Mayra Bachrach received her MS in computer science from New Jersey Institute of Technology in 2011. She is a teacher at Bergen County Academies, Hackensack, New Jersey. Her research interests include image processing and databases.
Chin-Chen Chang received his BS in applied mathematics in 1977 and MS in computer and decision sciences in 1979, both from the National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan. He received his PhD in computer engineering in 1982 from the National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan. During the academic years of 1980–1983, he was on the faculty of the Department of Computer Engineering at the National Chiao Tung University. From 1983 to 1989, he was on the faculty of the Institute of Applied Mathematics, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan. From August 1989 to July 1992, he was the head of, and a professor in, the Institute of Computer Science and Information Engineering at the National Chung Cheng University, Chiayi, Taiwan. From August 1992 to July 1995, he was the dean of the College of Engineering at the same university. From August 1995 to October 1997, he was the provost at the National Chung Cheng University. From September 1996 to October 1997, Dr. Chang was the acting president at the National Chung Cheng University. From July 1998 to June 2000, he was the director of the Advisory Office of the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China. From 2002 to 2005, he was a chair professor of National Chung Cheng University. Since February 2005, he has been a chair professor of Feng Chia University. In addition, he has served as a consultant to several research institutes and government departments. His current research interests include database design, computer cryptography, image compression, and data structures.
I-Cheng Chang received a BS in nuclear engineering in 1987, and an MS and PhD in electrical engineering in 1991 and 1999, respectively, all from National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan. In 1999, he joined Opto-Electronics & Systems Laboratories, Industrial Technology Research Institute, Hsinchu, Taiwan, as an engineer and project leader. He is currently an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Dong Hwa University, Hualien, Taiwan. His research interests include video and image processing, surveillance network system, computer vision, and multimedia system design. Dr. Chang received the Annual Best Paper Award from the Journal of Information Science and Engineering in 2002, and research awards from the Industrial Technology Research Institute in 2002 and 2003. He is a member of the IEEE, and the IPPR of Taiwan, People’s Republic of China.
Shu-Ching Chen has been a full professor in the School of Computing and Information Sciences (SCIS), Florida International University (FIU), Miami since August 2009. Prior to that, he was an assistant/associate professor in SCIS at FIU from 1999. He received master’s degrees in computer science, electrical engineering, and civil engineering in 1992, 1995, and 1996, respectively, and a PhD in electrical and computer engineering in 1998, all from Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA. His main research interests include content-based image/video retrieval, distributed multimedia database management systems, multimedia data mining, multimedia systems, and disaster information management. Dr. Chen has authored or coauthored more than 240 research papers in journals, refereed conference/symposium/workshop proceedings, book chapters, and one book. Dr. Chen received the best paper award from the 2006 IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia. He was awarded the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC) Society’s Outstanding Contribution Award in 2005 and was the co-recipient of the IEEE Most Active SMC Technical Committee Award in 2006. He was also awarded the Inaugural Excellence in Graduate Mentorship Award from FIU in 2006, the University Outstanding Faculty Research Award from FIU in 2004, the Excellence in Mentorship Award from SCIS in 2010, the Outstanding Faculty Service Award from SCIS in 2004, and the Outstanding Faculty Research Award from SCIS in 2002. He is the chair of IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Multimedia Computing and co-chair of IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society’s Technical Committee on Knowledge Acquisition in Intelligent Systems. He is a fellow of Society for Information Reuse and Integration (SIRI).
Ya-Yun Cheng received a BS from the University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan, in 2010. She is currently a master’s student in the Institute of Information Systems and Applications at National Tsing Hua University. Her research interest includes computer vision, machine learning, medical image analysis, and image segmentation.
Venkata Gopal Edupuganti received Bachelor of Technology and Master of Technology degrees in Information Technology from the University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India, in 2004 and 2007, respectively. He is currently working toward his PhD in the Department of Computer Science, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, New Jersey. His research interests include image processing, image retrieval, watermarking, and pattern recognition.
Chia-We Hsu received her BS in computer science and information engineering from Da Yeh University, Changhua, Taiwan, in 2004, and her MS in computer science and information engineering from Dong Hwa University, Hualien, Taiwan, in 2007. Her research interests include image/video processing and pattern recognition.
