my homepage! I run the UCSB MIRAGE Lab to research in computer graphics, imaging, visualization, and computer vision. I'm also the Director of the new UCSB Gaucho Game Lab, the video game development program at UC Santa Barbara. I graduated with a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Graphics Lab at Stanford University, where my adviser was Pat Hanrahan.

Professional Bio

Pradeep Sen is a Professor in the UCSB MIRAGE Lab in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He attended Purdue University from 1992 - 1996, where he graduated with a B.S. in Computer and Electrical Engineering. He then attended Stanford University where he received his M.S. in Electrical Engineering in 1998 in the area of electron-beam lithography. In 2000, he joined the Stanford Graphics Lab where he did research on real-time rendering and computational photography. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in June 2006, advised by Dr. Pat Hanrahan. His research interests include algorithms for image synthesis, computational image processing, and computational photography, and he is a co-author of over 50 technical publications, including more than ten SIGGRAPH/SIGGRAPH Asia/ToG publications. Dr. Sen has been awarded more than $2.2 million in research funding, including an NSF CAREER award in 2009.

Personal Bio

Pradeep Sen was born in a small petroleum town in Northern Mexico and moved to Mexico City (Mexico D.F.) with his family when he was a young boy. He was raised in Mexico City until his family immigrated to the United States and settled in South Bend, IN. A proud Mexican-American, Dr. Sen is passionate about DEI and is involved in various activities on campus. He currently lives in Goleta, CA with his wife and two children.

Selected Awards/Honors

Research Interests

My research interests are in the area of rendering/image synthesis and computational image processing. I study novel rendering algorithms to accelerate global illumination, as well as image-based techniques for capturing light transport. I am also interested in real-time rendering and graphics hardware. On the computational image processing side, I am interested in novel imaging architectures as well as new ways to combine processing and acquisition to capture new kinds of imagery.

Current Students

At UCSB, I have the pleasure of working with many great graduate students:

I am also looking for a several more Ph.D. students who are interested in computer graphics, computer vision and image processing. If you want to work in these areas of research, applications can be found here.

Former Students

Over the years, I have had the pleasure of working with some truly remarkable students. Here is a list of students who have graduated under my supervision:

Former Ph.D. Students (main advisor):

Dr. Soheil Darabi, Ph.D. August 2012 (currently Senior Computer Scientist at Adobe)
Dr. Nima Khademi Kalantari, Ph.D. December 2015 (currently Assistant Professor, Dept. of Computer Science, Texas A&M)

Former Ph.D. Students advised (thesis committee):

Former Masters Students:

Research Funding

Current grants:

Previous grants: Total amount awarded as PI or Co-PI: $1,627,810 ($1,192,733 as lead PI)

Teaching

Here are some of the courses I have taught, along with their semester/quarter (sorted in descending order by the number of times taught):

