Organizers

Keith Curtis

National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA

Keith Curtis is a researcher on the TRECVID project in the Retrieval Group at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). He has a PhD in Computer Science from Dublin City University (2018) and his research interests are in Multimedia Summarization and Retrieval and Multimodal Interaction. Keith recently co-organized the ViRaL workshop at ICCV2019 and ICCV2021, DVU workshop at ICMI2020 and ICMI2022 and DVU ACM MM grand challenges 2020, 2021, and 2022.

George Awad

National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA

George Awad is the TRECVID project leader at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA. He has a PhD in Computer Science (2007) from Dublin City University. He previously co-organized tutorials at ICMR2017, ECCV2018, ViRaL workshop at ICCV2019, ICCV2021, DVU workshop at ICMI2020 and the DVU ACM MM grand challenges 2020 - 2022. He was awarded jointly the 2018 IEEE Computer Society PAMI Mark Everingham Prize.

Afzal Godil

Georgetown University & National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA

Afzal Godil is a researcher in the Information Technology Laboratory at National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) where he has been for over 26 years. Prior to that, he has worked at the NASA Langley and Lewis Research Centers as a contractor. His main focus in research and development is in the area of video analytics, AI/ML evaluations, shape analysis and retrieval, computer vision, computational methods, graphics/visualization, digital human modeling and machine learning. He has published  over 100 publications in different journals, books, and conferences with over 3600 citations. He has project leadership and management experience.

Ian Soboroff

National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA

Ian Soboroff is a computer scientist and leader of the Retrieval Group at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).  Alongside TRECVID, the Retrieval Group organizes the Text REtrieval Conference (TREC) and the Text Analysis Conference (TAC). These are all large, community-based research workshops that drive the state-of-the-art in information retrieval, video search, web search, information extraction, text summarization and other areas of information access.