Jose Braz Escola Superior de Tecnologia de Setúbal Portugal http://ltodi.est.ips.pt

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Kadi Bouatouch IRISA, University of Rennes 1 France http://people.irisa.fr/Kadi.Bouatouch

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Professor Kadi Bouatouch is an electronics and automatic systems engineer (ENSEM 1974). He was awarded a PhD in 1977 (University of Nancy 1, France) and a higher doctorate on computer science in the field of computer graphics in 1989 (University of Rennes 1, France). He is/was working on global illumination, lighting simulation for complex environments, GPU based rendering, HDR imaging and computer vision. He is currently Emeritus Professor at the university of Rennes 1 (France) and researcher at IRISA Rennes (Institut de Recherche en Informatique et Systèmes Aléatoires). He was the head of the FRVSense team with in IRISA. He was/is member of the program committee of several conferences and workshops and reviewer for several Computer Graphics journals such as: The Visual Computer, ACM Trans. On Graphics, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, IEEE Trans. On Visualization and Computer Graphics, IEEE Trans. On image processing, etc. He also acted as a reviewer for many conferences and workshops. He has reported for several PhD theses or higher doctorates in France and abroad (USA, UK, Belgium, Cyprus, The Netherlands, Spain, Germany, Algeria, etc.). He was an associate editor for the Visual Computer Journal. ... More >>

A. Augusto Sousa FEUP/INESC TEC Portugal

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Augusto Sousa (m) got his PhD in 1996 in FEUP (Faculty of Engineering of University of Porto, Portugal), in the area of Computer Graphics/Image Synthesis and Parallel Computing. He has been teaching in the same Faculty since 1983, in areas related to Computer Architectures and Computer Graphics.
He was member of the Executive Board of FEUP, being the Vice-President of the Academic Affairs Council, from 2014 to 2022. Between 2008 and 2014, he was the director of MIEIC - Master in Informatics Engineering and Computing (a 5 years master program). Since 1985, he has been a researcher in INESC/INESC Porto, where he was the Coordinator of the Information Systems and Computer Graphics Unit. He has been supervisor of several doctoral and masters' theses, in various areas of Computer Graphics, Virtual Reality and Geographical Information Systems.
A. Augusto de Sousa has been the main researcher of several R&D projects related to Advanced/Intuitive Interaction, Image Synthesis, Virtual Reality and Multisensory Virtual Environments.
As a member of the Executive Board of the Portuguese EUROGRAPHICS Chapter, he was, in two different periods of time, President, Vice-President and Treasurer, as well as a member of the Executive Committee of the EUROGRAPHICS Association itself. ... More >>

 

Manuela Chessa University of Genoa Italy www.dibris.unige.it/en/chessa-manuela

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Manuela Chessa is a Assistant Professor at Dept. of Informatics, Bioengineering, Robotics, and Systems Engineering of University of Genova, Italy. She received her MSc in 2005, and the Ph.D. in 2009, under the supervision of Prof. S. P. Sabatini. Her research interests are focused on the study of biological and artificial vision systems, on the development of bioinspired models, and of natural human-machine interfaces based on virtual, augmented and mixed reality. She studies the use of novel sensing technologies (e.g. Microsoft Kinect, Leap Motion, Intel Real Sense) and of visualization devices (e.g. 3D monito rs, head-mounted-displays, tablets) to develop natural interaction systems, always having in mind the human perception. She has been involved in several national and international research projects. She is author and co-author of 55 peer reviewed scientific papers, both on ISI journal and on International Conferences, of 5 book chapters, and of 2 edited book. ... More >>

Alexis Paljic Mines Paristech France http://caor.mines-paristech.fr/users/alexispaljic

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Alexis Paljic is an associate professor in the Centre for Robotics, PSL-Research University, Mines ParisTech. His research field is immersion and interaction in virtual reality. He conducts research to explore the conditions of realistic response in virtual reality in the context of predictive use of VR, such as industrial design or therapy. He also seeks to adapt immersion and interaction in the context of wide public use of VR: emerging forms of cinema, games, or cultural mediation.

