Plenary Speakers
Prof. Majid AHMADI -- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Windsor, Canada Majid Ahmadi received the B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from Sharif University , Tehran, Iran, in 1971 and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London, U.K., in1977. He has been with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada, since 1980, currently as Distinguished University Professor and Associate Dean of Engineering for Research and Graduate Studies. His research interests include digital signal processing, machine vision, pattern recognition, neural network architectures, applications, and VLSI implementation, computer arithmetic, and MEMS. He has co-authored the book Digital Filtering in 1-D and 2-Dimensions; Design and Applications (New York: Plennum, 1989) and has published over 500 articles in these areas. He has served on the editorial board for the Journal of Circuits, Systems and Computers as an Associate Editor and Regional Editor from 1992 to 2012, an Associate Editor for the Journal of Pattern Recognition since 1992. Dr. Ahmadi was the IEEE-CAS representative on the Neural Network Council and the Chair of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Neural Systems Applications Technical Committee (2000). He was a recipient of an Honorable Mention award from the Editorial Board of the Journal of Pattern Recognition in 1992 and received the Distinctive Contributed Paper award from the Multiple-Valued Logic Conference Technical Committee and the IEEE Computer Society in 2000. He was recipient of the best paper award from 2011 IEEE International Electro/Information Technology Conference. Dr. Ahmadi was awarded Distinguished University Professorship in 2003, Faculty of Engineering Dean’s Special Recognition Award in 2007, and University of Windsor Award for Excellence in Scholarship, Research and Creative Activity in 2008. He is a Fellow IET (U.K) and Fellow IEEE (USA). His research interests are in the areas of: Neural Networks, Pattern Recognition, Image Processing, Computer Arithmetic, DSP, Encryption and VLSI. He as published over 550 articles in the above areas. He is a Fellow of IEEE. For more information, see http://www1.uwindsor.ca/engineering/electrical/dr-majid-ahmadi |
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Prof. Mau-Chung Frank CHANG -- National Chiao Tung University (NCTU), Hsinchu, Taiwan Dr. Mau-Chung Frank Chang is presently the President of National Chiao Tung University (NCTU), Hsinchu, Taiwan. Previously, he was the Chairman and Wintek Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering at UCLA (1997-2015). Dr. Chang earned his B.S. in Physics from National Taiwan University (1972); M.S. in Materials Science from National Tsing Hua University (1974); Ph.D. in Electronics Engineering from National Chiao Tung University (1979). Before joining UCLA, he was the Assistant Director and Department Manager of the High Speed Electronics Laboratory of Rockwell International Science Center (1983-1997), Thousand Oaks, California. In this tenure, he developed and transferred the AlGaAs/GaAs Heterojunction Bipolar Transistor (HBT) and BiFET (Planar HBT/MESFET) integrated circuit technologies from the research laboratory to the production line (later became Conexant Systems and Skyworks). The HBT/BiFET productions have grown into multi-billion dollar businesses and have dominated the cell phone power amplifier and front-end module markets for the past twenty years (currently exceeding 10 billion units/year and exceeding 50 billion units in the last decade). Throughout his career, Dr. Chang's research has primarily focused on the research & development of high-speed semiconductor devices and integrated circuits for RF and mixed-signal communication radio, radar, and imaging system applications. Dr. Chang is a Member of the US National Academy of Engineering and an Academician of Academia Sinica, Taiwan, Republic of China. He recently has been elected as a Fellow of the US National Academy of Inventors. He is also a Fellow of IEEE. He has received numerous awards including Rockwell's Leonardo Da Vinci Award (Engineer of the Year, 1992), IEEE David Sarnoff Award (2006), Pan Wen Yuan Foundation Award (2008), CESASC Life-Time Achievement Award (2009) and John J. Guarrera Engineering Educator of the Year Award from the Engineers' Council (2014). He also received National Chiao Tung University's Honorary Doctorate of Engineering (2012), National Taiwan University's Distinguished Alumnus Award (2013), National Tsing Hua University's Honorary Doctorate of Engineering (2013). For more information, see http://rffox.ee.ucla.edu/hsel/ppl_mcfrankchang.html |
