Sebastian Dille

Hi!

I’m a recent PhD graduate from the Computational Photography Lab at SFU, advised by Prof. Yağiz Aksoy. I'm interested in machine learning approaches for photography, image editing and VFX.

My research spans computational photography as well as classical computer vision applications. I have gained expertise in single-image HDR reconstruction and color science, and have worked extensively on monocular depth-estimation and class-agnostic image segmentation before.

I had the opportunity to join Netflix as a ML Reseach Intern in 2025, working on HDR scene reconstruction. Before my Ph.D., I spent a few years as a Postproduction Supervisor at CinePostproduction working on numerous theatrical and television productions and restorations.

I received my M.Eng. in Imaging and Media Technology from TH Köln in 2015 and my B.Eng. Audiovisual Media from Media University Stuttgart in 2011.

Publications

Physically-Based Models of Dynamic Range Extension

Sebastian Dille
Ph.D. Thesis, 2026
thesis || project page (coming soon)

Intrinsic Single-Image HDR Reconstruction

Sebastian Dille*, Chris Careaga*, and Yağız Aksoy
ECCV 2024
paper on arXiv || project page || code

A Bottom-Up Approach to Class-Agnostic Image Segmentation

Sebastian Dille, Ari Blondal, Sylvain Paris, and Yağız Aksoy
ECCV Workshops 2024
paper on arXiv || project page

Boosting Monocular Depth Estimation Models to High-Resolution via Content-Adaptive Multi-Resolution Merging

S. Mahdi H. Miangoleh*, Sebastian Dille*, Long Mai, Sylvain Paris, and Yağız Aksoy
CVPR 2021
paper on arXiv || project page || code

Real-time Tone Mapping - An Evaluation of Color-Accurate Methods for Luminance Compression

Sebastian Dille, Arnulph Fuhrmann and Gregor Fischer
22. Workshop Farbbildverarbeitung 2016
paper || project page

Posters

Physically-Based Compositing of 2D Graphics

Tyrus Tracey, Stefan Diaconu, Sebastian Dille, S. Mahdi H. Miangoleh, and Yağız Aksoy
SIGGRAPH Posters 2025
(Course project for CMPT 461, Project Supervisor)
poster || project page

Interactive RGB+NIR Photo Editing

Samuel Antunes Miranda*, Shahrzad Mirzaei*, Mariam Bebawy*, Sebastian Dille, and Yağız Aksoy
SIGGRAPH Posters 2024
(Course project for CMPT 461, Project Supervisor)
poster || project page

Parallax Background Texture Generation

Brigham Okano*, Shao Yu Shen*, Sebastian Dille, and Yağız Aksoy
SIGGRAPH Posters 2022
(Course project for CMPT 461, Project Supervisor)
poster || project page