 

Andreas Kerren Department of Computer Science and Media Technology, Linnaeus University, Växjö Sweden https://bit.ly/akerren-liu

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Andreas Kerren received the BS and MS degrees as well as his PhD degree from the Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany. He is currently a Full Professor in Computer Science at the School of Computer Science, Physics and Mathematics, Linnaeus University, Sweden, where he is heading the research group for Information and Software Visualization (ISOVIS). His main research interests include the areas of Information Visualization, Software Visualization, Visual Analytics, and Human-Computer Interaction. He is a member of the ACM, the IEEE Computer Society and of various networks such as the European Network on Wor d Structure or the IFIP Working Group 13.7: HCI and Visualization. ... More >>

Christophe Hurter French Civil Aviation University (ENAC) France http://www.recherche.enac.fr/~hurter/

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Christophe Hurter is professor at the Interactive Data Visualization group (part of the DEVI team) of the French Civil Aviation University (ENAC) in Toulouse, France. He is also an associate researcher at the research center for the French Military Air Force Test Center (CReA).
His research cover information visualization (InfoVis) and human-computer interaction (HCI), especially the visualization of multivariate data in space and time. He also investigates the design of scalable visual interfaces and the development of pixel based rendering techniques.
Throughout His career, he has been involved with se veral projects including: Interactive Big Data exploration tools, graph simplifications (edge bundling), paper based interactions, augmented and virtual reality, 3D visualization... ... More >>

 

Giovanni Maria Farinella Università di Catania Italy www.dmi.unict.it/farinella

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Giovanni Maria Farinella obtained the degree in Computer Science (egregia cum laude) from the University of Catania, Italy, in 2004. He is Founder Member of the IPLAB Research Group at University of Catania since 2005. He was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy (Computer Vision) from the University of Catania in 2008. He is currently a Full Professor at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Catania, Italy. His research interests lie in the fields of Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning, with focus on First Person (Egocentric) Vision. He is Associate Editor of the intern ational journals IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Pattern Recognition - Elsevier and IET Computer Vision. He has been serving as Area Chair for CVPR 2020/21/22, ICCV 2017/19/21, ECCV 2020, BMVC 2020, WACV 2019, ICPR 2018, and as Program Chair of ECCV 2022, ICIAP 2021 and VISAPP 2019/20/21/22/23. Giovanni Maria Farinella founded (in 2006) and currently directs the International Computer Vision Summer School. He also founded (in 2014) and currently directs the Medical Imaging Summer School. He is member of the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS), Senior Member of the IEEE Computer Society, Scientific Advisor of the NVIDIA AI Technology Centre (NVAITC), and board member of the CINI Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Systems (lead of the area AI for Industry - since 2021). He was awarded the PAMI Mark Everingham Prize 2017. In addition to academic work, Giovanni's industrial experience includes scientific advisorship to different national and international companies and startups, as well as the leadership as Founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Next Vision - Spinoff of the University of Catania. ... More >>

Petia Radeva Universitat de Barcelona Spain

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Prof. Petia Radeva is a Full professor at the Universitat de Barcelona (UB), Head of the Consolidated Research Group “Artificial Intelligence and Biomedical Applications (AIBA)” at the University of Barcelona. Her main interests are in Machine/Deep learning and Computer Vision and their applications to health. Specific topics of interest: data-centric deep learning, uncertainty modeling, self-supervised learning, continual learning, learning with noisy labeling, multi-modal learning, NeRF, food recognition, food ontology, etc. She is an Associate editor in Chief of Pattern Recognition journal and International Jo urnal of Visual Communication and Image Representation. She is a Research Manager of the State Agency of Research (Agencia Estatal de Investigación, AEI) of the Ministry of Science and Innovation of Spain. She supervised 24 PhD students and published more than 100 SCI journal publications and 250 international chapters and proceedings. Petia Radeva belongs to the top 2% of the World ranking of scientists with the major impact in the field of TIC according to the citations indicators of the popular ranking of Stanford.  Moreover, she was awarded IAPR Fellow since 2015, ICREA Academia’2015 and ICREA Academia’2022 assigned to the 30 best scientists in Catalonia for her scientific merits, received several international and national awards (“Aurora Pons Porrata”, Prize “Antonio Caparrós” ). ... More >>

 

Area: Geometry and Modeling Gustavo Patow Universitat de Girona Spain

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Gustavo Patow is an Associate Professor at the Universitat de Girona, Spain. He received his PhD from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain, and currently is head of the Geometry and Graphics Group (GGG). He has led several international and national projects, including urbanEvolution that studies the temporal evolution of different aspects of the urban structure; and the GEN3DLIVE project for 3D models from large data sets for human environments and life quality.

