Adi Abileah is chief scientist, Technology Group, Planar Systems, Beaverton, Oregon. His main activity is related to development of active matrix liquid crystal displays (AMLCD), physics and optics of the displays of several technologies, backlights and enhancement techniques. Adi has B.Sc. in physics from the Technion (Israel Institute of Technology) and M.Sc. in Plasma physics from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. In 2005, he was honored as a Fellow of the Society for Information Display.

Harlyn Baker has worked in the field of computer vision for about three decades. From early studies in Edinburgh, addressing 3D stereo modeling and recognition, through dynamic-programming stereo work at the Stanford AI Lab, to developments at SRI, where he co-invented Epipolar Plane Image (EPI) Analysis and created the first spatiotemporal manifold representation process, he has been an early and continuing innovator in the analysis of multi-image data. He has applied his imaging insights broadly, from analyzing the structural implications of fossil data (Lucy and her contemporaries) to performing the earliest simulated surgical procedures/surface manipulations from acquired imagery. While at SRI, Harlyn received one of the first government contracts to model anatomy from the NIH's Visible Human Dataset. His EPI work from that time has been instrumental in most later developments on Light Field and holographic display representations. On leaving Interval Research, he co-founded a real-time stereo ranging company (TYZX), then joined Hewlett-Packard Laboratories in 2000, where he was technical lead in developing an augmented-reality multi-participant videoconferencing technology, designed and structured camera systems to support this (now moving into their fourth generation), took time to help devise a cosmetics recommendation service using images acquired over cell phones, and has moved more recently to development of automultiscopic imaging and display systems for immersive interaction. His focus throughout has been on exploiting massively redundant imaging for communication, visualization, and spatial understanding.

Dr. Nikhil Balram has served as an executive at several public companies in the digital video, display and consumer electronics industries including Faroudja (VP of Advanced Technology), Sage (VP and GM of Consumer Products), SONICblue (VP Connected Home), National Semiconductor (CTO Displays Group) and Marvell Semiconductor (VP and GM Digital Entertainment Business Unit). Video technologies and IC products developed by teams led by him over the last decade have won numerous awards including one Emmy, four Secrets of Home Theater awards, three EDN Innovation of the Year awards, and one TV Innovation of the Year award, and have been used by major consumer electronics companies worldwide. He is currently doing a variety of consulting and advisory activities including serving as advisor to the CEO of UTV, India’s first global media and entertainment company, advisor to IMAX, a leading entertainment technology company, visiting professor of vision science at the University of California, Berkeley, and guest professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar. He has a BS, MS. and Ph.D in electrical engineering, all from Carnegie Mellon University.

Martin S. Banks received a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology at Occidental College in 1970, a Master’s degree in Experimental Psychology in 1973, and a Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology in 1976. He was Assistant and Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin from 1976-1985. He moved to UC Berkeley School of Optometry and Vision Science in 1985 where he is Full Professor of Optometry and Vision Science. Banks is known for his basic and applied research on human visual space perception and for his work on the development and evaluation of stereoscopic displays.

Patrick Beaulieu has been in the multimedia industry for more than 23 years. He recently joined NVIDIA in 2004 after 6 years at Matrox Electronics and nearly 2 years at Pinnacle Systems, where he managed multiple multimedia products and technologies. He currently handles business development with photo/video partners within the 3DVision team at NVIDIA. He is a big photo enthusiast and home theater fan.”

Philip Corriveau is a Principal Engineer at Intel and the manager of the Experience Metrics & Visual Processing group under the Interactions Experience Research in Intel Labs. Philip received his Bachelors of Science Honors at Carleton University, Ottawa Canada in 1990. He immediately started his career at the Canadian Government Communications Research Center performing end-user subjective testing in support of the ATSC HD standard for North America. In January 2009 he was awarded a National Academy of Television Arts & Science, Technology & Engineering Emmy® Award for User Experience Research for the Standardization of the ATSC Digital System. Philip moved to Intel in 2001 to seed a research capability called the Media and Acoustics Perception Laboratory designed to address fundamental perceptual aspects of platform and product design. He now manages a team conducting user experience research and developing visual processing algorithms and measurement metrics across Intel technologies, platforms and product lines. Philip is currently the Chair of Steering Team 5 for 3D@Home addressing Human Factors issues surrounding the development of 3D technologies for end-users. He founded and still participates in the Video Quality Experts Group, aimed a developing, testing and recommending for standardization objective video quality metrics.

Benoit Cottereau received the master degree in signal processing from Supelec, France, in 2004 and the PhD degree in physics from University of Paris XI, Orsay, France, in 2008. He’s currently working as a post-doctoral fellow in Dr Anthony Norcia’s laboratory (Department of psychology, Stanford University). His topics of interest gather electromagnetic brain imaging and 3D perception.".

