**Masters of Ceremonies:**
 Darrell W Gunter, SVP Strategic Partnerships, Underline Science
 Michaela Viskupičová, Global Events & Business Development Manager, LPEA

**General Chair:**
Gregor Rozinaj, Slovak University of Technology, Slovakia

**Welcome Remarks:**
 Milos Oravec, Dean of FEI STU
 Branka Zovko-Cihlar

Opening Ceremony



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**Speaker:** Touradj Ebrahimi, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland

**Title of talk:**  JPEG AI:  Towards the First Learning based Image Compression Standard

**Bio:  **Touradj Ebrahimi is a Professor at EPFL and head of its multimedia signal processing group. 
 
He is also founder of RayShaper SA and the Convenor of the JPEG standardisation committee. 
 
He has been recipient of various awards in his more than 25 years of career. In 2019 he won of First IEEE Star Innovator Award in Multimedia for his work on quality of experience in multimedia and its impact in multimedia standardisation. Prof. Ebrahimi is a Fellow of the SPIE and the IEEE. His research interests include image and video compression, media security, quality of experience and quality of life assessment, and AI-powered technologies in multimedia applications. 



Keynote Talk 1



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**Speaker:** Gabriel Miro-Muntean, Dublin City University, Ireland 

**Title of talk:** Delivering High Quality Rich Media Content in Current Network Environment: Challenges and Solutions

**Bio:** Prof. Gabriel-Miro Muntean is a Professor with the School of Electronic Engineering, Dublin City University (DCU), Ireland, where he obtained his PhD degree in 2004 for research on quality oriented adaptive multimedia streaming. Prof. Muntean is co-Director of the DCU Performance Engineering Laboratory and investigator of Science Foundation Ireland Insight and Lero National Research Centres. His research interests include quality-oriented and performance-related issues of adaptive rich media delivery, performance of wired and wireless communications, energy-aware networking and performance of large scale networking systems.

Prof. Muntean has published over 450 papers in prestigious international journals and conferences, has authored 4 books and 23 book chapters and has edited seven other books and conference proceedings, which attracted over 7500 citations (H-index 48). Prof. Muntean is Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting, Multimedia Communications Area Editor for the IEEE Communication Surveys and Tutorials and reviewer for other important international journals, conferences and funding agencies. He is a senior member of IEEE and IEEE Broadcast Technology Society. He was the coordinator of the EU Horizon 2020 project NEWTON (http://newtonproject.eu) and is DCU coordinator for the EU Horizon 2020 project TRACTION (https://www.traction-project.eu).



Keynote Talk 2



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**Speaker:**  Abir Hussain, Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom

**Title of talk:**  Detection and Localization of Objects within Images Using Computer Vision and Machine Learning

**Bio:** Abir Hussain is a professor of Machine Learning and a senior member at the Faculty of Engineering and Technology. 

She completed her PhD study at The University of Manchester (UMIST), UK in 2000 with a thesis title Polynomial Neural Networks for Image and Signal Processing. She has published numerous referred research papers in conferences and Journal in the research areas of Neural Networks, Signal Prediction, Telecommunication Fraud Detection and Image Compression.

She worked with recurrent neural networks and deep learning techniques and their applications to image and signal processing. Abir has published in a number of high esteemed and high impact journals including IEEE Access, Pattern Recognition Letters, IEEE Internet of Things Magazine, Ad Hoc Networks, IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing, Expert Systems with Applications, PloS ONE, Electronic Letters, Neurocomputing, and Neural Networks and Applications.
Abir has successfully supervised 20 research students and has been an external examiner to various UK and overseas Universities for postgraduate research degrees.


Keynote Talk 3

**Master of Ceremony:**
 Darrell W Gunter, SVP Strategic Partnerships, Underline Science

**General Chair:**
Gregor Rozinaj, Slovak University of Technology, Slovakia

Session Opening



**Session chairs**:   Sonja Grgić and Juraj Kačur




Session: Machine Learning


**Session chairs:**  Galia Marinova and Radoslav Vargic


Session: Signal Processing

**Masters of Ceremonies:**
 Darrell W Gunter, SVP Strategic Partnerships, Underline Science
 Michaela Viskupičová, Global Events & Business Development Manager, LPEA

Warm-up



**General Chair:**  Gregor Rozinaj, Slovak University of Technology, Slovakia



**Session chairs:** Panos Liatsis and Marek Vančo


Session: Multimedia


IWSSIP is an international conference that brings together researchers and developers from both academia and industry reporting the latest scientific and theoretical advances to discuss and debate major issues and state-of-the-art aspects on systems, signals and image processing.

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