Keynote Lectures

Keynote Lecture

 

Brief Bio
Vittorio Murino is full professor at the University of Verona, Italy, and director of the PAVIS (Pattern Analysis and Computer Vision) department at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia. He took the Laurea degree in Electronic Engineering in 1989 and the Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering and Computer Science in 1993 at the University of Genova, Italy. He was chairman of the Department of Computer Science from 2001, year of foundation, to 2007, and coordinator of the Ph.D. program in Computer Science in the same university from 1999 to 2003. Prof. Murino is scientific responsible of several national and European projects, and evaluator of EU project proposals related to several frameworks and programs. Currently, he is working at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia in Genova, Italy, leading PAVIS department involved in computer vision, machine learning, and image analysis activities. His main research interests include computer vision, pattern recognition and machine learning, more specifically, statistical and probabilistic techniques for image and video processing, with applications on (human) behavior analysis and related applications such as video surveillance, biomedical imaging, and bioinformatics. Prof. Murino is co-author of more than 300 papers published in refereed journals and international conferences, member of the technical committees of important conferences (CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ICPR, ICIP, etc.), and guest co-editor of special issues in relevant scientific journals. He is also member of the editorial board of Pattern Recognition, Pattern Analysis and Applications, Machine Vision & Applications, and Computer Vision and Image Understanding journals, as well as of IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics. Finally, prof. Murino is senior member of the IEEE and Fellow of the IAPR.

There's Plenty Of Room At The Bottom: Opportunites And Challenges For Microrobotics

 

Brief Bio
Arianna Menciassi was born in Pisa, Italy, in 1971. She graduated in Physics at the Pisa University (1995), she obtained the PhD (1999) at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (SSSA, Pisa, Italy) and she was visiting professor in different universities in France since 2014 (Pierre and Marie Curie, in Paris, Besancon University, in Besancon). She is Full Professor of Biomedical Robotics at SSSA and team leader of the “Surgical Robotics & Allied Technologies” Area at The BioRobotics Institute. She is the Coordinator of the PhD in Biorobotics since 2018, and she was appointed in 2019 as Vice-Rector of the Scuola Sant'Anna. Her main research interests involve surgical robotics, microrobotics for biomedical applications, biomechatronic artificial organs, smart and soft solutions for biomedical devices. She pays a special attention to the combination between traditional robotics, targeted therapy and wireless solution for therapy (e.g. ultrasound- and magnetic-based). She served in the Editorial Board of the IEEE-ASME Trans. on Mechatronics and she has been Topic Editor of the International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems (2013-2020). In 2018 she has been appointed as Editor of APL Bioengineering and of the IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics. She is Associate Editor for Soft Robotics and she serves as Associate Editor of the IEEE Trans. on Robotics from Jan. 2021. She is Co-Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Surgical Robotics. She is serving in the Steering Committee of iSMIT. She received the Well-tech Award (Milan, Italy) for her researches on endoscopic capsules, and she was awarded by the Tuscany Region with the Gonfalone D’Argento, as one of the best 10 young talents of the region. Recently, she has been awarded with the KUKA Innovation Award, for her activities on robotic assisted focused ultrasound.

Physical Models and Machine Learning for Photography and Astronomy

 

Brief Bio
Jean Ponce is a Professor at Ecole Normale Supérieure - PSL, where he served as Director of the Computer Science Department from 2011 to 2017 and a Global Distinguished Professor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and the Center for Data Science at New York University. He is also the co-founder and CEO of Enhance Lab, a startup that commercializes software for joint demosaicing, denoising, super-resolution and HDR imaging from raw photo bursts. Before joining ENS and NYU, Jean Ponce held positions at Inria, MIT, Stanford, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he was a Full Professor until 2005. Jean Ponce is an IEEE and an ELLIS Fellow, a member of the Academia Europaea, and a former Sr. member of the Institut Universitaire de France. He has served as Program and/or General Chair of all three top international Computer Vision Conferences, CVPR (1997 and 2000), ECCV (2008) and ICCV (2023, upcoming). He has also served as Sr. Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Computer Vision and Associate Editor for Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Foundation and Trends in Computer Graphics and Vision, the IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, and the SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences. He currently serves as Scientific Director of the PRAIRIE Interdisciplinary AI Research Institute in Paris. Jean Ponce is the recipient of two US patents, an ERC advanced grant, the 2016 and 2020 IEEE CVPR Longuet-Higgins prizes, and the 2019 ICML test-of-time award. He is the author of "Computer Vision: A Modern Approach", a textbook translated in Chinese, Japanese, and Russian.