Scott Daly received a B.S. EE degree in 1980 from North Carolina State University, and then worked for a number of years with early high-resolution laser scanning systems at Photo Electronic Corporation in West Palm Beach, Florida.  Shifting from hardware to wetware, he obtained an M.S. in Bioengineering from the University of Utah in 1984, where he was engaged in retinal neurophysiology, completing a thesis on the temporal information processing of cone photoreceptors. He then worked from 1985 to 1996 in the Imaging Science Division at Eastman Kodak in the fields of image compression, image fidelity models, and image watermarking. The years 1996-2010 were spent at Sharp Laboratories of America in Camas, Washington, where he led a group on display algorithms. Eventually becoming a research fellow and leader of the Center for Displayed Appearance, he had opportunities to apply visual models towards digital video and displays, with numerous publications on spatiotemporal and motion imagery, including starts in human interaction with wall-sized displays, audio perception and stereoscopic displays. These topics led him to recently join Dolby Laboratories in 2010 to focus on overall fundamental perceptual issues, and toward applications whose aim is to preserve artistic intent throughout the entire video path to reach the viewer.   He is currently a member of IEEE, SPIE, and SID.

Neil Dodgson is Professor of Graphics & Imaging at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, of which he is Deputy Head. He has worked in 3D for twenty years. He helped develop the Cambridge autostereoscopic display, working on 3D display design, 3D cameras, 3D software, and 3D content. He was involved in the late 1990s in the attempt to commercialise this technology as an early 3DTV. He is co-chair of Stereoscopic Displays & Applications (www.stereoscopic.org), the earliest annual conference for the dissemination of research in the field, held annually in Silicon Valley. He works also on subdivision surfaces and aesthetic imaging. His PhD, in image processing, is from the University of Cambridge (1992). He is a Chartered Electrical Engineer, and is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology.

Joyce Farrell is the Executive Director of the Stanford Center for Image Systems Engineering and a senior research associate in the Department of Electrical Engineering. Her research focuses methods for quantifying image quality, including the simulation of imaging devices, the development and application of image quality metrics, and visual psychophysical methods for subjective evaluation. She has more than 25 years of research and professional experience working at a variety of companies and institutions, including the NASA Ames Research Center, New York University, the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, Hewlett Packard Laboratories and Shutterfly. She is also the CEO and founder of ImagEval Consulting, LLC.  

Toshiaki Fujii received the Dr.E. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Tokyo in 1995. From 1995 to 2007, he was with the Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology. His current research interests include multi-dimensional signal processing, large-scale multi-camera systems, multi-view video coding and transmission, free-viewpoint television, and their applications for Intelligent Transport Systems. He is a member of the IEEE, The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers, and the Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers of Japan. He serves as an Associate Editor of IEEE TCSVT.

Sergio Goma is principal engineer at Qualcomm Inc. in San Diego where he leads the multimedia R&D/standardization group for imaging, driving Qualcomm’s vision on future imaging technologies. His research interests include computational photography and programmable hardware architectures. Before Qualcomm, Sergio developed the image processing solution present in AMD’s Imageon series of chips. He received the Ph.D. in reliability and fault tolerance of computers and holds several US patents on image processing algorithms and architectures.

As Senior Director, Technology Strategy at Dolby Laboratories, Patrick Griffis is charged with helping define future technology strategy for the company. Prior to joining Dolby, Pat spent 10 years at Microsoft leading global digital media standards strategy, including adoption of the Digital Living Network Alliance as a baseline media sharing standard in Windows 7 and standardization of Windows Media Video technology as an international SMPTE standard. Prior to Microsoft, Pat spent 15 years at Panasonic in senior management positions, including Vice President of Strategic Product Development at Panasonic Broadcast, where he helped launch DVCPRO and drive US strategy for HDTV. Pat started his career at RCA, earning eight patents in TV product design. Pat has been an ATSC board member and Vice Chairman of the Board of the Digital Living Network Alliance. He served two terms as President of the IEEE Consumer Electronics Society. Pat is currently a member of the IBC Council, an industry executive advisory group, and of the Academy of Digital TV Pioneers. A SMPTE Fellow, he serves on the SMPTE executive committee. Pat holds a BSEE degree from Tufts University and an MSEE degree from Purdue University.

Heidi Hoffman is the managing director of 3D@Home Consortium (management provided by FlexTech).  3D@Home is a group of over 45 companies dedicated to accelerating the adoption of quality 3D to home worldwide, mainly through industry communication to all segments of the 3D eco-system.  As managing director, Heidi oversees day-to-day and strategic activity of the consortium, including Steering Team activities, membership and membership meetings, communications, partnerships and both public and private websites, and support to the board of directors. As an employee of FlexTech, Heidi also supports the strategic goals of that organization and the printed and flexible electronics industry with roles in marketing and management for various events and programs.  Prior to FlexTech, Heidi managed corporate communications in the private sector through her own consulting company as well as for Novalux, Inc. a start-up that developed lasers for telecom and displays. Heidi joined FlexTech (aka USDC) and SEMI in 1994, as their Washington Representative after serving as a Senior International Trade Specialist with the U.S. Department of Commerce. Heidi received her formal education in International Relations and Marketing at Mankato State University in Minnesota.

