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Hadi Alzayer

I am a PhD student at the University of Maryland, advised by Jia-Bin Huang, working on computational photography and vision. Earlier, I completed my BS'20 (in ECE and CS) and MS'22 (CS) at Cornell University, and I was fortunate to be advised by Kavita Bala and Bharath Hariharan.

Publications

Generative Multiview Relighting for 3D Reconstruction under Extreme Illumination Variation
 Hadi Alzayer, Philipp Henzler, Jonathan T. Barron, Jia-Bin Huang, Pratul P. Srinivasan, Dor Verbin
CVPR 2025
SimVS: Simulating World Inconsistencies for Robust View Synthesis
 Alex Trevithick, Roni Paiss, Philipp Henzler, Dor Verbin, Rundi Wu, Hadi Alzayer, Ruiqi Gao, Ben Poole, Jonathan T. Barron, Aleksander Holynski, Ravi Ramamoorthi, Pratul P. Srinivasan
CVPR 2025
Magic Fixup: Streamlining Photo Editing by Watching Dynamic Videos
 Hadi Alzayer, Zhihao Xia, Xuaner (Cecilia) Zhang, Eli Shechtman, Jia-Bin Huang, Michael Gharbi
ArXiv 2024
Seeing the World through Your Eyes.
 Hadi Alzayer*, Kevin Zhang*, Christopher Metzler, Jia-Bin Huang.
CVPR 2024 (Oral, 3.3% of accepted papers)
3D Motion Magnification: Visualizing Subtle Motions with Time-Varying Neural Fields.
 Brandon Y. Feng*, Hadi Alzayer*, Michael Rubinstein, William T. Freeman, Jia-Bin Huang.
ICCV 2023
DC2: Dual-Camera Defocus Control by Learning to Refocus.
 Hadi Alzayer, Abdullah Abuolaim, Leung Chun Chan, Yang Yang, Ying Chen Lou, Jia-Bin Huang, Abhishek Kar.
CVPR 2023 Two Minute Papers Video.
AutoPhoto: Aesthetic Photo Capture using Reinforcement Learning.
 Hadi Alzayer, Hubert Lin, Kavita Bala.
IROS 2021 Finalist for Best Entertainment Paper Award

Work Experience

  • Google DeepMind (Summer 2024)
    Research Intern (Hosted by Dor Verbin, Pratul Srinivasan, and Jon Barron)

  • Adobe (Summer 2023)
    Research Intern (Hosted by Michaël Gharbi)

  • Google (Summer 2022)
    Research Intern on the Pixel Camera Team (Hosted by Abhishek Kar and Ryan Chan)

  • Apple (Summer 2021)
    ML Engineering Intern

  • Baidu AI Research (Summer 2019)
    Research Intern

  • MediVis (Summer 2018)
    Software Engineering Intern

Press

  • Clearpath Robotics covered our autonomous photography project here!

Misc.

  • Endurance Activities: I believe that endurance activities are perfect for condinitioning the mind to handle any challenges in life. Here is a list of some of my recent activities:
  •   [07/15/2023] Tahoe Rim Trail 100 Miler (FINISHED!!; 35 hours, and yes, no sleep was involved)
  •   [06/10/2023] Mt. Umunhum 52 Miler
  •   [12/18/2022] Appalachain Trail Four-State Challenge
  •   [11/19/2022] JFK 50 Mile run
  •   [08/07/2022] Skyline 50k
  •   [07/16/2022] Tahoe Rim Trail 100 Miler (DNF; completed 80 miles out of 102)
  •   [06/11/2022] Mt. Umunhum 50k
  •   [11/20/2021] JFK 50 Mile run
  •   [10/11/2021] Biking up Whiteface Mountain
  •   [09/04/2021] Lake George Half-IRONMAN distance triathlon
  •   [07/10/2021] Mt. Hood 50k run