Invited Speakers

Dr. Katja Bühler is the Scientific Director of the VRVis GmbH, a non-profit research center for Visual Computing in Vienna, Austria, founded in 2000 with the goal of implementing technology transfer between science and industry. Her academic background is in Mathematics (Dipl.math. KIT, Germany) and Computer Science (Dr. techn., TU Wien, Austria). She joint VRVis in 2002 as senior researcher and was promoted to group leader in 2003 and to area leader in 2010. Her efforts to realize innovative Visual Computing solutions in close collaboration with industry and science were recognized with the Austrian science 2buisness Award in 2012 and the TU Wien Frauenpreis 2020. Katjas’ scientific research as leader of the Image Informatics Group at VRVis is centered on methods that provide intuitive and efficient access to the information encoded in imaging and related (spatial) data. She realizes this vision together with her interdisciplinary team, which combines expertise in image analysis, artificial intelligence, data mining, visualization and HCI to create intelligent human-centered solutions for various application fields. In addition to her work at VRVis, she is member of the management board of Austrian Bioimaging and has recently joined the board of the Association for the Promotion of Digital Humanism in Vienna.

Dr.-Ing. Petr Kellnhofer is an Assistant Professor at Delft University of Technology in the Computer Graphics and Visualization Group. He received his PhD at Max Planck Institute for Informatics and Saarland University in Saarbrücken, Germany in 2016. Later, he was a Postdoctoral Associate in the Computational Fabrication Group at MIT CSAIL, MA, USA (until 2019), and a Visiting Scholar in the Stanford Computational Imaging Lab at Stanford University as well as an industry researcher at Raxium, CA, USA (until 2021). His research interests span modeling of human visual perception for applications in computational imaging and displays, as well as neural techniques for reconstruction, editing and rendering of 3D scene representations. He received the Eurographics PhD Award for his thesis on perceptual modeling in 3D stereoscopy.

Prof. Dr. William Smith is a professor with the Department of Computer Science, University of York, York, United Kingdom. He received the BSc degree in computer science, and the PhD degree in computer vision from the University of York, York, United Kingdom. He was a Royal Academy of Engineering/The Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellow from 2019-2020. His research interests are in shape and appearance modelling, model-based supervision and physics-based vision. He has published more than 130 papers in international conferences and journals.