2^nd Global Summit and Expo on Multimedia & Applications August 15-16, 2016 Crowne Plaza, Heathrow, London, UK

Ching Y. Suen is the Director of CENPARMI and the Concordia Honorary Chair on AI & Pattern Recognition. He received his Ph.D. degree from UBC (Vancouver) and his Master's degree from the University of Hong Kong. He has served as the Chairman of the Department of Computer Science and as the Associate Dean (Research) of the Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science of Concordia University. Prof. Suen has served at numerous national and international professional societies as President, Vice-President, Governor, and Director. He has given 45 invited/keynote papers at conferences and 200 invited talks at various industries and academic institutions around the world. He has been the Principal Investigator or Consultant of 30 industrial projects. His research projects have been funded by the ENCS Faculty and the Distinguished Chair Programs at Concordia University, FCAR (Quebec), NSERC (Canada), the National Networks of Centres of Excellence (Canada), the Canadian Foundation for Innovation, and the industrial sectors in various countries, including Canada, France, Japan, Italy, and the United States. Currently, he is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal of Pattern Recognition, an Adviser or Associate Editor of 5 journals, and Editor of a new book series on Language Processing and Pattern Recognition. Actually he has held previous positions as Editor-in-Chief, or Associate Editor or Adviser of 5 other journals. He is not only the founder of three conferences: ICDAR, IWFHR/ICFHR, and VI, but has also organized numerous international conferences including ICPR, ICDAR, ICFHR, ICCPOL, and as Honorary Chair of numerous international conferences.

AI & Pattern Recognition

Newton Lee is CEO of Newton Lee Laboratories LLC, president of the Institute for Education, Research, and Scholarships, adjunct professor at Woodbury University’s School of Media, Culture & Design, and editor-in-chief of ACM Computers in Entertainment. Previously, he was a computer scientist at AT&T Bell Laboratories, senior producer and engineer at The Walt Disney Company, and research staff member at the Institute for Defense Analyses. He was founder of Disney Online Technology Forum, creator of Bell Labs’ first-ever commercial AI tool, and inventor of the world’s first annotated multimedia OPAC for the U.S. National Agricultural Library. Lee graduated Summa Cum Laude from Virginia Tech with a B.S. and M.S. degree in Computer Science, and he earned a perfect GPA from Vincennes University with an A.S. degree in Electrical Engineering and an honorary doctorate in Computer Science. He is the co-author of Disney Stories: Getting to Digital; author of the Total Information Awareness book series including Facebook Nation and Counterterrorism and Cybersecurity; coauthor/editor of the Digital Da Vinci book series including Computers in Music and Computers in the Arts and Sciences; and editor-in-chief of the Encyclopedia of Computer Graphics and Games.

His research interest includes computer graphics, games, artificial intelligence, information science, and media technology

Aggelos K. Katsaggelos received the Diploma degree in electrical and mechanical engineering from the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece, in 1979 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees both in electrical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, in 1981 and 1985, respectively.In 1985 he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, where he is currently professor, holder of the AT&T Chair (previously holder of the Ameritech Chair). He is also the Director of the Motorola Center for Seamless Communications, an Academic Affiliate Staff, Department of Medicine, at NorthShore University HealthCare System, an affiliated faculty at the Department of Linguistics, Northwestern University, and an appointee at the Argonne National Laboratory. During the 1986-1987 academic year he was an assistant professor at Polytechnic University, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Brooklyn, NY.He is the editor of Digital Image Restoration (Springer-Verlag 1991), co-author of Rate-Distortion Based Video Compression (Kluwer 1997), co-editor of Recovery Techniques for Image and Video Compression and Transmission, (Kluwer 1998), and co-author of Super-Resolution of Images and Video (Morgan & Claypool Publishers 2007) and Joint Source-Channel Video Transmission (Morgan & Claypool Publishers 2007). Dr. Katsaggelos is a frequent consultant to legal, industrial, and academic institutions.

ultimedia signal processing (e.g., image and video recovery and compression, audio-visual speech and speaker recognition, indexing and retrieval), multimedia communications, computer vision, pattern recognition, and DNA signal processing.

