The IFI has funds for invited speakers. Let's collect names of potential speakers we might ask the IFI to invite! Please add your own suggestions, and comment, vote, etc. by editing the respective bulleted lists.

My initial list is somewhat biased towards geographically-close people, for no particular reason other than that they are very likely to accept an invitation. All of Europe should be ok, perhaps beyond.

Nicu Sebe

• computer vision, interaction, machine learning
• Justus: I would like to invite him soon, but we may do this through the BIT (Bolzano-Innsbruck-Trient) cooperation.

Ales Leonardis

• visual learning
• Justus: He has very interesting things to say, and I hope to start a collaboration at some point.

Horst Bischof

• computer vision, adaptive methods

Christoph Lampert

• computer vision, machine learning, structured-output learning, kernel methods

Tamim Asfour

• humanoid robotics

Markus Vincze

• computer vision for robotics

Peter Auer

• machine learning, computer vision

Jan Peters

• robot learning, reinforcement learning

Antonio: Hi, I think Ales Leonardis, Horst Bischof, Christoph Lampert and Tamin Asfour would be pretty good talks. I may add:

John K. Tsotsos

• Computer vision, computational biology, PlayBot (Robot chair)
• Antonio: He is my PhD supervisor and one of the big names in computer vision.

Steve Zucker

• Computer Vision
• Antonio: He has been a big name in computer vision since the 80s.

Greg Dudek

• Mobile Robotics, navigation, computer vision

Sven Dickinson

• Shape representation