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.
Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research IGD
Pedro Santos has been Head of the Competence Center for Cultural Heritage Digitization since 2012. Before he was Deputy Head of the Department of Industrial Applications, today Department of Interactive Engineering Technologies. In the course of various projects in the field of digital preservation of cultural heritage objects and of the increasing demand for mass-scale 3D digitization in this field, his department develops the world's first approach for fast, economic, and automated 3D digitization of cultural heritage with emphasis on capturing optical material properties. Pedro Santos, who has been researcher at Fraunhofer IGD since 2002, studied computer science at the University of Darmstadt and the “Technical University of Lisbon. At present he is also attaining his PhD on the subject of Fast, economic, and automated 3D digitization of cultural heritage” at Technical University Darmstadt. During his professional career he was involved in the development of the first immersive CAD modeling systems to be used for the early stages of product development as well as in the design of “see-through head-mounted displays”, mobile applications in augmented reality and optical “marker-based” and “markerless” tracking systems. Pedro Santos is author and co-author of over 50 publications as well as reviewer for the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the European Association for Computer Graphics (Eurographics), the IEEE Computer Society and other organizations.