Andreas Velten is an Associate Scientist in the Medical Devices Group at the Morgridge Institute for Research and the Laboratory for Optical and Computational Instrumentation (LOCI) at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Dr. Velten is also an affiliate member of the Camera Culture group at the MIT Media Lab. He obtained his PhD in Physics at the University of New Mexico designing lasers for ultra sensitive phase measurements.
Dr. Velten's research aims to develop new and improved scientific tools through
innovation in signal processing, computational imaging, and ultra-fast optics.
He was chosen as one of the world’s top innovators under the age of 35 by
MIT's Technology Review and received the Popular Mechanics Breakthrough Award
in 2012.
Dr. Velten was chosen as one of the 35 top innovators under the age of 35 by MIT's Technology Review in 2012 received the Popular Mechanics Breakthrough Award in 2012. He has authored many peer reviewed articles, conference papers, and patents, as well as a book. His work has featured in several top media outlets including the BBC, the New York Times, and the Economist.
In his free time he enjoys hiking, sailing, and vocal performance.
Video from Nature about our recent publication. A camera that can image around a corner.
The Media Lab Labcast about our around the corner imaging system.
Video: A light pulse illuminating a tomato captured and visualized in slow motion.
Video from MIT News about our Light in Motion light capture project.
Our presentation at SIGGRAPH was given in front of a packed audience.
Introducing our group and my project to HRH Prince Philippe of Belgium and representatives of the Belgian government, industry and media.
US deputy secretary of defense William J. Lynn learning about our project.
recent updates
January 17, 2013
Presentation at UW. I will be giving a presentation at the Deluca Forum at the Widconsin Institutes for Discovery in Jan 23rd at 4 pm.
October 4, 2012
Breakthrough Award. Our seeing around corners camera has been selected for the Popular Mechanics Breakthrough Award. I will be receiving the award together with mit Adviser Ramesh Raskar. It is agreat honor to receive this award along with people like Elon Musk and the Voyager team.
August 21, 2012
TR35. I have been selected among Technology Review's 35 innovators under 35. This is a great honor. I will do my best to live up to it.
July 27, 2012
SIGGRAPH 2012. I will be giving a talk at SIGGRAPH in LA this year together with Belen Masia titeled "Relativistic Ultrafast Rendering Using Time-of-Flight Imaging
". Looking forward to the conference.
May 15, 2012
CLEO 2012. Amy Fritz presented our very well attended talk at CLEO 2012. The conference was, as always, packed with interesting talks, interesting people, and lots of free pens and T-shirts.
March 20, 2012
Paper in Nature Communications. Today my main project, a camera that can look around corners was published by Nature Communications. The paper also made it to the nature.com news page and several news sources.
Press Coverage. Our light in Motion visualization project has been featured prominently in more than 100 newspapers worldwide and achieved over 4 million cumulative hits on youtube.
August 15, 2011
SIGGRAPH 11. I had a lot of fun at my first SIGGRAPH. There where several high quality papers from our group. I gave my presentation in front of a packed conference hall and got a lot of positive feedback.
July 20, 2011
OSA Imaging Science. My talk at the OSA Imaging Science conference in Toronto produced a lot of interesting feedback.
June 20, 2011
CVPR 11. Although I can not be there myself, our project is represented as a poster at CVPR in Colorado Springs this year.
June 29, 2011
Belgian Delegation. I gave a lab tour to 40 representatives of Belgian government, industry and media today. Here is a picture of me with crown prince Philippe.
April 27, 2011
Virtual Trillion Frame per Second Movies. We modified the camera we use to look around corners to capture movies of light pulses. I will present the results at SIGGRAPH in August.
April 10, 2011
ICCP 11. Our poster and Rameshes talk made an impression at ICCP this year. And, of course, the ICCP crowd is always fun to be around ...
December 20, 2010
Radio Interview. I am giving a brief interview on our research on KGO radio in San Francisco.
December 10, 2010
Media Attention. Our research in transient imaging to build a laser and camera that can 'look around corners' has recently been published by several new stations including the BBC and the Economist. read more…
Andreas Velten is an Associate Scientist in the Medical Devices Group at the Morgridge Institute for Research and the Laboratory for Optical and Computational Instrumentation (LOCI) at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Dr. Velten is also an affiliate member of the Camera Culture group at the MIT Media Lab. He obtained his PhD in Physics at the University of New Mexico designing lasers for ultra sensitive phase measurements.
