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Guest Professors

Feryel SOUAMI (Algeria)

Feryel SOUAMI got her PHD from Ecole Normale Supérieure des Télécommunications (TELECOM Paris) in 1993 with emphasis on Signal processing and computer vision. From 2002 to 2007 she worked as Associate Professor at the University of Science and Technology in Algiers. She has conducted research as part of the National Research Plan on Genetic color segmentation, Spectral reconstruction from color image analysis and Multimedia database indexing and retrieval structures; she has been particularly in charge of the Image indexing and Object retrieval project.

Jose CAIVANO (Argentina)

Jose Caivano has a background in Architecture and is currently teaching “Color Theory Applied to Design” at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of National University of Rosario (Argentina). He has extensive teaching and research experience. He is also independent researcher for the National Council of science and Technology Research. From 2006 to 2009 he has been President of the International Color Association and has been an active member of various scientific associations (New York Academy of Science, Ad Chroma Paris etc). He is associate editor for the Color Research and Application journal (USA).

Adel KHODEIR (Egypt)

Adel Khodeir got his Ph.D. in color science with application to art and design from both the Helwan University (Egypt) and TU-Chemnitz (Germany) in 2004. He is currently Associate professor in color science at the department of Printing, Publishing and Packaging, the Faculty of Applied Arts, Helwan University in Egypt He is member of the International Colour Association (AIC) Study Group on Colour Education.

His main research interests are in Color management, color science and its applications in graphic arts, he has published around 10 peer-reviewed papers in national journals, and has participated in peer-reviewed conferences. He is one of the members of the International Colour Association (AIC) Study Group on Colour Education.

Since 2004 he has been a lecturer at the department of Printing, Publishing and Packaging, Faculty of Applied arts, Helwan University, in Color Theory and its Application in Printing, Color Science, Color Management, and Colorimetry.

J.L MEYZONNETTE (France)

Jean-Louis Meyzonnette obtained a degree in optical engineering from the Institut d’Optique, Orsay (France) in 1968, and a PhD on laser frequency modulation from the Institute of Optics, University of Rochester (USA) in 1975. For 15 years, he has been a research and development scientist in industry, at Thomson-CSF, designing electro-optical (TV, infrared and laser) sensors for defense applications. In 1990, he joined the Institut d’Optique as a professor, and has been teaching at this institution ever since.

He has been teaching optical radiometry at Master level for over 30 years, and the design of electro-optical systems for 15 years. He is also very much involved in the continuing education courses of the Institut d’Optique, and is thesis advisor for MS and PhD students in industrial and applied research projects on optical sensors.

He has co-authored « Bases de radiométrie optique » with T. Lépine (head of the Institut d’Optique extension in Saint-Etienne), and supervised the translation into French of E. Hecht’s reference textbook « Optics ».

Kumar DINESH (India)

Kumar Dinesh got his Ph..D. from University of Roorkee (India) in 1991where he has been involved as Associate professor since 2005. He is currently supervising projects on Aspects of information for human action identification, Measuring impact of Color, light and sound on human. He published over 150 papers in referred journals and international conferences and chaired 9 international conferences. He is also responsible for 7 patents.

Dr Swati BANDYOPADHYAY (India)

Swati Bandyopadhyay obtained her Ph.D. degree in Engineering in 1995 from Jadavpur University, India. She graduated in Chemical Engineering from the same University in 1987. Since 1990, she is a Faculty member in the Printing Engineering Department of Jadavpur University, India. Now she is Reader in the same department. She became the coordinator of the Digital Color Imaging, Integrated Research Programme of the University, sponsored by Ministry of Human Resource and Development of the Government of India. She teaches the following courses in the Faculty of Color Science and Engineering, Material Testing and Quality Control.

Her research focus on Color science with reference to device characterization and image quality. She has written articles in international scientific journals and conference proceedings on color imaging and image quality.

Seyed HOSSEIN AMIRSHAHI (Iran)

Seyed HOSSEIN AMIRSHAHI got his PhD in Color Physics from the New South Wales University (Sydney, Australia) in 1994 where he won the Malcolm Chaikin Prize for outstanding PhD thesis. He has been teaching Color Physics at the Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), since 2001. His research activities focus on Spectral Data Processing, Color Reproduction, Application of Color Physics in Characterization of Dyeing Process, Psychophysical Experiments (Preference Whites and Blacks).

