• (10/2023) Our SIGGRAPH course on ‘Computational Interferometric Imaging’ is featured in ACM SIGGRAPH Blog.
• (10/2023) Florian talks at the OPTICA Frontiers in Optics Health Symposium about Imaging through Scattering Media with Single-Shot SWH.
• (08/2023) Florian speaks at the OPTICA Imaging Congress about how to utilize Deflectometry for fast and accurate eye tracking.
• (08/2023) Alankar Kotwal, Florian, and Ioannis Gkioulekas present SIGGRAPH course on ‘Computational Interferometric Imaging’.
• (08/2023) Patrick, Jiazhang, and Manuel present their work at the OPTICA Imaging Congress in Boston.
• (07/2023) NEW COURSE offered by Florian in Fall ‘23.
  
• (06/2023) Jiwon, Jiazhang, Manuel, and Tianfu present their work at the annual conference of the German Optical Society (DGaO).
• (06/2023) Paper about Complex dielectric function of H-free a-Si films is published in Materials Letters
  
• (05/2023) Florian speaks at SPIE DCS Computational Imaging about Single-Shot Synthetic Wavelength Holography.
  
• (04/2023) Florian speaks at the OPTICA Biophotonics Congress about Synthetic Wavelength Imaging in medical applications.
  
• (04/2023) Paper about Whole-brain imaging of freely-moving zebrafish is published in Frontiers in Neuroscience.
• (02/2023) Paper about Thermal Spread Functions is accepted at CVPR’23.
• (01/2023) Florian’s TEDx talk from July ‘22 is online.
• (11/2022) Florian is selected as a winner of the Optica 20th Anniversary Challenge.
• (10/2022) Paper about Optical Characterization of Amorphous Films is featured as cover page story in Coatings!
• (09/2022) Florian gives talk at the University of Arizona OSC Colloquium.
• (08/2022) Florian joins the College of Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona.
• (07/2022) Florian speaks at the TEDx Event in Nuremberg, Germany
• (07/2022) Jiazhang and Manuel present at COSI.
• (07/2022) Recent paper is featured on cover page of Light: Advanced Manufacturing!.
• (07/2022) Paper accepted in Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids!.
• (04/2022) Florian gives invited talk at Northwestern’s Center for Robotics and Biosystems.
• (04/2022) Nature Communications paper on Synthetic Wavelength Holography is amongst 2021’s Top 25 Physics Articles.
• (03/2022) Florian receives NSF CRII grant for his proposal on sub-mm 3D scanning of real-world scenes with active multi-view event sensing.
• (03/2022) TV clip about our work on NLoS imaging and portrait about Florian was aired on German TV.
• (03/2022) Paper on Limits of Holographic and Non-Holographic Acquisition of Surface Topography to appear in Light: Advanced Manufacturing!
• (03/2022) Florian speaks at the UCLA & Caltech Grundfest Lecture Series in Computational Imaging.
• (01/2022) Multidisciplinary team led by Marc Walton receives NEH grant to modernize polarized light microscopy with machine learning for cultural heritage research.
• (11/2021) Nature Communications paper on Synthetic Wavelength Holography is featured in Northwestern Now Research, Optics.org, Newsweek, NSF.gov, Phys.org, and others.
• (10/2021) Paper on Synthetic Wavelength Holography accepted in Nature Communications!
  
• more in news archive>>

Synthetic Wavelength Imaging - Utilizing Spectral Correlations for High-Precision Time-of-Flight Sensing
F. Willomitzer
Computational Imaging for Scene Understanding - Transient, Spectral, and Polarimetric Analysis, T. Funatomi, T. Okabe, Eds., ISTE Sciences, 2024
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Fast Non-Line-of-Sight Imaging with High-Resolution and Wide Field of View using Synthetic Wavelength Holography
F. Willomitzer, P. Rangarajan, F. Li, M. Balaji, M. Christensen, O. Cossairt.
Nature Communications 12, 6647 (2021)
Single-shot synthetic wavelength imaging: Sub-mm precision ToF sensing with conventional CMOS sensors
M. Ballester, H. Wang, J. Li, O. Cossairt, F. Willomitzer (* joint first authors)
Optics and Lasers in Engineering 178, 2024

