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Bernd Girod is Professor of Electrical Engineering and (by courtesy) Computer Science in the Information Systems Laboratory of Stanford University, California, since 1999. Previously, he was Professor of Telecommunications in the Electrical Engineering Department of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. His current research interests are in the areas of video compression and networked media systems. He has published over 400 conference and journal papers, as well as 5 books, receiving the EURASIP Signal Processing Best Paper Award in 2002, the IEEE Multimedia Communication Best Paper Award in 2007, the EURASIP Image Communication Best Paper Award in 2008, as well as the the EURASIP Technical Achievement Award in 2004.
As an entrepreneur, Professor Girod has been involved with several startup ventures as founder, director, investor, or advisor, among them Polycom (Nasdaq:PLCM), Vivo Software, 8x8 (Nasdaq: EGHT), and RealNetworks (Nasdaq: RNWK). He received an Engineering Doctorate from University of Hannover, Germany, and an M.S. Degree from Georgia Institute of Technology. Prof. Girod is a Fellow of the IEEE, a EURASIP Fellow, and a member of the German National Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina). |
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Till Quack is co-founder and CTO of kooaba AG and a post doctoral researcher at BiWi Computer Vision Lab at ETH Zurich.
He obtained a M.Sc. degree in Information Technology and Electrical Engineering from ETH Zurich in 2004. From 2004 to 2009, he was research assistant and Ph.D. student at the Computer Vision Group of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland with Prof. Luc Van Gool. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science (Dr.sc.techn.) from ETH Zurich for his work on mining and retrieval of visual data in a multimodal context in 2009. His recent research interests include multi-modal mining of data from community photo collections.
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Touradj Ebrahimi received his M.Sc. and Ph.D., both in Electrical Engineering, from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) Lausanne, Switzerland in 1989 and 1992 respectively. In 1993, he was a research engineer at the Corporate Research Laboratories of Sony Corporation in Tokyo, where he conducted research on advanced video compression techniques for storage applications. In 1994, he served as a research consultant at AT&T Bell Laboratories working on very low bitrate video coding. He is currently Professor at EPFL heading its Multimedia Signal Processing Group. He is also adjunct Professor with the Center of Quantifiable Quality of Service at Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).
Prof. Ebrahimi has been the recipient of various distinctions and awards, such as the IEEE and Swiss national ASE award, the SNF-PROFILE grant for advanced researchers, Four ISO-Certificates for key contributions to MPEG-4 and JPEG 2000, and the best paper award of IEEE Trans. on Consumer Electronics . He became a Fellow of the international society for optical engineering (SPIE) in 2003. Prof. Ebrahimi has initiated more than two dozen National, European and International cooperation projects with leading companies and research institutes around the world. He is also the head of the Swiss delegation to MPEG, JPEG and SC29, and acts as the Chairman of Advisory Group on Management in SC29. He is a co-founder of Genista SA, a high-tech start-up company in the field of multimedia quality metrics. In 2002, he founded Emitall SA, start-up active in the area of media security and surveillance. In 2005, he founded EMITALL Surveillance SA, a start-up active in the field of privacy and protection. He is or has been associate Editor with various IEEE, SPIE, and EURASIP journals, such as IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, IEEE Trans. on Multimedia, EURASIP Image Communication Journal, EURASIP Journal of Applied Signal Processing, SPIE Optical Engineering Magazine. Prof. Ebrahimi is a member of Scientific Advisory Board of various start-up and established companies in the general field of Information Technology. He has served as Scientific Expert and Evaluator for Research Funding Agencies such as those of European Commission, The Greek Ministry of Development, The Austrian National Foundation for Scientific Research, The Portuguese Science Foundation, as well as a number of Venture Capital Companies active in the field of Information Technologies and Communication Systems. His research interests include still, moving, and 3D image processing and coding, visual information security (rights protection, watermarking, authentication, data integrity, steganography), new media, and human computer interfaces (smart vision, brain computer interface). He is the author or the co-author of more than 200 research publications, and holds 14 patents. |
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Maetthijs Douze has received a M.S. degree in Computer Science from the ENSEEIHT engineering school (France). He received a PhD in Computer Science in 2004 for his work on robust homography estimation for augmented reality from the University of Toulouse.
