3rd Global Summit and Expo on Multimedia & Artificial Intelligence July 20-21, 2017 Holiday Inn Lisbon – continental, Lisbon, Portugal

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.

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

Dr Vijayan Asari is a Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Ohio Research Scholars Endowed Chair in Wide Area Surveillance at the University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio, USA. He is the director of the Center of Excellence for Computer Vision and Wide Area Surveillance Research (Vision Lab) at UD. As leaders in innovation and algorithm development, UD Vision Lab specializes in object detection, recognition and tracking in wide area surveillance imagery captured by visible, infrared, thermal, hyperspectral, LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) and EEG (electroencephalograph) sensors. Dr Asari's research activities include development of novel algorithms for human identification by face recognition, human action and activity recognition, brain signal analysis for emotion recognition and brain machine interface, 3D scene creation from 2D video streams, 3D scene change detection, and automatic visibility improvement of images captured in various weather conditions. Dr Asari received his BS in electronics and communication engineering from the University of Kerala, India, and M Tech and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. Prior to joining UD in February 2010, Dr Asari worked as Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia for 10 years. Dr Asari worked at National University of Singapore during 1996-98 and led a research team for the development of a vision-guided microrobotic endoscopy system. He also worked at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore during 1998-2000 and led the computer vision and image processing related research activities in the Center for High Performance Embedded Systems at NTU. Dr Asari holds three patents and has published more than 500 research papers, including 85 peer-reviewed journal papers in the areas of image processing, pattern recognition, machine learning and high performance embedded systems. Dr Asari has supervised 22 PhD dissertations and 35 MS theses during the last 15 years. Currently 18 graduate students are working with him in different sponsored research projects. He is participating in several federal and private funded research projects and he has so far managed around $15M research funding. Dr. Asari received several teaching, research, advising and technical leadership awards. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and SPIE, and member of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society. Dr Asari is the co-organizer of several SPIE and IEEE conferences and workshops.

Computer Vision, Image processing, Wireless

He is a man of many skills and a veteran of the computer graphics industry. With over 20 years of experience as an artist, researcher, animator and director. He is lending his animation and programming expertise to Shape of the World. He is currently President at Lifelike & Believable Animation Design, Inc. and Founding Member of Pepper's Ghost Media & Performing Arts Collective and co-conspirator on a variety of side projects.

Bringing 20+ years experience in the interactive entertainment industry to provide creative and technical leadership and support to studios developing emotionally-engaging, character-driven games and experiences for console, PC and mobile platforms.

Robert Sabourin is a full professor in Ecole Technologie Supérieure de Montreal

pattern recognition, machine learning, evolutionary computation, bio metrics, handwriting recognition

Ghyslain Gagnon received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Carleton University, Canada in 2008. He is now an Associate Professor at École de technologie supérieure, Montreal, Canada. He is an executive committee member of ReSMiQ and Director of research laboratory LACIME, a group of 10 Professors and nearly 100 highly-dedicated students and researchers in microelectronics, digital signal processing and wireless communications. Highly inclined towards research partnerships with industry, his research aims at digital signal processing and machine learning with various applications, from media art to building energy management

digital signal processing and machine learning

Luiz Eduardo Soares de Oliveira completed his doctorate in Engineering (Philosophiae Doctor Ph D.) - Université du Québec, École de Technologie Supérieure in 2003. Between 2004 and 2009 he was professor of the Graduate Program in Informatics PUCPR. Since 2009 is a professor in the Department of Informatics of the Federal University of Parana in 2015 and was a visiting professor at the University of Rouen (France). He has supervised and co-supervised 24 students in master's and doctorate and published over 140 articles in professional journals and international conference proceedings (h-index: 27). In 2003 he received the Excellence Award for the best doctoral thesis of ETS / Université du Quebec.

