Current members

Permanent Faculty

• Professor Jon Y. Hardeberg , homepage  
• Associate Professor Peter Nussbaum  
• Associate Professor Ivar Farup , homepage  
• Associate Professor  Faouzi Alaya Cheikh  

Adjunct and Temporary Faculty

• Adjunct Associate Professor Phil Green
• Laboratory Engineer Aditya Sole  
• Senior Lecturer Frode Volden  
• Assistant Professor Eivind Arnstein Johansen  
• Postdoctoral Researcher Marius Pedersen ,  homepage , Lab director
• Postdoctoral Researcher Dibakar Pant
• Postdoctoral Researcher Zhaohui Wang
• Postdoctoral Researcher Sony George (visting researcher)

PhD students

• Arne Magnus Bakke  
• Gabriele Simone , homepage  
• Steven Le Moan  
• Raju Shrestha  
• Xingbo Wang ([firstname].[lastname]@hig.no)
• Ferdinand Deger
• Radovan Slavuj
• Srikrishna Nudurumati
• Ping Zhao
• Fahad Fazal Elahi Guraya
• Ali Shariq Imran

Alumni

Master Students 2012

• Alexandra Ioana Oncu Feier,  Digital Inpainting for Artwork Restoration: Algorithms and Evaluation
• Annick Van der Hoest,  Eye Contact in Leisure Video Conferencing
• Kristina Marijanovic,  Spectral print reproduction - modelling and feasibility
• Laksmita Rahadianti,  Automatic Semantic Annotation for Media Learning Objects
• Maria-Lena Demetriou,  Computer-Aided Reclamation of Lost Art
• Vamsidhar Reddy Gaddam,  Real time estimation of dense depth maps from difficult images
• Victor Medina,  A survey of techniques for depth extraction in films
• Victor Torres,  Adult video content detection using Machine Learning Techniques

Master Students 2011

• Jørn Skjerven,  The performance of Image Difference Metrics For Rendered HDR Images
• Viktor Slavkovikj,  Live Color Calibration of a Video Camera Array
• Ibrahim Arief,  Augmented reality object placement and lighting
• Alejandro Moreno,  Classification of teachers’ actions in lecture videos

Master Students 2010  

• Mekides Abebe,  Kubelka Munk Theory for Efficient Spectral Printer Modelling
• Aitor Alvarez, Scene Recognition for Improved Aesthetic Quality Inference of Photographic Images (at the University of Amsterdam)
• Ali Amirshahi,  Towards a perceptual metric for video quality assessment  (at the University of Poitiers)
• Anna Aristova,  Smoothness of color transformations
• Guanqun Cao, Salient color feature extraction for image retrieval (at Tampere University of Technology)
• A. B. M. Tariqul Islam,  Spatio-Temporal Colour Correction of Strongly Degraded Films
• Victoria Rudakova,  Probabilistic framework for multi-target tracking using multi-camera: applied to fall detection
• Raju Shrestha,  Conceiving a fast and practical multispectral stereo system
• Timothée Royer,  The Influence of Image Characteristics on Image Quality

Interns and student assistants 2010

• Ibrahim Arief
• Hans Comtet  

Interns 2009

• Raju Shrestha, Gaze maps for video sequences: use of eye tracker to record the gaze of viewers of video sequences
• A. B. M. Tariqul Islam, Post processing the output of spatial colour algorithms
• Ali Amirshahi, Evaluation of full-reference image quality metrics in a framework for printed images
• Anna Aristova, Smoothness of LUT-based color transforms

Master Students 2009

• Sébastien Ajagamelle, Analysis of the Difference of Gaussians model in perceptual image difference metrics  
• Clémentine Moutou, Consequence of using a number of different colour measurement instruments in particular for emission purpose  

Master Students 2008

• Puneet Sharma, Saliency maps and eye tracking  
• Arnaud Maccari, Multispectral acquisition and reproduction
• Adrien Picard, Device characterization and ICC profiling software
• Thomas Lenoir, Face detection and recognition
• Roy Erlend Berg, Real-time people counting system using video camera
• Kenneth Ellingsen, Salient event-based video surveillance summarization

Master Students 2007

• Fabienne Dugay, Evaluation of gamut mapping algorithms  
• Damien Lefloch, People counting based on video analysis  
• Marius Pedersen, The importance of region-of-interest on image difference metrics  
• Barbora Kominkova, Comparison of two eye tracking devices used on printed images  
• Espen B. Mikalsen, Verification and extention of a camera based calibration method for projector displays  
• Ondrei Panak, Colour memory match under disparate viewing condition
• Steffen Paul, Color management in digital intermediate movie production
• Siavash A. Renani, Projection onto a textured wall  
• Hans Christian Sagbakken, Iris recognition using varying conditions  
• Jon Anders Øvern, Film restoration using extended ACE

Master Students 2006

• Mr. Sven Are Finnevolden. Project topic: characterization of projection displays
• Ms. Maria Wroldsen. Project topic: Densitometric and planimetric measurement techniques for halftone print  
• Mr. Sébastien Petitfourg. Visiting student from Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France. Project topic: Camera characterization and modeling
• Mr. Damien Moriceau. Visiting student from Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France. Project topic: Camera characterization and modeling
• Mr. Sylvain Roch. Visiting student from Ecole Francaise de Papeterie et des industries Graphiques, Grenoble, France. Project topic: Displays and Soft proofing

Previous colleagues (whom we miss dearly)

• Dr. Ali Alsam
• Dr. David Connah
• Mr. Øyvind Kolås
• Mr. Sven Erik Skarsbø
• Ms. Eriko Bando
• Dr. Jérémie Gerhardt
• Dr. Jean-Baptiste Thomas
• Dr. Vegar Johansen
• Dr. Yuanlin Zheng  (Visiting Researcher 2010)
• Mr. Jan Henrik Wold