Vivek Boominathan
 

Research Scientist

Vivek
Boominathan

 

About

I am currently a Postdoctoral Research Associate in The Computational Imaging Group headed by Prof. Ashok Veeraraghavan at Rice University. My research lies at the intersection of computer vision, machine learning, applied optics, and nanofabrication. My current research focuses on building end-to-end systems with novel optics, sensors, and machine learning algorithms to create devices with applications in robotics, autonomous driving, wearables, medical sensing, machine vision, the internet of things (IoT), and virtual/augmented reality. Furthermore, I use custom fabricated optics and chips to overcome the challenges of traditional lenses and image sensors, such as size, weight, and function. Broadly, my research is in computational imaging and draws from the foundations of computer vision, computer graphics, machine learning, wave optics, photonics, and materials science.

 
 
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Contact

Email: vivek.booms[at]gmail.com

ECE, Rice University
6100 Main St,
MS-378,
Houston, TX-77025, USA

Codebase

PhlatCam: Designed phase-mask based thin lensless camera, 2020. [code]

FlatNet: Towards Photorealistic Scene Reconstruction from Lensless Measurements, 2019 and 2020. Codebase by Salman Khan. [project page] [code] [dataset]

FreeCam3D: Snapshot Structured Light 3D with Freely-Moving Cameras, 2020. Codebase by Yicheng Wu. [project page] [code]

PhaseCam3D: Learning Phase Masks for Passive Single ViewDepth Estimation, 2019. Codebase by Yicheng Wu. [project] [code]

 

Highlighted works

Brandon Y Feng, Haiyun Guo, Mingyang Xie, Vivek Boominathan, Manoj K Sharma, Ashok Veeraraghavan, and Christopher A Metzler, “NeuWS: Neural wavefront shaping for guidestar-free imaging through static and dynamic scattering media,” Science Advances, 2023.

Vivek Boominathan*, Jesse K. Adams*, Dong Yan*, Jimin Wu*, Sibo Gao, Alex Rodriguez, Soonyoung Kim, Jennifer Carns, Rebecca Richards-Kortum, Caleb Kemere, Ashok Veeraraghavan, Jacob T. Robinson, “In vivo lensless microscopy via a phase mask generating diffraction patterns with high-contrast contours,” Nature Biomedical Engineering, 2022. (* = Equally contributed)

Vivek Boominathan, Jacob T. Robinson, Laura Waller, and Ashok Veeraraghavan, “Recent Advances in Lensless Imaging”, Optica, 2022.

Vivek Boominathan, Jesse Adams, Jacob Robinson, Ashok Veeraraghavan, “PhlatCam: Designed phase-mask based thin lensless camera”, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (IEEE TPAMI), 2020. [free access]

Yicheng Wu, Vivek Boominathan, Huaijin Chen, Aswin Sankaranarayanan, Ashok Veeraraghavan, “PhaseCam3D – Learning Phase Masks for Passive Single ViewDepth Estimation”, IEEE International Conference on Computational Photography (ICCP), 2019. [free access] [project] [code]

Vivek Boominathan*, Jesse K. Adams*, Benjamin W. Avants, Daniel G. Vercosa, Fan Ye, Richard G. Baraniuk, Jacob T. Robinson, Ashok Veeraraghavan, “Single-Frame 3D Fluorescence Microscopy with Ultra-Miniature Lensless FlatScope”, Science Advances, 2017. (* = Equally contributed)

Vivek Boominathan, Jesse K. Adams, Salman Asif, Benjamin W. Avants, Jacob T. Robinson, Richard G. Baraniuk, Aswin C. Sankaranarayanan, Ashok Veeraraghavan, “Lensless Imaging: A Computational Renaissance”, Computational Photography and Displays Special Issue in the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 2016. [free access]

Vivek Boominathan, Kaushik Mitra, and Ashok Veeraraghavan, “Improving Resolution and Depth-of-Field of Light Field Cameras Using a Hybrid Imaging System,” IEEE International Conference on Computational Photography (ICCP), 2014. [link] [project]

 

