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Andreas Velten

Andreas Velten

Associate Professor

I develop computational imaging systems that combine new hardware and software designs to collect and compute images in situations where regular imaging is impossible. This includes imaging around corners, through scattering materials such as fog or human tissue, over bright ambient light, and at very large distances. To achieve this we build measurement systems that capture aspects of the light field that are ignored by a regular camera, such as the time the light takes to travel through a scene, and develop algorithms to process and interpret this new information.

Department

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Contact

5740, Medical Sciences Center
1300 University Ave
Madison, WI

  • PhD 2009, University of New Mexico
  • PhD 2008, University of New Mexico
  • Vordiplom 2002, University of Wuerzburg

  • Computational imaging
  • Single photon imaging
  • Quanta imaging
  • Ultra-fast and hyperspectral Imaging
  • Biomedical imaging
  • 3D and non-line-of-sight imaging
  • Imaging in scattering environments
  • Fluorescence lifetime

  • 2025 Optica, Optica Fellowship
  • 2024 SIGGRAPH , SIGGRAPH Test of Time Award
  • 2022 IEEE, Senior Member
  • 2021 Sigma Xi Honor Society, Member
  • 2021 National Academy of Inventors, Senior Member
  • 2021 Optica (formerly Optical Society of America), Senior Member
  • 2021 Society of Photonics Industry Engineers (SPIE), Senior Member
  • 2020 University of Wisconsin-Madison, UW-Madison Vilas Associates Award
  • 2019 AutoSens, AutoSens Awards Finalist for Most Influential Research Category
  • 2018 National Science Foundation, National Science Foundation CAREER Award
  • 2016 Society for Imaging Science and Technology, Image Engineering Innovation Award
  • 2015 Air Force, Air Force Young Investigator Award
  • 2013 EIG - Spanish Computer Graphics Conference, Best Paper Award
  • 2013 Society of Manufacturing Engineers, Innovation Watchlist 2013
  • 2012 Popular Mechanics, Breakthrough Award 2012
  • 2012 MIT, MIT Technology Review TR35 2012
  • 2009 University of New Mexico, Dissertation Distinction
  • University of Wisconsin-Madison, Wisconsin Institute of Discovery, Living Environments Lab Fellowship

  • Nam, J. H., Brandt, E., Bauer, S., Liu, X., Renna, M., Tosi, A., Sifakis, E., & Velten, A. (2021). Low-latency time-of-flight non-line-of-sight imaging at 5 frames per second. Nature communications, 12(1), 6526.
  • Faccio, D., Velten, A., & Wetzstein, G. (2020). Non-line-of-sight imaging. Nature Reviews Physics, 2(6), 318-327.
  • Liu, X., Bauer, S., & Velten, A. (2020). Phasor field diffraction based reconstruction for fast non-line-of-sight imaging systems. Nature communications, 11(1), 1645.
  • Liu, X., Bauer, S., & Velten, A. (2019). Analysis of feature visibility in non-line-of-sight measurements. In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (p. 10140-10148).
  • Ingle, A., Velten, A., & Gupta, M. (2019). High flux passive imaging with single-photon sensors. In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (p. 6760-6769).
  • Gupta, A., Ingle, A., Velten, A., & Gupta, M. (2019). Photon-flooded single-photon 3d cameras. In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (p. 6770-6779).
  • Liu, X., Guill'en, Ib'on,, La Manna, M., Nam, J. H., Reza, S. A., Huu Le, T., Jarabo, A., Gutierrez, D., & Velten, A. (2019). Non-line-of-sight imaging using phasor-field virtual wave optics. Nature, 572(7771), 620-623.
  • Reza, S. A., La Manna, M., Bauer, S., & Velten, A. (2019). Phasor field waves: A Huygens-like light transport model for non-line-of-sight imaging applications. Optics express, 27(20), 29380-29400.
  • La Manna, M., Kine, F., Breitbach, E., Jackson, J., Sultan, T., & Velten, A. (2018). Error backprojection algorithms for non-line-of-sight imaging. IEEE transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence, 41(7), 1615-1626.
  • Buttafava, M., Zeman, J., Tosi, A., Eliceiri, K., & Velten, A. (2015). Non-line-of-sight imaging using a time-gated single photon avalanche diode. Optics express, 23(16), 20997-21011.

  • BMI 699 - Independent Study (Fall 2026)
  • COMP SCI 533 - Image Processing (Fall 2026)
  • ECE 399 - Independent Study (Fall 2026)
  • ECE 533 - Image Processing (Fall 2026)
  • ECE 699 - Advanced Independent Study (Fall 2026)
  • ECE 790 - Master's Research (Fall 2026)
  • ECE 890 - Pre-Dissertator's Research (Fall 2026)
  • ECE 990 - Dissertator's Research (Fall 2026)
  • ECE 399 - Independent Study (Summer 2026)
  • ECE 699 - Advanced Independent Study (Summer 2026)
  • ECE 790 - Master's Research (Summer 2026)
  • ECE 890 - Pre-Dissertator's Research (Summer 2026)
  • ECE 990 - Dissertator's Research (Summer 2026)
  • BMI 699 - Independent Study (Spring 2026)
  • ECE 399 - Independent Study (Spring 2026)
  • ECE 699 - Advanced Independent Study (Spring 2026)
  • ECE 790 - Master's Research (Spring 2026)
  • ECE 890 - Pre-Dissertator's Research (Spring 2026)
  • ECE 990 - Dissertator's Research (Spring 2026)
  • BMI 699 - Independent Study (Fall 2025)
  • COMP SCI 533 - Image Processing (Fall 2025)
  • ECE 399 - Independent Study (Fall 2025)
  • ECE 533 - Image Processing (Fall 2025)
  • ECE 699 - Advanced Independent Study (Fall 2025)
  • ECE 790 - Master's Research (Fall 2025)
  • ECE 890 - Pre-Dissertator's Research (Fall 2025)
  • ECE 990 - Dissertator's Research (Fall 2025)
  • ECE 399 - Independent Study (Summer 2025)
  • ECE 699 - Advanced Independent Study (Summer 2025)
  • ECE 790 - Master's Research (Summer 2025)
  • ECE 890 - Pre-Dissertator's Research (Summer 2025)
  • ECE 990 - Dissertator's Research (Summer 2025)
  • ECE 399 - Independent Study (Spring 2025)
  • ECE 790 - Master's Research (Spring 2025)
  • ECE 890 - Pre-Dissertator's Research (Spring 2025)
  • ECE 990 - Dissertator's Research (Spring 2025)
  • BMI 722 - Computational Optics and Imaging (Fall 2024)
  • COMP SCI 722 - Computational Optics and Imaging (Fall 2024)
  • ECE 399 - Independent Study (Fall 2024)
  • ECE 722 - Computational Optics and Imaging (Fall 2024)
  • ECE 790 - Master's Research (Fall 2024)
  • ECE 890 - Pre-Dissertator's Research (Fall 2024)
  • ECE 990 - Dissertator's Research (Fall 2024)
  • MED PHYS 722 - Computational Optics and Imaging (Fall 2024)