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Li-minn Ang received his Ph.D and Bachelor degrees from Edith Cowan University, Australia in 2001 and 1996 respectively. He is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus. His research interests are in the fields of visual information processing, intelligent processing techniques, hardware architectures, reconfigurable computing, and engineering education. He has authored or coauthored a number of journal and conference papers in these areas. Currently he leads the research activities at the Visual Information Engineering Research Group at the University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus. He has received research grants from the Malaysian government and industry for his research activities and has served as a reviewer and committee member for a number of journals and conferences. Dr. Ang is a Senior Member of the IEEE and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (UK).

Kah Phooi Seng received her Ph.D and Bachelor degrees from the University of Tasmania, Australia in 2001 and 1997 respectively. She is currently a Professor of Computer Science at Sunway University, Malaysia. Her research interests are in the fields of intelligent visual processing, biometrics and multi- biometrics, artificial intelligence, and signal processing. She has authored or coauthored a number of journal and conference papers in these areas. Dr. Seng has received research grants from the Malaysian government and industry for her research activities and has served as a reviewer for journals and conferences.

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Ruth M. Aguilar-Ponce received a Bachelor degree in Computer Science from the Autonomous University of Puebla, Mexico in 1997. She obtained the M.S. in Electronics from the National Institute for Research in Optics, Astrophysics and Electronics, Mexico in 1999. She joined the Center for Advanced Computer Studies at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, where she obtained the M.S in Computer Engineering in 2004 and the Ph.D. in 2007. Currently, she is an assistant professor at the University of San Luis Potosi, Mexico. She is a junior member of the National Research System in Mexico since 2009. Her research interests include sensor networks, communication protocols, system on a chip, and signal and image processing.

Alfonso Alba received the B.S. degree in Electronic Engineering (1999) and the M.Sc. in Applied Mathematics (2001) from the Autonomous University of San Luis Potosi (UASLP), Mexico. In 2001, he also became a full-time professor at the Faculty of Science, UASLP. In 2007, he obtained the Ph.D. About the Contributors

degree in Computer Science from the Center for Research in Mathematics (CIMAT, Guanajuato) and became a member of the Academic Committee of the graduate program in Electronic Engineering at UASLP. Dr. Alba is currently a fellow member of the National Research System. His current research interests include biomedical signal analysis and visualization, pattern recognition, and computer vision.

Samir Brahim Belhouari received a diploma in telecommunication from Institute of Telecommu- nications of Oran (ITO), Algeria. He received Master degree from School of Toulouse (ENSEEIHT), France, during which he has developed a new method of multiple accesses in mobile networks by clock change. He has received a Ph.D. degree in Mathematical Sciences with an emphasis on Stochastic Pro- cesses from Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne, Switzerland. During which he has been working at the Laboratory of Stochastic Processes (IMA-PrSt) at (EPFL). He has worked at the Integrated Systems Laboratory (LSI) of EPFL with main responsibility of applying advanced techniques of routing for data transmission over the internet (IP packet-Internet Protocol). Currently he is working at the University of Technology PETRONAS, Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department as S. Lecturer and his research interest is in Image processing and Pattern Recognition.

Li Wern Chew received her Master of Science and Bachelor degrees from the University of Not- tingham Malaysia Campus and the University of Adelaide, Australia in 2007 and 2004 respectively. She is currently pursuing her Ph.D at the University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus. Her research interests are in the fields of signal, image, vision processing, and hardware architectures.

Wai Chong Chia received his Master of Science and Bachelor degrees from the University of Not- tingham Malaysia Campus and the University of Nottingham Trent in 2008 and 2006 respectively. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D at the University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus. His research interests are in the fields of image and vision processing, hardware architectures, and wireless sensor network.

Mangesh Chitnis received his Bachelors of Engineering in Information Technology in 2003 from Mumbai University and later Masters in Information Technology in 2006 from Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy. In 2004 he was hired by Infosys Technologies, India to work on Enterprise based Applications using J2EE. Since January 2007, he has been pursuing his PhD on Wireless Sensor Networks at Retis Lab in Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy. His main research interest is in the area of deterministic and stochastic bandwidth estimation for multimedia wireless sensor networks.