Event-based Motion-Robust Accurate Shape Estimation for Mixed Reflectance Scenes
A. Dashpute, J. Wang, J. Taylor, O. Cossairt, A. Veeraraghavan, F. Willomitzer
ArXiv Preprint, 2023

Accurate Eye Tracking from Dense 3D Surface Reconstructions using Single-Shot Deflectometry
J. Wang, T. Wang, B. Xu, O. Cossairt, F. Willomitzer.
ArXiv Preprint, 2023

Differentiable Deflectometric Eye Tracking
T. Wang, J. Wang, O. Cossairt, F. Willomitzer
IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging, 2024

Single-shot 3D motion picture camera with a dense point cloud
F. Willomitzer, G. Häusler.
Optics Express 25(19), 23451-23464, 2017

Reflections about the holographic and non-holographic acquisition of surface topography: where are the limits?
G. Häusler, F. Willomitzer
Light: Advanced Manufacturing 3(25), 2022

Exploiting Wavelength Diversity for High Resolution Time-of-Flight 3D Imaging
F. Li*, F. Willomitzer*, M. Balaji, P. Rangarajan, O. Cossairt (* joint first authors).
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2021
[Video (YouTube)]

Hand-Guided Qualitative Deflectometry with a Mobile Device
F. Willomitzer, C-K. Yeh, V. Gupta, W. Spies, F. Schiffers, A. Katsaggelos, M. Walton, O. Cossairt.
Optics Express 28(7), 9027-9038, 2020

SkinScan: Low-Cost 3D-Scanning for Dermatologic Diagnosis and Documentation
M. A. Nau, F. Schiffers, Y. Li, B. Xu, A. Maier, J. Tumblin, M. Walton, A. K. Katsaggelos, F. Willomitzer, O. Cossairt
2021 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2021

Intensity Interferometry-based 3D Imaging
F. Wagner, F. Schiffers, F. Willomitzer, O. Cossairt, A.Velten.
Optics Express 29(4), 4733-4745, 2021

Compressive Ghost Imaging through Scattering Media with Deep Learning
F. Li*, M. Zhao*, Z. Tian, F. Willomitzer, O. Cossairt (* joint first authors).
Optics Express 28(12), 17395-17408, 2020

Consequences of EEG electrode position error on ultimate beamformer source reconstruction performance
S. S. Dalal, S. Rampp, F. Willomitzer, S. Ettl.
Frontiers in Neuroscience, 8(42), 1-7, 2014

PhD Thesis: Single-Shot 3D Sensing Close to Physical Limits and Information Limits
F. Willomitzer.
Dissertation, University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Published as book in the series “Springer Theses” in 2019

Selection of recent talk recordings

See Short CV of Prof. Willomitzer>> for more videos of invited talks.
See also Publications>> and ‘Research’-section for recordings of contributed talks.

	F. Willomitzer A holographic camera that can see the unseen TEDx Nuremberg, Germany, July 2022 [Full Video]
	F. Willomitzer The Computational 3D Imaging and Measurement Lab - From Fast and Precise 3D Sensors to Looking Around Corners Industrial Affiliates Fall Meeting, University of Arizona, 2023 [Full Video]
	F. Willomitzer Single-shot synthetic wavelength holography: a flexible approach for high-resolution imaging through scattering media OPTICA Frontiers in Optics (FiO) Health Symposium, Tacoma, 2023 [Full Video]
	F. Willomitzer Utilizing deflectometric information for single-shot eye-tracking with high accuracy OPTICA Imaging Congress, 3D Image Acquisition and Display: Technology, Perception and Applications, Boston, 2023 [Full Video]
	F. Willomitzer Utilizing Nature’s Limits for Better Computational 3D Imaging Center For Robotics and Biosystems Seminar, Northwestern University, USA, 2022 [Full Video]

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Computational 3D Imaging and Measurement (3DIM) Lab
Meinel Building, Room 629
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