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Prof. Long QUAN (IEEE Fellow)
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China

 

 

 

Biography: Long QUAN is a Professor of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Long Quan received the Ph.D. in Computer Science at INRIA (France) in 1989. Before joining the Department of Computer Science at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) in 2001 to found the HKUST computer vision group, he has been one of the founding members of INRIA Grenoble Computer Vision Group since 1990.
He directed the founding best French PhD thesis in computer science, le prix de these Gilles Kahn in 1998, the Piero Zamperoni Best Student Paper Award in 2000, the first of six highlights of Siggraph 2007, the Best Student Poster Paper of CVPR 2008, and the ICPR 2020 Best Student Paper Award.
He has served as a General Chair of the ICCV 2011 in Barcelona, and a General Chair of the IEEE CVPR 2022 in New Orleans. He has also served as a Program Chair of ICPR 2006 Computer Vision and Image Analysis, a Program Chair of ICPR 2012 Computer and Robot Vision. He is an IEEE Fellow of the Computer Society. He has founded the HKUST start-up Altizure.com, which has been was acquired by Apple. He has also served as a Distinguished Scientific Advisor of Apple.

 

 

 

Prof. Linlin Shen
Shenzhen University, China

 

 

 

Biography: Linlin Shen (Senior Member) is currently a Pengcheng Scholar Distinguished Professor at School of Artificial Intelligence, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China. He is also a Honorary professor at School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham, UK. He serves as the Deputy director of National Engineering Lab of Big Data Computing Technology, Director of Computer Vision Institute, AI Research Center for Medical Image Analysis and Diagnosis and China-UK joint research lab for visual information processing. He also serves as the Co-Editor-in-Chief of the IET journal of Cognitive Computation and Systems, Senoir Area Editor of IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, Senior Editor of Expert Systems With Applications, and Associate Editor of IEEE Trans. on Affective Computing, Pattern Recognition and Scieitific Data. His research interests include deep learning, facial recognition, analysis/synthesis and medical image processing. Prof. Shen is listed as the“Most Cited Chinese Researchers”by Elsevier, “Top 0.05% Highly Ranked Scholar”by ScholarGPS, and listed in a ranking of the“Top 2% Scientists in the World” by Stanford University. He received the“Best Paper Runner-up Award”from the journal of IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, "Top Cited Article" from Wiley, and “Most Cited Paper Award” from the journal of Image and Vision Computing. His cell classification algorithms were the winners of the International Contest on Pattern Recognition Techniques for Indirect Immunofluorescence Images held by ICIP and ICPR. His team has also been the runner-up and second runner-up of a number of competitions for object detection in remote sensing images, nucleus detection in histopathology images and facial expression recognition.