Intelligent Imaging Lab

School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Department of Statistics at Purdue University

Welcome

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Mission

In i2lab, our mission is to build intelligent cameras by co-designing sensors and algorithms to enable seeing in all imaging conditions.

Books and Tutorials

Seminar / Tutorials

Research News

2026-09 New paper “Markov-Renewal Single-Photon LiDAR Simulator”, ECCV.
2026-06 New paper “SeeU: Seeing the Unseen World via 4D Dynamics-aware Generation”, CVPR.
2026-06 New paper “FlowSteer: Conditioning Flow Field for Consistent Image Restoration”, CVPR.
2026-05 New paper “Diffusion Algorithm for Metalens Optical Aberration Correction”, ICASSP.
2026-05 New paper “Real-Time Markov Modeling for Single-Photon LiDAR”, ICASSP.
2026-04 New paper “NewtonGen: Physics-Consistent and Controllable Text-to-Video Generation”, ICLR.
2025-09 Best Paper Award IEEE ICIP 2025 “Quanta Diffusion”
2025-05 New paper “BIST: Bayesian-Inspired Space-Time Superpixels”, ICCV.
2025-03 New paper “Learning Phase Distortion with Selective State Space Models for Video Turbulence Mitigation”, CVPR.
2025-03 New paper “Generative Photography: Scene-Consistent Camera Control for Realistic Text-to-Image Synthesis”, CVPR.
2024-10 New paper “Why Fine-grained Labels in Pretraining Benefit Generalization?”, TMLR.
2024-09 New paper “Soft Superpixel Neighborhood Attention”, NeurIPS.
2024-09 New paper “Quanta Video Restoration”, ECCV.
2024-09 New paper “Kernel Diffusion: An Alternate Approach to Blind Deconvolution”, ECCV.
2024-07 New paper “Parametric Modeling and Estimation of Photon Registrations for 3D Imaging”, MMSP.
2024-07 New paper “Analysis and Improvement of Rank-Ordered Mean Algorithm in Single-Photon LiDAR”, MMSP.
2024-05 New paper “PCH-EM: A solution to information loss in the photon transfer method”, IEEE TED.
2024-03 New paper “Resolution Limit of Single-Photon LiDAR”, CVPR.
2024-03 New paper “Generative Quanta Color Imaging”, CVPR.
2024-02 New paper “Spatio-Temporal Turbulence Mitigation: A Translational Perspective”, CVPR.
2024-01 New paper “Imaging through the Atmosphere using Turbulence Mitigation Transformer”, IEEE TCI.
2024-01 New paper “Spatially Varying Exposure With 2-By-2 Multiplexing: Optimality and Universality”, IEEE TCI.
2023-10 New paper “Driver-centric Risk Object Identification”, IEEE TPAMI.
2023-08 New paper “Anisoplanatic Optical Turbulence Simulation for Near-Continuous Cn2 Profiles without Wave Propagation”, SPIE Optical Engineering.
2023-07 New paper “Physics-Driven Turbulence Image Restoration with Stochastic Refinement”, ICCV.
2023-03 New paper “HDR Imaging with Spatially Varying Signal-to-Noise Ratios”, CVPR.
2023-03 New paper “Structured Kernel Estimation for Photon-Limited Deconvolution”, CVPR.
2023-01 New paper “On the Insensitivity of Bit Density to Read Noise in One-bit Quanta Image Sensors”, IEEE Sensors Journal.

News of i2Lab Faculty

2025-08 Prof Chan is appointed as the Deputy Editor in Chief for IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging.
2024-07 Prof Chan is now the chair of the CNSIP area in ECE.
2024-04 Prof Chan is promoted to full professor.
2022-01 Prof Chan won the IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award for Plug-and-Play ADMM published in IEEE Trans. Comp. Imaging in 2017.
2022-05 Prof Chan is recognized as an outstanding reviewer for CVPR 2022.
2021-08 Prof Chan is recognized by the IEEE Signal Processing Society as an Outstanding Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging.
2021-08 Prof Chan is recognized as an Outstanding engineering teacher.
2021-05 Prof Chan is promoted to Elmore Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

News of i2Lab Members

2025-12 Nick Chimitt recieved IEEE SPS Best PhD Dissertation Award!
2025-07 Guanzhe Hong passed his Ph.D. defense. Congratulations Dr. Hong!
2025-05 Xingguang Zhang pass his Ph.D. defense. Congratulations Dr. Zhang!
2024-11 Kent Gauen passed his Ph.D. defense. Congratulations Dr. Gauen!
2024-05 Yiheng Chi passed his Ph.D. defense. Congratulations Dr. Chi!
2024-04 Yash Sanghvi passed his Ph.D. defense. Congratulations Dr. Sanghvi!
2023-05 Xiangyu Qu passed his Ph.D. defense. Congratulations Dr. Qu!
2023-05 Zhiyuan Mao passed his Ph.D. defense. Congratulations Dr. Mao!
2022-04 Abhiram Gnanasambandam passed his Ph.D. defense. Congratulations Dr. Abhiram!
2022-03 Abhiram Gnanasambandam received Outstanding Graduate Researcher Award 2022.
2021-10 Chengxi Li passed her Ph.D. defense. Congratulations Dr. Li!
2020-04 Guanzhe Hong received Magoon Excellence TA Award 2020.
2019-07 Xiran Wang passed his Ph.D. defense. Congratulations Dr. Wang!
2019-05 Omar Elgendy passed his Ph.D. defense. Congratulations Dr. Elgendy!
2018-05 Joon Hee Choi passed his Ph.D. defense. Congratulations Dr. Choi!
2018-01 Omar Elgendy received the Purdue Bilsland Dissertation Fellowship.

Education News

2024-04 Summer course on Machine Learning for Beginners. Registration open!
2023-05 Summer course on Machine Learning for Beginners. Registration open!
2022-04 Summer course on Machine Learning for Beginners. Registration open!
2022-01 New course ECE495 Cameras, Images, Inverse Problems
2021-06 Summer course on Machine Learning for Beginners.
2020-11 New book on Introduction to Probability for Data Science.
2020-08 ECE302 Undergraduate Probability Fall 2020. See course Lectures and Videos.
2021-01 ECE595 Machine Learning I Spring 2021. See course Lectures and Videos.

Media Coverage

2021-08 Optical adversarial attack can change the meaning of road signs (unite.ai).
2020-11 New HDR imaging capability using single-photon image sensors (Purdue ECE News).
2020-07 New breakthroughs in computer vision for imaging in the dark (Purdue ECE News).
2020-07 Resolving fast movement in low light (Image Sensor World Blog).
2020-06 Training one deep neural network for all noise levels (Purdue ECE News).
2020-05 ECE researcher to study adversarial attack in real environment (Purdue ECE News).