Keynote conferences

Marie Tahon is currently a full professor at Le Mans University and conducts her research at the Laboratoire d’Informatique de l’Université du Mans (LIUM). She received her engineering degree from École Centrale de Lyon as well as a Master’s degree in acoustics from École Centrale de Lyon and INSA Lyon in 2007. She obtained her Ph.D. in Computer Science from Paris-Sud University in 2012.

She worked at LIMSI–CNRS (Orsay) on automatic emotion recognition in speech during both her Ph.D. and postdoctoral research. She also held a teaching and research position (ATER) at LMSSC / CNAM (Paris) in acoustics, and later conducted postdoctoral research at IRISA (Lannion) with the “Expression” research team.

Her research focuses on expressive speech processing, particularly in the areas of speech synthesis, emotion recognition, and speaker identification. She has also conducted research in musical acoustics, including the automatic analysis of traditional singing and studies in instrumental acoustics and organology.

Ghassan AlRegib is currently the John and Marilu McCarty Chair Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology.  He is the Director of the Center for Signal and Information Processing (CSIP). His group is the Omni Lab for Intelligent Visual Engineering and Science (OLIVES) at Georgia Tech. He served as Director of Georgia Tech’s Center for Energy and Geo Processing (CeGP) (2012 - 2022) and Director of Georgia Tech’s Initiatives and Programs in MENA (2015 - 2018. He is an IEEE Fellow.

Prof. AlRegib received the ECE Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award (2001), both the CSIP Research and the CSIP Service Awards (2003), the ECE Outstanding Junior Faculty Member Award (2008), the Denning Faculty Award for Global Engagement at Georgia Tech (2017), the Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech (2024), and the Georgia Tech’s College of Engineering Outstanding Teacher (Midcareer or Senior) Award (2025 ).

Prof. AlRegib served as the Technical Program co-Chair, International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) (2020 and 2024); Member, Technical Committees on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP) and Image, Video, and Multidimensional Signal Processing (IVMSP) (2015-2017 and 2018-2020); Member, Editorial Boards of both the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (2009-2020) and the Elsevier Journal Signal Processing: Image Communications (2014-2020). He was an Editorial Board Member of the Wireless Networks Journal (WiNET) (2009-2016) and the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (CSVT) (2014-2016). He was Area Chair, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME) (2016-2017); Tutorial Chair, ICIP 2016; Chair, Special Sessions Program at ICIP 2006; Area Editor, Columns and Forums in the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine (SPM) (2009–2012); Associate Editor, IEEE SPM (2007-2009); Tutorials Co-Chair, ICIP 2009; Guest Editor, IEEE Journal on Special Topics in Signal Processing (J-STSP) (2012); Track Chair, ICME 2011; Co-Chair, IEEE MMTC Interest Group on 3D Rendering, Processing, and Communications (2010-2012); Chair, Speech and Video Processing Track at Asilomar (2012); Technical Program Co-Chair, IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing (GlobalSIP) (2014); and lead a team that is organizing the IEEE Video and Image Processing (VIP) Cup in 2017 and 2023.

In the Omni Lab for Intelligent Visual Engineering and Science (OLIVES), he and his group work on robust and interpretable machine learning algorithms, uncertainty and trust, multi-modal learning, and human-in-the-loop algorithms.  The group has demonstrated their work on a wide range of applications such as Autonomous Systems, Medical Imaging, and Subsurface Imaging.