Shung Han Cho received B.E. (Summa Cum Laude) with specialization in Telecommunications from both the department of Electronics Engineering at Ajou University, Korea and the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Stony Brook University - SUNY, NY in 2006. He was a recipient of Award for Academic Excellence in Electrical Engineering by College of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Stony Brook University. He received M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Stony Brook University with Award of Honor in recognition of outstanding achievement and dedication in 2008. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. degree in the department of Electrical and Computer Engi- neering at Stony Brook University. He was a recipient for International Academic Exchange Program supported by Korea Research Foundation (KRF) in 2005. He was a member of Sensor Consortium for Security and Medical Sensor Systems sponsored by NSF Partnerships for Innovation from 2005 to

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2006. His research interests include collaborative heterogeneous signal processing, distributed digital image processing and communication, networked robot navigation and communication, heterogeneous system modeling and evaluation.

Yinhao Ding received the B.Sc. degree in Electronic Information Science and Technology from Jilin University, Changchun, China, in 2006, and received the M.Eng. degree in telecommunications engineering from the University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia, 2009. He is currently working toward the Ph.D. degree in the School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia. His research interests include wireless sensor networks and compressive sensing technique.

Abdelrahman Elamin received his first degree from university of Khartoum Sudan in electrical and electronic engineering. He has received a master degree from IT university of Copenhagen, Denmark in Multimedia technology in 2005, where he studied speech coding and recognition and also developed speech enhancement system. Currently he is doing PhD at University of Technology PETRONAS, Ma- laysia in distributed video coding. His research interests in multimedia communication and application.

Karin Fahlquist is a Ph.D. student at Digital Media Lab, Umeå University, Sweden, since 2008. She is currently involved in the EU project “Digital Zoo”. Her research area is interaction design in media technology. Before her Ph.D studies she worked six years as a teacher in the media technology area in the Department of Applied Physics and Electronics (TFE), Umeå University, Sweden.

Jesús García is currently an Associate Professor at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, member of the Computer Science Department since year 2000 and belonging to the Applied Artificial Intelli- gence research Group (GIAA). He received his B.S. in Telecommunications Engineering from Univer- sidad Politécnica de Madrid in 1996, and his Ph.D. degree from the same university in 2001. He has participated in several European projects related to sensor fusion (funded by EC and Eurocontrol) and participated and coordinated diverse national research projects. His main interests are computational intelligence, sensor and information fusion, surveillance systems, machine vision, traffic management and autonomous vehicles.

Brahim Hadjou is a professor in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (Engineer- ing faculty) at Sherbrooke University. He obtained his Ph.D. from Sherbrooke University in 1996, and Bachelor degree from Constantine University (Algeria) in 1986. His research domain is mainly related to the application of mathematics in robotics and power-limited applications.

Sangjin Hong received the B.S and M.S degrees in EECS from the University of California, Berkeley. He received his Ph.D in EECS from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is currently with the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Stony Brook University. Before joining Stony Brook University, he has worked at Ford Aerospace Corp. Computer Systems Division as a systems engineer. He also worked at Samsung Electronics in Korea as a technical consultant. His current research interests are in the areas of multimedia wireless communications and digital signal processing systems, reconfigurable VLSI Systems and optimization. Prof. Hong is a Senior Member of IEEE and a member

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of EURASIP journal editorial board. Prof. Hong served on numerous Technical Program Committees for IEEE conferences.

Julien S. Jainsky received his engineering degree in electrical and computer engineering in 2005 from CPE Lyon in France. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Wireless Communication Group (WCL) of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University under the advisorship of Drs. Deepa Kundur and Don Halverson. His research interests include security in multimedia, sensor networks and smart grids.

Varun Jeoti received his Ph.D. degree from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi India in 1992. He worked on several sponsored R&D projects in IIT Delhi and IIT Madras during 1980 to 1989 developing Surface Acoustic Wave Pulse Compression filters, underwater optical receivers etc.. He was a Visit- ing Faculty in Electronics department in Madras Institute of Technology for about 1 year during 1989 to 1990 and joined Delhi Institute of Technology for next 5 years till 1995. He moved to Electrical & Electronic Engineering (E&E Engg) department of Universiti Sains Malaysia in 1995 and joined E&E Engg of Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS in 2001. His research interests are in signal processing and wireless communication relating to wireless LAN and MAN technologies, cognitive radio, maritime communication, distributed video coding and security.

