Naoufel werghi, professor of computer science at the centre for cyber-physical systems, khalifa university.

Naoufel Werghi aims not only to replicate the human visual system, but to extend its capabilities so that machines can perceive patterns invisible to the eye and process information at scales beyond human capacity.

I started my PhD working on robots that can ‘see’—machines capable of sensing the environment, analyzing images and making decisions. As I delved deeper, I realized that I was grappling with the same fundamental problems that once preoccupied David Marr, a visionary neuroscientist and the founder of modern computer vision. He believed that for robots to see, we first needed computers to analyze images and understand the context.