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 the head of ADAPT at DCU and the Deputy Head of the School of Computing at DCU. Gurrin’s research focuses using deep user profiles to develop assistive technologies using wearable sensors and data analytics. The highly interdisciplinary approach advanced by his group, “lifelogging”, integrates computer science, cognitive science and data-driven healthcare analytics to generate next-generation digital records of the individual. He maintains an extensive international collaboration network and co-organises the QS meetup in Dublin. He is the founder and co-organiser of the Lifelog Search Challenge at ICMR, the NTCIR-Lifelog participation workshop and the ImageCLEF lifelog task. Finally he has been the general chair of many high-ranking computer science conferences and holds position on numerous editorial boards and conference steering committees.