European Machine Vision Forum 2019 Announces Keynote Speakers

BARCELONA, Spain, and LYON, France, April 12, 2019 — The European Machine Vision Forum today announced the three keynote speakers for the 2019 annual event Sept. 5 and 6 in Lyon, France.

Peter Seitz, senior technologist Europe at Hamamatsu Photonics, will deliver the first keynote, which is titled “The Future of Image Sensing: More Intelligence or More Sensing?”

Christian Wolf, Ph.D., associate professor at INSA de Lyon and LIRIS, CNRS, highlights reasoning as a key component of human intelligence in his presentation, “Learning High-Level Reasoning in and from Images.”

On the second conference day, François Simoens, Ph.D., strategic program manager, CTO office at CEA-Leti in Grenoble, will deliver his keynote, “The Convergence of Photonics and Electronics: An Opportunity for Machine Vision.”

The focal topic of the European Machine Vision Forum 2019 is “Photonics and Machine Vision: Going Deep into Integration.”

Abstracts for participation via contributions of a talk or poster can be submitted until Friday, May 24, 2019, using the online submission tool. All submissions are openly reviewed by the joint Scientific and Industrial Advisory Board of the forum. For more details, visit www.european-forum-emva.org or contact info@emva-forum.org.