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The Hidden Engine of Vision with Peyman Milanfar (Google)
How Denoising Secretly Powers Everything in AI
Peyman Milanfar is a Distinguished Scientist at Google, leading its Computational Imaging team. He's a member of the National Academy of Engineering, an IEEE Fellow, and one of the key people behind the Pixel camera pipeline. Before Google, he was a professor at UC Santa Cruz for 15 years and helped build the imaging pipeline for Google Glass at Google X. Over 35,000 citations.
Peyman makes a provocative case that denoising, long dismissed as a boring cleanup task, is actually one of the most fundamental operations in modern ML, on par with SGD…
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