Aleksey Koval received his PhD in computer science from the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) in 2011. His primary field of study is cryptography and security. Dr. Koval has vast work experience in the IT industry working for AT&T and IBM. He currently works for IBM.
Shang-Hong Lai received his BS and MS in electrical engineering from the National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, and a PhD in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Florida, Gainesville, in 1986, 1988, and 1995, respectively. He joined Siemens Corporate Research in Princeton, New Jersey, as a member of the technical staff in 1995. In 1999, he became a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan. He is currently a professor in the same department and the director of the computer and communication center in the university. In 2004, he was a visiting scholar at Princeton University. Dr. Lai’s research interests include computer vision, visual computing, pattern recognition, medical imaging, and multimedia signal processing. He has authored more than 180 papers published in related international journals and conferences. He holds many patents for inventions related to computer vision and medical image analysis. He has been a program committee member of several international conferences, including CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ACCV, ICPR, and ICME.
Hong-Yuan Mark Liao received his BS in physics from National Tsing-Hua University, Hsin-Chu, Taiwan, in 1981, and an MS and PhD in electrical engineering from Northwestern University in 1985 and 1990, respectively. In July 1991, he joined the Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. Currently he is a research fellow. In 2008, he became the division chair of the Computer Science and Information Engineering Division II, National Science Council of Taiwan. He is jointly appointed as a professor in the Computer Science and Information Engineering Department of National Chiao-Tung University and the Department of Electrical Engineering of National Cheng Kung University. Since February 2009, he has been jointly appointed as the multimedia information chair professor of National Chung Hsing University. In August 2010, he was appointed as an adjunct chair professor of Chung Yuan Christian University. His current research interests include multimedia signal processing, video-based surveillance systems, video forensics, and multimedia protection.
Dr. Liao was a recipient of the Young Investigators’ award from Academia Sinica in 1998. He received the Distinguished Research Award from the National Science Council of Taiwan in 2003 and 2010, and the National Invention Award of Taiwan in 2004. In 2008, he received a Distinguished Scholar Research Project Award from National Science Council of Taiwan. In 2010, he received the Academia Sinica Investigator Award. In June 2004, he served as the conference co-chair of the 5th International Conference on Multimedia and Exposition (ICME) and technical cochair of the 8th ICME held in Beijing. From 2006 to 2008, Dr. Liao was the president of the Image Processing and Pattern Recognition Society of Taiwan.
Dr. Liao is on the editorial boards of the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, and IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security. He was an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Multimedia during 1998–2001.
Xiaofeng Liao received his PhD from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China in 1997. He is a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing, China. His research interests include information security, image processing, neural networks, and artificial intelligence.
Shinfeng D. Lin received his BS in automatic control engineering from Feng Chia University, Taichung, Taiwan, in 1980, and an ME and PhD in electrical engineering from Mississippi State University in 1985 and 1991, respectively. He is currently a professor, chairman, and deputy dean in the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, College of Science and Engineering, National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan. Dr. Lin was the director of the Bureau of Education, Hualien County, Taiwan, from January 2002 to September 2003. His research interests include signal/image processing, image/video compression, and information security. He won the Gold Medal Award at the 2005 International Trade Fair “Ideas–Inventions-New Products” (IENA), Nuremberg, Germany. Dr. Lin is a member of Tau Beta Pi and Eta Kappa Nu.
Hong Man received his PhD in electrical engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology in 1999. He joined the Stevens Institute of Technology in 2000. He is currently an associate professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, the director of the Visual Information Environment Laboratory, and the director of the undergraduate computer engineering program at Stevens. He served on the Organizing Committees of IEEE ICME (2007 and 2009), IEEE MMSP (2002 and 2005), and the Technical Program Committees of various IEEE conferences. He is a member of the IEEE Technical Committees on Multimedia (MMTC) and Communications and Information Security (CISTC). His research interests include signal and image processing, pattern recognition and data mining, on which he has published more than 70 technical journal and conference papers. He is a senior member of IEEE and a member of ACM, ASEE.