Susan Johnston is President of award winning Select Services Films, Inc. (DBE) and is Founder/Director of New Media Film Festival. Johnston has a background in the traditional film and TV industry and in recent years as a pioneering new media producer including Stan Lee’s Comikaze Expo panel for Independent Creators, Co-Producing Feature Film Dreams Awake & currently producing the Marvel Comic feature Prey: Origin of the Species. While the Industry was changing from standard def to HD Johnston produced the 1stseries for mobile, Mini-Bikers the 1st live stream talk show on HD with a Panasonic Varicam and tested the Panasonic DVX100 which led to some changes on the DVX100A and was on the SAG New Media committee in 2003. Editorial board for the Encyclopedia of Computer Graphics and Games, Member-The Caucus New Media Steering Committee, Academy of Television Arts & Sciences New Media Interactive, BMI, SAG/AFTRA, Advisory board member for SET Awards (Entertainment Industry Council), Machinma Expo Judge, Advisory Board for Woodbury University Digital Media Lab and Professor Emeritus in New Media.

Multimedia, Computer Graphics & Games

Adrian David Cheok (www.adriancheok.info), Professor of Pervasive Computing at City University London. Founder and Director of the Mixed Reality Lab and Director of the Imagineering Institute, Iskandar Malaysia. Previously Professor at Keio University, Graduate School of Media Design, Associate Professor at National University of Singapore, and Mitsubishi Electric, Japan. Research in mixed reality, human-computer interfaces, wearable computers, pervasive and ubiquitous computing. Featured in worldwide broadcasts such as CNN, BBC, National Geographic, Discovery Channel, etc. Recipient of awards and prizes: A-STAR Young Scientist of the Year, Hitachi Fellowship, SCS Young Professional of the Year, Fellow in Education, World Technology Network, Microsoft Research Award in Gaming and Graphics, C4C Children Competition Prize, Integrated Art Competition Prize, Creativity in Action Award, First prize Mindtrek Award, First prize Milan International InventiON, Keio University Japan Gijyuju-sho award, SIP Distinguished Fellow Award, Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. Editor in Chief of the academic journals: ACM Computers in Entertainment,Transactions on Edutainment (Springer), and Lovotics: Academic Studies of Love and Friendship with Robots. 1994, Bachelors (First Class Hons) in Engineering, University of Adelaide; 1999, PhD in Engineering.

Mixed reality, human-computer interfaces, wearable computers and ubiquitous computing, fuzzy systems, embedded systems, power electronics

Professor Minhua Ma is a Professor of Digital Media & Games and the Associate Dean International in the School of Art, Design and Architecture at University of Huddersfield. Professor Ma obtained her MSc in Computer Science from Newcastle University and PhD in Computer Science from University of Ulster and worked there as a Post-Doc Researcher on virtual reality games for stroke rehabilitation. She joined University of Derby as a Senior Lecturer in Computer Games Modelling and Animation in 2007 and was promoted to Reader in 2009. She was the Head of Academic Programmes at the Glasgow School of Art since 2010 and became a Professor of Computer Games Technology in 2013. Professor Ma is a world-leading academic developing the emerging field of serious games. She has published widely in the fields of serious games for education, medicine and healthcare, Virtual and Augmented Reality and Natural Language Processing, in over 100 peer-reviewed publications, including 6 books on serious games with Springer. Eunice has received grants from RCUK, EU, NHS, NESTA, UK government, charities and a variety of other sources for her research on Virtual Reality and serious games for stroke rehabilitation, cystic fibrosis and autism, and medical visualisation.

Digital games technology, serious games for education, medicine, and healthcare,3D visualisation, medical visualisation, Virtual reality, Augmented Reality, HCI, embodied virtual humans, haptic interface, natural interface, Natural Language Processing, Computational Semantics.

Robert S Laramee received a Bachelor’s degree in Physics, from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (ZooMass). He received a Master’s degree in Computer Science from the University of New Hampshire, Durham. He completed his PhD from Vienna University of Technology (Gruess Gott TUWien), Austria at the Institute of Computer Graphics and Algorithms. He was a Researcher at the VRV is Research Center and a Software Engineer at AVL in the Department of Advanced Simulation Technologies. Currently, he is an Associate Professor in Data Visualizaton at Swansea University (Prifysgol Cymru Abertawe), Wales in the Department of Computer Science (Adran Gwyddor Cyfrifiadur). His research interests are in the areas of big data visualization, visual analytics, and human-computer interaction. He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed papers in scientific conferences and journals and served as Conference Chair of EuroVis, the premiere conference on data visualization in Europe.

