People

Supervisors

Professor Atanas Gotchev 3D Media Group

Atanas Gotchev

Professor, Signal Processing
Hervanta Campus, TE314
Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences, Computing Sciences
+358408490733
atanas.gotchev@tuni.fi

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About me

Atanas Gotchev received the M.Sc. degrees in radio and television engineering (1990) and applied mathematics (1992) and the Ph.D. degree in telecommunications (1996) from the Technical University of Sofia, and the D.Sc.(Tech.) degree in information technologies from the Tampere University of Technology (2003). His research interests have been in sampling and interpolation theory, and spline and spectral methods with applications to multidimensional signal analysis. His recent work concentrates on algorithms for multisensor 3-D scene capture, transform-domain light-field reconstruction, and Fourier analysis of 3-D displays.

Responsibilities

Head of 3D Media Group
Director of Centre for Immersive Visual Technologies (CIVIT)

Research topics

Research interests in multi-dimensional signal processing, 3D and light field imaging

Erdem Sahin

Senior Research Fellow
Hervanta Campus, TE310
Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences, Computing Sciences
erdem.sahin@tuni.fi

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5371-6649

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Dr. Erdem Sahin received his Ph.D. degree from the Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department of Bilkent University, Turkey (2013). He joined the 3D Media Group as a Marie-Curie Experienced Researcher for the EU FP7 project Prolight-IAPP (Modern signal processing methods for ultra-realistic light field displays) (2014). He currently works as a Senior Research Fellow with research interests on computational plenoptic and holographic imaging

Responsibilities

Research supervision

Research topics

Computational plenoptic imaging with diffractive optics, Perceptual light field displays, Computer-generated holography, Computational holographic displays

Dr. Mikko Parviainen Tampere University

Mikko Parviainen

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Hervanta Campus, TC318
Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences, Computing Sciences
mikko.parviainen@tuni.fi

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Doctor Robert Bregovic, Research Manager, 3D Media Group

Robert Bregovic

Project Manager
Hervanta Campus, TE313
Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences, Computing Sciences
+358503015960
robert.bregovic@tuni.fi

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3878-7588

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Robert Bregovic received the Dipl. Ing. and MSc degrees in electrical engineering from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia, in 1994 and 1998, respectively, and the Dr. Sc. (Tech.) degree (with honors) in information technology from the Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland, in 2003. His research interests include the design and implementation of digital filters and filterbanks as well as topics related to acquisition, processing/modeling and visualization of 3D content.

Sari Peltonen at 3D Media Group Tampere University

Sari Peltonen

University Lecturer
Hervanta Campus, TE312
Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences, Computing Sciences
+358401981496
sari.peltonen@tuni.fi

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Doctoral Researchers

Aleksandra Chuchvara 3D Media Group Tampere University

Aleksandra Chuchvara

Doctoral Researcher
Hervanta Campus, TE308
Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences, Computing Sciences
aleksandra.chuchvara@tuni.fi

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Aleksandra Chuchvara received her Bachelor’s degree in 2009 from Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics, and her Master of Science degree in 2014 from Tampere University of Technology, Faculty of Computing and Electrical Engineering. From 2013 till present day she works as a PhD student at laboratory of signal processing at the same university.

Field of expertise

Capture of 3D content
Visualization of 3D content

Arjun Venkatakrishnan Tampere University

Arjun Venkatakrishnan

Research Assistant
B.Sc Student
Hervanta Campus
Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences, Computing Sciences
arjunvenkat.venkatakrishnan@tuni.fi

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Eemi Fagerlund

Project Researcher
Tietotalo TF309
Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences
eemi.fagerlund@tuni.fi

Filipe Da Graca Gama 3D Media Group

Filipe Gama

Doctoral Researcher
Hervanta Campus, TE309
Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences, Computing Sciences
filipe.gama@tuni.fi

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6370-9752

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Filipe received his MSc in Electrical Engineering – Electronics and Telecommunications from Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, Portugal (2015). He performed part of his thesis research at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. From 2010 to 2015, he was a student researcher at Instituto de Telecomunicações (IT). He is one of the early stage researchers of the European Training Network on Full Parallax Imaging (ETN-FPI).

Research topics

Calibration and data fusion of multi-/ multimodel cameras, camera modeling and virtual/mixed reality
Main focus: wide-angle lens modeling and time-of-flight data denoising

Ihtisham Ali 3D Media Research Group Tampere University

Ihtisham Ali

Doctoral Researcher
Hervanta Campus, TE306
Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences, Computing Sciences
ihtisham.ali@tuni.fi

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Jani Mäkinen 3D Media Group Tampere University

Jani Mäkinen

Doctoral Researcher
Hervanta Campus, TE306
Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences, Computing Sciences
jani.makinen@tuni.fi

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Jani’s research topics include light field to hologram transformation (both coherent and incoherent holograms), numerical wavefield propagation methods for computational hologram viewing simulations as well as speckle noise reduction in computer generated holography (CGH), main focus being in holograms generated from multiview images and depthmaps.

Field of expertise

Computer-generated holography and (near-eye) holographic displays
Wave optics based simulation models for display characterization

Laura Goncalves Ribeiro 3D Media Group Tampere University

Laura Ribeiro

Doctoral Researcher
Hervanta Campus, TE316
Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences, Computing Sciences
laura.goncalvesribeiro@tuni.fi

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Laura received her MSc in Biomedical Enginnering from Universidade Nova de Lisboa (2017). Currently, she is a PhD student at Tampere University. Her studies are integrated within the Immersafe european training network and her research topic is vision enhancement in extreme environmental conditions.

