Peter Hedman

- Senior Research Scientist, Google (London) first.j.last@gmail.com Twitter Google Scholar
Peter Hedman

Hi! I'm Peter Hedman, a researcher at Google in London.

My focus is on creating immersive 3D experiences from easy-to-capture footage of real places. For example, you may want to scan and digitally revisit your childhood home, or capture a VR-ready 3D panorama of the places you visit during a vacation.

Formally, my research interests are view synthesis, image-based rendering, neural rendering and real-time graphics.

PUBLICATIONS

MobileNeRF: Exploiting the Polygon Rasterization Pipeline for Efficient Neural Field Rendering on Mobile Architectures
(mobile-nerf.github.io)
 Zhiqin Chen, Thomas Funkhouser, Peter Hedman, Andrea Tagliasacchi
arXiv 2022
NeRF in the Dark: High Dynamic Range View Synthesis from Noisy Raw Images
(bmild.github.io/rawnerf)
 Ben Mildenhall, Peter Hedman, Ricardo Martin-Brualla, Pratul Srinivasan, Jonathan T. Barron
CVPR 2022 (Oral)
Mip-NeRF 360: Unbounded Anti-Aliased Neural Radiance Fields
(jonbarron.info/mipnerf360)
 Jonathan T. Barron, Ben Mildenhall, Dor Verbin, Pratul P. Srinivasan and Peter Hedman
CVPR 2022 (Oral)
Ref-NeRF: Structured View-Dependent Appearance for Neural Radiance Fields
(dorverbin.github.io/refnerf)
 Dor Verbin, Peter Hedman, Ben Mildenhall, Todd Zickler, Jonathan T. Barron and Pratul P. Srinivasan
CVPR 2022 (Oral, Best Student Paper Honorable Mention)
HyperNeRF: A Higher-Dimensional Representation for Topologically Varying Neural Radiance Fields
(hypernerf.github.io)
 Keunhong Park, Utkarsh Sinha, Peter Hedman, Jonathan T. Barron, Sofien Bouaziz, Dan B. Goldman, Ricardo Martin-Brualla and Steven M. Seitz
SIGGRAPH Asia 2021
Baking Neural Radiance Fields for Real-Time View Synthesis
(nerf.live)
 Peter Hedman, Pratul P. Srinivasan, Ben Mildenhall, Jonathan T. Barron and Paul Debevec
ICCV 2021 (Oral)
Mip-NeRF: A Multiscale Representation for Anti-Aliasing Neural Radiance Fields
(jonbarron.info/mipnerf)
 Jonathan T. Barron, Ben Mildenhall, Matthew Tancik, Peter Hedman, Ricardo Martin-Brualla and Pratul P. Srinivasan
ICCV 2021 (Oral, Best Paper Honorable Mention)
Immersive Light Field Video with a Layered Mesh Representation
(augmentedperception.github.io/deepviewvideo)
 Michael Broxton, John Flynn, Ryan Overbeck, Daniel Erickson, Peter Hedman, Matthew DuVall, Jason Dourgarian, Jay Busch, Matt Whalen and Paul Debevec
ACM SIGGRAPH 2020
Viewpoint-Free Photography for Virtual Reality (Book Chapter)
 Peter Hedman
Real VR – Immersive Digital Reality, 2020
Image-Based Rendering of Cars using Semantic Labels and Approximate Reflection Flow
(repo-sam.inria.fr/fungraph/ibr-cars-semantic)
 Simon Rodriguez, Siddhant Prakash, Peter Hedman and George Drettakis
ACM I3D 2020
Deep Blending for Free-Viewpoint Image-Based Rendering
(visual.cs.ucl.ac.uk/pubs/deepblending)
 Peter Hedman, Julien Philip, True Price, Jan-Michael Frahm, George Drettakis and Gabriel Brostow
ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2018
Instant 3D Photography
(visual.cs.ucl.ac.uk/pubs/instant3d)
 Peter Hedman and Johannes Kopf
ACM SIGGRAPH 2018
Casual 3D Photography
(visual.cs.ucl.ac.uk/pubs/casual3d)
 Peter Hedman, Suhib Alsisan, Richard Szeliski and Johannes Kopf
ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2017
Sequential Monte Carlo Instant Radiosity
(Extended journal article)
 Peter Hedman, Tero Karras and Jaakko Lehtinen
IEEE TVCG 2017
Scalable Inside-Out Image-Based Rendering
(visual.cs.ucl.ac.uk/pubs/insideout)
 Peter Hedman, Tobias Ritschel, George Drettakis and Gabriel Brostow
ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2016
Sequential Monte Carlo Instant Radiosity
(visual.cs.ucl.ac.uk/pubs/smcir)
 Peter Hedman, Tero Karras and Jaakko Lehtinen
ACM I3D 2016
Multi-view Reconstruction of Highly Specular Surfaces in Uncontrolled Environments
(visual.cs.ucl.ac.uk/pubs/shapefromreflections)
 Clément Godard*, Peter Hedman*, Wenbin Li and Gabriel J. Brostow
3DV 2015 (Oral) *Joint first authors.

