Sabine Süsstrunk is a computer scientist and professor at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in

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, where she leads the Images and Visual Representation Lab in the School of Computer and Communication Sciences. Her research areas are in computational imaging and

computational photography Computational photography refers to digital image capture and processing techniques that use digital computation instead of optical processes. Computational photography can improve the capabilities of a camera, or introduce features that were no ...

, color image processing (including

spectral sensitivity Spectral sensitivity is the relative efficiency of detection, of light or other signal, as a function of the frequency or wavelength of the signal. In visual neuroscience, spectral sensitivity is used to describe the different characteristics ...

) and computer vision, and image quality and computational aesthetics. She is a fellow of the

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and

Society for Imaging Science and Technology The Society for Imaging Science and Technology (IS&T) is a professional society (a type of research and education organization) in the field of photography. Founded in 1947 as the Society of Photographic Scientists and Engineers (SPSE), it is head ...

and received the Society of Imaging Science and Technology and International Society for Optics and Photonics 2013 Electronic Imaging Scientist of the Year Award. From 2015 to 2020, Süsstrunk was the first director of the Digital Humanities Institute in the College of Humanities at EPFL, and the first director of the Master of Science in the Digital Humanities program. From 2016 to 2020, Süsstrunk was a member of the Foundation Council and Executive Committee of the

Swiss National Science Foundation The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF, German: , SNF; French: , FNS; Italian: ) is a science research support organisation mandated by the Swiss Federal Government. The Swiss National Science Foundation was established under private law b ...

. Furthermore, she acted as President of the EPFL WISH Foundation (2014-2018) where she is still member of the board. On January 1, 2018, she joined the Board of Directors of the

Swiss Broadcasting Corporation The Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (; ; ; ; SRG SSR) is the Swiss public broadcasting association, founded in 1931, the holding company of 24 radio and television channels. Headquartered in Bern, the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation is a non-pro ...

. As of 2021, Süsstrunk is the president of the

Swiss Science Council The Swiss Science Council (SSC) is an independent scientific advisory body of the Federal Council of Switzerland. Founded on March 26, 1965, the SSC advises the Swiss federal government on all issues relating to science, higher education, research ...

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Sabine Süsstrunk at EPFL
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