Liming Chen

Liming Chen is a Full Professor and Director of the Department Mathématiques - Informatique at École Centrale de Lyon, Université de Lyon. As a member of the Laboratoire d'Informatique en Image et Systèmes d'Information (LIRIS, UMR 5205), his research spans computer vision, pattern recognition, and multimedia computing.

His extensive research portfolio includes 3D face analysis, image/video categorization, affect analysis, and biometric systems. He has led significant projects such as ANR 3D Face Analyzer, ANR Videosense, ANR Omnia, and ANR FAR3D, focusing on advanced recognition systems and multimodal analysis.

Professor Chen supervises multiple PhD students and has developed open-source tools for 3D model processing. His work has received recognition through best performance awards at international competitions including SHREC 2011 (3D face recognition) and ImageCLEF 2011 (photo annotation).