Program Committee

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS

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 >>

ÁNgel Serrano Sánchez de León
Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
Spain
http://www.frav.es

Brief Bio
Dr Ángel Serrano received a BSc in Physics from Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain) in 1999, an MSc in Information Technology and Computer Systems from Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (Spain) in 2009 and a PhD (European Doctorate) in Information Systems Engineering from the same university in 2011. He also has a specialization in Statistical Learning and Data Mining by UNED University (Spain) since 2014. He worked as a teaching assistant at the School of Computer Science of Universidad Rey Juan Carlos from 2003 to 2012. From 2012 to 2016 he worked as an associate professor (profesor adjunto) at the Higher Polytechnic School of Universidad Francisco de Vitoria (Spain). Since 2016 he is back again at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, where his current position is assistant professor (profesor ayudante doctor). He is a fellow of the Face Recognition and Artificial Vision research group (FRAV). His research topics of interest include computer vision, pattern recognition, face biometrics, among others. Regarding teaching, he is interested in computer architecture, physics for computer science and physics for videogames. Since 2019 he is the curator of the Computers and Videogames Museum of Universidad Rey Juan Carlos. He is also a member of IEEE and IEEE Computer Society. ... More >>

PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Harry Agius, Brunel University London, United Kingdom
Fadoua Ataa Allah, Royal Institute of Amazigh Culture (IRCAM), Morocco
Adrian Bors, University of York, United Kingdom
Wei Cheng, Garena Online Pte. Ltd., Singapore
Kaushik Das Sharma, University of Calcutta, India
Massimo De Santo, Unversità degli Studi di Salerno, Italy
Carl James Debono, University of Malta, Malta
Murat Eron, Avionic Instruments, United States
Zongming Fei, University of Kentucky, United States
Markus Fiedler, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
Borko Furht, Florida Atlantic University, United States
Rosario Garroppo, University of Pisa, Italy
Rajarshi Gupta, University of Calcutta, India
Amarnath Gupta, University of California San Diego, United States
Emmanuel Ifeachor, Plymouth University, United Kingdom
Haci Ilhan, Yildiz Technical University, Turkey
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
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
Vincenzo Lombardo, Università di Torino, Italy
Hong Man, Stevens Institute of Technology, United States
Daniela Moctezuma, Centro de Investigación en Ciencias de Información Geoespacial, Mexico
Chamin Morikawa, Morpho, Inc., Japan
Alejandro Murua, University of Montreal, Canada
Hiroshi Nagahashi, Japan Women's University, Japan
Alessandro Ortis, University of Catania, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Italy
Ioannis Paliokas, Centre for Research and Technolgoy - Hellas, Greece
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
Oscar S. Siordia, CentroGeo, Mexico
Lauro Snidaro, University of Udine, Italy
Andrew Sung, University of Southern Mississippi, United States
Aristeidis Tsitiridis, University Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
Sanjeewa Witharana, Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Germany

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