Dr. Frederic Dufaux is a CNRS Research Director at Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, CentraleSupélec, Laboratoire des Signaux et Systèmes (L2S, UMR 8506), where he is head of the Telecom and Networking research hub. He is a Fellow of IEEE.
Frederic received the M.Sc. in physics and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland, in 1990 and 1994 respectively. He has over 30 years of experience in research, previously holding positions at EPFL, Emitall Surveillance, Genimedia, Compaq, Digital Equipment, and MIT.
Frederic was Vice General Chair of ICIP 2014, General Chair of MMSP 2018, and Technical Program co-Chair of ICIP 2019 and ICIP 2021. He is Technical Program co-Chair of ICIP 2025 and MMSP 2025, and General Chair of ICME 2026. He served as Chair of the IEEE SPS Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP) Technical Committee in 2018 and 2019. He was a member of the IEEE SPS Technical Directions Board from 2018 to 2021. He was Chair of the Steering Committee of ICME in 2022 and 2023. Since 2025, he is IEEE SPS Vice President Technical Directions, and member of the IEEE SPS Board of Governors and Executive Committee. He was also a founding member and the Chair of the EURASIP Technical Area Committee on Visual Information Processing from 2015 to 2021.
He was Editor-in-Chief of Signal Processing: Image Communication from 2010 until 2019. Since 2021, he is Specialty Chief Editor of the section on Image Processing in the journal Frontiers in Signal Processing.
In 2022, he received the EURASIP Meritorious Service Award, “for his leadership and contributions for the development of visual information processing within EURASIP”.
Frederic is on the Executive Board of Systematic Paris-Region since 2019, a European competitiveness cluster which brings together and drives an ecosystem of excellence in digital technologies and DeepTech.
He has been involved in the standardization of digital video and imaging technologies for more than 15 years, participating both in the MPEG and JPEG committees. He was co-chairman of JPEG 2000 over wireless (JPWL) and co-chairman of JPSearch. He is the recipient of two ISO awards for these contributions.
His research interests include image and video coding, 3D video, high dynamic range imaging, visual quality assessment, video surveillance, privacy protection, image and video analysis, multimedia content search and retrieval, video transmission over wireless network. He is author or co-author of 3 books, more than 250 research publications (h-index=53, 11000+ citations) and more than 25 patents issued or pending. He is in the « World’s Top 2% Scientists » list from Stanford University.
Ali Mohammad-Djafari received the B.Sc. in electrical engineering from Polytechnic of Teheran, in 1975, the M.Sc. from Supélec (Now CentraleSupélec) in 1977, the "Docteur-Ingénieur" (Ph.D.) and "Doctorat d'Etat" in Physics, from the University of Paris Sud 11 (UPS), Orsay, France, respectively in 1981 and 1987.
He has been Research Director at CNRS, and Professor of universities in France and in many other countries until his retirement in 2018. Now, part-time, in China as the Chief Scientist in Shanfeng company, Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province.
His main scientific interests include: - Developing new methods based on Bayesian inference and Information Theory approaches for Inverse Problems, and in general, in all aspects of data processing, and more specifically in imaging and vision systems.
- Multivariate and multi dimensional data, space-time signal and image processing, data mining, clustering, classification, machine learning and artificial intelligence methods for Diagnostics and preventive maintenance. The main application domains of his interests are Medical or biological imaging, Computed Tomography, Non Destructive Testing (NDT), fault diagnostic and preventive maintenance in industry.
He has supervised more than 22 Ph.D., more than 20 Post-doc research activities and more than 50 M.Sc. Student research projects. He has more than 400 papers in journals, national and international conferences. He has organized more than 10 international workshops and conferences in France and international. He has been expert for a great number of French national and international research projects.
He also participated and managed many industrial contracts with many French national industries such as EDF, RENAULT, THALES, SAFRAN and great research institutions such as CEA, INSERM, INRIA as well as the regional (such as Digiteo), national (such as ANR) and European projects (such as ERASYSBIO).
In China since 2020 as a scientific talent, he obtained many scientific and technological development prizes in Zhejiang province.