Dr. Ebroul Izquierdo
Dr. Aggelos K. Katsaggelos
Dr. Raphaël Troncy
Dr. Eduardo Romero Castro
Dr. Fabio Gonzalez O.
Dr. Ebroul Izquierdo
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Ebroul Izquierdo, PhD, MSc, CEng, FIET, SMIEEE, MBMVA, is Chair of Multimedia and Computer Vision and head of the Multimedia and Vision Group at Queen Mary, University of London . For his thesis on the numerical approximation of algebraic-differential equations, he received the Dr. Rerun Naturalium (PhD) from the Humboldt University , Berlin, Germany, in 1993. From 1990 to 1992 he was a teaching assistant at the department of applied mathematics, Technical University Berlin . From 1993 to 1997 he was with the Heinrich-Hertz Institute for Communication Technology (HHI) , Berlin , Germany , as associated researcher. From 1998 to 1999 Dr. Izquierdo was with the Department of Electronic Systems Engineering of the University of Essex as a senior research officer. Since 2000 he has been with the Electronic Engineering department, Queen Mary, University of London.
Prof. Izquierdo was the UK representative of the EU Action Cost211. He coordinated the EU IST project BUSMAN and represented QMUL in the European IST Network of Excellence SCHEMA. He has been a main contributor to the IST integrated projects aceMedia and MESH. He is also memeber of the coordination group of the IST Project RUSHES. Prof. Izquierdo coordinates the EU Action Cost292 and the FP6 network of excellence on semantic inference for automatic annotation and retrieval of multimedia content, K-Space. Currently, he is core member of the FP7 NoE PetaMedia, the FP7 PAPYRUS project and the Supporting Action SALA+.
Prof. Izquierdo is an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT) and the EURASIP Journal on Image and Video processing. He has served as guest editor of three special issues of the IEEE TCSVT, three special issue of the journal Signal Processing: Image Communication, two special issue of the EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing and Image and Video Processing and several special issues in other journal in the field of Multimedia Signal Processing.
Prof. Izquierdo is a Chartered Engineer, a Fellow member of the The Institution of Engineering and Technology, a senior member of the IEEE, and a member of the British Machine Vision Association. He is member of the steering committee of the European Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services, the International Conference on Semantics and digital Media Technologies and the IET Conference on Visual Information Engineering. He is also member of the technical program committee of the IEEE conference on Information Visualization, the international program committee of EURASIP&IEEE conference on Video Processing and Multimedia Communication. Prof. Izquierdo has served as session chair and organiser of invited sessions at several international conferences including ISCAS, ICASSP and ICIP. He has been the general chair of the European Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services, London 2003 and Seoul 2006, the European Workshop for the integration of Knowledge, Semantics and Content, London 2004 and 2005, the Mobile Multimedia Communications Conference MobiMedia, Algero2006, the International Conference on Content Based Multimedia Indexing, London 2008 and the IET Conference on Visual Information Engineering, Xian 2008.
Prof. Izquierdo has published over 300 technical papers including chapters in books.
Dr. Aggelos K. Katsaggelos
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Aggelos K. Katsaggelos received the Diploma degree in electrical and mechanical engineering from the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece, in 1979 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees both in electrical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, in 1981 and 1985, respectively.
In 1985 he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, where he is currently professor. He is also the Director of the Motorola Center for Seamless Communications and a member of the Academic Affiliate Staff, Department of Medicine, at Evanston Hospital. During the 1986-1987 academic year he was an assistant professor at Polytechnic University, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Brooklyn, NY.
His current research interests include multimedia signal processing (e.g., image and video recovery and compression, audio-visual speech and speaker recognition, indexing and retrieval), multimedia communications, computer vision, pattern recognition, and DNA signal processing. He has published extensively in these areas. He is the editor of Digital Image Restoration (Springer-Verlag 1991), co-author of Rate-Distortion Based Video Compression (Kluwer 1997), co-editor of Recovery Techniques for Image and Video Compression and Transmission, (Kluwer 1998), and co-author of Super-Resolution of Images and Video (Morgan & Claypool Publishers 2007) and Joint Source-Channel Video Transmission (Morgan & Claypool Publishers 2007).