Elaine W. Jin holds a Ph.D. in Optical Engineering from Zhejiang University in China, and a Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Chicago. Since graduation she has being doing applied research at Polaroid Corporation, Eastman Kodak Company, and Micron Technologies. Currently she is a principal imaging scientist at Aptina Imaging Corporation. Her research interests include stereoscopic imaging, image psychology, vision modeling, and image quality evaluation of both capture and display devices.

Reinhard Koch holds a Diploma Degree in Electrical Engineering (1985) and obtained a PhD (Dr.-Ing.) in the field of image-based 3D scene modeling from the Institute of Information Processing at the University of Hannover, Germany, in 1996.  From 1996 - 99 he lead the 3D modeling team at the K.U. Leuven, Belgium, in the vision group of prof. Luc van Gool. Since 1999 he is a professor of Computer Science and head of the Multimedia Information Processing group at the Department of Computer Science of the Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Germany. He is involved in a number of research projects both with academia and industry and author or coauthor of over 120 research papers. The research interests are 3D modeling from video and images, fast camera calibration and tracking algorithms, and the confluence of Computer Graphics and Computer Vision in the field of Mixed and Augmented Reality. He teaches courses in Computer Graphics, Computer Vision, Multimedia Technology, and Image-based 3D Reconstruction.

Since 2007 Ulrich Leiner is heading the department „Interactive Media and Human Factors“ at Fraunhofer Heinrich-Hertz-Institute in Berlin. The team is focused on new and intuitive man-machine interfaces, such as autostereoscopic 3D-Display technologies, touchless interaction systems and multimedia retrieval.
He holds a PhD in applied mathematics from Technical University of Munich on optimal control problems in robotics. He started as a research scientist at Siemens Corporate Technology working on human-machine-interaction topics including computer generated animations, GUI, multimodality, usability and ergonomics. Later at Siemens Mobile and BenQ he managed the user experience department for cell phones and fixed network devices, being responsible for the user interface solutions of over 100 million phones.

John Merritt, a Senior Consultant at The Merritt Group, is an internationally recognized expert in the design and evaluation of stereoscopic 3D displays and is a consultant in the practical application of research in sensory and perceptual science to improvements in visual comfort and other human factors issues related to 3D display systems.  His early work using 3D displays in satellite reconnaissance as a Naval Air Intelligence Officer, combined with his many years as a human-factors design & evaluation consultant, make him uniquely qualified to assess the strengths and weaknesses of advanced stereo 3D systems.  He has extensive experience comparing task performance in 3D vs. 2D evaluation studies, and is the author of many technical reports and papers in the areas of vision research, binocular night vision devices, image-quality standards, photointerpretation, simulator displays, visual fatigue, and evaluation of stereo 3D systems for minimally invasive surgery and other telerobotic systems.  He is a member of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, a Fellow of the SPIE, and is the Founding Chair of the SPIE/IS&T Conference on Stereoscopic Displays and Applications (www.stereoscopic.org), which has been held annually in the Bay Area since 1990. 

Ricardo Motta is a Distinguished Engineer at NVIDIA, responsible for the camera technology and roadmap on the Tegra products. Before NVIDIA he was the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Pixim, which he helped start in 2000, and where led the development of the world’s leading HDR video chipsets. Prior to Pixim, Ricardo was the Chief Imaging Architect of the Imaging Group at HP. Ricardo joined HP Labs in 1987 and was HP’s first imaging/color scientist, working in the group that developed ink-jet printing. At HP he helped develop much of the foundation of modern color imaging, including color standards like sRGB and the first colorimetric based image pipelines, enabling the advent of color products like the DeskJet and the IPIPE digital camera pipeline. Ricardo grew up in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, were he worked in commercial photography and motion pictures before attending the Photographic and Imaging Science program at RIT.

Tony Norcia is a professor of Psychology at Stanford University. Prior to joining the Stanford faculty in 2010, he spent 28 years as a scientist at the Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute in San Francisco. Dr. Norcia received his undergraduate degree from the University of Minnesota and his PhD from Stanford University. He did his postdoctoral training at Brown University. Dr.  Norcia’s research relates perceptual judgments to human brain activity. He has established numerous paradigms in which visual evoked potential measurements (measurements of electric potential in the nervous system, using EEG, after the subject has received a visual stimulus) can be used as objective measures of sensory and cognitive function. He has been studying the pathophysiology of amblyopia (a developmental disorder characterized by poor vision in an otherwise normal eye) and strabismus (a condition in which the eyes are not properly aligned with each other and stereopsis is lost).  He is a fellow of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology. Dr. Norcia received the 2009 Walt and Lilly Disney Amblyopia Research Award for his research on stereo-blindness.

