Current Patrons & Exhibitors

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Platinum Patron


Google Chrome / YouTube


Google Chrome and YouTube bring the world to your fingertips. Powered by Chrome’s fast, secure, and personalized browsing experience and YouTube’s mission to give everyone a voice, we empower you to discover, create, share stories, and build vibrant communities worldwide.


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Meta


Meta builds technologies that help billions of people connect, find communities, and grow businesses through Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, and Reality Labs. AI is central to that mission, with sustained investment in fundamental research, foundation models, and the infrastructure behind them. Meta’s Media Foundation organization powers video, audio, and image across the Family of Apps — from creation and ingestion through encoding, storage, delivery, and playback at global scale. Our work spans image and video compression, quality metrics and evaluation, media creation and understanding, and personalized delivery, all in service of delivering the best media experience to people around the world.


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Nokia


Nokia is a global leader in connectivity for the AI era. Every day, we’re powering our customers with advanced connectivity across fixed, mobile, and transport networks, delivering the performance and security they need to meet the demands of an AI-enabled world.

Building on decades of contributions to video technology, from successive generations of video codecs to more recent leadership in the AI era of multimedia, our research spans video coding, AI-enhanced media processing, immersive technologies and multimedia standardization. Through this work, Nokia helps drive innovations that enable richer digital experiences and support the next generation of media experiences.


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Gold Patron


Huawei


Founded in 1987, Huawei is a leading global provider of information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure, green energy solutions and smart devices. We have approximately 213,000 employees and we operate in more than 170 countries and regions, serving more than 3 billion people around world. We are committed to bringing digital to every person, home and organization for a fully connected, intelligent world. Huawei is the leader in smartphone camera technologies and image quality with our Pura 80 Ultra as the top ranked phone by DxO Mark.


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Skydio


Skydio is the leading US drone company and the world leader in autonomous flight, the key technology for the future of drones and aerial mobility. The Skydio team combines deep expertise in artificial intelligence, best-in-class hardware and software product development, operational excellence, and customer obsession to empower a broader, more diverse audience of drone users. From utility inspectors to first responders, soldiers in battlefield scenarios and beyond.


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Silver Patron


ams OSRAM AG


A global leader in Digital Photonics. At ams OSRAM, we pioneer advanced light and sensor solutions delivering best‑in‑class optical components and modules for next‑generation mobile devices, smart glasses, and wearables. Through innovation in sensing and lighting technologies, we enable smarter displays, sharper cameras, and seamless user interaction.


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Tencent Media Lab


Tencent Media Lab focuses on the research and development of cutting-edge technologies in the field of multimedia and related areas. Industry-leading multimedia data compression engine, immersive media solutions and intelligent media toolkit have been serving massive global users through Tencent Cloud, Tencent Video, Tencent Games and other business platforms, making huge business as well as social impacts. On behalf of Tencent, Tencent Media Lab has been actively participating in the development of various international standards. Since 2018, hundreds of technical contributions have been adopted into various international standards. Tencent Media Lab members have received many awards such as the Engineering Emmy Award, Lumiere Technology Award, and the ISO/IEC Excellence Award.


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Bronze Patron


MERL


Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs (MERL) conducts both fundamental and applied research in artificial intelligence, signal processing, control, optimization and multi-physics modeling.

We are an open lab, publishing our results, collaborating with the world-wide research community, and measuring our performance by the impact we have on Mitsubishi Electric and the world. MERL researchers have the freedom to explore their scientific passions more fully. With an emphasis on the future, both the scientists and the management team take a long-term view of the research.


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Brand Partner


Visy


Visy provides process automation ecosystems to manage the flow of traffic, cargo and personnel in ports, terminals, and logistics centers. Every asset that goes in or out of a facility, whether by road, rail, or quay, can be managed by Visy technology.

Visy’s mission is to help its customers save time and money on each transaction, therefore improving operational KPIs. With a history spanning three decades, Visy is a pioneer in Optical Character Recognition (OCR), deep learning, and AI-based vision technology for camera systems. Visy ecosystems manage and automate more than 6,000,000 events per day in over 30 countries to improve the quality of the supply chain.

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Education Patron


Tampere University


Tampere University is a multidisciplinary research university located in Tampere, Finland. Established in 2019 through the merger of the former University of Tampere and Tampere University of Technology, the university combines long-standing academic traditions in engineering, information technology, health sciences, and social sciences within a single foundation-based institution.


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Conference Patron


Fraunhofer HHI


Fraunhofer Heinrich-Hertz-Institut (HHI) is a world leader in the development of mobile and optical communication networks and systems as well as processing and coding of video signals.


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Frontiers in Imaging


Frontiers in Imaging is a multidisciplinary gold open access journal advancing research in imaging science and technology. Led by Field Chief Editor Alessandro Piva (University of Florence), it publishes contributions across image acquisition, processing and coding, image security, retrieval and analysis, and imaging applications — bridging scientific understanding with practical use in research, clinical, and industrial settings. Aligned with SDG 9, the journal is committed to open, unrestricted access to scientific knowledge.


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Aftershoot


Aftershoot is an AI-powered software transforming the photography industry by streamlining everything from culling, editing, and retouching to final gallery delivery. Today, over 250,000 photographers worldwide trust our technology to reclaim their time and elevate their creative work. As we continue to innovate and expand, we’re looking for talented minds to help us build the future of creator tools. If you’re ready to tackle impactful challenges at a global scale and be part of the bigger picture, we’d love to connect with you.


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2027 IEEE Signal Processing Summit


The IEEE Signal Processing Summit offers prospective attendees an unparalleled, end-to-end journey through the entire lifecycle of intelligent systems by uniquely uniting ICIP (Image Processing), ASLI (Audio, Speech, and Language Intelligence), and CAI (Conference on Artificial Intelligence). This premier cross-disciplinary event bridges foundational signal processing with cutting-edge industrial AI, taking you from raw sensory ingestion—such as advanced visual analysis, spatial audio, and natural language understanding—straight through to scalable, trustworthy enterprise deployments and autonomous agentic workflows. Whether you are a researcher, industry executive, or engineer, attending this summit provides a rare opportunity to collaborate across domains, witness real-world AI applications in critical sectors like healthcare and aerospace, and gain a holistic blueprint for the next generation of multimodal technology.


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CIVIT


The Centre for Immersive Visual Technologies (CIVIT) is a Tampere University research infrastructure unit where creative applications of emerging visual technologies are explored every day.

CIVIT provides facilities for versatile collaboration with companies, researchers, and students. Our expertise encompasses capture of 3D audio-visual information, visualization of 3D content on displays, immersive user experience, and imaging sensor characterization.

In 2025, CIVIT opened a joint lab with the image quality world-leader DXOMARK. We offer comprehensive image and video quality assessment services in areas such as color fidelity, visual noise, texture preservation, distortion, and timing.


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Sponsor / Promotional Partner


Ericsson


Ericsson’s high-performing networks provide connectivity for billions of people every day. For nearly 150 years, we’ve been pioneers in creating technology for communication. We offer mobile communication and connectivity solutions for service providers and enterprises. Together with our customers and partners, we make the digital world of tomorrow a reality.


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