ABDULLAH ABUOLAIM
BSc, Jordan University of Science and Technology
MSc, National University of Singapore
PhD, York University
Email: {first name}.{last name}@gmail.com
I am a senior Camera Autofocus Engineer at Google, based in Mountain View. I completed my PhD in Computer Science from York University in October 2021. During my doctoral studies, I focused on addressing various research problems related to Camera Depth of Field (DoF) manipulation, including but not limited to Autofocus, DoF extension, and synthetic shallow DoF. Prior to pursuing my PhD, I obtained a Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Computer Engineering from Jordan University of Science and Technology (JUST) in June 2015. Subsequently, in July 2017, I recived my Master of Science (MSc) degree in Computer Science from the National University of Singapore (NUS).
Research interests
Computer vision low-level computer vision computational photography
image restoration camera depth of field machine learning artificial intelligence
Presentation
Defocus deblurring is as important as motion deblurring! Watch the video below
During the NTIRE workshop in conjunction with CVPR 2021.
What's New
Oct. 2023: Senior Camera Autofocus Engineer (L5) at Google. Mountain View, CA, USA..
May. 2023: Patent "System and method for synthesizing low-light images". US-17566425.
Mar. 2023: Our paper "DC2: Dual-Camera Defocus Control by Learning To Refocus" got accepted in CVPR'23.
Feb. 2023: Patent "System and method of dual-pixel image synthesis and image background manipulation". US-17816787.
Jul. 2022: Patent "System and method of processing of a captured image to facilitate post-processing modification". US-17602468.
May 2022: Joined Google as a Camera Autofocus Engineer (L4). Mountain View, CA, USA.
Mar. 2022: Our paper "Day-to-Night Image Synthesis for Training Nighttime Neural ISPs" got accepted in CVPR'22.
Oct. 2021: I have successfully completed my PhD in Computer Science from York University.
Oct. 2021: Our paper "Improving Single-Image Defocus Deblurring: How Dual-Pixel Images Help Through Multi-Task Learning" got accepted in WACV'22.
Oct. 2021: Our paper "Semi-Supervised Raw-to-Raw Mapping" got accepted in BMVC'21.
Sept. 2021: I have been recognized as an "Outstanding Reviewer" for ICCV'21.
Aug. 2021: The code of our ICCV'21 paper is now available at this GitHub repository.
Jul. 2021: Our paper "Learning to Reduce Defocus Blur by Realistically Modeling Dual-Pixel Data" got accepted in ICCV'21.
Mar. 2021: Our paper "CIE XYZ Net: Unprocessing Images for Low-Level Computer Vision Tasks" got accepted in TPAMI.
Feb. 2021: Started my internship with Samsung AI Center, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Jan. 2021: We will be running the NTIRE 2021-Defocus Deblurring challenge in conjunction with CVPR'21.
Jul. 2020: The dataset and code of our ECCV'20 paper are now available at this GitHub repository.
Jul. 2020: Our paper "Defocus Deblurring Using Dual-Pixel Data" got accepted in ECCV'20.
May 2020: Started my internship with Google, Mountain View, California, USA.
Mar. 2020: Our paper "Modeling Defocus-Disparity in Dual-Pixel Sensors" got accepted in ICCP'20.
Dec. 2019: Our paper "Online Lens Motion Smoothing for Video Autofocus" got accepted in WACV'20.
Jul. 2019: We have filed a provisional US patent application 160-013USPR. Check out Autofocus system.
Jul. 2019: I have been selected by the dean's office to be a member in the EECS Tenure and Promotion Adjudication Committee.
Jun. 2019: Our CIC'19 paper has received the best paper award.
Jun. 2019: Our paper "Color Temperature Tuning: Allowing Accurate Post-capture White-balance Editing" got accepted in CIC'19.
Mar. 2019: Our paper "A versatile computational framework for group pattern mining of pedestrian trajectories" got accepted in the GeoInformatica journal.
Sept. 2018: Became the president of EECS graduate students association at York University.
Jul. 2018: Our paper "Revisiting Autofocus for Smartphone Cameras" got accepted in ECCV'18.
Jun. 2018: Our MDM'18 paper has received the best paper award.
Apr. 2018: Our demo "Trajectolizer: Interactive Analysis and Exploration of Trajectory Group Dynamics" got accepted in MDM'18.
Mar. 2018: Our paper "Tensor Methods for Group Pattern Discovery of Pedestrian Trajectories" got accepted in MDM'18.
Sept. 2017: Became the vice-president of EECS graduate students association at York University.
Sept. 2017: Joined York University as a PhD candidate.
Jul. 2017: Graduated from NUS and received my Masters of Science in Computer Science (MSc).
Jun. 2017: Our paper "On the Essence of Unsupervised Detect. of Anomalous Motion in Surveillance Videos" got accepted in CAIP'17.
Professional Experience
May 2022 – Present
Camera Autofocus Engineer, Google. Mountain View, USA.
Feb. 2022 – May 2022
Post-doc, York University. Toronto, Canada.
Sept. 2017 – Oct. 2021
Teaching assistant at EECS department, York University. Toronto, Canada.
Sept. 2017 – Oct. 2021
Research assistant at EECS department, York University. Toronto, Canada.
Feb. 2021 – Jun. 2021
Research intern at Samsung AI Center. Toronto, Canada.
May. 2020 – Aug. 2020
Research intern at Google. Mountain View, USA.
Oct. 2019 – Mar. 2020
AI scientist at ABLE innovation. Toronto, Canada.
Aug. 2015 – Jul. 2017
Teaching assistant at the School of Computing (SoC), NUS. Singapore.
Aug. 2015 – Jul. 2017
Research assistant at Advanced Digital Science Centre (ADSC), Illinois University research center. Singapore.
Feb. 2015 – May. 2015
Lecturer with the King Abdullah II Fund for Development (KAFD), JUST. Irbid, Jordan.
Oct. 2014 – Dec. 2014
Intern at Westsächsische Hochschule Zwickau. Zwickau, Germany.
Jul. 2014 – Sept. 2014
Intern at ADSC, Illinois University research center. Singapore.
Professional Services
Reviewing research papers for:
TPAMI, IJCV, TIP, TCI, Sensors, CVPR'22, WACV’22, BMVC’21, ICCV’21, CVPR’21, WACV’21, ECCV’20, CVPR’20, AAAI’20, ICCV’19, BMVC’19, CVPR’19, WACV’19, BMVC’18.
Mar. 2021 – Apr. 2021
Program Committee of Ontario Workshop on Computer Vision (OWCV).
Jan. 2021 – Jul. 2021
The organizer of NTIRE 2021-Defocus Deblurring challenge in conjunction with CVPR'21.
Jul. 2019 – Jul. 2020
Member of the EECS Tenure and Promotion Adjudication Committee at York University. Toronto, Canada.
Sept. 2018 – Sept. 2019
President of the EECS graduate students association at York University. Toronto, Canada.
Sept. 2017 – Sept. 2018
Vice-president of the EECS graduate students association at York University. Toronto, Canada.
Jun. 2017 – Jul. 2017
Web chair of a workshop on education and social science technologies at NUS. Singapore.
Awards and Honors
Sept. 2017 – Oct. 2022
York Graduate Scholarship (YGS). York University.
Sept. 2021
Outstanding reviewer for the International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2021).
Jun. 2019
Best paper award in the 27th Color and Imaging Conference (CIC 2019). Paris, France.
Jun. 2018
Best paper award in the 19th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM 2018). Aalborg, Denmark.
Aug. 2015 – Jul. 2017
Singapore International Graduate Award (SINGA). NUS.
Aug. 2015 – Jul. 2017
Agency for Science, Technology & Research (A*STAR) fund.
Jun. 2015
Graduated with Excellence and 2nd top student among 110 students. JUST.
Sept. 2010 – Jun. 2015
Listed five times on Dean’s Honor List out of ten semesters. JUST.