Area: Rendering Daniel Meneveaux University of Poitiers France

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Daniel Meneveaux is a Professor at the University of Poitiers (France) and XLIM institute (CNRS UMR 7252). He was awarded a Ph.D. degree in 1998 from the university of Rennes (France), hired as Professor in 2010. His fields of interest are lighting simulation, reflectance models, image-based rendering, complex scenes management, including topology-based geometric modeling and hierarchical representations.

Area: Animation and Simulation Verónica Orvalho Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto Portugal

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Verónica Orvalho is an optimist engineer. Veronica has a PhD in Computer Graphic, is a Professor at Porto University and the founder and CEO of Didimo. Fascinated by the many ways in which people communicate, learn and share knowledge, she set out to discover a new way to interact and install trust and empathy in the digital era – at scale. She recently gave a TEDx talk, received the Women Who Tech Award in New York and the IBM scientific award. Veronica is an international speaker and an active member of the SIGGRAPH community. Her inventions have been used by Universal Studios, Sony, Microsoft and Amazon.

Area: Interactive Environments Daniel Gonçalves INESC-ID, Instituto Superior Técnico Portugal

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Daniel Gonçalves is a researcher at the Visualization and Multimodal Interfaces Group of INESC-ID and Professor of Computer Science at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST/UL), the School of Engineering of the University of Lisboa, Portugal. His research encompasses the areas of Human-Computer Interaction, Information Visualization, Personal Information Management and Gamification, and has published over 170 peer-reviewed publications in those areas, as well as being the co-author of a textbook on Human-Computer Interaction. He was one of the organizers and Technical Program Chair of IFIP INTERACT and ACM Internationa l Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, is member of the Editorial Board of the Universal Access to the Information Society journal, ACM Senior Member, and member of the Board of Directors of the Portuguese Computer Graphics Group (the national Eurographics chapter). ... More >>

 

Area: Agents and Human Interaction Catherine Pelachaud CNRS/University of Pierre and Marie Curie France

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Catherine Pelachaud received the Ph.D. degree in computer science from University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA, in 1991. She is currently a CNRS director of research in the laboratory ISIR, Sorbonne University, where her research encompasses socially interactive agents, modeling of nonverbal communication and expressive behaviors. She has authored more than 200 articles. She is and was associate editors of several journals among which IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems and International Journal of Human-Computer Studies. She has co-edited severa l books on virtual agents and emotion-oriented systems. She participated to the organization of international conferences such as IVA, ACII and AAMAS, virtual agent track. She was the recipient of 4 best papers award of IVA. She is recipient of the ACM – SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award 2015 and was honored the title Doctor Honoris Causa of University of Geneva in 2016. Her Siggraph’94 paper received the Influential paper Award of IFAAMAS (the International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems). ... More >>

Area: Haptic and Multimodal Interaction Marc Ernst Faculty for Computer Science, Engineering, and Psychology, Ulm University Germany