Prof. Katsaggelos has served the IEEE and other professional Societies in many capacities. He is currently a member of the IEEE Technical Committee on Visual Signal Processing and Communications, and the Editorial Boards of Academic Press, Marcel Dekker: Signal Processing Series, the International Journal on Image and Video Processing, and Advances in Multimedia. He has served as editor-in-chief of the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine (1997-2002), a member of the Publication Boards of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, the IEEE TAB Magazine Committee, an Associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (1990-1992), an area editor for the journal Graphical Models and Image Processing (1992-1995), a member of the Steering Committees of the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (1992-1997) and the IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (1990-1999), a member of the IEEE Technical Committee on Image and Multi-Dimensional Signal Processing (1992-1998), a member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (1999-2001), a member of the IEEE Technical Committees on Multimedia Signal Processing and Image and Multidimensional Signal Processing, a member of the Publication Board of the IEEE Proceedings (2003-2007), and a member of the Editorial Boards of Applied Signal Processing and Computer Journal. He has served as the General Chairman of the 1994 Visual Communications and Image Processing Conference (Chicago, IL) and as technical program co-chair of the 1998 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (Chicago, IL).
Dr. Katsaggelos is a Fellow of the IEEE (1998) and SPIE (2009), the co-inventor of twelve international patents, the recipient of the IEEE Third Millennium Medal (2000), the IEEE Signal Processing Society Meritorious Service Award (2001), and a co-recipient of an IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award (2001), an IEEE ICME Best Paper Award (2006), and an IEEE ICIP Best Paper Award (2007). He was a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (2007-08).
Dr. Raphaël Troncy
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Born 1977/08/16. Dr. Raphaël Troncy obtained with honors his Master's thesis in Computer Science at the University Joseph Fourier of Grenoble, France, after one year spent in the University of Montreal, Canada. He benefited from a PhD fellowship at the National Audio-Visual Institute (INA) of Paris where he received with honors his PhD in 2004.
e was then an awarded ERCIM Post-Doctorate Research Associate in the National Research Council (CNR) in Pisa, Italy in 2005, and in the National Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI) in Amsterdam, the Netherlands in 2006 where he has been employed as a researcher until 2009. From 2009, Raphaël Troncy is an assistant professor in the EURECOM Institute. Raphaël Troncy is also co-chair of the W3C Media Fragments Working Group and W3C Incubator Group on Multimedia Semantics, contributes to the W3C Media Annotations Working Group and actively participates in the K-Space Network of Excellence.
His research interest include Semantic Web and Multimedia Technologies, Knowledge Representation, Ontology Modeling and Alignment and Web Science. Raphaël Troncy is an expert in audio visual metadata and in combining existing metadata standards (such as MPEG-7) with current Semantic Web technologies. He works also closely with the IPTC standardization body and the European Broadcasting Union on the relationship between the News Architecture and the Semantic Web technologies.
Dr. Eduardo Romero Castro
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Eduardo was born in Chinácota (Norte de Santander). In 1988 he obtained his diploma as a Medical Doctor from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia and as a Magister in Electrical Engineering from the Universidad de los Andes in 1995. He obtained his PhD in Biomedical Sciences from the Université Catholique de Louvain in 2000. Between 2000-2002 he worked as a Senior Researcher at the Communications and Remote sensing laboratory (UCL - Belgium), in the group of Medical Images. During 2003 he was with the group of chemical sensors at the Centro Nacional de Microelectrónica (CNM - Spain). Currently he is associated professor attached to the Telemedicine Centre of the Faculty of Medicine and leads both the Bioingenium group and the Biomedical Engineering postgraduate program.
His main interests are the Medical images, augmented reality, artificial intelligence and graphic computation.
Dr. Fabio Gonzalez O.
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Fabio Gonzalez is an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Systems and Industrial Engineering, National University of Colombia. He earned a Computer Systems Engineer degree and a MSc in Math degree from the National University of Colombia in 1993 and 1998 respectively, and a MSc and PhD degrees in Computer Science from the University of Memphis, USA, in 2003. His research work is mainly focused on the foundations of machine learning and its applications to image processing, computer vision, and data mining among others. He has published more than 50 papers in different journals and international conferences.
He is currently the coordinator of the PhD in Computer and Systems Engineering academic program and the subdirector of the Bioingenium research group.
