Huawei Industry Workshop: Challenges in Mobile Imaging

Background

Time: Monday, 14 September 2026, 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM

As a global provider of information and communications technology infrastructure and smart devices, Huawei is committed to bringing digital to every person, home, and organization. As a leader in smartphone camera technologies and image quality, our focus remains centered on deep technological research, open academic collaboration, and customer-centric innovation.

Join Huawei at ICIP 2026 for an interactive industry session dedicated to exploring the future of mobile image and video processing.

What to Expect:

  • Global Ecosystem & Collaboration: A brief look into Huawei’s R&D initiatives and commitment to open innovation.
  • Core Technical Challenges: A deep dive into key product, algorithm, and hardware bottlenecks with current mobile imaging and video architectures.
  • Interactive Dialogue: An open forum bridging academic breakthroughs with commercial scale and real-world deployment.

Why Attend:

We invite researchers, academics, and engineers to join the conversation, share insights, and discuss how your innovations can solve real-world industry challenges. Bring your ideas, engage with our engineering leadership, and help shape the next decade of mobile imaging.


Speakers

Sun Tao is the Director of the Huawei Tampere Research Center in Finland. Joining Huawei in 2016, he served as an algorithm and systems engineer in China, where he played a key role in developing Huawei’s flagship camera technology across the P10 to Pura80 series. In August 2025, he relocated to Tampere to lead the local team in creating next-generation camera innovations.


Dr. Elena Alshina is Chief Video Scientist, Audiovisual Technology Lab Director, Media Codec technology Lab Director in Huawei Technologies. She got Master degree in Physics from Moscow State University in 1995 and PhD in Computer Science and Mathematical Modelling from Russian Academy of Science in 1998. Her field of interest includes but not limited to Mathematical modelling; Video and Image compression and processing, neural network-based algorithms development.

Though her carrier Elena was working both in academia and industry: Senior Researcher Russian Academy of Science (Institute for Mathematical Modelling) 1998~2006, Associate Professor National Research University of Electronic Technology, Principal Engineer Samsung Electronics 2006 (Moscow), 2007~2018 (Suwon/Seoul), Chief Video Scientist Huawei Technologies (Munich) 2018-present. Elena is an active participant of video codec standardization (HEVC/H.265, VVC/H.266 projects).

Along with Prof. João Ascenso she is JPEG AI standardization project chair and editor.