Michael's research interests in computer vision include optical flow estimation, 3D shape models, human shape and motion analysis, robust statistical methods, and probabilistic models of the visual world. In computational neuroscience his work focuses on probabilistic models of the neural code and applications of neural decoding in neural prosthetics.

Michael Black received his B.Sc. from the University of British Columbia (1985), his M.S. from Stanford (1989), and his Ph.D. from Yale University (1992). After post-doctoral research at the University of Toronto, he worked at Xerox PARC as a member of research staff and area manager. From 2000 to 2010 he was on the faculty of Brown University in the Department of Computer Science (Assoc. Prof. 2000-2004, Prof. 2004-2010). He is an Honorarprofessor at the University of Tübingen and one of the founding directors at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Tübingen, Germany, where he leads the Perceiving Systems department and serves as Managing Director. He was also a Distinguished Amazon Scholar (VP, 2017-2021). He is a recipient of the PAMI Distinguished Researcher Award and all three major test-of-time awards in Computer Vision, including the 2022 and 2010 Koenderink Prize, the 2013 Helmholtz Prize, and the 2020 Longuet-Higgins Prize. He is a member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. In 2013 he co-founded Body Labs Inc., which was acquired by Amazon in 2017. Black is a co-founder and Chief Scientist of Meshcapade GmbH.

Trevor is on the faculty of the CS Division at UC Berkeley. His group develops algorithms to enable visual recognition across a variety of platforms and applications. His interests include computer vision, machine learning, computer graphics, and perception-based human computer interfaces. Prof. Darrell was on the faculty of the MIT EECS department from 1999-2008, where he directed the Vision Interface Group. He was a member of the research staff at Interval Research Corporation from 1996-1999, and received the S.M. and Ph.D. degrees from MIT in 1992 and 1996, respectively. He obtained the B.S.E. degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1988, having started his career in computer vision as an undergraduate researcher in Ruzena Bajcsy’s GRASP lab.

Jamie is a 1998 graduate of Colorado State University, with surgical residency training at Cornell and a PhD from UC Davis. She has served as an equine surgeon and sports medicine specialist in academic teaching hospitals as well as founding her own ambulatory practice. Her research interests include platelet-rich plasma, volatile organic compound analysis for disease detection, and identification of signature movement patterns in gait analysis. Jamie is a fan of all equine sports, from racing to eventing to cutting. She is currently a "freelance" vet, doing relief work, editing for the Merck Veterinary Manual, and working for Sleip as their North American Veterinary Representative. 

Heather is an experienced project and programme manager within the life science sector. For the past 15 years, she has been working with strategic development of innovations within SMEs. She is an expert in strategic project and partnership development, science writing, innovation funding and international project collaboration.

Pia is Professor of Large Animal Surgery at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences at Uppsala. She performs experimental and clinical research in the large animal clinic, including retrospective studies on clinical efficacy, with an overall aim of development effective surgical methods documented by objective clinical methods.