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Since 2016 I am Chair of the Applied Cognitive Psychology Group at Ulm University, and currently vice-dean of the faculty and head of the Department for Psychology and Education which consists of 16 mayor research groups. Between 2011 and 2016 I was at Bielefeld University where I was Chair of the Cognitive Neuroscience Department, Director of the Interdisciplinary Research Centre (ZiF), and Vice-Coordinator of the Cognitive Interaction Technology-Centre of Excellence (CITEC). I studied Physics in Heidelberg and Frankfurt/Main. In 2000, I received my Ph.D. degree from Tübingen University for work conducted at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics investigating human visuomotor behavior. Starting in 2000, I spent almost 2 years as postdoc at the University of California at Berkeley, USA working with Prof. M. Banks on the integration of multisensory information. End of 2001 I returned to the MPI and became principle investigator of the Sensorimotor Lab in the Department of Prof. H. Bülthoff. In 2007, I then became leader of the Max Planck Research Group on Human Multisensory Perception & Action, before I moved to Bielefeld in 2011.
My scientific interest is in human multisensory perception, sensorimotor integration, men-machine inter­action, and VR. To this end, my work focuses on develop­ing empirically grounded, computational models of human perception and behaviour in close interaction with their application to intelligent technical systems for predicting and benchmarking human performance in naturalistic, interactive environments. I have published over 100 articles, chapters, and conference proceedings. I am editor-in-chief for the journal Multisensory Research, I am editor for several journals including the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, the Journal of Vision, the ACM Transactions on Applied Perception, and Cognitive Processing, and I am co-edior of the Springer book series on Touch and Haptic systems. I was involved in several international collaborative grants, including the EU Project Tocuh-HapSys investigating the sense of touch in interactive VR settings, the EU Project ImmerSence investigating human-human and human-machine interaction, the EU Project THE investigating synergies for haptic percep­tion and action, the EU Pro­ject WearHap developing and testing wearable haptic devices, and a HFSP pro­ject focusing on mecha­nisms of associative learning in human perception. Additionally, I was coordina­ting the EU Project Cyber­Walk, which developed an omnidirectional treadmill to enable natural free walking in virtual environments. I am founding member and one of the past presidents (2010-2014) of the EuroHaptics Society. Furthermore, I am member and vice-chair of the Technical Committee in Haptics, and the Vision Science Society. ... More >>

Area: Theories, Models and User Evaluation Federico Botella Miguel Hernandez University of Elche Spain

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Federico Botella is an Associate Professor with the Department of Statistics, Mathematics and Computer Science, Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche (MHU), Elche, Spain, where he currently leads the Webdecision Research Group. He is also a member of the “Operations Research Center” University Institute of the UMH. He has contributed to several national and international journals and conferences as an author, a reviewer, or a member of program committees. His research is focused on HCI, usability, accessibility, UX, and CX. He is an ACM Member and a SIGCHI Member, as well as an AIPO Member (Spanish Chapter of SIG CHI).
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Area: Interaction Techniques and Devices Wolfgang Hürst Utrecht University Netherlands

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Wolfgang Hürst is an assistant professor at the Department of Information and Computing Sciences at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. His research interests include mobile computing, human-computer interaction, augmented and virtual reality, and multimedia systems and technologies, mostly with a focus on gaming and media interaction. He is on the editorial board of IEEE Transactions on Multimedia and IEEE MultiMedia and was instrumental in the establishment of the new IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality (IEEE AIVR).

 

Area: Abstract Data Visualization Stefan Jänicke University of Southern Denmark, Odense Denmark https://imada.sdu.dk/~stjaenicke/

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Stefan Jänicke is an assistant professor at University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark. He worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the Image and Signal Processing Group at Leipzig University, Germany, where he lead a text visualization group focusing on applications in the digital humanities. In recent years, he has gained experience in developing information visualization and visual analytics techniques within a number of interdisciplinary projects. His PhD thesis investigates the utility of visualization techniques to support the comparative analysis of digital humanities data, and his current research rel ates to information visualization with a focus on text- and geovisualization. ... More >>

Area: General Data Visualization Romain Vuillemot LIRIS France http://romain.vuillemot.net/

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Romain Vuillemot is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Ecole Centrale de Lyon, Université de Lyon, France. His research interests include information visualization, visual analytics, and human-computer interactions, with a focus on advanced interaction techniques to include humans in the loop of complex predictive analytics processes. Vuillemot has a PhD in computer science from INSA de Lyon.

