Keynote Speakers
Prof. Cheng-Lin Liu
IEEE/CAA/CAAI/IAPR Fellow
Institute of Automation of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China & University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Cheng-Lin Liu is a Professor at the State Key Laboratory of
Multimodal Artificial Intelligence Systems, Institute of
Automation of Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is a vice
president of the Institute of Automation, a vice dean of the
School of Artificial Intelligence, University of Chinese
Academy of Sciences. He received the PhD degree in pattern
recognition and intelligent control from the Chinese Academy
of Sciences, Beijing, China, in 1995. He was a postdoctoral
fellow in Korea and Japan from March 1996 to March 1999.
From 1999 to 2004, he was a researcher at the Central
Research Laboratory, Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, Japan. His
research interests include pattern recognition, machine
learning and document image analysis. He has published over
400 technical papers in journals and conferences. He is an
Associate Editor-in-Chief of Pattern Recognition Journal and
Acta Automatica Sinica, an Associate Editor of International
Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition, Cognitive
Computation, IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, Machine
Intelligence Research, CAAI Trans. Intelligence Technology,
CAAI Artificial Intelligence Research and Chinese Journal of
Image and Graphics. He is a Fellow of the CAA, CAAI, the
IAPR and the IEEE.
Prof. Xiaochun Cao
Dean of
School of Cyber Science and Technology
Sun Yat-sen University, China
Xiaochun Cao is a Professor of School of Cyber Science and Technology, Shenzhen Campus, Sun Yat-sen University. He received the B.E. and M.E. degrees both in computer science from Beihang University (BUAA), China, and the Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Central Florida, USA, with his dissertation nominated for the university level Outstanding Dissertation Award. After graduation, he spent about three years at ObjectVideo Inc. as a Research Scientist. From 2008 to 2012, he was a professor at Tianjin University. Before joining SYSU, he was a professor at Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He has authored and coauthored over 200 journal and conference papers. In 2004 and 2010, he was the recipients of the Piero Zamperoni best student paper award at the International Conference on Pattern Recognition. He is on the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Image Processing and IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, and was on the editorial board of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology.