Qiang Fu

Research Scientist, KAUST Visual Computing Center

King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Bldg. 1, Rm 2207, Thuwal, 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia.
Tel: +966.012.808.0264; qiang.fu [at] kaust.edu.sa

Degrees and Employment History: BS Manufacturing and Design Automation of Machinery, University of Science and Technology of China (2007); PhD Optical Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (2012); Assistant Research Fellow, Academy of Opto-Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (2012-2014); Postdoctoral Research Fellow, KAUST (2014-2016); Research Associate Professor, ShanghaiTech University (2016-2017); Research Scientist, KAUST (since 2017).

Research Interests: computational imaging, optical system design, diffractive optics, micro/namo-fabrication, compressive sensing, spectral imaging and applications, remote sensing, etc.

Additional details: Bio, Google Scholar

Recent Publications:

2014-
Y. Zheng, Q. Fu, H. Amata, P. Chakravarthula, F. Heide, W. Heidrich:
Hexagonal diffractive optical elements
Optics Express, 2023
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H. Amata, Q. Fu, W. Heidrich:
Additive fabrication of SiO2-based micro-optics with lag-free depth and reduced roughness
Optics Express, 2023
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H. Amata, Q. Fu, W. Heidrich:
Additive diffractive optical elements fabrication by PECVD deposition of SiO2 and lift-off process
Proc. SPIE 12624, Digital Optical Technologies, 2023
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X. Yang, Q. Fu, M. Elhoseiny, W. Heidrich:
Aberration-Aware Depth-from-Focus
ICCP & IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2023
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Y. Li, Q. Fu, W. Heidrich:
Extended Depth-of-Field Projector using Learned Diffractive Optics
IEEE VR, 2023
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Q. Fu, D. Yan, W. Heidrich:
Diffractive lensless imaging with optimized Voronoi-Fresnel phase
Optics Express, 2022
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Z. Shi, Y. Bahat, S.-H. Baek, Q. Fu, H. Amata, X. Li, P. Chakravarthula, W. Heidrich, F. Heide:
Seeing Through Obstructions With Diffractive Cloaking
ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH), 2022
X. Yang, Q. Fu, W. Heidrich:
Automatic Lens Design based on Differentiable Ray-tracing
OSA Imaging and Applid Optics Congress - Computational Optical Sensing and Imaging, 2022
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Q. Fu, H. Amata, W. Heidrich:
Etch-free additive lithographic fabrication methods for reflective and transmissive micro-optics
Optics Express, 2021
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Y. Li, Q. Fu, W. Heidrich:
Multispectral illumination estimation using deep unrolling network
ICCV, 2021
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Q. Sun, C. Wang, Q. Fu, X. Dun, W. Heidrich:
End-to-End Complex Lens Design with Differentiable Ray-Tracing
ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH), 2021
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I. Chugunov, S.-H. Baek, Q. Fu, W. Heidrich, F. Heide:
Mask-ToF: Learning Microlens Masks for Flying Pixel Correction in Time-of-Flight Imaging
CVPR, 2021
S. Qiu, Q. Fu, C. Wang, W. Heidrich:
Linear Polarization Demosaicking for Monochrome and Color Polarization Focal Plane Arrays
Computer Graphics Forum, 2021
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C. Marois, B. Gerard, O. Lardière, A. Anthony, C. Bradley, J. Dunn, Q. Fu, T. Hardy, W. Heidrich, G. Herriot, E. Nielsen, S. Sivanandam, D. Sivransky, S. Thibault, W. Thompson, J.-P. Véran:
Upgrading the Gemini Planet Imager calibration unit with a photon counting focal plane wavefront sensor
SPIE Proceedings Volume 11448, Adaptive Optics Systems VII, 2020
Q. Sun, E. Tseng, Q. Fu, W. Heidrich, F. Heide:
Learning Rank-1 Diffractive Optics for Single-shot High Dynamic Range Imaging
CVPR, 2020
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(oral paper)
C. Wang, Q. Fu, X. Dun, W. Heidrich:
Modeling Classical Wavefront Sensors
Optics Express, 2020
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C. Wang, Q. Fu, X. Dun, W. Heidrich:
Quantitative Phase and Intensity Microscopy Using Snapshot White Light Wavefront Sensing
Scientific Reports, 2019
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S. Qiu, Q. Fu, C. Wang, W. Heidrich:
Polarization Demosaicking for Monochrome and Color Polarization Focal Plane Arrays
International Symposium on Vision, Modeling and Visualization, 2019
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M. Alghamdi, Q. Fu, A. Thabet, W. Heidrich:
Reconfigurable Snapshot HDR Imaging Using Coded Masks and Inception Network
International Symposium on Vision, Modeling and Visualization, 2019
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D. Jeon, S.-H. Baek, S. Yi, Q. Fu, X. Dun, W. Heidrich, M. H. Kim:
Compact Snapshot Hyperspectral Imaging with Diffracted Rotation
ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH), 2019
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C. Wang, Q. Fu, X. Dun, W. Heidrich:
Megapixel Adaptive Optics: Towards Correcting Large-scale Distortions in Computational Cameras
ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH), 2018
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J. Xiong, Q. Fu, R. Idoughi, W. Heidrich:
Reconfigurable Rainbow PIV for 3D Flow Measurement
ICCP, 2018
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J. Xiong, R. Idoughi, A. Aguirre-Pablo, A. Aljedaani, X. Dun, Q. Fu, S. T. Thoroddsen, W. Heidrich:
Rainbow Particle Imaging Velocimetry for Dense 3D Fluid Velocity Imaging
ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH), 2017
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C. Wang, X. Dun, Q. Fu, W. Heidrich:
Ultra-High Resolution Coded Wavefront Sensor
Optics Express, 2017
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F. Heide, Q. Fu, Y. Peng, W. Heidrich:
Encoded diffractive optics for full-spectrum computational imaging
Scientific Reports, 2016
Y. Peng, Q. Fu, W. Heidrich:
The Diffractive Achromat -- Full Spectrum Computational Imaging with Diffractive Optics
ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH), 2016
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Y. Peng, Q. Fu, H. Amata, S. Su, F. Heide, W. Heidrich:
Computational imaging using lightweight diffractive-refractive optics
Optics Express, 2015
  • SAVE: Shared augmented virtual environments for real-time mixed reality applications.
    Yu Zhu, Kang Zhu, Qiang Fu, Xilin Chen, Huixing Gong, Jingyi Yu.
    Proceedings of the 15th ACM SIGGRAPH Conference on Virtual-Reality Continuum and Its Applications in Industry, Volume 1, ACM, 13-21 (2016).
  • Image Quality Evaluation of Light Field Photography.
    Qiang Fu, Zhiliang Zhou,Yan Yuan and Bin Xiangli.
    IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging, 78670F–78670F (2011).