Area: Spatial Data Visualization Jan-Henrik Haunert University of Bonn Germany https://www.geoinfo.uni-bonn.de/en?set_language=en

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Jan-Henrik Haunert chairs the Geoinformation Group at the Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformation at the University of Bonn, Germany. He holds a diploma and doctoral degree from the University of Hannover, Germany, where in 2008 he defended his dissertation on map generalization by combinatorial optimization. Thereafter, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the algorithms group at the University of Würzburg, Germany. From 2013 to 2016 he was a professor for geoinformatics at the University of Osnabrück, Germany, before in 2016 he took up his professorship in Bonn. His research is dealing with the development of algorithms for the analysis and visualization of spatial information. A current research focus is on developing algorithms for map labeling and map generalization for interactive maps on small screens. ... More >>

 

Area: Image and Video Formation, Preprocessing and Analysis Raimondo Schettini University of Milano - Bicocca Italy

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Raimondo Schettini is a professor at the University of Milano Bicocca (Italy). He is head of the Imaging and Vision Lab. He has been associated with the Italian National Research Council since 1987, where he led the color imaging lab from 1990 to 2002. He has been a team leader in several research projects and published more than 300 refereed papers and eight patents about color reproduction, and image processing, analysis, and classification. He is a fellow of the International Association of Pattern Recognition for his contributions to pattern recognition research and color image analysis.

Area: Image and Video Formation, Preprocessing and Analysis Filippo Stanco Università di Catania Italy www.dmi.unict.it/fstanco

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Filippo Stanco received the degree in Computer Science from the University of Catania in 1999 with a thesis titled “Automatic Learning of Graphic Pattern” and he received the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Catania in 2003 with a thesis titled "Image Enhancement Techniques: Zooming and Super Resolution". From 2003 to 2005 he was research assistant at the University of Trieste on the project “Develop of an automatic system to restore antique photographic prints (SIRAD)” and from 2005 to 2006 he was Research Assistant at the University of Catania on “Image processing and computer graphics”. From 2006 to 2014 he is Assistant Professor (INF/01) with University of Catania. Since 2014 he is Associate Professor (INF/01) with the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Catania. He is the coordinator of the “Archeomatica project” (www.archeomatica.unict.it) to develop new digital tools for the archaeological research and the preservation of Cultural Heritage. His research interests include digital restoration, zooming, super-resolution, artifacts removal, interpolation, texture and GIS. He is President of the Bachelor Degree program at University of Catania.


Filippo Stanco has prepared the Italian version of the book “Digital Image Processing”. He is editor of the book “Digital Imaging for Cultural Heritage Preservation. Analysis, Restoration and Reconstruction of Ancient Artworks”, CRC Press. He is member of technical committee of the joint-lab between the STMicroelectronics and the University of Catania to research on “Image processing on Digital Devices”. He is member of the center of territorial Governance of the University of Catania and of the “Centro di Archeologia Cretese” (Cretan archaeological center).


He has published more than 100 papers in International journals and conferences. He is reviewer for several international journals, and he is a senior member of IEEE.


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Area: Image and Video Understanding Mariella Dimiccoli Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial (CSIC-UPC) Spain https://www.iri.upc.edu/people/mdimiccoli/

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Mariella Dimiccoli is a tenured research associate at the Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial (IRII), a joint Research Center of the Spanish Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) and the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC). She holds a MSc degree in Computer Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy, and a PhD in Signal Theory and Communications from the Technical University of Catalonia, Spain. Prior to joining the IRII, she conducted research in several prestigious academic institutions within and outside Europe, including the Ecole Normale Supèrieure de Cachan (France), the Coll ège de France (France), the Computer Vision Center (Spain) and the University of Texas at Austin (US).

Throughout these experiences, her research interests have revolved around image and video understanding, using various methodological frameworks and exploring different application domains. Her current research interests lie in the areas of Machine Learning and Computer Vision with focus on representation learning and unsupervised approaches, both in structural and non-structural scenarios.
Her research output consists of more than sixty peer reviewed international publications, 2 best paper awards (IbPRIA 2017, ICIP 2019 top 10%), and several funded research projects.

She has been the recipient of several highly competitive and prestigious research fellowships, including a Marie Curie cofund fellowship in 2014, a Ramón y Cajal fellowship in 2018, a Humboldt fellowship for experienced researchers in 2022. In 2020 she has been nominated by the CSIC to join AcademiaNet - the expert database for outstanding female academics. ... More >>

Area: Image and Video Understanding Fabio Galasso Sapienza University of Rome Italy https://fgalasso.bitbucket.io/

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Prof. Fabio Galasso heads the Perception and Intelligence Lab at the Computer Science Department of Sapienza University in Rome (Italy), with the goal of fundamental research and innovation transfer in computer vision and machine learning. Prior to Sapienza, he also conducted research at the University of Cambridge (UK) and at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics (Germany). Research achievements include several national (German) and 2 international (European) funded research projects, the 1st place at the UA-DETRAC'17 international competition for vehicle detection and the 3rd place for vehicle tracking at UA -DETRAC'18. He has been area and industrial chair at top international conferences and co-organizer of international workshops.