Johannes Karlsson is a researcher at the Department of Applied Physics and Electronics (TFE), Umeå University, Sweden. He is currently the project leader for the EU project “Digital Zoo”. He has worked on several industrial and academic projects in the field of wireless sensor networks ranging from large scale networks of wireless fire detectors to environmental multimedia sensor networks. His current research focus is around multimedia signal processing and transportation in wireless sensor networks and energy management in large scale environmental sensor networks. He received the Ph.Lic degree in signal processing from Umeå University, Sweden, in 2006. The thesis dealt with real-time video communication over wireless ad-hoc networks.

Ahmed Khoumsi is a professor in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (Engi- neering faculty) at Sherbrooke University. He obtained his Ph.D. and Bachelor degrees from Toulouse University in 1984 and 1988, successively. His research interests include information technology and telecommunication, web services, service interactions, event discrete systems, etc.

Deepa Kundur received the B.A.Sc., M.A.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees all in electrical and computer engineering in 1993, 1995, and 1999, respectively, from the University of Toronto, Canada. From Sep- tember 1999 to December 2002 she was an Assistant Professor and held the title of Bell Canada Junior Chair-holder of Multimedia in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto. In January 2003, she joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University, where she is currently an Associate Professor. Dr. Kundur is the author of over 100 technical publications in the field of information security, multimedia and signal processing and communication systems. Her research interests include cybersecurity of the electric smart grid and security of multimedia sensor networks. She is an appointed member of the NERC Smart Grid Task Force and an elected member of the IEEE Information Forensics and Security Technical Committee.

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K. S. Kwak received the B.S. degree from Inha University, Korea in 1977, and the M.S. degree from the University of Southern California in 1981 and the Ph.D. degree from the University of California at San Diego in 1988, respectively. From 1988 to 1989 he was a Member of Technical Staff at Hughes Network Systems, San Diego, California. From 1989 to 1990 he was with the IBM Network Analysis Center at Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. Since then he has been with the School of Information and Communication, Inha University, Korea as a professor. He had been the chairman of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering from 1999 to 2000 and the dean of the Graduate School of Informa- tion Technology and Telecommunications from 2001 to 2002 at Inha University, Inchon, Korea. He is the current director of Advanced IT Research Center of Inha University, and UWB Wireless Communications Research Center, a key government IT research center, Korea. He has been the Korean Institute of Com- munication Sciences (KICS)’s president of 2006 year term. In 1993, he received Engineering College Young Investigator Achievement Award from Inha University, and a distinguished service medal from the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea (IEEK). In 1996 and 1999, he received distinguished service medals from the KICS. He received the Inha University Engineering Paper Award and the LG Paper Award in 1998, and Motorola Paper Award in 2000. His research interests include multiple access communication systems, mobile communication systems, UWB radio systems and ad-hoc networks, high-performance wireless Internet.

Haibo Li is a full Professor in Signal Processing in the Department of Applied Physics and Electron- ics (TFE), Umeå University, Sweden. He received the technical doctor degree in Information Theory from Linköping University, Sweden, in 1993. His doctoral thesis dealt with advanced image analysis and synthesis techniques for low bitrate video. Dr. Li got the “Nordic Best Ph.D. Thesis Award” in 1994. In 1997 Dr. Li was awarded the title of “Docent in Image Coding”. From 1990 to 1993 he was a teaching assistant of digital video at Linköping University. After graduation Dr. Li joined the technical faculty of Linköping University first as an Assistant Professor and then promoted to an Associate Professor in 1998. During his period at Linköping University he developed advanced image and video compression algorithms, including extremely low bitrate video compression, 3D video transmission, and tele-operation and tele-presence. After joining Umeå University, he is now directing the Digital Media Lab, Umeå Center for Interaction Technology (UCIT), Umeå University, and working on advanced Human, Thing and Information interaction techniques. Prof. Li has been chairing sections at relevant international conferences and was actively involving in MPEG activities in low bitrate video compression. He has contributed to several EU projects, like VIDAS, SCALAR, INTERFACE, MUCHI and INTRO. He has published more than 100 technical papers including chapters in books and holds six international patents as the first inventor in multimedia area.

Cheng-Chew Lim received the B.Sc. degree in electrical and electronic engineering and the Ph.D. degree from Loughborough University, Leicestershire, U.K. He is currently with the University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia, as an Associate Professor and the Head of the School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering. He is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Industrial and Management Op- timization. His research interests include wireless sensor networks and system-on-chip verification and very large scale integration architectures for array processors for matrix-based computations.

