Computer Vision News - September 2016

CVN: In your opinion, what makes ICIP special? Karam: ICIP is the flagship conference of the IEEE Signal Processing Society , the first society that was formed in the IEEE. The ICIP community includes researchers, developers, product creators, educators, and students from diverse background, who want to share, learn about, and advance the state-of-the-art in the areas of image/video processing, image/video communications, computer vision, computational imaging, biomedical imaging, and visual technologies based applications. Papers and presentations at IEEE ICIP are expected to be of high quality, to spur discussions, and to significantly contribute to the advancement of these areas. CVN: I heard that this year the keynote speakers choice is particularly exciting. Karam: Yes, the IEEE ICIP 2016 Innovation Program Chairs put together an Innovation Program with twelve Keynote Speakers to share with attendees their insights on the future vision innovations. The speakers are: Hanno Basse (CTO, 20th Century Fox), Bo Begole (VP, Huawei), Achin Bhowmik (VP, Intel), Bill Dally (SVP, nVidia), Michael Antonov (Co-Founder, Oculus), C.–C. Jay Kuo (Dean’s Professor, University of Southern California), Matthew Mengerink (VP, Google), Tim Milliron (VP, Lytro), Anthony Park (VP, Netflix), Jamie Shotton (Co-Inventor of Kinect, Microsoft), Raj Talluri (SVP, Qualcomm) and Susie Wee (VP and CTO, Cisco). CVN: What else don't we know about ICIP? Karam: It is hard to explain the ICIP experience in words. ICIP is a must- have experience to anyone working in the computer vision field! 38 Computer Vision News Event of the Month “ ICIP is a must-have experience to anyone working in the computer vision field! ” Event Anna Scaglione Arizona State University Moderator of Panel 4 “ 4 Panel Discussions on controversial topics ”