Goverment Structure - CVC Computer Vision Center

Governing Council

Núria Montserrat Pulido

Francisco Javier Lafuente Sancho

Rosa Maria Sebastián

Assumpció Malgosa Morera

Teresa Sanchis Estruch

Xavier Roca Ramon

Maria Galindo García-Delgado

Xavier Pons

Laia Pellejà Puxeu

Scientific Advisory Board

Andreas Dengel

Andreas Dengel
Member
Full Professor at German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence

Short Bio:

Professor Andreas Dengel is a member of the Management Board as well as Scientific Director at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI GmbH) in Kaiserslautern where he is leading the Knowledge Management research department. In 1993 he was appointed Professor at the Computer Science Department of the University of Kaiserslautern where he holds the chair Knowledge-Based Systems. Since 2009 he is also Professor (Kyakuin) at the Department of Computer Science and Intelligent Systems, Graduate School of Engineering, at Osaka Prefecture University. Since 2006 he is a member of the IT-Summit Working Group on service and consumer-oriented information technology, consulting the German government on questions of future IT strategies. In 2009 he appointed an expert for the German Council of Science and Humanities of the German Government. In 2008 he co-founded the Institute for Document Analysis and Knowledge Science "IDAKS" at the Osaka Prefecture University in Japan.

Andreas is an advisory board member of the Center of Excellence on Semantic Technologies at MIMOS, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, the NEC Computers and Communication Innovation Research Labs (CCIL), and Int. Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR). He is a board member of the Science Alliance Kaiserslautern, a Principle Investigator of the CMCM Research Center at the University of Kaiserslautern as well as of the Diemersteiner Circle. Prof. Dengel is Member of the Editorial Board for international journals like IJDAR, Intelligent Decision Technologies or Future Internet. Moreover, he is founder or initiator of several successful start-up companies. In 2005 he received a Pioneer Spirit Award for one of his start-up concepts. He is co-editor of various international computer science journals and has written or edited 10 books and is the author of more than 160 peer-reviewed scientific publications. In 2004, Andreas Dengel has been elected a Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR). The most prominent prizes are the ICDAR Young Investigator Award, the Nakano Award, the Technical Communication Award of the Alcatel SEL Foundation, the Multi-Media Award of the State Rheinland-Pfalz as well as a Document Analysis Systems Achievement Award.

Arjan Kuijper

Dr. Arjan Kuijper
Member
Professor at Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research IGD

Short Bio:

Dr. Kuijper received his MSc in 1995 from the Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Twente, The Netherlands, and his PhD in 2002 from the Department of Computer Science and Mathematics, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands.

After a period as a post-doc at this university, he was an assistant research professor at the IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark from 2003 to 2005. In 2005 he started as senior researcher at the Johann Radon Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics (RICAM), Linz, Austria.

Since 2008 he has been a research coach at the Fraunhofer IGD, Darmstadt, and coordinates the dissemination of scientific research results. In addition, he gives lectures at the TU Darmstadt. In 2009 he completed his habilitation at the Technical University of Graz, Austria, and since then has also been a private lecturer at the Institute for Computer Graphics and Vision (ICG) at TU Graz, a status that was transferred to TU Darmstadt in 2010.

In 2015, in cooperation with Fraunhofer IGD, he was already appointed to a temporary 6-year W3 professorship for Mathematical and Applied Visual Computing at the TU Darmstadt, which became permanent in 2023.

He is the author of over 450 peer-reviewed publications and serves as a reviewer for many journals and conferences, as well as a program committee member and conference organizer. He is Past-President of the International Association of Pattern Recognition (IAPR) and Associate Editor for Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU), Pattern Recognition (PR) and The Visual Computer (TVCJ). His research interests include all aspects of mathematics-based methods for machine learning, computer vision, graphics, imaging, pattern recognition, interaction, and visualization.

