Invited Speakers

Alberto Del Bimbo

University of Florence, Italy

Alberto del Bimbo is Professor Emeritus at the Department of Information Engineering of University of Firenze. He is the author of over 350 scietific papers in Computer Vision and Multimedia. With University of Firenze, he was Vice-Dean for Research and Technology Transfer, President of the Foundation for Research and Innovation, Director of the Department of Sistemi e Informatica, Director of MICC – Media Integration and Communication Center and Director of the Master program in Multimedia. Presently, he is the Director of NEMECH the research center on New Media for Cultural Heritage. Prof. Del Bimbo has been the leader of a large number of national and international projects with societal impact. Prof. Del Bimbo is the Chair of ACM SIGMM, the ACM Special Interest Group on Multimedia. He has served as the General Chair of ACM Multimedia 2022, ICPR 2020, ICMR 2019, ECCV 2012, ICMR 2011, ACM Multimedia 2010, and IEEE ICMCS 1999 and the Program Chair of ICPR 2016, ICPR 2010, and ACM Multimedia 2008. He is Associate Editor of MTAP and PAAA journals. He was the Editor in Chief of ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications, and the Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia and Pattern Recognition. Prof. Del Bimbo is IAPR Fellow, IEEE Senior Member and ACM Distinguished Scientist. He has been the recipient of the 2016 ACM SIGMM Award for Outstanding Technical Contributions to Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications.

Guillaume Caron 

Universite de Picardie Jules Verne, France

Guillaume Caron (Senior Member, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree in robotics and the Habilitation degree from the University of Picardie Jules Verne (UPJV), France, in 2010 and 2019, respectively. He has been an Associate Professor with the UPJV since 2011, and a CNRS delegate with CNRS-AIST Joint Robotics Laboratory (JRL), IRL, Japan, since 2019. He has been the co-director of JRL since 2022. He has been serving as Associate Editor for the IEEE ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION LETTERS since 2023. His research interests include artificial vision for robotics, real-time visual tracking and servoing, and digital heritage. He was the Chair of the IAPR Technical Committee 19 on « Computer Vision for Cultural Heritage Applications » for two terms from 2018 to 2022. 

Pedro Santos 

Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research IGD

Pedro Santos develops the first fully autonomous, robot-aided 3D digitization technologies for a faithful, virtual reproduction of real world objects, which enable automated, accurate and physically correct reconstruction of their geometry, texture and optical material reflectance properties. The used reconstruction techniques digitize objects using a variety of sensors and light-sources under controlled environmental conditions for comparable results of the highest quality. Pedro Santos is author or co-author of over 100 publications and reviewer for ACM, Eurographics and IEEE, as well as further organizations.