Picture Coding Symposium (PCS 2022)

Shan Liu is a Distinguished Scientist and General Manager at Tencent, where she leads teams of Tencent Media Lab, Tencent Video and Tencent Games to develop technologies and products serving over a billion users. She was formerly Director of Media Technology Division at MediaTek USA. She was also formerly with MERL and Sony, etc. She has been a long-time contributor to international standardization and served as co-Editor of H.265/HEVC SCC and H.266/VVC standards. She is a vice chair of IEEE Data Compression Standards Committee and a Fellow of the IEEE. She holds more than 500 granted US patents and has published more than 100 peer-reviewed papers and one book. Her interests include audio-visual, volumetric, immersive and emerging media compression, intelligence, transport and systems.

Al Bovik is the Cockrell Family Regents Endowed Chair Professor at The University of Texas at Austin. His research interests land at the nexus of visual neuroscience and digital pictures and videos, particularly regarding how human viewers respond to digital visual content. In recent years his interests have turned towards addressing questions involving immersive, virtual, and augmented visual experiences, and how they can be perceptually optimized. An elected member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineers, his international honors include the 2022 IEEE Edison Medal, a Primetime Emmy Award and a Technology & Engineering Emmy Award from the Academies of Television Arts and Sciences, the Progress Medal of the Royal Photographic Society, the IEEE Fourier Award, and the Edwin H. Land Medal.

Touradj Ebrahimi is professor of image processing at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). Since 2014, he has been the Convenor (Chairman) of the JPEG standardization Committee which has produced a family of standards that have revolutionized the world of imaging. He has founded several startup and spinoff companies in the past two decades, including the most recent RayShaper SA, a research company based in Crans-Montana involved in AI powered multimedia. Prof. Ebrahimi is author or co-author of over 300 scientific publications in image and video compression, media security, quality of experience in multimedia and AI based image and video processing and analysis. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, SPIE and EURASIP and has been recipient of several awards and distinctions, including a PrimeTime Emmy Award for JPEG, IEEE Star Innovator Award in Multimedia and SMPTE Progress Medal.

Nagesh Puppala is the General Manager for Edge & Cloud Video Division (ECVD) within the Network and Edge Group (NEX) at Intel Corporation. As part of the Network and Edge Group, he oversees the strategy and execution of hardware and software deliverables for compelling solutions in video production, video delivery, cloud gaming, immersive media, video analytics, and cloud graphics. Nagesh holds MBA from the New York University, Masters in Computer Science and Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering.

Neil is VP Developer Ecosystems at NVIDIA, where he enables applications to harness GPU acceleration. Neil has been the elected President of the Khronos Group for over twenty years where he initiated the OpenGL ES standard used by billions worldwide, helped catalyze the WebGL, Vulkan and OpenXR APIs for portable 3D and augmented and virtual reality, the glTF run-time 3D asset format, and the Kamaros embedded Camera API. Most recently Neil instituted and now Chairs the Metaverse Standards Forum with over 2,000 member companies.

Igor Vytyaz is a software engineer on the Draco team at Google. He is a lead developer on tools for geometry compression and simplification with the mission of making 3D assets more accessible for everyone. The Draco tools currently empower a wide range of applications, including geospatial, 3D commerce, automotive, gaming, and search. Igor participates in Khronos and AOM working groups with the goal to advance open standards like glTF and create a new generation of geometry codecs.