Splash Biography

ILYA CHUGUNOV, Princeton Computer Science PhD Student

Major: Computer Science

College/Employer: Princeton

Year of Graduation: G

Brief Biographical Sketch:

Hi! I'm a third year PhD student in the Princeton Computational Imaging Lab. I work on making cameras do camera stuff better through machine learning. I'm also pretty good at archery and digital art.

Past Classes

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E670: How Do Cameras Actually Work? in Splash 2023 (Apr. 22, 2023)

Ever wonder how your phone actually sees stuff? How does light go into a plastic and metal rectangle and produce Instagram posts? What *are* pixels? Well, look no further than this class, where we'll delve into the wide wonderful world of "how cameras camera". We'll start with the geometric model of a box with a hole in it, and end with problems that modern research hasn't even solved yet (but which you might if you study hard enough).