2026 18th International Conference on Digital Image Processing
April 24-26, 2026 | Xiamen, China

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Prof. Sam KWONG Tak Wu (IEEE Fellow)
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China

Professor KWONG Sam Tak Wu is the Associate Vice-President (Strategic Research), J.K. Lee Chair Professor of Computational Intelligence and the Dean of the School of Graduate Studies of Lingnan University. Professor Kwong is a distinguished scholar in evolutionary computation, artificial intelligence (AI) solutions, and image/video processing, with a strong record of scientific innovations and real-world impacts. Professor Kwong is one of the most highly cited researchers by Clarivate in 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025. He has also been actively engaged in knowledge transfer between academia and industry. He was elevated to IEEE Fellow in 2014 for his contributions to optimization techniques in cybernetics and video coding. He was the President of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society (SMCS) in 2021-22. He is a fellow of US National Academy of Inventors (NAI), Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE) and the Hong Kong Academy of Engineering (HKAE). Professor Kwong has a prolific publication record with over 500 journal articles, and 160 conference papers with an h-index of 99 based on Google Scholar. He is currently the associate editor of a number of leading IEEE transaction journals.

 

 

Prof. Ran He (IAPR/IEEE Fellow)
Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Ran He received his Ph.D. degree (2009) from National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition (NLPR), Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CASIA). He is currently a full Professor at NLPR, CASIA. His research interests involve the general areas of pattern recognition and computer vision, information forensics and security. He published over 200 items of academic work including conference papers, journal papers, and patents. His research won IEEE SPS young author best paper award, ICPR 2020 best scientific paper award, ACL 2025 outstanding paper award, ACPR 2025 best student paper award. His Google Scholar is 25,000+.
Dr. Ran He is a Fellow of IAPR and Fellow of IEEE. He is currently vice president of IEEE Biometrics Council, vice chair of IEEE IFS-TC, Deputy Editors-in-Chief for IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (T-IFS), Associate Editors-in-Chief for IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science (T-BIOM). He is also an Associate Editor for IEEE TPAMI, TIP, TCSVT, IJCV and Pattern Recognition.

 

 

Prof. Lap-Pui Chau (IEEE Fellow)
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China

Lap-Pui Chau received a Ph.D. degree from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 1997. He is currently a Professor and Global STEM Scholar (under the Global STEM Professorship Scheme) and Director of JC STEM Lab of Machine Learning and Computer Vision in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He was with the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University from 1997 to 2022. His current research interests include large language model, perception for autonomous driving, egocentric computer vision, and embodied artificial intelligence. He is an IEEE Fellow.