Kirill Vladimirovich MALYSHEV
Lomonosov Moscow State University,
Russian Federation

Received his M.S. degree in applied mathematics and computer science from Lomonosov Moscow State University in 2023. He is currently a postgraduate student at the Graphics & Media Lab and a junior researcher at the MSU AI Center. Kirill also contributes to the next-generation video coding standard within the Joint Video Experts Team (JVET). His research interests include video compression methods, image and video quality assessment, and neural network-based image and video processing.

Ivan Andreevich MOLODETSKIKH
Lomonosov Moscow State University, MSU AI Center
Russian Federation

Completed his postgraduate coursework in computer science in the Moscow State University in 2024. He is currently working on his dissertation and is a researcher at the MSU AI Center, Graphics & Media Lab. His research interests include super-resolution, semantic video matting and machine learning. Ivan supervised the development of MSU video upscalers and SR+codec benchmarks and was one of the organizers of the ECCV-AIM 2024 and the ICCV-AIM 2025 video super-resolution quality assessment challenges.

Dmitriy Sergeevich VATOLIN
Lomonosov Moscow State University, MSU AI Center, MSU Institute for Artificial Intelligence Ivannikov Institute for System Programming of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Federation

Cand. Sci. (Phys.-Math.). He received his degree in 2000 from Moscow State University and is currently head of the CS MSU Graphics & Media Lab. His research interests include compression methods, video processing, and 3D-video techniques (depth from motion, focus and other cues, video matting, background restoration, and high-quality stereo generation), as well as 3D-video quality assessment (metrics for 2D-to-3D-conversion artifacts, temporal asynchrony, swapped views, and more). He is the creator of popular websites devoted to video processing and compression algorithms.