Keynote Speakers

Prof. Laurent David 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 from 1981 to 1985. He received the Master's and Ph.D. degrees in Applied Mathematics from University of Paris 6, France, in 1983 and 1986, respectively. He got the Habilitation à diriger des Recherches from University Paris 9 Dauphine in 1995.
From 1985 to 1987, he was member at the Computer Graphics and Image Processing group at Schlumberger Palo Alto Research, Palo Alto, California and Schlumberger Montrouge Research, Montrouge, France and remained consultant with Schlumberger afterwards. He began working with INRIA, France in 1988, mainly with the medical image understanding group EPIDAURE.
He obtained in 1990 a position of Research Scholar (Charge then Directeur de Recherche 1st class) 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.
For many years, he has been editorial member of the Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision, Medical Image Analysis and Machine Vision and Applications.

Prof. Wen-Chung Kao (IEEE Fellow)
National Taiwan Normal University

Prof. Wen-Chung Kao received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from National Taiwan University, Taiwan, in 1992 and 1996, respectively. From 1996 to 2000, he served as a Department Manager at the SoC Technology Center, ITRI in Taiwan. From 2000 to 2004, he was Assistant Vice President at Foxlink Group. During 2001-2002, he participated in the establishment of SiPix Technology Inc., which was the first electronic paper startup company in Taiwan. Since 2004, he has been with the National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan, where he serves as a Chair Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering. His research interests include system-on-a-chip (SoC), embedded systems, flexible electrophoretic displays, machine vision systems, digital camera systems, and color imaging science. He has chaired eight IEEE conferences and served as a Senior Editor for IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics and as an Associate Editor for IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine. From 2023 to 2024, he served as President of the IEEE Consumer Technology Society. Currently, he is the Dean of the College of Industry-Academia Innovation at the National Taiwan Normal University. A Fellow of the IEEE, he presently chairs the Fellow Evaluating Committee for both the IEEE Consumer Technology Society and the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society.

Invited Speakers