Special Title: From AI to Generative AI: Cross-Domain Innovative Applications and Smart Healthcare
Abstract: This keynote addresses the paradigm shift from AI to Generative AI, emphasizing its cross-domain innovative applications and transformative potential in smart healthcare. It explores the evolution of AI technologies, challenges such as hallucination, bias, and high resource demands, and emerging solutions including Retrieval-Augmented Generation, mixture-of-experts, and multi-token prediction. Case studies demonstrate how generative AI enhances industrial efficiency, automates enterprise processes, and supports medical applications such as radiology report generation and disease diagnosis. By integrating spatial intelligence, robotics, and domain-specific innovations, this talk highlights pathways for responsible, sustainable, and impactful deployment of Generative AI across sectors.

Biodata: Prof. Guo received the Ph.D. degree from the Institute of Communication Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, in 2004. He is currently a full Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering, and Director of Advanced Intelligent Image and Vision Technology Research Center. He has been seconded as Chief Technology Officer to Service Systems Technology Center and Information and Communications Research Laboratories of Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) starting from 2022 and 2023, respectively. He was Vice Dean of the College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and Director of the Innovative Business Incubation Center, Office of Research and Development. His research interests include multimedia signal processing, biometrics, computer vision, and digital halftoning.   Dr. Guo has received many awards, including Best Paper Awards (IEEE ICCE-TW 2020, IS3C 2020, NSSSE 2020, ICSSE 2011 and 2020, ICS 2014, and CVGIP 2005, 2006, 2013, 2016, and 2019), Outstanding Contribution Award from Taiwan Consumer Electronics Society in 2021, Outstanding Electrical Engineering Professor Award from Chinese Institute of Electrical Engineering, Taiwan in 2016, Outstanding Research Contribution Award from Institute of System Engineering in 2017, Excellence Research Awards from his university for five times (2008, 2011, 2014, 2017, 2020, and 2022, this award is evaluated and issued every three years), Dr. Guo has been General Chair of many international conferences, e.g., IEEE ICCE 2025, APSIPA 2023, IEEE Life Science Workshop 2020, ISPACS 2019, IEEE ICCE-Berlin 2019, IWAIT 2018, and IEEE ICCE-TW 2015. He has been Technical Program Chair of many international conferences as well, e.g., IEEE ICIP 2023, IWAIT 2022, IEEE ICCE-TW 2014, IEEE ISCE 2013, and ISPACS 2012. He is/was Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technologies, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Information Sciences, Signal Processing, and Journal of Information Science and Engineering. He is a Fellow of IEEE，AAIA, and IET.

Speech Title: Unlocking Peer-to-Peer Potential through Smart Extensions of BitTorrent
Abstract: Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networking is a smart technology that enables swift information sharing among a large number of nodes (user hosts) by dynamically switching the roles of client and server over time and by exchanging data in parallel across space. This approach offers attractive features such as simplicity in system construction, fault tolerance, and enhanced security. In this keynote, we provide an overview of P2P technologies with a particular focus on BitTorrent. Beyond explaining its fundamental operation, we highlight several smart application cases, including efficient distribution of content within limited area over wireless LANs, multimedia communication applications, and adaptation to optical networks. Through these examples, we emphasize that P2P networking is a highly flexible and promising technology with strong potential for further development.

Biodata: Hideki Tode received the B.E., M.E., and Ph.D. degrees in communications engineering from Osaka University in 1988, 1990, and 1997, respectively. From 1991 to 2008, he was an Assistant Professor and an Associate Professor with Osaka University. He has been a Professor with the Department of Computer Science and Intelligent Systems, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka Prefecture University since 2008, which is renewed as Graduate School of Informatics, Osaka Metropolitan University from 2022.  His current research interests include architectures and controls for optical networks, wireless LAN and sensor networks, network security, and future Internet. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electronics Information and Communication Engineers, Japan.