Antonio Torralba

Antonio Torralba
Member
Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Short Bio:

Antonio Torralba received a degree in telecommunications engineering from Telecom BCN, Spain, in 1994 and a Ph.D. degree in signal, image, and speech processing from the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble, France, in 2000. From 2000 to 2005, he spent postdoctoral training at the Brain and Cognitive Science Department and the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT. He is now a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Prof. Torralba is an Associate Editor of the International Journal in Computer Vision and has served as program chair for the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition conference in 2015. He received the 2008 National Science Foundation (NSF) Career award, the best student paper award at the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) in 2009, and the 2010 J. K. Aggarwal Prize from the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR).

Ingela Nyström

Dr. Ingela Nyström
Member
Uppsala University

Short Bio:

Professor Ingela Nyström's research interest is interactive segmentation, visualization, digital geometry, and quantitative shape analysis of volume images with their medical applications. The career has developed from her background with a MSc degree in applied computer science (1991) and mathematics, and the PhD degree in computerised image analysis (1997) from Uppsala University.

She has held a number of leadership positions, for example, forming the Division of Visual Information and Interaction at the Dept. of Information Technology, UU, during 2012-2018. For 12 years until 2022, she was the Director of the Centre for Image Analysis. During 2006-2011, she was the Director of the Uppsala high-performance computer centre SNIC-UPPMAX and during 2011-2015 Coordinator of eSSENCE, a joint strategic effort in e-Science by Lund University, Umeå University, and Uppsala University. Since 2024, she is Deputy Director of Uppsala University's Center for Women's Mental Health (WOMHER).

In addition, she has served on a number of committees and organisations, at the University, nationally, and internationally. She was board member of the Faculty of Science of Technology, Uppsala University during 2011-2014. Early in her career in 2000, she was elected board member (President 2002-2006) of the Swedish Society for Automated Image Analysis (SSBA) and continued to serve in the board until 2012. During 2008-2018, she served as member of the Executive Committee (2nd Vice-President 2008-2010, Secretary 2010-2014, President 2014-2016, Past President 2016-2018) of the International Association of Pattern Recognition (IAPR). She was Vice-Chair of the Swedish Council for Research Infrastructure (RFI), Vetenskapsrådet, during 2014-2019. and Chair of the Board of the Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing (SNIC) during 2020-2022. Since 2019, she is member of the Board of Directors of the Norwegian Sigma2 AS.

Jean-Marc Ogier

Jean-Marc Ogier
Member
Université de La Rochelle

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Jean-Marc Ogier received his PhD degree in computer science from the University of Rouen, France, in 1994. During this period (1991-1994), he worked on graphic recognition for Matra Ms&I Company. From 1994 to 2000, he was an associate professor at the University of Rennes 1 during the first period (1994-1998) and at the University of Rouen from 1998 to 2001. Now full professor at the University of la Rochelle, Pr Ogier was the head of the L3I laboratory (research lab in computer sciences of the university of la Rochelle) which gathers more than 120 members and works mainly on Document Analysis and Content Management. Author of more than 200 publications/communications, he managed several French and European projects dealing with document analysis, either with public institutions or with private companies. Pr Ogier was Deputy Director of the GDR I3 of the French National Research Centre (CNRS) between 2005 and 2013. He was also Chair of the Technical Committee 10 (Graphic Recognition) of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) from 2010 to 2015 and is the representative member of France at the governing board of the IAPR. He is now the general chair of the TC6, dealing with computational forensics of the International Association for Pattern Recognition. Jean-Marc Ogier has been the general chair or the program chair of several international scientific events dealing with document analysis (DAS, ICDAR, GREC, ) He was also Vice-rector of the University of La Rochelle from 2005 to 2016, and president of VALCONUM association, which is an association aiming at fostering relations between industries and research organizations. He is now the president of the University of La Rochelle.

Laura Leal-Taixé

Laura Leal-Taixé

Member

Professor at the Technical University of Munich

Short bio:

Prof. Dr. Laura Leal-Taixé is a tenure-track professor (W2) at the Technical University of Munich, leading the Dynamic Vision and Learning group. Before that, she spent two years as a postdoctoral researcher at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, and a year as a senior postdoctoral researcher in the Computer Vision Group at the Technical University in Munich. She obtained her PhD from the Leibniz University of Hannover in Germany, spending a year as a visiting scholar at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA. She pursued B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Telecommunications Engineering at the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) in her native city of Barcelona. She went to Boston, USA, to do her Master's Thesis at Northeastern University with a fellowship from the Vodafone Foundation. She is a recipient of the Sofja Kovalevskaja Award of 1.65 million euros for her project socialMaps.

