Enhance Lab
Hybrid software solutions for boosting image quality
Where modern machine learning meets physical models of image formation and optimization methods for inverse problems


What We Do





Joint demosaicing, denoising, super-resolution and HDR imaging from raw photo bursts
Target Markets
Non-exclusive licenses (possibly exclusive by sector)
- Personal photography: camera and smartphone manufacturers
- Scientific photography
- Remote sensing
- Medical applications: endoscopy, microscopy
- Forensic aids
Possibly
Personal apps
Photoshop plugin
Today: POCs in personal and scientific photography with two large groups
Expertise
– Computer vision, image processing, machine learning, optimization
– Over 75K citations
– Three “test-of-time” awards at the top computer vision (CVPR) and machine learning (ICML) international conferences
– Two Ellis Fellows, one IEEE Fellow, one member of the Academia Europaea
– Three ERC grants (most selective multi-million euro research grants in Europe)
– Mairal has received the international PAMI young researcher award
– Ponce has written the textbook “Computer Vision: A Modern Approach, translated in Chinese, Japanese and Russian, with over 15,000 copies sold worldwide
– Mairal and Ponce have been involved in the organization teams of the leading international conferences in computer vision and machine learning (e.g., program and general chair for CVPR, ECCV, ICCV; tworkshop chair NeurIPS).
About Us

Pr. Jean Ponce, CEO
Pr. Jean Ponce, CEO
Professor, ENS and NYU
Scientific Director, PRAIRIE
Member, WILLOW@Inria

Dr. Bruno Lecouat, CTO
Dr. Bruno Lecouat, CTO
PhD ENS (ongoing)
Télécom ParisTech
National Univ. of Singapore

Dr. Julien Mairal, Scientist
Dr. Julien Mairal, Scientist
Research Scientist, Inria
PhD ENS, X-Mines
Head, THOTH@Inria
Advisory Board

Dr. Frédéric Guichard
CTO
DXOMARK

Prof. Yann Le Cun
Prof. New York University
VP & Chief AI Scientist, Meta
ACM Turing award laureate


