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Rajeev Srivastava is currently working as an Associate Professor in the Dept. of Computer Engi- neering, Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi, India, since November 2007. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering from Faculty of Technology, University of Delhi, Delhi. He has around 15 years of teaching and research experience. He has around 50 research publications in refereed journals, conferences, in edited books as book chapters and two books published by an international publisher (Germany) to his credit. He is reviewer of many international journals and technical program committee member of many international conferences. He was awarded a project by the NMEICT, MHRD, Govt. of India in 2010 for the design and development of an interactive e-content for the subject digital image processing and machine vision. His biography was listed in Marquis Who’s Who is Science and Engineering, USA, 11th edition, 2011-12 and “2000 Outstanding Intellectuals of the 21st Century-2011” by IBC, Cambridge, UK. He is the recipient of “2010 Publication Scholar Award” by IIT-BHU Global Alumni Association. He has delivered many invited talks in his research area. He was the coordinator and Organizing Secretary of a Refresher Course on ICT applications and a National conference on AI and Agents Applications, respectively. His research interests include image processing and computer vision, medical image processing, pattern recognition, video surveillance, and algorithms.

Sanjay K. Singh is Associate Professor in Department of Computer Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi, India. He is a certified Novel Engineer and Novel administrator. His research has been funded by UGC and AICTE. He has over 70 publications in refereed journals, book chapters, and conferences. His research interests include computational intelligence, biometrics, video authentication, pattern recognition, and machine learning. Dr. Singh is a member of IET, IEEE, ISTE, CSI.

K. K. Shukla is professor of Computer Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, BHU, India. He has 30 years of research and teaching experience. Professor Shukla has published more than 120 research papers in reputed journals and conferences and has more than 100 citations. 15 Ph.D.s have been awarded under his supervision. Professor Shukla has to his credit many projects of national importance at BHU, Hindustan Aeronautics, and Smiths Aerospace, UK. Presently, he has research collaboration with Space Applications Center, ISRO, Tata Consultancy Services, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA), France, and E´cole de Technologie Supe´rieure (ETS), Canada. He has written 4 books on neuro-computers, real time task scheduling, fuzzy modeling, and image compression, and has contributed chapters to 3 books published in the USA. Professor Shukla is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers, Fellow of the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunications Engineers, Senior Member, ISTE, and the Senior Member, Computer Society of India.

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Artur Arsénio is currently YDreams Robotics CEO, and an Assistant Professor in Computer Science and Computer Networks Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico. He received his doctoral degree in Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence in 2004, and his MSc and Engineering degree from Lisbon’s Instituto Superior Técnico. In 2005, Artur Arsénio joined Siemens as a Solution Leader Architect on its IPTV and SmartHome projects, where he led several international teams and become the technical responsible for the SmartHome solution. From 2008 until May 2012, he headed Innovation at Nokia Siemens Networks Portugal S.A. (NSN). He has authored/co-authored over 90 papers in book chapters, journals, and conferences, and holds several international patent applications, acting as journal editor, session chairman, reviewer, and committee member for several international IEEE conferences and journals. He is co-founder and vice- chair of the ACM SIGCOMM chapter in Portugal. He is the recipient of several international scientific and innovation awards. He is a Fulbrighter, and the president of the MIT alumni association in Portugal.

Roli Bansal is currently pursuing Ph. D. under the joint supervision of Dr. Punam Bedi and Dr. Priti Sehgal from the Dept. of Computer Science, University of Delhi. She is working in the area of fingerprint image enhancement and watermarking. She completed her M.C.A. in 1997, and since then she has been working as Assistant Professor in Keshav College, University of Delhi.

Punam Bedi received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Department of Computer Science, University of Delhi, India in 1999 and her M.Tech. in Computer Science from IIT Delhi, India, in 1986. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science, University of Delhi. She has about 25 years of teaching and research experience and has published about 120 papers in national/international journals/conferences. Dr. Bedi is a member of AAAI, ACM, senior member of IEEE, and life member of Computer Society of India. Her research interests include Web Intelligence, Soft Computing, Semantic Web, Multi-Agent Systems, Intelligent Information Systems, Intelligent Software Engineer- ing, Intelligent User Interfaces, Requirement Engineering, Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Trust, Information Retrieval, and Personalization.