Nicu Sebe

Dr. Nicu Sebe
Member
University of Trento

Short Bio:

Nicu Sebe is a professor at the University of Trento, Italy, where he leads research in multimedia information retrieval and human-computer interaction in computer vision applications. He received his PhD from the University of Leiden, The Netherlands, and has previously been with the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.

The main research interests relate to the investigation and implementation of new techniques in the fields of computer vision and multimedia. Specifically, in computer vision, I address a large spectrum of themes including human-behavior analysis, action recognition, 2D/3D object detection, large-scale event detection and video analysis, etc. In multimedia, my research focuses on three aspects: multimedia information retrieval, social signals processing and affective computing. The specific research topics include cross media retrieval, multi-modal learning, social media analysis, emotion recognition, multimodal brain-computer interfaces, etc.

He has been involved in the organization of major conferences and workshops addressing computer vision and the human-centered aspects of multimedia, and he is Editor-in-Chief of Computer Vision and Image Understanding.

He is a Fellow of ELLIS and IAPR, and a Senior Member of ACM and IEEE. He is the coordinator of the Horizon project ELIAS (European Lighthouse of AI for Sustainability) and the director of the ELLIS Multimodal Learning Systems Research Program.

Rita Cucchiara

Rita Cucchiara
Member
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia

Short Bio:
Rita Cucchiara is Professor of Computer Architecture and Computer Vision at Engineering Department "Enzo Ferrari" of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy. She heads the Imagelab research lab at UNIMORE. She is Director of the Inter-departmental Centre of Research in ICT Softech-ICTof Emilia Romagna High Technology network, and Director of the Master in Visual Computing and Multimedia Technology. She is working on computer vision, multimedia pattern recognition, machine learning, and intelligent sensing. In 2016 she has been awarded by the Facebook Artificial intelligence Research and the Cineca Italian SuperComputing Resource Allocation grants. Rita Cucchiara is president of GIRPR the Italian Association of Pattern Recognition, a Fellow of IAPR and she is on the Advisory Board of Computer Vision Foundation. She covers also the role of deputy-president of the Italian Groups of Computer Engineering Professors GII, for scientific research. In 2020 she will be General Chair of ICPR2020. She is currently AE of IEEE Trans. of Multimedia. She is the author of more than 300 publications in International Journals and Proceedings.

Sabine Süsstrunk

Dr. Sabine Süsstrunk
Member
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)

Short Bio:

Prof. Dr. Sabine Süsstrunk leads the Image and Visual Representation Lab in the School of Computer and Communication Sciences (IC) at EPFL since 1999. From 2015-2020, she was also the first Director of the Digital Humanities Institute (DHI), College of Humanities (CdH).

Her main research areas are in computational photography, computational imaging, color image processing and computer vision, machine learning, and computational image quality and aesthetics. Sabine has authored and co-authored over 200 publications, of which 7 have received best paper/demo awards, and holds over 10 patents.

Sabine served as chair and/or committee member in many international conferences on image processing, computer vision, and image systems engineering, latest as General Chair of the IEEE International Conference on Computational Photography (ICCP) in 2024. She is President of the Swiss Science Council SSC, Founding Member and Member of the Board (President 2014-2018) of the EPFL-WISH (Women in Science and Humanities) Foundation, Member of the Board of the SRG SSR (Swiss Radio and Television Corporation), and Co-Founder and Member of the Board of Largo Films SA.

She received the IS&T/SPIE 2013 Electronic Imaging Scientist of the Year Award for her contributions to color imaging, computational photography, and image quality, and the 2018 IS&T Raymond C. Bowman and the 2020 EPFL AGEPoly IC Polysphere Awards for excellence in teaching. Sabine is a Fellow of AIAA, ELLIS, IEEE and IS&T and regular member of SATW.