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Matthew O'Toole

Computational Imaging Programmable Light And Camera Systems Computational Cameras And Displays Optics-Electronics-Processing Integration
Carnegie Mellon University Department of Computer Science

About

I am an Assistant Professor with the Robotics Institute and Computer Science Department in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. My research interests span many topics across computer graphics and computer vision, but I’m particularly interested in computational imaging: a field that combines optics, electronics, and computational processing to capture or display new forms of visual information. Prior to joining CMU, I was a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow with Gordon Wetzstein‘s Computational Imaging group at Stanford University. Before that, I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Toronto under the supervision of Kyros Kutulakos in 2016, along with an M.Sc. in 2009. I took a break from Toronto in 2011 to be a visiting student with the MIT Media Lab’s Camera Culture group led by Ramesh Raskar. I also completed an undergraduate degree in honours Computer Science and Mathematics from the University of British Columbia in 2007 under the supervision of Abhijeet Ghosh and Wolfgang Heidrich, and worked for various companies including NVIDIA, EA, and MDA. I spend a lot of time thinking about computational imaging, a field that combines optics, electronics, and processing in new and interesting ways to capture and display visual information. In particular, I’m interested in using programmable lights and cameras to analyze the world around us. My work was the recipient of a couple of runner-up best paper awards at ICCV 2007 and CVPR 2014, best demo awards at CVPR 2015 and ICCP 2015, and a runner-up dissertation award at SIGGRAPH 2017. I was also a co-organizer of the CVPR workshop on Computational Cameras and Displays in 2016 and 2017, and taught a course on the subject at SIGGRAPH 2014. My research is supported by the Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships program administered by the Government of Canada.

Research Performance Summary

84
Total Papers
4039
Total Citations
27
H-Index
2007-2025
Active Research Span

First Recorded Paper

BRDF acquisition with basis illumination

Year: 2007

Citations: 124

Venue: 2007 IEEE 11th International Conference on Computer Vision

Latest Recorded Paper

Spatially-Varying Autofocus

Year: 2025

Citations: 0

Venue: Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision

Last 10 Years Publication Activity

This timeline shows the professor's yearly publication activity.

2025
12
2024
6
2023
12
2022
12
2021
6
2020
6
2019
4
2018
6
2017
4
2016
1
2015
3

Publication Venues and Collaboration

Journal, Conference, and Book Publication Breakdown

Conference 38
Journal 13
Book 1

Top Coauthors

O'Toole O’Toole Wetzstein

Research Impact by Period

2025-2026

Period Stats
Papers 12
Citations 12
Avg. Citations / Paper 1
H-Index 2

2020-2024

Period Stats
Papers 42
Citations 1068
Avg. Citations / Paper 25.4
H-Index 15

2015-2019

Period Stats
Papers 18
Citations 2039
Avg. Citations / Paper 113.3
H-Index 12

2010-2014

Period Stats
Papers 9
Citations 796
Avg. Citations / Paper 88.4
H-Index 7

2005-2009

Period Stats
Papers 3
Citations 124
Avg. Citations / Paper 41.3
H-Index 1

Contact and Professional Links

Contact Information

motoole2@andrew.cmu.edu

Detected Research Keywords

Line Sight Imaging Primal Dual Coding Diffraction Line Imaging Imaging System Synchronized System Synchronized Dynamic Synchronized Dynamic Control Dynamic Control Directable Control Directable Beam Directable Beam Light Beam Light Source