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PROGRAM CHAIR


Sebastiano Battiato
University of Catania
Italy
http://www.dmi.unict.it/~battiato


Brief Bio
Sebastiano Battiato is a full professor of Computer Science at the University of Catania. He received his degree in Computer Science (summa cum laude) in 1995 from the University of Catania and his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics from the University of Naples in 1999. From 1999 to 2003 he was the leader of the “Imaging” team at STMicroelectronics in Catania. He joined the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Catania in 2004 (respectively as assistant professor, associate professor in 2011 and full professor in 2016). He has been Chairman of the Undergraduate Program in Computer Science (2012-2017), and Rector's delegate for Education: postgraduates and Phd (2013-2016). He is currently the Scientific Coordinator of the PhD Program in Computer Science at the University of Catania. He is involved in research and directorship of the IPLab research lab (http://iplab.dmi.unict.it). He coordinates IPLab’s participation on large scale projects funded by national and international funding bodies, as well as by private companies. Prof. Battiato has participated as principal investigator in many international and national research projects. His research interests include Computer Vision, Imaging technology and Multimedia Forensics. He has edited 6 books and co-authored about 200 papers in international journals, conference proceedings and book chapters and has also been a guest editor of several special issues published in International Journals. He is also co-inventor of 22 international patents, reviewer for several international journals, and has been a regular member of numerous international conference committees. He has been the Chair of several international events (ICIAP 2017, VINEPA 2016, ACIVS 2015, VAAM2014-2015-2016, VISAPP2012-2015, IWCV2012, ECCV2012, ICIAP 2011, ACM MiFor 2010-2011, SPIE EI Digital Photography 2011-2012-2013, etc.). He is an associate editor of the SPIE Journal of Electronic Imaging and of the IET Image Processing Journal. He is Director (and Co-Founder) of the International Computer Vision Summer School (ICVSS), Sicily, Italy. He is the recipient of the 2017 PAMI Mark Everingham Prize for the series of annual ICVSS schools and of the 2011 Best Associate Editor Award of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology. He is a IEEE senior member. ... More >>



PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Harry Agius, Brunel University London, United Kingdom
Rajeev Agrawal, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, United States
Zahid Akhtar, University of Memphis, United States
Gabriele Anderst-Kotsis, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
Ramazan Aygun, University of Alabama in Huntsville, United States
Nicholas Bambos, Stanford University, United States
Arvind Bansal, Kent State University, United States
Chokri Ben Amar, REsearch Group on Intelligent Machines (REGIM), Tunisia
Chidansh Amitkumar Bhatt, FX Palo Alto Laboratory, Inc , United States
Adrian Bors, University of York, United Kingdom
Christian Breiteneder, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Enrique Cabello, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
Wai-Kuen Cham, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
Amitava Chatterjee, Jadavpur University, India
Jianwen Chen, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China
Wei Cheng, Garena Online Pte. Ltd., Singapore
Bin Cheng, Independent Researcher, Germany
Cristina Conde, University Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
Kaushik Das Sharma, University of Calcutta, India
Carl James Debono, University of Malta, Malta
Magda El Zarki, University of California Irvine, United States
Khaled El-Maleh, Independent Researcher, United States
Giovanni Maria Farinella, Università di Catania, Italy
Zongming Fei, University of Kentucky, United States
Mohamed Mostafa Fouad, Arab Academy for Science, Technology, and Maritime Transport, Egypt
Jakub Galka, University of Science and Technology , Poland
Jerry D. Gibson, University of California Santa Barbara, United States
Seiichi Gohshi, Kogakuin University, Japan
Minglun Gong, University of Guelph, Canada
William Grosky, University of Michigan - Dearborn, United States
Rajarshi Gupta, University of Calcutta, India
Ofer Hadar, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Malka Halgamuge, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Emmanuel Ifeachor, Plymouth University, United Kingdom
Razib Iqbal, Missouri State University, United States
Li-Wei Kang, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Taiwan, Republic of China
Sokratis Katsikas, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Chih-Heng Ke, National Quemoy University, Taiwan, Republic of China
Markus Koskela, University of Helsinki, Finland
Constantine Kotropoulos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Konrad Kowalczyk, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
Adnane Latif, Cadi Ayyad University, Morocco
Choong-Soo Lee, St. Lawrence University, United States
Chengqing Li, Xiangtan University, China
Zitao Liu, University of Pittsburgh, United States
Guifeng Liu, , United States
Zhu Liu, AT&T, United States
Martin Lopez-Nores, University of Vigo, Spain
Hong Man, Stevens Institute of Technology, United States
Manuel J. Marin-Jimenez, University of Cordoba, Spain
Daniela Moctezuma, Centro de Investigación en Ciencias de Información Geoespacial, Mexico
Luis Alberto Morales Rosales, CONACYT-Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Mexico
Chamin Morikawa, Morpho, Inc., Japan
Alejandro Murua, University of Montreal, Canada
Noel E. O’Connor, Dublin City University, Ireland
Vincent Oria, Independent Researcher, United States
Ioannis Paliokas, Centre for Research and Technolgoy - Hellas, Greece
Ioannis Pratikakis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
Guoping Qiu, University of Nottingham, China
Peter Quax, Hasselt University, Belgium
Paula Queluz, Instituto Superior Técnico - Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal
Simon Pietro Romano, University of Napoli, Italy
Simone Santini, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
John R. Smith, Independent Researcher, United States
Li Song, Institute of Image Communication and Network Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Lifeng Sun, Tsinghua University, China
Andrew Sung, University of Southern Mississippi, United States
Tanveer Syeda-Mahmood, IBM Almaden Research Center, United States
George Tsihrintzis, University of Piraeus, Greece
Aristeidis Tsitiridis, University Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
Iván Vidal, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Sudanthi Wijewickrema, University of Melbourne, Australia
Sanjeewa Witharana, Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Germany
Hongxun Yao, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Kim-Hui Yap, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Chang D. Yoo, Independent Researcher, Korea, Republic of
Yongxin Zhang, ASML, United States
Bartosz Ziolko, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland

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