Awards

Best Paper Award

Towards Coding for Human and Machine Vision: A Scalable Image Coding Approach
Yueyu Hu (Peking University); Shuai Yang (Peking University); Wenhan Yang (Peking University); Lingyu Duan (Peking University); Jiaying Liu (Peking University)

Best Paper Award Runner Up

Reconciliation of Group Sparsity and Low-rank models for Image Restoration
Zhiyuan Zha (Nanyang Technological University); Bihan Wen (Nanyang Technological University); Xin Yuan (Nokia Bell Labs); Jiantao Zhou (University of Macau); Ce Zhu (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China)

Interactive Training and Architecture for Deep Object Selection
Marco Forte (Trinity College Dublin); Brian Price (Adobe Inc.); Scott Cohen (Adobe Inc.); Ning Xu (Adobe Inc.); Francois Pitie (Trinity College Dublin)

Best Student Paper Award

SPANet: Spatial Pyramid Attention Network for Enhanced Image Recognition
Jingda Guo (University of North Texas); Xu Ma (University of North Texas); Andrew Sansom (University of North Texas); Mara McGuire (Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi); Andrew Kalaani (Georgia Southern University); Qi Chen (University of North Texas); Sihai Tang (University of North Texas); Qing Yang (University of North Texas); Song Fu (University of North Texas)

Best Student Paper Award Runner Up

3D Dynamic Point Cloud Inpainting Via Temporal Consistency on Graphs
Zeqing Fu (Wangxuan Institute of Computer Technology, Peking University); Wei Hu (Peking University); Zongming Guo (Peking University)

Deep Image Quality Assessment Driven Single Image Deblurring
Ang Li (Fudan University); Jichun Li (Fudan University); Qing Lin (Fudan University); Chenxi Ma (Fudan University); Bo Yan (Fudan University)

Best Demo Award

FVV Live: Real-Time, Low-Cost, Free Viewpoint Video
Daniel Berjón (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid), Pablo Carballeira (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid), Julián Cabrera (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid), Carlos Carmona (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid), Daniel Corregidor (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid), César Díaz (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid), Francisco Morán (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid), Narciso García (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)

Best Demo Award Runner Up

An Immersive Video Experience with Real-Time View Synthesis Leveraging the Upcoming MIV Distribution Standard
Julien Fleureau (Interdigital R&D); Bertrand Chupeau (Interdigital R&D); Franck Thudor (Interdigital R&D); Gérard Briand (Interdigital R&D); Thierry Tapie (Interdigital R&D); Renaud Doré (Interdigital R&D)

Multimedia Star Innovator

Xiaodong He
Deputy Managing Director of JD AI Research

Aljosha Smolic
Co-founder, Volograms; SFI Research Prof. at Trinity College Dublin

Multimedia Star Innovator Runner Up

Maja Pantic
AI Scientific Research Lead in Facebook London; Prof. at Imperial College London

IET 3MT Competition Winners

  1. Rays of Hope – 5G Technology by Syed Khurram Mahmud (Queen Mary University of London)
  2. 3D Localization by Yanting Zhang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications)
  3. 3D Point Cloud Denoising by Francesca Pistilli (Polytechnic University of Turin)

Outstanding Service Award

Shuai Wan (Northwestern Polytechnical University)

Raouf Hamzaoui (De Montfort University)

Noel O’Connor (Dublin City University)

Eduardo Peixoto (University of Brasilia)

Qianni Zhang (Queen Mary University of London)

David Bull (University of Bristol)

Gene Cheung (York University)

Pascal Frossard (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)

Fiona Rivera (BBC)

Maria Martini (Kingston University)

Nikolaos Boulgouris (Brunnel University)

Tomas Piatrik (Queen Mary University of London)

Kong Aik Lee (NEC)

Outstanding Volunteers

Jiarun Song (Xidian University)

Luka Murn (BBC, Dublin City University)

Najmeh Rezaei (Queen Mary University of London)

Outstanding Area Chairs

Bing-Kun Bao (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications)

Chong-Yang Zhang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

Guoliang Fan (Oklahoma State University)

Haibin Yan (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications)

Hui Yuan (Shandong University)

Joao Ascenso (IT)

Jun Furukawa (NEC Corporation of America)

Junhui Hou (City University of Hong Kong)

Liqiang Nie (Shandong University)

Qiang Ma (Kyoto University)

Sanghoon Lee (Yonsei University)

Shaoen Wu (Ball State University)

Tanel Alumae (Tallinn University of Technology)

Wei-Shi Zheng (Sun Yat-Sen University)

Yinghuan Shi (Nanjing University)

Carl Debono (University of Malta)

Yonggang Wen (Nanyang Technological University)

Giuseppe Valenzise (CNRS)

Ivan Bajic (Simon Fraser University)

Tanaya Guha (University of Warwick)

A.V. Subramanyam (IIIT-Delhi)

Toshihiko Yamasaki (University of Tokyo)

Outstanding Reviewer Award

Aous Naman (The University of New South Wales)

Baoquan Zhao (Nanyang Technological University)

Carsten Baum (Aarhus University)

Changick Kim (KAIST)

Cheng-Hsin Hsu (National Tsing Hua University)

Chenrui Zhang (Peking University)

Dan Guo (Hefei University of Technology)

Yifang Yin (National University of Singapore)

Erik Bochinski (Technische Universität Berlin)

Fan Li (Xi’an Jiaotong University)

Fang-Yi Chao (Institut National des Sciences Appliquées)

Gaku Nakano (NEC Corporation)

Haojie Li (Dalian University of Technology)

Homer Chen (National Taiwan University)

Hyomin Choi (Simon Fraser University)

Je Sen (Teh)

Jie Shen (Imperial College London)

Jing Jin (City University of Hong Kong)

Jing Zhang (Hangzhou Dianzi University)

Junnan Li (Salesforce)

Koustav Ghosal (Trinity College Dublin)

Lei Zhang (Northwestern Polytechnical University)

Luis Soares (Instituto Universitário de Lisboa)

Luisa Verdoliva (University Federico II of Naples)

Miaomiao Liu (The Australian National University)

Mustafa Sert (Baskent University)

Naoko Nitta (Osaka University, Japan)

Ognjen Arandjelovic (University of St Andrews)

Olivier Le Meur (Univ Rennes, CNRS, Inria, IRISA)

Peng Hu (Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR)

Pichao Wang (Alibaba Group (U.S.) Inc.)

Pietro Zanuttigh (University of Padova)

Roberto Caldelli (CNIT)

Saimunur Rahman (University of Wollongong)

Sim Ying Ong (University of Malaya)

Stefania Cecchi (Universita Politecnica delle Marche)

Stefanos Kollias (NTUA)

Tiziano Bianchi (Politecnico di Torino)

Ville Vestman (University of Eastern Finland)

Vincent Ricordel (LS2N UNIVERSITE DE NANTES)

Wei Zhang (Xidian University)

Xiaomeng Wu (NTT Corporation)

Yang Yang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China)

Yingxue Zhang (Wuhan University)

Yuanfang Guo (Beihang University)

Yuen Peng Loh (Multimedia University)

Zhedong Zheng (University of Technology Sydney)

Zhengyi Luo (Shanghai University of Electric Power)

Zhibo Chen (Unverisity of Science and Technology of China)

Nasir Md (University of Southern California)