Chairholder | Antitza Dantcheva

Antitza Dantcheva is Directrice de Recherche with the STARS team at the Inria Center of Université Côte d’Azur in Sophia Antipolis, France. She was previously Marie Curie Fellow at Inria and Postdoctoral Fellow at Michigan State University and West Virginia University, USA. She received her Ph.D. in image processing and biometrics from Telecom ParisTech/Eurecom, France in 2011 and obtained her Habilitation from the Université Côte d’Azur, France in 2021. Her research focuses on computer vision, particularly on developing algorithms for interpreting and generating human faces, with applications in security and healthcare. More recently, she has focused on generative models for realistic video generation and the disentanglement of appearance and motion in latent spaces. She is the recipient of several distinctions, including the ANR JCJC grant, the ECCV 2022 New Technology Show Award, the IEEE FG 2019 Best Poster Award, and the BEFA Challenge Award at ECCV 2018. Furthermore, she serves as Associate Editor for multiple journals, has been Workshop Chair at CVPR 2024, Area Chair at ECCV 2024 and ACM Multimedia 2022, a member of IEEE Biometrics Council and ELLIS network, and a reviewer for the French ANR and other research funding agencies.

We will develop algorithmic foundations of joint video generation and visual learning, exploring the associated fundamental interplay. We will explore new classes of video generation algorithms that produce synthetic data with the purpose of surgically enhancing real datasets, and which can synergistically work with video learning algorithms that accept iterative training from on-the-fly generated data.