Daniel Cremers holds the Chair of Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence at the Technical University of Munich. His publications received several awards, including the 'Best Paper of the Year 2003' (Int. Pattern Recognition Society), the 'Olympus Award 2004' (German Soc. for Pattern Recognition) and the '2005 UCLA Chancellor's Award for Postdoctoral Research'. For pioneering research he received a Starting Grant (2009), two Proof of Concept Grants (2014 & 2018), a Consolidator Grant (2015) and an Advanced Grant (2020) by the European Research Council. Professor Cremers has served as associate editor for several journals including the International Journal of Computer Vision, the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence and the SIAM Journal of Imaging Sciences. He has served as area chair (associate editor) for ICCV, ECCV, CVPR, ACCV, IROS, etc, and as program chair for ACCV 2014. In 2018 he organized the largest ever European Conference on Computer Vision in Munich with 3300 delegates.

Mireille Boutin graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Physics-Mathematics from the University of Montreal in 1996. She received the Ph.D. degree in Mathematics from the University of Minnesota in 2001 under the direction of Peter J. Olver. She joined Purdue University after a post-doctorate with David Mumford, David Cooper, and Ben Kimia at Brown University, Rhode Island, followed by a post-doctorate with Stefan Muller at the Max Plank Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences in Leipzig, Germany. She is currently an Associate Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, with a courtesy appointment in the Department of Mathematics. Her research is in the area of signal processing, machine learning, and applied mathematics. She is a three-time recipient of Purdue’s Seed for Success Award. She is also a recipient of the Eta Kappa Nu Outstanding Faculty Award, the Eta Kappa Nu Outstanding Teaching Award and the Wilfred “Duke” Hesselberth Award for Teaching Excellence. She is currently an associate editor for IEEE Signal Processing Letters and for IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. She is also a member of the Image, Video, and Multidimensional Signal Processing Technical Committee (IVMSP TC) of the IEEE Signal Processing Society.