Outline:

The 19th Workshop on Information Optics (WIO 2025) will be held during 30 June-4 July 2025 at ICFO - The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Barcelona, Spain.

The Workshop is a well-established and long-running forum for scientists in the field of information optics and photonics for over 30 years, with the first meeting held as Euro-American Workshop on Optical Pattern Recognition in La Rochelle in 1994. Subsequent workshops were held in different locations in Europe, North America, and Asia including Colmar (1999), Valencia (2001), Toledo (2006), Reykjavik (2007), Annecy (2008), Paris (2009), Helsinki (2010), Benicasim (2011), Quebec (2012), Tenerife (2013), Neuchatel (2014), Kyoto (2015), Barcelona (2016), Interlaken (2017), Quebec City (2018), and Stockholm (2019). After a period of disruption due to Covid-19, we celebrate the workshop again in Barcelona in 2025. 

In continuation of the theme of the workshop, WIO 2025 will address the latest advances in information optics, information photonics, imaging sciences and engineering, display technologies and 3D displays, 3D image sensing, image-based information security, image recognition, biophotonics, novel image sensors, quantum information science and technology, and more. It will be a forum for close interaction, collaboration, and networking among prominent scientists and educational outreach to students in a warm and friendly atmosphere. The workshop will be a single-session event consisting of oral presentations by prominent scientists from around the world, who will deliver invited talks. Contributed submissions will be accepted as poster presentations on topics that include, but are not strictly limited to, those listed above. All presentations including invited and poster contributions are expected to submit a 2-page summary.

Scientific topics:

• Fundamental advances in information optics and photonics, including algorithms, devices, and systems
• AI and deep learning for information optics
• Physics informed neural networks and deep learning
• Imaging through scattering media
• Multidimensional image sensing, processing
• Digital holography
• Integral imaging
• Biophotonics and biomedical imaging
• Inverse problems in optics
• Optical microscopy
• Optics and photonics for information security and optical security systems
• Polarimetric and multi spectral imaging
• Materials and devices for information optics
• Nano-technologies for imaging systems
• Quantum optics for imaging
• Integrated sensing and imaging, compressive sensing
• Diffractive optics
• Spatial light modulators and applications in information optics
• Nanophotonics, metasurfaces, plasmonics
• Augmented reality devices
• Biomedicine, microscopy
• Computational imaging
• New radiation sources for information optics

Invited speakers:

• Abhijit Mahalanobis, University of Arizona, USA

• Adrian Stern, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
• Adolfo Esteban-Martin, University of Valencia, Spain
• Ahmed Dorrah, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
• Amr Helmy, University of Toronto, Canada
• Andrew Forbes, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa
• Andrés Marquez, Universitat d'Alacant, Spain
• Ariel Fernandez, Universidad de la República, Uruguay
• Enrique Tajahuerce, Universidad Jaume I, Spain 
• Estela Martín Badosa, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
• Filiberto Pla, Universidad Jaume I, Spain
• Giuseppe Leo, Université Paris Cité, France
• Goutam Samanta, Physical Research Laboratory, India
• Hooman Mohseni, Northwestern University, USA
• Juan Perez Torres, ICFO, Spain
• Julia Alonso, Universidad de la República, Uruguay
• Julie Fade, Fresnel Institute, France
• Julien Fade, Ecole Centrale Marseille, France
• Kavita Devi, Indian Institute of Technology, Dharwad, India
• Lluis Martinez, Universidad Jaume I, Spain
• Manuel Martinez, University of Valencia, Spain
• Martí Duocastella, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
• Miguel Alonso, University of Rochester, USA  
• Oriol Arteaga Barriel, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
• Osamu Matoba, Kobe University, Japan
• Pablo Artal, University of Murcia, Spain
• Pasquale Memmolo, CNR-ISASI, Italy
• Pierre Marquet, Université Laval, Quebec, Canada
• Rainer Leitgeb, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
• Shaya Fainman, UC San Diego, USA
• Simon Thibault, Université Laval, Quebec, Canada
• Tomoyoshi Shimobaba, Chiba University, Japan
• Toralf Scharf, Focuslight, Switzerland
• Yasuhiro Awatsuji, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan
• Zeev Zalevsky, Bar-Ilan University, Israel

Conference Chairs:

• Majid Ebrahim-Zadeh (ICFO)
• Artur Carnicer (University of Barcelona)
• Bahram Javidi (University of Connecticut)

The proceedings of WIO 2025 shall be published by the Springer Nature Applied Sciences.

Registration:

All invited participants must submit a 2-page paper.

Find here the Manuscript Style Guide for paper sumbmissions: http://s.ic.fo/WIO2025_StyleGuide.

All student participants can make a poster submission, but it's not mandatory. For a poster submission, you must make a 1-2 paper submission.

Deadlines for paper submission:

• Title submission: April 30, 2025
• Full paper submission: June 1, 2025

Registration fee:

ICFOnians are not required to pay.

• Early bird registration deadline: April 30, 2025
• Before April 30, 2025: €600 // Students: €300
• After April 30, 2025: €700 // Students: €350

Deadline to finalize the payment: 20 June, 2025

Registration fee covers subsistence costs including lunches, coffee breaks, conference banquet, excursion (excludes hotel accommodation).

Only participants that paid the fee will be admited to the workshop.

Students and young researchers greatly encouraged to attend.