Keynote Speakers of ICOIP 2023

Professor, PhD advisor, winner of the National Youth Talent Project, winner of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security's high-level talent project, "Huali Leading Talent" and "Leader of the Soft Matter Interdisciplinary Research Team" in Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications. He graduated from the Liquid Crystal Research Institute of Kent State University in the United States, and has been engaged in the basic research and application development of the structure, physical properties, effects and manipulation of liquid crystal soft materials for a long time; So far, he has published more than 30 papers in Nature Communications and other journals. He is also an active reviewer of well-known journals such as Physical Review Letters, Light: Science & Applications, a young editorial board member of journals such as Liquid Crystal and Display, a lifelong member of the Chinese Physical Society, a senior member of the Chinese Optical Society, a member of the American/British Physical Society, and a member of the American Optical Society.

Speech Title: Orientation and order of liquid crystals for soft matter photonics

Abstract: Orientationally ordered liquid crystals have fascinated scientists for centuries owing to their unique physical anisotropies and revolutionary photonic applications. If one could know how to create and manipulate the optical microstructures in liquid crystals at high dimensionality and with more degrees of freedom, that would bring new fundamental science and practical techniques. Here we show (1) fast electro-optic switching enabled by the nanosecond electrical modification of order parameters effect; (2) pattern formation in liquid crystals produced by the external stimuli; (3) stable and tunable three-dimensional solitons as director bullets driven by AC electric fields.

Chuan Qin received his Ph.D. degree in signal and information processing from Shanghai University, Shanghai, China, in 2008. Since Dec. 2008, he has been with the faculty of University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, where he is currently a Professor. He was with Feng Chia University at Taiwan as a Postdoctoral Researcher and Adjunct Assistant Professor from July 2010 to July 2012. His research interests include image processing, multimedia security and AI security. He has published over 150 peer-reviewed papers in journals and conferences including IEEE TIP, IEEE TIFS, IEEE TMM, IEEE TCSVT and ACM Multimedia. He is selected as the Highly Cited Chinese Researcher by Elsevier in 2020. He won the Best Paper Award of CIHW 2016 and the Candidate of Excellent Paper Award of IEEE IIHMSP 2014. He has served as the Associate Editor for Signal Processing (Elsevier) and Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation (Elsevier). He is the Senior Member of CCF and CSIG.

Speech Title: Recent Advances on Perceptual Image Hashing

Abstract: In this talk, the concept of perceptual image hashing and its differences with cryptographic hash function and retrieval hashing are first given. Then, we illustrate some typical application scenarios of perceptual image hashing in the field of image intelligence security, and representative methods for perceptual image hashing and some of our related works are introduced. Finally, the summary and further development are discussed.

Dr. Sailesh Iyer has a Ph.D. (Computer Science), pusruing Post Doc from University of Louisiana, Lafayette, USA (Public University ranked among the top 100 Public Universities) and currently serving as a Professor with Rai University, Ahmedabad. He has more than 23 years of experience in Academics, Industry and Corporate Training out of which 18 years are in core Academics. He has been awarded  Research Excellence Award for year 2021 by Rai University and an Honorary Adjunct Research Scientist at Neurolabs International under Dana Brain Health Institute, Iran from August 2022 to August 2025.  He has 2 Patents granted and one patent published to his credit and is involved as an Editor for various book projects with IGI Global (USA), CRC PressTaylor and Francis (UK) and Bentham Science (UAE). He has been invited as Keynote Speaker in various International Conferences held in China, Indonesia, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Haiti, Ukraine, Italy and India. A hardcore Academician and Administrator, he has excelled in Corporate Training, Delivered 95+ Expert Talks in various AICTE sponsored STTP’s, ATAL FDP’s, Reputed Universities, Government organized Workshops, Orientation and Refresher Courses organized by HRDC, Gujarat University. Research Contribution include reputed Publications, Track Chair at ICDLAIR 2020 (Springer Italy), icSoftComp 2020, IEMIS 2020 (Springer), ICRITO 2020 (IEEE), ARISE-2021, FTSE-2021 and TPC Member of various reputed International and National Conferences, Reviewer of International Journals like Multimedia Tools and Applications (Springer), Journal of Computer Science (Scopus Indexed), International Journal of Big Data Analytics in Healthcare (IGI Global), Journal of Renewable Energy and Environment and Editor in various Journals. Expert Talk on Research based topics in various Universities and Conferences in addition to guiding Research Scholars as Supervisor. He has also been invited as a Judge for various events, Examiner for Reputed Universities, is a Computer Society of India Lifetime Member and also serving as Managing Committee (MC) Member, CSI Ahmedabad Chapter from 2018-2020.

Research interest areas: Computer Vision and Image Processing, Cyber Security, Data Mining and Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Blockchain.