Seng Kah Phooi received the Bachelor of Engineering (1st class) and PhD in Engineering from Uni- versity of Tasmania, Australia, in 1997 and 2001, respectively. She is currently an Adjunct Professor at Sunway University. She was a Professor and Head of Department of Computer Science & Networking in Sunway University. She was also the Director of Affective & Assistive Technologies (AAT) Research Centre in Sunway University. Prior to joining Sunway University, she was Associate Professor at School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nottingham University. She and another colleague Dr Kenneth Li Minn Ang formed a research group called Visual Information Engineering Research (VIER) group in Nottingham University, Malaysia campus. She also worked in Monash University in Malaysia, Tasma- nia and Griffith Universities in Australia before joining Nottingham University. Her research interests include the fields of visual processing, multi-biometrics, artificial intelligence, affective computing and wireless visual sensor networks.

Ilaiah Kavati received B.Tech. and M.Tech. from JNTU Hyderabad, India. Currently pursuing Ph.D. from University of Hyderabad, India. His research interests include biometrics, pattern recognition, and image processing.

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Ashish Khare received M.Sc. (Computer Science) and D. Phil. degree both from Department of Elec- tronics and Communication, University of Allahabad, Allahabad, India, in 1999 and 2007, respectively. He did his post-doctoral research from Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Gwangju, South Korea, in 2007-2008. Presently, he is working as an Assistant Professor in Department of Electronics and Communication, University of Allahabad. His research interests include applications of wavelet transforms, computer vision, cyber security, and human behaviour understanding. He is working as Principal Investigator on research projects funded by UGC and DST. He has supervised a number of Ph.D. students and has published one book and more than 50 research papers.

Manish Khare is pursuing for his D.Phil. degree in Computer Science from University of Allahabad, Allahabad, India. Previously, he obtained M. Tech. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from School of IT, Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, Noida, India, in year 2009, and M. Sc. in Computer Science from University of Allahabad in year 2006. He is a student member of IEEE. His Research interests include Image and Video Processing, Computer Vision, and Wavelet Transforms. He has published more than 10 papers in International Journals, International and National Conferences.

Hwa-Young Kim was born in Busan, Korea, in 1983. She received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electronic engineering from Sogang University, Seoul, Korea, in 2007 and 2009, respectively. She is currently working in Central Advanced Research & Engineering Institute, Hyundai Motor Company. Her current research interests are computer vision for preventing collisions and intelligent safety car.

Sung Hyun Kim was born in Seoul, Korea, in 1975. He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electronic engineering from Sogang University, Seoul, Korea, in 2002 and 2004, respectively. His current research interests are image enhancement and computer vision.

Yeong Lee Seng received the Masters of Engineering from the University of Nottingham in 2004. He is currently a lecturer and researcher at Sunway University. His current research interest includes visual processing, sensor networks and reconfigurable computing.

Ang Li-Minn received the Bachelor of Engineering (1st class) and PhD in Engineering from Edith Cowan University, Australia, in1996 and 2001, respectively. He is currently a research staff at School of Engineering, Edith Cowan University. Prior to joining Edith Cowan University, he was Associate Professor at School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nottingham University. He was also the research group leader of research group called Visual Information Engineering Research (VIER) group in Nottingham University, Malaysia campus. He also worked in Monash University Malaysia before joining Nottingham University. His research interests include the fields of video compression, visual processing, wireless visual sensor networks, and reconfigurable computing.

Shalabh Parashar received his Master degree in computer application in 2007. He is currently working as Project Lead in HCL Technologies, Noida, India. He has been working for projects of Microsoft and GE. He is also the member of HCL gold club. Currently, he is involved in the development of a robust video authentication system that can identify different tampering attacks to determine the authenticity of the video. His current areas of interest include software development, pattern recognition, video and image processing, watermarking, and artificial intelligence.

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Rae-Hong Park was born in Seoul, Korea, in 1954. He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electronics engineering from Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, in 1976 and 1979, respectively, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA, in 1981 and 1984, respectively. In 1984, he joined the faculty of the Department of Electronic Engineering, Sogang University, Seoul, Korea, where he is currently a Professor. In 1990, he spent his sabbatical year as a Visiting Associate Professor with the Computer Vision Laboratory, Center for Automation Research, University of Maryland at College Park, USA. In 2001 and 2004, he spent sabbatical semesters at Digital Media Research and Development Center (DTV image/video enhancement), Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon, Korea. In 2012, he spent a sabbatical year in Digital Imaging Business (R&D Team) and Visual Display Business (R&D Office), Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon, Korea. His current research interests are video communication, computer vision, and pattern recognition. He served as Editor for the Korea Institute of Telematics and Electronics (KITE) Journal of Electronics Engineering from 1995 to 1996. Dr. Park was the recipient of a 1990 Post-Doctoral Fellowship presented by the Korea Science and Engineering Foundation (KOSEF), the 1987 Academic Award presented by the KITE, the 2000 Haedong Paper Award presented by the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea (IEEK), the 1997 First Sogang Academic Award, and the 1999 Professor Achievement Excellence Award presented by Sogang University. He is a co-recipient of the Best Student Paper Award of the IEEE Int. Symp. Multimedia (ISM 2006) and IEEE Int. Symp. Consumer Electronics (ISCE 2011).

