Niculae Sebe

Nicu Sebe is a professor at the University of Trento, Italy, where he leads research in multimedia information retrieval and human-computer interaction in computer vision applications. He received his PhD from the University of Leiden, The Netherlands, and has previously been with the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. He has been involved in the organization of major conferences and workshops addressing computer vision and the human-centered aspects of multimedia, serving for example as General Co-Chair of the IEEE Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition Conference (FG) 2008, the ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR) 2017, and ACM Multimedia 2013. He was Program Chair of ACM Multimedia 2007 and 2011, ECCV 2016, ICCV 2017, and ICPR 2020, and General Chair of ACM Multimedia 2022. He is also General Chair of ECCV 2028 and Program Chair of CVPR 2027. He is Editor-in-Chief of Computer Vision and Image Understanding. He is a Fellow of ELLIS and IAPR, and a Senior Member of ACM and IEEE. He is the coordinator of the Horizon project ELIAS (European Lighthouse of AI for Sustainability) and the director of the ELLIS Multimodal Learning Systems Research Program.