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James Llinas brings over 35 years of experience in multisource information processing and data fusion technology to his research, teaching, and business development activities. He co-authored the first integrated book on Multisensor Data Fusion, and has lectured internationally for over 30 years on this topic. Dr. Llinas is also the co-editor of the “Handbook of Multisensor Data Fusion (2001). Dr. Llinas is a Technical Advisor to the Defense Department’s Joint Directors of Laboratories Data Fusion Group, the only US DoD technology oversight group for Data Fusion, a position he has held for 20+ years. Dr. Llinas is a recipient of the Joseph Mignona Award (1999), given to one person per year by the Data Fusion Group as signifying lifelong contributions to the field of Data Fusion. His experience in applying this technology to different problem areas ranges from defense applications to non-defense applications to include intelligent transportation systems, medical diagnostics, and condition-based maintenance, among others.

Giuseppe Lipari is Associate Professor of Computer Engineering (scientific sector ING-INF/05) at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna. He is part of the RETIS lab of the Center of Excellence for Information Information, Communication and Perception Engineering. He is IEEE member since many years, and associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Computers. His research interests are in real-time systems, real-time operating systems, scheduling algorithms, embedded systems, wireless sensor networks. He is involved in many EU research projects (FRESCOR, RI-MACS, ARTIST 2) and italian projects (ART- DECO, SensorNet).

Mansouri Majdi was born November 11, 1982 in Kasserine, Tunisia. He received the Dipl.-Ing. in 2006 from High School of Communications of Tunis (SUP’COM) and the M.S. degrees in 2008 from High school of Electronic, Informatique and Radiocommunications in Bordeaux (ENSEIRB). He is PhD student at Troyes University of Technology, France. Since October 2008. His current research interests include statistical signal processing and Wireless Sensors Networks. Mansouri is the author of over 20 papers. Mansouri Majdi, Ouachani Ilham, Snoussi Hichem and Cédric Richard received Best Poster Award for “Adaptive Quantized Target Tracking in Wireless Sensor Networks” in SensorNets 2009: The First International School on Cyber-Physical and Sensor Networks.

Abdelhamid Mammeri is a lecturer in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (Engineering faculty), and a researcher in the MOIVRE laboratory (Science faculty) at Sherbrooke University. He obtained his Ph.D. from Sherbrooke University (canada) in 2010, Master degree from UCL University (Belgium) in 2002, and Bachelor degree from Batna University (Algeria) in 1996. His research domain is related to the signal and image processing on power-limited applications, such as visual sensor networks.

S. Mehta received the B.E. and M.S degrees both in Electronics Engineering from Mumbai University, Mumbai, India, and Ajou University, Korea in 2002 and 2005, respectively. He is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in Telecommunication engineering from the Inha University, Korea. His research interests are in performance analysis of wireless networks and RFID systems.

José M. Molina received a degree in Telecommunication Engineering from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid in 1993 and a Ph.D. degree from the same university in 1997. He joined Universidad Carlos

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III de Madrid in 1993 where currently he is a Full Professor at Computer Science Department. He is the Head of Computer Science Department and leads the Applied Artificial Intelligence Group (GIAA, http://www.giaa.inf.uc3m.es) involved in several research projects related with ambient intelligence, surveillance systems and context based computing. His current research focuses in the application of soft computing techniques (Multiagents Systems, Evolutionary Computation, Fuzzy Systems) to surveillance, ambient intelligence, air traffic management and e-commerce. He is the author of more than 50 journal papers and 100 conference papers.

Yunyoung Nam received B.S, M.S. and Ph.D. degree in computer engineering from Ajou University, Korea in 2001, 2003, and 2007 respectively. He was a research engineer in the Center of Excellence in Ubiquitous System from 2007 to 2009. He was a post-doctoral researcher at Stony Brook University in 2009, New York. He is currently a research professor in Ajou University in Korea. He also spent time as a visiting scholar at Center of Excellence for Wireless & Information Technology (CEWIT), Stony Brook University - State University of New York Stony Brook, New York. He was a recipient the Presidential Award for Excellence in Graduate School of Information and Communication in 2004 and 2007. He earned the Best Paper Award at KDC 2006. He is selected for inclusion in the 2011 Edition of “Who’s Who in America.” His research interests include multimedia database, ubiquitous computing, image processing, pattern recognition, context-awareness, conflict resolution, wearable computing, and intelligent video surveillance.

