Björn Þór Jónsson IT University of Copenhagen [ 
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Björn Þór Jónsson is an Associate Professor at the IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark and Reykjavík University, Iceland. Björn works in the broad field of Multimedia Analytics, applying multi-dimensional analysis concepts and techniques to large-scale multimedia collections. Björn has a special interest in promoting demonstrations, live events, and community events (demonstrations chair for SIGMOD 2009, MMM 2015, MMM 2016, ACM Multimedia 2019; special session chair at MMM 2016 and MMM 2018-2020). Björn served as general co-chair for MMM 2017, and CBMI 2019, and will also co-organise ACM ICMR 2020 and SISAP 2020.
Stevan Rudinac University of Amsterdam [ | ]
Stevan Rudinac is an Associate Professor at the University of Amsterdam. In his research he aims at enabling multimedia analytics based on the relevance criteria defined at a higher semantic level, by jointly analyzing visual content and the heterogeneous information associated with it, ranging from text and automatically generated metadata to information about users and their social network. His current research focus is on multimedia analytics applications in urban computing, business and security.
Xirong Li Renmin University of China [ | ]
Xirong Li is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the Renmin University of China. His research focuses on AI and Media Computing including image / video retrieval, cross-modal representation learning and medical image analysis. He was the recipient of the ACM SIGMM Best Ph.D. Thesis Award 2013, the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MULTIMEDIA Prize Paper Award 2012, CIVR 2010 Best Paper Award, and ACM MM 2016 Grand Challenge Award. He served as area chair for ACM MM 2020 / 2019 / 2018 and ICPR 2020 / 2016, and currently an associate editor of the Multimedia Systems journal.
Cathal Gurrin Dublin City University [ | ]
Cathal Gurrin is an Associate Professor at the School of Computing, Dublin City University, Ireland, and a Principal co-investigator at the Insight Centre for Data Analytics. His research interests are personal analytics and lifelogging. He has served as general (co-)chair of ECIR 2011, MMM 2014/2017, MB 2016, CBMI 2019 and ACM ICMR 2020 and will be the general chair of MMM 2022. He is the founder of the NTCIR-Lifelog collaborative benchmarking exercise and the Lifelog Search Challenge (LSC) and has released a number of popular lifelog datasets in recent years.
Laurent Amsaleg CNRS–IRISA [ | ]
Laurent Amsaleg holds a full-time research position at CNRS in France, within the IRISA lab in Rennes. He worked on relational and object-oriented databases, garbage collection, micro-kernels and single-level stores, as well as designing flexible database query execution strategies. His current research focuses on very large scale high-dimensional indexing as well as on the security and privacy dimensions of multimedia content.