Research topics

Vision enhancement in extreme environmental conditions within ImmerSAFE
Currently focusing on multi-sensor calibration and target tracking using retro-reflective markers

Oleksii Doronin

Doctoral Researcher
Hervanta Campus, TE304
Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences, Computing Sciences
oleksii.doronin@tuni.fi

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Olli Suominen at 3D Media Group Tampere University

Olli Suominen

Doctoral Researcher
Hervanta Campus, TE311
Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences, Computing Sciences
+358503015158
olli.j.suominen@tuni.fi

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Olli Suominen graduated with both BSc and MSc (Tech) in Information Technology from Tampere University of Technology (2011/2012) with a major in Signal Processing. Since then, he has been a PhD student in 3D Media Group at the Laboratory of Signal Processing at TUT and managing the construction and development of CIVIT, the Centre for Immersive Visual Technologies. After starting from the BSc thesis using only one camera (Depth Image Based Rendering) and an MSc thesis using two cameras (Stereo Depth Estimation) he has now scaled up to 40 cameras for the PhD with research interests in multi-camera systems, 3D reconstruction, multimodal sensor fusion, SLAM and light field capture.

Responsibilities

Project management of industrial collaboration

Field of expertise

Multi-sensor and multi-modal 3D sensing
Currently working on operator assistance and remote operation for heavy mobile work machines

Sergio Moreschini 3D Media Group Tampere University

Sergio Moreschini

Doctoral Researcher
Hervanta Campus, TE309
Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences, Computing Sciences
sergio.moreschini@tuni.fi

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Sergio has a Bachelor’s degree in Electronic Engineering (2012), and a Master’s degree in Information and Communication Technology Engineering (2016), both from University of Roma Tre, Italy. During his Master’s studies, Sergio was a visiting student at Tampere University of Technology, Finland. Currently, Sergio is a PhD at Tampere University. He is one of the early stage researchers of the European Training Network on Full Parallax Imaging (ETN-FPI).

Field of expertise

Light Field Analysis and Reconstruction
Application of LF Analysis for capturing and synthesis systems

Ugur Akprinar 3D Media Group Tampere University

Ugur Akprinar

Doctoral Researcher
Hervanta Campus, TE306
Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences, Computing Sciences
ugur.akpinar@tuni.fi

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Ugur Akpinar received his BSc. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Middle East Technical University in 2015 and MSc (Tech) from Tampere University of Technology in 2017. His research area includes plenoptic sampling, light field cameras and displays. He is interested in ray optics, light field rendering and reconstruction, and device technology.

Field of expertise

Computational cameras/ displays
Simulation models

Ugur Gudelek

Doctoral Researcher
Marie Curie
Computing Sciences
Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences
ugur.gudelek@tuni.fi

Yuta Miyanishi 3d Media Group

Yuta Miyanishi

Doctoral Researcher
Hervanta Campus, TE308
Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences, Computing Sciences
yuta.miyanishi@tuni.fi

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8305-2823

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Doctoral student in the 3D Media Group, Tampere University (Finland), supported by the MSCA-ITN “ImmerSAFE” as a member.

Research interest: 3D display (light field display)

Background: Vision science. Vertical disparity processing, depth perception, and stereopsis.

Skills: Psychophysical experiment, eye movement measurement

Field of expertise

Human vision science
Making light field displays more optimised for human vision

Research Assistants

Ayoung Kim

Research Assistant
Computing Sciences
Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences
ayoung.kim@tuni.fi

Jani Käpylä

Research Assistant
CIVIT Master
Computing Sciences
Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences
jani.kapyla@tuni.fi

Kamran Akbar

Research Assistant
Computing Sciences
Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences
kamran.akbar@tuni.fi

Lauri Varjo

Research Assistant
Computing Sciences
Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences
lauri.varjo@tuni.fi

Sami Sinisalmi

Research Assistant
Computing Sciences
Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences
sami.sinisalmi@tuni.fi

Ugurcan Budak

Research Assistant
Computing Sciences
Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences
ugurcan.budak@tuni.fi

Visiting Researchers

Jussi Rantala

Jussi Rantala

Staff Scientist
Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences
Tampere University
+358503185833
jussi.rantala@tuni.fi

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6308-7874

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Yuan Gao

Doctoral Researcher
Computing Sciences
Xiaomi
yuan.gao@tuni.fi

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Alumni

Suren Vagharshakyan 3D Media Group

Suren Vagharshakyan

Doctoral Researcher
Hervanta Campus
Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences, Computing Sciences
suren.vagharshakyan@tuni.fi

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Yuan Gao

Doctoral Researcher
Computing Sciences
Xiaomi
yuan.gao@tuni.fi

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Mihail Georgiev

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Péter Kovács

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Atanas Boev

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Vladislav Uzunov

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Andrey Norkin

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Maria Scherban

Santiago Cortes-Reina

Alireza Zare

Deepa Naik

Sumeet Sen

Chun Wang

Eetu Ojanen

Janne Taponen

Ali Karaoglu

Jyrki Häyrynen

Maija Mikkola

Hamid Dadkhani

Kalle Raunio

Ossi Pirinen

Xinghan Luo

Harish Essaky Sankaran

Ruixing Yang