Raimundo SCHETTINI (Italy)

Raimondo Schettini is an associate professor at the University of Milano Bicocca (Italy). He is Vice–Director of the Department of Informatics, Systems and Communication, and head of Imaging and Vision Lab (www.ivl.disco.unimib.it). He has been associated with Italian National Research Council (CNR) since 1987. He has been team leader in several research projects and published more than 180 refereed papers on image processing, analysis and reproduction, and on image content-based indexing and retrieval. He is an associated editor of the Pattern Recognition Journal. He was a co-guest editor of three special issues about Internet Imaging (Journal of Electronic Imaging, 2002), Color Image Processing and Analysis (Pattern Recognition Letters, 2003), and Color for Image Indexing and Retrieval (Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 2004). He was member of the CIE TC 8/3 and Chairman of the 1st Workshop on Image and Video Content-based Retrieval (1998), of the First European Conference on Color in Graphics, Imaging and Vision (2002), of the EI Internet Imaging Conferences (2000-2006), and of the EI Multimedia Content Access: Algorithms and Systems 2007 Conference (2007, 2009).

Shoji TOMINAGA (Japan)

Shoji TOMINAGA got his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Osaka University, Japan. Since 2007 he has been Professor , at the Dept. of Information Science, Graduate School of Advanced Integration Science, Chiba University, Japan. Shoji Tominaga has made several important contributions to color image science and technology. His contributions, spanning more than thirty years, range from the fundamentals of color imaging to its computer image applications. He has contributed in particular to the interaction of light with materials, color constancy, and illuminant estimation. Since 2009 he is member of Fellow Member, SPIE and member of the Editorial Board, Color Research and Application (Wiley).

He won the Award Fellow of SPIE, "For contributions to specific achievements in electronic imaging."in 2009.

Katemake PICHAYADA (Thailand)

Katemake Pichayada received her PhD at the University of Leeds, England. She is Assistant Professor in the Department of Imaging and Printing Technology at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand.

Her past research during her PhD studies was primarily on colour match prediction for printing inks systems. This work was done in cooperation with Canon, Japan. Her interest is not only on colour physics but also on colour perception. Because of this research connection, She also did research at the Human Vision & Color Science Laboratory, Department of Human and Computer Intelligence, college of Information & Engineering, Ritsumeikan University, Japan. There, She investigated the boundary of object colour and light source colour perception of 3D pictures. She has continued doing research in this field with her colleagues on colour appearance determined by recognition of space at the Department of Printing and Imaging Technology at Chulalongkorn University. At present, her research areas are focused on perception and legibility of elderly people under mesopic vision.

Tien-Rein LEE (Taiwan)

Tien-Rein LEE got his Ph.D. in Culture and Communications from New York University (NYU) in 1998. Before 1995, his research was focused on the printing-related issues. Since 1998 he concentrated his research in color psychology with a specific focus on color association and preference study. His teaching specialization is color. He is president of the Color Association of Taiwan (CAT).

Ming-Ching James SHUY (Taiwan)

Ming-Ching James Shuy got his Ph. D in Information and Image Science, from the Chiba University, Japan in 2009. He has been studying in Taiwan, USA and Japan for color imaging. He has been teaching digital color imaging classes for almost fifteen years. He is member of the Society of Image Science and Technology, USA; the Society of Photography Education for Chinese, Taiwan; he is Founding member of the Color Association of Taiwan; National committee member, National digital archive project committee for culture heritage, SINICA, Taiwan.

Larry MALONEY (USA)

Larry Maloney got his PhD in Psychology from Stanford University in 1985, an MS in Mathematical Statistics, also from Stanford, in 1982, and a BA in Mathematics from Yale University, in 1973. He is currently Professor in Psychology and Neural Science at New York University. His doctoral dissertation concerned problems of color constancy and the physics of light and surface, specifically constraints on light and surface that make color constant possible.

In 1994, he was awarded a one-year Research Fellowship at the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies at Bielefeld University by the German Research Council. The goal of this year-long workshop was to consider biological color vision and evolution. More recently he has worked on mathematical models of surface color perception in complex, three-dimensional scenes and also perception of surface material properties such as gloss and roughness. He has been a visiting professor at several other universities including the University of Freiburg, the University of Paris, and the University of

Padova and have published over 70 refereed articles in scientific journals, many concerning color.

Francisco IMAI (USA)

Francisco IMAI got his PhD in Image Science from the Chiba University (Japan) in 1997 with emphasis on “Color reproduction of Facial Pattern and Endoscopic Image based on Color Appearance Models”. He has extensive research & development experience with theoretical and practical aspects of color imaging in both Academia and Industry.

From January 2006 on, he has been working as Senior Imaging Scientist at Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology in San Jose (California-USA) where he has been planning projects for cutting edge imaging technology and its feasibility for future consumer imaging products. He also has been coordinating research activities with universities. He has teaching experience in Applied Colorimetry, Spectral Imaging and Multispectral Color Imaging. He is member of The Society for Imaging Science and Technology, the IEEE and others.

07/05/2010

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