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Stefan Schulte, PhD
Traficon International NV, Belgium

Subject: "The past and the future in traffic management using vision techniques"

Stefan Schulte was born in Dortmund, Germany, in 1979. After secondary school he studied Computer Science at the University of Ghent. In 2003 he obtained a M.Sc. degree. After his studies, he joined the Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Ghent University, where he obtained his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science (2007) as a member of the Fuzziness and Uncertainty Modelling Research Unit under the promotership of Prof. E. E. Kerre. The main research focus was the usage of fuzzy techniques in image processing and fuzzy filters for image noise removal. His thesis was entitled: "Fuzzy and Nonlinear Restoration and Analysis Techniques for Digital Images". Since 2007 he worked in Traficon N.V. where he joined the research and developing department. Traficon N.V. is the market leader in video image processing for traffic analysis.

Vit Libal, PhD
Honeywell Prague Laboratory, Czech Republic

Subject: "Technologies for safety and security of transportation nodes"


Vit Libal is a Senior Research Engineer with a focus on technology research and business development in areas of pattern recognition, video analytics and security technology. Vit received his MSc degree in Microelectronics in 1993 and PhD in Electrical Engineering and Informatics in 2001, both from Czech Technical University in Prague. Areas of his active research include, among others, multimodal signal processing and information fusion, image recognition and computer vision, human activity modeling and recognition, anomaly detection. Vit is author or co-author of 20+ technical papers. He is actively involved in the preparation of research projects under EU and CZ research programs as well as in communication with business representatives and technology users.