Laure Blanc-Féraud received her Ph.D. degree and habilitation to conduct research in inverse problems in image processing from University Côte d’Azur in 1989 and 2000, respectively. She is a researcher with Informatique Signaux et Systèmes at Sophia Antipolis (I3S) Lab, the University Côte d’Azur, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), Sophia Antipolis, France.

Pierre Comon is currently Emeritus Research Director with CNRS. He received the Doctorate degree in 1985 from the University of Grenoble, and the Habilitation to Lead Researches in 1995, from the University of Nice, France. 

Professor Konstantinos N (Kostas) Plataniotis is the Bell Canada Endowed Chair in Multimedia and a professor with The Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto (UofT) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, where he directs the Multimedia Laboratory.

Dr. Arpan Pal has more than 30 years of experience in the area of Intelligent Sensing, Signal Processing &AI, Edge Computing and Affective Computing. Currently, he serves as a Distinguished Chief Scientist and Research Area Head, Embedded Devices and Intelligent Systems, TCS Research. He is working in the areas of Connected Health, Smart Manufacturing, Smart Retail and Remote Sensing.

Dr. Yang Lei is a Principal Research Engineer and Tech Lead at HP, leading the efforts of developing computer vision solutions for computing products. Her work has been applied to various domains, including video conferencing, life science, digital manufacturing, education, etc.

Prof. Nikolaos (Nikos) Sidiropoulos is the Louis T. Rader Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Virginia. He earned his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland–College Park, in 1992.

Josiane Zerubia (M.Sc. ’81, D.Eng. ’86, Ph.D. '88, 'Habilitation' '94) is a French Senior Research Scientist at the National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation (INRIA). She has also been Professor at ISAE-Supaero, Toulouse, France, for over 20 years. 

Donald S. Williamson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at The Ohio State University, where he is also an affiliate member of the Translational Data Analytics Institute (TDAI) and the Center for Cognitive and Brain Sciences.

Dr. Monika Aggarwal is an Electrical Engineering graduate, with a doctorate in signal processing. Dr. Aggarwal is currently working as a Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi, India, one of the premier engineering institutes of India.

Dr. Mariane R. Petraglia graduated (Magna Cum Laude) in Electrical Engineering with emphasis in Electronics from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) in 1985. She obtained the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 1988 and 1991, respectively.