pattern recognition, machine learning and computer vision

Leonardo Sacht is an adjunct professor at Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC) in Florianopolis, Brazil. He received a bachelor degree in Mathematics and Scientific Computing from UFSC in 2008 and MSc and DSc degrees in Mathematics from the Brazilian Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IMPA) in 2010 and 2014, respectively. He also spent one year between 2012 and 2013 as a visiting student at ETH Zurich, in Switzerland. Dr. Sacht has recently published papers on important journals such as ACM Transactions on Graphics, Journal of Real-Time Image Processing and IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Graphics, Image Processing

Anton Nijholt received his PhD in computer science from the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. He held positions at various universities, both inside and outside the Netherlands. In 1989 he was appointed full professor at the University of Twente in the Netherlands. His main research interests are human-computer interaction with a focus on playful interfaces, entertainment computing, and humor generation. He edited various books, most recently on playful interfaces, social collective intelligence, and brain-computer interaction. A new book on 'Playable Cities' will appear in 2016. Nijholt acted as program chair and general chair of many large international conferences, including ACE (Advances in Computer Entertainment), ICMI (International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces), ICEC (International Conference on Computer Entertainment), ACII (Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction), CASA (Computer Animation and Social Agents), INTETAIN (Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment), FG (Faces & Gestures), and IVA (Intelligent Virtual Agents). Recent (2015-2016) keynote talks at various conferences have been on humor engineering in smart environments, playable cities and on the future of brain-computer interfaces for non-clinical applications. Nijholt is chief editor of the specialty section Human-Media Interaction of the journals Frontiers in Psychology, Frontiers in Digital Humanities, and Frontiers in ICT. He is co-editor of the Springer Book Series Gaming Media and Social Effects. Since 2015 he is also Global Research fellow at the Imagineering Institute, Iskandar, Malaysia, where he continues his investigations in playfulness and humor in interfaces and smart environments.

Human Computer Interaction

Prof. Chaabane Djeraba obtained a Master and Ph.D degrees in Computer Science, from respectively the "Pierre Mendes France" University of Grenoble (France) and the "Claude Bernard" University of Lyon (France). Beforehand, he obtained an engineering degree in Computer Science at the National Institute of Informatics (INI, now called ESI, Algeria). He then became an Assistant and Associate Professor in Computer Science at the Polytechnic School of Nantes University, France. Since 2003, he has been a full Professor at the University of Lille Nord Europe (University of Lille1) and co-heads the Fox-Miire group within the Computer Science Laboratory (LIFL). His research and teaching activities are also held in the Telecom-Lille1 Engineering School.He chaired and founded several international workshops such as the international workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing and Retrieval (CBMI) in 2001 and the ACM international workshop on Multimedia Data Mining (ACM KDD/MDM) in 2002. The workshop inspired the Multimedia Mining theme of ACM SIGKDD. He took part to several program committees of conferences (e.g. ACM SIGKDD, ACM MM), and he is serving several editorial boards of journals

extraction of information (emotion, abnormal events, suspect events, gaze, flow) from videos and the application to human behavior understanding and multimedia indexing and mining.

Victor Ostromoukhov is a professor at Université de Lyon 1/CNRS. He graduated from Phys-Tech (MIPT, Moscow, 1980). He then spent several years with prominent European and American industrial companies (SG2, Paris; Olivetti, Paris and Milan; Canon Information Systems, Cupertino, CA) as a research scientist and/or computer engineer. He received his PhD in Computer Science from Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL, Lausanne, 1995), where he then continued to work as a lecturer and senior researcher. He was an invited professor at University of Washington (Seattle, 1997) and at iMAGIS/INRIA (Grenoble, 2002). He spent a year as research scientist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, in 1999-2000. He has been an Associate Professor at Université de Montréal, from 2000 to 2009. He has been appointed as Full Professor at Université de Lyon 1, since September 2009, In 2010, he received a Distinguished Chair from French National Research Agency (Chaire d'Excellence ANR)

Computer Graphics, Mote Carlo and Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods, Sampling, Number Theory, Low-Discrepancy Sequences, Photorealistic and Nonphotorealistic Rendering, Tilings and Patterns, Space-Filling Curves, Digital Halftoning, Color Science, Perception and Visual Cues

