Panel 3: Imaging Outlook 2050

Pina Marziliano, CIBM, Centre for Biomedical Imaging

Dr. Ioannis Katsavounidis (Fellow IEEE) is part of the Media Foundation team, leading technical efforts to improve video quality and quality of experience across all video products at Meta. He received a Technical Emmy for the Meta Scalable Video Processor (MSVP) in 2024. He worked 3.5 years at Netflix, contributing to the development and popularization of VMAF, Netflix’s open-source video quality metric and the Dynamic Optimizer video quality optimization framework, earning Netflix two technical Emmys in 2020. He was a professor for 8 years at the University of Thessaly’s ECE Department in Greece. He was a co-founder of Cidana, a startup in Shanghai, China. He was director of software at InterVideo, in the early 2000’s and he worked 4 years in experimental Physics in Italy. He is general co-chair of the Video Quality Experts Group (VQEG). He is co-chair of the software implementation working group (SWIG) in the Alliance for Open Media (AOM). He has over 200 publications, including 60+ patents. His research interests lie in video coding, quality of experience, adaptive streaming, and energy-efficient HW/SW multimedia processing.

Dr. Iole Moccagatta is a Senior Principal Engineer at Intel, specializing in hardware multimedia accelerators, video coding, and multimedia systems. Her career spans more than 25 years in industry and industry-led research, including senior roles at NVIDIA and IMEC. She has contributed extensively to MPEG, ITU-T, JPEG, and AOMedia standards, serving in leadership and editorial roles for video coding conformance, hardware implementation, and open media technologies. She is a co-author of proposals adopted into the AV1 and AV2 video codecs and represents Intel on the AOMedia Steering Committee. Dr. Moccagatta is Chair of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Industry Board and General Co-Chair of MIPR 2026. Her IEEE SPS service has included roles as Member-at-Large, Regional Director-at-Large, SPS Representative to the IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence (CAI) Steering Committee, and Chair of the Industry Outreach and Engagement Subcommittee. She also co-chaired the ICIP 2025 Industry Program, which has been widely recognized for its strong industry engagement and collaboration between academia and industry, and served as Secretary and Chair of the IEEE SPS Santa Clara Valley Chapter, which was co-recipient of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Chapter of the Year Award in 2017. She has authored more than 30 technical publications, contributed two book chapters, and holds more than 15 patents. She received a Diploma in Electronic Engineering from the University of Pavia and a Ph.D. from EPFL.

Ari Partinen is Senior Director of Imaging at Microsoft, leading camera and imaging innovation for Surface devices.

He has more than two decades of experience in imaging technology, spanning camera hardware, computational photography, image quality, and AI-enhanced imaging.

Before Microsoft, Ari held imaging leadership positions at Nokia and Apple, contributing to the development of industry-leading mobile camera technologies and image quality test standards. Avid photographer, cross-country skier and camera tech enthusiastic.

Dr. Sven Fleck is an imaging scientist and consultant working through SmartSurv on auto-motive camera systems, image quality, and perception-related sensor performance. He is co-founder of obsurver and co-founder and Vice Chair of the IEEE P2020 Working Group on automotive image-quality KPIs. He earned his M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Tübingen. He has worked with automotive OEMs and suppliers on camera system development and imaging performance.