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Co-Chairs and Committee CG International 2002 Co-Chairs Professor Rae A. Earnshaw
Prof Earnshaw has authored and edited 31 books on computer graphics,
visualization, multimedia, design, and virtual reality, and
published 130 papers in these areas. He is a member of the
Editorial Boards of The Visual Computer, IEEE Computer Graphics
and Applications, the Journal of Visualization and Computer
Animation, Managing Editor of Virtual Reality: Research,
Development and Applications, Vice-President of the Computer
Graphics Society, and Chair of the British Computer Society
Computer Graphics and Displays Group. Professor John A. Vince
Professor Hong Yan
Program Committee Yannis Aloimonos University of Maryland, USA |
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Rae Earnshaw is Dean of the School of Informatics and Professor
of Electronic Imaging and Media Communications at the University
of Bradford, UK. He has been a Visiting Professor at Illinois
Institute of Technology, Chicago, USA, Northwestern Polytechnical
University, China, George Washington University, Washington DC,
USA, and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. He was a
Director of the NATO Advanced Study Institutes on computer
graphics and CAD in the UK in 1985 and in Italy in 1987. He
is a member of ACM, IEEE, CGS, Eurographics, and a Fellow of
the British Computer Society. He is an Expert Adviser to the
European Commission, a Reviewer for Framework 6 proposals, and
an Evaluator research projects.
Prof. John Vince began working in computer graphics at Middlesex
Polytechnic in 1968. His research activities centred on computer
animation software and resulted in the PICASO and PRISM animation
systems. Whilst at Middlesex, he designed the UK's first MSc course
in Computer Graphics, and developed a popular programme of short
courses in computer animation for television designers. In 1986
he joined Rediffusion Simulation as a Research Consultant and worked
on the development of real-time computer systems for commercial
flight simulators. In 1992 he was appointed Chief Scientist of
Thomson Training Simulation. In 1995 he was appointed Professor
of Digital Media at the National Centre for Computer Animation
at Bournemouth University, and in 1999 he was made Head of
Academic Group for Computer Animation. He has written and edited
over 25 books on computer graphics, computer animation and virtual
reality. He is a co-Editor-in-Chief of the VR Journal.
Hon Yan is a Professor in the School of Electrical and
Information Engineering, University of Sydney, Australia and
also a Professor of Computer Engineering in the Electronic
Engineering Department at the City University of Hong Kong.
His research interests include computer animation, signal and
image processing, pattern recognition, and neural and fuzzy
algorithms. He received a BE from Nanking Institute of Posts
and telecommunications in 1982, an MSE from the University of
Michigan in 1984, and a PhD from Yale University in 1989, all
in electrical engineering. He is a Fellow of of the International
Association for Pattern Recognition; a Fellow of the Institution
of Engineers, Australia; a senior member of the IEEE; and a
member of the International Society for Optical Engineers, the
International Neural Network Society, and the International
Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
