Presenter

Amir Semmo is Head of Research & Development at Digital Masterpieces GmbH, and post-doctoral researcher with the Visual Computing & Visual Analytics group of the Hasso Plattner Institute at the University of Potsdam, Germany. He received a doctoral degree in 2016 on the topic of non-photorealistic rendering for 3D virtual environments. His principle research topics include non-photorealistic rendering, image and video abstraction, computational aesthetics and GPU computing. He is particularly interested in expressive rendering on mobile devices under the umbrella of interactive casual creativity and processing of multi-dimensional image data.