2015 ChaLearn Looking at People Workshop CVPR

Sergio Escalera

Computer Vision Center (UAB) and University of Barcelona, Spain

sergio.escalera.guerrero@gmail.com

Sergio Escalera is Full Professor at the Department of Mathematics and Informatics, Universitat de Barcelona, where he is the head of the Informatics degree. He is ICREA Academia. He leads the Human Pose Recovery and Behavior Analysis Group. He is Distinguished Professor at Aalborg University. He is vice-president of ChaLearn Challenges in Machine Learning, leading ChaLearn Looking at People events. He is also Fellow of the ELLIS European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems working within the Human-centric Machine Learning program. He participated in several international funded projects and received an Amazon Research Award. He has published more than 300 research papers and received a CVPR best paper award nominee and a CVPR outstanding reviewer award.

Xavier Baró

Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona, Catalonia

xbaro@uoc.edu

Xavier Baró received his B.S. degree in Computer Science at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) in 2003. In 2005 he obtained his M.S. degree in Computer Science at UAB, and in 2009 the Ph.D degree in Computer Engineering. At the present he is a lecturer and researcher at the IT, Multimedia and Telecommunications department at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC). He is involved on the teaching activities of the Computer Science, Telecommunication and Multimedia degrees of the UOC, and collaborates as assistant professor on the teaching activities of the Computer Science degree at the Applied Mathematics and Analysis of the Universitat de Barcelona (UB). In addition, he is involved on the Interuniversity master on Artificial Intelligence (UPCUBURV). He is cofounder of the Scene Understanding and Artificial Intelligence (SUNAI) group of the UOC, and collaborates with the Computer Vision Center of the UAB, as member of the Human Pose Recovery and Behavior Analysis (HUPBA) group. His research interests are related to machine learning, evolutionary computation, and statistical pattern recognition, specially their applications to generic object recognition over huge cardinality image databases.

Jordi Gonzàlez

Computer Vision Center and Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

jordi.gonzalez@uab.cat

Dr. Jordi Gonzàlez received the Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering in 2004 from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Catalonia. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial (IRI), a Joint Research Center of the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) and the Spanish Council for Scientific Research (CSIC). At present, he is Associate Professor in Computer Science at the Computer Science Department, UAB. He is also a research fellow at the Computer Vision Center, where he has co-founded 2 spin-offs and the Image Sequence Evaluation (ISE Lab) research group in 2004. His research interests lie on pattern recognition and machine learning techniques for the computational interpretation of human behaviours in image sequences, or Video Hermeneutics. He has co-organized the THEMIS (BMVC2008 and ICCV2009), ARTEMIS (ACM MM2010, ECCV2012 and ACM MM2013) and ChaLearn LAP (ICMI2013, ECCV2014 and CVPR2015) workshops related to the video-based analys is of human motion in surveillance, films and social media footage. He has served as Area Chair (ICPR2012 and ICIAP2015); Publicity Chair at AVSS2012; Workshop Chair (ICCV2011 and AVSS2015); Local Arrangement Chair at ICCV2011; and Tutorial Chair at ibPRIA2011. He has co-organized Special Issues in IJPRAI (2009), CVIU (2012), MVA (2013) and TPAMI (2015) journals. He is member of the Editorial Board of CVIU and IET-CVI journals. He is also member of IEEE, Spanish Association on Pattern Recognition (AERFAI) and Catalan Association for Artificial Intelligence (ACIA).

Isabelle Guyon

University Paris-Saclay, France and ChaLearn USA

isabelle@clopinet.com

Isabelle Guyon ( http://guyon.chalearn.org/ ) is chaired professor in “big data” at the Université ParisSaclay, specialized in statistical data analysis, pattern recognition and machine learning. She is one of the cofounders of the ChaLearn Looking at People (LAP) challenge series and she pioneered applications of the MIcrosoft Kinect to gesture recognition. Her areas of expertise include computer vision and and bioinformatics. Prior to joining ParisSaclay she worked as an independent consultant and was a researcher at AT&T Bell Laboratories, where she pioneered applications of neural networks to pen computer interfaces (with collaborators including Yann LeCun and Yoshua Bengio) and coinvented with Bernhard Boser and Vladimir Vapnik Support Vector Machines (SVM), which became a textbook machine learning method. She worked on early applications of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) to handwriting recognition in the 1990’s. She is also the primary inventor of SVMRFE, a variable selection technique based on SVM. The SVMRFE paper has thousands of citations and is often used as a reference method against which new feature selection methods are benchmarked. She also authored a seminal paper on feature selection that received thousands of citations. She organized many challenges in Machine Learning since 2003 supported by the EU network Pascal2, NSF, and DARPA, with prizes sponsored by Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Amazon, Disney Research, and Texas Instrument. Isabelle Guyon holds a Ph.D. degree in Physical Sciences of the University Pierre and Marie Curie, Paris, France. She is president of Chalearn, a nonprofit dedicated to organizing challenges, vicepresident of the Unipen foundation, adjunct professor at NewYork University, action editor of the Journal of Machine Learning Research, editor of the Challenges in Machine Learning book series of Microtome, and program chair of the upcoming NIPS 2016 conference.