Besides academics, Prof. Galasso founded and directed the Computer Vision Department at OSRAM (Munich, Germany), world-wide leader in photonics. He cared about the entire life cycle of ideas, from the creation of new value propositions to the implementation of prototypes and pilots. Innovation transfer achievements include pilot installations at large industrial partners such as Edeka and Vodafone and the creation of a new product, named VISN, which was awarded the 2019 IoT/WT Innovation World Cup, the 2019 Digital Champions Award, and the 2018 Deutscher Digital Award. He is inventor of 23 granted patents. ... More >>

Area: Motion, Tracking and Stereo Vision Sophia Bano University College London United Kingdom https://sophiabano.github.io/

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Sophia Bano is a Research Associate at the University College London (UK) where she is associated with the Surgical Robot Vision Group in the Centre for Medical Imaging Computing (CMIC) and Wellcome/EPSRC Centre for Interventional and Surgical Sciences (WEISS).
She received a Bachelor in Mechatronics Engineering and Master in Electrical Engineering degrees from the National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan. Following this, she secured the Erasmus Mundus Scholarship for the highly competitive MSc in Computer Vision and Robotics (VIBOT) programme run jointly by the Heriot-Watt University (UK), U niversity of Girona (Spain) and University of Burgundy (France) in which she achieved a distinction in 2011. This was followed, after an internship at the Imperial College London (UK), by a successful joint PhD in Interactive and Cognitive Environments in 2015, under the Erasmus Mundus Fellowship, from the Queen Mary University of London (UK) and Technical University of Catalonia (Spain). After completing her PhD in 2016, she joined the Computer Vision and Image Processing group at the University of Dundee (UoD) as a Post-
doctoral Research Assistant, before joining University College London in June 2018. Her fields of research include Computer Vision, Surgical Vision, Medical Imaging and Machine Learning, with a focus on semantic understanding and registration in videos. ... More >>

Area: Motion, Tracking and Stereo Vision Jun Sato Nagoya Institute of Technology Japan

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Jun Sato received Ph.D. degree from the University of Cambridge in 1997, and he is currently a professor at Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan. He received the Best Scientific Paper Award at the British Machine Vision Conference in 1994 and 1997. He published more than 200 papers in journals and conference proceedings about 3D reconstruction, visualization and imaging. He is an associate editor of the International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV).

Area: Mobile and Egocentric Vision for Humans and Robots Antonino Furnari University of Catania Italy http://www.antoninofurnari.it/

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Antonino Furnari is an Assistant Professor at the University of Catania. He received his PhD in Mathematics and Computer Science in 2017 from the University of Catania and authored one patent and more than 50 papers in international book chapters, journals and conference proceedings. Antonino Furnari is involved in the organization of different international events, such as the Assistive Computer Vision and Robotics (ACVR) workshop series (since 2016), the International Computer Vision Summer School (ICVSS) (since 2017), and the Egocentric Perception Interaction and Computing (EPIC) workshop series (since 2018) a nd the EGO4D workshop series (since 2022). Since 2018, he has been involved in the collection, release, and maintenance of the EPIC-KITCHENS dataset series, and in particular in the egocentric action anticipation and action detection challenges. Since 2021, he has been involved in the collection and benchmarking of the EGO4D dataset. He is co-founder of NEXT VISION s.r.l., an academic spin-off the the University of Catania since 2021. His research interests concern Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, and Machine Learning, with focus on First Person Vision. More information is available at http://www.antoninofurnari.it/. ... More >>

Area: Mobile and Egocentric Vision for Humans and Robots Dimitri Ognibene Università degli studi Milano-Bicocca, Italy and University of Essex United Kingdom

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Dimitri Ognibene is Associate Professor of Human Technology Interaction at the University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy. His main interest lies in understanding how social agents with limited sensory and computational resources can adapt to complex and uncertain environments, how this can induce suboptimal behaviors such as addiction or antisocial behaviors, and how this understanding can be applied to real life problems. To this end it develops both neural and Bayesian models and applies them both in the physical field, e.g., robots, and virtual, e.g., social media, settings.