ACM SIGGRAPH/SIGGRAPH Asia/Transactions on Graphics Publications

The ACM SIGGRAPH and SIGGRAPH Asia conferences, along with the associated ACM Transactions on Graphics journal are the top venues for publishing technical research in computer graphics.
Scalable Laplacian Eigenfluids
Qiaodong Cui, Pradeep Sen, Theodore Kim
ACM Transactions on Graphics, Vol. 37, No. 4, July 2018, (Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH 2018) [pre-print] [project page]
Computational Zoom: A Framework for Post-Capture Image Composition
Abhishek Badki, Orazio Gallo, Jan Kautz, Pradeep Sen
ACM Transactions on Graphics, Vol. 36, No. 4, July 2017, (Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH 2017) [pre-print] [project page]
Kernel-Predicting Convolutional Networks for Denoising Monte Carlo Renderings
Steve Bako*, Thijs Vogels*, Brian McWilliams, Mark Meyer, Jan Novak, Alex Harvill, Pradeep Sen, Tony DeRose,
and Fabrice Rousselle (* joint first authors)
ACM Transactions on Graphics, Vol. 36, No. 4, July 2017, (Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH 2017) [pre-print] [lo-res pdf] [project page]
A Machine Learning Approach for Filtering Monte Carlo Noise
Nima Khademi Kalantari, Steve Bako, and Pradeep Sen
ACM Transactions on Graphics, Vol. 34, No. 4, July 2015, (Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH 2015) [pre-print] [lo-res pdf] [project page]
Patch-Based High Dynamic Range Video
Nima Khademi Kalantari, Eli Shechtman, Connelly Barnes, Soheil Darabi, Dan B Goldman, and Pradeep Sen
ACM Transactions on Graphics, Vol. 32, No. 6, November 2013, (Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2013) [pdf] [lo-res pdf] [bibtex] [project page]
Robust Patch-Based HDR Reconstruction of Dynamic Scenes
Pradeep Sen, Nima Khademi Kalantari, Maziar Yaesoubi, Soheil Darabi, Dan B Goldman, and Eli Shechtman
ACM Transactions on Graphics, Vol. 31, No. 6, November 2012, (Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2012) [pdf] [lo-res pdf] [bibtex] [project page]
Image Melding: Combining Inconsistent Images using Patch-Based Synthesis
Soheil Darabi, Eli Shechtman, Connelly Barnes, Dan B Goldman, and Pradeep Sen
ACM Transactions on Graphics, Vol. 31, No. 4, July 2012, (Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH 2012) [pdf] [bibtex] [project page]
On Filtering the Noise from the Random Parameters in Monte Carlo Rendering
Pradeep Sen and Soheil Darabi
ACM Transactions on Graphics, Vol. 31, No. 3, May 2012,(presented at ACM SIGGRAPH 2012) [pre-print] [lo-res pdf] [bibtex] [video] [tech report] [project page]
A Versatile HDR Video Production System
Michael D. Tocci, Chris Kiser, Nora Tocci, Pradeep Sen
ACM Transactions on Graphics, Vol. 30, No. 4, July 2011, (Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH 2011) [pdf] [bibtex] [video] [project page]
Dual Photography
Pradeep Sen, Billy Chen, Gaurav Garg, Stephen Marschner, Mark Horowitz, Marc Levoy, Hendrik Lensch
ACM Transactions on Graphics, Vol. 24, No. 3, July 2005, (Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH 2005) [pdf] [bibtex]
Shadow Silhouette Maps
Pradeep Sen, Mike Cammarano, Pat Hanrahan
ACM Transactions on Graphics, Vol. 22, No. 3, July 2003, (Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH 2003) [pdf] [bibtex]

Selected Journal Publications

A Framework for Developing and Benchmarking Sampling and Denoising Algorithms for Monte Carlo Rendering
Jonas Deyson dos Santos, Pradeep Sen, Manuel Oliveira
The Visual Computer, Vol. 34, No. 6-8, June 2018, [pre-print] [project page]
User-Perspective AR Magic Lens from Gradient-Based IBR and Semi-Dense Stereo
Domagoj Baričević, Tobias Höllerer, Pradeep Sen, Matthew Turk
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 23, No. 7, July 2017, [pre-print]
A Phase-Based Approach for Animating Images using Video Examples
Ekta Prashnani, Maneli Noorkami, Daniel Vaquero, Pradeep Sen
Computer Graphics Forum, Vol. 36, No. 6, Sept. 2017, [pre-print] [video]
Practical High Dynamic Range Imaging for Everyday Scenes: Photographing the world as
we see it with our own eyes

