Organizers

Alex Kendall is a Research Fellow at Trinity College at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. He graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering with First Class Honours in 2013 from the University of Auckland, New Zealand. In 2014, he was awarded a Woolf Fisher Scholarship to study towards a Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge. He is a member of the Machine Intelligence Laboratory and is supervised by Prof. Roberto Cipolla. His thesis explores learning geometry with deep learning. His research interests are in semantic scene understanding [5, 27] and robust localisation with deep learning [28, 29].

Torsten Sattler received a Diploma and PhD in Computer Science from RWTH Aachen University, Germany, in 2008 and 2013, respectively. Since December 2013, he is a post-doctoral research in the Computer Vision and Geometry Group of Prof. Marc Pollefeys at ETH Zurich, working on 3D Vision for mobile devices, e.g., Google Tango, and autonomous vehicles. His research interests include efficient image-based localization using large-scale Structure-from-Motion point clouds [44, 47, 48, 68], real-time localization and SLAM for mobile devices [35, 36], place recognition [45], robust geometric verification and camera pose estimation [8, 46, 49], Structurefrom-Motion [53, 66] and 3D modeling [11, 12], as well as large-scale descriptor matching in highdimensional spaces. He regularly serves as a reviewer for ICCV, ECCV, CVPR, PAMI, CVIU, and IMAVIS. He was involved in organizing the Area Chair Meeting for ECCV’14, helped organizing parts of the main conference, and has organized tutorials and workshops for CVPR’14 and CVPR’15. He received outstanding reviewer awards at CVPR 2015, ICCV 2015, and ECCV 2016.

Giorgos Tolias obtained his Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the NTU of Athens in 2007, where he also received his PhD in 2013 under the supervision of professor Stefanos Kollias and Yannis Avrithis. He was a post-doctoral researcher at Inria Rennes working with Herv´e J´egou. He is currently a member of the Center for Machine Perception (CMP) at CTU in Prague as a post-doctoral researcher, working with Ondˇrej Chum. His research interests include large scale image retrieval [54, 56–58], location recognition [2, 42, 55, 57] and local feature matching [7, 21]. He has been reviewing for major computer vision conferences and journals including ICCV, ECCV, CVPR, IJCV and PAMI. He was a co-organizer of the Computer Vision and Sports (VS3) 2016 summer school.

Akihiko Torii received a Master degree and a PhD in Information Science from Chiba University in 2003 and 2006, respectively. He then spent four years as a post-doctoral researcher in Centre for Machine Perception, Department of Cybernetics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University. Since 2010, he is an assistant professor at Department of Mechanical and Control Engineering, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology. His research interests are in 3D modeling (Structure-from-Motion and 3D surface estimation [20,30, 39, 60–62]), large-scale image and feature matching [1, 64, 65], and omni-directional vision [63]. He regularly serves as a reviewer for PAMI, IJCV, ICCV, CVPR, ECCV, etc. He received outstanding reviewer awards in ECCV 2012, ICCV 2015, and CVPR 2016.