JOB EXPERIENCE

May 2022 Google, Senior Research Scientist, London U.K.
Working on Neural Radiance Fields.
Nov 2020 - May 2022 Google, Research Scientist, London U.K.
Working on Neural Radiance Fields.
Nov 2019 - Nov 2020 Google, Research Scientist, Los Angeles USA.
Worked on Immersive Light Field Video with a Layered Mesh Representation (SIGGRAPH 2020).
Jun 2017 - Aug 2018 Pro Unlimited, Contingent worker @ Facebook (Computational photography group), London U.K.
Developed Instant 3D Photography (SIGGRAPH 2018).
Jun 2016 - Jun 2017 Facebook, PhD research intern (Computational photography group), Seattle USA.
Developed Casual 3D Photography (SIGGRAPH Asia 2017).
Dec 2013 - May 2014 NVIDIA, research intern (NVIDIA research), Helsinki Finland.
Developed Sequential Monte Carlo Instant Radiosity (I3D 2016, TVCG 2017).
Jan 2012 - Nov 2013 NVIDIA, Systems software engineer (mobile browser team), Helsinki Finland.
Worked with a heavily threaded C++, HTML5 Canvas, WebGL, WebKit, Skia and OpenGL ES2.
May 2011 - Jan 2012 NVIDIA, software engineering intern (Flash3D team), Helsinki Finland.
Optimized Flash3D for NVIDIA Tegra.

AWARDS AND MEDIA

Dec 2021 - Jan 2022 Publicity for HyperNeRF (Two Minute Papers, Gigazine, 80 Level).
Mar 2021 - Apr 2021 Publicity for Baking Neural Radiance Fields for Real-Time View Synthesis (Marktechpost, Synced).
Jun 2020 - Jan 2021 Publicity for Immersive Light Field Video with a Layered Mesh Representation (TechCrunch, Two Minute Papers, Photonics, UploadVR, VRTimes, TechXplore, Hackaday, SIGGRAPH Blog, Immersive Pavilion BEST IN SHOW).
May 2018 - Jun 2018 Publicity for Instant 3D Photography (TechCrunch, Business Wire, F8 Conference keynote - 1:08:45).
Apr 2017 Publicity for Casual 3D Photography (Mark Zuckerberg keynote at F8 - 11:45, F8 day 2 keynote - 46:00).
Nov 2016 The Finnish Academic Association for Mathematics and Natural Sciences (MAL) prize for
the most distinguished Master's thesis (lehti.tek.fi/jarjesto/celebrating-academic-achievements).
Apr 2016 Rabin Ezra Scholarship for doctoral students in computer graphics, imaging and vision (rabinezra.info).

COMMITTEES AND REVIEWING

Committee SIGGRAPH (2022), EGSR (2022, 2021, session chair), HPG (2021)
Reviewer SIGGRAPH (2021, 2019), SIGGRAPH Asia (2021, 2018), CVPR (2022), TOG (2021), TVCG (2021, 2020, 2019), 3DV (2018), Computers & Graphics (2018), Eurographics (2021, 2020, 2018, 2017), Pacific Graphics (2016)

EDUCATION

Aug 2014 - Jul 2019 PhD in Computer Science (University College London)
Viewpoint-Free Photography for Virtual Reality (discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10078087)
Supervisors: Gabriel Brostow and Tobias Ritschel.
Jan 2012 - Jun 2015 Master's degree in Computer Science (University of Helsinki)
Sequential Monte Carlo Instant Radiosity (helda.helsinki.fi/handle/10138/156669).
Sep 2009 - Jan 2012 Bachelors degree in Computer Science (University of Helsinki)
Triangle based and voxel based rendering in real-time graphics (phogzone.com/bscthesis.pdf - in Swedish).

TEACHING

2014, 2015, 2017 Teaching assistant, Computer Graphics (University College London)