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ISVC’24 Keynote Speakers

       
  Speaker:   Jim Duncan
Yale University
USA
    Title:   TBA
    Date:   Monday, October 12, 2024 at 9am
       
  Speaker:   Daphna Weinshall
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Israel
    Title:   TBA
    Date:  TBD
       
  Speaker:   Jernej Barbic
University of Southern California
Canada
    Title:   TBA
    Date:   TBA
       
  Speaker:   Ming Lin
University of Maryland at College Park
USA
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  Speaker:   Alex Endert
Georgia Institute of Technology 
USA
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ISVC’23 Keynote Speakers

       
  Speaker:   Han-Wei Shen
Ohio State University
USA
    Title:   Machine Learning for Scientific Data Analysis and Visualization
    Date:   Monday, October 16, 2023 at 9am
       
  Speaker:  David Fleet
University of Toronto & Google DeepMind

Canada
    Title:   Estimating the Structure and Motion of Biomolecules at Atomic Resolutions
    Date:   Monday, October 16, 2023 at 1:30pm
       
  Speaker:   Daphna Weinshall
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Israel
    Title:   Curriculum Learning and Active Learning, for Visual Object Recognition when Data is Scarce
    Date:  Tuesday, October 17, 2023 at 9am Cancelled due to the recent developments in Israel
       
  Speaker:   Kwang Moo Yi
University of British Columbia
Canada
    Title:   Have we solved image correspondences?
    Date:   Tuesday, October 17, 2023 at 1:30pm
       
  Speaker:   Jiebo Luo
University of Rochester
USA
    Title:   Visual Content Manipulation by Learning Generative Models
    Date:   Tuesday, October 17, 2023 at 8pm (Banquet Keynote)
       
  Speaker:   Paul Kry
McGill University
Canada
    Title:   Lights, Camera, Animation! Adaptive Simulation Methods for Training and Entertainment
    Date:   Wednesday, October 18, 2023 at 9am

 

  

ISVC’22 Keynote Speakers

       
  Speaker:  Eli Shechtman
Adobe Research

USA
    Title:   Towards Scaling Up GANs
    Date:   Monday, October 3, 2022 at 9am
       
  Speaker:   Justin Solomon
MIT
USA
    Title:   Sensible Machine Learning for Geometry
    Date:  Monday, October 3, 2022 at 1:30pm
       
  Speaker:   Doug Bowman
Virginia Tech
USA
    Title:   Designing Augmented Reality for the Future of Work
    Date:   Tuesday, October 4, 2022 at 9am
       
  Speaker:   Ce Liu
Azure Cognitive Services, Microsoft
USA
    Title:   The Future of Visual Computing via Foundation Models
    Date:   Tuesday, October 4, 2022 at 7pm (banquet keynote)
       
  Speaker:   David Jacobs
University of Maryland
USA
    Title:   3D Reconstruction: Leveraging Synthetic Data for Lightweight Reconstruction
    Date:   Wednesday, October 5, 2022 at 9am
       
  Speaker:   Chris North
Virginia Tech
USA
    Title:   Human-AI Interaction in Visual Analytics: Designing for the “Two Black Boxes” Problem
    Date:   Wednesday, October 5, 2022 at 1:30pm
  

ISVC’21 Keynote Speakers

       
  Speaker:  Deva Ramanan
Carnegie Mellon University

USA
    Title:   Embodied Perception In-The-Wild
    Date:   Monday, October 4, 2021 at 9am
       
  Speaker:   Holly Rushmeier
Yale University
USA
    Title:   Design Tools for Material Appearance 
    Date:   Monday, October 4, 2021 at 1:30pm
       
  Speaker:   Silvia Miksch
Vienna University of Technology
Austria
    Title:   Guided-Enriched Visual Analytics: Challenges and Opportunities
    Date:   Tuesday, October 5, 2021 at 9am
       
  Speaker:   Marc’Aurelio Ranzato
Facebook AI Research
USA
    Title:   Learning and accruing knowledge over time using modular architectures
    Date:   Tuesday, October 5, 2021 at 1:30pm
       
  Speaker:   Anatole Lécuyer
INRIA
France
    Title:   Combining Brain-Computer Interfaces and Virtual Reality: Novel 3D Interactions and Promising Applications
    Date:   Wednesday, October 6, 2021 at 9am
       
