Keynote Speakers

Prof. Weisi Lin (IEEE/IET Fellow)
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Bio: Lin Weisi is an active researcher in image processing, perception-based signal modelling and assessment, video compression, and multimedia communication. He had been the Lab Head, Visual Processing, Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), Singapore. He is currently a President’s Chair Professor in College of Computing and Data Science, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, where he also serves as the Associate Dean (Research). He is a Fellow of IEEE and IET. He has been awarded Highly Cited Researcher since 2019 by Clarivate Analytics, and elected for the Research Award 2023, College of Engineering, NTU. He has been a Distinguished Lecturer in both IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (2016-17) and Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association (2012-13), and an Associate Editor for IEEE Trans. Neural Networks Learn. Syst., IEEE Trans. Image Process., IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. Video Technol., IEEE Trans. Multim., and IEEE Sig. Process. Lett., as well as a Senior Editor for IEEE J. Selected Topics in Sig. Process. He serves as a General Co-Chair for IEEE ICME 2025 and the Lead General Chair for IEEE ICIP 2027, and has been a TP Chair for several international conferences. He has led the Temasek Foundation Programme for AI Research, Education & Innovation in Asia, 2020-2024, and co-led the Foundational Research Capabilities (FRC) Study (2025-2027) on Augmented Reality and Industrial Metaverse, NRF, Singapore. He believes that good theory is practical and has delivered 10+ major systems for industrial deployment with the technology developed.


Prof. Sung-Bae Cho (IEEE/AAIA Fellow, Korean Academy of Science and Technology (KAST ), National Academy of Engineering of Korea (NAEK))
Yonsei University, South Korea

Bio: Sung-Bae Cho received Ph.D. degree in computer science from KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology), Taejeon, Korea. He was an invited researcher of Human Information Processing research laboratories at ATR (Advanced Telecommunications Research) institute, Kyoto, Japan from 1993 to 1995, and a visiting scholar at University of New South Wales, Canberra, Australia in 1998. He was also a visiting professor at University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada from 2005 to 2006, and at King Mongkut’s University of Technology at Thonburi, Bangkok, Thailand in 2013. Since 1995, he has been a professor in Department of Computer Science, Yonsei University, a Underwood distinguished professor from 2021, and a Yonsei Fellow from 2023. His research interests include neural networks, pattern recognition, intelligent man-machine interfaces, evolutionary computation, and artificial life. Dr. Cho was the recipient of the Richard E. Merwin prize from IEEE Computer Society in 1993. He received several distinguished investigator awards from Korea Information Science Society in 2005, and Gaheon Sindoricoh in 2017. He is also a recipient of service merit medal from Korean government in 2022. Currently he is the Fellow of IEEE, AAIA, KAST (Korean Academy of Science and Technology) and NAEK (National Academy of Engineering of Korea).


Prof. Cathal Gurrin
Dublin City University, Ireland

Bio: Cathal Gurrin is a Full Professor in the School of Computing at Dublin City University (DCU), where he serves as Deputy Director and DCU Institutional Lead of the national ADAPT Centre for Digital Content Technologies, as well as Assistant Head of School for International Engagement. His research lies at the intersection of artificial intelligence, multimedia information retrieval, cognitive science, and digital health, with a particular focus on lifelogging and the development of AI technologies that transform multimodal personal data into rich, searchable digital memories and intelligent tools for healthcare, wellbeing, and human augmentation. He is internationally recognised as a pioneer in lifelogging research and his work has helped establish lifelogging as a standalone research area within the multimedia and information retrieval communities. He has published extensively in leading international venues, secured significant competitive research funding, and regularly serves in leadership roles across major international research initiatives and conferences. He founded and co-organises the ACM Lifelog Search Challenge (LSC), the NTCIR Lifelog Task, and the annual Video Browser Showdown at the MMM conference, three flagship international benchmarking initiatives that have significantly advanced interactive multimedia retrieval and AI-assisted search. He has held leading organisational roles for many of the world’s premier computer science conferences, including General Co-Chair of ACM ICMR 2020, ECIR 2023, and ACM Multimedia 2025, and will serve as General Co-Chair of The ACM Web Conference (WebConf) 2027. In recognition of his contributions to Ireland’s international research profile and conference sector, he was named Fáilte Ireland Conference Ambassador of the Year 2025.