The Intelligent Sensing Lab combines machine learning, statistical signal processing, and physics to see far beyond the limits of conventional cameras and sensors.
Recent Updates
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July 15, 2026:
The lab will host the 2027 IEEE International Conference on Computational Photography (ICCP 2027) at the University of Maryland.

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July 13, 2026:
The group attended the IEEE International Conference on Computational Photography (ICCP) 2026.

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July 1, 2026:
Chris was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in the UMD Department of Computer Science.
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June 15, 2026:
Levi Burner received an Intelligence Community (IC) Postdoctoral Research Fellowship.

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June 4, 2026:
LaVR: Scene Latent Conditioned Generative Video Trajectory Re-Rendering using Large 4D Reconstruction Models was presented at CVPR 2026.
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June 3, 2026:
Chris gave an invited talk at the CVPR 2026 Workshop on Computational Cameras and Displays (CCD).
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May 22, 2026:
Kevin Zhang graduated with his PhD and has joined Waabi. Congratulations, Kevin!

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May 1, 2026:
Guidestar-Free Adaptive Optics with Asymmetric Apertures was accepted to ACM Transactions on Graphics and will be presented at SIGGRAPH 2026.
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Press
- PetaPixel · June 2023 Scientists Can Now Reconstruct Rooms From Eye Reflections in Photos
- Science · June 2023 Neural wavefront shaping featured on the Science homepage
- Gizmodo · September 2021 A Single Laser Fired Through a Keyhole Can Expose Everything Inside a Room
- IEEE Spectrum · January 2020 Seeing Around Corners with Lasers—and Speckle (also covered by The Times and The Telegraph)