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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
Dr. 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. Dr. Zhou currently is a full Professor at School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, University of Leicester, United Kingdom. He has published over 600 peer-reviewed papers in the field. His research work has been or is being supported by UK EPSRC, ESRC, AHRC, MRC, EU, Innovate UK, Royal Society, British Heart Foundation, Leverhulme Trust, Puffin Trust, Alzheimer's Research UK, Invest NI and industry. Homepage: https://le.ac.uk/people/huiyu- zhou