  Speaker:   Pedro Felipe Felzenszwalb
Brown University 
USA
    Title:   Direct Estimation of Appearance Models for Image Segmentation
    Date:   Wednesday, October 6, 2021 at 1:30pm

       

  

ISVC’20 Keynote Speakers

       
  Speaker:   Aaron Hertzmann
Adobe Research
USA
    Title:   Can Computers Create Art?
    Date:   Monday, October 5, 2020 at 9:00am PST
       
  Speaker:  Victoria Interrante
University of Minnesota

USA
    Title:   Spatial Perception and Presence in Virtual Architectural Environments
    Date:   Monday, October 5, 2020 at 1:30pm PST
       
  Speaker:   Ahmed Elgammal
Rutgers University 
USA
    Title:   The Shape of Art History in the Eyes of the Machine
    Date:   Tuesday, October 6, 2020 at 9:00am PST
       
  Speaker:   Ramin Zabih
CornellNYC Tech & Google
USA
    Title:   Object-Oriented Image Stitching 
    Date:   Tuesday, October 6, 2020 at 1:30pm 7:30pm PST (Banquet Keynote)
       
  Speaker:   Ross Maciejewski
Arizona State University
USA
    Title:   Fun with Visualization in the Data Deluge
    Date:   Wednesday, October 7, 2020 at 9:00am PST
       
  Speaker:   Kavita Bala
Cornell University
USA
    Title:   Understanding Visual Appearance from Micron to Global Scale
    Date:   Wednesday, October 7, 2020 at 1:30pm PST

       

  

ISVC’19 Keynote Speakers

       
  Speaker:   Ajmal Mian
University of Western Australia  
Australia
    Title:   Dense 3D face correspondence for deep 3D face recognition and medical applications
    Date:   Monday, October 7, 2019 at 9am
       
  Speaker:   James Ahrens
Los Alamos National Laboratory
USA
    Title:   Approaches to Massive Scientific Data Visualization and Analysis
    Date:   Monday, October 7, 2019 at 1:30pm
       
  Speaker:   Sheldon Andrews
École de Technologie Supérieure
Canada
    Title:   Fast, accurate and stable simulations for interactive VR training
    Date:   Tuesday, October 8, 2019 at 9am
       
  Speaker:   David Forsyth
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
USA
    Title:   The State of Modern Computer Vision
    Date:   Tuesday, October 8, 2019 at 8:00pm (Banquet Keynote)
       
  Speaker:   Punam Kumar Saha
University of Iowa
USA
    Title:   Bone Microstructural Imaging in Osteoporosis – Recent Developments and Translational Studies
    Date:   Wednesday, October 9, 2019 at 9am
       
  Speaker:   Sabarish Babu
Clemson University
USA
    Title:   Perception and Affordance Research Inspired Design of Virtual Self-Representation in Near-Field Virtual Reality Interactions
    Date:   Wednesday, October 9, 2019 at 1:30pm
   

ISVC’18 Keynote Speakers

       
    Speaker:   Camps Octavia
Northwestern University
USA
    Title:   Dynamics-based Invariants for Video Understanding
    Date:   Monday, November 19, 2018 at 9:00AM
       
    Speaker:   Bargteil Adam
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
USA
    Title:   Computer Animation: Past, Present, and Future
    Date:   Monday, November 19, 2018 at 1:30PM
       
    Speaker:   Paris Sylvain
Adobe Research
USA
    Title:   Photography Made Easy
    Date:   Tuesday, November 20, 2018 at 9:00AM
       
    Speaker:   Narendra Ahuja 
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
USA
    Title:   The Four Decades of Computer Vision
    Date:   Tuesday, November 20, 2018 at 7:30PM (Banquet Keynote)
       
    Speaker:   Zachary Wartell
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
USA
    Title:   Interaction in Multi-Scale Environments on Virtual Reality Systems
    Date:   Wednesday, November 21, 2018 at 9:00AM
       
    Speaker:   Pajarola Renato
University of Zurich
Switzerland
    Title:   Tensor Methods in Visual Computing
    Date:   Wednesday, November 21, 2018 at 1:30PM

ISVC’16 Keynote Speakers

       
    Speaker:   James Rehg
School of Interactive Computing
Georgia Institute of Technology
USA
    Title:   Dynamic Scene Understanding for Autonomous Driving
    Date:   Monday, December 12, 2016 at 8:30AM                                                                                                            
       
