Toronto Vision Seminar

A seminar series for vision researchers in the GTA.

The Toronto Vision Seminar brings together academic and industry researchers in computer vision from the Greater Toronto Area, strengthening ties across the community.

Topics span computer vision, applied mathematics, optimization, and machine learning — including perception, generative modeling, neural representations, 3D reconstruction, computational photography, plenoptic imaging, and light transport analysis.

Location. All talks are held in BA 5187 (the DGP Seminar room), Bahen Centre for Information Technology, 40 St George St., Toronto, ON M5S 2E4.

Sponsors

2025–2026

Apr 23, 2026
INRS
Coded streak imaging: concept, systems, and applications
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Apr 9, 2026
Carnegie Mellon University
A "ray tracer" for physics
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Feb 12, 2026
DADDAA & Dunlap Institute
Rediscovering the history of astronomy through the study of ancient observatories
No recording
Jan 29, 2026
Cornell Tech
Generating multi-view visual illusions
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Jan 8, 2026
University of Toronto
Linking motion and objectness in humans and machines
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Oct 14, 2025
Technion
Seeing deep inside scattering tissue using efficient, noise-robust wavefront shaping
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Oct 9, 2025
MIT
Modeling the world (and yourself) from vision
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Sep 11, 2025
Northwestern
Reverse-engineering biological vision
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2024–2025

May 9, 2025
Ciena Corporation
Innovations for the next generation of optical communications
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May 5, 2025
UC Berkeley
Computational aberration correction
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Apr 23, 2025
University of Toronto
Symmetry in human and computer vision: a case study in scene perception
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Apr 11, 2025
Carnegie Mellon University
Computer vision with light, sound and heat
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Apr 2, 2025
Adobe Research
Toward a theory of perspective perception in pictures
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Feb 19, 2025
Simon Fraser University
Representations for differentiable inverse rendering
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Nov 27, 2024
University of Toronto
Crazy telescopes, ghostly galaxies, and the invisible universe
No recording
Nov 22, 2024
Bristol University
Opportunities in egocentric vision
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Nov 6, 2024
Ideogram
Diffusion models and the future of creative expression
No recording
Oct 16, 2024
Cornell University
Trustworthy and adaptive extreme low-light imaging
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Sep 3, 2024
Weizmann Institute
Deep internal learning — deep learning without prior examples
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2023–2024

May 8, 2024
Harvard University
Images as fields of junctions
No recording
Apr 10, 2024
Carnegie Mellon University
Systems 1 and 2 for robot learning
No recording
Nov 22, 2023
Princeton University
Machine learning for determining protein structure and dynamics from cryo-EM images
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