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University of Birmingham, UK
Plenary Speaker
I am a chair of Computer Science at the University of Birmingham. Prior to joining the university I worked at Microsoft Research, founded several companies and been of the founding teams of others. I have published more than 100 papers in leading computer vision, human computer interaction and graphics forums that were cited more than 19,000 times, granted more than 100 patents and I am a senior member of the Assoc. for Computing Machines (ACM). My research is focusing AI and Augmentation of users’ senses to overcome physical limitations of the real world, from more inclusive work, bridging over differences of location, abilities, resources, and customs, creating a more inclusive workplace and better collaboration. As an interdisciplinary scholar, entrepreneur, and practitioner, I had the pleasure of introducing several new technologies worldwide, including the world’s first time-of-flight color and depth video camera, whose technology was used for Microsoft HoloLens and Magic Leap. I have developed the first streetside service, combining maps with ground-level coverage of streets, which inspired Google’s Streetview and Microsoft’s StreetSide services. I have created a new technology for detection text in images (Stroke Width Transform), used by Bing Maps, many OCR and was included in the OpenCV library. My research work of automatically fitting Augmented Reality applications to each user’s environment (FLARE) was used by Microsoft HoloLens and Unity’s MARS. Other companies that I have contributed to include a novel robotic cane for blind individuals, and autonomous drones that fight wildfires and more.
University of Leicester, UK
Plenary Speaker
Prof. Huiyu Zhou received a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Radio Technology from Huazhong University of Science and Technology of China and a Master of Science degree in Biomedical Engineering from University of Dundee of United Kingdom, respectively. He was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Computer Vision from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, supervised by Professors Patrick Green (Psychology) and Andrew Wallace (Computer Engineering). Prof. Zhou heads the AI and Machine Learning Group and leads the Biomedical Image Processing Lab (BIPL) at University of Leicester. He was PGR Director of CMS (2022-2025), Director of MSc Programme (2018-2019) and Coordinator of MSc Distance Learning at Informatics (2018-2022), and currently is Deputy Director of Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence, Data Analytics and Modelling (AIDAM), Member of the Executive Group of Apollo-Leicester Centre for Digital Health and Precision Medicine (CDHPM) and Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Artificial Intelligence (NAAI). Prior to this appointment, he worked as Reader (2018-2020) at University of Leicester, and Lecturer (2012-2017) at the School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Queen's University Belfast (QUB). He was a visiting scholar of QUB during 2018-2020.