    Speaker:   Daniel Keefe
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
University of Minnesota
USA
    Title:   Magic User Interfaces: Interactivity in Immersive Science and Art
    Date:   Monday, December 12, 2016 at 1:30PM                                                                                                            
       
    Speaker:   Holger Theisel
Department of Simulation and Graphics
University of Magdeburg
Germany
    Title:   Optimal Streamlines and Streamsurfaces for 3D Flow Visualization
    Date:   Tuesday, December 13, 2016 at 8:30AM                                                                                                            
       
    Speaker:   Mubarak Shah
Center for Research in Computer Vision
University of Central Florida
USA
    Title:   Analyzing Dense Crowds
    Date:   Tuesday, December 13, 2016 at 7PM (Banquet Keynoted)                                                                                                            
       
    Speaker:   Kristen Grauman
Department of Computer Science
University of Texas at Austin
USA
    Title:   Learning representations from unlabeled video
    Date:   Wednesday, December 14, 2016 at 8:30AM                                                                                                            
       
    Speaker:   James Klosowski
Information Visualization Research
AT&T Research Labs
USA
    Title:   Can You See Me Now? The Importance of Visualization in Improving the Customer Experience at AT&T
    Date:   Wednesday, December 14, 2016 at 1:30PM

ISVC’15 Keynote Speakers 

       
    Speaker:   Ravi Ramamoorthi
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
University of California, San Diego
USA
    Title:   Sampling and Reconstruction of High-Dimensional Visual Appearance
    Date:   Monday, December 14, 2015 at 8:30AM                                                                                                            
       
    Speaker:   Evan Suma
Institute for Creative Technologies
University of Southern California
USA
    Title:   Making Small Spaces Feel Large: Practical Illusions in Virtual Reality
    Date:   Monday, December 14, 2015 at 1:30PM                                                                                                            
       
    Speaker:   Claudio Silva
Polytechnic School of Engineering
New York University
USA
    Title:   Visualization and Analysis of Urban Data
    Date:   Tuesday, December 15, 2015 at 8:30am                                                                                                            
       
    Speaker:   Luc Vincent
Director, Engineering
Google
USA
    Title:   Google Street View: Overview & Computer Vision Challenges
    Date:   Tuesday, December 15, 2015 at 8PM (Banquet Keynote)                                                                                                            
       
    Speaker:   Oncel Tuzel 
Principal Member Research Staff
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL)
USA
    Title:   Machine vision for robotic bin-picking: Sensors and algorithms
    Date:   Wednesday, December 16, 2015 at 8:30AM                                                                                                            
       
    Speaker:   Benjamin Kimia
Division of Engineering
Brown University
USA
    Title:   Back to the Drawing Board: Extracting 3D Drawings from Multiview Imagery
    Date:   Wednesday, December 16, 2015 at 1:30PM

ISVC’14 Keynote Speakers 

       
    Speaker:   Gopi Meenakshisundaram
Department of Computer Science
University of California, Irvine
USA
    Title:   Graphs in Graphics: An Undirected Trip through the Algorithmic Forest
    Date:   Monday, December 8, 2014 at 8:30AM                                                                                                            
       
    Speaker:   Bernd Froehlich
Department of Computer Science and Media
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Weimar
Germany
    Title:   Collaboration in Multi-User Virtual Reality
    Date:   Monday, December 8, 2014 at 1:30PM                                                                                                            
       
    Speaker:   Melanie Tory 
Department of Computer Science
University of Victoria
Canada
    Title:   Visualization and Visual Analytics in Personal Life
    Date:   Tuesday, December 9, 2014 at 8:30 AM                                                                                                            
       
    Speaker:   Rama Chellappa
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Maryland
USA
    Title:   Is Computer Vision Pattern Recognition by a Different Name?
    Date:   Tuesday, December 9 at 8:00PM (banquet keynote)                                                                                                            
       
    Speaker:   Arun Ross
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Michigan State University
USA
    Title:   Facial Cosmetics, Spoof Attacks, Data Privacy: Biometrics in the Real World
    Date:   Wednesday, December 10, 2014 at 8:30AM                                                                                                            
       