Brian Schowengerdt is a senior research scientist in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Washington. Schowengerdt received his Bachelor’s degree (summa cum laude) in 1997 from the University of California, Davis, with a triple major in psychology, philosophy, and German. He received his Ph.D. (University of California, Davis) in psychology, with an emphasis in cognition and perception, in 2004. Since 2001, he has been working in the Human Interface Technology Laboratory at the University of Washington, where he conducted a portion of his doctoral research and studied display system design and optical engineering. Schowengerdt is the Chair of the Display System committee of the Society for Information Display, and Program Vice Chair for the SID International Symposia. He is an associate editor of the Journal of the SID and the Journal of the Optical Society of Korea, and a guest editor for Information Display magazine. Schowengerdt has given a number of invited talks on display technologies at academic and display industry conferences, as well as for companies such as Pixar and Sharp Labs of America.

Dave Scott is the Director of Imaging Systems at Intuitive Surgical. He has spent the last 17 years in research and development related to medical imaging and diagnostics. Dave spent several years developing novel medical imaging solutions for the Medical Technology Program and Center for Advanced Imaging and Signal Processing at Lawrence Livermore National Lab. At LLNL he worked on next generation breast cancer screening systems utilizing ultrasound tomography and acoustic scanning systems for prosthetic heart valve assessment. He was part of the core start-up team at Xradia, Inc where he was awarded an R&D100 award for the development of the Nano-XCT, the world's highest resolution x-ray tomography system. He is a co-founder of Varioscale, Inc, a start-up venture developing ultra-high resolution laser etching technology for the semiconductor and life science communities for "lab-on-a-chip" applications. Currently, Dave leads a team of scientists and engineers dedicated to bringing advanced imaging technologies to the daVinci Robotic surgical platform. Dave has been awarded several patents in x-ray and medical endoscopy applications. Dave holds a BS in Aerospace engineering from the University of Kansas and an MS in Aerospace/BioMedical Engineering from the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Raju Shrestha is an engineer graduated in Computer Science and Engineering. He received master degrees in Computer Science and Technology from Hunan University, China, and the European Erasmus Mundus master degree in CIMET (Color in Informatics and Media Technology). He is currently pursuing PhD in Spectral Color Imaging at the Norwegian Color Research Laboratory, Gjovik University College, Norway. His major areas of research interest includes spectral & 3D color imaging, image & video processing, computer vision and machine learning.

Jacques G. Verly received the degree of “Ingénieur Electricien (Electronique)” from the University of Liège (ULg), Belgium, in 1975. Initially sponsored by the Belgian American Educational Foundation (BAEF), he spent 5 years at Stanford University, where he got the MS and PhD in Electrical Engineering. He then spent 20 years at Lincoln Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where his work on laser radars sparked his interest for 3D. Since 2000, he has been a professor in the Dept. of EECS of the ULg. His main area of interest is signal and image exploitation. He is the instigator and a co-organizer of 3D Stereo MEDIA. He has over 250 publications and 2 US patents. He held a Francqui Chair and is a Fellow of the BAEF.

Greg Ward has been involved in 3-D and 2-D computer graphics since 1985, and is the principal author of the widely referenced Radiance lighting simulation and rendering system. His research includes global illumination, reflectance models, high dynamic range image processing and color perception. He has been employed by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, EPFL Switzerland, SGI, Shutterfly, Exponent, and BrightSide Technologies. Greg holds a bachelor's in Physics from UC Berkeley and a master's in Computer Science from SF State University. He is currently a consultant to Dolby Canada and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Andrew Woods is a research engineer at Curtin University's Centre for Marine Science & Technology in Perth, Australia. He has Master's and Bachelor's degrees in Electronic Engineering and has over 20 years of experience working on the design, application, and evaluation of stereoscopic imaging solutions for industrial and entertainment applications. He is also co-chair of the annual Stereoscopic Displays and Applications conference.

Dr. Chang Yuan is a senior researcher at Sharp Labs of America. His interested research areas include image and video processing, computer vision, display algorithms, computer graphics, etc. He joined Sharp Labs in 2007 and has been working on various projects, including viewer interaction technologies for large-size tiled displays and stereoscopic 3D video processing. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Southern California in 2007 and B.Eng. in Computer Science & Technology from Tsinghua University, China in 2001. He has authored more than 10 papers in international conferences and journals. He is a member of IEEE, ACM, and SID.