Frédo Durand
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| Nationality | American |
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| Alma mater | Grenoble University |
| Occupation | Professor |
Frédo Durand is a professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT),[1] and a member of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), where he helps lead its Computer Graphics Group.[2][3]
He works on both computer graphics and computer vision, spanning topics such as computational photography,[4] differentiable rendering, compilers for high-performance imaging, and video magnification. Several of his projects focus on trying to reveal visual signals that are otherwise imperceptible to the human eye. With MIT colleagues he developed a "motion microphone" device that can take silent video of an object and magnify the minute visual vibrations to recreate the sounds present in the room.[5] He also helped develop a system that can look at short video clips of people sitting still and visual magnify their movement and skin-color changes such that he could measure people’s heart-rates,[6] enabling new applications for remote health monitoring.
Another project of his uses video of shadows on the floor to be able to detect things hidden around the corner,[7] an insight that could help self-driving cars be able to observe objects in their blind spots. His team’s "Interactive Dynamic Video" system lets them test how an object would respond to different kinds of touch based only on a short video clip of it.[8] Durand has also created several influential tools for computer graphics. With Saman Amarasinghe and Jonathan Ragan-Kelley he invented a domain-specific language (DSL) called Halide that's used for image processing. Their research showed that Halide offers major speed and performance gains over hand-engineered code.[9]
Durand received his PhD from Grenoble University, France, in 1999, supervised by Claude Puech[10] and George Drettakis.
He co-organized the first Symposium on Computational Photography and Video in 2005,[11] and the first International Conference on Computational Photography in 2009.[12] Durand received the Eurographics Young Researcher Award in 2004, an NSF CAREER award in 2005, the Microsoft Research New Faculty Fellowship in 2005, a Sloan fellowship in 2006, a Spira award for distinguished teaching in 2007, and the ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award in 2016.[13]
References
- ↑ Eisenberg, Anne (18 December 2010). "What's Just Around the Bend? Soon, a Camera May Show You". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2 March 2023.
- ↑ "Frédo Durand". MIT Computer Graphics Group. Retrieved 2 March 2023.
- ↑ "MIT Schwarzman College of Computing announces first named professorships". MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 20 July 2020. Retrieved 3 March 2023.
- ↑ Lengyel, Eric (2010). "15.4 Tone-Mapping the Light". Game Engine Gems, Volume One. Jones & Bartlett Learning. ISBN 9781449657932.
- ↑ Davis, Abe; Rubinstein, Michael; Wadhwa, Neal; Mysore, Gautham; Durand, Frédo; Freeman, William T. "The Visual Microphone: Passive Recovery of Sound from Video". Retrieved 1 March 2023.
- ↑ Wu, Hao-Yu; Rubinstein, Michael; Shih, Eugene; Guttag, John; Durand, Frédo; Freeman, William (2012). "Eulerian video magnification for revealing subtle changes in the world". ACM Transactions on Graphics. 31 (4): 1–8. doi:10.1145/2185520.2185561. Retrieved 1 March 2023.
- ↑ Vincent, James (9 October 2017). "Your smartphone can help you spy around corners from afar". The Verge. Retrieved 1 March 2023.
- ↑ Newcomb, Alyssa (2 August 2016). "Want More Life in Your Pokemon? Now They Can React in the Real World". NBC News. Retrieved 1 March 2023.
- ↑ Ragan-Kelly, Jonathan; Adams, Andrew; Paris, Sylvian; Levoy, Marc; Amarasinghe, Saman; Durand, Frédo. "Decoupling Algorithms from Schedules for Easy Optimization of Image Processing Pipelines". Retrieved 1 March 2023.
- ↑ Dershowitz, Nachum, ed. (2003). "Pæan to Zohar Manna". Verification: Theory and Practice. Berlin: Springer-Verlag. p. 7. ISBN 978-3-540-39910-0. OCLC 619662758.
- ↑ "Symposium on Computational Photography and Video". Retrieved 1 March 2023.
- ↑ "iccp 09".
- ↑ "ACM SIGGRAPH Awards". 19 September 2015. Retrieved 1 March 2023.
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