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Geometry-Aware Visual Understanding and Stereoscopic Video Generation

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B1 R2202

This thesis develops a geometry-aware dissolving transformation that selectively removes unnecessary fine-grained visual and geometric detail while preserving coarse structural information, to achieve more robust representation learning, higher-quality stereoscopic video synthesis, and more efficient multi-view geometry processing.

Jian Shi

Ph.D. Student, Computer Science
Jian Shi is a final-year Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), where he is advised by Prof. Peter Wonka, specializing in computer vision, geometric deep learning, generative AI, and 3D visual computing, with particular emphasis on stereo video synthesis, 3D perception, scene reconstruction, and immersive visual experiences.

KAUST becomes first FIFA research institute in the Middle East and Asia

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KAUST has been designated the first FIFA Research Institute in the Middle East and Asia, and the fifth worldwide, reflecting the University’s commitment to advancing innovation in football through cutting-edge scientific inquiry.

Nanbo Li

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Computer Science
Nanbo Li is a Postdoctoral Fellow working in Prof. Jürgen Schmidhuber research group at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) Center of Excellence for Generative AI.

Discovery of Low-Dimensional Generative Models for Complex Dynamical Systems

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This thesis presents a data-driven framework for discovering low-dimensional generative models of complex systems by using a library of normal-form equations to identify both observable dynamics and hidden control variables directly from time-series data.

Professor Wolfgang Heidrich elected as a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors and named a 2025 Optica Fellow

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KAUST Professor Wolfgang Heidrich has been named a Fellow of both the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) and Optica, recognizing his pioneering contributions to computational imaging, display systems and AI-driven optical technologies.