Sebastien Poullot obtained his PhD in computer science in 2009 after earning two master’s degrees in bio-informatics (2004) and computer sciences (2005). He was invited by Professor Satoh’s team at the National Institute of Informatics, and later worked as a project researcher (2009–2011). Since 2011, he has been employed at INRIA Rocquencourt in the IMEDIA team. His research is mainly focused on video and image retrieval, especially the scalability of applications.
Shin’ichi Satoh received his BE in electronics engineering in 1987, and his ME and PhD in information engineering in 1989 and 1992 at the University of Tokyo. He joined the National Center for Science Information Systems (NACSIS), Tokyo, in 1992. He has been a full professor at the National Institute of Informatics (NII), Tokyo, since 2004. He was a visiting scientist at the Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, from 1995 to 1997. His research interests include image processing, video content analysis, and multimedia database. Currently, he is leading the video-processing project at NII.
Alexander Sheppard received a BS in computer science from the New Jersey Institute of Technology. He is currently working toward a PhD in computer science at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His research interests include image processing and pattern recognition.
Shih-Chieh Shie received his BS from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Tatung Institute of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan, People’s Republic of China, in 1996, and an MS and PhD from the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Dong Hwa University, Hualien, Taiwan, People’s Republic of China, in 2000 and 2005, respectively. Dr. Shie is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Formosa University, Taiwan, People’s Republic of China. His research interests include information hiding, image processing, image compression, and image watermarking.
Mei-Ling Shyu has been an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), University of Miami (UM), since June 2005. Prior to that, she was an assistant professor in ECE at UM dating from January 2000. She received her PhD from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA in 1999 and three master’s degrees in computer science, electrical engineering, and restaurant, hotel, institutional, and tourism management from Purdue University in 1992, 1995, and 1997. Her research interests include multimedia data mining, multimedia information management and retrieval, and network security. She has coauthored more than 200 technical papers published in prestigious journals, book chapters, and refereed conference/workshop/symposium proceedings. She is the vice chair of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Multimedia Computing. She received the Best Student Paper Award with her student at the Third IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing in September 2009, the Best Published Journal Article in International Journal of Multimedia Data Engineering and Management (IJMDEM) for 2010 Award from IGI Global in April 2011, and the Johnson A. Edosomwan Scholarly Productivity Award from the College of Engineering at UM in 2007. She is a fellow of SIRI.
Hong-Ren Su received his BS in biomedical imaging and radiological science from the National Yang Ming University, Taiwan, in 2000 and an MS in nuclear science from the National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, in 2002. He is currently working toward obtaining a PhD from the Institute of Information Systems and Applications at National Tsing Hua University. He is a student member of the IEEE. His research interests includes computer vision, machine learning, and medical image analysis. His current address is Institute of Systems and Applications, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan.
Ming-Ting Sun received his BS from the National Taiwan University in 1976, an MS from the University of Texas at Arlington in 1981, and a PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1985, all in electrical engineering. Dr. Sun joined the faculty of the University of Washington in September 1996. Before that, he was the director of the Video Signal Processing Group at Bellcore (now Telcordia). He has been a chair professor at Tsing Hwa University, and a visiting professor at Tokyo University, National Taiwan University, and National Chung-Cheng University. His research interests include machine learning and video processing. Dr. Sun has been awarded 11 patents and has published more than 200 technical publications, including 15 book chapters in the area of video technology. He was actively involved in the development of H.261, MPEG-1, and MPEG-2 video-coding standards. He has also coedited a book titled Compressed Video Over Networks. He was the editor-in-chief of IEEE Transactions on Multimedia during 2000–2001. He received an IEEE CASS Golden Jubilee Medal in 2000, and he was a co-chair of the SPIE VCIP (Visual Communication and Image Processing) 2000 Conference. He was the editor-in-chief of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (T-CSVT) during 1995–1997 and the Express Letter editor of T-CSVT during 1993–1994. He was a corecipient of the T-CSVT Best Paper Award in 1993. From 1988 to 1991, he served as the chairman of the IEEE CAS Standards Committee and established an IEEE Inverse Discrete Cosine Transform Standard. He received an Award of Excellence from Bellcore in 1987 for his work on the digital subscriber line. Dr. Sun was elected as a Fellow of the IEEE in 1996.
