Speakers

Dr. Bik is a microbiologist and scientific integrity consultant: she visually searches for possibly fraudulent image duplication in scientific articles.

In her work, she relies heavily on image search and duplication detection. Moreover, integrity is a cornerstone of science. Both topics make Dr. Bik a great keynote for NCCV.

In 2021, Bik was awarded the John Maddox Prize for "outstanding work exposing widespread threats to research integrity in scientific papers".

Bik is the founder of Microbiome Digest, a blog with daily updates on microbiome research, and the Science Integrity Digest blog. She can often be found discussing science papers on Twitter at @MicrobiomDigest, on Mastodon, writing for her blog ScienceIntegrityDigest or searching the biomedical literature for inappropriately duplicated or manipulated photographic images and plagiarized text.

Prof. Anton van den Hengel is the founding Director of The Australian Institute for Machine Learning, a Chief Investigator of the Australian Centre of Excellence in Robotic Vision, and a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Adelaide.

Prof. van den Hengel has been a CI on over $60m in external research funding from sources including Google, Canon, Facebook, BHP Billiton and the ARC. 

Prof. van den Hengel has won a number of awards, including the Pearcey Foundation Entrepreneur Award, the SA Science Excellence Award for Research Collaboration, and the CVPR Best Paper prize in 2010. He has authored over 300 publications, had 8 patents commercialised, formed 2 start-ups, and has recently had a medical technology achieve first-in-class FDA approval. Current research interests include Deep Learning, vision and language problems, interactive image-based modelling, large-scale video surveillance, and medical machine learning.