Invited Speakers
Klaus Schoeffmann
Associate Professor at Klagenfurt University, Austria
Dr. Klaus Schoeffmann is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Information Technology (ITEC) at Klagenfurt University, Austria, where he received his habilitation (venia docendi) in Computer Science in 2015. He holds a PhD and a MSc in Computer Science. His research focuses on video content understanding (in particular of medical/surgery videos), multimedia retrieval, interactive multimedia, and applied deep learning. He has co-authored more than 100 publications on various topics in multimedia, inclusive of more than 30 on different aspects of medical video analysis. He has co-organized several international conferences, workshops, and special sessions in the field of multimedia. Klaus Schoeffmann is founder of the Video Browser Showdown (VBS) – an international annual live evaluation competition of interactive video search systems, started in 2012. He is a member of the IEEE and the ACM, and a regular reviewer for international conferences and journals in the field of multimedia. Klaus Schoeffmann teaches various courses in computer science, including app development, introduction to programming, multimedia technologies, and content search with deep learning.
Dima Damen
Associate Professor at University of Bristol, UK
Dr. Dima Damen is a Reader (Associate Professor) in Computer Vision at the University of Bristol, United Kingdom. She received her PhD from the University of Leeds, UK (2009). Dima is currently an EPSRC Fellow (2020-2025), focusing on her research interests in the automatic understanding of object interactions, actions and activities using static and wearable visual (and depth) sensors. Dima co-chaired BMVC 2013, is area chair for BMVC (2014-2018), associate editor of IEEE TPAMI (2019-) and associate editor of Pattern Recognition (2017-). She was selected as a Nokia Research collaborator in 2016, and as an Outstanding Reviewer in ICCV17, CVPR13 and CVPR12. She currently supervises 6 PhD students, and 4 postdoctoral researchers.
Koichi Shinoda
Professor at Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Koichi Shinoda received the BS and MS degrees from the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan in 1987 and 1989, respectively, both in physics, and the DEng degree in computer science from the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, in 2001. In 1989, he joined NEC Corporation, Japan, where he was involved in research on automatic speech recognition. From 1997 to 1998, he was a visiting scholar with Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, NJ. From June 2001 to September 2001, he was a principal researcher with the Multimedia Research Laboratories, NEC Corporation. From October 2001 to March 2003, he was an associate professor with the University of Tokyo, Japan. He is currently a professor with the Tokyo Institute of Technology. His research interests include speech recognition, video information retrieval, statistical pattern recognition, and human interfaces. He received the Awaya Prize from the Acoustic Society of Japan in 1997 and the Excellent Paper Award from the IEICE in 1998. He was a publicity chair in INTERSPEECH2010, a video program co-chair in ACM Multimedia 2012. He is currently an associate editor of Computer Speech and Language and Speech Communication , Elsevier, an APSIPA distinguished lecturer, and the chair of SIG-SLP (Spoken Language Processing) in Information Processing Society of Japan. He is a senior member of the IEEE and IEICE and a member of ACM, IPSJ, JSAI, and ASJ. (Based on document published on 23 September 2015).