Hsiao-Rong Tyan received her BS in electronic engineering from Chung Yuan Christian University, Chungli, Taiwan, in 1984, and an MS and PhD in computer science from Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, in 1987 and 1992, respectively. She is an associate professor in the Department of Information and Computer Engineering, Chung Yuan Christian University, Chungli, Taiwan, where she currently conducts research in the areas of computer security, computer networks, and real-time intelligent systems.
Boris S. Verkhovsky is a professor in the Computer Science Department at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). He received his PhD in computer science jointly from Latvia State University and from the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (Central Institute of Mathematics and Economics, Moscow). From his prior affiliations at the Scientific Research Institute of Computers (Moscow), Princeton University, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Bell Laboratories and since 1986 at the NJIT, he acquired research interests and experience in cryptography, communication security, large-scale systems optimal design and control, optimization, and algorithm design.
For the last 20 years, Dr. Verkhovsky’s research activity has been centered on the design and analysis of cryptographic systems and information assurance algorithms. Prior to NJIT he worked at the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, was associate professor at Princeton University, a member of Technical Staff at Bell Labs, and was Endowed Chair Professor, University of Colorado. Professor Verkhovsky is listed in Marquis Who’s Who in America. Professor Verkhovsky is editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Communications, Network and System Sciences.
Zhi-Hui Wang received a BS in software engineering in 2004 from the North Eastern University, Shenyang, China. She received an MS in software engineering in 2007 and a PhD in computer software and theory in 2010, both from the Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China. Since November 2011, she has been a visiting scholar of the University of Washington. Her current research interests include information hiding and image compression.
Xiaomeng Wu is a project researcher at the National Institute of Informatics, Japan. He graduated from the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology with a baccalaureate degree in thermal energy engineering in 2001. He graduated from the University of Tokyo with a doctoral degree in information and communication engineering in 2007. His research interests include multimedia indexing, multimedia retrieval, and near-duplicate detection. He is a member of the IEEE Computer Society and ACM.
Yi-Ta Wu received his BS in physics from Tamkang University, Taipei, Taiwan, in 1995, and an MS in computer science from National Dong-Hwa University, Hualien, Taiwan, in 1997. Dr. Wu received his PhD from the Department of Computer Science, New Jersey Institute of Technology, in May 2005. He was a research fellow at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and is currently affiliated with Industrial Technology Research Institute, Taiwan. His research interests include image/video processing, mathematical morphology, image watermarking, steganography, surveillance system, robot vision, pattern recognition, shortest path planning, and artificial intelligence.
Di Xiao received a BS from Sichuan University, Chengdu, China in 1997. He obtained both an MS and PhD from Chongqing University, Chongqing, China, in 2002 and 2005, respectively. He is currently a professor in the College of Computer Science and Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing, China. His research interests include chaotic dynamical systems-based cryptography, information authentication, digital watermark, and digital image forensics.
Yafeng Yin is currently a PhD candidate in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Stevens Institute of Technology, and a research intern at Bell Laboratories, Alcatel-Lucent. He received his bachelor’s from the Department of Automatic Control at Beijing Institute of Technology in 2005. His research interests include image processing, pattern recognition and machine learning, with applications to video-based object recognition, tracking, and human group behavior analysis.
Yuan Yuan obtained both an BS and MS from the Department of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, People’s Republic of China, in 2004 and 2006, respectively. He secured a PhD in computer science from the New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, New Jersey, in 2011. He is currently affiliated with Amazon Corporation, Seattle, Washington, DC.
Wenyin Zhang is an assistant professor in the School of Informatics, Linyi University, Linyi, Shandong, People’s Republic of China. He obtained his master’s in 2002 from Shandong University of Science and Technologies and was awarded a doctorate by the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2005. His research interest includes image processing, information hiding, digital watermarking.
Qiusha Zhu is currently a PhD candidate at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), University of Miami. She received her MS in electronic engineering from School of Electronic, Information and Electrical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University in March 2009 and a BS in electronic engineering from Shanghai University as an outstanding graduate in June 2006. She worked as a database apprentice at DOW Chemical, Shanghai from November 2007 to June 2008. Her research interests include multimedia information retrieval and data mining, especially how to effectively retrieve online images and videos, and how to fuse information available from different sources to boost this process.