General Chair
Sos S. Agaian
Professor, IEEE Fellow, The City University of New York, USA.
Research field: computational vision, machine learning, large-scale data analytics, multi-modal data fusion, biologically inspired signal/image processing modeling, multi-modal biometrics and AI, 3D imaging sensors, information processing, security, biomedical and health informatics.
Sos S. Agaian (Fellow, IEEE) is currently a Distinguished Professor with the College of Staten Island (CSI), The City University of New York. He has authored more than 750 technical articles and ten books in these areas. He is a fellow of SPIE, IS&T, AAAS, and AAIA. He also serves as a Foreign Member for the Armenian National Academy. He received the Distinguished Research Award from The University of Texas at San Antonio. He was a recipient of the Innovator of the Year Award, in 2014, and the Tech Flash Titans-Top Researcher Award (San Antonio Business Journal). He is an Editorial Board Member of Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis and an Associate Editor of several journals, including the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (Hindawi Publishing Corporation), International Journal of Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (Hindawi Publishing Corporation), and Journal of Electronic Imaging (IS&T and SPIE).
Mário F. S. Ferreira
Professor, SPIE Fellow, Aveiro University, Portugal.
Research field: modelling and characterization of multi-section semiconductor lasers for coherent systems, quantum well lasers, optical fiber amplifiers and lasers, optical sensors, soliton propagation, polarization and nonlinear effects in optical fibers.
Mário F. S. Ferreira is a Professor at the Physics Department of Aveiro University, Portugal. Between 1990 and 1991 he was at the University of Essex, UK, performing experimental work on external cavity semiconductor lasers and nonlinear optical fiber amplifiers. His research interests have been concerned with the modelling and characterization of multi-section semiconductor lasers for coherent systems, quantum well lasers, optical fiber amplifiers and lasers, optical sensors, soliton propagation, polarization and nonlinear effects in optical fibers. He has been the leader of the Optics and Optoelectronics Group of the I3N – Institute of Nanostructures, Nanomodelling and Nanofabrication. He has written about 400 scientific journal and conference publications, and several books He is a Fellow and a Travelling Lecturer of both OPTICA (Optical Society of America) and SPIE - The International Society for Optics and Photonics, and a Member of IEEE. He served in various committees of OSA/OPTICA and of SPIE, as well as in the organizing and scientific committees of various international conferences. Actually, he serves also as an Associate Editor or as an Advisor Board Member of several international journals in the area of optics and photonics.
Co-Chair
Shiqian Wu, Institute of Advanced Displays and Imaging, Henan Academy of Sciences, China
Organizing Committee Chair
Jun Niu, Dean of the School of Information Engineering, Nanyang Institute of Technology, China
Yanling Cai, Zhengzhou University, China
Technical Program Chair
Hamed Taherdoost, University Canada West, Canada
Lei Chen, Shandong University, China
Yang Yue, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China
Technical Program Member
Aarti Amod Agarkar, Vishwakarma institute of Technology, India
Addisson Salazar, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
Chaobing Zheng, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, China
David E. Fernandes, Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal
Dayong Huang, Nanyang Institute of Technology, China
Debao Zhou, University of Minnesota Duluth, USA
Dong Yu, Yangtze University, China
Dragan Peraković, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Ephraim Suhir, Portland State University, USA
Grigorios N. Beligiannis, University of Patras, Greece
Gyu Myoung Lee, Liverpool John Moores University, UK
Hao Ying, Wayne State University, USA
Jehad M. Hamamreh, Antalya Bilim University, Turkey
Jiang Lu, University of Houston-Clear Lake, USA
K. Vasudevan, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India
Luigi Fortuna, University of Catania, Italy
Luis Martínez López, Universidad de Jaén, Spain
Maki Habib, The American University in Cairo, Egypt
Md. Shamsul Arefin, Bangladesh University of Business and Technology, Bangladesh
Mojtaba Ahmadieh Khanesar, University of Nottingham, UK
Monica Bhutani, Department of Electronics and Communication, India
Muath Obaidat, City University of New York, USA
Muhammad Firoz Mridha, American International University-Bangladesh, Bangladesh
Muhammad Usman, University of Science and Technology Beijing, China
Nilgun Baydogan, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
Pascal Lorenz, University of Haute Alsace, France
Paulo Pereira Monteiro, University of Aveiro, Portugal
Pavel Loskot, ZJU-UIUC Institute, China
Raghu Para, Ford Motor Company, USA
Rao Li, University of South Carolina Aiken, USA
Rohith Reddy Mandala, Tekzone Systems Inc, HK, China
Sathishkumar V E, Sunway University, Malasiya
Satyendra Kumar Mishra, Center Technologic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), Spain
Shashikant Patil, ATLAS SkillTech University, India
Simona Riurean, University of Petrosani, Romania
Siwei Zeng, Clemson University, USA
Smain Femmam, UHA University, France
Soumi Dutta, Sister Nivedita University, India
TD Subash, Zhejiang Ocean University, China
Xiaochun Cheng, Swansea University, UK
Yunfeng Wang, Nanyang Institute of Technology, China
Zhensen Gao, Guangdong University of Technology, China
Publication Chair
Jinfeng Wang, Zhengzhou University, China
Supported by
Zhengzhou University, China
Swansea University, UK