Journal Papers

Sean M. Farrell, Vivek Boominathan, Nathaniel Raymondi, Ashutosh Sabharwal, and Ashok Veeraraghavan, “CoIR: Compressive Implicit Radar,” IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (IEEE TPAMI), 2023. [link]

Jimin Wu, Vivek Boominathan, Ashok Veeraraghavan, and Jacob T. Robinson, “Real-time, deep-learning aided lensless microscope,” Biomedical Optics Express 2023. [link]

Brandon Y Feng, Haiyun Guo, Mingyang Xie, Vivek Boominathan, Manoj K Sharma, Ashok Veeraraghavan, and Christopher A Metzler, “NeuWS: Neural wavefront shaping for guidestar-free imaging through static and dynamic scattering media,” Science Advances, 2023. [link]

Vivek Boominathan*, Jesse K. Adams*, Dong Yan*, Jimin Wu*, Sibo Gao, Alex Rodriguez, Soonyoung Kim, Jennifer Carns, Rebecca Richards-Kortum, Caleb Kemere, Ashok Veeraraghavan, Jacob T. Robinson, “In vivo lensless microscopy via a phase mask generating diffraction patterns with high-contrast contours”, Nature Biomedical Engineering, 2022. (* = Equally contributed) [link]

Vivek Boominathan, Jacob T. Robinson, Laura Waller, and Ashok Veeraraghavan, “Recent Advances in Lensless Imaging”, Optica, 2022. [link]

Jasper Tan, Vivek Boominathan, Richard Baraniuk, and Ashok Veeraraghavan, "EDoF-ToF: extended depth of field time-of-flight imaging," Optics Express, 2021. [link]

Shiyu Tan, Frank Yang, Vivek Boominathan, Ashok Veeraraghavan, Gururaj V. Naik, “3D Imaging Using Extreme Dispersion in Optical Metasurfaces", ACS Photonics, 2021. [link]

Salman S Khan, Varun Sundar, Vivek Boominathan, Ashok Veeraraghavan, Kaushik Mitra. “FlatNet: Towards Photorealistic Scene Reconstruction from Lensless Measurements”, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (IEEE TPAMI), 2020. [project page] [code] [dataset]

Vivek Boominathan, Jesse Adams, Jacob Robinson, Ashok Veeraraghavan, “PhlatCam: Designed phase-mask based thin lensless camera”, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (IEEE TPAMI), 2020. [link]

Jasper Tan, Li Niu, Jesse K. Adams, Vivek Boominathan, Jacob T. Robinson, Richard G. Baraniuk, Ashok Veeraraghavan, “Face Detection and Verification Using Lensless Cameras”, IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging (IEEE TCI), 2018. [link] [project page] [code] [dataset]

Vivek Boominathan*, Jesse K. Adams*, Benjamin W. Avants, Daniel G. Vercosa, Fan Ye, Richard G. Baraniuk, Jacob T. Robinson, Ashok Veeraraghavan, “Single-Frame 3D Fluorescence Microscopy with Ultra-Miniature Lensless FlatScope”, Science Advances, 2017. (* = Equally contributed) [link]

Vivek Boominathan, Jesse K. Adams, Salman Asif, Benjamin W. Avants, Jacob T. Robinson, Richard G. Baraniuk, Aswin C. Sankaranarayanan, Ashok Veeraraghavan, “Lensless Imaging: A Computational Renaissance”, Computational Photography and Displays Special Issue in the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 2016. [link]

David F. Gruber, Brennan T. Phillips, Rory O’Brien, Vivek Boominathan, Ashok Veeraraghavan, Ganesh Vasan, Peter O’Brien, Vincent A. Pieribone, John S. Sparks, ``Bioluminescent Flashes Drive Nighttime Schooling Behavior and Synchronized Swimming Dynamics in Flashlight Fish'', PloS ONE, 2019. [link]

