Timeline¶

2024¶

December¶

3-6 December 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.

April¶

22 April 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 Ozcan Aydogan.

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.

January¶

29 January 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.

2023¶

December¶

13 December 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.

October¶

30 October 2023¶

We are pleased to announce an achievement at the UKRI AI CDT Conference 2023 in Bristol, United Kingdom. Ahmet Güzel showcased our research project, ChromaCorrect, among a diverse array of over 50 posters at the event. We are honored to have been awarded First Prize for Best Poster, and we thank Foundational Artificial Intelligence Center at University College London.

12-13 October 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.

11 October 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.

9-10 October 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.

August¶

16 August 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.

June¶

28 June 2023¶

Kaan presented an invited talk titled Could holographic displays be the key to achieving realism? at Stanford University.

1 June 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.

April¶

21 April 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.

March¶

28 March 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.

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.

15 March 2023¶

Kaan presented an invited talk titled Could holographic displays be the key to achieving realism in displays?. We are thankful to Huawei, United Kingdom for their kind hospitality.

February¶

6 February 2023¶

Kaan presented an invited talk titled Could holographic displays be the key to achieving realism?. We are thankful to University of Rochester's institute of optics for their kind hospitality.

January¶

4 January 2023¶

We are thankful to TÜBİTAK's 2224-A support for our valuable member and a PhD student, Koray Kavaklı in presenting his work at SPIE's Photonics West 2023. This fund covers a significant portion of his attendance at SPIE's Photonics West.

3 January 2023¶

We are thankful to Oracle for offering us to rely on their cloud infrastructure support for our computational needs. We had to decline their award as we have purchased new computational resources most recently.

2022¶

November¶

18 November 2022¶

Our paper, Unrolled Primal-Dual Networks for Lensless Cameras, is published at Optica's Optics Express. This work is a result of a collaboration between Oliver Kingshott, Nick Antipa, Emrah Bostan, and Kaan Akşit.

October¶

25 October 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, Tobias Ritschel, and Kaan Akşit.

19 October 2022¶

In collaboration with Meta Reality Laboratory's Douglas Lanman, we helped organise a successful augmented reality and virtual reality theme at Optica's Frontiers in Optics 2022. Kaan Akşit presented a talk titled Realistic Image Reconstruction with Multiplane Computer-Generated Holography, while Koray Kavaklı presented a talk titled Introduction to Odak: a Differentiable Toolkit for Optical Sciences, Vision Sciences and Computer Graphics.

August¶

3 August 2022¶

Our course, Optimizing Vision and Visuals: Lectures on Cameras, Displays and Perception is available and online in SIGGRAPH 2022. This work is a collaboration between Koray Kavaklı, David Walton, Nick Antipa, Rafał Mantiuk, Douglas Lanman and Kaan Akşit.

June¶

23 June 2022¶

We are grateful to the Meta Reality Labs for supporting our research through the inclusive rendering initiative 2022. Their award will enable us to investigate inclusive graphics pipelines in terms of human visual perception. Their award is worth 75000 USD.

May¶

5 May 2022¶

Our panel, Telelife: A Vision of Remote Living in 2035, is presented at CHI 2022. This work is a collaboration between Kenan Bektaş, Jeeeun Kim, Kiyoshi Kiyokawa, Anthony Steed, Tobias Höllerer, Nataliya Kosmyna, Misha Sra, Jason Orlosky, and Kaan Akşit.

March¶

14 March 2022¶

We introduce our work, Metameric Varifocal Holograms, at IEEE VR 2022. This work is a collaboration between David R. Walton, Koray Kavakli, Rafael Kuffner dos Anjos, David Swapp, Tim Weyrich, Hakan Urey, Anthony Steed, Tobias Ritschel and Kaan Akşit. David Walton presented the work at the conference.

Kaan Akşit served as program committee for journal papers, and also as technical achievement and lifetime achievement awards committee member.

11 March 2022¶

Kaan Akşit together with Jannick Rolland and Babak Amirsolaimani is acting as a guest editor for Journal of Optical Microsystems from SPIE at a special issue targetting optics research in augmented, virtual and mixed reality. Here is a link for call flyer and to submit your work, please follow this link.

February¶

23 February 2022¶

Kaan Akşit serves as a program committee for EGSR 2022, which will take place as a hybrid conference, virtual and physically located in Czech Republic's Prag.

January¶

24 January 2022¶

We presented two invited talks at SPIE's Photonics West. Our first talk is on Perceptually guided computer-generated holography, and our second talk is on Beaming Displays: Towards Displayless Augmented Reality Near-eye Displays.

17 January 2022¶

We thank the next byte podcast for covering our collaboration on SensiCut project with MIT. They did a great job in explaining our in their podcast. You can reach the podcast using this link.

2021¶

November¶

29 November 2021¶

Our vision, "Telelife: The Future of Remote Living", is published at Frontiers in Virtual Reality. We share our vision for the future, specifically in the year 2035.

12 November 2021¶

Our invited work, "Learned Holographic Light Transport", is published at Optica's Applied Optics. We show that light transport can be made more accurate by learning hardware dependent kernels.

8 November 2021¶

We are grateful to the Royal Society for awarding us with their research grants 2021 round two scheme. Their award will enable us to invent new holographic light transport models in the future. This is award is worth 14994.65 GBP. The title of our submission is Learned models for Computer-Generated Holography.

November¶

1-2 November 2021¶

February¶

18 February 2021¶

We appear on UCL news for receiving UCL-Osaka university strategic partnership fund.

January¶

4 January 2021¶

Kaan Akşit joined University College London's computer science department as an Associate Professor. He is now part of the Virtual Reality and Computer Graphics group, and he leads the Computational light laboratory.

2020¶

November¶

17 November 2020¶

Kaan Akşit and Jason Orlosky They have been granted UCL-Osaka University Strategic Parner Funds funds. This award is worth 10000 GBP. The title of our submission is Development of a joint Telelife technology seminar using virtual reality.

August¶

1 August 2020¶

Kaan Akşit has left his Senior Research scientist position at NVIDIA in the US, and accepted to join University College London's computer science department as an Associate Professor.