Keynote Speakers
Bio
Touradj Ebrahimi is Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland, where he heads the Multimedia Signal Processing Group. He also serves as the Convenor of the JPEG standardization committee. From 2008 to 2012, he was Adjunct Professor with the Center of Quantifiable Quality of Service at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).
He received his M.Sc. and Ph.D., both in Electrical Engineering, from EPFL in 1989 and 1992, respectively. In 1993, he was a Research Engineer at the Corporate Research Laboratories of Sony Corporation in Tokyo, conducting research on advanced video compression techniques for storage applications. In 1994, he served as a Research Consultant at AT&T Bell Laboratories, working on very low bitrate video coding.
His research interests include still, moving, and 3D image processing and coding, visual information security (rights protection, watermarking, authentication, data integrity, steganography), new media, and human–computer interfaces such as smart vision and brain–computer interaction. He has authored or co-authored more than 200 research publications and holds 14 patents.
Professor Ebrahimi has initiated more than two dozen national, European, and international cooperation projects with leading companies and research institutes worldwide. He is a co-founder of Genista SA in multimedia quality metrics, founded Emitall SA in 2002 in the area of media security and surveillance, and founded EMITALL Surveillance SA in 2005 in the field of privacy and protection.
He has received various distinctions and awards, including IEEE and Swiss national ASE awards, the SNF-PROFILE grant for advanced researchers, four ISO certificates for key contributions to MPEG-4 and JPEG 2000, and the Best Paper Award of IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics. He became a Fellow of SPIE in 2003.
He is or has been Associate Editor for several IEEE, SPIE, and EURASIP journals, including IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, EURASIP Image Communication Journal, EURASIP Journal of Applied Signal Processing, and SPIE Optical Engineering. He serves on the Scientific Advisory Boards of various start-up and established companies in information technology and has acted as Scientific Expert and Evaluator for major research funding agencies, including the European Commission and several national science foundations.
He is a member of IEEE, SPIE, ACM, and IS&T.
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Shan Liu (Fellow, IEEE) received the B.Eng. degree in Electronic Engineering from Tsinghua University and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California. She is currently a Distinguished Scientist and General Manager at Tencent. She was formerly Director of the Media Technology Division at MediaTek USA and previously held positions at MERL and Sony.
Dr. Liu has been a long-time contributor to international multimedia standardization, with numerous technical proposals adopted into major standards including VVC, HEVC, OMAF, DASH, MMT, and PCC. She served as Project Editor of the ISO/IEC | ITU-T H.266/VVC standard.
Her contributions have been recognized with several prestigious awards, including the ISO/IEC Excellence Award, the Technology Lumiere Award, the USC SIPI Distinguished Alumni Award, and the IEEE TCSVT Best Associate Editor Award (twice).
She currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology and Vice Chair of the IEEE Data Compression Standards Committee. She also serves and has served on multiple professional boards and committees.
Dr. Liu holds more than 600 granted U.S. patents, has published over 100 peer-reviewed papers, and authored one book. Her research interests include audio-visual, volumetric, immersive, and emerging media compression, intelligence, transport, and systems.
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Jiwen Lu (IEEE/IAPR Fellow) received the B.Eng. degree in Mechanical Engineering and the M.Eng. degree in Electrical Engineering from Xi’an University of Technology, Xi’an, China, in 2003 and 2006, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, in 2011. From 2011 to 2015, he was a Research Scientist with the Advanced Digital Sciences Center, Singapore. In November 2015, he joined the Department of Automation at Tsinghua University, where he is currently a tenured Full Professor and Associate Chair of the department.
His research interests include computer vision, pattern recognition, embodied intelligence, and artificial intelligence safety. He has been actively involved in IEEE technical activities, serving as a member of the Multimedia Systems and Applications Technical Committee (MSA TC) and the Visual Signal Processing and Communications Technical Committee (VSPC TC) of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, as well as the Image, Video and Multidimensional Signal Processing Technical Committee (IMVSP TC), Multimedia Signal Processing Technical Committee (MMSP TC), and Information Forensics and Security Technical Committee (IFS TC) of the IEEE Signal Processing Society.
Professor Lu has taken leadership roles in major international conferences, serving as General Co-Chair of the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) 2022, Program Co-Chair of the Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV) 2026, ICME 2020, IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG) 2023, IEEE International Conference on Visual Communication and Image Processing (VCIP) 2022, and IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal-based Surveillance (AVSS) 2021.
He has served as Co-Editor-in-Chief of Pattern Recognition Letters, Senior Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, and Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Sciences, Pattern Recognition, and Journal of Visual Communications and Image Representation.
He was a recipient of the National Natural Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars and is an IEEE Fellow and IAPR Fellow.