Keynote Speakers

Josef Sivic (Josef Šivic)

Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics, and Cybernetics. Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic

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Bio: Josef Sivic is a distinguished researcher at the Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics (CIIRC) at the Czech Technical University in Prague, where he leads the Intelligent Machine Perception group and the ELLIS Unit Prague. He is currently on leave from a senior researcher position at Inria Paris, where he remains an external collaborator with the Willow team. Josef received his PhD from the University of Oxford in 2006 under the supervision of Professor Andrew Zisserman, followed by a postdoctoral appointment at MIT’s CSAIL with Professor William Freeman, and obtained his habilitation degree from École Normale Supérieure in Paris in 2014. His research lies at the intersection of computer vision, machine learning, and robotics, with a particular focus on learning visual representations from large-scale, weakly supervised, and multimodal data. He has made influential contributions to visual recognition, image and video retrieval, semantic segmentation, visual localization, geometric matching, and 3D understanding, as well as to learning from videos, narrated data, and demonstrations for embodied and robotic tasks. His work has been published in top venues such as CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, and TPAMI. He has an outstanding publication record, with an h-index of 82 and roughly 60,000 citations.

Allan Hanbury

TU Wien, Complexity Science Hub Vienna, Austria

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Bio: Allan Hanbury is Professor for Data Intelligence, head of the Data Science Research Unit, and Faculty Representative (responsible for financial affairs and internationalisation) at the Faculty of Informatics, TU Wien, Austria. He is also faculty member of the Complexity Science Hub Vienna. He was scientific coordinator of the EU-funded Khresmoi Project on medical and health information search and analysis, and is co-founder of contextflow, the spin-off company commercialising the radiology image search technology developed in the Khresmoi project. He is coordinator of DoSSIER, a Marie Curie Innovative Training Network, educating 15 doctoral students on domain-specific systems for information extraction and retrieval. He also coordinated the EU-funded VISCERAL project on evaluation of algorithms on big data, and the EU-funded KConnect project on technology for analysing medical text. He is author or co-author of over 180 publications in refereed journals and refereed international conferences. He contributes to research and innovation strategy development in Austria and Europe, and regularly gives talks on topics related to his research. He has an outstanding publication record, with an h-index of 53 and roughly 16,000 citations.

(an)Other keynote speaker(s) will be announced in the following weeks.