Conference papers

Yang Zhao, Ziyun Li, Yonggan Fu, Yongan Zhang, Chaojian Li, Cheng Wan, Haoran You, Shang Wu, Xu Ouyang, Vivek Boominathan, Ashok Veeraraghavan, Yingyan Lin, “i-FlatCam: A 253 FPS, 91.49 µJ/Frame Ultra-Compact Intelligent Lensless Camera for Real-Time and Efficient Eye Tracking in VR/AR". IEEE Symposium on VLSI Technology and Circuits (VLSI), 2022

Haoran You, Cheng Wan, Yang Zhao, Zhongzhi Yu, Yonggan Fu, Jiayi Yuan, Shang Wu, Shunyao Zhang, Yingan Zhang, Chaojian Li, Vivek Boominathan, Ashok Veeraraghavan, Ziyun Li, Yingyan Lin, “EyeCoD: eye tracking system acceleration via flatcam-based algorithm & accelerator co-design”, International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), 2022.

Yonggan Fu, Yang Zhang, Yue Wang, Zhihan Lu, Vivek Boominathan, Ashok Veeraraghavan, Yingyan Lin, “SACoD: Sensor Algorithm Co-Design Towards Efficient CNN-powered Intelligent PhlatCam”, IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2021. [PDF]

Sajjad Moazeni, Eric H. Pollmann, Vivek Boominathan, Filipe A. Cardoso, Jacob T. Robinson, Ashok Veeraraghavan, Kenneth L. Shepard, “A Mechanically Flexible Implantable Neural Interface for Computational Imaging and Optogenetic Stimulation over 5.4 x 5.4 mm2 FoV”, IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), 2021. [link] [PDF]

Yicheng Wu, Vivek Boominathan, Xuan Zhao, Jacob Robinson, Hiroshi Kawasaki, Aswin Sankaranarayanan, Ashok Veeraraghavan, “FreeCam3D: Snapshot Structured Light 3D with Freely-Moving Cameras”, European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2020. [PDF] [project page] [code]

Mel White, Vivek Boominathan, Ashok Veeraraghavan and Alyosha Molnar, "On-Chip Optical and Analog Processing in 180nm CMOS for Holography," Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, 2020.

Jasper Tan, Salman S Khan, Vivek Boominathan, Jeffrey Byrne, Richard Baraniuk, Kaushik Mitra, Ashok Veeraraghavan, “CANOPIC: Pre-Digital Privacy-Enhancing Encodings for Computer Vision”, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), 2020. [link]

Salman S Khan, VR Adarsh, Vivek Boominathan, Jasper Tan, Ashok Veeraraghavan, Kaushik Mitra. “Towards photorealistic reconstruction of highly multiplexed lensless images”, IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV). 2019. [PDF] [project page] [code]

Yicheng Wu, Vivek Boominathan, Huaijin Chen, Aswin Sankaranarayanan, Ashok Veeraraghavan, “PhaseCam3D – Learning Phase Masks for Passive Single ViewDepth Estimation”, IEEE International Conference on Computational Photography (ICCP), 2019. [PDF] [project] [code]

Jasper Tan, Vivek Boominathan, Ashok Veeraraghavan, Richard Baraniuk, “Flat Focus: Depth of Field Analysis for the FlatCam Lensless Imaging System”, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2017. [link]

Vivek Boominathan, Kaushik Mitra and Ashok Veeraraghavan, “Improving Resolution and Depth-of-Field of Light Field Cameras Using a Hybrid Imaging System”, IEEE International Conference on Computational Photography (ICCP), 2014. [link] [project]

Adam Samaniego, Vivek Boominathan, Ashutosh Sabharwal and Ashok Veeraraghavan, “mobileVision: A Face-mounted, Voice-activated, Non-mydriatic ‘Lucky’ Ophthalmoscope”, Frontiers in Optics, Optical Society of America, 2014. [link]

Undergraduate Research

Vivek Boominathan and K Sri Rama Murty, “Speaker recognition via sparse representations using orthogonal matching pursuit”, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2012. [link]

K Sri Rama Murty, Vivek Boominathan and Karthika Vijayan, “Allpass modeling of LP residual for speaker recognition”, International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications (SPCOM), 2012. [link]