Before joining Milano Bicocca University, he was at the University of Essex as Lecturer in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence from October 2017 having moved from University Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain) where he was a Marie Curie Actions COFUND fellow. Previously he developed algorithms for active vision in industrial robotic tasks as a Research Associate (RA) at Centre for Robotics Research, Kings’ College London. He developed Bayesian methods and robotic models for attention in social and dynamic environments as an RA at the Personal Robotics Laboratory in Imperial College London. He studied the interaction between active vision and autonomous learning in neuro-robotic models as an RA at the Institute of Cognitive Science and Technologies of the Italian Research Council (ISTC CNR). He also collaborated with the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging (UCL) to study how to model exploration in the active inference modelling paradigm. He has been Visiting Researcher at Bounded Resource Reasoning Laboratory in UMass and at University of Reykjavik (Iceland) exploring the symmetries between active sensor control and active computation or metareasoning. He obtained his PhD in Robotics in 2009 from University of Genoa with a thesis titled “Ecological Adaptive Perception from a Neuro-Robotic perspective: theory, architecture and experiments” and graduated in Information Engineering at the University of Palermo in 2004. He is associate editor of "Cognitive Computation and Systems", handling editor of "Cognitive Processing", review editor for "Paladyn, The journal of Behavioral Robotics", "Frontiers Bionics and Biomimetics", and "Frontiers Computational Intelligence in Robotics", guest associate editor for "Frontiers in Neurorobotics", "Frontiers in Cognitive Neuroscience" and section "Systems & Control Engineering" of Electronics published by MDPI. He has been chair of the robotics area of several conferences (e.g. VISAPP) and workshops. ... More >>

Area: Applications and Services George Azzopardi University of Groningen, Netherlands and University of Malta Malta http://www.cs.rug.nl/~george

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George Azzopardi is an associate professor in pattern recognition at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. He is the coordinator of the Applied AI theme of the Jantina Tammes School of Digital Society, Technology and AI. Prof Azzopardi earned a BSc degree (Hons) from Goldsmiths College, an MSc degree from Queen Mary University of London, and a PhD degree (cum laude) in computer science from the University of Groningen in 2013. Prof Azzopardi has (co-) authored over 90 peer-reviewed publications and has successfully (co-) promoted 7 PhD candidates. His research spans brain-inspired pattern recognition, i mage processing, machine/deep learning, and information retrieval, with application to medical, forensic and radioastronomy image analysis. His work led to him being a co-recipient of the Ben Feringa Impact Award from the University of Groningen in 2023 and the ENLIGHT Impact Award from the ENLIGHT European University in 2024. Currently, Prof Azzopardi serves as associate editor for the Q1 journal, Pattern Recognition. ... More >>

Area: Applications and Services Keiji Yanai The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo Japan

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Dr. Keiji Yanai is a professor at Department of Informatics, the University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo. His recent research interests include object recognition, Web multimedia processing, social media mining, and food-related multimedia processing. Especially, he has been working on food image recognition since 2008 and created one of the major food image datasets, UEC-FOOD 100/256. He served as conference/workshop organizing members including a general co-chair of IEEE MIPR2021, a technical program co-chair of ACM ICMR 2018 and a co-organizer of MADiMa, and as TPC members/reviewers in major conferences and journals in the multimedia and computer vision field. ... More >>

 

Sandro Spina University of Malta Malta

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Sandro Spina is a lecturer at the Department of Computer Science, University of Malta. He has completed his Ph.D. at the University of Warwick and his undergraduate studies at the University of Malta. His main research interest is computer graphics in particular high-fidelity rendering, scene acquisition and understanding. He is also interested in the development of serious games through collaborations with researchers from a variety of disciplines. He currently forms part of the Computer Graphics and Visualisation Group set up at the Faculty of ICT.

Keith Bugeja University of Malta Malta

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