Assistant Professor Li Zhang (Computer Sciences) won a 2010 Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering from the David and Lucille Packard Foundation.
This highly prestigious award was made to just 17 researchers nationally, and carries with it an unrestricted award of $875,000 over five years.
Zhang was the only awardee in the field of Computer Science.
Zhang's research supported by the award will seek to restore stereo 3D vision for blind people by developing new computational imaging and vision techniques that work with artificial retinas.
His recent related projects include high-performance low light imaging using micro-cameras, and modeling stereopsis using sparse graphs and its application in video stabilization.
To view some of Zhang's work in low-light imaging:
- http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~lizhang/projects/motionhdr/
- http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~lizhang/projects/mvdenoising/cvpr2009/
Zhang's work in sparse graphs and video stabilization:
- http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~lizhang/projects/mvstereo/cvpr2009/
- http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~lizhang/projects/lfstable/
2010 Packard Fellowships in Science and Engineering Awarded to Seventeen Researchers