Pradeep Sen and Cecilia Aguerrebere
IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Vol. 33, No. 5, Sept. 2016, [pre-print]
A Surface Approximation Method for Image and Video Correspondences
Jingwei Huang, Bin Wang, Wenping Wang, Pradeep Sen
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Vol. 24, No. 12, Dec. 2015, [pre-print] [bibtex]
Recent Advances in Adaptive Sampling and Reconstruction for Monte Carlo Rendering
Matthias Zwicker, Wojciech Jarosz, Jaako Lehtinen, Bochang Moon, Ravi Ramamoorthi, Fabrice Rousselle, Pradeep Sen, Cyril Soler, and Sung-Eui Yoon
Computer Graphics Forum, Vol. 34, No. 2, May 2015, (State of the Art Report - Proceedings of Eurographics 2015) [pre-print]
Dynamic Infrared Imaging for Skin Cancer Screening
Sebastian Godoy, D. Ramirez, S. Myers, G. von Winckel, S. Krishna, M. Berwick, R. Padilla, Pradeep Sen, Sanjay Krishna
Infrared Physics & Technology, Vol. 70, No. 12, May 2015, [pre-print]
Removing the Noise in Monte Carlo Rendering with General Image Denoising Algorithms
Nima Khademi Kalantari and Pradeep Sen
Computer Graphics Forum, Vol. 32, No. 2, May 2013, (Proceedings of Eurographics 2013) [pre-print] [bibtex] [project page]
Fast Generation of Approximate Blue Noise Point Sets
Nima Khademi Kalantari and Pradeep Sen
Computer Graphics Forum, Vol. 31, No. 4, June 2012, (Proceedings of the Eurographics Symposium on Rendering (EGSR) 2012) [pdf] [bibtex]
Compressive Rendering of Multidimensional Scenes
Pradeep Sen, Soheil Darabi, Lei Xiao
to appear in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, "Video Processing and Computational Video," Eds: D. Cremers, M. Magnor, M. Oswald, L. Zelnik-Manor. Springer. [pdf] [bibtex]
Efficient Computation of Blue Noise Point Sets through Importance Sampling
Nima Khademi Kalantari and Pradeep Sen
Computer Graphics Forum, Vol. 30, No. 4, June 2011, (Proceedings of the Eurographics Symposium on Rendering (EGSR) 2011) [pdf] [bibtex]
Compressive Rendering: A Rendering Application of Compressed Sensing
Pradeep Sen and Soheil Darabi
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 17, No. 4, April 2011, [pdf] [bibtex]
Compressive Estimation for Signal Integration in Rendering
Pradeep Sen and Soheil Darabi
Computer Graphics Forum, Vol. 29, No. 4, June 2010, (Proceedings of the Eurographics Symposium on Rendering (EGSR) 2010) [pdf] [bibtex] [video]
Compressive Dual Photography
Pradeep Sen and Soheil Darabi
Computer Graphics Forum, Vol. 28, No. 2, March 2009, (Proceedings of Eurographics 2009) [pdf] [bibtex]
iStar: A Raster Representation for Scalable Image and Volume Data
Joe Kniss, Warrent Hunt, Kristin Potter, Pradeep Sen
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 13, No. 6, Nov/Dec 2007, (Proceedings of IEEE Vis 2007) [pdf] [bibtex]

