Sabine Süsstrunk

Expertise Computational photography, Computational imaging, Image processing, Computer vision, Machine Learning, Computational image quality and aesthetics Prof. Dr. Sabine Süsstrunk leads the Image and Visual Representation Lab in the School of Computer and Communication Sciences (IC) at EPFL since 1999. From 2015-2020, she was also the first Director of the Digital Humanities Institute (DHI), College of Humanities (CdH). Her main research areas are in computational photography, computational imaging, color image processing and computer vision, machine learning, and computational image quality and aesthetics. Sabine has authored and co-authored over 200 publications, of which 7 have received best paper/demo awards, and holds over 10 patents.Sabine served as chair and/or committee member in many international conferences on image processing, computer vision, and image systems engineering, latest as General Chair of the IEEE International Conference on Computational Photography (ICCP) in 2024. She is President of the Swiss Science Council SSC, Founding Member and Member of the Board (President 2014-2018) of the EPFL-WISH (Women in Science and Humanities) Foundation, Member of the Board of the SRG SSR (Swiss Radio and Television Corporation), and Co-Founder and Member of the Board of Largo Films SA. She received the IS&T/SPIE 2013 Electronic Imaging Scientist of the Year Award for her contributions to color imaging, computational photography, and image quality, and the 2018 IS&T Raymond C. Bowman and the 2020 EPFL AGEPoly IC Polysphere Awards for excellence in teaching. Sabine is a Fellow of AIAA, ELLIS, IEEE and IS&T and regular member of SATW.The Lab and Current Work For our current work and collaborators, please browse our lab website at https://www.epfl.ch/labs/ivrl/ Teaching & PhD PhD Students Zhuoqian Yang, Martin Nicolas Everaert, Yitao Xu, Shuangqi Li, Liying Lu Past EPFL PhD Students Peggy Gerardin, Laurence Meylan, Roberto Costantini, Joanna Marguier, Radhakrishna Achanta, Neda Salamati, Albrecht Johannes Lindner, Zahra Sadeghipoor Kermani, Gökhan Yildirim, Nikolaos Arvanitopoulos Darginis, Bin Jin, Sami Arpa, Edo Collins, Marjan Shahpaski, Ruofan Zhou, Leonardo Laurence Impett, Majed El Helou, Chen Liu, Bahar Aydemir, Dongqing Wang, Ehsan Pajouheshgar, Yufan Ren Past EPFL PhD Students as codirector David Hasler, Silvio Borer, Patrick Vandewalle, Vernikos Georgios Awards Foreign Member Technical Sciences Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts 2025 RPS Award for Imaging Science UK Royal Photographic Society 2025 AIIA Fellow International Artificial Intelligence Industry Alliance (AIIA) 2024 ELLIS Fellow European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems ELLIS 2021 SATW Full Member Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences SATW 2021 POLYSPHERE IC Best Teacher of the Year Award EPFL Student Association AGEPOLY 2020 Raymond C. Bowman Award IS&T: The Society of Imaging Science and Technology 2018 IEEE Fellow IEEE: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 2017 IS&T Fellow IS&T: The Society of Imaging Science and Technology 2014 EI Scientist of the Year IS&T 2013 Senior Member IS&T: The Society of Imaging Science and Technology 2008 Honorary Member International Color Consortium (ICC) 2001 Best Student Paper Award 2024 Artificial Life Conference (ALIFE) 2024 Best Paper Award IEEE 20th International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) 2013 MERL Best Student Paper Award IS&T/SID 20th Color and Imaging Conference 2012 Best Interactive Paper Award IS&T/SID 18th Color and Imaging Conference 2010 Best Demo Award ACM Multimedia 2010 Best Paper Award IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging: Multimedia on Mobile Devices 2010 MERL Best Student Paper Award IS&T/SID 16th Color and Imaging Conference 2008