People

General Chairs

• Alberto Del Bimbo Univ. of Florence, I
  
• Shih-Fu Chang Columbia Univ., USA

Program Coordinator

• Arnold Smeulders Univ. of Amsterdam, NL

Full Paper program Chairs

Short Paper program Chairs

• Content: Jiebo Luo Kodak Research Lab, USA
• Systems: Polly Huang National Taiwan Univ., TW
• Human-centered: Jie Yang Carnegie Mellon Univ., USA
• Applications: Touradj Ebrahimi EPFL, CH

• Content: Zhengyou Zhang Microsoft, USA
• Systems: Shervin Shirmohammadi Univ. of Ottawa, CA
• Human-centered: Marc Cavazza Univ. of Teesside, UK
• Applications: Marcel Worring Univ. of Amsterdam, NL

TPC Members

Brave New Ideas program Chairs

Video program Chairs

• Nozha Boujemaa INRIA Roquencourt, F
• Alejandro Jaimes Univ. Carlos III, Madrid, ES

• Shin’ichi Satoh National Inst. Inform. Japan, J
• Jenny Benois Pineau Univ. of Bordeaux, F

Interactive Art program Chairs

• Art: Luca Farulli Academy of Fine Arts Venezia, I
• Art: Andruid Kerne Texas A&M Univ., USA
• Cultural Heritage: Tiziana Catarci Univ. Roma La Sapienza, I

• Art: Frank Nack Univ. of Amsterdam, NL
• Cultural Heritage: James Wang Penn-State Univ., USA

TPC Members

Open Source Software competition Chairs

Multimedia Grand Challenge Chairs

• Hari Sundaram Arizona State Univ., USA
• Nicu Sebe Univ. of Trento, I
• Marco Bertini Univ. of Florence, I

• Malcolm Slaney Yahoo Corp., USA
• Cees Snoek Univ. of Amsterdam, NL

Tutorials Chairs

Panels Chairs

• Alex Loui Kodak Research Lab, USA
• Xian-Sheng Hua Microsoft Research Asia, China

• Ed Chang Google Corp., China
• Tat-Seng Chua National Univ. of Singapore, SG

Discussion Rooms Chairs

Doctorial Symposium Chairs

• Ramesh Jain Univ. of California at Irvine, USA
• Forouzan Golshani California State Univ. at Long Beach, USA

• Susanne Boll Univ. of Oldenburg, D
• Carlo Colombo Univ. of Florence, I

Technical Demo Chairs

Industrial Exhibit Chairs

• Xin Chen Navteq Inc., USA
• Daniel Gatica-Perez, IDIAP Research Institute, CH

• Berna Erol RICOH Corp., USA
• Qi Tian Univ. of Illinois, USA

Workshops Chairs

• Rita Cucchiara Univ. of Modena, I
• Ajay Divakaran Sarnoff Center, USA

History Preservation Chairs

• Abed El Saddik Univ. of Ottawa, CA
• Alan Hanjalic Delft Univ., NL

Sponsoring Chairs

Publicity Chairs

• Qibin Sun HP Labs Shangai, China
• Paul Natsev IBM Corp., USA

• Asia & Far East: Winston Hsu National Taiwan Univ., TW
• Europe & Africa: Bernard Merialdo EURECOM, F
• America : Yong Rui Microsoft Research, USA

Proceedings Chair

Web Chairs

• Pietro Pala Univ. of Florence, I
• Laszlo Böszörmenyi Klagenfurt Univ., A

• Thomas M. Alisi Univ. of Florence, I
• Gianpaolo D’Amico Univ. of Florence, I
• Andrea Ferracani Univ. of Florence, I

Travel Grant Chair

Local Arrangement Chair

• Lexing Xie IBM Corp., USA

• Stefano Berretti Univ. of Florence, I

Finance Chair

Registration Chair

• Simona Sarti Consulta Umbria Srl, I

• Simona Sarti Consulta Umbria Srl, I

Sig MM Chair

Sig MM Director of conferences

• Klara Nahrstedt Univ. of Illinois, USA

• Mohan Kankanhalli National Univ. of Singapore, SG