Christopher Wing Hong Ngau received his Bachelor degree from the University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus in 2008. He is currently pursuing his PhD at the University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus. His research interests are in the fields of image, vision processing, hardware architectures, and wireless sensor network.

Ilham Ouachani was born in Paris, France, in 1976. She received the diploma degree in electrical engineering from The Ecole supérieure de Communication de Tunis (Sup’Com), Tunisie in 2000. Then, she received the DEA degree from ParisTech Paris, and the Ph.D. in signal processing from the University of Paris-sud, Orsay, France in 2001 and 2005, respectively. Between 2005 and 2006, she was a teaching assistant in with the University of Paris-sud and the Conservatoire National des Arts et Mé- tiers de Paris. Since september 2006, she is associate professor at the Institut Supérieur d’Informatique et des Techniques de Communication, in Hammam. Sousse, Tunisia. She has won the AUF grant and she has spent 6 months as visiting scientist at the LM2S laboratory in the University of Technology of Troyes, France, in 2009. Her research interests include MIMO systems, capacity calculation, OFDM, relay channels, digital communication in wireless sensor networks, She is author of several research papers in journals and international conferences.

Paolo Pagano received his M.S. degree in Physics in 1999 from Trieste University (I). In 2003 he received his Ph.D. degree in High Energy Physics from Trieste University having worked for the COM- PASS collaboration at CERN (CH). In 2004 he was hired by HISKP at Bonn University (D). In 2006 he received a Master in Computer Science from Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in Pisa (I). In the same year he joined the REal-TIme System (RETIS) laboratory of the Scuola as associate researcher to work in the domain of Wireless Sensor Networks. In 2009 he joined the CNIT (National Inter-University Consortium

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for Telecommunications) and was assigned to the Sant’Anna Research Unit as leader of the Real-Time Networks team at the RETIS lab.

Miguel Á. Patricio received his B.S. degree in Computer Science from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid in 1991, his M.S. degree in Computer Science in 1995, and his Ph.D. degree in Artificial Intel- ligence from the same university in 2002. He has held an administrative position at the Computer Science Department of Universidad Politécnica de Madrid since 1993. He is currently an Associate Professor at Escuela Politécnica Superior of Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and a research fellow of the Applied Artificial Intelligence Group (GIAA). He has carried out a number of research projects and consulting activities in the areas of automatic visual inspection systems, texture recognition, neural networks, and industrial applications

Matteo Petracca received his M.S. degree in Telecommunication Engineering in 2003 and the Ph.D. degree in Information and System Engineering in 2007, both from the Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy. From January 2008 to November 2009 he was a post-doc researcher at the Politecnico di Torino working on multimedia processing and transmission over wired and wireless packet networks. He is currently a post-doc researcher in Real-Time Networks at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in Pisa.

Keni Ren is a project researcher in Digital Media Lab in the Department of Applied Physics and Electronics (TFE), Umeå University, Sweden. She received the master degree in Interactive System Engineering from Umeå University in 2010. Her master thesis is about face recoganation technique by using Support vector machines. Her currently areas of focus are around object detection, classification, object tracking and Human, Thing and Information interaction techniques.

Cédric Richard was born January 24, 1970 in Sarrebourg, France. I received the Dipl.-Ing. and the M.S. degrees in 1994 and the Ph.D. degree in 1998 from the University of Technology of Compiegne, France, all in Electrical and Computer Engineering. From 1999 to 2003, he was an Associate Professor at the University of Technology of Troyes, France. From 2003 to 2009, he was a Full Professor at the Institut Charles Delaunay (CNRS FRE 2848) at the UTT, and the supervisor of a group consisting of 60 researchers and Ph.D. In winter 2009 and autumn 2010, he was a Visiting Researcher with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Florianopolis, Brazil. Cédric Richard is a junior member of the Institut Universitaire de France since october 2010. Since September 2009, Cédric Richard is a Full Professor at Fizeau Laboratory (CNRS UMR 6525, Observatoire de la Cote d’Azur), University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis, France. His current research interests include statistical signal processing and machine learning. Prof. Cédric Richard is the author of over 100 papers. He was the General Chair of the XXIth francophone conference GRETSI on Signal and Image Processing that was held in Troyes, France, in 2007, and of the IEEE International Workshop on Statistical Signal Processing that will be held in Nice in 2011. Since 2005, he is a member of the board of the federative CNRS research group ISIS on Information, Signal, Images and Vision. He is a member of GRETSI as- sociation board and of the EURASIP society, and Senior Member of the IEEE. Cédric Richard serves as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing since 2006, and of the EURASIP Signal Processing Magazine since 2009. In 2009, he was nominated liaison local officer for EURASIP,

