João Ascenso
Chair, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG1 JPEG AI activity
João Ascenso is an Assistant Professor with Instituto Superior Técnico, and a member of the Multimedia Signal Processing Group, Instituto de Telecomunicacões, Lisbon, Portugal. He has authored more than 100 papers in international conferences and journals and is an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Image Processing and IEEE Transactions on Multimedia. He currently chairs the JPEG-AI ad-hoc group that targets the evaluation and development of learning-based image compression. His current research interests include video coding, 3D imaging, indexing and searching of audio–visual content, multimedia communication systems, and visual sensor networks.
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Werner Bailer
Chair, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG4 Neural Network Coding activity
Werner Bailer is a Key Researcher at DIGITAL – Institute for Information and Communication Technologies at JOANNEUM RESEARCH in Graz, Austria. He received a degree in Media Technology and Design in 2002 for his diploma thesis on motion estimation and segmentation for film/video standards conversion. His research interests include audiovisual content analysis, multimedia retrieval and machine learning. He regularly contributes to standardization, in particular in MPEG, where he co-chairs the ad-hoc group on neural network compression.
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 Touradj Ebrahimi
ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG1 JPEG Convenor
Prof. Touradj Ebrahimi has over 30 years of experience in multimedia signal processing and has been involved in both JPEG and MPEG standardization activities since 1994 and 1990, respectively. He is the editor of MPEG-4 Visual standard since then involved in several JPEG and MPEG standardization efforts, including JPEG 2000, JPEG XR, JPEG XT, JPSearch, JPEG XS, JPEG XL, JPEG Pleno, JPEG AI, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 Part 2, MPEG-4 Part 10 AVC/H.264, MPEG-7, MPEG-21, HEVC/H.265 as well as MPEG video compression for HDR and 3D content. Prof. Ebrahimi is the editor of the MPEG-4 standard, MPEG-4 Book, JPEG 2000 Book and over 300 peer-reviewed scientific publications. He was the former Convenor of the SC29 Advisory Group on Management for over a decade until 2014, in charge of coordination of strategic, copyright and intellectual property guidelines in JPEG and MPEG standards. Prof. Ebrahimi is currently the Convenor (Chairman) of the JPEG committee and represents Switzerland as its head of the delegation in JPEG, MPEG, SC29 and JTC1. He is also a member of the ExeCom in ECMA International. He has received several best paper for his publications as well as a number of ISO certificates of appreciation for contributions to JPEG and MPEG standards. He is a Fellow of IEEE and SPIE and received the IEEE Star Innovator Award in 2019 for his pioneering work on quality of experience in multimedia and its applications to standardization.
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Masahito Kawamori
ITU-T Study Group 16 Q28 Rapporteur | Project Professor, Media and Governance School, Keio University, Japan
Masahito Kawamori is a Project Prof. at the Media and Governance School, Keio University, Japan. Before joining Keio University in 2013, he had been a senior research engineer of NTT, which he joined in 1989 to do research and development in application of artificial intelligence, to convergent systems for mobile and fixed telecommunication, such as conversational robots and humanoids. This became, in 1998, a part of Japan Science and Technology Agency's program called Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology Program that aimed at "Creating the Brain". Since 2000, he was involved in several projects in and outside of Japan to apply metadata and ontology for various services including, but not limited to, telecommunication and broadcasting, which have led to global standards that are currently commercially deployed in several services. He is also actively involved with the International Telecommunication Union, part of the United Nations.
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Noah Luo
ITU-T SG16 Chairman | Vice President, Dept. of Standardization and Industry Development, Huawei
Noah Luo, ITU-T SG16 chairman since 2016, senior director and departmental chief in standards and industry development, Huawei Technologies, Co.,Ltd, is based in Lausanne, Switzerland, in charge of development of strategic relationships with leading international standards organizations including ITU,ISO,IEC, ISO/IEC JTC1 and scores of others. He was educated in Xi’an Jiaotong University, China with a Doctorate in Automatic Control: Theory and Application, he spent two years in Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, as a postdoctoral research scientist before joining Huawei. Dr.Luo has experience of working in international standards organizations since the early 2000s and he had been based in Europe for leading and supervising standards and ecosystem development tasks 2013-2019 before his current posting in Switzerland.
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 Stuart Perry
Chair, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG1 JPEG Pleno Point Cloud Activity
Stuart Perry gained his PhD in Electrical Engineering in 1999 from the University of Sydney, Australia. He previously worked for the Defence Science and Technology Organisation and Canon Information Systems Research Australia (CiSRA). He is currently an Associate Professor at the School of Electrical and Data Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and IT, University of Technology Sydney and co-director of the Perceptual Imaging Laboratory (PILab) conducting research into colour and perceptual quality in 3D environments. He is an Australian Representative for ISO standards for still image compression as well as chair of the JPEG Pleno Ad Hoc Group on Point Cloud Compression. He has more than 30 international publications including two books and 20 patents.