He is a Research Engineer at the LEAR project-team at INRIA since 2005. He developed several approaches for image matching and
large scale content-based image indexing. He extended these methods to video
indexing.
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Bruce Flinchbaugh is a Texas Instruments Fellow and director of the Video & Image Processing Laboratory at TI in Dallas.
Since 1982 he has led R&D projects for diverse TI products, including the design of video, imaging and vision algorithms for embedded processors in video surveillance, digital video recorder, digital camera, media player and automotive vision applications. He was TI principal investigator for DARPA Image Understanding Research in the 1990s. He has served on program committees for numerous conferences and workshops, and currently serves on industry advisory boards for engineering departments at the University of Notre Dame and The Ohio State University. He has been honored with two Distinguished Alumnus awards: by The Ohio State University College of Engineering in 2003 and by Otterbein College in 2007. He holds over twenty patents for TI methods and has published or presented in over 75 technical forums including journals, industry magazines, conferences and universities.
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Jonathan J. Hull is the Team Lead of the Multimedia Document Analysis group at the California Research Center of Ricoh Innovations, Inc. in Menlo Park. From 1987 to 1994 he was Research Assistant Professor (1987 - 1993) and Research Associate Professor (1993 - 1994) in the Department of Computer Science at SUNY Buffalo as well as Associate Director of the Center of Excellence for Document Analysis and Recognition (CEDAR). His research interests include image processing, computer vision, pattern recognition, and information retrieval.
Dr. Hull is a Fellow of the International Association of Pattern Recognition and a Member of the IEEE Computer Society and ACM. He's an Associate Editor of Computer Vision and Image Understanding and in the past served as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, the International Journal of Document Analysis and Recognition, and Pattern Recognition. In 1997 he was named Outstanding Young Investigator at the International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition in Ulm, Germany. He's co-authored over 100 conference and journal papers and is an inventor on over 90 issued U.S. patents. |
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Miroslaw Bober is the General Manager of Mitsubishi Electric R&D Center Europe (MERCE, UK) and the Head of Research for its Visual and Sensing Division.
Before joining Mitsubishi in 1997, Miroslaw was with University of Surrey (UK), first as a research scientist and subsequently as a lecturer and leader of the Image Communication and Multimedia Systems Group. Miroslaw received an M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering (with distinction) from the AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland in 1990. Subsequently he received an M.Sc. with distinction in Signal Processing and Artificial Intelligence in 1991 and a Ph.D. in 1995, both from University of Surrey, UK. Miroslaw has been actively involved in the development of MPEG-7, chairing the MPEG-7 visual group. He developed shape description and visual signature technologies which are now a part of the ISO standard. Miroslaw is an inventor of over 70 US patents and several of his inventions are deployed in consumer and professional products. His publication record includes over 60 refereed publications, including three books and book chapters.
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Danilo Pietro Pau received the Electronic Engineering degree from Politecnico of Milano in 1992. He has joined SGS-Thomson Corporate Advanced System Architecture on 1991, investingating digital video processing algorithms and architectures for Set Top Box and Mobile application processors. Since 2002 he worked on Graphics 4 Embedded Systems. He moved to STMicroelectronics Bristol (UK) in 2004, where he worked on algorithms and architectural studies in the field of 3D graphics for mobile processors supporting OpenGL-ES standard. When back to STMicroelectronics Italy Agrate Brianza, he continued working on 3D graphics developments, and started 2D scalable graphics algorithms and architectural studies based on OpenVG standard. His current interests are in the fields of 3D reconstruction using CMOS and TOF sensors, Volume rendering and Visual Odometry.
Currently he is a Principal Engineer in Advanced System Technology group of STMicroelectronics, Member of Technical Staff, and IEEE senior member. Over the time he has coached undergraduate students, authored and co-authored European, U.S. and Japan patents, as well as international publications in conferences and technical journals.
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