Plenary speaker 1: Prof. Enrico Magli, Politecnico of Torino

Title: Deep learning: a great fit for onboard data processing?

Description: This talk will review deep learning from the basics up to some recent developments, with an eye on the applicability to onboard data analysis. It will cover convolutional networks, recurrent networks and generative adversarial networks, and review some recent results in the fields of satellite data and image analysis, and particularly satellite image segmentation and prediction of geomagnetic events for space weather applications. Finally, the talk will discuss the opportunities and challenges of deploying deep neural networks for onboard payload data processing.

Bio: Enrico Magli is a Full Professor at Politecnico di Torino, where he leads a research group active in the field of image and video coding and analysis, compressed sensing and security. He is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, and the EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing, and a former Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and has been an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer for 2015-2016. He is a co-recipient of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society 2011 Transactions Prize Paper Award. He has been general chair of IEEE ICME 2015 and IEEE MMSP 2013, and TPC chair / area chair for several conferences. He has published over 250 scientific papers and filed 8 patents. He is a co-founder and President of the ToothPic start-up.



 
Plenary speaker 2: Giovanni Sylos Labini, CEO of Planetek Italia

Title: Weapons of (EO) Value Chain Mass Disruption - How OBDH will change Earth Observation Value Chain

Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Planetek Italia. 

Other activities: Vice Chairman of EARSC (European Association of Remote Sensing Companies) and of the Apulian Aerospace District (DTA), BoD member of SME4SPACE (the European Aerospace SMEs Association), Past President of AIPAS (the Italian Aerospace SMEs Association), Professor at Urban & Regional Plannning course, Venice University Institute of Architecture (IUAV). 

Education: Degree in Physics. He specialized in “Space Based Precise Positioning Systems”, and realized a traineeship at Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Harvard Md. USA. He has produced several publications in the field of signals and image analysis and that of space systems. 

Career: in 1984 has been recruited at the Earth Observation Division of the Piano Spaziale Nazionale of the Italian National Research Council (after 1989 ASI, the Italian Space Agency) in charge of a major space geodesy project; he cooperated with NASA for the establishment of the long term NASA plan in Geodesy and Geophysics and for the launch of LAGEOS II satellite; from 1988 to 1995 has been recruited at the Italian Space Agency; from 1987 to 1995 is an Italian member at the European Space Agency (ESA) for cooperation in Earth Observation with major space Agencies; was director of the Center of Space Geodesy of the Italian Space Agency (ASI) the ASI facility for remote sensing, space geodesy and space robotics until 31/12/1995; from 1997 he is Professor at IUAV University of Venice and cooperates with Nettuno Institute for the University Everywhere.