Achuta Kadambi
PhD Candidate, M.I.T., Supervisor: Ramesh Raskar

E14-374C, 75 Amherst Street Cambridge, MA 02142
Phone: (617) 715-4683

Email: achoo[at]mit.edu (preferred mode of contact)

Curriculum Vitae
UCLA Webpage

Updates

Dec. 2017	New paper on MIT homepage	MIT News
Dec. 2017	Textbook on LIDAR accepted to MIT Press	MIT Press
Dec. 2017	Paper appears in Best Papers Issue, IJCV	Link
Dec. 2017	TEDx on Imaging and Autonomous Driving	Video
Dec. 2017	CVPR18 Tutorial on Self-Driving Cars	Slides

Short Bio

I'm now a faculty at UCLA Electrical and Computer Engineering. Please visit my UCLA webpage.

Awards

• Lemelson-MIT student prize, Article in the Boston Globe
• Rahamimoff Young Scientist Fellowship, USA-Israel BSF
• Best Papers of ICCV, Special Issue in IJCV, Article on MIT news
• Best Presentation Award, CVPR View Workshop
• PhD fellowships, Qualcomm Innovation and Draper Laboratory
• World-changing Ideas of 2015, Scientific American, Article on nature.com

Recent Talks

• Computer Vision and Image Media Conference in Japan (Keynote)
• Honeywell Technology Symposium in Arizona (Keynote)
• OSA meeting in Germany (Invited)
• Columbia University (host: Shree Nayar)

Research Themes

• Computational Imaging
• Multibounce and Multipath Light
• Time of Flight and LIDAR Imaging
• Medical applications

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More about Time of Flight and LIDAR --> course slides from ICCV and ACM SIGGRAPH.

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Selected Work

* Please see Google scholar or CV for full publication list

	Computational Time of Flight Imaging Joint Textbook with A. Bhandari, A. Kadambi, and R. Raskar [ Accepted to MIT Press as a Textbook, Forthcoming 2018 ]
	Rethinking Machine Vision Time of Flight with GHz Heterodyning A. Kadambi, R. Raskar [ IEEE Access 2017 ]
	Depth sensing using geometrically constrained polarization normals A. Kadambi, V. Taamazyan, B. Shi, R. Raskar [ International Journal of Computer Vision 2017 ]
	Macroscopic Interferometry: Rethinking Depth Estimation with Frequency-Domain Time of Flight A. Kadambi, J. Schiel, R. Raskar [ IEEE CVPR 2016 (Oral 3% acceptance) ]
	Occluded Imaging with Time of Flight Sensors A. Kadambi, H. Zhao, B. Shi, R. Raskar [ ACM Transactions on Graphics (pres SIGGRAPH 2016) ]
	Polarized 3D: Enhanced 3D sensing fusing depth and polarization cues A. Kadambi, V. Taamazyan, B. Shi, R. Raskar [ IEEE ICCV 2015 (Oral 3% acceptance) ] Selected for Best Papers Special Issue
	Computational Time of Flight Joint Tutorial Course with A. Bhandari, M. Gupta, A. Kadambi, R. Raskar. [ IEEE ICCV 2015 ]
	A Light Transport Model for Mitigating Multipath Interference in TOF Sensors N. Naik, A. Kadambi, C. Rhemann, S. Izadi, R. Raskar, S.B. Kang [ IEEE CVPR 2015 ]
	Resolving multi-path interference in time-of-flight imaging via modulation frequency diversity and sparse regularization A. Bhandari, A. Kadambi, R. Whyte, C. Barsi, M. Feigin, A. Dorrington, R. Raskar. [ OSA Optics Letters 2014 ]
	Coded Aperture, Compressive 3D LIDAR A. Kadambi, P. Boufounos [ IEEE ICASSP 2015 ]
	Demultiplexing Illumination via Low Cost Sensing and Nanosecond Coding A. Kadambi, A. Bhandari, R. Whyte, A. Dorrington, R. Raskar [ IEEE ICCP 2014 ]
	Coded time of flight cameras: sparse deconvolution to address multipath interference and recover time profiles A. Kadambi, R. Whyte, A. Bhandari, L. Streeter, C. Barsi, A. Dorrington, R. Raskar [ ACM Transactions on Graphics (pres SIGGRAPH Asia 2013) ] Selected for Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship

Patents

10+ US utility patents filed, 25+ including provisionals and international.

• Undisclosed LIDAR technique.
  [ MIT Case #19963T, US provisional filed ]
• Methods and apparatus for multi-frequency camera.
  [ US Patent #9,405,008, issued 2016 ]
• Methods and Apparatus for Demultiplexing Illumination.
  [ US Patent #9,451,141, issued 2016 ]
• Depth Sensing Using Optical Pulses and Fixed Coded Aperture.
  [ US Patent #9,638,801, issued 2017 ]
• Deconvolution for Coded Time-of-flight Camera
  [ US Patent #9,778,363, issued 2017 ]
• Macroscopic Interferometry
  [ US Patent Application #15/431,713 ]
• Methods and Apparatus for FLI with modulated light.
  [ US Patent Application #15/487,435 ]
• Methods and Apparatus for FLI with pulsed light.
  [ US Patent Application #15/487,438 ]
• Optical Frequency-Domain Illumination Multiplexing
  [ MIT Case #16702T, US provisional filed ]
• Intensity-based Depth Sensing System and Method
  [ US Patent Application #14/628,360 ]
• Methods for enhancing 3D maps with polarization
  [ US Patent Application #14/979,433 ]
• Methods and Apparatus for X-ray Imaging from Temporal Measurements
  [ US Patent Application #15/58,169 ]
• Methods and Apparatus for Virtual Sensor Array
  [ US Patent Application #14/795,113 ]