Professor at National Institute of Informatics (NII), Tokyo

Shin'ichi Satoh is a professor at National Institute of Informatics (NII), Tokyo. He received PhD degree in 1992 at the University of Tokyo. His research interests include image processing, video content analysis and multimedia database. Currently he is leading the video processing project at NII, addressing video analysis, indexing, retrieval, and mining for broadcasted video archives.

CEO and Founder of Kepler Vision Technologies

Dr. Stokman is the CEO of Kepler Vision Technologies, a company focused on body language recognition in digital videos. Kepler is a spin-off from the University of Amsterdam (UvA). Prior to Kepler, Stokman was CEO of Euvision Technologies, which was acquired by Qualcomm Technologies, the American multinational semiconductor and telecommunications equipment company. Euvision focused on image and video recognition applications. Euvision was also a spin-off company of the UvA,. which participated for 10+ years at the TRECVid benchmark. Participating at TRECVid has been instrumental for software development by the team working simultaneously at UvA and Euvision. Stokman holds a PhD in computer vision from the University of Amsterdam.

Principal Research Manager, Microsoft

Lei Zhang is a principal researcher and research manager in Microsoft AI & Research, leading a team working on visual recognition and computer vision. Prior to this, he has worked with Microsoft Research Asia for 12 years as a senior researcher, leading a research team working on visual recognition, image analysis, and large-scale data mining. His years of work on large-scale, search-based image annotation has generated many practical impacts in multimedia search, including a highly scalable solution of duplicate image clustering for billions of images. From 2013 to 2015, he moved to Bing Multimedia Search as a principal development manager, helping develop cutting-edge solutions for web-scale image analysis and recognition problems, including image caption generation and high precision image entity linking.

Lei is a senior IEEE member and a senior ACM member, and has served as editorial board members for Multimedia System Journal, as program co-chairs, area chairs, or committee members for many top conferences. He is the author or co-author of 100+ published papers in fields such as multimedia, computer vision, web search and information retrieval, and holds 40+ U.S. patents for his innovation in these fields. Lei earned all his degrees (B.E., M.E., and Ph.D) in Computer Science from Tsinghua University, and currently also holds an adjunct professor position in Tianjin University.

Professor at University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Cees Snoek is a full professor in artificial intelligence at the University of Amsterdam, where he heads the Intelligent Sensory Information Systems Lab. He is also a director of the QUVA Lab, a joint lab on deep learning and computer vision with Qualcomm, and the AIM Lab, a joint lab on medical imaging with the Inception Institute of Artificial Intelligence. At University spin-off Kepler Vision Technologies he acts as Chief Scientific Officer. Professor Snoek is also the director of the master program in Artificial Intelligence and co-founder of the Innovation Center for Artificial Intelligence.

He received the M.Sc. degree in business information systems (2000) and the Ph.D. degree in computer science (2005) both from the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He was previously an assistant (2011-2013) and associate professor (2013-2017) at the University of Amsterdam, as well as Visiting Scientist at Carnegie Mellon University (2003), Fulbright Junior Scholar at UC Berkeley (2010-2011), head of R&D at University spin-off Euvision Technologies (2011-2014) and managing principal engineer at Qualcomm Research Europe (2014-2017). His research interests focus on video and image recognition.