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The Eurographics Association recognizes his pioneering scientific contributions throughout his professional career and his service to the research community
Diego Gutiérrez is a researcher at the I3A, where he directs the Graphics and Imaging Lab, and a professor at the School of Engineering and Architecture of the University of Zaragoza
The European Association of Computer Graphics, Eurographics, once again recognizes the scientific and technical work of Diego Gutiérrez, researcher at the Engineering Research Institute of Aragon (I3A), where he directs the Graphics and Imaging Lab.
El investigador just received the Outstanding Technical Contribution Award 2022 (Outstanding Technical Contributions Award) for his international work throughout his career. career in the field of Computer Graphics, but also for his ability to lead teams and for his service and contributions to the research community. This is recognized by Eurographics, from where they define Diego Gutiérrez as “a model to follow in this field, since he shows a great breadth of research topics while maintaining a deep technical focus and carrying out pioneering contributions in many areas, in addition to inspiring young researchers to continue promoting the state of the art in the field of computer graphics.”
Research areas
The main areas of interest in which he researches from his group, Graphics and Imaging Lab, include the simulation of light transport based on physics, virtual reality and computational imaging. His work stands out for his deep interest in expanding the limits of light transport simulation, for example, including the temporal dimension or pointing to new visualization technologies, but also for his search to understand how the most advanced techniques of Graphic computing with human perception.
Among his numerous contributions, he has achieved great advances in global illumination and light transport simulation methods. Likewise, Eurographics highlights the proposal of this I3A researcher on scene reconstruction techniques without line of sight (NLOS), that is, hidden from the camera. In particular, in an innovative article published in the prestigious journal Nature, Diego Gutiérrez and his team demonstrated that these techniques can also be generalized using the propagation of diffractive waves, thus converting any wall into a virtual photo camera and allowing, for the first time, applications that are not limited to laboratory tests. Possible future applications of this technology include medical imaging, rescue planning or even remote inspection of planets.
In granting the prize, his work on modeling and realistic representation of materials, a key aspect in computer image generation. For this line of work he received an ERC Consolidator Grant in 2016.
On the other hand, he has made fundamental contributions to research in virtual reality, including cognitive aspects. For example, in a recent collaboration with Stanford and Adobe, his team demonstrated that it is possible to alter the subjective perception of the passage of time depending on the type of visual stimuli displayed in virtual environments.
Reference in research
But this award not only values their technical contributions, but also highlights the respect of the scientific community and their success in fostering more innovative research communities.
El Graphics and Imaging Lab, research group that founded in 2008, has become a world reference in the field of Computer Graphics. The creation of this group, in the words of Diego Gutiérrez himself “It is the achievement I am most proud of.. It has been a lot of work for many years, but it is fortunate to be able to work with such motivated, creative and trained people. This award is as much yours as it is mine. “Talent is the best distributed asset in the world, you just have to give it opportunities.”
Diego Gutiérrez is a professor at the Department of Computer Science and Systems Engineering at the University of Zaragoza.. He has been editor-in-chief and associate editor of several international journals, as well as president of the scientific program of some of the most relevant international conferences in his field. He has also been a guest researcher at prestigious universities such as Stanford, MIT or Yale, and is a founding partner of DIVE-Medical, a spin-off of the University of Zaragoza dedicated to the early detection of visual pathologies in babies.
Source: University of Zaragoza