Jungong Han is currently a Senior Lecturer with the Department of Computer Science and Digital Technologies at Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK. He received his Ph. D. degree in Telecommunication and Information System from Xidian University, China, in 2004.

multimedia content identification, multi-sensor data fusion, computer vision and multimedia security

I am currently a Senior Lecturer in Computer and Information Science at the Univ. of Northumbria, Newcastle. I received a BSc in Electronics from Huazhong Univ. of Science & Tech. in China and a PhD in Computer Science from Queen’s Univ. Belfast, where its computer science was brought up by Turing laureate Sir Tony Hoare since 1960s. After my PhD study, I joined Brunel Univ. in July 2007 as a RA on an EU-FP6 project (RUSHES) on video indexing. Following this I worked as a RA at Loughborough Univ. (TSB project CrimeVis, 03/2009~09/2010), then at Swansea Univ. (EPSRC project on Sports Visualization, 10/2010~09/2011), Univ. of Bath (TSB project on Video Codec, 10/2011~09/2012) and Univ. of Sheffield (EPSRC project BIMPA, 10/2012~04/2013). I joined Univ. of Northumbria as a Lecturer in May 2013.Currently in Northumbria Univ., I am leading a research team of 5 PhDs ( as 1st Supervisor) and 1 Postdoc on Biometrics, Smart Cities, Medical Diagnosis, and Financial Computing in Dept. Computer and Information Science. I authored or co-authored 21 refereed journal papers and 24 conference papers/books/book chapters. I am a Fellow of Higher Education Academy. I served as the publication co-chair of EUVIP 2016 and the leading editor of a Springer book on biometric big data in 2016.

Real-time image processing,

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

Prof. You is currently a professor in the Department of Computing at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Prof. You obtained her BEng. in Electronic Engineering from Xi’an Jiaotong University in 1986 and Ph.D in Computer Science from La Trobe University, Australia in 1992. She was a lecturer at the University of South Australia and senior lecturer (tenured) at Griffith University from 1993 till 2002. Prof. You was awarded French Foreign Ministry International Postdoctoral Fellowship in 1993 and worked on the project on real-time object recognition and tracking at Universite Paris XI. She also obtained the Academic Certificate issued by French Education Ministry in 1994.So far, she has more than 200 research papers published with over 3000 non-self citations. Prof. You is a principal investigator for two projects supported by Hong Kong Government ITF (Innovation Technology Fund) in 1999 and 2014 respectively, four projects funded by Hong Kong Government GRF (General Research Grant) during 1997-1999 and 2015, and many other grants in the capacity of co-investigator since she joined PolyU in late 1998. Prof. You is also a team member for three successful patents (one HK patent, two US patents) and three awards including Hong Kong Government Industrial Awards. Her recent work on retinal imaging has won a Special Prize and Gold Medal with Jury’s Commendation at the 39th International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva (April 2011) and the second place in an international competition (SPIE Medical Imaging’2009 Retinopathy Online Challenge (ROC’2009)). Her research output on retinal imaging has been successfully led to technology transfer with clinical applications. Prof. You is also an associate editor of Pattern Recognition and other journals.

Image processing, medical imaging, computer-aided detection/diagnosis and pattern recognition

Naoyuki Kubota is a professor in Tokyo Metropolitan Institute, Japan

Human-friendly Robot Partners, Evolutionary Robot Vision, Information Visualization and 3D Reconstruction based on Topological Mapping

Xintao Ding is an associate professor at Anhui Normal University, China. He conducted a study of medical imaging in the Key Laboralory of Molecular Imaging, Chinese Academy Sciences in 2013. He received his Ph.D. degree in Anhui Normal University, China in 2015. Currently, he is an Academic Visitor in the Computer Science of the University of Hull, UK. His research interests include image processing, computer vision and machine learning.

image processing, computer vision and machine learning

I received my Ph.D. degree from University of Portsmouth, U.K. in 2008. Currently, I am a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Computer Science & Information Technology (FCSIT), University of Malaya.

computer vision and fuzzy qualitative reasoning; with a focus on image/video content analysis