| Dec 03, 2024 | 📰 Our innovative research on computational displays and lensless cameras are presented at ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2024 in Tokyo, Japan. These works are collaborations with a series of academic and industrial partners including Chuanjun Zheng, Liang Shi, Ozan Cakmakci, Yicheng Zhan, Ziyang Chen, Mustafa Doğa Doğan, Josef Spjut, and Kaan Akşit. |
| Apr 22, 2024 | 📰 Our paper, Multi-color Holograms Improve Brightness in Holographic Displays, is awarded with Graphics Replicability Stamp Initiative’s replicability stamp. This work is a collaboration between Koray Kavaklı, Liang Shi, Hakan Urey, Wojciech Matusik, and Kaan Akşit. |
| Apr 22, 2024 | 📰 Our paper, All-optical image denoising using a diffractive visual processor, is recognized as the most downloaded paper in March 2024 by Nature’s Light and Science Applications. This work is a collaboration between Çağatay Işıl, Tianyi Gan, Fazil Onuralp, Koray Mentesoglu, Jagrit Digani, Huseyin Karaca, Hanlong Chen, Jingxi Li, Deniz Mengu, Mona Jarrahi, Kaan Akşit, and Aydogan Ozcan. |
| Feb 04, 2024 | 📰 Our paper, All-optical image denoising using a diffractive visual processor, is published at Light: Science & Applications. This work is a collaboration between Çağatay Işıl, Tianyi Gan, Fazil Onuralp, Koray Mentesoglu, Jagrit Digani, Huseyin Karaca, Hanlong Chen, Jingxi Li, Deniz Mengu, Mona Jarrahi, Kaan Akşit, and Aydogan Ozcan. |
| Jan 28, 2024 | 📰 Our paper, AutoColor: Learned Light Power Control for Multi-Color Holograms, is presented at SPIE AR|VR|MR 2024. This work is a collaboration between Yicheng Zhan, Koray Kavaklı, Hakan Urey, Qi Sun, and Kaan Akşit. |
| Dec 13, 2023 | 📰 Our paper, Multi-color Holograms Improve Brightness in Holographic Displays, is presented at SIGGRAPH Asia 2023. This work is a collaboration between Koray Kavaklı, Liang Shi, Hakan Urey, Wojciech Matusik, and Kaan Akşit. |
| Oct 13, 2023 | 🗣️ Kaan helped organizing Optical Waveguides: A key to Socially Acceptable Augmented Reality Glasses? as an Optica Incubator. Kaan also gave an invited talk titled Role of Differentiable Models in Computational Display Research at the same incubator event. |
| Oct 11, 2023 | 🗣️ Kaan attended and presented at Meta’s Academic forum 2023 upon Meta Reality Labs invitation. Kaan’s talk is titled Unlocking Next-Generation Display Technologies with Holography. |
| Oct 10, 2023 | 🗣️ Kaan helped organizing Virtual Reality and Augmented Vision theme at Optica’s Frontiers Optics. Kaan also gave an invited talk on his group’s work, Headsetless Holographic Virtual Reality Displays in the same theme. |
| Aug 16, 2023 | 🗣️ We are grateful to Optica for inviting our Ahmet Hamdi Güzel to present his work at the Vision and Color summer data blast webinar. Have you missed it? The recording is now online. |
| Jun 28, 2023 | 🗣️ Kaan presented an invited talk titled Could holographic displays be the key to achieving realism? at Stanford University. |
| Jun 01, 2023 | 📰 In her latest article, “The Promise of Holographic Displays,” Sandrine Ceurstemont gathered perspectives on the promise of holographic displays and provided some space for ours. |
| Apr 22, 2023 | 📰 Our paper, ChromaCorrect: Prescription Correction in Virtual Reality Headsets through Perceptual Guidance, is published at Optica’s Biomedical Optics Express. This work is a result of a collaboration with Ahmet H. Güzel, Jeanne Beyazian, Praneeth Chakravarthula, and Kaan Akşit. |
| Mar 28, 2023 | 📰 Our paper, HoloBeam: Paper-Thin Near-Eye Displays, is presented at IEEE VR 2023. This work is a collaboration between Yuta Itoh, and Kaan Akşit. |
| Mar 28, 2023 | 📰 Our paper, Realistic Defocus Blur for Multiplane Computer-Generated Holography, is presented at IEEE VR 2023. This work is a collaboration between Koray Kavaklı, Yuta Itoh, Hakan Ürey, and Kaan Akşit. |
| Mar 15, 2023 | 🗣️ Kaan presented an invited talk titled Could holographic displays be the key to achieving realisms in displays at Huawei United Kingdom. |
| Feb 06, 2023 | 🗣️ Kaan presented an invited talk titled Could holographic displays be the key to achieving realism? at University of Rochester. |
| Jan 04, 2023 | 🙏 We are thankful to Oracle for offering us to rely on their cloud infrastructure support for our computational loads. We had to decline their award as we have purchased new computational resources most recently. |
| Nov 18, 2022 | 📰 Our paper, Unrolled Primal-Dual Networks for Lensless Cameras, is published at Optica’s Optics Express. A copy of the manuscript can be found here. This work is a result of a collaboration with Oliver Kingshott, Nick Antipa and Emrah Bostan. |
| Oct 25, 2022 | 📰 Our paper, Metameric Inpainting for Image Warping, is published at IEEE’s Transaction on Visualization and Computer Graphics. This work is a collaboration between Rafael Kuffner dos Anjos, David Robert Walton, Sebastian Friston, David Swapp, Anthony Steed and Tobias Ritschel. |
| Oct 19, 2022 | 🗣️ Kaan helped organizing Optica’s Frontiers in Optics Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality theme for 2022. |
| Oct 17, 2022 | 🗣️ Kaan presented an invited talk titled Realistic Image Reconstruction with Multiplane Computer-Generated Holography at Optica’s Frontiers in Optics Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality theme for 2022. |
| Aug 08, 2022 | 🏫 Our course, Optimizing Vision and Visuals: Lectures on Cameras, Displays and Perception is available at SIGGRAPH 2022 program. |
| Jul 20, 2022 | 🧿 kaanaksit.com uses a new layout. |