Global Summit and Expo on Multimedia & Applications August 10-11, 2015 Birmingham, West Midlands, UK

Dr. Vijayan Asari is a Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering and an Endowed Chair in Wide Area Surveillance at the University of Dayton, USA. He is the director of the Center of Excellence for Computer Vision and Wide Area Surveillance Research at UD. Dr. Asari received his PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. Dr. Asari holds three patents and has published more than 450 research papers in the areas of image processing and computer vision. Dr. Asari received several teaching, research and advising awards. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and SPIE.

Signal processing, Image processing, Computer vision, Pattern recognition, Machine learning, Artificial neural networks, High performance and low-power digital architectures

Philip Davies is the Assistant Director of Higher Education at Bournemouth and Poole College where he is responsible for over 20 undergraduate courses and more than 1000 students.Philip received the award of Doctorate in Theoretical Physics from Birkbeck College, University of London for his work in Quantum Mechanics. His supervisor was the eminent American physicist Prof David Bohm and his examiner was Prof Sir Roger Penrose.Philip has been involved in IARIA Conferences since 2009. He has served on all the Advances in Multimedia Conferences from their inception as Technical Advisory Panel member and more lately as a member of the Steering Group. He has chaired a number of sessions and published five papers with colleagues in IARIA MMEDIA conferences winning Best Paper Award in Athens 2010 for his joint paper on “Implementation and Evaluation of an Adaptive Multimedia Presentation System (AMPS) with Contextual Supplemental Support Media”.

centre on systems modelling, complex networks, ontologies and knowledge systems

Dr. Reddipogu is a multidisciplinary R&D Professional with experience in Artificial Intelligence, Information Systems and Mechanical Engineering. She has worked in Industry and Academia, where she has developed innovative solutions and strategies in Technical Advancements, Business Operations and Education.Technical Program Committee Member, Adviser and Reviewer of World Congress on Engineering (WCE), Journal Ocean Engineering, EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, Journal Neuroscience Letters, ICTACT Journal on Image and Video Processing (IJIVP), International Conference on Innovative Methods for Intrusion Prevention and Detection Systems (IPDS), ICENTRIC, International Conference on Advances in Human-oriented and Personalized Mechanisms, Technologies, and Services, International Journal On Advances in Intelligent Systems.Other Achievements are Invited by Science, Engineering and Technology for Europe to the UK Houses of Parliament as a Young Engineer of the Year, 2002,Developed a new Artificial Neural Network Architecture called the Distributed Neural Network based on the Toad’s Visual System,Developed a Learning Algorithm in Artificial Intelligence called Fusion based on Reinforcement Learning and Genetic Algorithms.

Bio metrics, Image Processing, Biologically Inspired Engineering Systems, Biological Evolution and Vision Systems, Evolutionary Algorithms, Artificial Neural Networks, Intelligent Subsea Systems and Fluid Mechanics, Intelligent Well Design (Oil & Gas), Business Intelligence

Tsang-Ling Sheu received the Ph.D. degree in computer engineering from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA, in 1989. From Sept. 1989 to July 1995, he worked with IBM Corporation at Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA. In Aug. 1995, he became an associate professor, and was promoted to full professor in Jan. 2006 at the Dept. of Electrical Engineering, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.He was the recipient of the 1990 IBM outstanding paper award. Dr. Sheu is a senior member of the IEEE, and the IEEE Communications Society.

wireless networks, mobile communications, and multimedia networking.

Michele Nappi, received her Laurea degree in computer science with vote 110/110 cum laude from University of Salerno, Italy, in 1991, the M.Sc. degree in Information and communication technology from I.I.A.S.S., “E.R. Caianiello”,Vietri sul Mare, Italy, and the Ph.D. degree in applied mathematics and computer science from the University of Padova, Padova, Italy. He is currently an Associate Professor of computer science at the University of Salerno.He is author of over 100 publications in international journals, conferences and book chapters. Finally he is member of IEEE, GIRPR\IAPR and several International Conferences TPC.

Image indexing, Pattern Recognition with special focus on biometric fields of face recognition and iris recognition, Multibiometric systems with special focus on fusion strategies and reliability assessment.

Pascal Lorenz (lorenz@ieee.org) received his M.Sc. (1990) and Ph.D. (1994) from the University of Nancy, France. Between 1990 and 1995 he was a research engineer at WorldFIP Europe and at Alcatel-Alsthom. He is a professor at the University of Haute-Alsace, France, since 1995. He is the author/co-author of 3 books, 3 patents and 200 international publications in refereed journals and conferences. He was Technical Editor of the IEEE Communications Magazine Editorial Board (2000-2006), Chair of Vertical Issues in Communication Systems Technical Committee Cluster (2008-2009), Chair of the Communications Systems Integration and Modeling Technical Committee (2003-2009) and Chair of the Communications Software Technical Committee (2008-2010). He has served as Co-Program Chair of IEEE WCNC'2012, ICC'2004 and ICC'2017, tutorial chair of VTC'2013 Spring and WCNC'2010, track chair of PIMRC'2012, symposium Co-Chair at Globecom 2011-2007, ICC 2010-2008 and ICC'2014. He has served as Co-Guest Editor for special issues of IEEE Communications Magazine, Networks Magazine, Wireless Communications Magazine, Telecommunications Systems and LNCS.He is senior member of the IEEE, IARIA fellow and member of many international program committees. He has organized many conferences, chaired several technical sessions and gave tutorials at major international conferences. He was IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer Tour during 2013-2014.

QoS, wireless networks and high-speed networks.

Dr. Ahmad Rafi is an architect, a Professor in the Faculty of Creative Multimedia and the Vice President (Academic), Multimedia University (MMU), Malaysia. He is a certified Multimedia Professional and the Deputy Chairman II, Creative Content Industry Guild (CCIG), Malaysia. He obtained a Bachelor degree in Architecture (Honours), MSc. in Computer-Aided Building Design and Ph.D. specialising in architectural animation and virtual reality from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, UK in 1998.He has published more than 100 internationally multi-disciplinary refereed journal articles, conference papers and books.

virtual reality, virtual heritage, 3D animation, educational technology and multimedia