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.

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Publications

	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

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


• 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