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Prof. Jiwu HUANG -- College of Information Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China Dr. Jiwu Huang received his B.S degree in Electronic Engineering from Xidian University, China, in 1982, M.S degree in Electronic Engineering from Tsinghua University, China, in 1987, and Ph.D. in Pattern Recognition and Intelligent System from Chinese Academy of Science in 1998. He is currently a Distinguished Professor in the College of Information Engineering, Shenzhen University, China. His current research interests include multimedia security and forensics. In his research areas, he received 6 grants from NSF of China and more than 15 other grants from government projects and other funding agencies as PI. He has published 250 papers in journals and conferences. He holds more than 50 China invention patents on multimedia security, with 40+ authorized. He received the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars from NSF of China in 2003. He is the recipient of some awards including State Natural Science Award, China. He was an associate editor of IEEE Trans. on Information Forensics and Security from 2010 to 2014 and is an associate editor for IEEE Signal Processing Letters and other several international journals currently. He served as a member of Information Forensics and Security TC (IEEE SPS) from 2012 to 2013. He was general co-chair of 5th IEEE International Workshop on Information Forensics (Guangzhou, 2013) and Security and 6th International Workshop on Digital Watermarking (Guangzhou, 2007). He is a Fellow of IEEE. For more information, see http://www.sysu.edu.cn/2012/en/academics/academics03/294.htm |
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Anil K. Jain is a University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at Michigan State University. He was appointed an Honorary Professor at Tsinghua University and WCU Distinguished Professor at Korea University. He received B.Tech. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur in 1969 and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Ohio State University in 1970 and 1973, respectively. His research interests include pattern recognition, computer vision and biometric recognition. Anil K. Jain is a University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at Michigan State University. He was appointed an Honorary Professor at Tsinghua University and WCU Distinguished Professor at Korea University. He received B.Tech. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur in 1969 and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Ohio State University in 1970 and 1973, respectively. His research interests include pattern recognition, computer vision and biometric recognition. Anil Jain has been assigned six U.S. patents on fingerprint recognition (transferred to IBM in 1999) and two Korean patents on surveillance. He has licensed technologies to Safran Morpho and NEC Corp., world's leading biometric companies. He was a member of the United States Defense Science Board and has served as an Advisor to India's Aadhaar program that provides a 12-digit unique ID number to over one billion Indian residents using their fingerprints and iris. For more information, see https://www.cse.msu.edu/~jain/ |
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Prof. André KAUP -- Chair of Multimedia Communications and Signal Processing, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany André Kaup (M’96–SM’99–F’13) received the Dipl.-Ing. and Dr.-Ing. degrees in electrical engineering from RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany, in 1989 and 1995, respectively. He was with the Institute for Communication Engineering, RWTH Aachen University, from 1989 to 1995, where he was responsible for industrial as well as academic research projects in the area of high resolution printed image compression, object-based image analysis and coding, and models for human perception. In 1995, he joined the Networks and Multimedia Communications Department, Siemens Corporate Technology, Munich, Germany, where he chaired work packages in several European research projects in the areas of very low bit rate video coding, image quality enhancement, and mobile multimedia communications. In 1999, he was appointed the Head of the Mobile Applications and Services Group in the same department with research focusing on multimedia adaptation for heterogeneous communication networks. Since 2001, he is a Full Professor and the Head of the Chair of Multimedia Communications and Signal Processing, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. From 1997 to 2001, he was the Head of the German MPEG delegation, and from 1998 to 2001 he also served as Adjunct Professor with the Technical University of Munich, Germany, and the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. From 2005 to 2007 he was a Vice Speaker of the DFG Collaborative Research Center 603 “Modeling and Analysis of Complex Scenes and Sensor Data”. Since 2014 he is chairing the ITG Technical Committee on Image Communication and Image Processing and a member of the scientific advisory board of the VDE. Since 2015 he serves as Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Vice Dean of the Faculty of Engineering. André Kaup is a member of the Multimedia Signal Processing Technical Committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, a voting member of the Multimedia Communications Technical Committee of the IEEE Communications Society, a member of the