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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.

 

 

 

 

 

Prof. Pong Chi YUEN (IAPR Fellow)
Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China

 

 

 

Biography: Pong C Yuen joined Hong Kong Baptist University in 1993 and served as the Head of the Department of Computer Science from 2011 – 2017 and Associate Dean (Teaching and Learning) of the Faculty of Science from 2018-2024. He is currently a Chair Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Hong Kong Baptist University.
Dr Yuen received the University Fellowship to visit the University of Sydney in 1996. Dr Yuen spent his sabbatical visiting several universities/research institutes, including the University of Maryland at College Park, INRIA Rhone Alpes, France, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, and the University of Bologna, Italy. Dr Yuen was the director of the Croucher Advanced Study Institute (ASI) on Biometric Authentication in 2004, the Croucher ASI on Biometric Security and Privacy in 2007, and the Croucher ASI on AI for Biomedicine 2025. He has been the Director of the IAPR/IEEE Winter School on Biometrics since 2017.
Dr. Yuen has been actively involved in many international conferences and professional communities. He served as program co-chair for many international conferences/workshops, including ICPR 2026/2006, IJCB 2021, IEEE WIFS 2018 and IEEE BTAS 2012. He served as Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (IEEE TIFS) (2014 – 2018, 2021-2022), and received the Outstanding Editorial Board Service Award in 2018. Dr. Yuen has also served as the Vice President (Technical Activities) of the IEEE Biometrics Council (2017-2019), Associate Editor/Senior Editor of SPIE Journal of Electronic Imaging (2012-2019), and Editorial Board Member of Pattern Recognition (2006-2025). Dr. Yuen is the Senior Area Editor of IEEE TIFS, and Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior and Identity Science, and Computer Vision and Image Understanding. He received the first-prize and second-prize Natural Science Awards from the Guangdong Province and the Ministry of Education, China, respectively. He is a Fellow of IAPR. Dr. Yuen's research interests include biometric security and privacy and medical informatics.