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 Andrew Segall
Co-chair, Neural Network Video Coding activity in JVET of ITU-T SG16 Question 6 and ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG5
Andrew Segall received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Oklahoma State University, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Northwestern University. He is currently a Director at Sharp Labs of America, where he leads the Department of Systems, Algorithms and Services while simultaneously holding the position of Distinguished Scientist at Sharp Corporation. He is an active participant in the international standardization community and has developed and contributed technology to the Versatile Video Coding (VVC), the High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC), the Advanced Video Coding (H.264/AVC), and the ATSC 3.0 projects. He currently serves as co-chair of the Neural Network Video Coding activity in JVET of ITU-T SG16 Question 6 and ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG5 and as HDR Chair for the MPEG Visual Quality Assessment Advisory Group (ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/AG5).
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 Gary Sullivan
Chair, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29
Gary J. Sullivan has been a chairman and co-chairman of various video and image coding standardization activities in ITU-T VCEG, ISO/IEC MPEG, ISO/IEC JPEG, and in their joint collaborative teams since 1996 and in 2021 became the chair of ISO/IEC JTC 1 Subcommittee 29, the organization that oversees JPEG and MPEG. He has led the development of the Advanced Video Coding (AVC) standard (ITU-T H.264 | ISO/IEC 14496-10), the High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard (ITU-T H.265 | ISO/IEC 23008-2), the Versatile Video Coding (VVC) standard (ITU-T H.266 | ISO/IEC 29090-3), the various extensions of those standards, and several other standardization projects. He is a Video and Image Technology Architect at Microsoft Research. At Microsoft, he has also been the originator and lead designer of the DirectX Video Acceleration (DXVA) video decoding feature of the Microsoft Windows operating system.
The team efforts that Sullivan has led have been recognized by three Emmy Awards. He has received the SMPTE Digital Processing Medal, the IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award, the IEEE Consumer Electronics Engineering Excellence Award, two IEEE Trans. CSVT Best Paper awards, the INCITS Technical Excellence Award, the IMTC Leadership Award, and the University of Louisville J. B. Speed Professional Award in Engineering. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and SPIE.
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 Yuntao Wang
Rapporteur, ITU-T SG16 Question 5 I Senior Engineer, Deputy Chief Engineer of Cloud Computing & Big Data Research Institute of CAICT
Mr. Wang Yuntao is Senior Engineer, Deputy Chief Engineer of Cloud Computing & Big Data Research Institute of CAICT, deputy director of internet governance research center, leader of the general working group of the CAICT blockchain team, ITU-T Q5/16 Rapporteur. His main role is technical research, major projects implementation, standardization, and international cooperation. His research mainly focuses on artificial intelligence, blockchain and other new generation of ICT technologies related standardization and industrial development policy development. Also, he took the lead in the completion of three national key projects, developed over ten international standards related to artificial intelligence, translator of two books, author or co-author of three books, published more than ten papers as well as four research reports. With rich experiences in international cooperation, he has worked as contact person for several bilateral and multilateral international collaboration programs. In terms of standardization and technical negotiation, he has rich expertise in international standardization organizations.
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 Mei Yan
Editor, F.DH-FM and F.DH-2D, ITU-T SG16
Ms. Mei Yan, is the engineer of Artificial Intelligence Department of Cloud Computing & Big Data Research Institute of CAICT, deputy group leader of China communications standards association (CCSA) TC602 WG2. She is the editor of F.DH-FM and F.DH-2D, focusing on technology of digital human, generative AI, computer vision, and trustworthy AI.
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 Weimin Zhang
Editor, ITU-T F.748.11, ITU-T SG16
Ms. WeiMin Zhang, is the engineer of Artificial Intelligence Department of Cloud Computing & Big Data Research Institute, China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT). She is the editor of F.748.11, focusing on technology of digital image processing, AI accelarator and benchmark. She has authored 6 papers in international conferences and journals.
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 Yuan Zhang
Co-chair, ITU-T SG16 WP3; Rapporteur, ITU-T SG16 Question 12; Co-chair, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/ WG2 VCM activity
Ms. Yuan Zhang, Director of Machine Vision Department in China Telecom Research Institute, is the chair of MPEG AhG VCM, focusing on video coding for machine vision. Yuan is the Co-chair of WP3/16 and the Rapporteur of ITU-T Q12/16, focusing on standardization on intelligent video application. Yuan was the Vice-chair of ITU-T FG-AI4AD, focusing on technology of AI for assisted and autonomous driving. Yuan is responsible for R&D and standardization of machine vision.
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