Munaga V. N. K. Prasad received his Ph.D. from the Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu Uni- versity, India. He is currently working as Assistant professor in Institute for Development and Research in Banking Technology (IDRBT), Hyderabad. His research interests include biometrics, digital watermarking, and payment system technologies. Nearly 40 international journal and conference papers to his credit. He is a Member IEEE, Life Member IUPRAI.

Mohamed Saifuddin obtained his BSc (Hons) in Computer Science from the University of Nottingham in 2011. Since 2012, he has been pursuing MSc in Computer Science (by Research) from the Sunway University under the Sunway-Lancaster Masters Programme. His main topic of research is Stereo Vision.

Ayan Seal received the B.TECH degree from Jalpaiguri Government Engineering College in 2007 and M.TECH degree from N.I.T.T.T.R, Kolkata, in 2009. Now he is pursuing Ph.D. (Engg.) in the department of Computer Science and Engineering, Jadavpur University, India. He is DST INSPIRE Fellow. His current research interest is thermal face recognition for biometric security system.

Priti Sehgal received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Department of Computer Science, University of Delhi, India, in 2006, and her M. Sc. in Computer Science from DAVV, Indore, India, in 1994. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science, Keshav Mahavidyalaya, University of Delhi. She has about 17 years of teaching and research experience and has published numerous papers in national/international journals/conferences. Dr. Sehgal has been a member of the program committee of the CGIV International Conference and is a life member of Computer Society of India. Her research interests include Computer Graphics, Image Processing, Biometrics, Visualization, and Image Retrieval.

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Alok Kumar Singh Kushwaha received the B.Sc. degree in Maths and M.Sc. degree in Computer Science from University of Allahabad, Allahabad, India, in 2007 and 2009. He received the M.Tech degree in Computer Science (Specialization in Software Engineering) from the Devi Ahilya University, Indore, India, in 2011. He worked as Asst. Professor in GLA University, Mathura, India. He is a member of Computer Society of India. Currently, he is a Ph.D. Research Scholar in the Department of Computer Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi (U.P.) India. He has been working on image processing and video processing. His research area includes video segmenta- tion, classification, tracking, and human activity analysis in videos.

Rajneesh Kumar Srivastava has received his Ph.D. degree from University of Allahabad, Allahabad, India, in 2008. He received his M.Tech. degree from IT-BHU, Varanasi. Presently he is working as an Assistant Professor in Department of Electronics and Communication, University of Allahabad, India. Earlier he worked as research staff at CRL, BEL, Ghaziabad, India. His research interests include Photo Electrets, Mobile Communication, and Image Processing. He is also serving as Principal Investigator of research project sponsored by UGC. He has supervised a number of Ph.D. students and has published one book and more than 50 research papers.

Shrikant Tiwari received his M.Tech. degree in Computer Science and Technology from Univer- sity of Mysore, India, in 2009. He is currently working toward the PhD degree at the Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi, India. His research interests include Biometrics, Image Processing, and Pattern Recognition.

Saurabh Upadhyay received the B. Tech. degree in computer science and engineering in 2001 and is currently working toward the Ph.D. degree in computer science at U.P. Technical University, India. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Saffrony Institute of Technology, Gujarat, India. He is actively involved in the development of a robust video authentication system, which can identify tampering to determine the authenticity of the video. His current areas of interest include pattern recognition, video and image processing, watermarking, and artificial intelligence.

Seungjoon Yang received the B.S. degree from Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, in 1990, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, in 1993 and 2000, respectively, all in electrical engineering. He was with the Digital Media R&D Center at Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. from September 2000 to August 2008. He is currently with the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology in Ulsan, Korea. His research interests are in image processing, estimation theory, and multi-rate systems. Professor Yang received the Samsung Award for the Best Technology Achievement of the Year in 2008 for his work in the premium digital television platform project.

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