Friday, September 30
3:00 pm and 4:00 pm: Optional Tours of Electrical and Computer Engineering Building (meet inside of the front entrance on either time)
5:00 – 7:00 pm: Welcome Reception (Location: Beckman 5602)
Ed Feser, interim provost, University of Illinois
Peter Schiffer, vice chancellor for research, University of Illinois
Andreas Cangellaris, dean of the College of Engineering, University of Illinois
Saturday, October 1
8:30 – 9:30 am: Registration (Location: Beckman 1005)
9:30 – 9:45 am: Opening Remarks (Location: Beckman 1005)
Klara Nahrstedt, director of Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois
William Sanders, head of Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois
Morning session: Technical talks by Dr. Huang’s academic family: Past and present ( Talk Location: Beckman 1005)
Session Chair: Yong Rui
9:45 – 10:00am Wai-Hon Lee, MIT, Personal Stories on Computer Generated Hologram
10:00 – 10:15am Juyang Weng, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, From Deep Learning to Machine Fully Autonomous Learning
10:15 – 10:30am Kannappan Palaniappan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Aerial Vehicle Tracking and 3D Urban Reconstruction
10:30 – 10:45am Jialin Zhong, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Intellectual Property and its Implications
10:45 – 11:00am Coffee Break ( Location: Beckman 1003)
11:00 – 11:15am Hai Tao, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Embedded Vision Technology
11:15 – 11:30am Sean Zhou, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, CBIR: A 20-Year Search for the Killer Application – from Pictures of Faces to Breasts and Lungs…
11:30 – 11:45am Jiebo Luo, Forever Young: A Tribute to the Grandmaster and a Recount of Personal Journey
11:45 – 12:00pm Nicu Sebe, Human Behavior Understanding “in the Wild”
12:00 – 12:15pm Shuicheng Yan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, AI Meets IOT
12:15 – 12:30pm Pooya Khorrami, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, current student, How Deep Learning Can Help Emotion Recognition
12:30 – 12:45pm Xianming Liu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, current student, Turning impossible into possible: Weakly Supervised Neural Network on Large Scale Imagery Data
12:45 – 2:00pm Lunch Break ( Location: Beckman Atrium)
Afternoon session: Special guest speakers ( Talk Location: Beckman 1005)
Session Chair: Chang Wen Chen
2:00 – 2:20pm Wen Gao, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Peking University, Picture Coding for 50 Years
2:20 – 2:40pm Kiyo Aizawa, Department of Information and Communication Engineering, University of Tokyo, Image Processing: From Face to Food
2:40 – 3:00pm Harry Shum, Executive Vice President, Technology and Research, Microsoft, Frontier of AI Research
3:00 – 3:20pm Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Multimedia Signal Processing at the Beckman Institute, 1999-2016
3:20 – 3:30pm Coffee Break ( Location: Beckman 1003)
3:30 – 3:50pm Rama Chellappa, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, Five Decades of Exemplary Scholarship and Mentoring
3:50 – 4:10pm Narendra Ahuja, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Three Decades of Vision at Illinois, and Counting
4:10 – 4:30pm Al Bovik, Cockrell Family Regents Endowed Chair Professor, The University of Texas at Austin, Leave My Picture Statistics Alone
4:30 – 4:50pm Dave Munson, Robert J. Vlasic Dean of Engineering, College of Engineering and Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, University of Michigan, The Complete Student
Evening session: Reception and banquet ( Location: Beckman Atrium)
5:00 –6:00pm Reception
6:00 –8:00pm Banquet and celebration
Jeff Moore, interim director, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois
Personal reflections by Dr. Huang’s former students, colleagues and family members
Remarks by Dr. Huang