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and member of the Signal Processing Theory and Methods (SPTM) Technical Committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society.

Juan Gómez Romero is currently a Visiting Lecturer at the Computer Science department of Uni- versidad Carlos III of Madrid. He received a degree in Computer Science from Universidad of Granada (Spain) in 2004, and a Ph.D. in Intelligent Systems from the same university in 2008. He worked as an early stage researcher in the Approximate Reasoning and Artificial Intelligence group (ARAI) of Univer- sidad of Granada, and as a post-doctoral researcher in the Applied Artificial Intelligence Group (GIAA) of Universidad Carlos III, where he continues his work as a research fellow. His research interests focus on computable Knowledge Representation and Reasoning formalisms (ontologies, fuzzy ontologies) and their applications to High-Level Information Fusion and Cognitive Vision Systems.

Claudio Salvadori was born in Arezzo, Italy in 1978. He received the Laurea degree in Telecomuni- cation Engineering in 2006 from the Università degli Studi di Siena, Siena, Italy. Since November 2009 he is a PhD student in Wireless Sensor Network at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy.

Luca Santinelli is a Ph.D. candidate at the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna of Pisa. He graduated in Electronic Engineering (specialization in Computer Science) at the Polytechnic University of Marche in 2003.From 2003 to 2007 he worked for the MTSGroup as software developer in the R&D department. He specialized on microcontroller and control systems. From 2007 he is doing his Ph.D. at the RETIS Laboratory on real-time systems. His main research interests include real-time operating systems, dynamic scheduling algorithms, quality of service control, real-time controls, resource reservation algorithms, dynamic resource allocation, energy aware scheduling, probabilistic real-time and artificial intelligence.

Nalin Sharda gained B.Tech. and Ph.D. degrees from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. Pres- ently he teaches and leads research in innovative applications of computer technologies at the School of Engineering and Science, Victoria University, Australia. Dr. Sharda’s publications include the Multime- dia Information Networking textbook, and around 120 papers and handbook chapters. Dr. Sharda has invented Movement Oriented Design (MOD) paradigm for the creation of effective multimedia content based experience, and applied it to e-Learning and other applications. Nalin has led e-Tourism projects for the Australian Sustainable Tourism CRC, and is currently guiding research in the innovative applications of ICT systems to sustainable living. Dr. Sharda has been invited to present lectures and seminars in the Distinguished Lecturer series of the European Union’s Prolearn program. He has presented over fifty seminars, lectures, and Key Note addresses in Austria, Australia, Finland, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Malaysia, Pakistan, Japan, Singapore, Sweden, Switzerland, UAE, and USA.

Fethi Smach received a Master degree in Computer science from University of Sfax, Tunisia in 2003, and the Ph.D. degree in image processing from the University of Burgundy, Dijon, France in 2007. Since 2008 he is research engineer at CEA-List Paris. Between August 2009 and august 2010 he was postdoctoral researcher at INRIA TEMICS research group. He is currently research engineer at ActivNetworks. His fields of interest are signal and image processing, and in particular 2D and 3D image and video coding for video transmission over wireless networks, algorithms for pattern recogni-

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tion and real-time implementation of those, classification algorithms. Besides the academic side, he is interested with hunting.