    Speaker:   Luc Vincent
Director, Engineering
Google
USA
    Title:   Google Street View: Overview & Computer Vision Challenges
    Date:   Wednesday, December 10, 2014 at 1:30PM

ISVC’13 Keynote Speakers

       
    Speaker:   Dennis Zorin
Departments of Computer Science and Mathematics
New York University
USA
    Title:   How to break things with least effort
    Date:   Monday, July 29 2013 at 8:30AM                                                                                                            
       
    Speaker:   Serge Belongie
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
University of California, San Diego
USA
    Title:   Visual Recognition with Humans in the Loop
    Date:   Monday, July 29 2013 at 1:30PM                                                                                                            
       
    Speaker:   Thomas Ertl
Department of Computer Science
University of Stuttgart
Germany
    Title:   Visualization Research Trends
    Date:   Tuesday, July 30 2013 at 8:30AM                                                                                                            
       
    Speaker:   Anthony Hoogs
Senior Director of Computer Vision
Kitware
USA
    Title:   Recognizing Actions, Events and Complex Activities in Large-Scale Video Datasets
    Date:   Tuesday, July 30 2013 at 1:30PM                                                                                                            
       
    Speaker:   Dimitris Metaxas
Department of Computer Science
Rutgers University
USA
    Title:   Deformable Models, Learning and Sparse Methods for Human Behavioral Analysis and Medical Applications
    Date:   Wednesday, July 31 2013 at 8:30AM                                                                                                            
       
    Speaker:   Mel Slater
Event Lab
ICREA-University of Barcelona
Spain
    Title:   Body Semantics and Self-Transformation in Immersive Virtual Reality
    Date:   Wednesday, July 31 2013 at 1:30PM

ISVC’12 Keynote Speakers 

       
    Speaker:   Prof. Petros Faloutsos
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
York University
Canada
    Title:   Developing and Objectively Evaluating Crowd Simulations
    Date:   Monday, July 16 2012 at 8:30AM                                                                                                            
       
    Speaker:   Dr. Sabine Coquillart
Research Director
INRIA
France
    Title:   Multimodal Virtual Environment: from Research to Applications
    Date:   Monday, July 16 2012 at 1:30PM                                                                                                            
       
    Speaker:   Dr. Randy Goebel
Department of Computing Science
University of Alberta
Canada
    Title:   Nearly a theory of visualization
    Date:   Tuesday, July 17 2012 at 8:30AM                                                                                                            
       
    Speaker:   Dr. Cordelia Schmid
Research Director
INRIA
France
    Title:   Actions recognition from videos: some recent results
    Date:   Tuesday, July 17 2012 at 1:30PM                                                                                                            
       
    Speaker:   Prof. Daniel Cremers
Department of Computer Science
Technical University of Munich
Germany
    Title:   Convex Optimization Methods for Computer Vision
    Date:   Wednesday, July 18 2012 at 8:30AM                                                                                                            
       
    Speaker:   Prof. Vijayan Asari
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Dayton
USA
    Title:   Moving Object Detection and Tracking in Wide Area Motion Imagery
    Date:   Wednesday, July 18 2012 at 1:30PM

Keynote Speakers

       
    Speaker:   Dr. Dorin Comaniciu
Integrated Data Systems Department
Siemens Corporate Research
USA
    Title:   Shaping the Future through Innovations: Personalized Medicine
    Date:   Monday, September 26, 2011 at 8:30AM                                                                                                            
       
    Speaker:   Prof. Robert Geist
School of Computing
Clemson University
USA
    Title:   Real-Time Modeling and Rendering of Natural Phenomena
    Date:   Monday, September 26, 2011 at 1:30PM                                                                                                            
       
    Speaker:   Prof. Klaus Mueller
Department of Computer Science
Stony Brook University
USA
    Title:   Can Computers Master the Art of Communication? A Focus on Visual Analytics
    Date:   Tuesday, September 27, 2011 at 8:30AM                                                                                                            
       
    Speaker:   Prof. Thomas Huang
Beckman Institute
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
USA
    Title:   Human Computer Intelligent Interaction
    Date:  
Tuesday, September 27, 2011 at 8:00PM (banquet keynote)
       
    Speaker:   Prof. Sergio Velastin
Digital Imaging Research Centre
Kingston University
UK
    Title:   Detection and Classification of Vehicles in Urban Traffic
    Date:   Wednesday, September 28, 2011 at 8:30AM                                                                                                            
       
