Toronto Computational Imaging Group University of Toronto
Seeing the world
through light, sensors, and computation.
We work at the intersection of computer vision, graphics, machine learning, optics, and sensors — building next-generation imaging systems that capture what conventional cameras cannot.
Research
What we work on
Vision & Graphics
Vision foundation & generative models
Video diffusion and 4D scene representations for animatable avatars and controllable generation.
Physics-Informed Vision
Scientific imaging
Imaging black holes, exoplanets, clouds, and the cosmos with physics-informed neural fields.
Light Transport
Neural inverse rendering
Recovering geometry, materials, and the path of light itself from images and transients.
Photon-level Sensing
Single-photon imaging
Capturing scenes one photon at a time — ultra-wideband, time-of-flight, and full-wavefield lidar.
Active Imaging
Active 3D & structured light
Dense, accurate, fast depth via coded illumination and learned reconstruction.
Hardware
Computational cameras & sensors
Custom CMOS sensors and unconventional cameras co-designed with their algorithms.
News
Recent activity
- Jun 2026Kelly Zhu, Andrew Xie, Andrew Guo, and David Bromley graduated with their MSc. Kelly was featured in a U of T CS graduation spotlight.
- May 29, 2026One paper accepted to Optica.
- May 2026Eight papers accepted to CVPR 2026; three selected as highlights.
- Apr 29, 2026Kelly Zhu, Felix Taubner, and Andrew Xie received the Canada Graduate Research Fellowship.
- Mar 2026Sherwin Bahmani successfully defended his PhD.
- Dec 2025Two papers accepted to SIGGRAPH Asia; one each to NeurIPS and 3DV.
- Dec 2025Rohan Dahale received the Outstanding PhD Thesis Award and the EHT Early-Career Award from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration.
- Oct 2025Aviad received a $400K CFI John R. Evans Leaders Fund + Ontario Research Fund award for physics-constrained neural fields in scientific imaging.
- Sep 2025Aviad co-leads a new Data Sciences Institute emerging program connecting computational physics with data-driven scientific discovery.
- Sep 2025Ben Attal, Rohan Dahale, Sai Tedla, and Kevin McKinnon selected for the 2025 Schmidt AI in Science Fellowship cohort.
- Jul 2025Aviad received the 2024–25 Connaught New Researcher Award.
- Jun 2025Neural Inverse Rendering from Propagating Light received the Best Student Paper Award at CVPR 2025.
- May 2025David received the Ontario Early Researcher Award.
- May 2025Kelly Zhu, Felix Taubner, and David Bromley awarded the Ontario Graduate Scholarship for 2025–2026.
- Mar 2025Four papers accepted to CVPR 2025, including three orals.
- Oct 2024U of T highlighted Aviad's Event Horizon Telescope contributions, celebrated by the Nobel Committee.
- Sep 2024Two papers accepted to WACV; one to NeurIPS; one to SIGGRAPH Asia; two to ICLR.
- Aug 2024Two papers accepted to ECCV: Flying with Photons and TC4D.
- May 2024David received the Sony Faculty Innovation Award and Sony Focused Research Award.
- Mar 2024Aviad awarded an NSERC Discovery Grant to launch his research program in scientific imaging.
- Mar 2024David received the Google Research Scholar Award.
- Feb 2024Three papers accepted to CVPR 2024.
- Oct 2023Passive Ultra-Wideband Single-Photon Imaging wins the Marr Prize (best paper) at ICCV 2023.