German ITG, and a Fellow of the IEEE. He serves as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology and was a Guest Editor for the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing. He was elected Siemens Inventor of the year 1998 and was the recipient of the 1999 ITG Award. He received Best Paper Awards at the IEEE International Workshops on Multimedia Signal Processing in 2009, 2011, and 2012 and the International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services in 2010. In 2013 he was recipient of the Paul Dan Cristea Special Award at the International Conference on Systems, Signals and Image Processing, and his team won the Grand Video Compression Challenge at the 2013 Picture Coding Symposium. The Faculty of Engineering at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg honored him with the Teaching Award in 2015. He has authored more than 300 journal and conference papers and has over 50 patents granted and patent applications published. His current research interests include image and video signal processing, coding of images, video, and multiview data, as well as multimedia communication. For more information, see http://www.lms.lnt.de/en/people/staff/andre-kaup.php |
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Prof. Alex KOT -- School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technology University, Singapore Prof. Alex Kot is currently Professor and the Associate Dean (Graduate Studies) for the College of Engineering (COE) and Director of ROSE Lab with Peking University, Tencent and Inspur]. Prof. Kot has been with the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore since 1991. He headed the Division of Information Engineering at the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering for eight years. The Division’s focuses are on signal processing for image, video, speech and audio. He was the Vice Dean Research and Associate Chair (Research) for the School of EEE for three years, overseeing the research activities for the School with over 200 faculty members. Dr. Kot served as Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing from 2000 to 2003, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia from 2008 to now, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology from 2000 to 2005; IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems Part II from 2004 to 2006; IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems Part I from 2005 to 2007, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, the Signal Processing Magazine, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, and the Senior Editorial Board of IEEE Journal of Special Topics in Signal Processing. He also served as Guest Editor for the Special Issues for the IEEE Transactions on CSVT and JASP. He was a member of the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia Steering Committee and a member of the IEEE SPS Image and Multi-dimensional DSP and IEEE SPS Information, Forensics and Security Technical Committees. Currently, he is in, the Editorial Board member for the EURASIP Journal of Advanced Signal Processing, and the IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security. For more information, see http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/eackot/index.html |
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Prof. Yoshikazu MIYANAGA -- Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Hokkaido University, Japan He received the B.S., M.S., and Dr. Eng. degrees from Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, in 1979, 1981, and 1986, respectively. Since 1983 he has been with Hokkaido University. He is now Professor, Hokkaido University. From 1984 to 1985, he was a visiting researcher at Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois, USA. His research interests are in the areas of speech signal processing, wireless communication signal processing and low-power consumption VLSI system design. He has published 3 books, over 140 Transaction/ Journal papers, and more than 250 International Conference/ Symposium/ Workshop papers. Dr. Miyanaga is an associate editor of IEEE CAS Society Transaction on Circuits and Systems II (2012-present), and also an associate editor of Journal of Signal Processing, RISP Japan (2005-present). He was a chair of Technical Group on Smart Info-Media System, IEICE (IEICE TG-SIS) from 2004 to 2006 and now a member of the advisory committee, IEICE TG-SIS. He was vice-President, IEICE Engineering Science (ES) Society from 2010 to 2011. He is Fellow member of IEICE. He is also vice-President, Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association (APSIPA) from 2009 to 2013. He is a member of Board of Governor, IEEE CAS Society from 2011 to 2013. For more information, see http://www.gcoe.ist.hokudai.ac.jp/arts/english/member/research09.html |
