Committee

Cristian Canton, Engineering Manager, Facebook Inc.

Cristian Canton leads the computer vision team within the Community Integrity division at Facebok (i.e. detect and remove all the bad visual content in Facebook). He is also responsible for image/video tampering detection within Facebook aiming at detecting fake content. In the past, he leaded the machine learning for Augmented Reality team within Facebook. From 2012-16, he was at Microsoft Research in Redmond (USA) and Cambridge (UK) where he worked on large scale Computer Vision and machine learning problems. From 2009-2012, he was a senior engineer at Vicon (Oxford), bringing CV to produce visual effects for the cinema industry. He got his PhD and MS from Technical University of Catalonia and his MS Thesis from EPFL (Switzerland) on computer vision topics. He is the author of over 50 publications and 15 patents.

Matthias Nießer, Technical University of Munich

Matthias Nießner is a professor at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) where he is heading the Visual Computing Group. He obtained his PhD from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in 2013, and was a visiting assistant professor at Stanford University from 2013 to 2017. His work focuses on static and dynamic 3D reconstruction approaches with a strong emphasis on modern machine learning techniques. A specific application of accurate 3D reconstruction is real-time face tracking, which has been developed by his group in the popular Face2Face work, an interactive approach to photo-realistically manipulate facial expressions in videos. This ability to easily create forged facial videos has received wide media attention including over 4 million views on Youtube. Matthias’ work has been published at top-tier vision and graphics venues, with more than 51 peer-reviewed international publications, including 17 ACM Transactions on Graphics (ToG) papers and 10 papers at CVPR, ECCV, ICCV.

Paul Natsev, Google

Apostol (Paul) Natsev is the manager of the Video Understanding team in Machine Perception at Google Research. He and his team work on building machine perception and video understanding systems at large scales, making it easier to find and discover great video content on YouTube and the web, and helping personal video collections become useful, delightful, and entertaining. Previously, he was a research staff member and manager of the multimedia research group at IBM Research from 2001 to 2011. Dr. Natsev's research interests span the areas of image and video understanding, search, and recommendations. He is an author of more than 80 publications. He has served as Industry Co-Chair for ICMR 2016, TPC Co-Chair for 2014 ACM Multimedia (MM) and 2010 ACM Multimedia Information Retrieval (MIR); General Co-Chair for 2011 ICME Workshop on Visual Content Identification and Search; Chair, 2007 and 2009 ACM Multimedia Open Source Competition; Advisory Committee member, 2008 TRECVID Video Retrieval Evaluation, and as a member of numerous Technical Program Committees (Multimedia, ICME, ICIP, CIVR, MIR). He also co-organized the 2017 YouTube-8M Kaggle Challenge and associated CVPR'17 Workshop.

Marius Vlad, Google

Marius Vlad is the manager of the Trust and Safety Video Engineering team at Youtube. He and his team are building large scale solutions for detecting and removing objectionable video content. From 2006-2012, he worked on building the largest indexing system at Google. From 2003-2006 he was working at Nokia Research Center (Finland) in multimodal interaction for mobile phones. He got his MSc from Polytechnic University of Bucharest (Romania) and studied at Tampere University of Technology (Finland) in the field of multimedia streaming protocols.

Mark D. Gianturco, CTO, NCMEC

Mark D. Gianturco, a nationally recognized technologist with over 30 years of industry experience, is the Chief Technology Officer of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. His responsibilities at NCMEC include technology strategy development and execution, and management of all technology. This includes software engineering, cloud, infrastructure, helpdesk and support. He also collaborates with NCMEC technology partners. These partners work with NCMEC engineers to develop and deploy novel technology solutions, to support the mission.

Prior to joining NCMEC, Gianturco served as the CTO for multiple software development corporations. Gianturco has also been responsible for creating and building corporate technology subsidiaries, and leading the architecture, design and implementation of multiple software products within those organizations.

Gianturco is a regular speaker on emerging technologies, and has served as an adjunct faculty member at George Mason University. In addition to speaking engagements, and being published on several software engineering topics, he is qualified as a court appointed expert in software plagiarism, computer forensics, electronic discovery issues, and software engineering. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the College of William and Mary, as well as a Master’s in Information Systems and a Ph.D. in Information Technology from GMU.

Ruben van der Dussen, Director of Innovation, Thorn

Ruben van der Dussen is the Director of Thorn's Innovation Lab. Thorn builds technology to defend children from sexual abuse. It equips law enforcement with cutting edge tools to find criminals and rescue victims, collaborates with with companies to fight and prevent abuse of their platforms and deters people from illegal abusive behavior. Ruben and his team build the products and collaborate with partners across academia and industry to create the technologies needed for Thorn’s mission.