Sabine Süsstrunk

EPFL IC IINFCOM IVRL
BC 328 (Bâtiment BC)
Station 14
1015 Lausanne

Expertise

Computational photography, Computational imaging, Image processing, Computer vision, Machine Learning, Computational image quality and aesthetics
Prof. Dr. Sabine Süsstrunk leads the Image and Visual Representation Lab in the School of Computer and Communication Sciences (IC) at EPFL since 1999. From 2015-2020, she was also the first Director of the Digital Humanities Institute (DHI), College of Humanities (CdH). Her main research areas are in computational photography, computational imaging, color image processing and computer vision, machine learning, and computational image quality and aesthetics. Sabine has authored and co-authored over 200 publications, of which 7 have received best paper/demo awards, and holds over 10 patents.
Sabine served as chair and/or committee member in many international conferences on image processing, computer vision, and image systems engineering, latest as General Chair of the IEEE International Conference on Computational Photography (ICCP) in 2024. She is President of the Swiss Science Council SSC, Founding Member and Member of the Board (President 2014-2018) of the EPFL-WISH (Women in Science and Humanities) Foundation, Member of the Board of the SRG SSR (Swiss Radio and Television Corporation), and Co-Founder and Member of the Board of Largo Films SA. She received the IS&T/SPIE 2013 Electronic Imaging Scientist of the Year Award for her contributions to color imaging, computational photography, and image quality, and the 2018 IS&T Raymond C. Bowman and the 2020 EPFL AGEPoly IC Polysphere Awards for excellence in teaching. Sabine is a Fellow of AIAA, ELLIS, IEEE and IS&T and regular member of SATW.

The Lab and Current Work

For our current work and collaborators, please browse our lab website at https://www.epfl.ch/labs/ivrl/

Awards

Foreign Member Technical Sciences

Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts

2025

RPS Award for Imaging Science

UK Royal Photographic Society

2025

AIIA Fellow

International Artificial Intelligence Industry Alliance (AIIA)

2024

ELLIS Fellow

European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems ELLIS

2021

SATW Full Member

Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences SATW

2021

POLYSPHERE IC Best Teacher of the Year Award

EPFL Student Association AGEPOLY

2020

Raymond C. Bowman Award

IS&T: The Society of Imaging Science and Technology

2018

IEEE Fellow

IEEE: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

2017

IS&T Fellow

IS&T: The Society of Imaging Science and Technology

2014

EI Scientist of the Year

IS&T

2013

Senior Member

IS&T: The Society of Imaging Science and Technology

2008

Honorary Member

International Color Consortium (ICC)

2001

Best Student Paper Award

2024 Artificial Life Conference (ALIFE)

2024

Best Paper Award

IEEE 20th International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP)

2013

MERL Best Student Paper Award

IS&T/SID 20th Color and Imaging Conference

2012

Best Interactive Paper Award

IS&T/SID 18th Color and Imaging Conference

2010

Best Demo Award

ACM Multimedia

2010

Best Paper Award

IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging: Multimedia on Mobile Devices

2010

MERL Best Student Paper Award

IS&T/SID 16th Color and Imaging Conference

2008

Publications