Prof. Robert Minasian (IEEE Life Fellow)
The University of Sydney, Australia

Professor Minasian is a Chair Professor with the School of Electrical and Information Engineering at the University of Sydney, Australia. He is also the Founding Director of the Fibre-optics and Photonics Laboratory. His research has made key contributions to microwave photonics, and he is internationally renowned as a world leader in the field of photonic signal processing. He is recognized as an author of one of the top 1% most highly cited papers in his field worldwide. Professor Minasian has contributed over 418 research publications, including Invited Papers in the IEEE Transactions and Journals. He has over 100 Plenary, Keynote and Invited Talks at international conferences. He has served on numerous technical and steering committees of international conferences. Professor Minasian was the recipient of the ATERB Medal for Outstanding Investigator, awarded by the Australian Telecommunications and Electronics Research Board. He is a Life Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the Optical Society of America (now Optica), and a Fellow of The Royal Society of NSW.

Prof. Laurent Cohen (IEEE Fellow)
Universite Paris Dauphine, France

Laurent David Cohen was born in 1962. He was student at the Ecole Normale Superieure, rue d'Ulm in Paris, France. He received the Master's and Ph.D. degrees in Applied Mathematics from University Paris 6, France, in 1983 and 1986.
He obtained in 1990 a position of Research Scholar with the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) in the Applied Mathematics and Image Processing group at CEREMADE, Universite Paris Dauphine, Paris, France. His research interests and teaching at university are applications of Partial Differential Equations and variational methods to Image Processing and Computer Vision, like deformable models, minimal paths, geodesic curves, surface reconstruction, Image segmentation, registration and restoration.
He authored about 300 publications in international Journals and conferences or book chapters, and 7 patents. He was 2009 laureate of Grand Prix EADS de l'Academie des Sciences He was promoted IEEE Fellow 2010 for contributions to computer vision technology for medical imaging. For many years, he has been editorial member of the Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision, Medical Image Analysis and Machine Vision and Applications. He was also member of the program committee for about 60 international conferences.

Prof. Chang Wen Chen (IEEE Fellow & SPIE Fellow)
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China

Chang Wen Chen received his BS from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1983, MSEE from the University of Southern California in 1986, and Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1992. He is currently Chair Professor of Visual Computing at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Before his current position, he served as Dean of the School of Science and Engineering at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen from 2017 to 2020. He also served as an Empire Innovation Professor at the University at Buffalo, the State University of New York from 2008 to 2021. He was Allen Henry Endow Chair Professor at the Florida Institute of Technology from 2003 to 2007. He was on the faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Rochester from 1992 to 1996 and on the faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Missouri-Columbia from 1996 to 2003.
He has served as the Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Trans. Multimedia from January 2014 to December 2016, and the Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems for Video Technology from January 2006 to December 2009. He has been an Editor for several other major IEEE Transactions and Journals, including the Proceedings of IEEE, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications, and IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems. He has chaired several major IEEE, ACM, and SPIE conferences that are related to multimedia communications and signal processing.
He and his students have received 10 Best Paper Awards or Best Student Paper Awards. He has also received several research and professional achievement awards. These include the Sigma Xi Excellence in Graduate Research Mentoring Award in 2003, the Alexander von Humboldt Research Award in 2010, the University at Buffalo Exceptional Scholar – Sustained Achievement Award in 2012, the SUNY System Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities in 2016, and the University of Illinois ECE Distinguished Alumni Award in 2019.
His research interests include multimedia communication, multimedia systems, Internet of Video Things (IoVT), image/video processing, computer vision, deep learning, multimedia signal processing, and immersive mobile video. He is an IEEE Fellow (2005), a SPIE Fellow (2007), and a member of the Academia Europaea (2021) .

Prof. Yulin Wang
Wuhan University, China

Yulin Wang is a full professor in the School of Computer Science, Wuhan University, China. His research interests include image and video processing, digital rights management, information security, intelligent system, e-commerce, IoT, code clone and so on. He got his PhD degree from University of London, UK. He got his master and bachelor degree from Huazhong University of Science and Technology （HUST）and Xi-Dian University respectively, both in China. Before joining the Wuhan University, he has worked in Hi-tech IT industry, including HUAWEI© and national research institute, for more than ten years. He has involved more than 15 national and international research projects. In recently 10 years, Prof. Wang has published 1 book, and 50+ journal and conference papers, including in IEEE TIP. He holds 10 authorized patents.