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Prof. Jayanta MUKHOPADHYAY -- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India Jayanta Mukhopadhyay (Mukherjee) received his B.Tech., M.Tech., and Ph.D. degrees in Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur in 1985, 1987, and 1990, respectively. He joined the faculty of the Department of Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering at IIT, Kharagpur in 1990 and later moved to the Department of Computer Science and Engineering where he is presently a Professor. He served as the head of the Computer and Informatics Center at IIT, Kharagpur from September 2004 to July 2007. He also served as the head of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and the School of Information and Technology from April, 2010 to March, 2013. He was a Humboldt Research Fellow at the Technical University of Munich in Germany for one year in 2002. He has also held short term visiting positions at the Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, the Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, and the National University of Singapore, Singapore. He has published about 250 research papers in journals and conference proceedings in these areas. He has authored and co-authored “Image and video processing in the compressed domain” (CRC Press, 2011) and “Digital geometry in image processing” (CRC Press, 2013), respectively. He has been serving as the associate editor of the Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation (Elsevier) since 2011. Dr. Mukhopadhyay received the Young Scientist Award from the Indian National Science Academy in 1992. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE, and a fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE). His research interests are in image processing, robotics, pattern recognition, computer graphics, multimedia systems and medical informatics. For more information, see http://www.facweb.iitkgp.ernet.in/~jay |
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Prof. Alessandro NERI -- Applied Electronics Department, University "Roma Tre" of Rome, Italy Alessandro Neri is full professor in Telecommunications at the University "Roma Tre" of Rome, Italy. In 1978 he joined the Research and Development Department of Contraves Italiana S.p.A. where he gained a specific expertise in the field of radar signal processing and in applied detection and estimation theory. In 1987 he joined the INFOCOM Department of the University of Rome "La Sapienza" as Associate Professor in Signal and Information Theory at the Engineering Faculty. In November 1992 he joined the Electronic Engineering Department of the University of "Roma Tre" as Associate Professor in Electrical Communications, and became full professor in Telecommunications in semptember 2001. He is currently teaching Digital Communications, Information Theory, and Mobile Telecommunication Systems, at the Engineering Department of "Roma Tre". His research activity has mainly been focused on Information Theory, Digital Signal Processing, and Image Processing and their applications to both telecommunications systems and navigation and remote sensing. He is author of about 300 publications. Since december 2008, prof. Neri is the President of the RadioLabs Consortium (Consorzio Università Industria – Laboratori di Radiocomunicazioni), a non-profit Consortium created in 2001 to promote tight cooperation on applied research programs between universities and industries, and currently linking the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, the University of Roma Tre, the University of Aquila, Ansaldo STS S.p.A., and Hitachi Systems CBT S.p.A. For more information, see http://www.comlab.uniroma3.it/neri.htm |
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Prof. Ioan TĂBUȘ -- Department of Signal Processing, Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finlanda Ioan Tăbuș received the M.S. degree in electrical engineering in 1982 from the "Politehnica" University of Bucharest, Romania, and the Ph.D. degree (with honors) from Tampere University of Technology (TUT), Finland, in 1995. He held teaching positions in the Department of Control and Computers, "Politehnica" University of Bucharest from 1984 to 1995. From 1996 he was a Senior Researcher and since January 2000, he has been a Professor in the Department of Signal Processing at TUT. His research interests are in image, audio, and data compression, image processing, and genomic signal processing. He is coauthor of two books and more than 250 publications in the fields of signal compression, image processing, bioinformatics, and system identification. He served as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing and for the Signal Processing of EURASIP. He has served as a guest editor of special issues for IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, for Signal Processing of EURASIP, and for IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing. He was the Editor-in-Chief of the EURASIP Journal on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology from 2006 to 2014. Dr. Tabus is the co-recipient of 1991 "Train Vuia" Award of Romania, the 2001 NSIP Best Paper Award, the 2004 NORSIG Best Paper Award, and the 2016 3DTv Best Paper Award. For more information, see http://www.cs.tut.fi/~tabus/ |
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