Ming Ronnier Luo is a Chair Professor at the College of Optical Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University (China). He is also a Visiting Professor of Colour Science and Imaging at University of Leeds (UK). He has published over 650 peer reviewed papers (Inc. 220 Journal and 430 conference papers). He is a Fellow of the Society for Imaging Science and Technology (IS&T), and the Society of Dyers and Colourists (SDC). He was an Ex-Vice-President and Ex-Director of Division 1 (Colour and Vision) of International Commission on Illumination (CIE). He has been an active member of CIE as Technical Chair and members in various Technical Committees. He has received numerous awards, including the Judd Award in 2017 from AIC, and of the Newton Award in 2020 from the Colour Group of Great Britain for his contribution in colour science.
Philipp Urban received his MS in mathematics from the University of Hamburg, Germany (1999), and PhD from Hamburg University of Technology, Germany (2005). From 2006 to 2008, he was a visiting scientist at Munsell Color Science Laboratory, Center for Imaging Science, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA, after which he headed the Color Research Group at the Institute of Printing Science and Technology, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany. Since 2013, Urban has been the head of the Competence Center 3D Printing Technology at the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research IGD in Darmstadt and works with his team on the graphical 3D printer driver ?Cuttlefish?. He is an adjunct professor in the Norwegian Colour and Visual Computing Laboratory, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Norway. His research interests include 3D printing, spectral imaging, image quality, and material appearance reproduction.
PhD Scholar, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
Tanzima Habib is a PhD student at NTNU, currently working on appearance reproduction workflow for spectral and 2.5D printing.She has a diverse background in software engineering and geoinformatics, and her interest lies primarily in the domain of colour management and image processing.
James Vogh received his M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Tulsa in 1990 and a Ph.D. in Cognitive and Neural Systems from Boston University in 1998. During his Ph.D. he developed a neural network architecture for recognizing 3D objects. At Monaco Systems he developed ICC based calibration technologies, and as a principle color scientist at X-Rite he continues to develop calibration technology.
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