Portrait of Michael S. Brown

Michael S. Brown

Professor and Canada Research Chair
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Lassonde School of Engineering
York University


Tutorial

Title slide of the tutorial
Understanding Color and the Camera Imaging Pipeline

Michael S. Brown

IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2023

Resources

Sample images from the white balance dataset
Camera datasets and code

White balance, colour, denoising, exposure, autofocus and camera pipeline software

Teaching

Winter 2024
EECS 6323: Advanced Topics in Computer Vision, Colour and Digital Camera Pipelines

Service

General Chair
CVPR 2018, 2021, 2023Pacific Graphics 2023ACCV 2014
Program Chair
CRV 2019, 2020WACV 2017, 2019ICVGIP 20163DV 2015
Demo Chair
CVPR 2014
Area Chair
ICCV 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2023, 2025CVPR 2022, 2027ECCV 2020, 2022, 2024, 20263DV 2017, 2021ACCV 2016, 2020BMVC 2018

Current Students

Trevor Canham PhD, expected 2027
Luxi Zhao PhD, expected 2028
Beixuan Yang PhD (part-time), expected 2030
Karanpreet Raja MSc, expected 2027

Graduated PhD

Sai Tedla PhD 2026, YorkDemosaicing for New Sensor PatternsCurrent position: Postdoc, University of Toronto (Canada)Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellowship
Hoang Le PhD 2024, YorkRevisiting Gamut Expansion for Color Space ConversionCurrent position: AI Engineer, Sunvair (USA)
Abdullah Abuolaim PhD 2021, YorkLeveraging Dual-Pixel Sensors for Camera Depth of Field ManipulationCurrent position: Camera Engineer, Google (USA)
Mahmoud Afifi PhD 2021, YorkImage Color Correction, Enhancement, and EditingCurrent position: Research Scientist, Apple (Canada)CS-Can/Info-Can Distinguished Dissertation Award; CIPPRS John Barron Doctoral Dissertation Award
Abdelrahman Abdelhamed PhD 2020, YorkNoise Modelling for Smartphone CamerasCurrent position: AI Engineer, Google (Canada)
Hakki Can Karaimer PhD 2019, YorkA Study of Colour Rendering in the In-Camera Imaging PipelineCurrent position: Research Scientist, Samsung (Canada)
Mahsa Paknezhad PhD 2018, NUSTowards Automatic and Consistent Cardiac AnalysisCurrent position: Data Scientist, BlackRock (Australia)
Nguyen Ho Man Rang PhD 2016, NUSColor Mapping for Camera-Based Color Calibration and Color TransferCurrent position: VinAI (Vietnam)
Cheng Dongliang PhD 2016, NUSStudy of Illumination Estimation and Ground Truth Colors for Color ConstancyCurrent position: Robotics Institute, Harbin Institute of Technology (China)
Li Yu PhD 2015, NUSSeparating Layers in Images and Its ApplicationsCurrent position: IDEA Labs (China)
Sharmili Roy Sethy PhD 2014, NUSNext Generation Reporting and Diagnostic Tools for Healthcare and Biomedical ApplicationsCurrent position: Co-Founder & CTO, Zoala (Singapore)
Gao Junhong PhD 2013, NUSNew Strategies for Generating Panoramic Images for Imperfect Image SeriesCurrent position: Illumina (Singapore)
Lin Haiting PhD 2013, NUSA New In-Camera Color Imaging Model for Computer VisionCurrent position: Adobe (USA)
Deng Fanbo PhD 2013, NUSOn Using and Improving Gradient Domain Processing for Image EnhancementCurrent position: Algorithm Engineer, Kwai Inc. (Singapore)
Lu Zheng PhD 2011, NUSHigh-Resolution Imaging for e-HeritageCurrent position: Assistant Professor, University of Nottingham Ningbo China (China)
Yu-Wing Tai PhD 2009, NUSBayesian Optimization for Image Segmentation, Texture Flow Estimation, and Image DeblurringCurrent position: Associate Professor, Dartmouth College (USA)
Yau-Chat (Desmond) Tsoi PhD 2009, NTUGeometric and Photometric Distortion Correction for Camera-Imaged Documents: A Unified Approach Using BoundaryCurrent position: Professor of Engineering Education, HKUST (Hong Kong)

Graduated Masters

Berk Karaimer MSc 2026, YorkCurrent position: Cyber Security Analyst, Cyber Electra (Canada)
Hue Nguyen MSc 2025, YorkCurrent position: Samsung (Canada)
Trevor Canham MSc 2024, YorkCurrent position: PhD student, York University (Canada)
Beixuan Yang MSc 2024, YorkCurrent position: Ontario Public Service (IT division); part-time PhD student, York University (Canada)
Ian MacPherson MSc 2024, YorkCurrent position: Early-stage AI startup (Canada)
SaiKiran Tedla MSc 2022, YorkCurrent position: Postdoc, University of Toronto (Canada)
Ali Maleky MSc 2022, YorkCurrent position: Instacart (Canada)
Shane Segal MSc 2020, YorkCurrent position: Cerebras Systems (Canada)
Guo Fangfang MSc 2014, NUSCurrent position: Baidu (China)
Liu Shuaicheng MPhil 2010, NUSCurrent position: UESTC (China)
Fong Heung Wah MPhil 2004, HKUSTCurrent position: Virtuos, Shanghai (China)
William Wong MSc 2004, HKUSTCurrent position: Multimedia Designer (Hong Kong)
Tsang Kin Ting MPhil 2004, HKUSTCurrent position: Harmonics Inc. (Hong Kong)
Ruiduo (Alan) Yang MPhil 2002, HKUSTCurrent position: Google (USA)

Research Fellows

Seonghyeon NamVISTA Research FellowCurrent position: Senior Research Scientist, Meta (USA)
Abhijith PunnappurathVISTA Research FellowCurrent position: Staff Scientist, Samsung AI Center Toronto (Canada)
Dilip PrasadResearch FellowCurrent position: Professor, UiT The Arctic University of Norway (Norway)
Vittal PremachandranResearch FellowCurrent position: Applied Scientist, Amazon Search (USA)
Seon Joo KimResearch FellowCurrent position: Professor, Yonsei University (South Korea)
Wu ZhengResearch FellowCurrent position: R&D Manager, Panasonic R&D Center Singapore (Singapore)

Research Staff

Cimoan AtkinsResearch Assistant / Lab Manager
David AmpofoResearch Assistant
Russell LooiResearch Assistant
N. V. Kartheek MedathatiResearch Assistant
Zhuo ShaojieResearch Assistant
Grani Adiwena HanasusantoResearch Assistant
Vu Anh HuynhResearch Assistant
Poon Wei KootResearch Assistant

Visitors

Graham FinlaysonVisiting Professor
Javier Vazquez-CorralVisiting Professor
Hiroaki SantoVisiting Professor, ASPIRE
Hodaka KawachiVisiting Student, ASPIRE
Taiga HashidaVisiting Student, ASPIRE
Lilika MakabeVisiting Student, ASPIRE
Danna XueVisiting Student

Undergraduate Interns

Joshua Little 2026
Karanpreet Raja 2025
Ismail Knapik 2024
Raj Ajaykumar 2022
David Ampofo 2017
Michael Stewart 2017
Min Jae Kim 2017

Contact

Mailing address

Dept. of EECS, York University
4700 Keele Street
Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3, Canada

Office

Lassonde Building, Room 3022
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Tel: +1 (416) 736-2100 x66675