

Peyman Milanfar
Distinguished Scientist at Google leading its Computational Imaging team, former UC Santa Cruz professor, and a key contributor to the Pixel camera pipeline with extensive publications and citations in imaging and denoising research.
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Apr 10, 2026 • 1h 24min
The Hidden Engine of Vision with Peyman Milanfar (Google)
Peyman Milanfar, a Distinguished Scientist at Google who helped build the Pixel camera pipeline, explains why denoising is a fundamental engine of modern vision. He links denoising to manifolds, RED and diffusion-like processes. Conversations cover mobile photography, BM3D to neural improvements, one-step diffusion on Pixel, perception-distortion tradeoffs, and why visual intelligence may be next.


