Shoji Tominaga received the Ph.D. degrees from Osaka University, Japan, in 1975. In 2006, he joined Chiba University, Japan, where he was a Professor (2006-2013), Dean (2011-2013), a Specially Appointed Researcher (2013-2018) at Graduate School of Advanced Integration Science. In 20017, he joined NTNU, Norway as a Professor at Computer Science, and now is an adjunct Professor at NTNU. His research interests include multispectral imaging, computational color imaging, and material appearance. He is Life Fellow IEEE, Fellow IST, Life Fellow SPIE, and Fellow Optica (formerly OSA).
Prof. Ebner received the M.S. degree in computer science from New York University, NY, in 1994, the degree Dipl.-Inform. from the Universität Stuttgart, Germany, in 1996 and the degree Dr. rer. nat. from the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany, in 1999. He received the venia legendi in 2006 from the Julius Maximilians Universität Würzburg, Germany. He is a recipient of a Heisenberg Scholarship from the German Research Foundation (DFG). In October 2011, he became full professor of computer science. He is author/co-author of 110 peer-reviewed publications and is a frequent speaker at international conferences; particularly on areas such as machine intelligence, computer vision, biologically inspired systems and genetic programming. Dr. Ebner is author of the first textbook on color constancy, i.e. algorithms for automatic white balance which try to mimick human color perception.
Miguel Ángel Martínez Domingo, University of Granada
Aiman Raza, L'Oréal
Claudio Rota, University of Milano-Bicocca
To be defined.