Selected Peer-Reviewed Conference Publications

PieAPP: Perceptual Image-Error Assessment through Pairwise Preference
Ekta Prashnani*, Herbert Cai*, Yasamin Mostofi, Pradeep Sen (* joint first authors)
Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Salt Lake City, Utah, June 2018 [pre-print] [project page]
Overview of State-of-the-Art Algorithms for Stack-Based High-Dynamic Range (HDR) Imaging
Pradeep Sen
Proceedings of IS&T Electronic Imaging Symposium: Photography, Mobile, and Immersive Imaging, Burlingame, California, January 2018 [pre-print]
Invited Paper
PanoTrace: Interactive 3D Modeling of Surround-View Panoramic Images in Virtual Reality
Ehsan Sayyad, Pradeep Sen, Tobias Höllerer
Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST), Gothenburg, Sweden, Nov. 2017 [pdf]
GraphMatch: Efficient Large-Scale Graph Construction for Structure from Motion
Qiaodong Cui, Victor Fragoso, Chris Sweeney, Pradeep Sen
Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on 3D Vision (3DV), Quingdao, China, Oct. 2017 [pdf]
Oral
ANSAC: Adaptive Non-Minimal Sample and Consensus
Victor Fragoso, Chris Sweeney,Pradeep Sen, Matthew Turk
British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), London, England, Sept. 2017 [pdf]
Removing Shadows from Images of Documents
Steve Bako, Soheil Darabi, Eli Shechtman, Jue Wang, Kalyan Sunkavalli, Pradeep Sen
Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV), Taipei, Taiwan, Nov. 2016 [pdf]
Compressing Fluid Subspaces
Aaron Demby Jones, Pradeep Sen, Theodore Kim
Proceedings of Eurographics/ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA), Zurich, Switzerland, July 2016 [pdf] [paper page]
Best Paper Award
Decoupled Coverage Anti-Aliasing
Yuxiang Wang, Chris Wyman, Yong He, Pradeep Sen
Proceedings of High performance Graphics (HPG), Los Angeles, California, July 2015 [pdf]
Best Paper Finalist
Robust Radiometric Calibration for Dynamic Scenes in the Wild
Abhishek Badki, Nimka Khademi Kalantari, Pradeep Sen
Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Photography (ICCP), Houston, Texas, April 2015 [pdf] [paper page]
User-Perspective Augmented Reality Magic Lens from Gradients
Domagoj Baričević, Tobias Höllerer, Pradeep Sen, Matthew Turk
Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST), Edinburgh, Scotland, Nov. 2014 [pdf]
Improving Patch-Based Synthesis by Learning Patch Masks
Nimka Khademi Kalantari, Eli Shechtman, Soheil Darabi, Dan Goldman, Pradeep Sen
Proceedings of International Conference on Computational Photography (ICCP), Santa Clara, California, May 2014 [pdf] [supp. mat.] [paper page]
Efficient and Robust Radiance Transfer for Probeless Photorealistic Augmented Reality
Lukas Gruber, Tobias Langlotz, Pradeep Sen, Tobias Höllerer, Dieter Shmalstieg
Proceedings of IEEE VR 2014, Short Papers, Minneapolis, Minnesota, March 2014 [pdf]
EVSAC: Accelerating Hypotheses Generation by Modeling Matching Scores with Extreme Value Theory
Victor Fragoso, Pradeep Sen, Sergio Rodriguez, and Matthew Turk
Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Sydney, Australia, December 2013 [pdf] [bibtex]
Acceleration Methods for Radiance Transfer in Photorealistic Augmented Reality
Lukas Gruber, Pradeep Sen, Tobias Höllerer, Dieter Schmalstieg
Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR), Posters, Adelaide, Australia, October 2013 [pdf]
Compressed Sensing for Aperture Synthesis Imaging
Stephan Wenger, Soheil Darabi, Pradeep Sen, Karl-Heinz Glaßmeier, and Marcus Magnor
Proceedings of the International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Hong Kong, China, September 2010 [pdf] [bibtex]
Progress in Rendering and Modeling for Digital Planetariums
Marcus Magnor, Pradeep Sen, Joe Kniss, Edward Angel, and Stephan Wenger
Proceedings of Eurographics 2010, Area Papers, Norrköping, Sweden, May 2010 [pdf] [bibtex]
A Novel Framework for Imaging Using Compressed Sensing
Pradeep Sen and Soheil Darabi
Proceedings of the International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Cairo, Egypt, November 2009 [pdf] [bibtex]
Compressive Image Super-resolution
Pradeep Sen and Soheil Darabi
Proceedings of the Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove, California, November 2009 [pdf] [bibtex]
Compressive Cooperative Sensing and Mapping in Mobile Networks
Yasamin Mostofi and Pradeep Sen
Proceedings of the American Control Conference (ACC), St. Louis, Missouri, June 2009 [pdf] [bibtex]
Accelerating Active Contour Algorithms with the Gradient Diffusion Field
Chris Kiser, Chris Musial, Pradeep Sen
Proceedings of International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), Tampa, Florida, December 2008 [pdf]
Compressed Mapping of Communication Signal Strength
Yasamin Mostofi and Pradeep Sen
Proceedings of MILCOM, San Diego, California, November 2008 [pdf] [bibtex]
Video Carving
Billy Chen, Pradeep Sen
Proceedings of Eurographics 2008, Short Papers, Crete, Greece, April 2008 [pdf]
2½D Texture Mapping: real-time perceptual surface roughening
Sylvia Pont, Pradeep Sen, Pat Hanrahan
Proceedings of the 4th Symposium on Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualization, Tubingen, Germany, July 2007 [pdf] [bibtex]
Silhouette Maps for Improved Texture Magnification
Pradeep Sen
Proceedings of Eurographics Graphics Hardware, Grenoble, France, August 2004 [pdf] [bibtex]
Best Paper Award
Efficient Partitioning of Fragment Shaders for Multipass Rendering on Programmable Graphics Hardware
Eric Chan, Ren Ng, Pradeep Sen, Kekoa Proudfoot, and Pat Hanrahan
Proceedings of Eurographics Graphics Hardware, Saarbrucken, Germany, September 2002 [pdf] [bibtex]
Best Paper Award

Book Chapters/Course Notes/Technical Reports

Stack-Based Approaches to HDR Capture and Reconstruction
Orazio Gallo, Pradeep Sen
High Dynamic Range Video: Acquisition, Display, and Applications, Eds.: F. Dufaux, P. Le Callet, R. Mantiuk, M. Mrak, Chapter 3, pp. 85 - 119, Academic Press, 2016 [pdf]
Denoising Your Monte Carlo Renders: Recent Advances in Image-Space Adaptive Sampling and Reconstruction
Pradeep Sen, Matthias Zwicker, Fabrice Rousselle, Sung-Eui Yoon, Nima Khademi Kalantari
ACM SIGGRAPH 2015 Courses, Article No. 11, July 2015 [pdf]
On the Relationship Between Dual Photography and Classical Ghost Imaging
Pradeep Sen
arXiv:1309.3007, September 2013. [pdf]

Traditional Media Coverage of Research and Educational Program

Here is a list of some of the traditional media coverage of both my research and educational programs.

Online Media Coverage of Research and Educational Program

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