Big data visualization, visual analytics, and human-computer interaction

Dr. Laing is the Managing Director of Sciendum Ltd, an information security company specializing in providing digital security advice to SMEs, he also acts as a security consultant for the European Network & Information Security Agency. He was one of the founders of GCHQ Cyber Security Research Institute, and his research focuses on emergent complex behaviour in information infrastructures, with a particular interest in the threats to, and vulnerabilities that exist within Industrial Control Systems. He is a Fellow of the IET, a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and has been adopted by a rescue dog

Information security, Digital sedurity

Prof. Daniel Thalmann is with the Institute for Media Innovation at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He is a pioneer in research on Virtual Humans. His current research interests include Real-time Virtual Humans in Virtual Reality, crowd simulation, and 3D Interaction. Daniel Thalmann has been the Founder of The Virtual Reality Lab (VRlab) at EPFL, Switzerland, Professor at The University of Montreal and Visiting Professor/ Researcher at CERN, University of Nebraska, University of Tokyo, and National University of Singapore. Until October 2010, he was the President of the Swiss Association of Research in Information Technology and one Director of the European Research Consortium in Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM). He is coeditor-in-chief of the Journal of Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds, and member of the editorial board of 6 other journals. Daniel Thalmann was member of numerous Program Committees, Program Chair and CoChair of several conferences including IEEE VR, ACM VRST, and ACM VRCAI. Daniel Thalmann has published more than 500 papers in Graphics, Animation, and Virtual Reality. He is coeditor of 30 books, and coauthor of several books including 'Crowd Simulation' (second edition 2012) and 'Stepping Into Virtual Reality' (2007), published by Springer. He received his PhD in Computer Science in 1977 from the University of Geneva and an Honorary Doctorate (Honoris Causa) from University Paul- Sabatier in Toulouse, France, in 2003. He also received the Eurographics Distinguished Career Award in 2010 and the 2012 Canadian Human Computer Communications Society Achievement Award.

Virtual humans, Virtual reality, Realtime computer graphics, Augmented reality, Multimodal interaction

Pascal Lorenz 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. His research interests include QoS, wireless networks and high-speed networks. 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.

CG Artist Professor of the University of Tokyo Born in Tanegashima Island. Kawaguchi has been working on Computer Graphics since 1975, and has been recognized as a pioneer and a world-class authority of CG art by his unique style. Using his ‘GROWTH Model’, a Self-Organizing procedural modeling algorithm, he has been creating various artificial complex life forms. Recent work includes development of CG expression of natural beauty based on physical basic model, 8K Ultra High Definition CG art, creation of new traditional art-form incorporating traditional craftsmanship and advanced IT-based expression, creation of artistic and primitive robot for planet exploration, development of ‘Gemotion’(Gene, Growth + emotion) 3D Bumpy display which react emotion like living beings. He won ‘ACM SIGGRAPH Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement’ in 2010 for creative and innovative artistry, giving life to a stunning aesthetic derived from his dedicated research in computer technology, biological forms, and contemporary artistic practice. In 2013, He received the Award from the Ministry of Education in the Art Encouragement Prizes and Medal with Purple Ribbon.

Computer Graphics, Multimedia

Changsoo Je received the BS degree in Physics and the MS and PhD degrees in Media Technology from Sogang University, Seoul, Korea, in 2000, 2002, and 2008, respectively. He is currently a Research Professor of Electronic Engineering at Sogang University, Seoul, Korea. He was a Senior Analyst of Standard and Patent at Korea Institute of Patent Information (2010-2011), a Research Professor (2009-2010), and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2008-2009) of Computer Science and Engineering at Ewha Womans University. His research interests include computer vision, computer graphics, and image processing. He received an Outstanding Paper Award at the Korea Computer Graphics Society Conference in 2008 and a Samsung Humantech Thesis Prize Award from Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. in 2004.

Computer Vision, Computer Graphics, Image Processing, Photonics - Shape: Structured Light, Stereo Vision, 3D Range Imaging

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.

His research interests include wireless networks, mobile communications, and multimedia networking.