Andreas Dengel is Executive Director of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) in Kaiserslautern and head of the research area Smart Data &Knowledge Services at DFKI. He is also founder and director of the Deep Learning Competence Center at DFKI. Since 1993 he has been a professor at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Kaiserslautern. Since 2009 he also holds aprofessorship in the Department of Computer Science and Intelligent Systems at theGraduate School of Engineering at Osaka Prefecture University.

Cheng-Lin Liu is a Professor at the National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition (NLPR), Institute of Automation of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, and is now the director of the laboratory. He the Ph.D. degree in pattern recognition and intelligent control from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1995. During 1996 to 2004, he was a postdoctoral fellow and later a researcher in Korea and Japan.His research interests include pattern recognition, image processing, neural networks, machine learning, and especially the applications to character recognition and document analysis. He won the IAPR/ICDAR Young Investigator Award of 2005. He is an associate editor-in-chief of Pattern Recognition Journal and an associate editor of several journals. He is a Fellow of the CAAI, the IAPR and the IEEE.

David Doermann is currently a Professor with the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo and the Inaugural Director of the University at Buffalo Artificial Intelligence Institute. He is a fellow of the IAPR. He is a Founding Co-Editor of the International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition, was the General Chair or Co-Chair of over a half dozen international conferences and workshops, and was the General Chair of the International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition in 2013.

Errui Ding is the director of Computer Vision Technology Department (VIS) of Baidu Inc. In recent years, Dr. Errui Ding has published tens of papers on top-tier conferences and was awarded Best Paper Runner-up by ICDAR 2019. He also corganized two competition tracks, i.e., ArT and CSVT, in ICDAR 2019 and the 2nd Workshop on Learning from Imperfect Data in CVPR 2020. As a member, he serves in special committee of China Society of Image and Graphics.

Hua Wu is the chief scientist of Baidu NLP and the chair of Baidu technicalcommittee. Her primary research areas are machine translation and dialogue systems, and she has also worked on question answering, knowledge graph, and distributed representation. She served as program co-chair of ACL 2014, chaired international conferences such as ACL and IJCAI, and the program co-chair of AACL 2020.

Jingtuo Liu is the chief architect of Computer Vision Technology Department (VIS) of Baidu Inc. His research interest includes face detection, landmark localization, anti-spoof, recognition, OCR, model compression and NAS.He has several publications in top computer vision conferences and won the winner prizes of famous challenges such as Wider Challenge and VOT. His team has achieved top performance on Widerface, LFW, FDDB and ICDAR2015 for several times.