Lecturers
Robert Bregović received the MSc degree in electrical engineering from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb, Croatia, in 1998 and the Dr. Sc. (Tech.) degree in information technology from Tampere University of Technology, Finland, in 2003. Since 1998, he is with the Tampere University (former Tampere University of Technology), where he currently works as an Assistant Professor.
Dr. Bregović has co-authored more than 80 international journal and conference articles, including three book chapters, and has been awarded two US patents. His research interests include the design and implementation of digital filters and filterbanks, multirate signal processing, and topics related to acquisition, processing, modeling, and visualization of 3D content.
Sebastian Knorr is professor at the Ernst Abbe University of Applied Sciences Jena. Between 2017 and 2020, he was Senior Research Scientist and Lecturer within the Communication Systems Group at TU Berlin and Senior Research Scientist within the V-SENSE project at Trinity College Dublin. Between 2009 and 2016, he was the Managing Director of imcube labs GmbH, Germany and General Manager of Beijing imcube Technologies Co., Ltd.. Besides the management of both companies, he also worked on 3D TV, cinema and giant screen projects as Post-Conversion Stereographer and Stereo Producer. Between 2002 and 2009, Dr. Knorr acted as project manager and senior researcher at Technische Universität Berlin, Germany where he received the Dr.-Ing. degree (Ph.D.) with highest honors in 2008.
Dr. Knorr is a Senior Member of the IEEE and the FKTG. Dr. Knorr received the German Multimedia Business Award of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology in 2008, and was awarded by the initiative “Germany-Land of Ideas” which is sponsored by the German government, commerce and industry in 2009, respectively. Dr. Knorr received a couple of best paper awards including the Scott Helt Memorial Award of the IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting in 2011 and the Lumiére Award at the International Conference on 3D Immersion in 2018.
Erdem Sahin is a Senior Research Fellow in the Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences at Tampere University. He received the Ph.D. degree from the Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department at Bilkent University in 2013. Currently, he is supervising five doctoral theses within the 3D Media Group in the field of plenoptic imaging. He is also running the Plenoptics Lab at the Centre for Immersive Visual Technologies and serving as PI/Co-PI in several research and commercialization projects on developing next-generation plenoptic image acquisition and display systems.
Tomas Sluka is the CEO and co-founder of CREAL – a Swiss technology startup that develops and commercializes near-eye light-field displays for Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR/AR). He turned entrepreneur after 15 years of research career including at CERN and EPFL.
Elena Stoykova – After getting her M.S. degree in physics from Sofia State University, Bulgaria, Elena Stoykova received a Ph.D. degree in wave optics in 1988. In 2011, she defended her thesis for Doctor of Science degree. She was a Research Associate and a Senior Scientist in the Institute of Electronics to the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS). In 2002 she joined as a head of Holography and Optical Metrology department the Institute of Optical Materials and Technologies (IOMT) as a full Professor. Dr. Stoykova worked as a visiting scientist in DLR, Germany, University of the North Paris, France, Tampere University, Finland, University of Ghent, Belgium, Tokyo University of Science, Japan and Bilkent University, Turkey. In 2011 – 2017, she was a visiting scientist in the Korea Electronics and Technology Institute, Seoul, South Korea. In 2019, she was a visiting scientist as a Fulbright scholar at the University of Dayton, Ohio, USA.
Dr. Stoykova’s research interests are in optical metrology, digital holography and digital signal processing. She has published more than 270 papers (among them 85 journal papers in the database of ISI-Thompson, 12 journal papers in the database of the European Physical Society, 65 papers in Proceedings of SPIE, four chapters in books published by Springer, Wiley-VCH and InTech).
Peter Lambert is a full-time Associate Professor at the IDLab of Ghent University – imec (Belgium) since 2013, where he currently leads the research team IDLab-MEDIA (http://media.idlab.ugent.be). He received his Master’s degree in science (mathematics) and in applied informatics from Ghent University in 2001 and 2002, respectively, and he obtained the Ph.D. degree in computer science in 2007 at the same university. Between 2010 and 2013, he was also a Technology Developer at Ghent University. His research interests are multimedia signal processing, data compression, computer graphics, multimedia security and forensics, visual communication, and AR/VR/XR. He is (co-)author of 235+ publications (incl. 65+ SCI-listed journal publications and 160+ peer-reviewed conference publications of which 9 received a paper award) and is co-inventor of 2 published and 2 granted patent applications. He is the promotor of 14 finished PhDs (2 interdisciplinary) and 6 on-going PhDs, and was involved in 6 other finished PhDs. He also regularly serves as reviewer for several scientific journals and international conferences.
Emin Zerman is an Associate Senior Lecturer at Mid Sweden University, working as part of Realistic3D research group. Previously, he has been working as a postdoctoral research fellow at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, working in V-SENSE project on immersive imaging technologies. He received his Ph.D. degree (2018) in Signals and Images from Télécom ParisTech, France, and his M.Sc. degree (2013) and B.Sc. degree (2011) in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the Middle East Technical University, Turkey. He is interested in data visualization, multimedia quality assessment, human visual perception, user interaction, immersive multimedia, and 3D technologies.
He is a member of IEEE and IEEE Signal Processing Society. He has been acting as a reviewer for several conferences and peer-reviewed journals, including Signal Processing: Image Communications, IEEE TCSVT, IEEE TIP, IEEE TMM, ACM ToG, ACM JoCCH, ACM Multimedia, QoMEX, EUSIPCO, IEEE ICASSP, IEEE MMSP, IEEE ICME, IEEE ICIP, and NordiCHI. He organized several special sessions on immersive imaging technologies at ICME 2020, MMSP 2020, QoMEX 2020, ICIP 2021, and MMSP 2021. He also organized tutorials at IEEE ICME 2020, ACM Multimedia 2020, and VCIP 2021.
Kjell Brunnström is a Senior Scientist at RISE Research Institutes of Sweden AB and Adjunct Professor at Mid Sweden University. He is leading development for video quality assessment as Co-chair of the Video Quality Experts Group (VQEG). His research interests are in Qualtiy of Experience for visual media especially immersive media. He is area editor of the Elsevier Journal of Signal Processing: Image Communication and has co-authored >100 peer-reviewed scientific articles including conference papers.
Peter Eisert is Professor for Visual Computing at Humboldt University Berlin and heading the Vision & Imaging Department at Fraunhofer HHI. He has published more than 250 papers and is Associate Editor of the International Journal of Image and Video Processing and the Journal of
Visual Communication and Image Representation. His research interests include 3D image analysis and synthesis, face body processing, computer vision, computer graphics, as well as deep learning in application areas like multimedia, production, security and medicine.