About the workshop

Program chairs

Prof. Sergei Popov, KTH, Sweden

Prof. Bahram Javidi, University of Connecticut, USA

Organizing committee

Prof. Simon Thibault, Université Laval, Quebec, Canada

Dr. Elena Vasileva, KTH, Sweden

Dr. Qin Wang, RISE Research Institute of Sweden, Sweden

Dr. Oskars Ozolins, KTH, RISE Research Institute of Sweden, Sweden

Dr. Anne-Sophie Poulin-Girard, Université Laval, Quebec, Canada

The workshop will address the latest advances in information optics and photonics, imaging sciences and engineering, optics/photonics communication, display technologies and 3D displays, 3D image sensing, image-based information security, image recognition, biophotonics, and novel image sensors. It will be a forum for scientific interaction and collaboration between well-known scientists in the field and educational outreach to students.

The workshop has been running for more than 20 years, starting with the Euro-American Workshop on Optical Pattern Recognition in La Rochelle, 1994. It is a small workshop (typically limited by 50 talks, single session), with invited participants broadly from the area of information optics and photonics. Always there has been an emphasis on allowing time for interaction, collaboration, and networking in a friendly atmosphere. Participants stay together for lunch and social outings.

Well-known researchers in the fields of optical information processing and advanced imaging techniques regularly attend the conference from Europe, USA, Japan, and Korea, and find it a refreshing, relaxed, and very profitable meeting. Previous workshop locations include Colmar (1999), Valencia (2001), Toledo (2006), Reykjavik (2007), Annecy (2008), Paris (2009), Helsinki (2010), Benicasim (2011), Quebec (2012) and Teneriffa (2013), Neuchatel (2014), Kyoto (2015), Barcelona (2016), Interlaken (2017), Quebec (2018).

The workshop will consist of keynotes and invited talks (oral presentations are by invitation only). Regular submissions will be accepted as poster presentations on topics that include, but are not strictly limited to, those listed below.

The program will include a "poster pop" session during which each poster presenter will have the opportunity to introduce his/her poster for 5 minutes to the conference attendees. Each presenter (keynote, invited, poster) is invited to submit a short manuscript that will be published online.

We are looking forward to welcoming you to Stockholm in July!

Scientific topics

• 3D image sensing, processing, and display: digital holography, integral imaging
• Biophotonics and biomedical imaging
• Image-based security and optical security systems
• Polarimetric and multi spectral imaging
• Materials and devices for information optics
• Optical communication
• Nano-technologies for imaging systems
• Quantum optics for communication and imaging
• Integrated sensing and imaging, compressive sensing
• Diffractive optics
• Inverse problems in optics
• Spatial light modulators and applications in information optics
• New radiation sources for information optics (UV - THz)