Hichem Snoussi was born in Bizerta, Tunisia, in 1976. He received the diploma degree in electrical engineering from the Ecole Superieure d’Electricite (Supelec), Gif-sur-Yvette, France, in 2000. He also received the DEA degree and the Ph.D. in signal processing from the University of Paris-Sud, Orsay, France, in 2000 and 2003 respectively. He has obtained the HdR from the University of Technology of Compiègne in 2009. Between 2003 and 2004, he was postdoctoral researcher at IRCCyN, Institut de Recherches en Communications et Cybernétiques de Nantes. He has spent short periods as visiting scientist at the Brain Science Institute, RIKEN, Japan and Olin Neuropsychiatry Research Center at the Institute of Living in USA. Between 2005 and 2010, he has been associate professor at the University of Technology of Troyes. Since September 2010, he has been appointed a Full Professor position at the same university. He is in charge of the regional research program S3 (System Security and Safety) of the CPER 2007-2013 and the CapSec plateform (wireless embedded sensors for security). He is the principal investigator of an ANR-Blanc project (mv-EMD), a CRCA project (new partnership and new technologies) and a GDR-ISIS young researcher project. He is partner of many ANR projects, GIS, strategic UTT programs. He obtained the national doctoral and research supervising award PEDR 2008-2012.

J.Luis Tecpanecatl-Xihuitl received the B.E. degree in electrical engineering from the Autonomous University of Puebla, Mexico and the M.S. degree in electronics from National Institute for research on Astrophysics, Optic, and Electronics, Mexico in 2000. He obtained the Ph.D. in computer engineering from The Center for Advanced Computer Studies, at University of Louisiana at Lafayette in 2009. Luis joined the University of San Luis Potosi, Mexico in 2009 as an assistant professor and became a member of the Academic Committee of the graduate program in Electronic Engineering. He is a junior member of the Mexican National Research System since 2009. His research interests focus on multi-standard digital receivers, VLSI digital processing systems and image processing.

Jing Teng received the BEng degree in electronic information engineering from the Central South University, China, in 2003, and the PhD degree in systems optimization and security from the University of Technology of Troyes, France, in November 2009. Since 2010, she has been a lecturer at the North China Electric Power University. Her research interests include statistical signal processing and its applications in wireless sensor networks.

Tim Wark is a Research Group Leader and Principal Research Scientist in the Autonomous Systems Laboratory at CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia. He has worked in a variety of projects around sensor networks ranging from wearable body sensors for indoor monitoring, to long-term, environmental sensing. His current areas of focus are around adaptive energy management of sensor networks and in-network processing of multimedia information. He currently leads a group of scientists and engineers developing the next generation of pervasive computing technologies targeting a range of indoor and environmental applications. Tim currently holds Adjunct A/Prof appointments at The Australian National University, University of Queensland and Queensland University of Technology.

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Lee Seng Yeong received his Masters of Engineering from the University of Nottingham in 2004. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D in the same university. He is a member of the Visual Information Engineering Research Group. His research interest is in the field of embedded visual processing.

Djemel Ziou is a professor in the department of computer science at Sherbrooke University. He obtained his Ph.D. and Master degrees from Nancy University (France) in 1985 and 1991, successively. He is leading MOIVRE laboratory at Sherbrooke University. He is the Canada research chair (NSERC- Bell) in personal imaging. His research domain concern image processing.

Jiang-Yu Zheng received the B.S. degree in Computer Science from Fudan University, China, in 1983, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Control Engineering from Osaka University, Japan in 1987 and 1990, respectively. Currently he is a professor at the Dept. of Computer Science, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis. He research interests are in the areas of image and video processing, computer vision, virtual reality, multimedia and internet application. Dr. Zheng received 1991 Best Paper Award from the Information Processing Society of Japan for generating the world first digital panoramic image. He also received Excellent Paper Award from Japan Society of Art and Science in 2000 for his development of a graphics tool to extract human motion from video. He is the inventor of route panorama and scene tunnel that is awarded as one of the best papers in ACM VRST04. He is a senior member of IEEE.

Shibao Zheng graduated from Xidian University in 1986 and received B.S. degree. From 1986 to 1999, he was an expert of important project in HDTV of China. From 2000, he worked in Institute of Image Communication and Information Processing of Shanghai Jiao Tong University as a professor. His general research interests include DTV, multimedia in network and ASIC design.

Yi Zhou received the B.S. and M.S. degrees of Electronic Engineering from Dalian Maritime Uni- versity, Dalian, P.R China, in 2003 and 2006 respectively. He is currently a joint educated Ph.D. student in Signal Processing with the Institute of Image communication and Information Processing of Shang- hai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, P. R. China, and ICD/LM2S, University of Technology of Troyes, France since 2007. His research interests include computer vision, machine learning and visual tracing.

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