Sabine Süsstrunk

Biography

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/