    Speaker:   Prof. Benjamin Lok
Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering
University of Florida
USA
    Title:   Can Interacting with a Virtual Human Make You a Better Person?
    Date:   Wednesday, September 28, 2011 at 1:30PM

ISVC’10 Keynote Speakers

       
    Speaker:   Prof. Marc Pollefeys
Department of Computer Science
ETH Zurich
Switzerland
    Title:   Computational 3D Photography: Extracting Shape, Motion And Appearance from Images                                                                                                           Slides
    Date:   Monday, November 29, 2010 at 8:30AM                                                                                                            
       
    Speaker:   Prof. Tobias Hollerer
Department of Computer Science
University of California at Santa Barbara
USA
    Title:   Anywhere Interfaces – Scaling and Adapting Mixed Reality, Real-Time Computer Vision, and Visualization
    Date:   Monday, November 29, 2010 at 1:30PM                                                                                                            
       
    Speaker:   Prof. John Stasko
School of Interactive Computing
Georgia Tech
USA
    Title:   Visual Analytics for Investigative Analysis and Exploration of Documents and Data
    Date:   Tuesday, November 30, 2010 at 8:30AM                                                                                                            
       
    Speaker:   Prof. Steve Seitz
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
University of Washington
USA
    Title:   Reconstructing the World from Photos on the Internet
    Date:   Tuesday, November 30, 2010 at 8PM (Banquet Keynote)                                                                                                            
       
    Speaker:   Prof. Ioannis Kakadiaris
Department of Computer Science
University of Houston
USA
    Title:   Challenges and Opportunities for Extracting Cardiovascular Risk Biomarkers from non-contrast CT data
    Date:   Wednesday, December 1, 2010 at 8:30AM                                                                                                            
       
    Speaker:   Prof. Aditi Majumder
Department of Computer Science
University of California, Irvine
USA
    Title:   Ubiquitous Displays: A Distributed Network of Active Displays
    Date:   Wednesday, December 1, 2010 at 1:30PM

ISVC’09 Keynote Speakers 

       
    Speaker:   Prof. Pietro Perona
Department of Electrical Engineering
California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
USA
    Title:   An engineer’s exploration of human visual recognition
    Date:   Monday, November 30, 2009 at 8:30AM                                                                                                            
       
    Speaker:   Dr. Rakesh (Teddy) Kumar
Vision and Robots
Sarnoff Corporartion
USA
    Title:   Robust Visual Perception for Robotic, Mixed Reality and other Applications
    Date:   Monday, November 30, 2009 at 1:30PM                                                                                                            
       
    Speaker:   Prof. Larry Davis
Department of Computer Science
University of Maryland
USA
    Title:   Looking at People in Action: Detection, movement recognition and event modeling and recognition
    Date:   Tuesday, December 1, 2009 at 8:30AM                                                                                                            
       
    Speaker:   Prof. Demetri Terzopoulos
Department of Computer Science
University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
USA
    Title:   Graphics, Vision and Modeling: My Personal Golden Braid
    Date:   Tuesday, December 1, 2009 at 8PM (Banquet Keynote)                                                                                                            
       
    Speaker:   Prof. Tao Ju
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Washington University
USA
    Title:   Geometric Tools for Knowledge Discovery from Bio-medical Images
    Date:   Wednesday, December 2, 2009 at 8:30AM                                                                                                            
       
    Speaker:   Prof. Nassir Navab
Informatics Institute I16
Technical University of Munich
Germany
    Title:   Advance Imaging and Visualization for Computer Assisted Interventions: motivation, state-of-art and future challenges
    Date:   Wednesday, December 2, 2009 at 1:30PM

ISVC’08 Keynote Speakers 

       
    Speaker:   Prof. Ioannis Pavlidis
Department of Computer Science
University of Houston
USA
    Title:   Imaging Stress
    Date:   Monday, December 1 2008 (8:30AM-9:30AM)                                                                                                            
       
    Speaker:   Prof. Gerard Medioni
Department of Computer Science
University of Southern California
USA
    Title:   Tensor Voting in 2 to N dimensions: fundamental elements and applications
    Date:   Monday, December 1 2008 (1:30PM-2:30PM)                                                                                                            
       
