Biographical note

Prof. Dr. Roumen Kountchev, D.Sc., works at the Faculty of Telecommunications, Department of Radio Communications and Video Technologies—Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria. He has published 341 papers in journals and conference proceedings, 15 books and 46 book chapters, and holds 20 patents. He is a member of the Euro Mediterranean Academy of Arts and Sciences; President of the Bulgarian Association for Pattern Recognition (member of IAPR); and editorial board member of the IJBST Journal Group, International Journal of Reasoning-based Intelligent Systems, and the international journal Broad Research in Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience.

Prof. Dr. Srikanta Patnaik works at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Technology, SOA University, Bhubaneswar, India. He has published over 100 papers in international journals and conference proceedings, 2 textbooks and 32 edited volumes. He is the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Information and Communication Technology, the International Journal of Computational Vision and Robotics (Inderscience Publishing House) and the book series Modeling and Optimization in Science and Technology (Springer), Advances in Computer and Electrical Engineering, and Advances in Medical Technologies and Clinical Practices (IGI-Global).

Prof. Dr. Junsheng Shi is the Dean of the School of Physics and Electronic Information, Yunnan Normal University. He is a member of China Illuminating Engineering Society Image Technology Specialized Committee, the China Optical Technology Optical Society Professional Committee, and the Chinese Society of Image and Graphics Technical Committee on stereoscopic imaging. He also contributes to the journals Optical Engineering and the Journal of Display Technology. In 2004 and 2008, he received awards for scientific and technological progress and natural science in Yunnan Province. In the last five years, he has completed two major projects and published over 50 papers.

Prof. Dr. Margarita Favorskaya is the Head of the Department of Informatics and Computer Techniques at Reshetnev Siberian State University of Science and Technology, RF. She is an IPC member and has chaired invited sessions at over 30 international conferences. She is a reviewer for various journals: Neurocomputing, Knowledge Engineering and Soft Data Paradigms, Pattern Recognition Letters, and Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, and an associate editor of Intelligent Decision Technologies Journal, International Journal of Knowledge-Based Intelligent Engineering Systems and the International Journal of Reasoning-based Intelligent Systems. She is also a reviewer and book editor for Springer.