Professional activities

Conference Organization

• IEEE 25th International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Bejing, China (September 2017). Area Chair.
• IEEE 24th International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Phoenix, AZ (September 2016). Area Chair.
• IEEE 29th Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Las Vegas, NV, USA (June 2016). Area Chair.
• The 4th International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo 2012), Lausanne, Switzerland (December 2012). Sponsoring/Exhibit Chair.
• IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Colorado Springs, CO, USA (June 2011). Area Chair.
• IS&T/SPIE Annual Symposium on Electronic Imaging (EI), San Francisco, CA, USA (January 2011). Symposium Chair.
• IS&T/SPIE Annual Symposium on Electronic Imaging (EI), San Jose, CA, USA (January 2010). Symposium Co-Chair.
• IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Cairo, Egypt (November 2009). Area Co-Chair: Color and Multi-spectral Imaging
• IS&T/SPIE Annual Symposium on Electronic Imaging: Digital Photography V (DP), San Jose, CA, USA (January 2009). Technical Program Co-Chair.
• IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), San Diego, CA, USA (October 2008). Area Co-Chair: Color and Multi-spectral Imaging
• IS&T Third European Conference on Color in Graphics, Image, and Vision (CGIV 2006), Leeds, UK (April 2006). Technical Program Co-Chair.
• IS&T Second European Conference on Color in Graphics, Image, and Vision (CGIV 2004), Aachen, Germany (April 2004). Tutorial Co-Chair.
• IS&T/SPIE Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP 2003), Lugano, Switzerland (July 2003). Special Session Co-Chair.
• IS&T First European Conference on Color in Graphics, Image, and Vision (CGIV 2002), Poitiers, France (April 2002). Tutorial Co-Chair.
• IS&T/SID 6th Color Imaging Conference (CIC), Scottsdale, AZ, USA (November 1998). IS&T General Chair.
• IS&T/SID 5th Color Imaging Conference, Scottsdale (CIC), AZ, USA (November 1997). IS&T Technical Program Chair.

Technical Program Committee Member and/or Reviewer

• International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2011-present.
• ACM SIGGRAPH, 2011-present.
• IEEE Color and Photometry in Computer Vision Workshop (CPCV), 2011-present.
• International Conference on Computational Photography (ICCP), 2011-present.
• International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (VISIGRAPP), 2011-present.
• IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2010-present.
• IEEE European Workshop on Visual Information Processing (EUVIP), 2010-present.
• European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2010-present.
• IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2008-present.
• IS&T Annual Symposium on Electronic Imaging: Human Vision and Electronic Imaging (HVEI), 2007-present.
• IS&T Annual Symposium on Electronic Imaging: Digital Photography (DP), 2004-present.
• IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2003-present.
• IS&T Color and Imaging Conference (CIC), 1996-present.
• IS&T European Conference on Color in Graphics, Image, and Vision (CGIV), 2002-2014.
• IS&T Archiving Conference, 2004-2008.
• IS&T Annual Symposium on Electronic Imaging: Internet Imaging, 2000-2003.

Journal Reviews

• Associate editor: IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging, 2014 – 2016.
• Associate editor: IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 2007 – 2011.
• Guest editor: Journal of Electronic Imaging, Special Issue: Digital Photography, Vol. 19 (2), June 2010.
• Guest editor: Pattern Recognition Letters, Special Issue: Colour Image Processing and Analysis, Vol. 24 (11), July 2003.
• Reviewer: IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Journal of the Optical Society of America A, Journal of Vision, Journal of Electronic Imaging, Journal of Imaging Science and Technology, Color Research and Applications, IEE Proceedings – Vision, Image and Signal Processing, IEE Electronic Letters, Journal of Optical Engineering, The Imaging Science Journal, Signal Processing Journal, EURASIP Applied Signal Processing, etc.

Consulting (image processing and image archiving)

• Qualcomm, Toronto, Canada (2012-2014)
• Protection of Cultural Property, Federal Office for Civil Protection, Bern, Switzerland (2008-2012)
• Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA (2008)
• Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT, USA (2007)
• Cooper-Hewitt, Smithonian National Design Museum, New York, NY, USA (2004)
• Aga Khan Trust for Culture, Geneva, Switzerland (2003)
• Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY, USA (2001 to 2002)
• Corbis Corporation, Seattle, WA, USA (1999 to 2002)
• Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, NY, USA (1999 to 2001)
• Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, USA (1992 to 1995)
• Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY, USA (1992)

Professional Organizations

• IS&T – The Society for Imaging Science and Technology (1993)
  Conference Vice-President and Member of the Board (July 2011 to July 2013).
  Vice-President and Member of the Board (July 1999 to July 2003).
  Technical Leadership Council member for digital photography (May 1995 to May 1998).
  Senior Member since 2008, Fellow since 2014.
• IEEE – Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (2003, Senior Member since 2009, Fellow since 2017).
• ACM – Association for Computing Machinery (2004, Senior Member since 2013)
  ACM Eugene L. Lawler Award for Humanitarian Contributions within Computer Science and Informatics Committee member (2004-2014).
• ISCC – Inter-Society Color Council (1998)
• OSA – Optical Society of America (1999)

Standards Organizations

• International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
  Swiss Representative to ISO/TC42/WG18 (Electronic Still Photography) and ISO/TC42/JWG20 (Color Characterization of Digital Cameras) (2000-2017)

• Commission International de l’Eclairage (CIE)
  Director – Division 8: Imaging Technology (July 2007 to July 2011)
• International Color Consortium (ICC)
  Technical Secretary (1999 to 2000)
  Member of the Steering Committee (1997, 1998)