    Speaker:   Dr. Kelly Gaither
Texas Advanced Computing Center

University of Texas at Austin
USA
    Title:   Visualizing Science at the Petascale: Issues, Impediments
and Strategies Going Forward
    Date:   Tuesday, December 2 2008(8:30AM-9:30AM)                                                                                                            
       
    Speaker:   Prof. J.K. Aggarwal
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Texas at Austin
USA
    Title:   Computer Vision: Past, Present and Future
    Date:   Tuesday, December 2 2008 (8:30PM-9:30PM – banquet keynote)                                                                                                            
       
    Speaker:   Prof. Arie Kaufman
Department of Computer Science
Stony Brook University (SUNY)
USA
    Title:   Virtual Colonoscopy for Colon Cancer Screening
    Date:   Wednesday, December 3 2008 (8:30AM-9:30AM)                                                                                                            
       
    Speaker:   Prof. Eric Grimson
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
USA
    Title:   Computer Vision in Medicine and Neuroscience: Image guided neurosurgery and computational neuroanatomy
    Date:   Wednesday, December 3 2008 (1:30PM-2:30PM)

ISVC’07 Keynote Speakers

       
    Speaker:   Prof. Mathieu Desbrun
Department of Computer Science
California Institute of Technology
USA
    Title:   Bringing Geometry Back into Computations
    Date:   Monday, November 26, 2007 (9AM-10AM)                                                                                                            
       
    Speaker:   Prof. Kwan-Liu Ma
Director of DOE SciDAC Institute for Ultra-Scale Visualization
Department of Computer Science
University of California at Davis
USA
    Title:   Visualizing Ultra-Scale Data
    Date:   Monday, November 26, 2007 (2PM – 3PM)                                                                                                            
       
    Speaker:   Prof. John Tsostos
Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering
York University
Canada
    Title:   Attention and Visual Search: Active Robotic Systems that Visually Search
    Date:   Tuesday, November 27, 2007 (9AM-10AM)                                                                                                            
       
    Speaker:   Prof. Mubarak Shah
Agere Chair Professor
School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

University of Central Florida
USA
    Title:   Visual Analysis of Crowded Scenes
    Date:   Tuesday, November 27, 2007 (7:30PM-8:30PM – Banquet Dinner)                                                                                                            
       
    Speaker:   Prof. Dimitris Metaxas
Director of Computational Biomedicine Imaging and Modeling Center
Rutgers University
USA
    Title:   Hybrid Deformable Modeling Methods for Segmentation and Tracking
    Date:   Wednesday, November 28, 2007 (9AM-10AM)                                                                                                            
       
    Speaker:   Dr. Fatih Porikli
Principal Technical Staff
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL)
USA
    Title:   Future generation detection and tracking systems
    Date:   Wednesday, November 28, 2007 (2PM-3PM)

ISVC’06 Keynote Speakers

       
    Speaker: Prof. Carolina Cruz-Neira
Louisiana Immersive Technologies Enterprise
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
USA
    Title:   The Human Side of Visualization
    Date:   Monday, November 6, 2006 (9AM-10AM)                                                                                                            
       
    Speaker:   Prof. Eli Peli
The Schepens Eye Research Institute
Harvard Medical School
USA
    Title:   Image Enhancement for People with Visual Impairment
    Date:   Monday, November 6, 2006 (2PM-3PM)                                                                                                            
       
    Speaker:   Prof. Daniel DeMenthon
Program Director
National Science Foundation (NSF)
USA
    Title:   How to Win the Semantic Robot Vision Challenge
    Date:   Tuesday, November 7, 2006 (9AM-10AM)                                                                                                            
       
    Speaker:   Prof. Chris Johnson 
Director, Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute
School of Computing 

University of Utah
USA
    Title:   Visualizing the Future
    Date:   Tuesday, November 7, 2006 (8PM-9PM – Banquet Dinner)                                                                                                            
       
    Speaker:   Dr. Karel Zuiderveld
Vital Images
USA
    Title:   Visualization in Clinical Practice: Techniques and Challenges
    Date:   Wednesday, November 8, 2006 (9AM-10AM)                                                                                                            
       
    Speaker:   Prof. Mark Nixon
School of Electronics and Computer Science
University of Southampton
UK
    Title:   Fusing Noncontact Biometrics: Face, Gait and Ear
    Date:   Wednesday, November 8, 2006 (2PM-3PM)